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FLORIDA HURRICANE RECALLS DISASTER OF 1926
AREA BATTLED;
ARSONIST BUSY
Gall's Creek Blaze Breaks
Out Anew Kane Creek
I District Hit Flames Ra
ging On Bishop Creek
Darken Sun Rushing ;
: Crews to Affected Sec-'
: ton.
Tin; foi'OHl. fire hIi nation in ;
JnckHnn eminty wns nmde more
uorioiiH yeHterdny afternoon Willi
tho outbrcHk M" :i now fire In t "
Ituch district above Jacksonville, j
When u large area was repurtd j
to bo nbbre last availing:. Tht; '
Onlla ('re'k flic, which wiih re-,
ported under control yesterday !
forenoon, was again out of con
trol last even! life having broken :
oilt on the Kane creek side audi
spreading over a new territory.
Tho' fluid Jill fire, binning; this'
fitdi of the town, was still under'
control according to late reports.
; Tin Kuril fire is not endanger
ing1 fnrmH no far, but yesterday
"won burning rapidly through
brush and small limber along
Ulshop creek over the ridge to
J'oor Man's creek. It sent up a
huge coin in In of smoke Into I lie
Bkj'' and U appeared from this
City as if the, whotd section were :
ablaze. Men are on the scene and !
the situation is expected lo ho on- :
der control by tomorrow ovonine !
Thi fire is burning In the neigh ;
borhood of n mllo and one-half ,
from the Jlolzgaiif- ranch. i
i The (in Ms creek area is the
main trouble center and it Is be
lieved that an incemliarist is at
work in that district, undoing the
"work of the small nrmy of fire
fighters. The firo Friday after
nann burned down three ranch
honies mid destroyed the barns
and outbuildings of another. j
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...:0F. FRUIT HEM'
La lied by a gale approaching that of September, 1926, in fury, a section of Florida is taking toll of
the damage done by hurricane which leveled telephone polls, blew down trees, snapped light and tele
graph wires and tied up shipping. Above, Lake Worth and West Palm Beach in the path of the storm.
Below, a map of the affected area, and a 1920 view of wreckage in the hurricane-struck part of Florida
at that time. .
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FLOOD N1ENAGED; LONDON AT MERCY.COAST OF III;
CROPS, STOCK HII OF ENEMY PLANES DAMAGE IS HIGH
i
JUNI
OF CITY PLACED IN!
TWO DIVISIONS
Lt (N'DON, Aug. I 8. (!') The
capital of the liritlsh Km id re Is
Among the n ewes t and m ost
8lieeiHful projects lo he start
ed, in this cliy Is the junior boys
drum and bugle corps which was
rerun ty organised by Oluyton
laaacs, a member of the Med
ford American Legion drum corps
for. tho past five years.
fwenty-two new drummers and
Viirflers will be Initiated Into I ho
group nt the next regular prac
tice which will lie held Tuesday
evening at Itoy Hcoul headquar
ters, i
i' H will Ijo noeessary to separate
the boys into two groups, one cuit
Histing of boys from 11 to it and
tho other from 12 to Hi years.
Mr, Ihuucb said yesterday. Ho
fcxpectH to have an enrollment
of members in each division,
ltnlph Units Is director of the
buglers.
Tho next big event In which the
corps wl II take pa rt will be t h
Hoy Seoul Jamboree nt the city
armory, August il I , beginning nt
8 o'clock.
AVlth few exceptions tho young
musicians are earning money to
pay for (heir own Instruments.
PLEAS OF GUILTY
Jack Crowden and .lack O'Hrien.
nrrested by the police last week
o- moonshine possession charges
and Inter charged with the bur
glary of the Al ilaydcu home on
Mistletoe street, are reported to
bp ready to enter pleas of guilty
In circuit court on the burglary
charges, but cannot flue to the
fact that Circuit Judge r, ..
Thomas is now on his vacation.
The same also holds true for liny
Nolan tmd -Victor Reynolds,
charged with the theft of a ear
In Med ford and a ear in Ashland
und arrested last Thursday in
Dunsmuir and brought back to
Aledford.
UlfilMOM), Va., Aug. JS.
Hwollen rivers at flood crest were
rushing by two southern citlos. :ibKuluU-ly at the mercy of an air
mi i.. ... i " . i r-.t... i- 13 i' attack launched from the contl-
...I..1H i nt urn u ,,.in,', ' rifini-I n,'nt- 'nily experts now believ
ago was anticipated I'rom lnunda-1
tlOIIH.
The Jiiim'H river flooded low
lands In the vicinity in lilchmond
hut precautionary ' measures pr
vented serious overflows' In
completely evaded the defense
and dropped theoretical messen
gers of supposed deatli and des
truction. 1 Irlg. (Sciieral 1 1 roves
opera
nt e
PORT AW PRiXCIO, Haiti, Auff.
IS.p) News of the disastrous
hurricane which struck the south
ern peninsula of Haiti three days
it is claimed, has!c;o and Is believed to have cost
definitely from the ......... live reached Port An
Prince today.
