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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON'. THURSDAY. SEFTF.rBER 5. 1035. PAGE FIVE T Matecumbe Key, Where In dians Made Last Stand Against Whites, Strewn With Bodies of Victims MIAMT. Pla.. Sept. 5. (J) On a little coral strand In the Florida arch ipelago Metecumbe Key, named by the ancient Calcosa aa "the place of sorrow." so the legend goes the hurricane of Monday nlgh wrought its worst. Rven now the broken bodies of lta itorm vlctlma are strewn In the gnarled wastes of iQingrove, twisted steel and crushed concrete. It wis on this tiny Island that the Caloosa Indians mode their last stand against the white man. It we there, too. that a- host of World war vet erans made their last stand against the might of the tropical hurricane Their fate were the same. Show Old War Spirit. Men still dazed. In tatters and blood stained bandages, limped about, dis playing the same spirit that carried them through the Meuae-Argonne and Belleau Woods. Metecumbe. upper and lower, hous ed two camps of veterans camps 3 and 5. In camp 3, 185 men were lilted on the roster. Only a dozen were found alive. Scant hope was held that others wouid be located. At camp 3, 243 were enrolled. Twenty-three were on furlough, ac cording to beat available Information, leaving 320 at the camp. Of thene. 133 were accounted for. Tales of tevror were told simply by the survivors. A private yacht, mus tered into rescue service yesterday, brought 62 of the Injured men to Miami for hospitalization. Tells Dramatic. Story. On of the most dramatic stones to come out of the storm was told by P. Pugh, top sergeant at camp 3, whose leg was severely Injured. "At 5 o'clock Monday afternoon," lie aald, "we noticed the first stiffen ing of the wind. The men ran for the mesa hall, which rocked and tot tered as the wind.ncreased. The wind roared so we could hardly hear each other apeak. "Suddenly at 7 o'clock the roof of tha mess hall went Hying off. The men scattered, most of them seeking safety on the railroad embankment. Others sought shelter In huta and other buildings, which begin crash Ing around us. "About 70 men grabbed a water tank oar. The wind gained In fury and It seemed seven thousand hells had broken loose. At the ume time the water started rising. We could see it creeping up the bank Just Walt for Dentil. "ft waa hell to Just hang on and not be able to do anythln. When we were In Prance, we had aomething to fight against. Down here, we Just had to wait for death and do nothing. "Men who have known all the rough edges of life, who hadn't thought of Ood In years, prayed that night. I heard them mumbling prayers a they held to the oar and tracks, with debris pelting their bodies. "Suddenly the hurricane puffed harder andQilew up the trscfcs. Al most at the same time the tidal wave ruahed in, tumbling men back into the mangroves where they were bet tered to dea-th. "We on the tank car -iust held on, with our handa raw from, the atreln. ThO water rose higher and higher, JSd finally covered the car, but we held on Just the same. "Then the wind stopped al the bars came out, but It waa Just a lull. Jt lasted about 40 ml) really started blowing, "Finally morning came, and the right never looked so good. The wind lowed down and the water receded. We looked around and only the 70 men haying on the car were to be seen. Ws thought all the rest' were jed. War la Easier. 'From over In the wreckage of the majigrovea, however, we heard a yell, ftoon there were about back and forth. Many of the men swept from the embankment had washed over In the mangroves and there clung to the tops of trees while the tidal wave tursed at them." "The men were torn and bruised, but their spirits were fine. They all aatd they'd rather go through five wars than another hurricane, and I , feW the same way. There'a one thing we'll always re member good old tank car No. 3390. That's the one we hftg to. If It hadn't been full of water it would have blown over, too, but when the trarku on each side blew up It Just sank a bit and held fast." REORGANIZATION PLAN OF LONG BELL OKEHED KANSAS CITT. Mo.. Sept. 6. IhP) Stockholders and directors of the Long-Bell Lumber corporation met here today and voted approval unani mously of the reorganization plan for the Lens-Bell Lumber company. The corporation owna more than 99 per cent of the stork of the lumber rompany. The proposed reorganiza tion pian would give the corporation about half the stock of the reorean l7ed company In lieu of d present stork and othr claims. The reorganisation plan will come beforn Federal Judge Merrill R Otis fnr final confirmation Monday. AUGUST FEATURED BY UNUSUAL HEAT FOLLOWED BY RAIN Monthly meteorological notes for August, aa compiled by W. .?. Hutch inson, local meteorologist, shew fair