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INDIPINDINT
VOL XXXVIII.
NEWSPAPER
NO. 1.
Takes Own Life
With A Revolver
Last Sunday
Dead Spots Found in Civilian Defense Speakers Tell
Alarm Signal Tests
What To Do In Aid Raid
The blackout signal tests at 2:00
p. m.' Sunday afternoon demonstrated
that in Coquille at least the fire siren
was not altogether satisfactory The
alarm was not heard out by Aie high
school, yet it was heard farther north
at the oounty farm. Ned C. Kelley,
who lives on Cunningham creek,'be­
tween those two points, could not
hear the sound, but at Guy Kelley’s
place, 400 feet distant, it was heard.
The screech was heard at the Yoak­
um place, four miles out on the
Marshfield highway, at the Olson
place across the valley on Fat Elk,
and at a point four miles out on the
Myrtle Point highway.
The Caquilte Police Reserves were
used as observers being stationed at'
various points out from Coquille on
the highways.
It is reported that the federal gov­
ernment has plans for establishing
alarm signals at points, regularly
spaced, so that the whole coast can be
notified in case of an air raid.
Gerald Eaton, employed as a ranch
hand by A. M. Willey at his dairy
on Sanford Heights for the past
three months, committed suicide in
the Willey home last Sunday after­
noon by shooting himself in the right
temple, using a revolver belonging
to Mr. WiUay and which the latter
did i
ow tiie young man had
*ver
He kept it in his desk.
After passnig through Eaton’s head,
the bullet pierced the double wall into
the kitchen, hit the ceiling a glancing,
blow and made a deep dent in the
bathroom door.
Eaton, who was past 27 years of
age, iiad been despondent tor some
months, and various utterances gave
the impression that he contemplated
self-destruction. Marital difficulties,
he having been separated from his
wife for several months; and the
prospects of being drafted into the
army, were th* thing; that seemed to
have preyed upon his mind.
Funeral services were conducted by
Dan W. Brown, of the Christian
church, at Schroeder Bros. Mortuaries
On another page will be found the
here at two o’clock Tuesday after­
annual report
of City Teasurer
noon, Interment being in the Masonic
Caughell submitted to the city council
cemetary. rr f
Monday evening.
He was born in Douglas, Wyoming,
In a supplemental report 'submitted
Nov. 10, 1914, but spent most-of his
to Mayor Milne and the council mem­
boyhood life in Lincoln, Nebraska, (
bers, which the charter provisions do
coming to this section a couple of (
not require publishing, Mr. Caughell
years ago.
,
shows that the city’s general fund
He is survived by Ms mother, Mrs.
$5,742.95 and the water fund
C. L. Knupp, of Coquille; his wife, gained
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$3,100.10 in IMI over what the es­
Thelma Eaton, and two children,
timated receipts and expenditures
Leonard G., aged three, and Jams*
were figured when the MM1 budget
Michael, 18 months, of Marshfield;
was prepared.
a sister, Mrs. Walter Meier, in Lin­
Total estimated receipts in the gen­
coln, Nebraska, and a half brother
eral fund were $6,130. but actual re­
here.
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ceipts were $24,459.74. a gain of
$18,320.74. Over expenditure of the
budget and other items of expense re­
duced this to the $5,742.95.
On the water fund the estimated
receipts for, 1841 totalled $22,905,
W$M sm the
* actual rmeiptajgmountod
to $28010.20, making the $7,000 29
Total Defense Bond sales at the gain. Included in the over expendi­
local post office, up to close of busi­ ture of the budget items was th* $5,-
ness last night, Jan. 11, amounted to 572.77 spent for iron pipe and con­
$27,318.7$. Sales started in May, nections which are still in stock.
with sales of $2,250.00 but jumped
in December with the declaration of
war to $7,218.75, and this far in Jan­
uary to nearly $4,000.00.
City Gains $8,843 In
Two Funds Lost Year
Postoffice Defense
Bonds Sales
$7,318.75
Dec.
Basketball Schedule
For The Week
Two Coquille Boys
In Navy Trainload
Coos Conf
North Bend
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Coquille
Tom Thrift and Ray Kirkendall, Marshfield ........
