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Syndicate, Inc.)
A mpssnup from Mr. J. M". Tn-
niI'h, presidente comisioii nu
lonal defense, AsciD'iir tie Culm,
j is iipprcciiitcd.
I It rends: "lC'iilu sus eom
. maiilaros en el lmmrio sobre nr
! s aiii'olt's pnra iiziidir siirnificolo
mi einecra y cuhirosa l'clicitn
riiiii jini' la tlel'ensa mny jiistn
' no hace vd lie Cuba."
; Mr. Hahson sent (ho stock
,' lnurkVt down merely by snyini:
j it must; go down. Si nek Ifiuil-
biers arc like children, ll does
Sunt take much of a ulinst to
frijilitcn them.
'. Yesterday men that really
Jniow about stocks contradict
' oil Mr. Malison, and stocks went
!
i Mr. Habson, like the rest of
mis, only knows what MR. HAI!
SON knows.
Recently lie was hi the mid
' die of the Florida land boom.
, And perhaps that warps his vi
sion. , .' If he keeps his Florida land,
lie '11 make money, if he bought
it with intelligence.
Those that have boniiht
',j slocks wilh any intelligence
wiU make money if they kc'p
'l-m. .
vj Clencva cables that ""WoocV
y row "Wilson's League 61 Na
; . liims idea" lias diHeovered that
.-it can't prevent war, even
among members.
Sir Arthur Henderson, see
; rotary in Britain's labor gov
ernment, siigpesls an a'ivo
iin'iU among seven biir nations
Mo outlaw war, Danish it, KNO
IT.
i-Jt Kxeellenl idea. Should stop
j f iurht injj if possible,
j Hut ood resolutions that
'I drunkarks make when sober
j are forgotten when they are
'j drunk. What applies to drunk
A anls nplies to nations that
.'rivf the fijjhtinp habit.
4 What would Mussolini, for
instance, do, if somebody step-
ed on bis toes? lie answered,
plainly enough in the Creek in
' eident.
Meanwhile, small bodies of
. British troops are fiidrtin? lnm
' or forees of Arabs in Palestine.
Bedouins, most savape of the
Scmilie fitrhtin tribes, have
' I'Knif in from Sinai.
'j The (piiekest way to (piiei
that neighborhood would be
consistent, persistent use of air
planes, bombs and was. Arabs
respect what they don't under
stand. Hut the British are eonserva
; live, patient, wise, movinu'
slowly, where religions hatreds
are concerned. They will kill
as few as possible.
riie Vniteilitle", listening to
i common sense, will continue oVvcl
1 oplinf rum warfare.
( : HohriM . lieml of the armyN
; chvmU-ul (U'pni'ttnonl. nays flan iw
the kimlt'Ht thing in war. Willi
tlif rtKht Klinl of i;as. you could
render millions unalili? t't ffhl.
without hurting them much. That
Is comforting-
4
lint, whether or not (raw is com
fortable or uncomfortable for tli
enemy, gas warfare should be fully
developed. We shall never gas
anybody that doesn't come looking
for serious trouble. But we should
have assorted gases ready -rout anl
gas, tear gas, and the kind that the
Augfl of leath used on Sennache
rib's army.
Russia, convinced that capitalism
4 '-mis and fears, her, accuses
ciiina of refusing to he friendly.
( bc'-Hiise capitalist! Influences con
trol her,
f'apitalisllc governments are too
hwt-y with their own problems to
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Port Orford Cut Off From
In Wind Only Hope To
Save Town Firebugs
Blamed for" Series of j
Blazes In. Lane County
Situation Alarms.
lHlRTLAND, Ore., Soi.it. 7.P)
Dry winds fiinut'd the l-acifii;
norrliwest Itulay and smouldering
fires bi'canie n-d menaces on all
sides of this city. One death was
credited directly to the fire demon,
another indirectly. Several farm
homes were destroyed ami at least
two communities tonight were in
danger of being wined out.
