ironici«* re a ch «« all |n the Dam Areu from Merman f r e e » . THE BONNEVILLE DAM Ljdely read •nd otn j i„ the entire fr,a Oftl'I.M paper for |y ,,f ( ’a.M< a<le Lock». CHRONICLE PHONE 211 k II. NO. tK HO N'.NK VILLE — CASCA DE LOCKS The Chronicle Delivered to Any Home in District Each Week by Carrier 20c M onth T H l K SD 4 Y , K E R R I A R Y IS, 193«. LOCKS BUSINESS MEN FINED ITY, STATE CONFISCATE [BALL DEVICES t.nlimr hmtin* »» im n of C.i»- |k« Itili olle of W>**tll fare s nr Jill Iernia ■*** .1 reami mirpri'e raid Monday by ilei »late offlrera. w ho con ili alni Iliadi Idea of the pin- L > inn.I ng \ • rM't » >. .tie - .1 V \|. rrill of Me ! rn. Frank Moran of M o il. Teil llaiiaer of the Lakc- <n<i Erik Krlckaon "f the (lull, C I-'' el- L ‘"*k». alili Todd'» place, Wy**Ui, were I each Til* -da) when they I f I i-f • I • •• Ju-tic.- St; in Mi in ptiver. Eighty dollar» of the suspended indefinitely, h to pay *2 j , or aerve tlie out at per day In the er county Jail. NVilllalii K<lnk. Ileputle* llarr arili and llolh-nheck I PnlP'.-inen Haney ind >"|i I down on tin r<*»‘.rt» afterniuin. Ila id» W i .,rr<-d r" ■ ~ "tl t !i I I I e- » 111 pfi r I hlmr out THUMP! SQUEAK! POP! MERRILL'S ’BURGLAR' ONLY COLD BOTTLES “O u lrk ! Wake up. Jim ! There’* a burglar in the danrehall!" "«»• Mrs .1 V Merrill of Käsende Lock» awakened h> r lnishuml d .'I 1 in. Saturday, after tu* inn* sträng« n<d»es com In* from tfieir dance hall ind restaurant nearby. Shivering. M. rrill searched, heard Hcruidii*. poppin* noises, couldn't t< il jn*t where they came from. Mrs Merrill railed in City Marshal K 0 I 111 Merrill, tier brother-in-law. 'I he stran*e nois.•> rontiuoed, hut the searcher» could catch up with them. n*-ver Kurek 1 ’" »houted Merrill as he discover***! the noise The “toirg- lar was found to he pop hollies freezing. breakin*. hlowin* tie* cap» off <nd falllnu ov«-r. Foot steps“ were ifllil.ltei) by IWO duckling* tappin* with their Leak» on the wooden box beside tile kitchen ramie, where tle-> had been plans! to thaw them out. -•< o ther - N. BONNEVILLE It' It I'tu alK p.ipi mit . , - * I I THREATENED BY FLAMES SUNDAY fully (hdlnary p in-I II 11 I War nml 10 hide the ni ‘ I - I !i • - confici ititi W ere m r ff left alone rather languish In Hood One entire block in the business oon-govv than pay tho»e district of North Bonneville, Wash., k 1 nini ti, I,,, tin -I ntiho nt was burned to the ground late Sun- V ' ' ■‘ted linn, Who \\ ep. da night with a roiigtil estimated retili onte Tuesd.. ev - loss of ML'N't 1 ift-T being tried. |f the 8*23 A bucket brigade unsuccessfully *P*fkled part of the fine is nut fought the flames against tin- sub- ■ m it few day«, the iijiera- fn-ezin* temperature and ***»1 wind. WU proha hi y spend »nine li1 .’ The l S. engineers’ fire truck from ^^krdirnt the w orld through Honneville w is rushed via the bridge of the find». hut arrived too late to he of sepv ice. Fire w ts *.iid to have started in one of the six Mallier cabins. Also destroyed were the Liberty cafe. Apex rooming house. Circus tavern, l ‘‘n of tin* ptopoM-d new and Nichols hardware store. \ small • nd of the (àisead** Locks amount of furniture was saved. Klanu-s were so fierce that fronts J of commerce’* suggestion of buildings acros- the street to the oui department west were »curdled, but firemen ^ ■ "n I fund-ra I-iriK dance 1 ’""C topics ti k<n up by prevented further spreading of fire., 'olnnteer fire department which might have meant destruction •Miy . for the entire town. Many from the committee w ilt i>e ap- Oregon side, attracted by the glare, H,,, week b ) President rushed over b* help fight the fire. nen D iscuss Afft» lir e J 1- '' Station w ith the city '''im n itte |o \ llesKird's fire sta 60 ATTEND PTA CARD PARTY IN AUDITORIUM Pn^ r t ilniiM n t 1 hmu#rf " consider r a is in « funds I ,n" " 1.0 next n ' I I mil T -f ire ' I - \ jce I *1 ' '»'lieti *"'M