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The kmmath News WEATHER NEWS WIRE SERVICE Hi Herald anil News uhacrtlw to fall leased wire service of the Associated rr unit Hi United l'ru, th world' greatest newagatlierliig organlaatlona. For IT hours dally world nsns cam Into The Herald News office on teletype machine Fair High BO i Low 68 At Midnight 8" 24 hours to 5 p.m. Season to data ......... I.at year to data , , .Normal precipitation .00 ..1 1.77 .14.TI ..ll.7 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Vol. 14, No. 220 Price Five Cent AO & alio .MATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1937 (Every Morning Except Monday); Editorials on tho Day's News lly KltANK JKNKINA SI'HAKINU be'or lha Amarlcaa Society of Civil Englnra In Detroit tha other day. Chert r. t "'tiering, General Motors vlr reeldent In chare of research, predicted that "lha automohll of JO or it hii from now will ba J nit different and will hvo Just many Improvements as hat hern mad In th pan 10 or IS years." "I'm aura." he said, "that th 19JT far will look Ju.t as anti quated In 1510 aa tha 111 car doea now." IT IS probalil that lha Instltu llnni of IKO lll ba aa dif ferent from thos of today aa our present Inslltutlone are dlffrnl from thos of 1911. It lint Juit cars that chanfe. It Is r.vr.KYTHINO. YOt'll trsndfather, for iampl. aent to a parly caucus that chos detegatea to a county con ventton, and theie delegatea goP together and choia candidates for vintr officer l.sler on. thi am thing wss don on a stats wide acal. If anyone had suggested to your grandfather, or at least to his father, that tha time would coma when city, county and elate eandldetee would ha chosen by direct yot of tha people, h would prohahly have shivered with ap prehension and would hav been filled allh fear that tha country was going to tha dogs. Yet that very thing happened long ago, and th country want' right on functioning. TDK chanres are wa get no bel ter candidates with our pure and holy primaries thsn our grsndfsthera got at their wicked conventions, hut tha point la that wa no it pirr'fefiy.STLTr Tha world doesn't Just stand a Ill. It keeps going from ons thing to another. And wa keep on being shorked by th thought of changes, but as tha changes coma along wa adapt ourselves to them end get along somehow. Th funny psrt of It Is that la pile of our fears esch generstlnn seems to he a little better off than tha generation before. REBELS BOMBARD MADRID, CUT OFF "LOST BRIGADE" ' MADRID. Wednesdsy, July II (VP Rebel artillery shelled this sleeping rlty esrly tndsy. killing and wounding an unknown num ber. ' While a loyalist "lost hrlgsd" of 2000 to 1000 men held Qui Jorna to tha west against over whelming odds. Insurgent gure raked th city with heavy shot gjrom nna end to tha other, ap parently In retaliation for th )oyallia' halting th rebel counter- offensive to th west. Th besieged loyalists, en trenched among the rulna of the town In hop that a relief column would reach them from Valde morillo to th north , fought against hunger and thirst as well as rebel troops. Tha loyalist high command was unable tn send a relief column across th Rlerra Guadarrama plain to Qullorna, IS miles west of Madrid, because of enemy pres sure on Vlllanueva da la Canada. Vlllanueva d la Canada Is mld- wsy ha tween Quljorna and Vald- morlllo, cutting off th 'lost hrlgsd" from communication with th main loyalist columns. Th Qullorna garrison Includes many American and Canadian volunteers. Tha loyalists held firm against Tnow nationalist attacks on Villa (Continued on rag Eight) New Yorker Declares He Slew Woman at Her Own Request NEW YOrtK, July 17 (AP) A bliarre story of "murder hy request" was unfolded to police today hy Stanley A. Martin, Jr., 29, an unemployed automohll salesman, who told of strangling his attractive woman companion heraus "ah didn't want to live any longer." "8h asked ma In kill her," Martin sobbed when h appeared In tho nolle line-up. "She hand ed me the red leather belt from her dress and I strangled her wllh It." A alight figure, weighing about 135 pounds and standing flva feet six Inches, Martin appeared dated rVhen he waa questioned. When asked If It had been a suicide psct, he answered dully: "Yes. that's what It waa sup ped to he." Th slaying, pollct said h told GUARDS1TE OF STRIKE RIOTING Cleveland Totals Casual ties as Teace Comes After Violent Night CLEVELAND. July 17 AP Pour hundred policemen stood guard todsr In Cleveland's steel trtlt riot area to bring peace temporarily, at least after one of lha wont ntghta of violence In thla city a