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GENERAL NEWS
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VOLUME XXV.
LA GRANDE, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1928
NUMBER 2GG
BREAKING OF ICE
IMPERILS NOBILE
Scientist Explains Hard
ships That Italia
Crew Faced
lly John I,. Cooloy'
(AxKociated Press Seiche Editor)
NEW YOKK (Al) When the
Cie ' tne lll1Ki,,, Italia drove
luti'd bargain with nut m o and
landed on the Arctic pack Ice they
found themselves on Inhospitable
inlands. drifting slowly ut the whim
gf wind and tldo.
Sprint. covers a vast section of
ihc Arctic sea with moving fields
of We which have been broken
from the main mass of the polar
pack by the compelling force of
ribintf temperatures. These fleldti.
In turn, are mtide up of Ice cukes,
or floes. oT varying size, and It uiiR
uuun ice of this character that Ocn
tnil Nohile und, his comrades bc
jpiii their dreary wait for .rescue.
Hnmetimes the floes are packed
so tightly together thut a man can
travel across them hut he must be
wulthful fur the patches of open
Water, or leads, which may open up
willi little or no warning. Many
polar odventurors have mude their
vay wifely acrofc so hazardous a
nulhw'ny, and such a journey was
ttcutptcd by some of the Italia's
laea.
The movement of the Arctic Ice
pack on Us perennial pilgrimage
ocruss the northern sea has long
interested students of the polar re
gions. The most recent scientific
repurt on the subject Is that of
ti. A, '1 runseno oi lecnmcai siun
the American Geographical society
of New York, whose observations
are Included In "Problems of J'ohir
Itesearch," a publication of the so
ciety. 1
Mr. Transeho classifies the frigid
blanket of the Arctic ocean Into
three groups: fast-Ice. puck Ice and
the Arctic pack. The luttor Is the
great mass of old and solid ice! oc
cupying about 70 per cent of the
Arctic sea urea and drifting more
or less in n definite direction. rust
Ice If horizontally immobile young
lie attached to the shore,, while
pack ice, lying between the other
two .groups, consists of movable
remnants of broken fast-Ice and of
lee newly formed among these frag
ments In summer, Mr. Trausehe
points out, nil movable flouting Ice
between the coast und the Arctic
puck is jiu'k Ice.
The largest urous of the pack
L.. "-.. '.. f.lUtwl iff. fil.lll-J
"'Wey uro of such extent that iheir
limits cannot he seen from a ships
masthead. They in turn are bro
ken into ice floes areas that range
Cal's Cousin Is
Democrat Aid"
KEA Jfcw York Bureau
Park H. Pollard of Proctoraville.
Vt.. a cousin of President Cool
Idge. Is chairman of the Demo
cratic state committee and will
load the dclesatlon from Vermont
to the Houston convention to givo
Its eight votes to Al Smith.
Malta Fever Case
Exists In Oregon
BALEM, Ore. Juno 81 (Al1) Dr.
I. L. Newmeyer of the Blute tuber
culuslx houpltul la. Ill with whut la
believed to be Malm fever, the
fli'Ht cuse of the disease ever re
ported in Oregon. Hcuttered ccuea
have been reported in oilier imrta
of the I'ulted Suites, purtlculurly
the southern border, it wua mid
horo and u your aso there wua one
case in the slate of WnHhiiiKtoii.
Tile iillment orlKinated in the
Isle of Aiultii, phyHlciuns mild and
come from milk. It Is not hlKlily
duiitferoiiH und la believed not tu be
contagioua but It is of lone duration.
Four Billions Lost Each Year
To Plant Diseases and Insects
WASHINGTON (Al') Pcatroy
inK from one-tenth to one-fifth of
all crops, insects cause aKilculturo
in the United States an annual loss
of mora than J.0(0.00.ti. und
I plant diseases are responsible for
losses at least comparublc.
C. ?. McDonnell, federal director
of Insecticide, fungicide, and caus
tic control, by which estiiuutes the
total dumaBG approximates four
billion dollars. riKures tho loss to
virtually nullify the labor of one
million men. No satisfactory con-
Tulare Business
District In Ruins
TL'LAKE; 'Cul. June 'A AP
Kor the second time wlthlif a year
the business district of Tipton, 1 1
miles south of here, bus neon de
stroyed by fire. An early morning
fire razed eight buildings and only
the telephone building und a small
restuurant were left standing. The
loss was estlmuted ut more (hun
Gun Is Discharged,
lone Man Killed
in size from about one-third of a
nautical mile In diameter to the di
mensions of an tee field. The fur
ther breaking up of floes forms
glacons, ureas ranging in size from
a cuke about two or three feet In
diameter to a floe itself.
"In the park, ice only under con
ditions of f;nJm water and low tem
perature o:dr does the ice finally
get so .ytrong that It solidly ce
ments together the separate pieces
into more extensive and stable
ureas. Up to May the ice increases
in thickness until It attains slightly
more than six feot on the average.
