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About The Willamina times. (Willamina, Yamhill County, Oregon) 1909-1972 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1935)
I ORtuUN SI Al t NtWS OF GENERAR INTEREST Brief Resume of Happenings of the Week Collected tor Our Readers P ick ard E dw ar O VCetfvrn Nfusfxipcr U wmwi Pendleton — Prize money at the ! Pendleton R ound-l’p this year will total over $8000, due to the receipt of $2585 from the Oregon racing commission, derived from Portland dog races. Medford— Three hundred tons of hay, part of which was alfalfa and the rest oats, with several tons of j seed and a quantity of fencing, have been destroyed by fire on the ranch j of W . H. Gore, west of Medford. Moro— The most spotted crop of wheat In the history of Sherman county la being harvested. The north end of the county Is cutting one of the best crops in recent years, while , the south end has Its worst yield. The Dalles— A unique exhibit at the state convention of the American | Legion to be held at The Dalles, August 14. w ill be the first German shell that landed In Belgium at the start of the W orld war. The shell was presented to Samuel HUI by King A lbert fo r display in H ill’s mu- j seutn at M aryhill. M cM innville — The McM innville chamber of commerce reports a prof it of $245 from the Fourth of July celebration. The net cash was $2.17. The rest of the profit was In equip ment that can be used In the future. Tho queen contest produced $2359. with a profit of »1175. which was applied to other costs. Newport— The rating of the Ya- qulna Bay coast guard station has been changed to a 15-man station w ith four petty officers, making a to tal of 20 men w ith the commanding officer. This station has led a ll sta tions of the district In the number of calls for assistance during the year. The Dalles— Construction of a new overhead crossing at Big Eddy, at a cost of $165',000, w ill start early In October. It Is announced by local state highway engineers engaged In preparing specifications. The cross ing over the O. W . R. & N. company tracks w ill supplant a curved bridge that has been the scene of numerous accidents in recent years. S t Helens —r./'Klndelatyx,” a “ con centrated kindling." w ill be manu factured by the Flr-T ex Insulation Board company starting Monday. Kindelstyx” Is three-eights Inch F lr-T ex dipped In a solution which makes It Ignite quickly and Is cut Into sticks about 1 by 914 Inches. It will be packed in paper cartons con tainlng a dozen sticks. the American government had no con trol over the press, but cable dis patches said Japanese newspapers crit IOLENTLY attacked from all sides icised their embassy here for alleged and nowhere defended with en failure to see that “such Indignities” thusiasm. the President’s new share- were not published. the-wealth tax bill nevertheless was The dispatches also reported that put through the house the Japanese home and foreign office because of the great officials characterized the caricature as administration major “terrltle.” It showed the emperor pull ity and also because ing an old-fashioned Jlnrlksha In which the congressmen are reposed the Nobel peace prize. tired out and eager to Frank Crowninshleld, editor of Van go heme. Represent ity Fair, said this caricature, like the ative Treadway. Re many others run in the magazine, was publican. of Massa meant to be merely Jocose. chusetts, made a last effort a g a i n s t the measure with a reso Huge Sum Is Allotted for lution to send It back Sen. Barbour to committee, but this American Business Census early $8. ooo . ooo —$7.784, ooo . to was easily defeated. be exact— has been allotted from As passed by the house, the bill Is the work relief funds by President not quite what the President asked Roosevelt for a census of American for. Briefly summarised. It Increases business. The census bureau asked taxes on Individual Incomes over $50,- and received this after It had been 000, substitutes a graduated corpor allotted $293,000 for a survey of retail ation-income tax for the present flat trade. The business work Is to be levy, puts new taxes on Inheritances gin at once, and the canvass will and gifts In addition to those already start on January 2. According to the borne by estates and gifts. Imposes official announcement It will cover "all new taxes of 5 to 20 per cent on “ex business activities with the exception cess" profits of corporations. of agriculture and manufacturing In It is designed to raise revenue esti dustries, and will furnish Information mated at between $250.000,000 and of Importance to the federal govern $270,000,000. Its warmest friends ment, to business and to labor.