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J. Draegert, living between Fifth and Sixth streets on Main, risked his own life yesterdays shortly afternoon to rescue Jeanette, 3- months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Williamson from flames that practically destroyed their home at 1114 East Sixth street.

and that figured in a fire alarm mix-up that has no precedent in local annals. The baby had been left on the porch by its mother directly in front of a window while she went to the home of her mother-in-law. Mrs. Otto J. Williamson, directly behind her own home, to get some canned fruit.

Baby Is Unscathed When Mrs. Williamson returned a few minutes later she saw flames spurting from a window of her house. Turned back by the flames from the rear door, she rushed around to the front porch, arriving just as Draegert was wheeling her baby to safety, Draegert told Mrs. Williamson that he saw the flames burst through the window overlooking the porch from his own home nearby and ran over just in time to save the child. The carriage was scorched and a quilt covering it was badly burned, even as to the portion near the baby's face, but little Jeanette escaped without a burn.

Contents Total Loss The blaze consumed the entire contents of the Williamsons' home, and left only a shell of the structure. Mrs. Williamson learned later that E. A. Hudson, principal of Albany high school, and John Sweet, among others, had seen fire and tried to telephone to the fire department, but could find no residence nearby equipped with telephones whose.

occupants- -were at home. box, Hudson to box 72 at Each, ran then to a fire alarm Fourth and Madison street and Mr. Sweet to box 67 at Eighth and Madison, each without knowledge of the other. They pulled the alarm levers simultaneously, by pure coincidence. The result was a confusion of bells, and the registration (Please Turn to Pare 21 Important Problems To Be Talked by Livestock Men Liver flukes, responsible for serious losses of sheep and cattle, and rheumatism and cholera of hogs, both, enemies of the hog grower come in for plenty of discussion at the livestock meeting to be held in the Albany city hall at 1:30 p.

Wednesday of this week, F. C. Mullen, county agent, said today. Each year livestock men suffer serious losses of livestock through diseases, either as a result of death or decreased' quality at marketing time, according to Mullen. With a better understanding of these diseases, Mullen believes, the income from livestock, now totaling $1,017,297.00 annually, may be increased.

Other topics on program will deal with feeds and animal nutrition. Pasture conditions for livestock are excellent this year, compared to those of last year. In' an event of serious freeze, which might kill out the green pastures. hay and grain feeding will become necessary. Just what feeds can be used at the lowest price will be discussed.

Speakers listed on the program are Dr. J. N. Shaw, Veterinarian, Oregon State college, H. A.

Lindgren, and E. R. Jackman, extension specialists in animal husbandry and farm crops, Oregon State college. All livestock men of Linn county are invited to attend the meeting. Well, I'll Tell YouBY BOB BURNS I don't understand all these political upsets over the country.

Politicians are using the same methods they always did, SO guess it must be the people that are gettin' new ideas. My uncle Orchie ran for county tax assessor this year and when I asked him how he come out, he took a little book out of his pocket and he said "Here's the history of my campaign. I lost 214 hours of sleep thinkin' about it; lost 2 front teeth and some hair in a personal encounter; donated 1 cow and 6 sheep to county barbecues; gave away 2 pairs. of suspenders, 4 calico dresses and $5.00 in cash; kissed 126 babies; put up 4 stoves; walked 4,076 miles: shook hands with 9,508 people and told 10.101 lies; attended 16 rea vivals and was baptized 4 times; made love to 9. widows; hugged 40 old maids; got bit by 24 dogs and lost the election by 353 votes!" Democrat ORE GOT DEMOCRAT-HERALD, ALBANY, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, Christmas Business Trends Here Mixed; General Tone Indicates More Gains Encouraged by a big day Saturday, and by the fact that this year's Christmas shopping week is one day longer than was that of last year, Albany's merchants today were lebking upon their business and general outlook for this year through rose-hued glasses.

Particularly lines in which lowpriced or small goods are handled reported prosperous times, with variety stores generally realizing, their biggest volume in local history. Hardware lines were also up, a survey of local merchants revealed, or were at least on a par with last year's total. Clothing merchants reported business from 10 per cent lower to 10 per cent higher this year than last, but indications were regarded as pointing toward a universal increase if this week's business continues to maintain the pace set toward the end of last week. Postmaster G. T.

