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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938.
No. 73.
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Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
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Robert Kintner
Copyright, 1937, by The
North American News
. paper Alliance, Inc.
BIO FARM ROW AT NEXT CON
GRESS IN PROSPECT
...
HEART OF PROBLEM IS THAT
MANY GROW UNWANTED
CROPS
VARIOUS SCHEMES OF WAL
LACE AND TUG WELL HATE
i FAILED
...
HUGE WHEAT AND COTTON
SURPLUSES HAMPER PRES
ENT LAW
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. Technical
and tiresome as It has always seem
ed, the farm problem Intimately af
fecte the Ufa of every person llvlns
In the United States. Taxes, the
price of food, the whole nature ot
Use government are bound up In It.
And. since desperately low farm
prion and vast surpluses of cotton
and wheat are about to provoke an
other great agricultural turmoil In
eongress, It's about time to try to
understand the problem's elementary
aspects. ,
Essentially, the farm problem Is
quite simple. In Its most acute form.
It can virtually be reduced to two
crops cotton and wheat. Millions
of American farmers depend on these
two crops for their livelihood. Many
of these farmers grow nothing else,
and many of them are putting their
land to a harmful use. Produotlon
la so large because, historically, cot
ton and wheat were Amerlca'a great
eat agricultural exports. And now,
unfortunately, while production re
mains at the export level, all thi
foreign wheat market has remains
at the export level, all the foreign
wheat market has virtually disap
peared and the foreign cotton mar
ket has been greatly Impaired.
Thus, the situation bolls down to
the fact that a great many American
farmers are trying to get their liv
ing by growing unwanted crops. Since
much of the land they cuttlvate
should either not be planted at all.
or planted to something else, the
natural remedy would be to let In
exorable -economic forcea drive the
farmers off their farms. Obviously,
however, this Is socially and politic
ally Impracticable. Therefore some
compromise solution must be found,
by which the economy as a whole
will support the farmera whose crops
are unwanted.
Successive Ingenuities.
At the New Deal's atart, after the
disaster of the Hoover farm board,
(Continued on Page Six.)
Jackson county court house, banks
and the state liquor store will be
closed tomorrow In observance of
Columbus day, a state legal holiday.
The liquor atore will remain open
tonight until 11.
Federal agencies will be open for
business. TJie postofflce will remain
open and malla will be delivered ae
usual. City schools also will remain
open.
Typhoon rialms Thlrly-Tao
MANILA, Oct. 11. (API Thirty
two deaths, most of them due to
drowning, have been reported from
V ! sols ted regions of central Philippine
Islands swept by last week's typhoon.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Ken Denman getting a trifle wor
ried looking as 'questions started
pouring In from the audience at the
OOP rally.
Demo Chairman Ward Spats doing
4 little scouting at the same rally.
Forester Marion Nance still shud
dering over the rinse call he had
when a powder blast was set off
without any warning.
Alice Brophy havlng-he time of
her life In Medford. her first small
town visit, she coming from the
Sen Francisco metropolis.
tj. 8. Rep, Jimmy Mott and City
Atty, Frank Van Dyke or Ashland
f trying to get a word In edgewise In
a mirtnleht political or. !st betaeen
PROPOSITION F II R
LABOR PEACE BY
OF
AFL Head Declines Com
ment Think President
Should Study Home Labor
Conditions.
WASHINGTON, Oct. ll.-J(AP)
John L. Lewis, c. I. O. chairman,
declined an offer today to make a
radlfi speech outlining In detail his
offer to resign Ills position If William
Green retired as A. F. of I. president.
Green also was offered an oppor
tunity by a .nation-wide broadcasting
company to go on the air.
NF.W YORK. Oct. 11. (P) A pro
jected broadcast tonight with John
L. Lewis, chairman of the CIO, and
William Oreen, president of AFL,
discussing Lewis' offer to resign If
Green would, was cancelled late to
day by the National Broadcasting
company after Lewla'; declined to
speak. ' " .
WASHINGTON. Oct. 11. IIP) John
T. lwl offered today to resign as
chairman of the CIO If William Oreen
would resign as president of the
American Federation of Labor to
pave the way for peace between the
two organizations.
Lewis told newsmen the suggestion
from the federations Houston con
vention Lewis withdraw from the
CIO was "manifestly not a unl-lat-eral
problem."
'nhwirtiiRiv it's bl-lateral." Lewis
said, "and the same euggestlon would
apply to Mr. ureen wnose retem.
eclty seems to know no bounds.