“ The couldn't explain how this would do headquarters will be In Philadelphia. much In the way of bringing about The aim of the census, the officials what the President calls “wider dis said, “is to secure basic Information tribution of wealth." or In the way of relating to the number of operating balancing the budget units, employment pay rolls, receipts The measure was handed on to the and other business data for all busi senate with dubious prospects. It was ness enterprises.” expected the senate finance committee Necessarily, the census will give would study it for about a week, and temporary employment to a large nutn In the meanwhile the conservative Re her of canvassers. publicans and not a few Democrats Rexford G. Tugwell, head of the re were preparing to fight IL Senator settlement administration, asked for W. W. Barbour of New Jersey. Repub lican, fired an opening gun with a a second allotment to develop unpro statement in which he said: “Votes, ductive land withdrawn from cultiva and votes alone, are the objective of tion. He wanted $10,381,310 for eight tracts in seven states, and estimated this half-baked measure." that their development as hunting, Declaring the bill “has no relation fishing and camping preserves would to making income meet outgo, but Is provide 6.731 Jobs lasting from 15 to Intended to accomplish some weird 23 days. These projects are In Illi social objective,” Barbour continued: nois, Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi. “What this bill actually attempts Is New York, Georgia and Connecticut to climb upon that hard-ridden steed, “Share-the-Wealth." and ride him away while the demagogues who have pressed him sorely in the past are look League Delays Settlement of Italo-Ethiopian Quarrel ing In the other direction. APT. A N TH O N Y EDEN, British “The bill should be laid away until minister for League of Nations af the next session of congress when the budget for the ensuing year will be fairs, was exceedingly busy In Geneva presented. Then, In the light of care trying to find a way to avert war between Italy a n d fully appropriated federal moneys, we Ethiopia. H e w as can determine how much revenue will aided and abetted by be needed to operate. Premier Laval of “Taxes can be levied deliberately as France and together a true revenue measure. Any other they evolved a plan program is not good business and Is for procedure by the not good governmenL" league council which appeared promising, O’Mahoney Has a Scheme to until It was communi Revive Objectives of NRA cated to Premier Mus solini. Then Baron ]O T to be dismayed by the death Aloisl, Italian dele * of £R A , Senator J. C. O’Ma Anthony gate, announced the honey of Wyoming thinks the objec Eden Eden-Laval formula tives of that contraption, high labor standards and fair competition, can be was "entirely unacceptable.” However, realized, and for .hat purpose he has hope was not abandoned for there was drawn up a measure for the regulation a chance that modifications could be of all national commerce by licensing made that would satisfy the demand» business. of the Italians. The senator, who Is a lawyer, care The league council finally, In a briet fully avoided the phrase “interstate public session, set aside Ethiopia's de commerce/’ He proposed to define mand for immediate action and agreed “commerce among the states" In the to undertake a general examination language of the leading decisions of of the whole matter a month hence. the Supreme court It provided for resumption of arbi tration of the clash at Ualual, stipu lating that the arbitrators should not Japanese Emperor “Insulted” attempt to pass on the ownership of By an American Caricature the territory on which the clash oc APANESE consider their emperor a curred— which is the root of the mat sacred personage, and consequently ter. there was deep resentment In the island The arbitrators must finish their empire when Vanity Fair, an Ameri can magazine, printed work or abandon It before September 1. The two disputants are to report a caricature of lliro- the result to the council by Septem hito. That Issue of the magazine was ber 4. Share-the-Wealth Measure Is Passed by the House V N C b J banned In Japan be cause the picture was “considered insulting to the Japanese Im perial house and If circulated in Japan might disturb public peace.” More than ‘ that. Ambassador Ill- Ambassador rogi sa|t0 interrupted Saito his vacation In New England and hurried to Washington to prepare a report on the affair and re ceive instructions from Tokyo. There was uncertainty as to whether he would make a formal protest or merely take up the matter directly with the maga- eine's editors One State department spokesman said Japan*»« officials realized that British Parliament Gives India a New Government REATER freedom for the 350,000.- 000 Inhabitants of India under a G new form of government is provided by the India bill finally enacted by the British parliament and approved by the king. The measure was the bulk iest ever passed by parliament, and its preparation took eight years. The law sets up an all-India feder ated parliament linked with eleven British Indian states with their own subordinate legislatures and such na tive states as decide to come in. It separates Burma and Assam from India and gives them also a large measure of self-government WASHINGTU DIGEST llatàïM afcJôptcS BY W ILLIA M BRUCKART NATIONAL PRESS BLDG. Washington.