Mrs. August KranK. tin, was trap
ped i.i her miming farm home near
Mount Angel late today. A neigh
bor, Sherman Miller, fought: his
way turougn a wall of sinoKe and
flame, but was too late to save the
aged woman. She died several
hours later at a Mount Angel hos
pital. James Y. Fowler, vice-president
and general superintendent of the
Eastern & Western Lumber Co.
here, died of heart disease which
physicians attributed to overexer
tion after he had toured th fire
lines o.i his company's holdings
near Molalla, 80 miles south of this
city. (He is a brother of Comity
Agent R. (i. Fowler).
Fowler dropped dead at the head
quarters of the small hand of fire
fighters that was attempting to
stem the lavages of a blaze thtit
had wiped out 8,000.000 feet of
bucked logs and destroyed an' un
estimuted amount of green timber.
' The Mount Angel fire was first
uotlced Thursday and tonight had
spread over an area of 1000 acres
of farm land and green timber. It
look out the Frank farm buildings
and destroyed the . home of Fred
Helming nearby.
Port Orford, on the coast In Cur
ry county, was reported in gruve
danger of destruction by fire. Ad
vices to the Oregon ian here said
the town was cut off from the land
side by a semi-circle of encroach
ing fire. Fiames were reported to
be licking at the very outskirts of
the town and one farm house was
burned. Other buildings were said
to be doomed unless the wind
changed.
Two fires In Lane county spread
so rapidly Itulay that crews gave
mi all efforts to stop them and fled
for their lives. One of these was
at the head of Poodle creek? north
west of Noti. The 0 or more
families making up the little com
munity of Hale were said to have
virtually abandoned hope of saving
anything.
Near Walton crews had given
up the struggle against several
blazes said to he of incendiary ori
gin. Fire, which started Friday near
Hull Run, today had spread to
within at Ml feet of a large group
of summer homes. Fifty employes
of the street railway system here
were dispatched to fight the blaze.
SALEM. Ore.. Sept. 7. (VP)
Mrs. August Frank, HO, was not
expected to live from burns she
received when a forest fire swept
over the Frank farm, five miles
northeast of Mount Angel, late to
day. The Frank home and barns
and the Fred Helming place near
by were completely destroyed, it
was learned here.
Reports reaching h're revealed
that more than loud acres, mostly
second growth limber, were in
flames.
A force of T." men from Mount
Angel and other points was report
ed to be fighting the blaze.
Kl'OENH. Ore,, S-pt. 7. fPl
Fire fighters w're being rushed
1o the village of Hale. J0 miles
west of here, tonight after It was
learned thai the town is partially
surrounded by forest fires. The
village was believed in !no Imme-
dfattt iliinuer.
one homesteader's enhfn wns
said to have hw-n destroyed In
a not her fit- wh i h slnrleit t hre"
weeks ago near Walter jlle and
today had spread to the ( 'a nip
eree farming section.
Members ut fire fitfbt ing force
and timber owners tonight said
the forest fire dnmllon In 1-ane
rouiily is the niot dangerous in
several years.
A strong east wind was blowing
ton !u lit and all fires were repott
ed sprendinu.
The Weather
Oregon: Fair Sundav and M'n
iay: moderately high iemieratui-s
ami very low humidity: gentle
north and northwest winds.
gri.M'V, Mhm., Sept. 71'
The new ticbt ei uiser Nort ha nip
Ion WHfi lnunched at The Fore '
Kiver chip ards todny wflh rer- i
monies in which Mrs. "alvln fool- I
idite. wife nf the former president.
Seeretary of t lio Nay 'Mimrtes V. '
jAdams, und &ihers, (mi Uclpuud. I
BRITISH SET SPEED RECORD IN SCHNEIDER RACE
i
Submarine It. tm-elo shaped
team (above) left to right: .11. It.
h Jim! K. Ik It. Alcherlcy.
UVHE Isle of Wight, Sept.
-(rPi A flying bridegroom on
silver romet of a sea iila lie hurtled
I V
to vJetory for r.mat rirlialn in; whleh Britain won the last Schnei-1 their necks for the sake of
the ran for the Schneider trophy ;der trophy ruee at the Lido, Veil-, selence and speed supremacy in
today, establishing a new aveiatt'-: (Wo years ago. ! the Hevt-n eiteuiis of the course
speed for the :MK-ml!e. course of; The victorious Hrllish pilot was! marked out over Un Solent, !''
