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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1935.
No, 85.
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MEDIATORS NAMED IN NORTHWEST LUMBER DISPUTE
EN' tD HIS
In Love Tragedy
OF NATURE
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The Weather
Forecast: Partly cloudy Sunday;
Monday fair, rising temperature.
Temperature:
High est yesterday 67
Lowest yesterday .. . 51.?
Mai
KIDNA ,G, SAYS
WALEYATJORNEY
Week With Abductors An
'Adventure' for Weyer
hauser Lad, Is Defense
Contention Had 'Swell
Time'
SPREADS TERROR
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By Paul Mallon
' WASHINGTON. June 29. A frosh
crop of rumors has sprung up about
president Roosevelt's health. These
suggestions peep
out every .time
the p o 1 1 1 1 c a 1
technicians here
note what they
conceive to be a
mistake by the
White House.
The president's
press conference
suggestion about
a constitutional
a m endment
1 1 a rt e d them
sever a. 1 weeks
ago What revived
MALLON
them Is the slip-up on strategy of
handling the new tax legislation.
The testimony of presidential phy
sicians Is almost worthless. They
nearly always swear their patient Is
In fine fettle. But any observing per
son who has called on President
Roosevelt during the last few days
will testify that he looks well. He
seems to be in relatively better physi
cal condition than most congressmen
who have shared, the last six harrow
ing months of conflict and bickering.
Callers have noted that he Is less
patient, more Irritable, quicker, less
cautious. But that may also be said
of nearly everyone else In Washington
now that the mid-summer heat has
set In.
It Is true the president has taken
less rest this year. An early spring
cruise and a few trips to Hyde Park
furnished his only substantial relax
atlon. Nothing has been or can be
planned for the summer. Ho wants to
go to the San Diego exposition by
train and return through the Pan
ama canal, but cannot be away for
anything like the Hawaiian cruise of
last summer. There Is too much work.
The mix-up on tax strategy Is now
being advertised as a misunderstand
ing of orders on the part of Mr.
Roosevelt's congressional leaders.
This explanation has caused specula
tion about what happened to Mr.
Roosevelt's official liaison agent
(Charles O. West), who Is supposed
to do nothing except keep Mr. Roose
velt's congressional leaders advised as
to his Innermost thoughts.
... The answer Is that Mr. West was
Just where he should liava been. He
waa right on the Job, telling the con
gressmen dally what the president
wanted.
What seems to have happened Is
that he did not want the same thing
each day.
President Roosevelt Is digging up
quietly a pile of data to prove his
NRA contentions. One curio which
bis archeologlsts have unearthed Is a
report of the Industrial commission
appointed by President McKtnley. ft
reported to Theodore Roosevelt In
1803, recommending several steps
along new deal lines.
One thing It urged waa a graduated
scale tax on corporations, which Is
now contained In the wealth tax pro
gram. The advisability of federal in
corporation laws waa also mentioned,
and the commission referred sharply
to competition among states to offer
special privileges to corporations. The
argument sounds exactly like the one
Mr. Roosevelt made at his constitu
tional press conference.
The report even deplored the prac
tice of large stores offering a particu
lar srttcle at prices below cost In or
der to attract cusomers. the "loss
leader" praclec which the NRA tried
to stop. You will hear more about
this In coming New Deal speeches.
President Roosevelt was reading the
papers at Hyde Park one morning on
his recent trip. On page one he saw
headlines: "Industry keeps codet."
On Inside pages he noted specific
Itema about wage cuts and hour
changes. This led him to decide on an
Impartial committee to check all such
reports. He wrote Chairman O'Neill of
NRA to select men who would be In
dependent of NRA and yet above
suspicion.
The result was the appointment of
the strangest of all New Deal boards,
the review board. At the head of It is
General Fries, a scourger of reds,
author of the spider web chart, which
listed many liberals as subversive
several years ago, former head of the
chemical warfare service.
As counter .Irritants to General
Fries, two Liberals were named
( rather Haas of the labor advisory
board. Isador Lubln, commissioner of
labor statistics). As counter-counter-irritants,
two moderates were chosen
(Assltant Commerce Secretary Dick
inson. NRA-er John TJpp).
