The Olympian from Olympia, Washington • 1

Today First high 12:33 116 It First low 5:45 a 07 ft Second high 11:20 1M ft Second low 5:20 57 ft OLYMPIA WASHINGTON SUNDAY MORNING JULY 127T936 EIGHT PAGES IT'S A THIN HARVEST IF AND IN DROUGHT AREA Two Prisoners Escape County Jail at Night Frank Moon and William Moore Leave Bastilu Rout Goes Full Fifteen Rounds As nit levs Trade Yiseious Rlows Throughout Encounter German Nazis Reach Accord i th Austria Austria Declares Itself German Duce Approves Move By the Associated Press Germany and Austria world 'war allies who have been at odds since Nazis assassinated Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss almost two years ago declared their mutual friendship Saturday There were three main points: I- Germany reaffirmed its recognition of Austria's Independence 2 Austria announced continuation of its general policy but declared itself German state" 3 Each nation agreed not to try to influence the other's Internal affaire The first point answered a question often asked in European capitals more frequently since the unsuccessful Nazi putsch in which Dollfuss was shot down July 25 1934 would Germany attempt to seize Austria? Duce Approves Such a move would undoubtedly meet forceful opposition from Premier Benito Mussolini Thus the agreement indicating Austria need not fear German attempts to gobble her up met the full approval of II Duce It was understood in fact he had been in constant touch with the negotiations and that Chancellor Kurt Schuschnlgg of Austria had obtained his permission before entering into the talks The Italian Premier immediately after announcement of the accord sent Schuschnlgg word he considered the fact a notable step on the road to reconstruction of There was no Immediate explanation of Austria's statement it considered itself German Whether this was placed in the treaty to placate imperialist Nazis or would have a deeper significance in the future was not dear It was pointed out in BerliA that eventual Auriro-German union was not repudiated The declaration of non-lnterfer-ence was presumed to refer principally to Nazi moves In Austria Previous indications had been that the Nazi party would be banned there but that greater leniency would be shown toward Nazis III of ooj thot Hnry Berfl" harvested with his binder in a sun-baked field near Centralia Jf heat and dry to spread disaster to farmers in the great drought area of the Middle West The oat stems were short here because of lack of rain in the maturing season the hard ground scanty stubble and short stand at right ahead of the team Associated Press Photo Two prisoners who escaped from the Thurston county Jail about 9 last evening were being sought last night throughout the territory surrounding Olympia The Jail from which no other prisoner ever has escaped and which was considered so impreg nable that federal G-men used it for Harmon and Margaret Waley kidnapers of the Weyerhausser boy and Kitsap county officials borrowed it to house their most notorious killer Leo Hall could not hold two criminals Frank Moore convicted of third degree assault and William Murray serving a term for petty larceny The two did pot actually break out of Jail however as they made their escape while being entrusted with the task of cleaning the back stairs of the courthouse Jailer Frank said he had put the pair to work as was often his custom with various of the prisoners made their successful bolt for freedom when he left them briefly to answer the telephone Sheriff Huntamer at the time of the escape was attending a banquet of the police convention in the Hotel Olympian Moore 34 years old originally was charged with robbery for allegedly taking $185 from Ben Hamlin cf Lacey on an Olympia street but was permitted to plead guilty to a reduced count of third degree assault for which he drew a six sentence Murray came to Olympia with a carnival and with a companion was arrested for working a punchboard bunco game on an auto camp proprietor He pleaded guilty to petty larceny recently and was serving a 90-day sentence His com-palnion Louis McLendon also pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the amount of time he already liad spent in JaiL Y' Tamblyn said Moore and Murray evidently bolted down the back stairs and out through the basement when he left them to answer the telephone ST1TE RISK0 CUT OVER EYE Clinni)ion Receive Severe 'Renting From Tacoma Middleweight SEATTLE July 1 1 (7) Freddie Steele of Tacoma won the middleweight championship here tonight with a decisive 15-round decision over Eddie Risko of Syracuse the Tacoma boy scored the fight's only knockdown in the first round when he put Risko on the floor fee a six count Steele weighed 156 3-4 pounds and Risko 158 The Tacoma scored his knockdown with a vicious right to the champion's jaw just a few seconds before the end of the round Midway through the fight he opened a eut over one of Risko'g eyes and a couple of rounds later similarly damaged the other eye A crowd estimated by police to exceed 25000 witnessed the battle and saw the title change hands Steele is the second Washingtonian to be recognized as a champion Tod Morgan