Hockensmith Hooker Sells Out Store; Stiff's Plan Expansion After being given notice to yacate his place of business and preparing to hold a close-out sale, John Hooker early this afternoon sold his entire stock of electrical merchandise Roy Eastburn, who will proceed to liquidate the line of goods. Hooker had been notified by H. L. Stiff, of the Stiff Furniture Co. that the room occupied by the Hooker Electric Store would be needed for his expansion program on Feb.

1. Stiff leased the entire building from F. H. Pfeiffer: and W. L.

Jackson last summer and will now make use of the space. Hooker has decided to retire from the retail end of the business and will devote his entire attention to his growing trade in electrical contracting, wiring, etc. He had decided on this coursed when the deal with Eastburn suddenly came up this morning and had his advertisement which appears in today's paper all set when the change was made. Hooker has been a resident of Albany for many years. Before the death of the late J.

H. he worked for the Raiston Electrie Co. as an electrician and later bought the business from the estate. He will move into a location before the end of January. Roy Eastburn has lived most off his life here and recently disposed of his interests in the auction house on Ellsworth street.

He will dispose of the Hooker stock but will not continue in this line of business. MRS. A. J. HURLEY DIES Where Convicts Made Alcatraz Escape Lebanon, Dec.

20. (Special)Word was received here today by Dan Hurley that his mother, Mrs. A. J. Hurley, 90, formerly of Albany, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.

Ivy Kerby, Spokane, Saturday, and will be buried at Toledo, Wednesday afternoon. She is survived also by two other daughters, Mrs. Mattie McDougall, Corvallis, and Mrs. Annie Horning, Toledo. 1937 The Albany Herald, Vol.

LX11, No. 123 Solons Hopeful For Action On Housing Bill Threat of Anti-Lynch Filibuster Renewal Is Beat Down Washington, Dec. 20. -The senate, driving to complete action on housing legislation during the special session, today overcame threats of a filibuster from southern senators and postponed consideration of the anti-lynching bill until Jan. 6.

Determined to enact the housing bill, designed to curb business recession, even if it becomes sary to delay adjournment until Thursday, administration leaders exerted pressure to win the antilynching delay. Barkley Hopeful Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, said he is hopeful that the senate banking and currency committee will report the housing measure favorably this afternoon. He explained that for this reason he wished to delay action on the anti-lynching bill. Sen.

Tom Connally, leader of the filibuster which blocked action on the anti-lynching bill during the opening days of the special session, assailed the leadership and sponsors of the bill for their tactics in pressing for action. The bill is being sponsored by Sens. Robert F. Wagner, N. and Sen.

Frederick Van Nuys, Ind. Connally Irked Connally criticized Barkley for failure to confer with the opposition in agreeing on postponement. "How does the majority leader expect us to follow his leadership if we don't know what it is?" Connally asked. Barkley emphasized that the bill would automatically come before the senate on Jan. 6.

Connally said that if he was disposed to "filibuster I would start right now." Snow and Sub- zero Weather Strikes Over Midwest (By United Press) Snow covered the northern of the United States today from the Rocky mountains to the Appalachians. The U. S. weather bureau ported that the snowfall ranged from trace in a few sections to 7 inches at Dubuque, and 16 inches at Houghton, Mich. Forecaster C.

A. Donnel of Chicago said the snow "might last until Christmas." Temperatures dropped in the eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, and northern Wisconsin. It was 24 below at Bemidji, 10 below at Duluth, 14 below in Moorhead, and 10 below at Devil's Lake. AT VETERANS' HOSPITAL Charles Kutsch, left today for Portland. where he will treatmer1 at the U.

S. Veterans' I hospital. Aerial-Closeup of the west tip of Alcatraz Island, Uncle Sam's escape proof penal institution in San Francisco bay where two Oklahoma criminals made the first break under cover of a dense fog. The two men, Ralph Roe and Theodore Cole, broke a window in the inside of the tire repair shop, skirted the building, broke a fence and leaped to a ledge below. From there they made their way to the water's edge and apparently plunged into the swift flowing Fog was so dense that armed guards in towers one and two, could not see the escaping felons.

FULL LEASED WIRE United Press Service and Complete World County, State, National News the day it happens. Serving all Linn County, The Albany Democrat- Engineers Valley Folk Urge Project Over 600 Attend Salem Hearing to Argue for Control of Floods Salem, Dec. 20. (U.P)-Members of the board of army engineers sat in day-long public session here today to hear the pleas of Gov. Charles H.

