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Newspaper Page Textmm 0) Ml 15) M fo) 4M ffl INJ WMWIihJIim By THANK Jb'NKlNH Hi big nw Ihli morning In the reoiganUatlun that eiipnar lo bo under way In die Soviet govern mini. 1 don't kuuw what II iiieuni, Hut I'm pretlv aura ul thin much: 11 doesn't meun any lDfcALlBTlU t'hamio lor the butter, ' urn bm communist who are do lull Iho lonhultllug (whatever It In) mo In power. They nron't uoIiik to do anything lo iitit Uieiiunilvnn out ul powor or to THIN DOWN Urn power they hold (In too lew hands.) llrro'n a guess: Old Jon la koUIiik on III ycura. Thorn have been recurring rumors that Ilia health Isll'l too Hood. Mai enkov la amorally regarded tbo fair-haired boy to aucccrd Stalin. He's only to. At DO, h baa a lot ol touub and comiwlrnl (and prob ably bloody ) years loll. At 7u-odl, Ihe aand In Blalln'a hourglass la running low. It Isn't Improbable llial the So viet limousine It being readied lor a new driver. Thry arem to be making quite a tc-uo ol It which la strictly In lh pattern, The critical hour In dictatorship la the hour at which one dictator BUCCKKDH another. Then, If ever, there la danitrr that the dlaaldrnt elomcnta may atcp 111 and cause trouble. The Idra, powlblv, la to organize Iho chaniie ol drlvrra ao smoothly and ao elllclrnllv that there will be no chance ol a ruckus among the WOULD-BE DRIVERS. H haa, of courae, Ha sinister as pects (or ua. Why do thev want a new driver NOW? Why not let Old Joe djo m peace? Do they think war may be near? Do thev tear Stalin la too old to run another war7 Aro thev readying a new and younger leader In advance? Thev call thla business they're cooktiur un an "all-union congress of the communist party." The laat n waa In 1030-and 1039 waa a YEAR OF DKC1810N. In 1939. World War 1 waa coming to the bollmr point. Do the communist leadera of Ru aia Uilnk World War 1 la approach ing the the boiling point? la that why they're calling another all union eoniraaa of the communlat party? I dnn't know. I doubt If anybody outalda Mos cow knowa, But thla I WIBH: I wish our leaderahlp waa such that we had Ihe lump on Bum I a tnalead of Ruaala having Ihe lump all the time on ue. It COULD be that way. We're the greatest In duatrlal nation on earth. Modern wara real upon a foundation of In dustry. Il la 1NDUHIKY that turna out the machines and Ihe weapons with which modern wara are won and without which thev CAN'T be won, ' We have the machines and the Industrial organltalion to turn out the machines. We have able, brave and oompetent people. We have the technical know-how to do the Job. But our Icadaxehlo haa been fuv ay and uncertain. At any given mo ment. Ruaala haa been abla to put Ihe bee on ua Inatead of ua being able to put Iho bee on Ruaala. Ev ery new move that Ruaala makei FRIOHTEN8 ua. It shouldn't be thai way. We should be calm and CONFT DENT Or OUR 8TRENOTH. We'd be that way If wo had leaderahlp we felt we could trust and were willing to follow. Paste thla In your hat: Oettlng that kind of leaderahlp la the big Issue of thla campaign vear of 195. Beside that Issue, all others fade Into Insignificance. State Travel Record Due PORTLAND of) Tourist travel probably will reach a new hlfth In Oregon Ihla year, a Portland Chamber of Commerce official said Tuesday. V. A. McNeil, director of the chamber's visitors' service, said more tourists were In evidence than ever before, aome 100 Inquir ing for Information dally, com pared with ISO a day Inst year. He also said highway officials estimate tourists trulflo Is up on all major highways In Uie stato, exoept the Columbia River route. fnv;. :';'awUi,-i4. 'A'xi-it i : , ,' c.v's&.H .'f .;."Sj TALLEST? The- new Pacific Supply Co-op elovstor, S. 6th and Spring Stretti, may ba Iho new topper In Klamath build ingi. II ritei 106 feet above Ihe street level. The picture above 4 wai mapped from the catwalk which carries grain and other produce from the elevator to the railroad loading. chutes. Farm Price Question May Again Be Political Football WAHIIINOTON W Will farm R rices become a major Issue on ow (miners vole for President this year? Pour years ago at thla lime, thry were a red lint political toi'lc Secretary of Agriculture Hiannan. had already taken nut aller the Republican controlled 50th Con gress, blaming It lor a sharp down turn In grain prices. The HrunnsM campaign has been credited with a major role In ob taining the Midwestern farm sup port that hrled I'rraldenl Truman win his uet victory over Oov. Thomas E. Dewry. Insofar as prlrrs are concerned. Ihe history of 1048 la