If the New Deal really wants to
balance the budget It could sell ring
side seats for tne meetings of this
board and be assured of a larger aud
ience than attended the Csncra
Louls fight.
Tou cannot put anything over on
Comptroller General McCart.
A motion picture shew which Is op
erated for TV A workers at Norrls dam
was stopped the other night when
government auditors descended on It.
They said they were from McCarl's
office. They sent checkers through
the audience while they went thru
the cash register.
(Continued on Page tight)
BERLIN. June 29. Storm
troops- marched In the flag devked
streets of Berlin today on the eve of
the anniversary of Adolf H; tier's
'bkod purge" of June 30. 134. in
whirn 77 mm -moat of thcai tj;.n
troop u died.
PALL
DOCK WAR LOOMS
Longview Mills Reopen On
Monday Mediation Hear
ing Called Waterfront
" Strike Threat in South.
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 39. (API
Consummation of a union agreement
which will send 300 sawmill and tim
ber workers' union membera back to
work Monday at the Inman-Poulsen
lumber mill here was announced to
night at the labor temple.
This was the first break In Port
land of the eight-weeks-old sawmill
tie-up, although allied woodworking
Industries have resumed under union
agreements. Early closing of more
agreements was predicted by William
P. Wedel, local union president, who
made the announcement.
The trend back to work was mark
ed today by orders of union chiefs
for 2300 men to return to work at
Longview Monday under union agree
ments, and by plans of Tacoma mill
owners to expand operations Monday
with non-union men under police
and National Ouard protection.
The agreement with Inman-Poul-sen
waa virtually a "closed shop"
deal, inasmuch as all but two of the
workers belong to the union. The en
tire membership of the Portland local
union approved the agreement call
ing for a 50-cents-an-bour minimum
with higher bracket adjustments,
time and a. half for overtime after
eight hours and appointment by the
Portland local of a bargaining com
mittee from the workers of the In-man-Poulsen
plant.
The membership also voted to as
sess all Inraan-Poulsen workers 10
per cent of their wages to assist the
strikers to carry on with the strike
at seven other mills here. ,
The lumber strike mediation board
appointed by Secretary of Labor Per
kins met today at Seattle and elect
ed Superior Judge Roscoe R. Smith
of Seattle chairman. Other members
are the Rev. George F. Thompson of
Portland . and State Sen. Judson W.
Shorette of Seattle.
Lumber operators who have com
mented on the board protested its ap
pointment and expressed unwilling
ness to deal with It. However the
board announced hearings will start
next week. A. W. Mulr, spokesman for
wood work ing un ions of the north -west,
has made no comment on the
board.
At least 2300 men, all under union
agreement are scheduled to resume
work in the Weyerhaeuser and Long
Bell mills at Longview, Wash., Mon
day. Logging operation In the same
area. Including nearly 1000 employes,
were declared ready to start later In
the week.
SAN PRANCISCO, June 29. fp?
Sailors today took up the one-ship
blockade here, which has threatened
to flare Into a renewnl of ynr's
bloody waterfront strike, after an
other maritime union withdrew Its
picket In the Interest of peace.
Longshoremen, who had previously
refused to pans through the picket
line, again turned back as the sail
ors appeared to press the siege.
The temporary lifting of the block
ade on the Canadian steamer Point
Clear came when Randolph Meri
wether, secretary of the Marine En
gineers Beneficial association, an
nounced withdrawal of that union's
picket.
Before longshoremen could ha put
to work unloading the vessel, which
had been tied up since its arrival
from British Columbia nine days ago.
the sailor pickets arrived and form
ed lines.
Another threat to waterfront peace
was temporarily averted when San
Francisco bay and river bargemen,
affiliated with the longshoremen's
union, agreed to take a membership
vote on proposed abritTatlon of de
mands for Increased pay. Result of
the vote were expected to be report
ed to the regional federal labor board
here Monday.
Thomas O. Plant, president of the
San Francisco Waterfront Employers'
organization, which ha threatened
to terminate the agreement which
ended last year's strike unless the
Poln t Clear was unloaded , rene ved
his charge that radical union leaders
were responsible for the dispute.