history. Republic Bteel Corp. workers Hashed with strikers and sympa t hilars near Itepuhllc'e Corncan MrKlnney plant where one man was killed yesterday. Clubs. plrk-Bkcs, Iron pipes nd other weapons cam crashing dowa upon th heads of workers and plcketa alike. A union headquarters va wrecked. Glass crashed In d list ens of motor cars. War of Vandal lam A wav of vandalism, spas modic for evral weeks, swelied over other sections of th city, newly painted houses, finished without union labor, were sprayed with stain. i Windows war amaahed In homes of steel workers and oper atives of knit mills whore CIO and A. K. I, unions ar engaged In a jurisdictions! fight. Folic forced a crowd at tha Corrlgan-MrKlnley steel mill back two blocks from on of Ita main entrances, and th morning chang of shifts took place with little violence except on or two canes of stone tossing. For several hours last night rioting near th plant aent more than CO persons to hospitals and doctors to obtain treatment fr head wounda and other Injuries. Th night-time rioting wss th third outbreak In 24 hours; two scor persons were Injured In clashes at two changes of shifts yesterday. A CIO delegation protested to .Mayor Harold II. Burton that po he mad no effort tn protect th CIO union headquarters which was wrecked. "When your men throw rocks, that's going too far," .Mayor Bur ton replied. Meanwhile Republic Steel Corp. filed a ault to enjoin mass plck t Continued on Page Eight) FARM YOUTH SHOT BY ACCIDENT; IN SERIOUS CONDITION MERRILL, Or., July I? (Spe cial Gerald Stevenson, 14, eon of Mr. and Mrs. James Stevenson, was accidentally shot through the stomach at th family ranch on the stat line. Th boy was carrying a .11 cal Ihr rlfl when h went to get th cows. Somehow th gun accidentally discharged, aendlng a bullet In his left aid. It passed through the stomach and to th liver. He waa rushed to th Hillside hospital at Klamath Falls. Th condition of Gerald Steven son. 14, was reported to be "crit ical" at th Htllsld hospltul Tuesday. BIKE-RIDERS TREK TO CRATER LAKE Thirty-one hoys and girls, un der tha direction of Monroe Smith, will de-traln at Chlloquln Tues- dsy evening for a hirycl trip to crater Lake park. These youngsters ar connected with the American Youth Hostels. 817 members of which toured Eu rope on bicycles. This party la going from nation al park to national park this sum mer. Members travel by rail to a point near tha park, and then take to their hikes. There aro 10 hoys and 11 girls In thla party, which Is from North field. Mass. They travel with a coach and baggage car, tha latter carrying th 31 bicycles. them, climaxed an Illicit love af fair which had become "hopeless' because both were married. Th victim, Mrs. Florence Jack son, 87, of Jackson Holghts, mother of two children, aged alx and two, waa found dead In a car driven by Martin when the alleged slayer stopped a radio police car and asked Tor medical aid for Mrs. Jackson. Hhe had been gsrroted, police said, with belt from her dress. Patrolman Thomas Kelly and Dennis Carmody, driving the radio car, aald Martin told them he met Mrs, Jackaon In a Jnck son Heights restaurant last night and aha accompanied him to sev eral night clubs In Flushing at Great Neck, L. I. "After w had driven around for a while." th officer quoted (Continued on Fag Eight) Fire Deprives Aged Couple of Home ..;r r, Only a few persons! effects were ssved by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel King, aged couple of Wood lllver Valley, Saturday evening when their home near Fort Klamath was burned to the ground. Opportune arrival of the Parker hrotbers prevented th dlssster from resulting fatally for King, tl. who collaptod Insld th dwelling as h waa making bis way out of th fir. A defective flu was blamed for tha fire. BOYER SOUGHT Hunter Authorized to Go After Candidate for University Presidency MARSHKIKLD. July 17 (AP) Krcdorlck Hunter, chancellor of the Dresnn system of higher edu cation, has been authorized to seek a successor for Ir. C. V. Hover, who hss submitted his resignation aa president of the tnlvcretly of Oregon, Willi rd Marks, president of lha education hoard, said today. The announcement was made at a summer mfctlne: of the hoard here at which Marks waa reelected president. All other officers also were reelected, with K. C. Pease, The Palles, continu ing; aa vice-president, and K. C. Sam mom, Portland, as third member of the executive com mlttee. Marks said that Rover, who startled educational clrclea a few weeks ago with his request that be be permitted to resign, ef- (Continued on Pace Eight) BRITISH STEAMER TAKEN BY REBELS; ANOTHER ESCAPES LONDON. July 17 (LP) Spanish Insurgents today cap tured a Ilrltlsh freighter, owners of the ship announced, and re ports from Valencia said a hos pital ship ot th British navy narrowly escaped destruction by bombs from a rebel warplane. It was the third British steam er to bo captured hy tha rebels In the past 30 dsys. A dtnpatch from Valencia, loy alist emergency capital reported that an Insurgent warplane drop ped bnmba around tho British hoa- pital ship Maine outside Valencia harbor, but th explosives missed their mark. Th 10. 