being repeated lo a considerable extent thla year. Farm prlcea as a whole aa well aa prlcea of many Individual farm protlucla are lower now than they were at this time In 1948 and a year ago. Yet llllle political attention has been focusrn on this situation either by Democrats or Republi cans. Aome political observers have predicted Uiat larmera will be more Interested thla lull In auch Issues as war and peace, taxes, government controls, and charges of corruption and communism In government, titan In farm prlcea. Child Dies In Bly Fire BLY Three-year-old Junior Mil ler was latallv burned In a lire that raced through the vacated Cttv Cleanera building here yealerday alternoon. The child waa the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marlon Miller, who live nrxl door to the fire scene. He waa apparently .In the build ing with an older sister. Barbara. 10. and brother Kenneth. 6. when Ihe fire started. Wltnaaaea said the older children ran from the build ing. The Bly Volunteer Fire Depart ment alopped the flame before they dealroyed the building, and found the child's body partly burned. Cause of the fire waa not announced, but It was thought the younnatera were playing with matches. The building was vacated a cou ple of years ago, and went through one fire a year ago. It Is owned by Paul Gilbert, former Blv resident. Solon Scoffs At Oil Report WASHINGTON lffV-8en. Homer Ferguson of Michigan declared Tuesday that a disputed govern ment report on oil cartels, which the Slate Department labelled as aecrel, Is "neither new nor very surprising." Ferguson, a Republican, said the report "for the most part la Just a re-hash of the findings" of a Senate Investigating committee which he headed In the Republican controlled 80th Congress. President Truman decided to lift the secrecy ban on the report after Its publication was demanded by Sen, John Sparkman of Alabama the Democratic nominee for vice president. The report was written a year ago by Federal Trade Commission staff experts. It concerns Interna tional oil deals by an alleged cartel which has been charged with at phoning U.S. foreign aid funds. Klamath Llama Visits Portland PORTLAND Ifl A llama. loan to the Portland boo from the Black and White ranch or Klamath Falls, Is visiting the city's psrks tins weeg, taxing youngsters tor rides. Jack Marks, too director, said most llamas have unpleasant dis positions but this one la gentle. Agriculture Department reports show that larni prices ss a whole are i per rent lower than at thla time In 1048. They nhow also that the prlcea farmers pay out for what thry need are about 12 per cent higher than III 1IMS. Much of the 11)11 campaign was centered on Democratic charges that a Republican Congress had re stricted government grain storage operations lo auch an extent that larmera were unable to lake ad vantage of federal price supr programs. Yet thla year drpartrr -O ports show market pru?? wheat are furttirr below '?' eral price support level than were In 19411. In the summer 1948. farmers received an averat, of 11.9V a bushel for wheat or only 2 cent below the support level. Bo far this summer, wheat prices have averaged around VI. or about 20 cents below the level the department said at planting lime It would support this year's crop. Officials are predicting that thla year's corn crop may aell from II to 10 cents a bushel below the price support rate at harvest time. Farmera were getting an aver age ol about 136 per 100 pounds lor hogs In the summer of 1B4H. They now are receiving around 131. Beet cattle prices are about the same. Hoybeans, at S3 a bushel now, are down about 60 cents from four years ago. Wool, at (3 cents a pound, la 4 cents above four years ago. Eggs sold for an average of 40 cents a d07.cn four years ago compared with 43 cents now. The department has forecast that farmers' net Income amount lelt niter paying production costa would be down from last year's 114.900.000.000. The net farm In come In 1948 Was 119,738.000,000. Waterfowl Disease Cut TULELAKE Only a slight out break of bolulbm In the critical I'ulrlake-Lower Klamath area has been evident this aeason despite the fact this Is tho pesk season for the disease among migratory waterfowl, according to an an nouncement by Refuge Mgr. Tom Horn. Aug. 30 Is normally the high point of the botulism season, but so far Aug. ( and 7 was the worst of the year. Al that time, Horn said. 389 mallards and pintail were lost and 49 sick birds hospitalized. The manager said quick water manage ment through tho cooperation of the KlamaiU Drainage District