Worth Trying
In any event, I think It worth
trying. '
"I advise I'm willing to resign to
day or tomorrow or any day there
after as chairman of the CIO If Mr.
Green is willing simultaneously to
resign as president of- the American
Federation of Labor.
"It then may be possible for the
remaining leaders of the federation
o flabor and the CIO to conclude a
peace pact, In which event the con
tribution by Mr. Green and myself
may be of some value."
Lewis, speaking In a slow, delib
erate voice, said If the federations
convention wants to accept his sug
gestion he Immediately upon such
acceptance would file his own resig
nation with the CIO.
The CIO chairman opened his re
marks to newsmen by Indirectly sug
gesting the president's special com
mission which studied labor condi
tions In Great Britain and Sweden
might well investigate the situation
In the United States.
'Our public commission has peer
ed Into the mind, behind tho British
wnnwl. .nH hm nsvehoanalvred our
Swedish friends," he said, "It does
seem there's an obligation to know
and understand our own problems.
Quotes Bible
'I think there la a scriptural In
junction to pick a. mote out of your
own eye before digging too far Into
your neighbor's optic.
"Perhapa such a commission could
get the facts behind the allegations
of Messrs. Green. Prey and Woll and
their Ilk at the Houston convention."
The Immediate reaction of Arthur
O. Wharton, an AFL vice president
to Lewis' propossl was:
"T rlntiht his sincerity."
Whartnn uirt "about 18 months
ago President Oreen offered to quit
as afl head ana a commuiee warn
ed for months to unite the two
(Continued on Page Six.)
PLOT BY
SAH FRANCISCO. Oct. 11. (A
Ren. Jsmes B. Murray (D.-Mont.)
Mid In a statement today that "Her
bert Hoover la making his )sst stand
for a comeback to political leader
ship through his advocacy of lh
candidacy of Philip Bancroft, the re
actionary Republican nomine for
United State senator from Cali
fornia. "It It Mr. Hoover' purpose to do
everything possible to embarrssa
President Roosevelt, and the sena
torial contest in California has De
cern., therefore, a national as we'.l
as state issue. Murray said.
"California has a tremendous Dem
ocratic majority In registration, and
the strategy of the Republican na
tional organisation Is to pour enough
money Into the state to smear tho
Democratic nominee."
Turkey School Ready
SALEM, Oct. It. (AP) The two
day annual Oregon turkey grading
school will open Thursday at the
Eugene Fruit O row era' association.
tjene.
I Jackson County
Marvin Pojfr. Ashland, and Hetty Lue Reich, Medford, photographed
at the Parlflc International Livestock show. The two attended the expos
ition as guests or The First National Bank of Portland, having been
chosen outstanding 4-H club boy and girl from Jackson county.
54. UNABLE DODGE
BIRTHDAY FETES
First Lady Expects to Keep
Busy Many Honors
Given Past Year.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. IK Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt found it Im
possible today to escape any cele
bration of her 64th birthday anni
versary. Two parties were arranged In her
honor, despite her theory that "th;
more you forpct your birthdays se
you grow older, the younger you
stay."
The National Women's Press club
invited her to a luncheon, and pro
vided gifts of an orchid and a birth
day cake with 21 candles. President
Roosevelt, only other member of the
family at the White House, personally
directed, preparations for the tradi
tional household celebration tonight
Mrs. Roosevelt, buoyant and cheer,
ful. told her press conference yes
terday she expected her next ye?r
to be as busy, but no busier, than
the lust.
That will be a large order. Day
since the 53rd birthday anniversary
have been packed with activities as
a mother, as first lady, and as a
lecturer and writer.
She saw her youngest son. John,
married, the lajrt of her five children
to make a home of his own. She
welcomed her eighth grandchild
Franklin D. Roosevelt III. She flew
to Seattle last Christmas when her
daughter Anna was 111. and stsjvri
at Rochester, Minn., when her eld
eat son, James, underwent an oper
ation. From many quarters, the last year
brought her honors and adulation.
A Puerto Rico newspaper urged her
nomination for president In 1940.
New York university honored her
for "distinguished public service."
She was given 0,000 roses at a
"mother-in-law" fete at Amarlllo,
Texas.
But Mrs. Roosevelt went blithely
about her activities. She commented
once she did not think the country
was ready for a woman president.