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 29. (P) A
rousing two-base hit by Wimpy Wll
bum, Portland shortstop, which drove
In two runs In the ninth inning give
the Beavers a 5 to 4 victory over Los
Angeles here tonight.
Portland was trailing 4-2 with one
away in the ninth with Holt on sec
ond following a single and balk by
Pitcher Kimball. Bryan, pinch hitter,
singled. Bongr, center fielder, hit a
double, which scored Holt and sent
Richards, who was running for Bryan,
to third. This set the stage for Wil
bum's two-play wallop off Relief
Pitcher J. Campbell.
Three Portland errors aided the
Los Angeles score getting which prs
duced one run each In the second
and ninth and a pair of counters in
the eighth. Portland scored lone runs
in the second and fifth.
PORTLAND, June 39. (AF).
Night game:
R. H C
Los Angeles - 4 9 0
Portland 6 9 3
Kimh.iil. Campbell and Ooebei;
iPcwcdc; 4 Crown.
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BULLETIN '
Three men have been appointed mediators In the Pacific Northwest lumber strike in an effort to set
tie the Industry's troubles. Left to right: Judson W. Shorett, Judge Roscoe R. Smith, both of Seattle,
Wash., and Father George Thompson of Portland, Ore. (Associated Press Photos)
COAL STRIKE OFF,
TRUCE CALLED TO
HELP
Miners' Union Chief Recalls
Walkout Orders Follow
ing Conference With Sec
retary Perkins
WASHINGTON. June 39. (AP)
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, tonight called
off the soft cosl strike set for tomor
row night, at the request of President
Roosevelt.
Lewis agreed with Duncan Ken
nedy of Charleston. W. Va., spokes
man for Appalachian producers, to
continue the mines In operation at
present wages and hours through
July 31 If the operators accepted.
Kennedy had no power to bind the
operators to any agreement, but he
predicted they would accept.
Secretary Perkins announced ,the
truce shortly after nine o'clock.
She had been In a long conference
with Lewis and Kennedy.
Less than nine hours before, Lewis
announced that he was sending out
strike orders to ,000 locals embrac
ing, he said, about 430.000 miners.
The strike order followed collapse of
wage and hour negotiations. The op
erators offered a 3S-hour week and
present wages until April 1, next
year. The miners demanded a 30-hO'ir
week and a ten per cent pay Increase.
The burly Lewis said:
"The mine workera will acqulese In
the wish of the president as expressed
by the secretary of labor and notify
our membership to remain at work
for 30 days under wages and condi
tions heretofore existing, providing,
of course, that the operators will ac
quiesce." "We are doing this for the presi
dent and not for the operators.
"We are conceding again In the
public Interest. We appreciate the
tremendoua responsibility devolving
upon the president and the secretary
of labor to preserve economlo stabil
ity and to help rehablllate Industry."
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HOLLYWOOD, Calif-, June 29. (fP)
-Lansing Brown, Hollywood portrait
dentally snot and killed. Russ Colom
bo. radio singer, was struck and crit
ically Injured by an automobile early
today.
Physicians found Brown sustained
a possible skull fracture, a broken leg.
arm and four ribs and Internal in
juries. Attempting to cross a street
Intersection, he was hit by a ma
chine driven by William Redan, 17.
of San Francisco.
A year ago Brown and Colombo
were examining an old fashioned pis
tol, it exploded, killing the singer.
MILITIA CALLED TO
GALENA, Kas.. June . 29. (AP)
Fighting broke out In picket lines in
the strike-troubled lead and tine
mines of northeastern Oklahoma to
day as order waa restored by national
guardsmen In the Kansas sector of
the trt-state field.
Oklahoma officers seized 16 loaded
rifles and shotguns and four pistols
in a pool hall at Hockersvllle. Okla.
Owen Watts, attorney general,
who led five state operatives
in the raid, said 15 Oklahoma mines
are being picketed In the strike of
union miners for better working con
ditions and recognition In collective
bargaining.
Gov. E. W. Marland ordered 10 of
his 13 state highway patrolmen to
the Oklahoma area of the Mlssourl-Kansas-Oklahoma
field.