;tL'S.ii;! miles an hour, which Is ; Klyf hi; t if fleer H. li. 1). Waghorn. j tween lngluud and the Isle, of
just a bare fraction under fie,-1 Koyal Air Force pilot and a' V;gh .
PARKING RULE
ENFORCEMENT ON POWER UNITjOUPED BY HOME!
MM HIT AT BLpOGEGR01JAFTER!
Subject to Be Aired at Mer- Plant to Be Erected Fori Acctpts Fine of a Dollar In
chants Meet Monday Furnishing Electricity Fori stead of Making Out Tag
Shoppers Inconvenienced
Short Notice Brings!
Criticism One Arrest!
Made- I
Summed up, according to all
information obtainable lust nig hi (
and cmninents heard on the sub
ject during the day by business
men, c.i izens and rural visitors
the enfoi-cine, of tin double park
ing feature ot the new traffic or
dinance in the 'business district,
for the first time yesterday was
far from popular, and caused
much confusion and inconvenience
to the auto shoppers, which was
only natural becaitKe of the heavy
natural Saturday traffic conges
tion in that, district, especially In
the afternoon on last evening.
It was generally admitted that,
however, that yesterday was hard
ly a fair trial of the Innovation,
and that the new plan would haw
to be further tried out before -i
fair Judgment could he obtained
as to which plan would be the
better double parking as before,
or me new regulation put into ef
fect yesterday,
A number of merchants were
very indignant and claimed tin
enforcement of the new rule
would drive trade away from the
eity. 1 )t her business men Inter
viewed 1 referred to umko no
comment one way or the other,
at present. The first mentioned
business men declared that the
question would be brought up at
the men-hanis association meet
ing tomorrow evening.
cieueral critlcli.m heard on nil
sides was that longer notice should
have been given before hand thai
the new traffic ordinance wnuM
be enforced beginning yesterday.
The first news of it was publish
ed in Friday afternoon's Mail
Tribune, and most .of the rural
people were unaware until they
arrived in the city to shop dur
ing yesterday that double parking
was forbidden.
It was the policy of the police
to make no arrests for the first
cffefise, but only to giw a warn
in when a douhir pa rker
found. Most double parkers when
quietly informed that they were
violating the ordiname took ihe
matter with good gra and mov
ed their cars away at once.
Hniy one arrest was made for
double parking during the day and
that was the driver of one of
Fluhrer's bakery wagunsi who
when found double parked "ti
Main street, and warned drove on
to the next hloi k and double park
ed again.
In ureiienil f hopper bad to car
rv their parka- lo their cars
ftiiih' r distance than heretofore,
and business and office men had
to park their cars quite a dis
la nee away from their plar.es of
business and walk, K en ft y
Traffic Officer Oeorge Present
on purchasing food fuppltes at ore
of the (crocetj. bail to walk with
ihem to his car parked tieveral
blotki away.
monoplane, tiseil by the Kngllsli
I. Wughom, T. X. Moou, l'.icy
. ; and one-half miles a minute. This
i ;s an improvement of 4H miles
an hour nver the speed record by
LET CONTRACT
Mine Operation To Cost
$100,000 Road to Main
Camp Is Completed
Work to Start Soon.
The contract for the const rue
Mo ti and installation of power
plant, iImiiih, ditches, ami canals
of the Consolidated Jjght and
Power Company, has been award
ed to Thomas A. Hwecney, hy
draulic contractor of Portland,
( ire., it was an no 11 need Saturday,
by loca 1 officers of the Consoli
dated Copper Company lessees of
the Hlue Ledge mine.
The power plant will be used ir
the electrical operation of th-
Blue Ledge, and work will start
within a week or ten days. The
plant will cost in the neighbor
hood of Jioo.aoti. Power will be
derived from the waters of El
liott Creek. Job Creek, Carheri'y
Creek, and the Pig Applegate riv
er. The power plant will be lo
cated at Seattle Mar, near the
Oregon-California state line.
officials of the mining com
pany said Dial I ho financing of
t he power site, had been assured
by Middle Western capitalists,
prineipally in Nebraska and Iowa.