These ureas, however, in their turn
undergo breaking up and heaping
up throughout the winter and
spring, until the breaking up of the
sea In summer, whereupon the win
ter pack ice receives more liberty
of motion njid consequently Is sub
jected to more frequent und strong
shocks and pressure, a circum
stance which, together with the
process of melting, breaks it Into
smaller, constituents. Theso parity
are destroyed and disappear entire
ly, forming the larger areas of open
waler, and partly are left till the
t PENDLETON, Ore.. Juno 21
1 north of lone, wua futally Injured
'yesterday when a gun ucclden
i tally discharged, tho bullet enter
ing his mouth und passing com
pletely through his head, lie i
survived by his parents, Mr, und
I Mrs. S. H. Cochran, a young son
1 and two sisters.
- LOS ANGKLES. Juno 21 ( AP)
A verdict thut John I. tilub was
killed by a person or persons un
known to them was returned by a
coroner's Jury ut an inquest held
at Van Nuys, neur hore, over
tho body of the wealthy former
Chicago druggist. Mrs. Hazel (J lab,
held on suspislon of murder charges
was the principal witness. Mrs.
Cilab repeated her story she told
police relating of the shooting of
Club,
WAUSAW (AP) Polund huv
taken a sudden flure for linoleum.
Tho 19:7 Imports amounted to CUB
metric tons, us compared to only
234 the previous yeur. There is
practically no domestic, production.
time of formation of the ice, aup
plylng the next cycle with pieces of
old Ice for Insertion into tho three
clusses of ice., that make up the
cover of the Arctic Sen."
On your vacation
Go swiftly by train. Low
fares now effective
4
Vacation days are always too few. Use ,
them au tor play. I ourvacation starts
when you board the train, relaxed,
carefree you are on your way to play.
Vacation spots in Oregon are quick
ly reached by Southern Pacificand
California is but a day away.
Fares are low. For example, 16 dav
toundtripto: S55 81
Francisco rP
Los Angeles kt..ov
s.n Pranriiro is the citv vou'll never ror-
tte&;w.....f. get.Thegatewaytoadventurc.Fromthcre
fi'f'PS- KS5gg-. CSi, rail lines ribbon out to cnarming rcsun,
CLiila fjB . ..,;n.l r,arts nlrasant beaches.
C.ra.".r iKlU Aoj,u,n on to LosAnecles and Southern
California. The all-year playground, with
its colorful beaches, old missions, orange
groves.Hollywocd.orabitofOldMcxito.
From Portland 6 fast trains over the fa
mous Shasta Route to California. In
cluding the superb Cascade tne
choice of those to whom speed and
luxury areof ft rst consideration. The
"Shasta" viaRoseburg.Grantsl'ass
andMedtord. inespeciaiaiuoaui
.:rrr scrs-ffr.. - v? San
7 C'",A.J
MnlrWiaVI-H Tl -v Y
San fMK tJsuFm&
,,n. tu Pnrtland to San Fran-
cisco,combincspecd,comfonnd
economy. Via the scenic Cascade
' Line by daylight.
To California Then East
On your way east, first sec Cal ifor
nia.itcostsbut littlemorctogotHir
way. Then east via any of South
ern Pacific's 3 great routes. Circle
home via any of the northern lines.
Take advantage of either of thcie
great circle-ttip bargains. .
J. M. SCOTT
Portland, Oregon '
trot methods yet huyo been dis
covered for Homo of tho most de
structive Insect pests or for some
fungus diseases. How over, McDon
nell says, lite use of Insecticides,
fungicides and cnustlc poisons hus
i flT reused until tho value of manu
factured products subject to gov
ernment control ttvurugva close to
$15u. uuu, Olio u year.
The fight against insects und
fungi, ho says, grows more and
more Important us tho population
increases und a larger food flupply
becomes necessary. As a general
rule, tho moro closely grouped uro
the hosts or a parasite, tho more
vulnerable they are to attack. Al
so, improved transportation facili
ties tend to sprend plants Infested
with Insects or diseases from one
region to another, giving a parasite
of ono plant a chance to become a
pa rualt of another. v . -
Among some of the outstanding
sources of loss to tho farmer, Mc
Donnell points to the cattle grub.
whose damage to the cattle Indus
try Is placed at $lu0.000,U00 an
il mi lly. Various smuts take a yearly
toll of moro than 100,000,000
bushels of grain, and losses due to
rusts aro even greutcr, Applo scab
caused a reduction of 22,000,000
bushels In tho 1925 yield, und in
1 VI 8 nnthracnose and stum-end rot
of watermelons caused a loss of
$1,250,000 In four states. The coun
try's Annual production of com
mercial frutt la valued ut $700,000.
000. practically all of which must
uo protected uy fungicides.
KC.YPTIAXS WANT VI A mi
ALEXANDRIA (AP) The de-
IliaiKl tar Amnrlnon nnlinn
allowed a strtklliR lncreus ill Kgypt
in mo rirat rour months of tliia
yir. Imports were 1,281.672
aaUBI'A Vllfflft lin InOrnaia n, I'll!
per cent over the corresponding po-
rioa or mo provious your.
$100,000 Taken In
Midnight Holdup
TORONTO, OnL, June 21 (AP)
81x armed men, who. In a daring
midnight hoiuup escaped with reg
istered innil valued as high ns
$100,000 from an express ear of the
Ou mid la n National railways at the
union station here were being
sought throughout Western On
tario today.
Kntraiice to the car was gained
on the pretense that the men want
ed tu soil a large sedan automobile
which they had backed up to the
car.
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