I Lady Archery Champion
DEERFIELD, Mass.. June 39. (AP.
j Mrs. Earl L'lrich of Roseburg. Ore.,
. won Ihr women's Might shoot of ihe
Eastern Archery association which
I closed a Uuxe-day tournameut today.
FRENCH DUEL TO
DEATH ENDS WITH
T
Paris Officials Still' Mad At
Each Other Both Missed
Their First Shots Let
ter Caused Row.
PARIS, June 39. (AP). A pistol
duel early today between Pierre
Chlappe, president of the Paris mu
nicipal council, and Pierre uodln,
his predecessor, left Godin slightly
wounded In the thigh. Tonight the
two men were still angry at each
other.
The men secretly met at dawn on
the estate of Mme. Coty, widow of
the millionaire perfumer. In the
Bols de Boulogne. They stepped of!
25 paces. Seconds gave the word.
Both fired and missed.
'At the second exchange. Oodln
fired, again missing. Chlappe took
more time. His bullet struck Godin
in the thigh. Godin fell. They left
the field unreconciled. Godin was
taken to Mme Coty's home, where
the woimd was pronounced super
ficial. ' .
Chlappe, a Corslcan, who was pre
fect of police until last February's
Stavisky riots, Is unofficial mayor
of Paris as the result of his defeat
of Godin for presidency of the
council.
Contributory to the duel was this
letter from Godin to Chlappe:
"Tou were known to be in bed
trembling and sobbing February 6,
1934 (date of the bloodiest rioting),
and you call yourself the 'Man of
February 6' the man whose
principles and moral conceptions
did more than anything else to cor
rupt and dishonor the French ad
ministration." NAVY FILES BID
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WASHINGTON. June 20. (TV In
one of Its largest peace-time orders,
the navy today put down 18.807,037
for 60 huge patrol planes which it
considers the world's best In their
class.
Actual specifications were guarded
so carefully, however, that some chose
to call the ships "mystery planes."
Navy officials said the new flying
boats, designed by the Consolidated
Aircraft Corporation, Buffalo, N. T.,
were "of markedly greater speed and
of considerably greater rence" than
the type that made a mass fllaht from
San Francisco to Pearl Harbor. Ha
waii, In January. 1934. The navy ac
knowledges the six ships that made
this flight can do 125 miles an hour
'Many other Improved character
istics" were claimed for the planes,
whose purchase was consummated
Just before the unexpended balance
of the navy appropriation would have
been returned to the treasury at ex
piration of the currency fiscal year
tomorrow.
The planes will be b I -motored and
equipped wltii rariablc-controlloble
pitch propellors. Developed by the
Consolidated In complete secrecy, the
design was chosen recently over sn
other company's product after ex
haustive tests.
DELAYS DELIVER!
' OLYMPf A. Ore., June 29.IAP)
; Washington state s new "short fire
arms' act with drastic provisions de
signed to kep pistols out of the
hands and pockets of criminals gocs
jlnto effect tomorrow.
I The new law sets up strict licens
ing provisions governing the sale and
j possession of "any firearm with a
'barrel less than 12 inches In length."
.te tail era of pit. to Is must wait 46
iiourt after purchase before a pistol
can. be delivered.
CONGRESS VOTES
8 BILLIONS FOR
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131 Million Cut Off Roose
velt Requests Huge
Sum for Interest on Pub
lie Debt Ordered.
WASHINGTON. June 20. (VP)
Congress today reached the end of
the fiscal year with a record of hav
Ing voted to spend 8. 200,699,733.
most of U in the twelve months end
ing June ,10, 1936.
At that the legislators had pruned
$131,437,557 off the amounts origin
ally requested by President Roosevelt
and the budget bureau.
When the last gavel raps of the
financial year sounded In congres
sional halls, 10 appropriation bills
were on the statute books, two more
were In the mill, and a third was due
before adjournment.
By far the largest already enacted,
of course, was the M.800,000,000 for
work relief, which the executive
branch Is having trouble spending.
Next hga,mt wa the measure mak
ing $303,639,078 available tot treasury
and postoffice departments, Around
a third of that will be used to pay
Interest on the all-time record pub
lic debt of nearly $29,000,000,000.
The administration's effort to bols
ter national defense aocounted for
another $860,682,549. To the war de
partment went $401,998,170; to the
navy $458,684,379.