weather with clear skies prevailed throughout the greater portion of the month. Mean temperatures averaged somewhat higher than normal and. although precipitation occurred only on three days, rain foil exceeded the normal. Skies were practically cloud lea during the daylight hours from the 1st to the 25th; partly cloudy and cloudy, showery weather predominat ed from the 25th to the 26th with a rather severe thunderstorm termin ating the unstable conditions on the 28th. Temperatures were mostly season able for the first week with dally means averaging near normal. Be ginning the 7th. both maximum and minimum temperaturea began esteady daily advance, culminating on the 12th at the . highest for the month of 107 degrees. Following the un usuaI heat of the 12th. dally tem peratures fell off rapidly with a phe nomenally low maximum of 78 de grees on the 15th. Seasonal temper atures with moderate variations from day to day prevailed during the bal ance of the month. Precipitation was concentrated In to a short three-day period beginning with a light shower on ths 26th, a slightly heavier shower on the 27th and a mildly destructive thunder storm on the 28th. This storm moved in a northwesterly direction with 11 mairr ntev apparently over the Sis kiyou mountains to the southwest of the Medford valley. Severe damage to crops in the valley was confined to small areas where guEty surface winds injured trees and fruit In the area of heaviest disturbance along portions of the Applegate Talley rather violent winds were reported and heavy damage to building, trees and power lines resulted. Thirty hundredths of an Inch of rainfall was recorded for the storm at the airport station. Estimates for outlying districts to the southwest of Medford ranged from 0-50 Inches to aa high as 3 00 Inches In the ele vated regions. Precipitation for Mod fcrd during August totaled 0.S1 Inch and as compared with the normal Is In excess of normal by 0.07 inch. The rainfall season closed on August 31, with a total of 19.48 inches, and waa deficient 1.60 inches. Character Date Max. Min. Mean Prec. of day 1 89 48 68 0 Clear 2 94 54-74 0 Clear 3 84 54 90 0 Clear 4 82 51 66 0 Clear 5 86 51 68 0 Clear . 6 88 65 72 0 Clr 7 9 55 73 0 Clear OS . 90 54 76 0 Clear 9 . 07 58 V 0 Clear 10 96 54 7ft 0 Clear 11 100 51 76 0 Clear 12 lC 55 81 -0 Clear IS ... 94 60 77 0 Clear 14 ........ 81 58 67 0 Cleir 15 78 45 62 0 Clenr 16 81 43 62 0 Clear 17 83 45 64 0 Clear 18 82 55 6B 0 Clear 19 ... 91 68 0 Clear 20 ........ 94 61 72 0 Clear 21 06 57 78 0 Clear 22 91 56 74 0 Clear 23 ... 85 53 69 0 C'.etr 24 . 93 51 72 0 Clear 25 101 54 78 0 Clear 26 91 56 74 T. P. Cldy 27 - 91 67 79 .01 Cloudy 28 99 66 82 JO P. Cldy 29 89 66 78 0 P. Cldy 30 91 62 78 0 Clear 31 93 54 74 0 Clear O Mean 90.9 54 3 72.6 0. SI paradItoTeatOre AT , SEPT. 21 Gold Hill will see her busiest day in many years Saturday. September 21. when the Nnrthweat Jackson County Pair will be held there. If all plans proceed aa now outlined. The Oranges of the district are co operating with the service clubs of Gold Hill, Rogue River and Sama Val ley to make the affair a huge suc cess. o 0- Aid To The Blind r v v ViNf ;m.: T W c A 4T1.' 1 1? Tonn Bsml 101 rnn Old. PARRINOTON. N. H (UPl THK town cia:m. to hurt th o'dest 6nl In t country. It 1 lftl. IU found er. Jam'? ff'K'n, th R-antl-'fth.- of 11 prp.nt loW. Eiir.ot WISK-n- Thr. thr. ?enf r:ar. plflv.ne In the oa:trt nov and t ir hM .'.vcayi. tvn x WUIn i-'prenU t!' it III H9d ajnc lu exiiKnc. A new type of lens that magni Me 23 timet hat been perfected b , William Felnbloom, research fellow at Columbia university, to aid tht ; r.earblind. The wearer in this photo, a 46-year-oid attorney, waa forced to read through the Braille system, but now It reporter) b!e to reai regular rrlnt, at pictured, with aid of the new glasses. (Associate Beside tha exhibits of ell the fine produce raised In that locality, the fair will be featured by a parade with many float, the Kiltie band of Ash land, with lta colorful S-otch cos tumea and bagpipe, the Southern Oregon band, and clvie end fraternal organisation marching. It la now believed that ever I Med ford organizations will enter floats in the parade, and the pt parade." to be held during the day. I sure to o'mw conldeiafcle interest from Med ford children. Ro'.lin-p'.n throwing and tire -changing ccntesta will eU to tht levity of the occasion. From 6 p. m. to 6 p. m.. a free barbecue will be served, to get the crowd la the proper mood for the bla; dance which wilt be in progress through most of the evening. The handsome premiums will be awarded LEG TRAPEZE PROVIDES HOSPITAL SUICIDE ROPE bed with the rope of a leg tra-pere in St. Eitr-abeth's hospital. He had been a patient at the hca- YAKTMA, Waah., Sept. 6. 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