of Seattle formerly held the so-called synthetlcjunlor lightweight crown Results of preliminary bouts were: Eddie Spina Portland won a four- (Continued on page eight CHILORfS CflNIC OFFICIALS! litoral teauty In Rare Stones ROSALIE TO SEEK PBUTICAL POST Divorced Wife Of Former Senator Dill To Seek Congressional Office cstcni Plains States If eeeive Showers As Hot Sun Blisters Eastern Drought Areas DEATH NOW 700 Mercury Reaches Record Highs Tn Illinois And North Dakota CHICAGO July p)in a mass of cooling air ballooning over the Rocky Mountains weather forecasters sighted tonight the end of the worst heat wave of recent years in the northern section of the nation With showers already fallen in parts of the mountain and western plains states Forecaster Lloyd here said the natural course of the refreshing current would be eastward Just how deeply the predicted rains would cut Into wide western domain remained to be seen but the mere possibility of their coming cheered millions 727 Deaths They Included farmers who have suffered the bulk of the estimated $300000000 loss from the drought and the city residents who have wilted under one of the longest successions of days of higher than a 100 degree heat in recent years Today's was the ninth Fatalities from the heat stood 727 tonight as the mercury took Its dally flight reaching a high of 111 degrees at Danville X1L At Rockford 111 a new all-time high mark of 103 was established A similar record was also recorded at Grand Forks In the- tune which has suffered one of the heav-iest drought losses also had a 103 maximum as relief was forecast tonight or tomorrow New warmest July 11 In history saw a reading of 962 61 degrees below the all-time high of 1023 set last Thursday In Hamilton Ont It was 105 and Canada's heat and drowning victims mounted to 130 New Reiter Plans New measures for relief were announced In Washington The WPA added the state of Oklahoma to the drought emergency territory and the AAA added 59 sun-sered counties in Kentucky and Georgia (Continued on page eight) BOILierEllTS Questionnaire Sent Out Ry Director Able Shows Attitude Loral Declare Is Under the They say that beauty is only skin deep but Ransom 11 Bartran and Edmund Pope quickly pass beneath the surface in their quest for beauty Their hobby is stone collecting and cutting For almost five years they have been In the old and SEATTLE July City county and other local government officials over the state works Progress Administrator Don Abel announced today approve the WPA program and in the main propose It to be continued In the same way He reported on the returns from SPOKANE Wash July Rosalie Jones Dill who asked that she be referred to as Miss Rosalie Jones the former wife of E-senator announced today her candidacy for the democratic nomination for Congress in the fifth Washington district TIe former senator won a divorce decree from the former suffragist two days ago after a sensational nine-day court battle She will seek the seat vacated by Rep Sam Hill who was appointed by President Roosevelt to the board of tax appeals course I am going to take the campaign Miss Jones said all candidates take their campaigns Urged to Run She was urged to run for public questionnaires sent otif 'to 279 0ffl-1 ling for the scene on Waring reports of some new bed Without exception Bartran asserts their first trip has proved fruitless' but on getting the lay of the land they usually have been able to unearth come fine rocks on their subsequent visits They have built torn down and rebuilt their equipment to cut shape and polish the stone Much of their machinery was buUt up from machinery found at the city garbage dump and taken from wrecked rials a month ago among them mayors county commissioners and school board members The questions asked he said were: work the proper method of meeting the unemployment problem as compared with the dole and Idleness? wc doing useful and needed work under tlie Works Progress Administration? there useful work yet to be THERE were clouds over the city last evening bringing an early nightfall so that lights sprang up in the windows along the way to bring note of cheer to what otherwise would have been a lonely street L'ven then here and there dark windows caught the glint of the dying sun flickered a moment and wnt out dark rpots In an avenue of light And the night closed down Of TOULEVAVRD lamps lifted high J) above the passing pedestrian their iridescent glow shedding a pale but steady bit of illumination an the street below leaving long stretches of semi-opaque darkness between lamps Excellent spots for bashful lovers if any such remain) and helpful to the youngsters who played along the sidewalks waiting the call of the curfew bell and dreading it at the same time For youth is awake in the evening and ileepy in the morning because it sever wants to give up play when should At best youngsters only as their elders Strange as it say be you never hear the call of tun sheep run" echoing in the darkness anymore What games do youngsters play after dark in this year so far removed from the and buggy days?" YOU cannot ere these things if you roll up the street In a rapidly