Was se| for T lle s ila v . F* *1 ' p in. in the ro tin - Mills,||, appointed \ - I 1' lini lt> 1 / |e\ c h a irm a n 'Do i vhip, c o m n iille e . O llie r ,r " " Dell .,n,| Itili R y,.r ■ ' 1,1 r'"' • h re Ik in the I P todays rise in temper- The Honneville P TA cleared ;»p- provimafely s.'tti on ilÿ Monday **v- ening cani part» in Ih* govermnent auditorium lo p • V f'"' *’i hairs for the school. Over no per»"ns wer*' present I" play hrid«e, pinochle and five hundred at the 15 tables set. The cluhroom was beautifully decorated by |»T\ members with pussywillows and greens. Cakes and coffe*- weit served. Mrs. Karl Wilson of Kagle Creek was given the prize for selling the greatest number of tickets. CAPT. GORLINSKI W ork on Dam Halted A s TRANSFERRED TO Sleet Paralyzes Traffic In ARMY COLLEGE Columbia Gorge Region Kapt. Joseph <. Korliriski will leave his post is Bonneville dam resident efi*ineer to attend the Army Indus trial eoi|e*>- jn Washington. D. K., •<s « further step in his training in the corps of engineers. His successor h is not vet been announced. Army orders issued from Washing ton -viturday transfer Captain *»or- linski to the Industrial college, w -e- • he will study procurement of shells, «uri- and equipment of all kinds to supply troops in time of war. lb* experts to leave in late May or early June. W o rk on Honneville darn v..is at a virtual standstill yesterday as the entire northwest lay shivering in the icy grip of sleet and snow storms that blocked roads and made trains and busses hours late. Sleet which started 'Tuesday afternoon was continuing its steady fall late yesterday. The Columbia river highway was a sheet of ice, practical ly impassible. Fifteen feet of ‘»tapioca snow" was reported to have slid across the road at Multnomah falls, burying a highway department rotary snow plow. Traffic up the gorge was being turned back at Corbett Tues day riigtit. Yesterday morning a few trucks and busses were making the run into Portland via the Warning- ton side, although that was blocked at times. The highway to Hood Rivet- was blocked most of Wednesday by ice Captain Doriinski w 1 « graduatisi slides at Shell Rock mountain. from West Point in 1D1H. As a lieu Traffic between Bonneville and Cas- tenant lie was assigned to the Port eade Locks was routed part of the land district of the corps of cn- time along the new railroad grade uineeps in 193*2. After several months because of slides. in the dam’s Pittock block office in Newspaper accounts of the uirth The Columbia river this weeK is Portland, he became resident en of a one-pound baby, Nancy Ann a mass of floating ice fioes. W ith a gineer of the project. Vogt, at Oakland. Calif., called forth scant four feet over the sill of the Captain Corlinski’s appointment to a reminder this week that Oregon lock at Cascade Locks, “ Dkrelv the Industrial college is looked upon and Washington share honors for around the project as training pre an even smaller baby, w hich thrived enough to float a fair-sized duck.’’ according to Lockmaster C. A . paratory to advancement in rank. and is now doing nicely at the age Saunders, the river was at its lowest of 15 months. stage in history. Cause w a» the I’ORTI. \ \ l) OKKHS < II \N \K I. The Oregon-Washington baby is freezing up of its water supply by Plans for deepening the Columbia Jacqueline Dean Jackson, born No near-zero temperatures over its en river channel from Vancouver to vember *2i. 1934, at Stevenson, Wash., tire basin. Despite efforts to break Honneville will not be protested by daughter of Mr, and Mrs. r’red the ice at The Dalles, the river the Portland city council, the coun Jackson of Cascade Locks. The fa there was almost entirely frozen cil agreed last week. Col. Thomas M. ther is a rigger employed on Bon over yesterday. Old-timers believe it Hohins. division engineer, told the neville dam. only a matter of a few more days