nipped that outbreak In. the bud. With the' help of the Bureau of Reclamation the manager said water levela have been maintained at desirable levels and waterfowl losses have been negligible, except along the undlked aoulh shore ol the ' lower sump where narrow leather edges exist regardless of water levels. There 93 dead birds and 48 sick ones have been picked up. Horn estimated the present popu lation of the area at over 100.000 mallards and pintails including both Tule and Lower Klamath Lakes and called the low level of botulism "unprecldented." In past years the disease has struck hard at large numbers of birds, and the refuge has been working on several projects to dis pel the situation. UN Bombers In New Raid SEOUL, Korea tH The U. S. Fifth Air Force said about 300 Air Force and Navy warplanes today hit a Communist ammunition sup ply and troop billeting area on the Korean west Coast about 39 miles northwest of tho Red capital of Pyongyang. The Air Force said U. S. Snbre Jets damaged one of four Russian made MI019 Jets intercepted about 100 miles north of Pyongyang. Plnnes from American carriers operating on the Korean East Coast hit the target first shortly after noon. They wero followed by Fifth Air Force fighter-bombers. There were eight separate tar gets in the area, the Air Force said. , Returning pilots reported early claims of 98 .buildings demolished and five damaged. Big explosions rocked the area as bombs smacked Into ammunition stores. Flames raged through the target, a center ol more than 300 buildings. The warplanes struck as bright sun broke over the quiet battle front, soaked by typhoon rains. New Red Congress Seen As By WILLIAM L. BYAN AP Foreign News Analyst Moscow's announcement Wednes day of the convocation Oct. 9 of the first All-union Communist Par ty Congress In 13 years Indicates a strengthening of the Soviet dic tatorship all along the line. Tills announcement has been In the making since 1947, but Its tim ing gives It implications which can mean the difference between war and pence. Moscow's announcement Ihnt It Is doing away with Ihe Politburo does not moan abolition of nn all powerful governing body. On the contrary, Ihe Announced new Pres idium, to act between sessions of the Party Central Committee, will havo even more power. It will toke over the duties of tho Organisa tions Bureau (Orgburo), which con trols the annolntment of kev offi cials throughout the party and gov ernment network. The announcement once again brings mysterious Oeoroo Mnlen- kov, SO. owl-faced protege of Sta lin, snarniy to the fare. Ma enkov probably has had more of a hand 1 Hi? raftl e 1 n ; Price Mr ten' II Pages T ,. i a. 1 .i CHAMP Butch Kimpton, 12, champion in his age class, end Montgomery, 43 1 Laguna, won ard, 15, were runnes-up. Lawrence Giannini, President Of Bank of America, Dies at 58 8AN FRANCISCO Wi Lawrence Mario Oianntni, 98, president of the Bank of America the world's largest bankrdted in his sleep last night at a hospital here. His physician asld death was caused by a number of Illnesses. He had been In the hospital since March 4. His wile, Anna Mercedes, and two daughters, Anne and Virginia, Vara at his bedside- In 1939 OiamUnl -become 'presl-' dent of the Bank of America, founded by his father, the late X-Ray Program Has High Aim A goal of 1.000 X-rays has been set for next Monday when the mo bile X-ray unit sets up shop in downtown Klamath Falls at the corner of 8th and Main Streets . . . it it's attained Klamath Falls may have set a new record for the num ber of pictures snapped in an eight hour period. Portland holds the record for the number in a 10-hour day 1026. The simple process of setting the X-ray will bo set forth before everyone who passes on Main Street Dial day. There Is no wait ing, no undressing and all Infor mation remains confidential. X-ray olficials are counting on man y downtowners to partlclpote who have been missed when the units operated in their neighborhoods. To date there have been 8461 X-ravs taken, with a goal of 24.000 set bv Sept. 39 when the county wide survey is to close. Yesterday 399 X-ravs were snapped at Klam ath Agency, and the Altamont Gro cery. Countv Health Officer Dr. Seth Kerron reported that retake respon ses have been almost 100 per cent. The retakes number about four out of every 100 originals, and are dou ble checks on the first pictures. The X-rav units will be at 6th and E. Main Streets until 6 p.m.. todav, and al Hercules and Pal merton Lumber Compony lor em ployes until that time. X-RAY BOX SCORE Yesterday 359 To date 8461 Goal .. 