moving motor vehicle you must walk if you would catch a glimpse into the intimate life of the city It flows too quickly past the windows of a car to be wen But when you walk well that Is different Then you learn of things as they are at night There Is the sound of running feet and a half dozen small boys go tearing past In their wake comes a mcngrel pup anxious that his young master not escape in the darkness The noise of their hurry swirls about you then flattens out to nothing Once more the solitude of the night wraps itself about you OUT of the darkness a shaft of light push? up the street past your feet and behind it comes a laboring behemoth of the highways healed south with a load of freight The short exhaust of the motor shatters the stillness and the sound rolls back for blocks as It crawls to the crest of the rise in the street and slides over to disappear Its red running lights gleaming steadily In th TNE pedestrian swings away from 1 the busy thoroughfare to find unbrtken solitude In the bypaths nesr the city Here only the creatures of nature disturb the stillness cf the night Along a winding pathway where lovers once come to whisper their sweet raylngs walking feet slow to a stroll and the 1 drinks in the solitude Night wros call from the trees sleepily waiting the hour before dawn when tneir cries will become more alert is hunger drives them out to catch We hapless worms of the dew-damp jn Soon the lonesomeness of the path strikes deep Human fel-! missed more than the wa-ker had realized It could be The Hnptinsss of the sylvan spot soon matches the solitude of the spirit Toe visitor leaves to the birds the beauty Md the loneliness of the dell nsy do not mind for they have feUcwihip there on can be so much alone In the midst of a erod'd the craving few fellowship cries TT You live so much of your life i despite the close touch of in the throngs on the Jwt Such Is the ethereal quai-2 5 fellowship You pass a on the street and see only i fr "uman going by You meet inmd and are glad that here Is you know Yet after all how you wluaUy know about ik yQur thoughts min or eay flowing together rJSpirltT 11 I ham to say JL 81031 men live alone presenting SLiCrefuUy developed part of to their friends Break fad this outer shell and you tit ieart person-different man And how 2 tb experience is to the tai't iu 1 min1e thusly Eut most OLYMPIA PORT WILL SEE LIGHT ACTIVITY been definite- fjbded to load cargo at the 10 cargo at me OLYMPIANS RAISE FUNDS FOR CREWS Olympia citizens raised $218 toward sending the University of Washington crew to the Olympics at Berlin and In addition contributed a gift to Don Hume capital city boy who Ls stroke on the great crew Olympia's quota toward the crew fund as set by the Seattle chamber central agency was $50 The Northwest raised $5000 in all Charles Maybury chamber president and Bert Boyles directed the local drive for funds BLACK LEGION BILLS ARESEEN IN SEATTLE SEATTLE July CP) John Clyde through an attorney obtained a restraining order today pre venting his arrest for distributing handbills published his complaint said by the committee on the significance of the Black Legion The order awarded by Superior Judge Howard ML Findley was dir ected to Police Chief William Sears and his men and ls returnable on the 20th In the campaint filed by Attorney Jack Cluck plans wered announced for a mass meeting here on the 22nd A pamphlet TTall of the Black Legion its Manifestations In Seattle and the Pacific Northwest was attached done under a continued WPA program?" Few Criticisms per cent of the officials replying answered all three i questions In the affirmative without criticism or suggestions for improvement" Abel said per cent replied in the affirmative but qualified their answers with minor criticisms and constructive suggestions three replies were in the negative and two of them admitted the program had some good The answer Included: Mayor A Burch Spokane: program as a whole has carried on useful and needy projects in Spokane it has been nearly 100 per cent so Our sewer and airport projects will furnish work that would not otherwise be done for many years to Mayor Brown Bellingham: (Continued on page eight) handle the large stock He has set up two 17-inch so-called carborundum (or mud) saws one above and slightly behind the other so Is equipped to saw stock up to 13 inches in diameter Bartran has two 12-inch diamond-charged circular saws and can cut stock up to 5 Inches Bartran handles the smaller stock and does the shaping and polishing Cut Petrified Wood At the present time Peps is saw- ck He has set DIES IN WHEELBARROW At present Pope is equipped to oflice by a group of friends whom 8116 entertained In high spirits at a yesterday course you get women to join solidly lor anything but I expect to get most of the feminine votes and the men will put me over will stage an active campaign accepted three or four speaking engagements you espouse the principles of former Senator Dill In your she was asked know what his principles she rejoined will simply appeal to the voters assuring them the splendid record of Rep Sam Hill can be carried on in congress campaign slogans