100-ton Maine, which has removed 1200 war refugees from Valencia during the last month, waa en rout to Valencia where she took aboard 400 more refugees for rcmovnl to Marseil les, France. Aggravating the two "Inci dents" were a scries of develop ments. Including: 1 Disclosure that Russia, en raged hy reports of the mass use of Italian troops hy the Spanish insurgents In fighting outside Ma drid, plana to blast all hopes of restoring tha non-intervention projoct. 2 Demands In th house of commons by Winston Churchill, wartime first lord of the admir alty and now a renegade" con servative, for Information regard ing Insurgent guns trained upon the British naval has of Gib raltar. Churchill was cheered loudly In tha house of commons tonight when ho demanded "more satis factory" Information regarding reports that the Spanish rebels, supposedly with the aid ot Ger man experts, hav erected long rango guns at Ceuta, Spanish Morocco, and other points where they menace Gibraltar, guardian rock of the empiro'a "111 line." CORONER'S CAR GOES OVER GRADE ALTURAS Frank Kerr, Mo doc county coroner, .heaped aorlnua Injury when th car In which h waa returning from Codarvllle, went over the grade on Cedar mountain, Aslds from numerous bruises and having hla face cut In a few places, Kerr la able tn h out. Ho waa accompanied hy Thomas l.ush, who escaped with out any hurts. ;.t.. La Libertaria Ordered From Spanish Fight By RALPH E. HKIN7.F.S I'nlted Frees Staff trrrpondent PARIS, July 27 tUP I Ben- orita Ttlara la Fuente, 22-year-old girl anarchist of th Spanish loyalists who boasts of having silt tha throats of 1000 wounded rebels, wss forbidden tonight to return to th fighting ranks. Pilars, known as "La Llber tarla" among her comrades, la In a hospital at tiljon on th Biscay coast recuperating from wounds received in the bitter fighting around Ovledo last February. "Red Carmen" Th loyalist . high tommand decided to use the bobbed-haired "Red Carmen" for propaganda work among Spain s women. Th decision wss made after (Continued on Pag Eight) NON-UNION TRUCK DRIVERS BEATEN AT PORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore.. July 27 (UP) Four non-union truck drivers of the J. E. Haxeltina com pany were beaten today after labor difficulties at the plant. The four, Jamea Davla, Matt Klasper, Jess Palmer and Mel Prott. were attacked, allegedly after they and other workers at the plant had refused ato join the Teamsters' union. Davla was treated at Good Samaritan hos pital for a fractured Jaw. Haceltlne, owner of the plant told police a union organlter had come to his plant today and ask ed to confer with the workers, a request that was granted. The workers themselves. Hazeltlne said, refused to Join the organlza tlon on grounds they were satis- fled with working conditions. Pickets were thereupon placed about the plant. The alleged beatings took place some time later. Davis and Klas- per aald they were set-upon by four men who alighted from an automobile while they were fuel ing their truck. Night Wire Flashes SF.M.IXG" CHARGED 8ALKM, Ore,, July 87 (TP) Gov. Charles H. Martin aald to day the appointment of J. D. Ross of Seattle as civilian ad mlnlstratnr of Ronnevllle would be "aelllng out Oregon" to Se attle. RKI1HIS ASKED .llKNDAYK, Franco . Spanish Frontier, July 27 (I P) Loyal. 1st Spain tonight appealed to France for medicine and aerutna to prevent the epread of gan grrne among SO.UtIO to SO.OOO soldiers wounded In the battle of Britnete, who have been without medical treatment for da a. STRONG CHILD DIES DAHTFOKI, England, July 37 (IP) John t'hlllard, 8, who was called tho strongest child In th world," died today of bronchial pneumonia. Four fret tall and the aon of a professional weight lifter, John waa able to lift a IMI-pound weight with one hand. KILLED IX CRASH FAIttJO, N. !.., July H7 (VP) Perry Newton, 8'J, Denver, Colo., waa killed and two other per sons critically Injured In a plane crash Into today. A 6-nionths-olil girl, seated on the lap of her