In some estimates the number
of killed was placed al 200 and
That much
i been learned
annual maneuvers of the Uoyal
Air force which ended this morn
ing. In those maneuvers "enemy''
I bombers made r 7 day light rahu
thei ""u'h"1 ',,,",jino damage to property in tne
cltv lirnonr. Tbe oiilbwestern ! " iieignnortlOOd of ?1,UUIP,U0H. small
section of the state which receiv
ed the brunt of last wceU-end'.i
storm had virtually recovered and
all its streams were reported be
low dangerous flood stages.
At t-'olumbla the f'ongare
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. IS
The railroads of California and
other western states are facing
;a strike of their conductors and
j trainmen early in .September when
t.- movement, oi peristiume nun
will be at its peak is the tenor
of a statement issued here today
by a committee consisting of the
general manage" of trans-continental
railroads operating in
t itllfornia.
The statement was issued follow
ing advice that the trainmen and
conductors have refused arbitra
tion on their wage demand ami
are now considering a strike bal
lot to bo returned Sept. t. This
class of railroad employes sub
mitted their demands to a federal
board of arbitration, the state
ment said, and after hearing the
case the hoard declined the re
quest on J une 25,11127, on the
ground that no increases were
warranted in the -west except to
yardmen, who wore granted 7 -
per cent. The conductors and
trainmen of railroads operating in
California. and other western
states aro now receiving higher
wages than trainmen In eastern
and south even under rucent in
creases given in these territories.
The conductors and trainmen
promptly renewed their demands
for increased wages but were un
able to reach an agreement with
the railroads. The railroads offer
ed to submit the matter to a
board of arbitration under the
Wa.son Parker Railway Labor act
passed by congress two years ago.
Tr.'s act was drafted by the rail
road labor organizations and a
majority of the railroads, pass
u,ve being urged by both of
them. The western railroads, the
statement continued, though they
were earning well below a fair re
turn (Hi investment, In the in t cr
est .-t of harmony were willing to
(allow their conductors and brake -j
ni't-n an increase of t per cent
ithe same as was recently granted
ngineers and firemen and which
would cost about $U, 100. 000 per
annum or allow an increase of
7 per cent provided .the em
ployes would agree to remove
certain restrictive, rules that now
prevent the securing of full use
of - modern motive power and
which rules are not in effect in
other territories. Either offer
meant higher rates of wages and
greater earnings than they had
ever before received in the history
of railroading. The organizations
are unwilling to accept either pro
posal and declined thn suggestion
: of the United States Board of
j .Meditation that the dispute be
submitted to arbitration in ac
cordance with the provisions of
the Railway Labor Act.' The rail-
: roads are still willing to arbi
trate but tiie labor organizations
affected have refused arbitration
are now taking a strike vote.
The committee issuing' the
"statement consists of 11. Knick
erbocker, (ien -Mgr. I'nlon Pacific
System, J. II. Dyer, (ien .Mgr.
t Southern Pacific Lines, V .K.
j ICtter, Clen. .Mgr. Atchison Topeki
land Santa Fe., and 12. W. -Mason
vice president and general man-,
age r of tho -Western Pacific.
COCHRANE, Ont, Aug. 18. (P)
j Bert Hussell and Parker Cramer
took off here at 12:12 p. m.. east
Bin standard time, for Mt. Kvann,
Greenland, on the second leg of
j their flight from Rockford, 111., to
i Stockholm, Sweden.
AS PEACE ALLY
EVANSTON. 111., Aug. 18. (A)
Dr. W. Lee Lewis, Inventor, to
niilit cnlled "adence the ally ot
jieace" a few hours arter army air
planes covered the norlh shore
towns suburban to Chicago with a
smoke screen us a demonstration
of the new technique of war. '
The smoke screen demonstration
was followed by addresses of army
officers who lauded new applica
tions of science In developing
greater military action at the clos
ing session of the American Chem
ical Society Institute at North
western University. y
"If science served warfare only. '
It would indeed be a human curse."
said Dr. Lewis, who outlined the
developments In warfare from the
time of primitive man to the pres
ent and showed how science les
sened "the possibilities of war by
providing means of protection and
peaceful internal expansion."
111-. MIcIuiWmiii III Again.
l'ASADEXA, l'Bl Aug. IS. UP)
Br. AlliiM't Jlichaolson, noted Uni
versity of Chicago scientist here
for a continuation of his famous
experiments with the speed of
ll'.'ht, today was reported greatly
improved.' following his confine
ment to a locnl hotel because of a
cold.
Newport votes $20,000 bonds for
city hall, to bo offered for county
courthouse.
I former dire
tr flying
secretary of
with a flood crest of :t;i.i
ade
bouts were sunk or hurled dam
aged to the beach, crops were de
stroyed and all communication
disrupted.
From the fragmentary reports
received hero it is believed the
damage was confined to a rela
tively small area.
The n:iv;it Inir Wnndcnek return.
