MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOKD. OREGON'. THURSDAY. SEFTF.rBER 5. 1035.
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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
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Mean 90.9 54 3 72.6 0. SI
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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-
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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. (UP) , pltaJ since August 3 when he received
Fearful that he would become a bur-' broken leir when a heifer he had
aa last as tlie Judg can make their )den to others, John J. lone. 69. stran- j rcped drugged him on bin Ahtanum
decision. gled himself yesterday In his fracture- ranch.
BAKER, Ore., Sept. . (AFj Foa
tal receipts for August aggregated
12290. the largest In the history of
the Baker office, Postmaster Sanford
Adler announced today. They In
creased 12'j per cent over the eorree
ponding month a year ago.
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