mother, sirs. Donald Feet, nil, Moorhrad, Minn., escaped ln Jury, hut Mr. Peel, and Jimmy,' 0, suffered severe Injuries. BILL APPROVED Action Unanimous ; House Agrees to Give Presi dent Six Assistants By ARTHl'R F. DKGRETE Untied Prpsa Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, July 27 (UP) President Roosevelt won the first round of his fight with congress over government reorganisation late today when the house ot rep resentatives, in a wild session passed a bill authorising, him to employ six new assistant. ' " The vote waa announced 20 to S3. It was the first and probably will be only part of Mr. Roose velt s sweeping reorganization plan to receive congressional at tention at tbia session. The revolt which has surged through democratic ranks sine th session began seven and a half months ago. was not visible on the surface today. Outwardly th majority appeared to be one big hanoy and noisy family as they voted down every amend ment which threatened to em barrass th Whit House. WASHINGTON. July 17 I.V The senate Judiciary committee unanimously approved today a lower court reform bill to replace th Roosevelt court bill. Senator McCarran (D., Nev.), foe of the original Roosevelt court bill, wss named chairman ot a sub-committee to draft the report on the substitute measure and steer It through the senate. II said th report would be (Continued on Pag Eight) SAN QUENTIN'S POLE-SIT-DOWNER COMES TO EARTH SAN RAFAEL, Calif.. July 17 (API Cold and. hungry. Meyer Golaa, 32, Los Angeles burglar, ended a sit-down strike today after clinging for 1$ hours to a ! brilliantly-Illuminated S5-f o o t I tower In San Quentin prison. ! Ralph New, acting warden, an nounced the felon agreed to come down from hia precarious perch after exacting a promise h would not b placed in solitary confinement. New told Golas he would be placed In a hospital and not a cell. The convict was shivering from a night in the open made uncomfortable by a cold wind. II apparently waa pleased his occupancy of th narrow plat form atop th tower waa ended. Golaa climbed the pole at 11:30 p. m. yesterday during th lunch period, and from hia perch atated h would remain on hla alt-down atrlke until prison auth orities, promised to send him to the "Islands." Prison officials said they did not know what he meant by the "Islands." New decided against plans to bring down the convict by physical force because Golas was In a position which would make too difficult such an endeavor. Instead. New said he would starve Golas down from th top. A combination of hunger and cold served th purpose. FACTORY WORKER HURT ON RESAW CHILOQUIN, July 27 Esrl Morabce of Pin Rldg lost part of his right hand while working on a .'esaw In the box factory at the forest Lumber company.. The accident happened on th night shift on Monday. F,arl Is the son of D. A. M oca bee of Pin Ridge and has been employed at the Forest Lumber company (or the past year. JURY BLAMES FATAL MISHAP Inquest Verdict Asserts Peyton Was Reckless ; Skid -Marks Described A coroner's jury charged Ralph Peyton with gross negligence at aa Inqueat held Tuesday morning to determln th cause of death of Mildred Lucille Hicks. Th jury also returned a verdict to th affect that th girl's death occurred aa th rault of injurlee rcivd In an automohll col lialon with 4h car driven by Peyton, and asserted that Peyton waa driving th car at an ex cessive rat ot spoed and In a rackleea manner. Identity of th girl, who Is th daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Hicks. Dairy, was established by th father, who testified at the hearing which waa conducted by Dr. George H. Adler, coroner, at Ward s Funeral Horn. She would have been IS yeara ot age August Z4. Baaed oa One Death The Inqueat was held In con nection with th death ot Mildred Hlcka. only. Dewey Byrne. 40, auperinten- dent of Ewauna logging camp, owner ot th ear which Peyton waa driving, and a paasenger in It, was also killed aa the result ot the collision. while Mrs. Hlcka, driver of the other ma- chin Involved, and another daughter, Viola, aged 13, ar in the hospital with serious In juries. Sheriff Lloyd Low of Klam ath county, testified at th hear ing that skid marks of th car driven by Peyton were atill plain oa th highway when b arrived at th seen of th accident, though th cars had been moved from their original position. Where It Occurred Th collision occurred approxi mately one-half mil cast ot th Lakeviaw-Merrill Junction, about six mllea from Klamath Falls, according to testimony ot J. w. Dantorth. state police 'officer; who was called to th seen of th wreck at 11.15 