The, power plant will use water
rights, owned by the PI up Ledg"
mine, in the crea Hon of power.
The plant will be Mto horsepower.
Krick A ndersoti, lit cha f e -f
road coiislruelion in the Pine
Ledge district reported yesterday
that the road to the Itlue Leiln
camp had been completed, and
that it was now possible for a u
los to go to the main camp. I.i
this work the. forest ry servlc
has expended $.riOHi and Siskiyou
County lr.MO.
Dr. .1. F. Pcddy said that with
the completion of t he road con-
struetlon. it was possible
trucks to haul the ore from
Hlue Ledge, in iplh k- time,
A force of 12 men are now
ployed at the mine, making re
for la rge operations, I 'tit II
power plant and tramway
concentrating plant are set
no large force
eni'di. ed.
1 50 SCHOLARS IN -
HESINCFORS. Finland, Sept. 7.
Op) -One hundred and fifty per
sons, school boys and girls, were
drowned today when the Finnish
M "timer .leni sank In a heavy
storm white plying its regular route
from the town of Tempere to the
village of Korn. Only "id of the
uu pa.fccUK' ra were buved,
and .
up, '
f w ot kei s 111 b" ;
I
In Schneider cup race. The Hellish
Uivlff, A. N. Orltmr, G. N. Stalnlort
, bridegroom of two mouths. He
'-i the only married man anions
the six during ltrltish and Italian
tiiizh-sn.'tiil iifcfotM wlui loil:iV rl.sk-
AUTO PARKERS
Woman Reports Swin
dle and Police Think
Others Bilked Warnings
Only Issued.
A presumably home-grown graft
er took advantage of the confusion
in the business district yesterday
due to the enforcing of the new
traffic ordlnnnce forbidding double
parking, to make som easy money
by approaching double parkers and
pretending to be an officer In citi
zens' clothes, threatening to make
out. a tag for arrest, but kindly
consenting to accept a flue of $1
so that the offender would not. have
to appear in court for trial.
A woman, who had double park
ed in front of the Montgomery
Ward & Co. store in the afternoon,
reported to the police that she hail
been swindled In thin manner and
it Is presumed quite a number of
other double parUers parted with
dollars in tse same manner, who
are squeamish about reporting If
to the police. x
The police did not make arrests
yesterday for the first offense of
double parking, hut only gave
warnings. The fine for 11 viola
tion of the new traffic ordinance is
1 1 0111 $1 to $100.
OLDEST RESIDENT
OF LANE PASSES
KCOKNK. Ore., Sept. 7. M)
Mrs. Melvlna Crenshaw Wallis, the
oldest resident In I jimp county,
d ied at. her home at Cottage
( I rove today at 1 he age of I H.'I.
Lorn on July ISL'fi at Nevew.
III.. Mrs. Willis was the mot her
of n children, seven nf whom are
still living.
.Mrs. Willis was acquainted with
A In it ha m Lincoln mid her mother
at one time was employed In the
household of (leoi ge Washing
ton's parents. The family cross
ed the plains In Oregon in ixr.4.
f i-h. Willis driving an ox team.
She settled at Cot Inge drove In
I vt
DEATH CHANT ON
FAIRPANKS. Alaska. Sent. 7.--0P1
With true native stoh Ism,
Constautlue Heaver of the lloltlna
Hjver country In the lower Kusko-
1 wlui, walked to the gallows hen
a ItS a. m, the Indian death
I ( hunt on his Hps, ami was hanged
for the murder early this year of
Ifcnuuy NccKcttu, fallow tribcsuiuu.
TRACE D Y OFIPOPULAi. S. TABOO
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AIR DUE TO
Bolt Hit T. A. T. Plane Over,
Lofty Arizona Peak
Fiery Crash Follows Over
Petrified Forest Deem
ed Certain All Perished
Retrieving of Dead Her
culean Task.