24,000 Tomorrow's Schedule: Kaatrr's Store, Doty and Cali fornia Ave., 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. In his revision one of a series in Soviet history than any other man. It is Mnlenkov who is most widely regarded as the successor to 8tnlln. As long as five years ago. Mnlen kov forecast this move when he said In an address that the Cen tral Committee was preparing a new program for the Communist Party because tho program in use was obsolctoi Ho also said there should be new statutes for the par ly. If tho 'program was long In the preparation, It will be swift In exe cution, and will be hailed by the controlled Soviet press as a step "toward Communism" and toward peace. It will likely be neither. ' Westerners have long awaited this announcement. The last AU-Unlon Congress . of the Communist Party was in March, 1939. Competent diplomatic observers have been saying that when the Kremlin decided to call Ihe 19th Congress, It would Indi cate that Ihe Russians felt them selves In danger of World War III. The last All-union Congrpss -was called on a wave of "peace" slo KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, WEDNEHDAY, AUGUST 20, 1992 A. -aw . v : . 1 , '''4 & J aaBaaaBariiaataMaaaAayaiariiaBsaMaBiaa 231 Pacific Terrace, is the 1952 playground table tennis gets an award to that effect from Mayor Bob Thompson. Ing the age group up to 16, and Jerry Knapp, 1 1, and Shelia How. A. P. Giannini In 1904- The elder Giannini, an Italian Immigrant, died In June 1949. Giannini, acknowledged as one of America's foremost business leaders, also served as a director of the Tran&amertca Corp. which controlled the bank until 1937. Branches of the bank more than 800 cover California and are also In London. Manila, Tokyo, Vakohoma, Kooe and Shanghai. t3lnnlnl; who s'farted'worklrig lor Ihe far-flung Institution as a cleric In 1918, saw Its capital assets rise to more than six billion dollars in 39 years. In 1923 he became personnel di rector and six years later was named vice chairman of the banks Board of Directors and a member of Its General Executive Commit tee. In the early "30s. Giannini and his father weathered a stormy bat tle to keep major Interests of the corporation out of the hands of Eastern stockholders. Charged with creating a credit monopoly in the West by control ling hundreds of bank offices, Giannini testified at Federal Re serve Board hearings in 1937 that his family held only two-tenths of 1 per cent of the bank's stock. A. J. Cook, chairman of the bank's Board of Directors, said a successor to Glannlna probably will oe named at tne Boards next meeting, scheduled for Sept, 10. Wilsonville Bridge Due PORTLAND UH Work will start soon on the major new bridge across the Willamette River at Wil sonville making possible a new Salem-Portland route. It will be a $1,113,370 structure, replacing the Wilsonville ferry. It will be the important link in the Portland-Salem cutoff route, parts of which already have been built. The contract for building piers, approaches and steel decking for the bridges was awarded Tuesday by the State Highway Commission to the Guy F. Atkinson Co. The commission took core of some other large projects also. In cluding a $468,483 Job for grading part of the planned T. H. Banfleld Expressway through East Port land. It was referred to engineers with power to award. Backing Soviet Rulers gans, ominously similar to those in current use by Soviet propagan dists today. It came at a time when Europe nervously awaited the blow that meant war. At that congress, Stalin made a speech forecasting economics crisis in the non-Communist world and a struggle of imperialism to divide the world into spheres of influ ence. That Is what the Commu nists are saving again. The congress also had the aim of healing the wounds of the blood purge of the 1930s. When It was finally convoked, Stalin had fin ished the job of making himself Ihe unquestioned dictator of the Soviet Union, after eliminating thousands of potential enemies be fore firing squads. After that congress, the signing of ' the Sovlet-Nnsi non-aggression poet broke Up the flimsy structure of the "antl-Fasclst popular front" coalition In Europe. Todav under Soviet tutelage, the popular front has become a Communist rallying cry "against Imperialism." The congress Is called following a widespread .cleanup throughout the Soviet Union's constituent re I 4 Greyhound To Expand CHICAGO (1 The Greyhound Corporation said Wednesday It plans to assume "complete con trol uct. 1 on two ous lines una lng Chicago and the Pacific Coast. The