WILKES BARRE, Pa.. June 39.
(AP) One hundred persons were In
jured, some perhaps fatally, this af
ternoon when the old dance pavilion
at Croop's Glen, Hun lock county, col
lapsed during a baby contest being
witnessed by 400 men, women and
children.
The entire structure plunged 30
and 40 feet into the shallow waters
of the creek which runs underneath.
It was announced at 3 p. m. (E. S.
T. by authorities in charge of rescue
work that none was killed outright
and none drowned, but that the sur
vival of some of the Injured was In
doubt.
For more than an hour after the
pavilion collapsed a dozen ambulances
summoned from Nantlcoke, Plymouth,
Shtckshlnny and Wilkes Barre were
rushing Injured to Nantlcoke state
hospital which waa crowded with vic
tims. The pavilion collapse caused a near
panic among more than 3000 men,
women and children who were at
tending the first annual outing of the
Nantcoke and Hanover branches of
the Luzerne County Unemployment
league.
PRESS ENDORSES
SEATTLE. June 29. ( AP) A reso
lution endorsing Governor Martin
stand In the lumber strike situation
waa adopted by the allied dally news
papers of Washington at their quar
terly meeting here today.
The resolution said: "The allied
dally newspapers of Washington
heartily commend and thoroughly
approve the stand of Oov. Clarence
D. Martin In his conception of hit
! duty as governor to preserve order.
! uphold the law and defend all the
elements of the people In their equal
, rights."
The Washington State Press associ
ation, an organization of weekly
newspapers, was also on record today
commending the governor's stand
following a meeting at Yakima.
Last Monday the governor sent
' National Guard troops and State Po
lice to Taroma as lumber mills re
I opened there.
SEATTLE, June 30. AP) A pic
ture of kidnaped George Weyer
haeuser as having had a "swell time'
while in the hands of his abductors
so much of a one he almost dis
liked returning home waa drawn to
day by John F. Dore, wily defense at
torney, as he planned his case to win ;
an acquittal for Mrs. Margaret Thuiin
Waley.
Dore attributed to Harmon M.
Waley, the 19-year-oldglrl'a husband,
who now la at McNeil Island peni
tentiary at the start of a 45-year pri
son sentence for his -part In the ktd
naplng, the statement of he boy's
feelings. Waley will be a defense wit
ness, sometime after his wife's trial
starts on July 5.
"Boy, If we hadn't actually taken
the ransom money." Dore quoted
Waley as having told the laa. "I'd
sure like to keep you." shortly before
the youngster waa released on a road
near Issaquah on June 1.
"And I almost wouldn't mind stay
ing," the nine-year-old scion of the
wealthy timber family waa quoted as
replying. "I've had a swell time
compared to home."
An intimation that the "adven
ture" of the week-long absence from
his home was the sort of escapade a
boy would like, and that he waa Id
no way harmed, was then made by
the veteran of hundreds of court bat
tles. The restrictions of a wealthy
home and social life might well have
Irked such a lively youngster, Dore
said.
Dore and Stephen J. O'Brien, asso
ciate counsel in defending Mrs. Waley
were still busy today, planning their
case. O'Brien conferred for three
hours on Wednesday with Wsley at
the McNeil Island prison.
Dore also declared outright that he
put little confidence In the statement
that the Weyerhaeuser boy waa taken
across the Washington-Idaho line
east of Spokane while he waa In the
kidnapers' hands, which mads the
case a matter of lnter-state notice,
enabling the government to step In
under the Lindbergh law.
OF STATE GUILTY
ON FRAUD CLAIM
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 29.
(AP) Milton H. Welling, secretary
of state, waa convicted late today by
a jury of eight men of Issuing a
fraudulent salary claim for a woman
not employed by the state.
The verdict came forth more than
24 hours after the case was given to
the Jury, and eignt days after the
first testimony waa taken In the sen
sational case.
Secretary Welling was brought to
trial on a charge of authorizing a
check of $100 for Mrs. Golda Rich
ards, wife of Harold P. Richards, a
former employe of the motor vehicle
department of the secretary of stale's
office. The official had contended the
check was remuneration for Mrs.