Martin and others that Willamette valley development project be immediately approved. The engineers, after an exhaustive survey of situation, had recommended that work on the project be deferred while admitting there was same need for the proposed $56,000,000 program. Over 600 at- Hearing More than 600 persons from all parts of the valley were present at the session. Governor Martin opened the meeting with the request that the matter be given further consideration, pointing out the possible loss to the valley and the state from floods that are sure to occur on the river. Douglas McKay, chairman of the Willamette valley development committee, pointed out to the enthat while there had been sineers.

disastrous floods in the area in recent years, there was no evidence to indicate that there would be none in the future. He said that the which protects the city sea Portland is probably sufficient to stop any backwater from the Columbia, but that if a heavy downstream flood from the Willamette is ever coincident to a Columbia backwater, the sea-wall would aid little in preventing a general flood in Portland. Sudden Floods Feared He estimated that any flood of as serious proportions as those which struck the valley in 1861 and 1894 would cause damage of from $500,000 to $2,000,000 in Portland alone and would endanger propervalued at from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000. He said that an appraisal of the flood situation made in 1936 indicated, that. flood control would justify the entire cost of the project.

General trend of the discussion wise that the Willamette is subject to sudden and unexpected which endanger homes, property and life, and destroy hundreds of acres of tillable land through erosion. Another point was that the valley usually has a 70-day annual dry season when the blocked flood water could be released for irrigation to great advantage. Coshow Funeral Service 'Held At Salem Today Salem, Dec. .20. (U.P)-Fu-| neral services were held today for Oliver Coshow, former chief justice of the Oregon supreme court who died at the home of a daughter, Mrs.

K. H. Pickens, late Saturday. Burial will be at burg Tuesday afternoon. He started his, law practice at Albany in 1890, later moved to McMinnville, and in 1897 went to Roseburg, He was in the state senate from 1905 to 1909 and serv-.

ed on the state board of education, from 1909, to 1921. Gov. Walter M. Pierce appointed him to the supreme court in 1924 after the death of Justice Lawrence T. Harris.

He was later elected to serve a six year term. After serving one year as chief justice he retired from the bench in 1932 to enter private practice in Portland. Oliver Perry Coshow was born August 14, 1863, at Brownsville, a son of early Oregon pioneers. He was educated in public schools in Portland and attended the University of Oregon. He entered business as clerk and bookkeeper and became secretary of the Brownsville woolen mills.

On December 25, 1886, he was united in marriage to Elizabeth Kay of Brownsville, daughter of Mr. and Thomas Kay who later removed to Salem where Mr. Kay founded the Kay woolen mills. THREE COUPLES LICENSED Marriage licenses have been issued to Newell Hunter, 22, Sweet Home, and Nellie West, 18, Lebanon; Robert Gray, 24. and Frances Redmond, 18, both of Corvallis, and Ernest J.

Heyerly, 26, and Mabel Stutzman, 25, both of Albany. STORY HOUR PLANNED Mrs. Ary Neptune, city librarian, announced today that a story hour will be conducted row at 3:15 p. m. for children of the first, second and third grade schools in the library auditorium.

Mrs. Daniel Freeman will read three Christmas stories. VISITS SISTER HERE Mrs. A. H.

Gould, formerly of Albany, now of Portland, visited Saturday here at the home of her sister, Mrs. E. L. Umphrey. She was accompanied by her husband.

They Did It Ralph Rose, or Roe, top, and Theodore Cole, two Oklahoma criminals who made good. the first escape from Alcatraz prison in San Francisco bay since the federal government took it over as a penal institution for hardened criminals. They escaped under cover of a dense fog. Alcatraz Escape Long Planned, States Warden San Francisco, Dec. 20.

(U.P.)The escape of two convicts from Alcatraz was not done recklessly on the spur of the moment to take advantage of a dense fog, but had been planned for months before' it was executed, Warden James A. Johnson said today in describing the "inside story" of the break. Johnston said the convicts made their way to freedom by sawing and wriggling through one of the prison's supposedly escape-proof devices a detention window! criss-crossed with iron bars and heavy glass. The aperature was only 81 inches high and 18 inches long. The escape was the culmination of dangerous, patience trying work over a long period of time, Johnston said.