AMARILLO. Texas, Sept. 7. (p)
Although both its wing struts
broke at 9000 feet, the Western
Air Fxpreas ship which found the
wrecked air liner "City of San
Francisco," made a safe lauding
on a ranch 25 miles east of Tuu
cumcari, N. M., today. The five
passengers nntl three crew mem
bers were unhurt.
GRANT, N. A!., Sept. 7.P)
Uh wings stripped from the fuse
lage and Its eight occupants prob
ably burned to death, the "Clty'of
San Francisco," Transcontinental
Air Transport air liner, tonight was
the object of a ground search by
several groups of men traversing
the wild, forbidding territory of
western New Mexico.
Barely a few minutes had passed
after the T. A. T. teletype hud
flashed the word from Pilot George
Rice that he 'hud found the rem
mints of the once proud transport
on the south slope of Mouut Tay
lod before hundreds of Hcurchei'H
started converging ou this rugged,
11, 000-foot peak.
Due to the rough terrain. It was
considered probable that hours
would elapse before lund parties,
proceeding slowly by truck, horse
back and on foot, would be able to
reach the wreckage of the huge
ship In an effort to retrieve the
bodies of Its eight victims.
Tiuit the' three members of the
j T. A, T. personnel and their five
1 passengers had periuhed In the
flumes enveloping the air liner
seemed certain.
Hill Cutter, T. A. T. plot, re
ported that tho wings had burned
away, apparently following an ex
plosion. He was unable to see the
bodies, hut expressed the belief
that the eight occupants of the
machine had been carried to their
death against the Hide of the peak,
one of the highest in the southern
Rocky Mountain range.
An Associated Press stuff man,
flying low over Mount Taylor, re-
(ported on his return to Albuquor
j quo that the piune apparently had
j been st ruck by lightning before it
! crashed on the mountain side,
I barely 500 feet from the top of tho
! peuk. Hack of It, lining thu swatch
lit cut In the dense growth of trees
I on the southern slope, were trees
jwlth limbs shorn oft by fire, he
said. This, he held, would indi
cate that the ship was aflame when
it struck the mountain, nud the
probabilities were that it was
'struck by lightning which sent It
hurtling, out of control and a hlaz
, lug furnace, Into the jugged re
'cesses of the almost uninhabited
region.
ST. LOUIS, Mo Sept. 7. (VP)
Transcontinental Air Transport of
ficiHls announced tonight an luves
togutinn Into the wreck of tho sky
liuor "City of San Francisco"
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TOUEIST TRAVEL
MAKSIIKIKM), Ore, Sept. 7
(A'l Tim Roosevelt Count Kmph'o
liHKorlmlon, with the promotion of
of tourlxt travel over the count
I louiH unit the udvortlHlnK of the
' Kcetlon iilonn the route uh Uh iiIiiih.
whh formed nl ft niecttnn nt Co
! uullle todny. Tim iihhoi'IiiUoii Im
I patterned ufter tho Itedwood 1 1 IkI
jwny iiHBOiluilon of California mid
I HftuOmril OreKon. At the oilUet the
; organization InchideH Del Norte
c ounty, California; Coon, Curry
and KoliKlaH eolllltleH In OreKon.
! other eotinlleH to the north nloui;
ll ouxt roule, 1 1 1 1 1 I i i k I .mi".
I.lneolii, Tillamook and Clawip, will
he appi'oui'hed on Ihe mutter of
ii ff It hi I imr Inl,, .itli. Il,rif filiTll O I7.it -
j tton.
' .1. K. Norton, Coon county repre
i Henative, wiih elected preHidenl of
the organization, with ll. C. Oe
. ment of .Myrtle Pot nt, .1. A. Larson
of MaiHlifleld and Henry Kern of
North Mend nH vlep prenldentH. The
j executive committee uIko lncnden
jtleoiy,e I), ArmtdroriK of Crev,cenf
I city, ,f. Albert Mat ami of Marsh
I field, JeHH Clinton of Myrtle I'olnt,
I W. A. Ijovehice of Iteednport and
I h. I). Kolsholm of Handon. All
' counties are reprenenti-i on the nd
1 vhtuiy coiiiiuHti-'u o( li muiubum,
UGHTNINGS
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DR. WILLING
B!