Richards' assistance to her husband
during road trips, but the state
charged the secretary gave the draft
to Richards, who had tt Indorsed and
returned to Welling, where the
money was eventually used to help
defray expenses of entertaining visit
ing secretaries of state who were here
for i, conference.
WARM SPELL, THEN
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Oregon: Partly cloudy Sunday:
Monday fair; rising temperature In
terior; moderate northwest wind off
the coast.
SAN FRANCISCO. June 29. Pr
Outlook for period July 1 to 6, In
clusive, far western states:
Fair weather with frequent fogs or
clouds on coast. Temperatures above
normal, becoming -Lower after middle
of week.
NO MORE 'G-MEN-
CALL THEM T-BI'S'
WASHINGTON. June 20. AP)
The department of Justice has no
more "G-Men." They are agents of
the "P. B. I."
Henceforth, the government will
Ignore the monicker made famous by
Oeorge "Machine Gun" Kelly, copy
readers and Hollywood as too undig
nified. Just as England has Its C. I.
D., the United Stater will have its
P. B. I., whlcn stands for r'cddal
Bureau of investigation
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Charles L. Browne waa tried In
Redding, Calif., as the accused
itayer of Raymond Mc Arthur, Santa
Barbara mining engineer, In an as
serted triangle killing. Mrs. Helen
Browne (above), third wife of the
accused man, was seated with the
slain man at the time of the shoot
ing. (Associated Press Photo)
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Speed Without Change Aim
Of President Harrison
Sees Revision Downward
Congress to Quit On
August 1.
WASHINGTON, June 20. -AP).
Direct pressure was exerted on chief
tains of the six -months-old congress
today by President Roosevelt and to
rush through his wealth-tax program
unchanged with the apparently vain
hope of adjourning August 1.
This date was mentioned by Sena
tor Harrison (D Miss.) alter the
finance committee chairman con
ferred with the chief executive. The
emphasis on speed was repeated by
Senator Plttman (D., Nev.), who also
talked with Mr, Hoosovelt.
The program projected in White
House discussions as the congress
reached the year's half-way mark In
volved, an administration determina
tion to squelch any attempt to ex
pand or contract the wealth taxes
specifically asked by Mr. Roosevelt.
It contemplated, too, renewed pres
sure behind all the bulky adminis
tration legislative program.
Out of the talks came an an
nouncement by Harrison that the
financo committee would open tax
hearings next week. But other con
gressional leaders were not as opti
mistic about the August 1 adjourn
ment as the Mlsaisslpplan. They said
the great burden of the presidential
program still waa In the mill despite
the long six months' grind behind.
House leaders questioned whether
the tax bill could even be put
through their chamber by August 1
Plttman as chairman of the sen
ate foreign relations committee, dU'
cussed with Mr. Roosevelt the "neu
trality" bills recommended by the
special senate "mlnltlons" commit
tee. He reported th president had
urged expedition of the legislation,
but cautioned that It required care
ful and painstaking study because
of the complications Involved.
After his talk with Mr. Roosevelt.
Harrison said the tax schedules an
nounced earlier this week on in
heritances, higb personal Incomes
and corporations were only tentative
and probably would be revised down
ward. Emphasizing that the taxes
were designed for a social purpose
as much as for revenue, Harrison
said the 9340,000.000 estimate of re
turn probably was high.
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REPORT 3 HURT
A Civilian Conservation corpa truck
traveling south enroute from Camp
Oregon Caves to Medford, driven by
8. Zabelskl, Camp Oregon Caves, last
night hit the guard rail at the Gold
Hill highway bridge, breaking out the
cement railing, and falling by Inches
from dropping the 40 feet Into the
water below, it was reported to state
police, who Investigated the &cc!
dent, that at least three of the an
occupants of the truck were Injured,
and were taken to a hospital.
A check-up at local hospitals re
vealed that they had not been
brought to this city, and It waa be
lieved the Injured were taken to
Qrante Pass for treatment. The truck
was damaged considerably.
MONCALVO. Italy. June 30. (AP)
Five school children were killed and
110 injured, two critically, when an
excursion auto-bua left the road near
here today. The children were cele
brating a church holiday.