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son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kirkendall Myrtle Point ,. ......... 1
<rf Coquille, were two local boys who
were aboard the train which left
The Coos county basketball con-
Portland last Sunday evening at 9:45 ference schedule calls for the North
for San Diego. There were 182 young Bend Bulldogs to meet the Red Devils
men on the train, all enlisted in the on the gym floor here tomorrow (Fri­
Navy the preceding week, whose des­ day) evening, and the Myrtle Point
tination after their three weeks’ train­ Bobcats to play the Pirates at Marsh­
ing priod at San Diego is not known field.
nor would it be published if it were
Next Tuesday evening will find the
known. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Thrift Red Devils playing at Marshfield,
drove up to Portland Sunday to bid while Myrtle Point and North Bend
Tommy farewell.
have open dates.
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Basement Floor
To Be Poured
Mair Shelley, superintedent in
charge of construction at the Com­
munity Building, says that the crew
is starting today preparations for
pouring the concrete floor of the
basement, and that the sanding of the
present floor on top of which a dance
floor will be laid, will be done In a
few days The top floor will not be
laid until there is heat in the build­
ing and the windows have been set in.
County C. of C. To
Meet January 26
Generous Guys Feed
Hungry Horde At Rotary
As a result of the recent attendance
contest of the Rotary club which ended
December 21st, Harriman’s Hungry
Horde were given a free feed yester­
day at the hotel by Greenoughs’ Gen­
erous Guys.
The drawing for Defense Stamps
was postponed for one week.
One of Standard Oil Co.’s educa­
tional films was shown.
C. C. Farr, of Marshfield, a former
Coquille Lion, but who now belongs
to the Rotary club in that city, was
present as a guest, as was also Ro­
tarian Dal M. King, of Myrtle Point.
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Jim Agostino From Alaska
Here Visiting Home Folks
The Coo« County Chamber of Com­
merce will hold itk first 1942 session,
an i ft will also be the first with J.
E. Norton acting as president, st the
North Bend Hotel next Monday eve­
ning. Jan. 28, a dinner meeting. Any­
one interpsted in the commercial de­
velopment of Coos county is welcome
James Agostino, who left Coquille
twelve years ago and has been liv­
ing In Anchorage Alaska, during that
time, came in Monday evening, sur­
prising his sister, Mrs. ^Margarita
Brodie, and mother, Mrs. Finley. He
received a month’s leave of absence
and dwe*not know whether he will be
to duty in the _army or'will
The report current in Coquille after
the Jap bombing at Pearl Harbor,
tha young Paul Walker was among
the missing there was incorrect
When Mrs. C. D. Walker, who lives
in San Francisco, heard the report
she wrote to the Navy department
and received word that be was alive
and uninjured
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What everyone should know be­ weigh from 100 pounds to two tons,
forehand, in case of an air bomb- and are filled with metal thrown with
I bardment, is: lie down on the floor, terrific force When the explosion
ground, or wherever you happen to takes place.
Fragmentation bombs weigh about
be if the bomb is a large one—which
would explode—and to put out an 100 pounds and are dangerous for a
They travel
incendiary bomb, a small stick-like distance of 200 feet.
affair which are magnesium bombs, about 5000 feet a second, have twice
douse with the finest possible spray the velocity of a high-powdered riflj,
of water. Should it come through tha and contain about 4500 pieces of
roof, the householder is 'admised to shrapnel or bullets. That is why it
have a bucket of sand handy, dump is important to lie down before the
the sand on the floor and with some bomb explodes.
In the summer the greatest danger
implentent push the bomb onto the
sand before beginning the spraying. to this section from incendiary
Do not ever pour water on it. Th*, bombs would be the forests. An air­
effect would be just the same as plane carrier, with a load of about
pouring cold waler into hot grease 40 Jap planes, if undisturbed could
—the sparks would shoot all over the set fires over an area six miles square.
The magnesium incendiary bomb,
room.