—One of the oldest and perhaps the meat constant of all com plaints about t h • Too M u c h federal government R e d T a o e «t Washington has H been the tendency toward bureaucratic control. Bureau cratic control, simmered down. Is red tape; it la attempted management of even personal alfnlrs by a government al agency and It Is naturally and obvi ously repulsive to the average Ameri can. I t was a condition thoroughly to be criticized In Mr. Hoover's adminis tration when there were boards, bu reaus, and commissions everywhere. It is even worse now, 1 believe, with all of the New Deal’s alphabetic soup agencies scattered hither and yon In execution of various New Ileal experi ments aud theories. All of thia constitutes a prelude to what appeara to me to be a most fla grant attempt by bureaucrats to man age private affairs. I refer to au or der Issued the other day by the fed eral communications commission under which It has asserted a Jurisdiction which I cannot believe congress ever Intended It should have. Further, the asserted Jurisdiction which the com mission Is seeking to exercise goes far beyond anything which might be made the basis of complaint solely because It Is bureaucratic. It has reached Into the field of commercial enterprise In a manner which, without a doubt, w!’l have the effect of covering Invention and experiment In industry with a de structive frost bite— If the commission Is allowed to get away with I t The facts Involved are these: The American Telephone and Telegraph company, which la spending millions of dollars annually In scientific research to improve our system of communies tlons such as the telephone, the tele graph, and the radio, lately has per fected what Is technically known as the coaxial cable. This cable Is revo lutionary. It holds the possibility of transmission of 240 telephonic conver sations simultaneously over a single pair of wires. It Is not commercially complete In all of Its phases. Like ev ery organization of sound Judgment, the A. T. A T. wants to iron out weak nesses and Imperfections through a pe riod of experimental operation. W A S H IN G T O N . D.C. application and decline to proceed with thia experiment which ultimately la going to mean enormous changes In telephonic and telegraphic contact be tween cRIea located great distances a p a rt The A. T. A T. engineers have been working on thia problem aotne ala or seven years. They proposed to build 100 miles of cable by connecting New York and Philadelphia. It bad very little of the commercial In I t They wanted to try out tranarolaalon of television linages for rebroadcaat by radio. They wauted to perfect further the transmission of photographs by wire and they were dealrous aa well of determining whether they bad discov ered all of the potentialities of the new Invention. All of the expenses—some six hundred thousand dollars— was to be paid from surplus funds of the cor poration. It takea no stretch of the Imagina tion to realise that If the A. T. A T. backed away from the program It hat laid out and refused to apend more money In perfecting Its Invention and declined to attempt to put It into com mercial use for the benefit of the coun try aa a whole, the country, that Is yon and I. would suffer. Wo would be den ed advantages developed by science and made available virtually as a na tional benefit I do not know what the end will be. It Is not at a stage wherein a forecast Is possible. But the principle of the commission's actlrm, whether It be put forward under Democratic or Republi can administration, remains exactly the same. It should not be tolerated and if the communications commission per sists In Its efforts to expand Its con trol, Its usefulness certainly Is at an end. Hitherto, the communications commission hns had a very satisfac tory relationship with business. I have beard dozens of executives from com munications corporations say they were willing to forgive and generally over look Ignorance piled up In the com- mission by political appointments In several spots. They wanted to co operate but It Is the opinion of more than Just myself among Washington observers that thia sort of thing does not contribute to good government Duck hunters will have only 30 days for shooting thia fall In accordance with the most rigid La Grande— Final shipment of 2o Nouf, a» to regulations In the Here la where the federal communi tons of black cherries to canneries cations commission enters the picture. D uch H u n tin g history of Ameri last week concluded the 1935 cherrj can game hunting. As a courtesy, pure- deal in Union county. Blacks on the F C C E nter» iy, the A. T . A T. This Is the result of a determination trees at the tim e of the late July P ic tu re submitted Its plan by the federal government under an heat wave were damaged as much as for experimentation act of congress to give migratory wild 50 per cent. Eleven carloads, of blacks were shipped to m arket and to the communications agency, saying fowl an opportunity to Increase In 20 tons were sold to maraschino In as It did so that the commission did numbers. • In explaining the govern terests, In addition to the shipment not have jurisdiction but that In the ment's action which was made the sub development of such a revolutionary ject of a proclamation by I ’realdent to the canneries. Invention the corporation wna advising Roosevelt. J. N. (Ding) Darling, chief Albany— County Agent M ullen has the commission of Its plans and sug of the biological survey and an Inter started distribution of checks total gested that