FOR DEAD HORSE
LINCOLN. Neb.. Oct. 1 1 . f AP) A
corporation, asked by the Nebraska
secretary of atate why Its occupation
tax was unpaid, replied by letter:
"Our capital eto-k ronsiited of
one (i prheron stallion which has
died. Therefore, we no longer have
any capital stock.
Mining Meet net
PORTLAND, Oct. II. (AP) Six
teen affiliated organisations In Can
sda and the northwest will send
delegaes to the necond annual meet
ing of the northwest federation of
mlnamloarlral aV--lst lev hfi ftt nr.
4-H Winners
PUGILIST SOCKED
BY HUSKY DANCE
FOR BROKEN DATE
Irish Thrush Sent Reeling by
Lady Friend's Fist She
Still Loves Him.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11. (AP) "Boy.
I hit him with everything I had!"
Pretty, hazel-eyed Ellnore Troy, 32,
former Hollywood movie actress and
one-time "bubble dancer," thus de
scribed how she biffed Jack Doyle,
prise - fighting Romeo, sometimes
called "tho Irish Thrush," In the
Midnight Sun night club early today.
Miss Troy said she walked Into
the club after Doyle had broken a
date with her "and here we'd only
been engaged for two daya," to find
him sitting with Mlchl Taka, a Jap
anese dancer In the club's floor show.
"I probably hurt that pretty face of
his," she said, "but he had It coming.
I asked him If he remembered our
date and he started to stammer and
said, "Yes, darling, but . , ." And
then I let him have iV, smack on
the nose."
Miss Troy, a native of Washington.
D. C, said she put every ounce of
her 5 feet ll' Inches behind the
punch that becrlmsoned Doyle's nose
and sent him reeling.
"I've known Jack two years, and
some day 111 probably marry him
If my temper holds out," she said.
'He's worth fighting for."
Ankrd why Doyle fascinated wom
en. Miss Troy aald:
"He a got everything. Not Just a
fost line. He doesn't need one.
"Even if I did sock him, he's one
In a million.
"I said I'd get him yet, and 1 will."
BY
MARIETTA. O.. Oct. 11. (AP)
Pound suffering from shock beside
a highway. Joseph A. Dixon, 43,
evangelist, told 'Kate Highway Pa
trolman John Mundrake today he
was tarred and feathered last night
Dixon asserted a gsng of men broke
up a revival meeting, drove him
Into the country, Beat and stripped
him before applying the tar.
The evaruzellst, who said his home
waa In Madison. 8. O.. was conduct-
lng the revival In celebration of his
marriage yesterday to 32-year-old
Opal V. Hssley.
The couple was msrrled over the
objections of her father. Wesley
Hasley, who preferred charges of
misconduct Against Dixon in the
court of Justice of Peace N, B
Kldd. Justice Kldd dismissed the
charges for lack of evidence.
Oregon JilMIre Honored
SALEM. Oct. II. (AP) Stste Su
preme court Justice Oeorge Rossman
was Informed today he had been
appointed member of the Amcr:crn
Bar associations committee on Juris
prudence and. law niona.
4-
PLAN OF
TO
Abundant Crops, But Farm
. Prices Lowest Since 1934
May Limit Planting.
WASHINGTON. Oct. U. UP) Sec
retary of Agriculture Wallace and
his aides are completing a four-point
program designed to quiet rumblings
of dissatisfaction over heavy crop
surpluses and low farm prices.
This program Includes:
1. Continuation of the existing
crop control law, .with referenda on
marketing quotas to keep next year's
cotton, tobacco, rice and wheat crops
in line with expected needs.
2. A recommendation to congress It
revive processing taxes Invalidated by
the supreme court In 1936. Funds
raised by the taxes would supplement
present farm subsidies.
3. Greater emphasis on expanding
domestic markets for surplus farm
products. '
4. Reorganisation of the agricul
ture department, announced a' few
days ago. for greater efficiency in
serving farmers.
Assistants said Wallace believed
thia program would fortify the ad
ministration against any proposals
at the next session of congress for
outright fixing of farm prices at
sharply Increased levels.
The federal crop reporting board
emphasized In its October report
yesterday abundant supplies of most
food, feeds, forage, tobacco and cot
ton crops ere In prospect. The major
crops facing excessive surpluses In
clude cotton, wheat, and possibly
corn and rice.
The general level of farm prices la
the lowest since 1034, because of
heavy supplies and the business re
cession. Officials have estimated the
national farm Income this year will
be about a billion dollar! leas than
In 1937.