These were the principal instruc­ whose canter is composed of thermite,
tions given by speakers to CoquiUd creates a heat of about 4500 degrees,
audiences last week and contained so and burns for about 45 seconds. This
much the Same matter that this report ignites the outer magnesium covering
will cover both talks..
and bums for 45 minutes at a 3500
One of them was made by Chas. degree temperature.
These bombs
Briggs, who recently returned from are used principally at night to set
attending the F. B. I. school of in­ fires which will disclose the target to
struction at Eugene, before the Lions the demolition and fragmentation
club last Thursday noon, and the bombers.
other was made by Chester R. Clark,
The spraying with a fine stream of
of Marshfield, at the public meeting water of the incendiary bombs ac­
in the high school gym last Friday celerates the burning so that it goes
evening.
out in two minutes.
The speakers stressed the fact that
In England they make a practice
the United States can profit by the of having bathtubs full of water, with
errors first made in England, where a stirrujj pump and 30 feet of hose
the inhabitants learned protection handy, so that the incendiary bomba
against bombing the hard way.
may be quickly sprayed.
It was learned there that air raid
if bombs plunge to earth and bury
shelters in the bottoms of buildings themselves don’t be inquisitive, said
caused more deaths than did the one ot the speakers; stay away from
bombs directly for hundreds if not it and notify an air warden.
thousands were killed when buildings
Instructions as to what to do should
collapsed where the people might mustard gas be used in an attack
have had a chance had they been were: “Stop breetMng; hold your
on tiie higher floors.
breath, do not fill your lungs; walk
Flying glass has also been a source into the wind or to higher ground.”
of many deaths during a bomb raid.
The reporter at the Lions club com­
Mr. Clark declared if bombing pliments Mr. Briggs on making a most
comes to the U. S. we can take it and interesting talk, Thursday noon.
will give it back with compound in- L Mr. Clark was introduced at the
achutists,” he said, “our duck and
deer hunters can take care of them.”
There are four kinds of bombs—
the demolition, the fragmentation, the
air grenade and the incendiary bomb.
Bombs swell at least 50 per cent be­
fore exploding.
Demolition bombs
The C, H. S. band, under the di­
rection of Mr. Withnall, furnished
splendid musical entertainment prior
to the talk. It is an organization of
which any community could be proud
and their playing reflects credit on
the instructor.
Port Sells Tug
To U. S. Army
Riches In Southwest
Oregon Hills .
O. L. Wood, president of the Co­
quille Chamber of Commerce, and
who is also a member of the Port of
Bandon commission, reported at the
chamber luncheon Tuesday noon,
that the U. S. Army was taking the
port tug and the two barges to Alaska.
The port commission met Sunday
with Major Dunn, ahd gave him a
price of $175,000 for the tug and
$60,000 for the two barges.
An army engineer waa here a few
weeks ago appraising the tug and
asked a rental as well as a sale price.
When Major Dunn came he stated
the army was not interested in rent­
ing, but that the tug and barges
“would be taken or bought.”
The
commission thought it would be bet­
ter to sell as the boats could not be
in as good condition after war as
they are now. The army expects to
take them to Alaska and will retain
Capt. Guchee and the mate now on
the tug.
The port's bonded debt is now
around $80,000 and whether it will
be possible to secure another tug or
do without one at the river’» mouth
during the war is something that has
not Jjeen decided.
Practically no vessels are coming
in to Bandon now, the Smith plant
here and the Moore mill at Bandon
shipping byrail from Coquille.
Whether this sale of the tug^and
cessation of water shipments l^om
Bandon will have any effect
railroad terminal rates the C
valley now enjoys was something
that gave the chamber of commerce
members concern but the opinion
was that the interstate commerce
commission would not allow the S.
P. to increase freight rates to and
iwn tho vaUqy during theem®rgeney.
Les Child made a talk at the Cham­
ber of Commerce session Tuesday
noon on minerals and mining in
southwestern Oregon, in the course of
which he said that he had been in
all the counties west of the Mississip­
pi in which minerals are found and
that southwestern Oregon, which he
has covered so thoroughly the past
few years, on honeback and on foot,
was the richest in minerals that he
had ever seen. The minerals are here
in the greatest abundance, he said,
but too many so-called miners do
not recognize th* various kinds of
minerals. there are, and, too. it has
been difficult to interest men with
money in the development.