Mrs. Florence W eller, who was of Ihe present weather before the council of the f . S. engineer's plans for the channel, 300 feet wide and *27 Jacqueline's nurse in the Stevenson Columbia w ill be a solid sheet be feet deep, large enough to accommo 'emergency hospital, reported that tween the Locks and Stevenson. date small ocean freighters to The the infant, which weighed not W ish . The river rose .8 foot Tues Dalles. Other cities and towns along quite 15 ounces at birth, three day from the preceeding day’s rec the river unanimously endorse Ihe months before she was expected, ord low. now weighs 1*2 pounds, has two channel deepening. Lowest official temperature of the treib and is learning to walk. From j year to date was nine degrees rec- an over-ail length of ID/is inches at 0rd nn the jocks grounds at Cascade birth. Jacqueline nas grown to the Locks February 8. The previous ev stately height of *23 Inches. ening. the Bridge of the Oods “The hospital staff is as proud of thermometer was said to have reg Jacqueline as her parents are." Mrs. istered four below, hut this could W eller declared. “ and vve are keep not be confirmed. The sleet storm vesterdav was Coed politic- for the forthcoming ing a close check on her health andj progress. \Ne never did have her in coating buildings, trees and auto- w a r were started *111 their way this an incubator, lu us she is the doll mobiles with a sheet of ice. begin- week with the announcement by bed baby . ning of a “silver thaw ” which pro John N. Mohr, flood River attorney, vides beautiful photographic sub that lie is in the field fur the Re jects bill causes untold damage publican nomination for District At through breaking down trees by torney in Hood River County. , the weight of the Ice. Mohr was horn and reared in Hood -------------- ! Weather bureau reports indicate River county. Education includes Plans are being made this week warmer weather and relief w ithin four years at the I'niversity of Ore gon and two years at the l niversity by the Cascade Locks chamber of a few days from the icy storm. of Michigan law school where he commerce to raise *50. its share of Ihe cost of printing 45.000 booklets I was graduated in I9-F2. • a ¡nee his graduation he has neen describing the Columbia gorge, a practicing in Hood River and has! project of Ihe Mid-Columbia cliam-l been very active in local and county her of commerce. The booklets w ill publicize the en-| The big birthday party in uonor affairs. lire gorge and w ill he distributed of Carl Epping. scheduled to be held John Baker, incumbent, lias not uvep the country. <7. N. Hesgard told this coming week by Ted Hauser, announced his intention h* seek the. the chamber's Thursday noon meet-; owner of the Lakeside hotel, has office again. ing. Total cost is expected io b e ; heen postponed unlit tin* weather about 83,000. to be raised by cham breaks. \MI bers in Camas. North Bonneville, Those that have heard the plans « '.fini v from battling mid-west Stevenson. Vancouver and W hile I for the affair w ill he very muen dis blizzard», lire I ’nion Pacific’s stream lined train. City of Portland, sped Saltm»n. Wash., and Cascade Locks, appointed. As everyone in the arerr past the dam area Tuesday tm.ining Hood River and Th e Dalles. Ore. is to he invited. Hauser is waiting on it-» first return trip Ibis year from ; Entire sum w ill tie raised before the for the weather to moderate so that no one w ill have an excuse for not Chicago. The seven-car diesel-electric printing i- ordered. attending. train is painted brown with nrrglit Ted Hauser Was a Hood River vis Ttie date w ill probably be an yellow, offers 39 3-4 hour service itor today. nounced in next week’s Chronicle. to Chicago. LOCKS OUTRIVALS CALIFORNIA BABE FOR SM A LLN E SS John N . M oh r Files For Dist. Attorney CHAMBER RAISES $50 FOR GORGE BOOKLET PARTY TO BE STAGED AFTER SNOW IS GONE > Siiti INI H RK.n R\>