Johnston Wins Amateur
Golf Title, As Pebble
Beach Gallery Shows Dis
tinct Hostility To Oregon
Entry Mid-West Star
Comes From Behind to
Win.
By ALLAN GOULD
I'KllllUO 1IUACH, Cul., Sept. 7.
--(? t The amateur gulfliiK capital
of Ihe I'nlted States shifted today
from Atlanta to St. 1'tiul when llur
rlson It. (Jimmy) Juhnston, fight
ing son of the great mid west, beat
Uie bnttlinK dentist of tho Pacific
northwest. Dr. Oscar R WillinR,
4 up and .1 to play. In the final
match of the first tournament ever
held this side of the Rockies.
Johnston, competing in the title
round for the first limo In his ca
reer, succeeded to the champion
ship relinquished hy Hobby Jones
wneit ine invoriie. Rolling son oi
Dixie was unceremoniously elimi
nated In the first romid hy Johnny
(ioodntnu of Oninha. Johnston
seemed to catch the fancy of tho
crowd, rallied alter a bud start, to
overhaul and bent the veteran, Dr.
Willing, lu a match that wns
marked hy erratic pluy and hy un
attitude or distinct hostility toward
the loser on tho part of the gul
lery Kxcept for the gnllunt fighting
spirit manifested by both conteHl
untn right up to tho finishing stroke
ou the 33rd green, where Johnston
got tho halt that clinched tho Is
sue, the branch ot golf was not up
to championship standard, as It has
come to bo exemplified hy ex-Km-noror
JonoB, but the attitude of tho
gallery toward thn robust Oregon
Ian was as remarkable as anything
ever witnessed in IM years of com
petition for the amateur crown.
In splto of the raet that Dr. Wil
ling carrlod tho banner of the Pa
cific coast III the final round for
tho first time, and in tho first tour
nament ever held In the far west,
the gallery or perhaps 500 specta
tors manifested strong support of
Johnston throughout and gave him
a tremendous ovation ut tho finish.
The contrast botwoon the bare
headed, white shlrted "Jimmy" nnd i
the portly, somewhat sour looking
dentist may havo had some influ
ence. Johnston, too, was the young
er, for Willing Ib a campaigner of
.'III, and "Jimmy" was tho under
dog for the first hnlf of tho match.
Kurthormoro, the doctor'n known
disinclination to concede Bhort
putts has found disfavor among
the spectators a number of times
during the tournament and that,
too, uppeared a factor In the un
usual partisanship of tho Jostling
jam.
Whatever It was, the match wit
nessed a startling outburst of
cheers at the eighth hole, when
Willing missed a shot in a trap
nud Johnston won his rirst hole
arter, apparently having tossed It
nwa hy putting his second shot
over tho elirf to the oceunslile.
Again at tho 1 V&th nolo, whore HI,
Paul "Jimmy" reully began his up
hill fight to victory, scattering
cheers echoed as Wllllng's Hecond
shot, trickled over tho edge of the !
green Into u trap, from which it
took tho doctor two to get out.
Again, at the 1 S! ll, the partisan
Hplrlts ot the gallery groaned us
Wllllng's approach shot, apparently
headed for a trap, Just cleared Ihe
hazard and made the green. It
was on this hole that Johnston
made the most magnificent recov
ery Hhol of Ihe entire niatch. lie
hud Just cut Wllllng's h'ud from
three to one hole hy Inking the
lilth and 1 "III In succession, but It
looked duhloiiH when "Jimmy"
pulled his hriissie over the hank
and down to the edge of the ocean.
The aurf lapped around ll Im unkles
ns he took his stance hut he clout
ed the bull to within six yards of
the green, Just short of a trap, from
where ho chloped dead to the pin
for Ihe par live that gavn him n
half, Willing requiring two pulls
to get down. .
Had Johnston been ablo to sink
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AUTO ACCIDENT
PtiI;T iilH-IIAItl). Wash, Sept.