Equipped with some sharp instrument, the two convicts sawed' patiently away at the machineshop window bars, a few minutes each day, Johnston said. When they eventually snapped the bars and leaped out, they used a wrench from the machine shop to jimmy the gate of a nearby wire fence, which led to a 20-foot cliff, and San Francisco. bay. The escaped prisoners, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe, Oklahoma bad men, have been sought since Thursday when they disappeared from the federal island prison. At first Warden Johnston expressed the option Cole and Roe drowned when they attempted to swift swim tide.

San Francisco, bay indicated belief the pair were picked up by. a boat manned accomplices, by pre-arrangement. Elks, Theaters Will Entertain Children. Plans, by the Elks lodge, the Venetian and Rialto theaters are now completed for entertaining all children of Albany and immediate vicinity on Christmas day. The children, up to and including 12 years old.

are invited to tend these theaters at 10:30 Christmas forenoon. At the Venetion will be presented "Red Rope" with Bob Steele. At the Rialto "Hop-A-Long Cassidy" with Bill Boyd. Following the shows the children are to go to the Elks Christparty at Elks Temple where presents are to be awarded each child. Last year the lodge game away 60 pairs of shoes to the needy children of the community.

Ticklish Task Leaving the White House after a conference with President Roosevelt, Secretary of State Cordell Hull shows great concern over the Japanese crisis. He carried with him Roosevelt's instructions for three demands for satisfaction to be made on the Japanese ambassador "when you see him at one o'clock. Chinese Reds Ask Left Regime To Resist Japanese Shanghai, 20. (U.P) Communist leaders took advantage of the disorganization of the Chinese central, Generalissimo today to Chiang deKai-Shek, the national leader, esstablish a new regime bearing farther to the left and strongly organized. to resist Japan to end.

Reorganization of thee ment was reported to have started, with Yu Yu-Jen, president of the control yuan, or central steering committee, demanding the resignation of prominent leaders such as H. H. Kung, finance minister, and Wang Ching- Wei, former premier and member of the executive council. The Chinese were heartened in their resistance today by the admission of Japanese army authorities that their troops had boarded the American gunboat Panay as is was sinking after a Japanese aerial attack. Gen.

Kumakichi Harada, chief Japanese army attache in China, who made the statement at a press conference, nevertheless deniea Japanese surface vessels had machine gunned the Panay after the bombing, despite official admission in Tokyo that the American warship had been machine gunned. There was thus direct conflict between the Tokyo and Shanghai versions. Miss Dora Gray to Be Buried Tuesday Oakville, Dec. 20. (Special) Funeral services for Miss Dora Gray, former resident of the Orleans neighborhood, will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Mayflower chapel in' Corvallis.

Interment is to be the Oakville cemetery. Miss Gray died Saturday noon at the Corvallis General hospital as a result of injuries sustained Wednesday evening when she was hit by a car driven by 'Howard Rasmussen while she was ing Van Buren street between Third and Fourth. CHILDREN INVITED Children as well as adults are invited to the Maple ParentTeacher association meeting at the Maple school tonight, Mrs. Justin A. Miller, president of the group, announced today.

The program will include plays by the Maple school pupils and intermediate or. chestra numbers, under direction of Anne McConnell, principal. AUNT HET BY ROBERT QUILLEN "Jennie always says she feels bound to her second cousin by the tie of kinship; but judgin' by the money he's got, I'd say what ties her is purse strings." (Copyright, 1937, Publishers Syn.) U.S. Forces To (Stay In China, Hull Declares reaffirmed his previous statements that business at the post office is good, and stated today that mail volume is 4000 pieces ahead of the total last year for the period between December 14 and December 20. The post office rush was unabated today, and Postmaster Hockensmith was doubtful if the peak would be reached before tomorrow, and possibly not then.

Only two major lines of merchandise here have fallen noticeably below last year's holiday volume, as far as could be ascertained. These two are the furniture and electrical goods lines. At worst, however, local merchants estimated their position as far better than that of merchants in strike-torn industrial centers, and consider their showing far better by comparison. Belated shoppers were still causing brisk business in local stores today. GOP Will Gain In House, Hamilton Tacoma, Dec.