p. m. the day of th accident, July 24. Low drew a diagram for mem ber of th Jury, showing his measurements ot the skid marks ot th car driven by Peyton, who Is also la th hospital with in juries received in the collision. When the car left th high way th right wheel track skid ded til feet nntll It atruck the hard surface ot the pavement again, he ahowed. Then It careened back across the hlgh (Contlnued on Page Eight) $125,000 SET FOR TULE LAKE WORK IN BILL Included In th 141.000.000 reclamation construction program for the west approved by both houses In Washington. D. C. Tuesdsy and which waa awaiting only President Roosevelt's sig nstur. is an appropriation of 1126,000 for extending construc tion of the Klsmath reclamation program In Tula lake. Thia construction will Include building ot dralna and ditchea east of Stronghold, according to B. E. Hayden. auperintendent ot the Klamath bureau of reclama tion. Approval of both houses to the reclamation appropriationa was given after a lively debate, ac cording to an Associated Press dispatch, involving the appropria tion for Arizona's Gila project, for which a compromise appro priation ot 700,000 was finally est. Other opprnpriatlons In addi tion to th California and Ore gon portions of the Klamath pro ject. Included: Oregon Owyhee, 1500.000. Washington Grand Coulee, 113.000.000: Yakima, (Roza di vision) 11.600.000. Baseball PACIFIC COAST LF.AGl'K Night Game R. H. E. Sacramento 110 Los Angeles 40 Kllnger and Cooper; Evans and Collins. R. H. E. Oakland . Ill San Francisco 1 11 1 Miller, Hsld and Ralmondl; Lamlzog. R. H. E. Missions . Iso Portland 1 10 1 Tost and Sprint; Hare and Treth. R H E San Diego - (11 0 Seattle til (10 Innings), Sslvo, Craghesd ond Detore; Barrett, Kmlth, Plckrel, Home. Osborne and Splndel, Fernandes. AMERICAN I.KACil K R. H. E. Chicago B . 1 Washington t 11 0 Whitehead. Rlgney (1) and Sewell; Weaver, Appleton (2) and R. Terrell. (Continued on Fag Eight) AFL Mill Workers Seek Martin's Aid AT.Fr tiitv s im rw.niA.M affiliated with th American Fed eration of Labor at the Stlmson Lumber company, at Gaston, near Forest Grove, appealed to Gov ernor Martin today for nolle pro tection so they may go back to work next week at th mill. closed for nln weeks. Jack Llllard, president of the Gaston local of the Brotherhood of Carpentera and Joiners, an A. F. of L. affiliate, and Sam Smith, local secretary, said after a conference with th governor that he would provide protection for the workera. Bloody Affair Feared Llllard aald th majority of the mill employea belong to the A. V. of L. union, but that th Commit tee for Industrial Organization International Woodworkers union Continued oa Pag Eight) FARM BILL MAY Disagreement of Grange, Other Groups Virtually Certain to Delay Vote Br JOHN R. I.KAL I'nlted Press .Muff ormpondent WASHINGTON, July 27 (LP) Disagreement between farm or ganizations orer details of aa agricultural bill made it virtually certain tonight that one more major item on President Roose- relt't program will be heaved overboard to lighten ship aa con gresfl apeedi toward adjournment. Chairman Ellison D. Smith ot the senate acricuiture committee, al ready had abandoned thought ot passing a general farm bill. To day C barman Marvin Jonee, D.. Tex., adopted a similar Tiew after conferring with representa tives of agrarian groups. Secre lary 0( rfc txn Henry' 'A. Wallace left t-frfTa month ago, indicting he had given up hope. harm Depression Yet President Roosevelt con siders farm legislation one of the most important of his objectives. As recently as last Friday he said that if the good crops prospects this year are continued in 1933, (Continued on Page Eight) U. S. HOPES FOR AVOIDANCE OF CHINESE WAR WASHINGTON, July 17 L? Secretary Hull said today the American ambassadors in Tokyo and Peiping had been instructed to express the hope to the Japan ese and Chinese governments that hostilities would be avoided In Peiping. The secretary' statement was made at his press conference In answer to questions based on an nouncement in London that the British ambassadors were taking similar action. The French ambassadors to both countries ar understood to be making similar observations. BONNEVILLE BILL IN COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, July 17 (AP) The senate sent back to the com merce committee today legiala tlon providing tor administration ot the Bonneville dam project on the Columbia river. Minority Leader McNary (R Ore), one ot the authora of the bill, obtained unanimoua consent to recommit the measure after explaining that an "unrelated" amendment