will be: 'Washington first and Grand the biggest thing In the Kill got a $20000000 appropriation for Grand Coulee at the last session and the next congressman should get twice that By Associated Press Governor Martin told the police A second clinic for crippled children of Thurston county will be conducted at the Tacoma General hospital Tuesday July 28 reports Mrs William Ruddock chairman of the county crippled committee The crippled program is a function of the child welfare dl- vision of the state department of public welfare made possible by the federal social security act and open to all children up to 21 years of age The first clinic conducted in February was for children from 14 to 21 years of age Children with crippled conditions caused at birth by accident or disease are eligible to attend the clinic Dr Harry Allison and Dr Wychoff Tacoma will be the examining surgeons and will be assisted by county health officers and nurses Transportation and lunches will be provided the children Mrs Ruddock said Eleven Treated Twenty crippled children from Thurston county were examined In the preceding clinic Eleven- were given treatment or operations at the hospital as recommended by the examiners and the remainder are being treated here One 18-year-old youth who would have been unable to follow any vocation due to a spinal condition underwent an operation and now is on the road to complete recovery Mrs Ruddock said Crippled children should register at the Red Cross office and mutt have an admission card signed either by a family physician or Dr Holland health officer courthouse Assisting Mrs Ruddock with arrangements In this county are Mrs Charles Maybury Mrs West- over Mrs Kisor Miss Edna Stanford Marie Eichacker Mrs Agnes Furness Tenino and Mrs Elmer Fristo Yelm SPOKANE July John Mclnemey 62 died today in the wheelbarrow he was pushing The retired farmer fell dead into the wheelbarrow as he pushed-it along the street but in death kept his grasp on the handles INFANTILE PARALYSIS MONTGOMERY Ala July Public functions came to a virtual standstill in the upper half of Alabama today while health authorities sought to stem an epidemic of infantile paralysis which has stricken 126 and claimed eight lives RODEO CHAMPION CALGARY Alta July Rangy smiling Earl Thode color ful rider from Casa Grande Arlz was the aee cowpuncher of the annual Calgary exhibition and stampede winning the North American championship today after a week of riding wild-fire range hones (Continued on page eight) Drought Forces Increases In Food Prices Olympian Returns After 20 Years Study in Japan The figure swelled by the new cap-ltol group building valuation of building permits Issued for the first six months of 1936 exceeded the total valuation of permits for the entire preceding five years and is virtually equal to the total for the past six years Wallace Turner building inspector revealed yesterday Permits for 1936 up to July 1 called for an aggregate expenditure of $1070079 as compared with a total' of $873150 for the previous five years and $1072146 for the total preceding six years 1 The permit icr the new state building was for $800000 The best preceding year since the depression was in 1934 when the $150000 state highway building was erected Last year 610 permits were Issued calling fear a total expenditure of $288774 During the first six months of 1936 exclusive of the state building 283 permits were issued aggregating $270079 Of these permits 186 were for alterations and repairs running into $112555 and 97 were for new construction amounting to $157524 INJURED BY ROCK MEDFORD Ore July loosened boulder bounding down the crater wall trail In Crater Lake National park caused painful leg and head Injuries today to Mrs I Wilson of Seattle Wash She was carried two miles to the park lodge by CCC enrolled Her Injuries were not regarded as serious MEIGIIAX RITES NEW YORK July body of Thomas Meighan' was interred in a Long Island cemetenr tonight after more than j000 per- sons filled Stl Cathedral on Fifth Avenue to pay pects to the late movie actorMelgh-an died Wednesday at his home on Long Island after a long Illness chiefs In convention here last night that although their problems were many and heavy ones the governor of Washington also had his burdens to bear The governor then told of his personal experience as chief executive and of the problems he faces as chief executive Governor Martin said the quickest and most satisfactory way to meet most problems was through cooperation Washington governor of the past has had greater difficulties before him and probably no governor of this state in the future will have any greater problems to face than confronted the governor of this state during the past three and a half years' governor Martin said He said cooperation was the means of bringing forth the results that have been achieved since the depth of the depression years and he urged the same cooperation in law enforcement Dlssentlon broke out in the annual convention cf the Police Association of Washington this afternoon and the association was reorganized and a new group of officers elected Hie name was changed to the Washington