lines involved are Union Pa cific Stages and Interstate Transit Lines, intercity Dus systems oper ating Between crucago. jjds Ange les and Portland under the name of Overland Greyhound. Greyhound Corporation, which has owned 33 1-3 per cent of stock In the two lines, announced it has purchased the stock Interests In the two firms held by the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago and Northwestern Railway. Interstate Transit operates be tween Chicago and Los Angeles via- Omaha and Salt Lake City, with connections to Denver, Kan sas City, Mo.. Sioux Falls, S. D., and Fairmont, Minn. Union Pacific Stages run from Salt Lake City to Portland, Ore., ana oporcane, wasn. Girl Killed Near Resort PALM SPRINGS. Calif. Wl The battered body of a teen-age girl, clad only in a plaid blouse, was found Wednesday on a highway near this desert resort. A few hours later she was Identi fied as Cathryn Knodel. 16. of Redlands. Her mother, Mrs. Erwir. Knodel, viewed the girl's body in a morgue and screamed: "That's her, that's her." The girl's parents sold they re turned home Tuesday night and found a note saying that she had gone out. Her father said he presumed she had gone to a musical program at Redlands Bowl. Brown-haired, slender and at tractive, the girl was found in a pool of blood at the edge of a road near Thousand Palms, about a half-mile from heavily-traveled U.S. Highways 60, 70 and 99. Weather FORECAST Klamath Falls and vicinity and Northern California: Sunny through Thursday, a little warmer with a high of 89 tomor row. Low tonight 49. High yesterday -..' 80 Low last night 42 Preclp yesterday ,, 0 Since Oct. 1 17.39 Normal fee period 12. 9S Same period last year 14.84 publics. It Is likely that this time any vestage of opposition was done away with quietly but competently. The swing around the Southern republics by Soviet Police Chief L. P. Beria, sidekick of Mnlenkov and a top Communist power. Indi cated that fences were being mend ed and possible opposition was be ing rooted out all along the line. Malenkov. then a young and ris ing power as Stalin's personal sec retary, read the riot act of the Communists at the 1939 party con gress. His harshly worded stric tures left little doubt that he spoke with the greatest of authority.. When the war Intervened in Ihe progress of the Soviet dictator ship the ruling clique backtracked somewhat, the toll of war had been so heavy and the suffering of the Soviet people so great that too harsh an application of the dictatorship was Inadvisable. Now, apparently, the rulers of the Kremlin consider themselves stron? enough once again to call an All-Union Congress, convening monv Communists from all corn' ers of the Soviet Union in one place. j i I ,v -a. , J Telephone 8111 No. 2900 US Urges Program To Rescue Iran WASHINGTON IM The United States reportedly has urged Britain to Join In an Anglo-American emer gency aid program for strategic Iran to avert a possible Commu nist coup. secretary of State Acheson Is re ported to have made this plea In a memorandum to British Foreign becretary Aninony jsaen within the past 10 days. Acheson is said to have stressed the need for Quick Joint action to Keep iran a vast on resources from falling by default into Russian hands. American diplomats who dis closed this to a reporter today In dicated the British are decidedly cool to Acheson's Idea, but appar ently have not flatly rejected It. Acnesoo told Eden, they said. the United 8Utes Is prepared to give an immediate "token ' grant of around five to 10 million dollars to Iran if Britain simultaneously would: PROPOSALS 1. Buy the two million tons of refined oil and oil products now stored In huge tanks along the Per sian Gulf. This would bring the Iranian government about 39 to 40 million dollars, at present world market prices. 3. Declare Britlan's willingness to abide by International arbitra tion of its long-standing dispute with Iran over nationalization of the 1 j billion dollar Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Under pressure from Washing ton, American and British diplo mats are urgently exploring possi ble solutions to the British-Iranian argument. The oil dispute has blocked the flow of petroleum to the West for 14 months and has choked off the Iranian govern ment s main source of revenue, COOLNESS Britain's coolness to the Ameri can Idea, officials said, stems lrom a belief that to buy any oil would undercut Britain's legal argument that the oil already belongs to the British. The British Cabinet is scheduled to meet in London today with Prime Minister