7. --111- ', seven-pound baby
uli'l. In pel fect healthy was born
to Mrs. Jeff Utile, 3ft." a farmer'
wife, when her automobile ran
over her today while she was
.ranking It. Ignorant that II was
In gear. The mother, suffering
from shock and with a broken
arm. wns expected to die. Pass-ei-l.ys
heard the child cijlng un
der Hiv cur,
EAitNNOWLOOMS
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ON HUNTING
Close Forest Reserves As
Deer Season Opens . Un
less General Rain In
Northwest Jackson
Sportsmen Protest Post
ponement In Letter To
Governor
I'OItTl.ANL), Ore., Sept. t.W)
.Major John IJ, Guthrie of tho
district forest office here annaun-ct-d
tonight thut unless heavy
rains Intervent all national for
ests In Oregon and Bcverul In
Washington will bo closed on Sep
tember 15.
September 15 is tho opening
dale of Ihe Avar eeasun in this
slate.
Governor I. I.. Pattornon or Ore
Ron previously declared that he
would postpone the hunting sea
son unless rains reduced fire haz
ards. Washington forests that may bo
closed. .Major Outhrlo said, are
parts of the Colvllle, parts of the
Chelan, the east half of tho Ital
nlur, all of the Columbia and
probably the Olympic.
In describing the flro situation
In the Pacific northwest Major
fluthrle said conditions -were ex
tremely serious,
"Hardly nny of tho Pacific
northwest nationnl forests have
escaped," he declared. '"From
oven the Olympic forest In Wash
ington which so far went un'
soathed, wo received disquieting;
reports today."
Major Outhrlo Bald a 200-ncro
fire broke out In the Olympic for
est. He reported that 150 men
were sent to fight tho lilaze, whleh
Is said to' bo burning through a
cut-over area.
The Jackson County Gamo asso
ciation yesterday addressed a let
tor to Governor I. L.. Patterson "to
express dlaapproval" of the pro
posed postponement of the open
ing of the doer hunting, Septem
ber 15, unless there Is a general
rainfall.
Tho letter nets forth, It Is "unfair
to the sportsmen" to shorten the
season, that an agreement was
reached with the state game com
mission during the last seBston of
the legislature, that by changing
tho date from September 1 to Sep
tember lf, future postponements
would ho eliminated, and thut any
postponement would be a violation
of tho agreement.
Tho lettor, In full, Is as follows;
September 7, 1929.
Hon. I. I,, Patterson,
Governor of the Stale of Oregon, '
Sulem, Oregon.
Deur Sir: The attention of the
direction of the Jackson Countv
Game protective association has
been called to reports In the press
thut In caso there was no general
rnlnrull In Oregon previous to Sep
tember 15, that you would bo re
quested to d lare tho postpone
ment of the open season until a
later date.
While this Information has been
gained only from the press, It Is
Ihe desire of tho directors of the
Jackson County Game Protective
association, acting for Its member
ship, to express disapproval of such
action.
Without going Into the merits of
the practice of changing the open
game seasons tills association clo
slres lo call nttontlou to the fact
Hint at the lust session of the atalo
legislature tho representatives of
this association were Informed that
the change In the deer season from
September 10 to September IB
would eliminate In tho futuro the
very unsatisfactory practlco of de
claring the open door season dates
Inoperative until ufter a general
rainfall. On this condition the
representatives of this association
told representatives of the Btate
gamo commission that tho change
in the deer season would be sat
isfactory to Jackson county sports
men. Should this agreement with
tho representatives of this associa
tion be broken, the exctiBe for
shortening Ihe season by a ehango
in the law, wo bellove. would be,
untlrely unfair to the sportsmen.
Sportsmen all over tho state are
pledging themselves to observe
strict rules for forest fire preven
tion und It Is the belief of the di
rectors of this association that
hunters couse less hazard to tim
bered ureas than many others who
are permitted in the forests In dry
I seasons.
Wo desire, therefore, to protest
any change In the opening dnte of
the deer season which would be a
violation of the understanding thnt
our represeimtlves had with the
game commission represenutlres
at Salem.
Assuring yon of our high appre
ciation of your Interest In the
sportsmen's welfare and for your
splendid co-operation with this as
soclatloU, We are,
Very respectfully,
JACKSON COUNTY flAME
I'UOTECTIVB ASSN.