Hack. in a sho.t time Its vital todnv from the peninsular arter
p.duts would be in ruins and having distributed food and medi
( other sections of the city would cal Huppnes to some of the striclc
ibe rendered unhabitable because OII vlW0H, Officers reported that,
of gas." j tlt, .Minigono area a lake was
j one of the facts of the maneu-' rorin(!l 20 feet deep and four miles
I vers which the experts consider! m i,!Ugth ii ml nt Aquitln, a dock
jslgnifieant Is that theoretically 3UQ ; Wl,H lirtP(1 wly aiu carried UOO
I tons of bombs loaded with Kas yards inland.
iand high explosives were drop- Reconstruction of communicn
ped on London within one week norm conditions seem assured by
This euuals the bombs dropped U()nfl ,U)H WCK1)n Bnd comparatively
.011 nil of Kngland by the Germans (ho (MU, of ,l(J mmUh
in the enure period ol tne u orio 4.
vvnr. i SAN FKAXCISCO. Aug. 1 S.tI'i
( ieneral (i roves Is certain that The weather outlook for the
If war bieaks out between Kng-;week beg'nning Augirr 19 win
land and a continental power, the ; announced here today bv the t:
civilian population will suffer most k. weather bureau as follows:
of all. "High explosive's and gas ; Tar western states: Th'; out
bombs will be used freely in the look Is for fair weathev, bat with
next conflict." he said. "It will fogs along the coast, and warm
be the aim of ?nch side to terror- with moderately hitfh fire hazards
ize tlie civilian population of the over the Interior.
olher. London Is peculiarly vol-, T."" 77" frn
nerable to an a r attach." NKV M)HK. Auk. lS.--Al-
though more than a year has
11UN.LAU, lletmany, Auk. IS. passed since Col. Charles A. Lind-
Another what-of-lt record: Kd- heigh gained world wide uime ny
. itloiis and now
111 .... .1 1 1 ..in iu nual ely defended from 1111 air
about the city, causing some loss
to livestock and farm crops. In
the city the damage was confined
to flooding of basements of mills
along tho riverfront and one of
tho three units of the municipal
water workH was put out of com
mission. - j
Chnppelly, K C. a small town '
on the Kaliubi river, was cut from '
communication by flood wateis.
and Die Southern railway was
forced to convey Us passengers'
bound for the north by boat from)
Augusta, (in., to Mall). S. t'., s
cm miles, to make train connec
tions. Chora w on the (".real Pee
dee river reported Hun mules and
cattle drowned In a community
pasture.
in North Carolina the sit nation
was believed to be materially Im
proved. Wears of the bretutlng
of the Tike Lure dam . Impound
ing millions of gallons of water
were dissipated when dam off I -!
cials announced that the I111-
pounded water, up to the dam's j
brim last night, had been havi'i--,,..-,! Kpral, nf iwii,, ,.ninil, . ,uw ; ,K fK,t to I'arla, he nmlintiPit l-
ed (i I mm today by use nf flontl j WOrUl mnrk of hours coitltimous (lay to be possibly tho highest sin
gates. Residents of the valley ; nnn pliiylnir. ' u,p H"v0 ' news.
who tied to ntuiur ground cxpcci
ell lo return to ihelr- liomes by
tomorrow
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CLOSED
ENTIRE STOCK BOUGHT AT
CREDITORS SALE
FOR A FRACTION OF ITS
TRUE VALUE
Doors will swing open Thursday
morning for one of the greatest
Furniture Sales this town ever had
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every slate to act under the dl
rettinn of a sum II coterio who
control t he organization,
"These men," tho senator said,
"have consistently pursued the
policy of attempt tug to destroy
any candidate or party which has
not accepted Us dictations.
"It acts largely in secret and
fretiuenlly without regail to 'mor
als, fairness or honesty"
ARIZONA LAUDS HOOVER
(Continued from Page One.)
Arizona nnd California, which has
proved the stumbling block to
national legislation was left to ne
gotiation. The, ltnulder canyon
situation will come in for some
consideration, hut the conversa
tions between tho nominee mid tin
party leaders are expected to deal
largely with matters of oiKanlxn
tfon and strategy In the coming
Campaign.
, After leaving his home state htsl
night, Hoover put the final touches
on the four thousand word speech
he will deliver at his birthplace
noxt Tuesday night. Willi this off
his hands his mind will be free
for tho consideration of tho pol
itical problems Involved in the
Tour states through which his train
H'lH pass before ho reached West
ranch.
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flprlngs school out Una ted to cost
-40,000.
New
Management
Court St.
Grocery
A Modem Neighborhood
Storo
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Right Prices
Best Service
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Comer Court and Central
Phone 709-R
THEY SAY
"Swim in
Drinking
Water"
Our weekly wider (est, by H10
, State Board of Health
shows it. to be in "A" condition
"Stole i'ov drinking iurioses."
The only safe water is a slerilized
water.. Our jmol ranks with the
highest in the state for purity of
water, and surpasses any in South
ern Oregon.
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