Officials said under Wallace's pro
gram growers would be asked to re
strict plantings next year end to ap
prove marketing quotas under which
excessive production would be tax
ed If sold. The department plans to
hold referenda on cotton, tobacco
and rice marketing quotas early in
December.
DEALER HELD NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR
DRIVER'S ABILITY
SALEM. Oct. 11. (AP) Tlie atate
supreme court dismissed today a
Multnomah county ault in wnicn
Florence O. Brown obtained 1.800
damages from the Fields Motor com-
psny of Portland.
Mlsa Brown, Injured In a car owned
by the company, waa one of four
persona who were testing the car
when it was wrecked on the high
wsy on the north bank ot the
Columbia river.
She claimed that the company
ahouid have determined the ability
of Charles Walsborn. 18, to drive
the car. but the aupreme court. In
an opinion by Juatlco Belt, ruled
the company waa not liable. Wals
born waa driving at the time of the
accident.
WATER BOOM HITS
DUST BOWL TOWN
DISNEY, Okla., Oct. 11, (flj It
was tough when Disney waa with
out water. Tt was Just as tough
or tougher when water came.
Short of supply since mid-July
residents left their faucet open con
stantly to catch every drop that en
tered the mains.
City engineers found a good flow
hooked It on without notice. The
new water aupply boomed Into the
mains, the faucets, the homes.
Disney suffered a miniature flood
CHICAGO. Oct. 11. r,Ant0ln.
LaRoae, a cab driver, complained to
police he objected to taking part
In pra-Hallowe'en pranks such a
ringing doorbells demanded, he said,
by his fare. Miss Faye Meyers.
When LaRoae refused to ring any
doorbells, he told police, Mia Meyers
drew a revolver and began shooting
out tha windows of tha cab.
Foljca aireited. the fata,'
CITY de:
AS
PEAR MART BOARD
S.-M. Tuttle Named Chair-1
man of Market Control'
Committees and Bardwell
Manager.
PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 11. (AP
8. M. Tuttle of Medford waa elected
chairman today at an organization
meeting of the fall and winter pear
marketing control committee.
Other officers were R. G. Bardwell,
Medford, manager and secretary; D.
R. Wood, Medford, treasurer, and
Ben Pcrham, Yakima, vice-chairman.
The group designated Medford for
the hendquartcrs.
The committee represented pear
growing centera of Yakima. Wenat
chee, Hood River. Medford, Santa
Clara, Calif., and Placerville, Calif.
The agreement, which was to be
come effective today, Is designed to
control the grade and In some In
stancea the size of Pacific coast win
ter peara In Interstate and foreign
commerce.
- With minor exceptions no west
coaat winter peara lower In grade
than U. 8. combination will be per
mitted under tho agreement to enter
Interstate or foreign trade.
CARPENTER GIVES
ROTARY VIEWS ON
EUROPEAN TANGLE
Thst both Germany and Italy are
llankrupt, and that while there seems
today to be no way to prevent a
general war In Europe, dictators may
die or be overthrown and therefore
every day there Isn't war Is a vic
tory for peace, were some of the
salient points of an Interesting talk
given by Leonard Carpenter to the
membera of the Rotary club at their
weekly luncheon this noon.
Mr. Carpenter reoently returned
from a three months' trip through
Europe, extending front Amsterdam
to Constantinople- but confined his
remarka entirely to Germany and
Austria, which because of the recent
war crisis have been so much In the
nubile eye ot late.
The apcaker empnasizeo. me clean
liness, order snd disciplined economy
of nazl Germany, but deplored the
form of dictatorship thst has been
set up, and what he fears will be the
consequences not only to Europe but
to the oermana themselves, no aa
mltted It would be Impossible for a
casual tourist on a brief visit, to
be an authority on exact conditions
In Germany, but he did question
from what he observed that the
German people were 100 percent be
hind dor fuehrer, though he aaio
It waa practically impossible for Ger
man youth to be anything else, aa
they are trained from the cradle,
through their moat Impressionable
years, to be fanatical followers of
their nar.l chief.
In the recent crisis Mr. Carpenter
felt no one could blame Chamberlain
and Daladler, for doing everything
In their power to prevent a world
catastrophe, not because they might
not be able to deatroy Berlin and
eventually beat the German people
to their knees, but becsuee they were
dealing with a queatlon ot Individ
ual msdness and world Insanity
which might pass with time, and
thereforo every delay was a victory
for peace. War might prove Inevitable
but It waa only aane statesmanship
to save aa much from destruction as
possible, by delaying the crisis and
thus being better prepared to meet It.