He said that since the O. P. M. ex­
ercised priority rights over chrome
stock piles that none of that mineral
had been sold for the past three
months but that the government was
now wilting to contract for chrome in
1000 ton lots.
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He said another thing that had in­
terfered with mining in Coos and
Curry counties was the chiselers,
met} who stake out a claim without
regard to whether it is privately or
publicly owned, take a few samples
and show to some one, asking for a
grub stake in order to do the assess­
ment wok and then walk off and
leave it.
Such happenings have disgusted a
lot of people and the impression has
been created that there are no min­
eral properties in Oregon worth de­
veloping.
But the idea is all wrong and he
envisages within 25 years that there
will
smelters and ore reduction
plants on this coast that will surpass
in volume of output anything now
existing in the
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Those of us who do not like this
foolish idea of day-light saving, by
setting the clocks ahead one hour the
ninth of next month, will take it
without uttering one word of com-
aint, because of the emergency, but
makes the idea no
Joins Marines
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Max Morgan, who. has lived in the
Clifford Kern home for the pest sev­
eral years, has enlisted in the Marine
Corps and he left last Saturday for
Portland, from which point he was
to leave Monday for the Marine base
at San Diego for a period of training.
Minute Ladies1
Soliciting For
Defense Pledges
IWO T0M| Pl
HR By Can
Here Yesterday
That they are “making a
the flag” will be
one solicited to
amount each mo«
of defense bonds
“minute men” wk
the campaign to get ever y oa t of
U. S. 35.000JM» people w
regular incomes to sign oa
tad line.
•No coercion is to be use«
solicitors, the sigmag to be
voluntary, and the imoui
be left entirely to the ;
Th« pledge may be n>
time if the signer finds
able to keep up the program, aad
records are confidential and may
be disclosed to anyone.
In Coquille the “minute men"
ladies, the Woman's duh, by ks
president. Mrs Julius Ruble,
agreed to do the soliciting for
In fact all the Cora county
zations, as secured by County Chair­
man Clarence H. Coe. are lady’s.
In Powers it is also the W
dub, Mrs. Minnie King,
in Myrtle Point the Wow
Mrs. C. S. Lehmanowsky,
in Bandon the indies an
Lumber A Sawmill Workers, A. F-
of L, local No. 354. and the Eagles
Ladies Auxiliary of Marshfield has
contracted to handle the adidtatam
for the entire Coos Bay are«
field. North Bend, Empire
ton. East«
territory,
The co«
day la to be completed as
sible A selfish angle U
Valin Yaw wn
by the “minute Indie«"
purchase of bonds starts the
ing up of a reserve fund for
war years, and that the
deemable at any time.
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Valley View Bas
Wrecked Friday
Join the Chamber of
Commerce For
Funds Ready For
Labor Temple
Mecums Again
Make News
Mark and
wornen, from
Ball, of Chiloquin hove been in a lot
of trouble since they sideswiped the
Virgil Arrell cor near the Union Oil
Co. tank here. They were
with failure to stop at the
an, accident, after being
Myrtle Point. Ball, who
was fined $50 by Justice 1
and the two Mecums were fined $10
each for being drunk by the J. P.
Then yesterday Gone Mr non waa
driving a car while his licenee is re­
voked and when taken before Mr.
Barton this morning asked for a day
before pleading. The wo
incarcerated in the city jail
One of them ha. a . >dly
face, received when her I
shoved through the car«
her common-law husband^ ip Myrtle
Point.
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Confirmation Class
also been a handicap to the develop­
ment of southwesten Oregon’s min­
that Bishop B. D
eral resourves which its richness
Coquille on Palm
would so amply justify.
for confirmation at
copal church, and that
Cards which left Palm Springs, classes for adults, i
California, January 14 from Mrs. Geo. ning, will be held
Chaney to friends here, tell of their evening until the Bi
for boys
good times there, but not of the date
of their
B. C. Jeffrey