Churchill to con sider a reply to an invitation from Iranian prime Minister Monam- med Mossadegh to resume oil ne gotiations. Acheson s suggestion apparently was intended to guide the British in drawing up an answer. Ameri can officials believe that Mossa degh's regime, nationalist as it is. represents the west's only nope oi averting chaos. Furtner, they be lieve an emergency aid program is essential to staDUize conoiuons, pay civil servants and lessen the threat of a communist-led up heaval. IINTENTIONS Such an aid program, they rea son, would also prove to Mossa degh that Britain and the United States intend to support his gov eminent and may persuade him to make concessions on his side. Behind the American attitude Is a fear that Iran's oil would re lieve a shortage now hampering me ouiiaup oi tne soviet war ma chine. Any Russian takeover of Iran also would put the Russian's asiriae tne Mideastern corridor with particular threat to Turkey, Pakistan and India, and would seriously Jeopardize western de fense plans. CORRECTION A story in yesterday's Herald and News incorrectly ldentmed Dr. Margaret K. Gregory as a chiro practor. Dr. Gregorv is an osteo pathic physician and surgeon with offices at 3119 Orchard Avenue. 5 rsrw"5'iy", -fifr Ta .. LV - a .-' il -n i . . " i HERB BARRY, SI 02 S. 6th Street, gives with selt talk to boat men Don Divens, hit boss, for the 9 o'clock speciel. More May File Before Deadline By WALLACE MYERS With the filing deadline 9 p.m. today, only one peraon. Paul Lan dry, had filed his candidacy for Klamath Falls' mayor early this afternoon. However, three other men ad mitted they were toying with the Idea of filing and at least two of them were expected to file later this afternoon. The three were Dick Magulre, Harry Boivln and Al Con drey. Of the three. Magulre was the mostly likely to file. The question between Boivln and Condrey ap peared to be which one would file for mayor and which for council man. The two were to parley In Bolvin'a office late this morning. CHANGE Several days ago, Boivln an nounced his intention to run for councilman from Ward One. He failed to file, however, and later said he had delayed filing because "something came up." This "something" may have been Mayor Bob Thompson's announce ment that he positively would not' be a candidate for re-election. But Condrey Boivin's political friend tne was uoivuvs alternate tnis year at the' Democratic National Con vention) was also Interested In the mayor's race and the two appar ently didn't wish to oppose each other. In Condrey's ward. No. 3, there is only one council candidate. Jim my Barnes, whereas in Boivin's wara. no. i, mere are mree canal- dates. Oliver Spiker, Dr. Harry Fredrlcks and Joe Green (Ward Three Councilman Mark 8mlth and Ward One Councilman Matt Finn!- gan are not seeking re-election . Paul Landry, head of the Landry Company, a property Insurance firm, is a former city councilman from Ward Four. Both Landry and Condrev were defeated In 1948's four-way mayor's race won by Mayor Thompson. Con drey wa serving as Ward Three councilman at the time and was later defeated by Jim Kaler when he sought re-election to the council. FOR COUNCIL Two new candidates had filed for City Council this afternoon. They were A. H. (Art) Stites in Ward Four and Dr. Fredrlcks In Ward One. Stites win be trying to un seat Councilman Darrell Miller. Fredrick's Ward One entry makes that race a three-way contest be tween him, Spiker and Green. ai press lime umay, ine city po lice Judge's Job continued to ba the mOBt sought position orr -the November ballot: Four candidates have squared away for that race. They are the present police judge, Frank Blackmer, County Assessor Otis Metsker. Bob- Elder and Wil bur (Red) Whitcomb. Balsiger On Public Group Elmer Balsiger of Klamath Falls has been named to the newly-or-' ganized Taxpayer's Committee to retain pari-mutuel revenues, ac cording to an announcement by acting chairman Henry W. Collins. Portland. Balsiger, in accepting the posi tion for Klamath County, said "should pari-mutuel revenues be lost it would cost Oregon a total of $993,813 a year. Klamath county, alone would lose next year an esti mated $13,900 In fair money and $9,000 that helps support the Klam ath Basin Roundup. Our organiza tion feels we cannot afford to lose that revenue. CITY FIRE A cigaret dropped through a hole in the floor was blamed by city firemen for a blaze early this morning at the home of Mrs. Ger trude A. Lawson. 109 N. Broad Street. The firemen reported only slight damage. The alarm came 'in at 1:43 a.m.