The speaker waa convinced by hla
travela that both European dictator
ships. If properly audited, would
show themselves to be bankrupt and
this waa another factor working for
their eventual overthrow and world
peace.
The talk combined vivid descrip
tion, keen observation and touches
of humor, all of which waa enthus
iastically received by one of the
largest Rotary meetings In recent
months.
Pear Markets
NEW YORK, Oct. II. OP) Pears
30 ears arrived. geCallfornta. B Ore
gon, Washington unloaded, IB on
track, Oregon Bartlette 8(0 estia
fancy 3.18-35, average 3.37: 800 fancv
3.19-30, average 3.18; 1409 No. 1, 3.IS
30, average 2.22; Boae 1435 No. 1
1.00-3.30, average 3 09. 1
CH1CAOO, Oct. 11. (AP-U8DAI
Peara: 4 California, t New York, 4
Oregon, 3 Washington arrived, 9 on
track, Oregon Bartlette I47S autre
lancj 1.99-3.30, avaraga l ie.
Logic of a Boy
SUMMIT, N. J Oct. 11. P
The worm turned but. Its efforts
were wasted on Miss Emily Qulg'
protege.
Miss Qulg, principal of Wash
ington school, placed an angle
worm, first In a glass of water
where It wriggled vigorously, then
In a glass of alcohol whera It
promptly died.
Certain her point had been
made. Miss Qulg asked a boy to
voice the moral.
"Well," he said, "it must be
that If you drink alcohol you
won't be bothered anymore with
worms."
LADY ASTOR SAYS
SOVIET CHARGES
A 'COMPLETE LIE'
'No Truth' in Statement
Lindbergh Criticized Rus
sian Air Force at Dinner
Party.
LONDON. Oct. 11. IP) Lady Aa
tor. American-bora member of par
liament, declared today there waa
"no truth" In a atatement by eleven
Soviet Russian airmen yesterday Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh had criticised
the Soviet air force at a dinner at
her home.
She said the London Oommunlat
newspaper, the Dally Worker, waa re
sponsible for the report.
The Dally Herald, labor newspaper.
quoted her aa saying Colonel Lind
bergh "has not dined with us alnce
he returned from Russia, and In fact
1 have never given a dinner party
for him." and "It la a complete He'
the i-vlator ever had made "any sort
of pronouncement about the Russian
air force or about anytning eise aur-
Ing a dinner party at my house."
The Soviet- airmen's attack
Lindbergh apparently was based on
reports printed here the American
airman had supplied . Information
reaching official British ears during
the Czechoslovak crisis the German
alrforoe could defeat combined
French, British, Czechoslovak and
Russian air fleets.
The most extensive report here ap
peared In the leftlat organ "The
Week," which said Brltaln'e Inner
cabinet used Lindbergh's conversa
tion to Quell much of the opposition
to Prime Minister Chamberlain's sac
rifice of Crechoslovak territory In
preference to war.
BERLIN, Oct. 11. W) Col. and
Mrs. Charlea A. Lindbergh arrived at
Tempelhof airdrome today on a flight
from Paris by wsy or jtotteraam.
where they stayed overnight.
Lindbergh come to attend the an
nual meeting of the Llllenthal So
ciety for Aerial Research opening to
morrow. "I have nothing to say now" Llnd-.
bergh replied when asked for a atate
ment on the letter published by 11
leading Soviet airmen, charging him
with belittling the Russian airiorco
and thereby Indirectly encouraging
surrender to adolf Hitlers oemanas
on Czechoslovakia.
Y PLANES AT
22,000 FT. ENGAGE
FORT BRAGG. N. C, Oct. It. W
Nine giant Boeing B-17 four-er.glned
flying fortremea were Intercepted and
attacked by pursuit planes here to
day at what offlcera termed tho
record altitude of 33,000 feet.
The Boeings were trying to make a
bombing raid on the defense air
drome here In mimic warfare at
estreme altitude over a smoke screen
laid by attack planes.
The Interception waa made by 18
Serversky P-S5 pursuit airplanes, of
37th pursuit squadron under mv
mend of Mat. Willis B. Taylor of tne
air corps. All pilots In both flights
used full osvgen equipment In the
below-nero eold of more than four
miles up.