20. (U.P)- Republiwill gain a number of seats cans, the house of representatives next fall, but there is little chance of them gaining control, John M. Hamilton, chairman of the republican national committee, said today before going into conference with Washington party leaders. "Have the republicans a chance to win the house?" Hamilton was asked shortly after his arrival by train from St. Louis.

wouldn't go that far," he replied, "but the republicans will make substantial gains." "What is your comment as to 'the senate?" "None." Hamilton answered. "The senate setup is a peculiar one this time. There: are a number of senators coming up who were elected in what you might consider, normal political years. little chance to upset these particular senators unless Mr. Roosevelt tries to do so in their primaries." Hamilton explained his visit is one of organization.

Hamilton will confer with Oregon party leaders tonight in Portland and later with California leaders in San Fransico and Los Angeles. Emergency Relief Fund Is Urged An emergency relief fund should be established, avers Mrs. Cora Stone of Foster, long prominent in relief work, who was in Albany today on behalf of some children in her district who have been out of school for the last two weeks on account of having no shoes to wear. The parents of the children are out of employment and have no means of furnishing the children shoes she says. The children were born in Linn county and are, entitled to better consideration, states Mrs.

Stone, despite the fact they are not technically on relief rolls. She states she has appealed to the county court and the county relief office but has failed as there is said to be no funds to meet such conditions. Time Not Opportune Now, Says Secretary; Waits Developments Washington, Dec. 20. (U.P) Secretary of State Cordell Hull, awaiting Japanese response to protests over the destruction of the U.

S. S. Panay, informed Sen. William H. Smathers, N.

J. that American troops and warships will remain in China. Hull informed the senator that present does not seem an opportune moment" for withdrawing troops and warships. While administration afficials anticipated major developments in the far eastern crisis within the next 24 hours, President Roosevelt. continued in close contact with the situation.

He conferred at the White House with Under Secretary of State Summer Welles. Although Welles declined to comment, it was assumed that he discussed the general far eastern situation with the president. Hopes for Withdrawal Hull's declaration that there is no intention immediately to withdraw troops and warships from the orient was in reply to a letter from Smathers favoring such withdrawal. "These vessels and troops have never had in any sense any mission of aggression," the secretary wrote. "It has long been the desire and expectation of the American government, that they shall be withdrawn when their appropriate function is no longer called for.

We had thought a few months ago that the opportune moment for such a withdrawal was near at hand. The present, however, does not seem an opportune moment for affecting that withdrawal. Warning Recalled "Officers of the American government have repeatedly and earnestly advised American citizens, i in face of dangers incident to residence in China, to withdraw and are making every effort to provide safe means whereby they may depart. "During the current situation in China, the American military and naval forces have rendered important service in protecting the lives of American nationals, in evacuating Americans from areas of special danger, and in making possible the maintenance of uninterrupted communications with our nationals and our diplomatic and consular establishments in the areas involved." Four Plead Guilty As December Term is Opened Four prisoners pleaded guilty, one not guilty and two who were arraigned entered no pleas at all when Judge L. H.

McMahan convened department No. 1 of circuit court here today. Only one of those pleading guilty was sentenced, and Judge MeMahan deferred action on five cases until December 28, taking no action at all on the seventh case save to place the defendant on probation for six months. Walter Weischedel pleaded not guilty a charge of assault with intent to kill, but disposition was postponed until December 28. Luis Gutierrez was arraigned on an indictment charging illegal possession of marijuana, but his attorney was not present and action on his case was postponed to December 28.

W. E. Perkins, named in a se cret indictment on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, growing out of his widespread salesmanship activities throughout Linn county pleaded guilty but sentence was deferred to December 28. Benton Hargraves, charged with the theft of $5 from the Squeed 'n Lee store here October 26, was arraigned and placed on probation for six months without a please Clarence Alumbough pleaded guilty to a larceny charge involving the theft of an automobile belonging to Kenton Starr October 8, and was likewise placed on probation for six months, Albert Dunn pleaded guilty to information on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. involving the cashing of a $10 fictious check at Harrisburg August 21, 1934, and will be sentenced December 28.

William J. Hayes pleaded guilty to a forgery information and was sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary, but was paroled to Sheriff Herbert Shelton. Judge McMahan set the case of the state vs. Ford C. Potter, accused of obtaining money under false pretenses, for January 4.

The civil case of the Oregon Portland Cement company vs. M. O. Wilkinson et al, a retrial, was set for December 28,.