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BOSTON. June 39. (AP) (U. 8.
Dept. of Agriculture) Wool was fair
ly active In the Boston msrket as
well as In some of the Urge produc
ing states.
Floods Sweep Japan, Heat
Ravages Europe, Quakes
Shake Hawaii Industrial
Cities Menaced.
(By the Associated Press)
Nature'a dread manifestation
spread death, destruction and terror
In many parts of the globe yesterday.
Wind and flood killed 71 In West Ja
pan, stifling heat, tornadoes and
thunderstorms ravaged Europe, the
earth shook under Mexico and the
Hawaiian Islands, and observers
watched fearfully lest Muana Loa,
the famed Hawaiian volcano, become
active.
Japan's richest Industrial area, thai
around the populous cities of Kyoto,
Osaka and Kobe, suffered heavily in.
storm winds and raging floods thai
did damage estimated at $11,000,000
or more, it waa tlio region's second
disaster In less than 10 months. A.
typhoon killed 3.50O there last year.
Portugal, Italy. Prance and Ger
many all were visited by death In the
shspe of cloudbursts, electrical
storms and record heat. An undeter
mined number of Portuguese died In
winds and floods, which laid waste
crops; nine Italians succumbed to
sunstroke as suffocating west winds
sent thermometers to record highs;
three persons died at Nimes, Prance,
where the thermometer climbed to
130 degrees fahrenhelt, while light
ning killed sit in East Russia.
The earthquake felt In Mexico
eracked walls of houses. No casual
ties were reported. That which gave
the Hawsllans their worst shaking of
years caused two slides in the flrepll
of Mhuna Loa's Kllauea crater, out
observers peering anxiously Into Its
depths could detect no sign of In
creased activity.
TOKYO. June 30. (Sunday)
(AP)The death list In the floods that
devastated western Japan mounted to
75 this morning. The floods are sub
siding, but a heavy rainfall in the
prefecture of Fukuoka has swollen
the Chlkugo river dangerously and Is
menacing the city of Kurume.
The damBKn from the storms and
floods, the worst In the last half cen
tury, ta estimated at 40,000,000 yen
(about U,00,000). Most severely
ravaged was the industrial region of
the empire. Osaka, Kyoto and Kobi
were particularly hard struck.
With communications shattered. It
was bellevod the toll of death and
damage would be Increased with full
er reports. Fears of new floods were
voiced, and officials In Osaka warned
resldenta to be prepared for further '
rises of flood waters.
It was the second major disaster
suffered by the lndustrisl area In leas
thsn 10 months. A disastrous ty
phoon swept the same area Septem
ber 12. 1034, killing some 3.S00 per
sons and doing tremendous dsmage.
The flood damage in Kyoto City
alone was estimated at 20,000.000
yen. City officials estimated 33.000
were homeless and 100,000 needed
somo degree of relief. Encircled by
mountains, picturesque Kyoto suf
fered greatly as rlvera raced out of
their banks, flooded more than 3.000
buildings and awept away 31 bridges,
among them the famous Gojo bridge
over the river Kamo.
The prefecturea of Pukuoka. Negas
akl and Yamaguchl bore the brunt
of the floods with heavy winds In
creasing dsmsge. Railways were
wsshed out and crops damaged.
Ships Crash
HARWICH, England, June 39.
(AP) The British steamer Juliana,
out of Flushing, collided with the
Dsnlsh steamer Esbjerg at the mouth
of the harbor today, suffering exten
sive damsge.
BKVERIA' HILLS,' Calif.,
June 28. One thing you got to
say for an administration that
tries out a lot of plans, some
of 'cm are npt to be pretty
good. Now this one that broke
out yostertlny where they help
out these young folks, that
sounds awful good.
Course I look for bountiful
editorial condemnation. It's go
ing to cost money, but if you
help out the young folks up to
20 and the old ones over 60,
that only gives a fellow a little
stretch in between of about 40
years where he has to do any
worrying for himself (or her
self as the sex may be).
If we can keep the young
happy and the old satisfied,
why all the middle-aged have
to look out for is women auto
mobile drivers.
Yours,
, .lHS.altKaiixlitSradictU.Iaa,
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