threatened to develop controversy. The amendment to which he referred would authorise an In vestigation to determine whether contracts on the Boulder dam project should be readjusted. TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST GKXKRAL Japan attacks Peiping from four sides following declaration ot "tree action" In Chines crisis. Foreign ers rush to embassies. Pag 1. Police guard peace In Cleveland after night ot violence at steel plant. Page 1. President gets house approval ot bill to appoint six new aasist ants. Lower court bill unanimous ly approved by senate Judiciary committee. Page 1. Farm program believed likely to go overboard for this session of congress aa tsrm organizations disagree. Page 1. A. F. of L. lumber workera get tentative promise of police pro tection from Governor Martin, in opening plant closed by C. I O. Pag 1. I.tMAL Inqueat Jury asserts negligence JAPS ASSAULT PEIPING AFTER WAR MESSAGE City Attacked From Fou Sides Following "Fret Action" Declaration Br F. M. FISHKR Cnited Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, Wednesday. Jnlr 1 (VP) Japanese troops, striking; swiftly on the heels of a virtual declaration of war against tha Chinese defenders of Peiping. au tacked the walled city from fonr aides shortly before dawn today, Chinese military sources reported Peiping waa In an uproar. ChU nes civillana aa well aa foreign, residents. Including several hun dred Americans, fled to the lege tlca Quarter where marine guards erected sandbag barricades. Parleya Dropped The Japanese, rolling north ward from their military base at Fengtal, encircled the city ana began hammering at Chinese poai tlona with trench mortars. At midnight the Japanese mill tary command delivered Ita notl. ficatlon to Gen. Sung Ctaeh-Yuaa that peace negotiations had been abandoned and th Japanese army; waa ready to take "free action." Almost simultaneously General Sung notified th Chlnse central government that h had "aban doned hope ot peace" and was ready to fight th Japanese. "Finally Forced" From the south, two central Chinese divisions marched north ward to aid th clty'a defense. The 37th division dug In within the vailed city, sandbagging streets. and prepared to resist the advance of the Japanese infantry and maehine-gua brigades. Aa announcement atated clear ly that Japan now lntenda to drive the soldiers out of Peiping and "mete out deserved punish ment to the challenging Chinese troops." The announcement de clared Japan was "finally force! to take Independent action." k The term "treeiactloa" In Japasr-' nes military language mean (Continued onpag Eight) 16-FOOT WALL OF WATER SWEEPS MID-OREGON CITY MITCHELL, Or., July 17 UP) This central Oregon city, storm wary from tha 1904 flood, dried Itself oft today after a lt-foot wall ot water awept through eoma sections last night, but left prop erty Intact. The damage appeared princi pally to be mud-filled streets and the destruction to the northeast of a aecondary highway and ahoofly bridge over Service creek, auspending all travel there. The Orhoco highway east wai temporarily blocked by the flood waters, which carried rock down steep hills, washed ont embark ments and weakened th roadbed. Traffic was moving over the high way today nnder warning signs of "dangerous." ALTURAS MAN TO MANAGE NEW BANK AT CEDARVILLE ALTURAS. July 17 Th new Cedarvlll branch ot the Bank of America, N. T. S. A., will open for business on Monday, August 1. Vincent S. Court, present as sistant cashier In the Alturaa branch, will be manager. Court has been a member ot the Alturaa staff for nearly alx years. Before coming here; he waa engaged In banking activities In Turlock and Livingston. . Paul J. Enos now on the staff ot the Reedier branch will be as sistant to Court. Open house will be held Satur day. August 7. at which time the residents of Modoc county will be given an opportunity to Inspect the new bank. Representative from San Francisco and neighbor ing branches will be present on the part of Ralph Peyton wa to blame for fatal accident. Page 1. Thlrtv.An. members nf Amerl. can Youth Hostels make hike) trip to crater lak pars irons Chlloquln. Psg 1. American Legion drum corpa practicing with eye on state tltl, Pate 1. High school board calls fof bids on Improvements. Page I. Gerald Stevenson, 14, sh( through stomach hy accident at state line farm. Condition criti cal, rag 1. IM THIS ISSUE City Briefs ....Page I Comics and Story ...... Page Courthouse Records ..Pag 4 Editorial -...Pages 1 and 4 Family Doctor -.Pate 4 Market, Financial News.... Pas t rtecreatlon Notes Page 1 Sports -.rag