If the commission thought nationally known cartoonist, declared ing $7665 to 296 Linn county farm It had Jurisdiction It could Issue an that unless the shooting of ducks and ers who had signed the 193 5 corn- experimental license covering the work. other wild fowl Is restricted It Is only hog reduction contracts. Checks In all of this it Is to be remembered a question of time until none of them now here constitute the first payment that the communications commission remain. of $7.50 per head. Second payments has jurisdiction over rates, regulations, It la assumed thst hunters will he w ill not be due un til a fter compliance and practices of the wire, telephone Interested first In the period during proofs have been accepted next De and radio companies. which they tnay shoot ducks, geese, cember. Linn county signers on brant, or Jncksnlpe. The season will It seems that some bright young men 1935 contracts totaled 32.1. Pay ments on 25 have been delayed for in the communications commission Im open In northern states October 21 and mediately conceived the Idea of hav will close November 19. In the south reasons unknown here. ing that group take jurisdiction when ern stales the season will run from Freew ater — W arrants amounting legal authorities tell me there Is noth November 20 to Decemlier 19. to about $11,000 for McLoughlln un ing In the law giving them that au For the Information of hunters there ion high school have been called, thority. The story I get around the Is set out below the states Included In leaving the district only two years commission lobbies Is that the A. T. A the northern area where hunting may behind. A ll warrants for district No. T. would not have objected to having be done between October 21 and No 31, Including all grade schools, have the commission exercise whnt It be vember 19: been called up to within one year. lieved Its rig h t to be In granting a Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, license for the experiment but when Massachusetts. Rhode Island, Connecti 6H0 Tons Pilchards Landed Marshfield — Six hundred and the order emerged from the secret cut New York, Pennsylvania, West eighty tons of pilchards were brought chamber of the commission. It carried Virginia, Ohio. Michigan, Indinna, 1111 int oCoos bay by ten purse seine In it a provision which said that the nols, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Mis fishing boats Sunday, exceeding by commission could withdraw Its ap souri, North Dakota, South Dakota. 80 tons the previous record catch. proval and nullify the permission Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Twelve boats coming Into harbor granted on 10 days' notice as It saw Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington, brought approximately 500 tons to fit Oregon, and Nevada. Suffice to say that this provision to The southern states listed and In three reduction plants. gether with several other technical which hunting may occur from No SO-Bnshel W heat Grown phases of the circumstances was vember to December 19 follows: Dayton— Grain is yielding above enough to arouse the Ire of the busi New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the pre-threshing estimates on farms ness men concerned. They are not only Vlrglnln, North Carolina, South Caro here, and it Is very high grade, ac disgusted. They are downright sore. lina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Missis cording to reports coming In. At I t Is one of those things that poli the Wess Morgariedge place in the ticians, undertrained In science, at sippi. Kentucky. Tennessee, Arkansas, Webfoot district, an ll-a c r e field of tempt to do that cause practical peo Ix>ulslana, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mex fall-sown wheat averaged 50 bushels ple to lose faith In their government ico, Arizona, and California. Regulations Issued by the biological an acre and oh the same farm oat« • • • survey, according to Mr. Darling, are averaged 4 4 bushels. I f It were simply a fight between the based on the necessity of having u net Build » 7 0 ,0 0 0 Plant A. T. A T. and the commission that Is annual Increase of migratory birds left Hood R iver— Duckwall brothers Involved, the situa- over at the eml of each shooting fru it shippers, w ill rush work on a F ig h t o f tlon would hold no season until the present depleted popu new cold storage plant of four stor V it a l In te r e it Interest at all for lation of waterfowl Is restored to ies, capacity 125 cars, to cost $70,- me as a Washington something like normal. This year's 000. Completion of the firs t unit Is w riter. But, as I said above, It goes rigid restrictions, he explained, follow due September 15, seepnd unit Oc much further. I am told that some of a period of approximately thirty five tober 1, in tim e to handle part of the ficials of the A. T. A T. are so dis years during which the kill of wild Anjou pear crop. This is the third satisfied with the attitude of the com fowl has exceeded the Increase from new cold storage plant now building mission In this Instance that they are breeding. for the anticipated record pear crop ready, even anxious, to withdraw their 6 Weetern Newspaper Uulon. of nearly 1,000,000 boxes.