State Chiefs of Police and Ralph Reed Bellingham chief of police ls the new president Chief Frank Osmond of Vancouver said the controversy arore over a five-year contract made with a publisher to issue a publication concerning police work which ap- now owner of a chain of three newspapers in California in Ventura (their home city) Santa Ana and San Diego Even as a child In Olympia Zoe Kincaid was In drama and in travel She was a brilliant child and she is an even more brilliant woman Her early schooling was here her parents had established their home here where Dr Kincaid was (health and she majored In English at the University of Washington Entering the employ of the Seattle Pcst-Intelllgencer Mrs Penllngton became Interested in the far East Her first visit to Japan was as a but it was a visit that lasted nearly a quarter of a century There were trips home In the two trips around the world In a span of 10 but Japan was her home She started a magazine similar to the old and while she was editing she met her future husband who was then editing the Japan Advertiser After their marriage they became interested in the joint a weekly magazine! the Far East After a 12 year strug- CHICAGO July 11 Drought which sooner or later touched pocketbooks as It does fanners crops has increased wrholesale food commodity prices in some cases as much as 50 per cent In the last three weeks Statisticians said today this development would affect th cost of food at retail counters' In varying degrees In the prices of many articles such as butter and eggs and a few vegetables they said the influence of drought already was apparent Prospects of advanced food costs color the latest authoritative survey chawing a mounting of living The national Industrial conference board reported the cost of living of wage earners rose 17 per cent in June and was more than 4 per cent higher than a year ago Food accounting for one-third of the family budget rase 47 per cent over May and was 57 per cent liigher than a year ago Currently this survey showed food is only 16 per cent cheaper than It was in the 1929 boom period In the produce trade' merchants watched the steadily mounting butter prices because of seriously de- creased production in the parched dairy country Cash butter is now wholesaling at the highest level since April and Is the most expensive for any July since 1930 Standard grades of butter are quoted above 33 cents a pound compared with 28 cents the middle cf June Egg price have gained almost a cent a dozen wholesale in the past two weeks Trade reports in produce circles indicated retail prices have followed the trend in butter Meat prices have had a tendency to ease because of the influx of livestock from drought districts The wholesale price structure of both beef and pork weakened rather sharply yesterday livestock men pointed out 'fluctuations in the wholesale market usually are paralleled in the retail trade Most grades of steer beef are from 4 to 25 per cent lower than a year ago at wholesale Hie greatest increases were scored by grains but retail prices usually shew little immediate' effect by fluctuations However a soaring com market eventually influences consumers' meat bills By Helen Hollingsworth Seldom if ever does Olympia have the privilege of Claiming a family as brilliant as that of Dr and Mrs Robert Kincaid who came here in 1888 For few days this week two of the Zoe and Alrdrid- were in Olympia renewing friendships and greeting friends Both are celebrities both count famous internationally known persons as their friends but on their visit here their friends found them unchanged The personality and charm of the Kincaids was evident and a warm friendliness for everyone and everything marked their attitudes Zoe TTinraki Penllngton is the western authority on the Japanese stajfe she has published several books on the subject and has spent more than 20 years In Japan In newspaper work Airdrie Kincaid is Mrs Roy Pinkerton likewise a newspaper woman She has spent several years in active newspaper work but Is now busy being Mrs Roy Pinkerton and mother of Polly Pinkerton who is nine years old with sparkling dark eyes and dark braids hanging over her shoulders Roy Pinkerton former editor of the mi AMil OmRIa Star (Continued on page eight) RICHARD JENKINS IS INJURED IN ACCIDENT Richard Jenkins nine-year-old South Bay boy received bruises and a wrenched back as a result of an accident occurring between Washington and FTanklin streets on State Saturday evening According to reports received last night the boy stepped out in back of an approaching auto in front of a car driven by MTs Grace Webster Link 1320 North Rose Mrs Link was driving east on State Hie boy was received at St Peters hospital but was released shortly afterward and taken to his home by a neighbor Pblice headquarters said the injuries did not appear to be serioua during the coming the yesterday They were Pennsylvania of the Quaker hanbeT Sdock Wednesday to load Ida MM 4Ua general for the tt cargo the Hanley Weyer-which will arrive tan on Itnnber for the the Anglo-Canad-ft1 company sailed last iiSys? 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