The contact between the opposing
squadrons waa Invisible from tho
ground and even the giant bombers
were scarcely seen, except when they
reflected momentarily the rays of the
sun aa they passed directly over the
airdrome target. The - protective
moke screen was laid over camou
flaged gun positions by attack air
planes weaving through machine
gun protected sector at almoat 300
mllea an hour and leas than 7ft feet
off the ground.
Offlcera pointed out that although
Interceptions have been mad St
30.000 feet or slightly greater In
service tests. It wes not believed the
altitude for today had been equaled
tlB4(( actual wat-Urn (KOdittoOf)
IN MOCK WARFARE ABSOLVE HUNTER
13 DIE IN FIRES
T
Flames Aided by Drouth
Two Mothers, Flocks Per
ishSituation Alarms.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 11. (AP)
Three thousand men and an atr.
plane patrol were mustered today t
combat forest flrea which had takert
two lives In northern Minnesota an!
eleven In adjacent Canada.
H. G. Weber, deputy director ot
the state forestry division, aald the
combination of dry weather, nigh
temperaturea and low humidity made.
for the most hazardous tire oondl.
Hons alnce October 13, 1918, when
forest fire roared out ot control.
destroying the city of Cloquet an4
taking several hundred Uvea.
FORT FRANCES. Ontario. Oat. 11.
(Canadian Press) The bodies of
two mothers and nine young ehll-
dren, victims of a foreet fire which
swept through Dance- township yes
terday, were brought today to Fort
Frances by Ontario provincial police.
All the victims were believed to be
long to the famlllea of Noah and Bin
Labelle, brothers who had settled In
the sparaley populated area through
which flrea raged yesterday, destroy.
lng thousands of acrea of fine tim
ber on a front of B0 miles.
Constable David Hamilton told how
searohers had found the charred
bodlea. The two mothers had dlee!
with their bodies stretched aeroaa
their smalleat children in a vain at
tempt to save them.
"Many homea ot families of settler,
were burned, but we do not know
whether there were other victims and
probably won't have definite Infor
mation until our men return." saul
Hamilton. Police still were searching
the countryside for possible victims
Hamilton aald the flrea had bees)
eating slowly through the tlmbe
country 80 miles northwest of her
for two weeks, Yesterday fresh winds
drove them toward this town, on tha
Minnesota border, and at one time)
they were within a mile of FortFran
eea.
The constable aald the eleven bod
les were found along the road frons
their homes. v
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 11 VP) Tat
est fire fighters, hoping for rain te
aid them, battled doggedly today
against widespread blasea In northera
Minnesota. Two men were dead sng
the fate of four other persons was
unknown.
The fires, burning In peat bogs,'
brush lands and timber along the
Canadian boundary from Warroad
to International Falls, and south
ward In the Iron ore region around
Hlbblng and Virginia, destroyed (arm
homea and forced settlers to flee.
An unidentified man collapses)
while fighting a fire near Interna
tional Falls, and died In a hospital.
Two Indians, Ed Blackbird and Pet
Accobee, working with a fire crew ,
near Warroad, were Atlsslng, and the
farmhouse from which Mr. and Mrs,
Grant Abmler, north of Warroad.
had refused to flee waa reported Isox
isted. A CCO enrollee was killed.
Acting on orders of Got. Elmer A.
Benson who termed the sltuatlom
"alarming" and asked all atate agen
clee to prepare for any emergency,
Adjt. Gen. 1. A. Walsh assigned a ra
tional guard from Duluth to the fins
area. The troops wVl survey the alt
uatlon and aid In fighting blasea.
The governor Is on a campaign tour
In northern Minnesota near the fir
area.
T
PENDLETON, Ore , Oct. ll-(AP)
A coroner's Jury here last night
absolved Cecil Johnson of Weston
of blame In connection with the)
hunting death Sunday of hla neigh,
bor. Herman Graham.
Johnson testified he had stumbled
while hunting In Grahams company
and that hla rifle waa accidentally
tired. A previous report thst John
son had seen a movement in tho
brush and had fired, mistaking hat
companion for deer, was dlacred
I ted.
TO EUROPE START
annTt.lNn net. 11. API Oulethi
lng of Europe's war Jitter waa re
flected today in revival m ne irw
fruit export eeason on th Columbia
river. Four ships loaded BO.000 box
for England. Franc. Holland tost
FRUIT SHIPMENTS