THE (X)LD HILL NEWS. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1932
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I OREGON STATE NEWS
OF CENERALJNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
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of Our Readers.
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A Street Singer In Morocco.
1 by N x llo n s l O — vvsptalo suelesy,
W . a h l . i U D , D. ( 1 - W N U S e rv lc x
RENCH Morocco le becoming oil
conscious. Preliminary borings
near the town of Meklnax hare
shown such promise that modern
machinery which will drill to great
depths line been ordered.
French Morocco, though streaked
with the rugged helghta of both the
High Atlaa and the Anti Atlaa moun-
talne. and dotted with r a il dry pin In«
and deserts which give a latge part of
Ita area a forbidding aepect, has sev-
ernl large cltlee of great commercial
and political Importance In northern
Africa.
t'aaahlunca and llabat are the lead
Ing coast towne and handle a large
part of the colony's sea trade. Casa
blanca was founded by the Portuguese
«bout a decade before Columbus die
' covered America, but the newcomers
held It only a abort time until the na
tives muted them and set up a Moslem
stronghold. Casablanca was occupied
by the French In W07 and began Im
provements that have made It the
show city of Morocco.
From a city with a population equal
to Hint of Elgin. III.. Cnnnblanca hns
grown by leaps and bounds until It
now hae nearly as many Inhabitants
sa Knnnna City. Mo. The pedestrian
could easily Imagine himself In a
European city were It not for the A fri
cans of midnight black, chocolate
brown nnd tan complexions. One-half
the Inhabitants are Moslems: slightly
more than a third are French. Span
ish and Italian, and other Europeans,
nnd the rest are Jews.
The price of a room In ono of Cnsn-
blanca's hotels not only affords Euro
pean comforts hut also the equivalent
of a ring side circus seat An autumn
bile rolls by with a prosperous French
huslness man or a fez bedecked Turk
ish merchant; wealthy sheiks stroll
along In their flowing white garments
and tightly wound turbans, holding
each others' hands; dignified French
offleers In medal bedecked uniforms
are ousted from the paths of little
grain laden donkeys with barefoot
Moors astride, and now and then,
plodding along In awkwnrd fashion,
three or four moth-eaten, cud chewing
camels pass hy, often followed closely
by a small future “ship of the desert."
Thickly sprinkled among this seeth
ing mass of humnnlty of various
breeds and blends, are the everpres
ent noisy street hawkers, darting here
and there with their home-made rugs,
sweetmeats, hammered brassware, and
"whatnots."
Bad Harbor Was Mads 8afs.
Why France poured a fortune Into
Casablanca was a mystery to Europe.
It had one of the worst natural har
bors on the coast. The low. rocky
shore lay open to the strong west
winds nnd the lashing wnves of the
Atlantic. No river runs through the
city to the ocean. But the approprla
tlon was pnrtly used for the construc
tion of breakwater* nnd harbor Im
provements that have been dom
inant factors In the city's development
to the second largest city In the pro
tectorate.
Oceangoing vessels thnt
anchored perilously off the coast can
enter Casablanca’s port today.
Casablanca nlsn hns electric lights
nnd power nnd modern water works.
Railroads now connect the city with
Morocco, (Marrakesh) the capital of
the protectorate ami North African
points. Pally air service Is maintained
between Cnsatilanca nnd Toulouse,
France, nnd planes fly every two weeks
to Ornn.
Rabat was built almost N00 years
ago by the Inbor of 40.000 Christian
slaves. The city Is located on the
northwestern const adjacent to the
old city of Sale, a former lair of cor
sairs.
There are two present day Rabnts.
French Rabat nnd the native town.
French Rabat Is like a bit of trans
planted Europe. It hns wide streets
and smnrt little villas like those of
the Illvlera. In Its Directs are women
wenrlng Parisian clothes, huslness
men In sack suits nnd smartly uni
formed French officers. There are
telephones nnd electric lights and mo
tor cars. Everything Is modern and
efficient and over 13,000 Euiu.icons
live within Its hordprs.
F
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T H B M ARKETS
Portland
Wheat — Big Bend bluestam, hard
wheat, C<Ho; aoft white and weatern
' white, 48c; hard winter, northora
aprlng and weatern rod, 48 c.
H ay— Buying price*, f. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, (12.50,
Buttarfat— IS O 1 3c.
Egg*— Ranch, 22O23c.
Cattle— Steers, good, (4.21015.50.
Hog*—Good to choice, (8.7604.00-
Lambs—Good to cholee, (4.2504.60
Seattle
W heat — Soft white and weatern
white, 60c; hard winter, western rod
and norther» spring, 4*c; blueetem,
64c.
Buttarfat—lie .
Egga—Ranch, 28c.
Hogs—Good to choice, (4.2604.76,
Cattle— Choice ateera, (4.0005.60.
Sheep—Spring lamba, (404.30.
Spokane
Cattle— Steers, good, (4.6006.
Hog*— Good to choice, 62.8004.10.
Lambs—Medium to good, (203-60.
Native Rabat Is another story.
A. M. Gaunt. 100-year-old civil war
Squat houses line the narrow streeta
From iuo mosque tower the muezzin veteran, died at his home at Harris
calls th* faithful to prayer.
Tur- burg last week.
baned Arabs of the Beni Hassan tribe,
An apple tree In the W . L. Town
Berbers from the hills and negroes
tile through the bazaars.
Heavily send yard at London, Lane county, has
veiled women travel silently through blossomed for the second time this
the crooked streets. The plaintive, year.
barbaric wailing, which the Moroccans
The Douglas county fair board has
call music, may be heard at all times
mad* a special appropriation of 676
during the day. Groups of the sick
and the deformed, clad In dirty white for display* of Douglas county bird* at
rags, sit In the streets of the bazaars the Northwestern Turkey show this
year.
begging alms from the passers-by.
Native Rabat Is Picturesque.
Elisha Large w ill continue to serve
The souks or bazaars of Rabat are aa mayor of Eugene. Hla reelectlon
as famous us their wares, red and le not opposed. Likewise R. 8. Bryson
yellow leather boots, pottery, and the I* unopposed for reelectlon as city re>
rugs which the Itabatl women weave corder.
In their homes and color with vege
George Gordon. 8, eon of the Rev.
table dyes. These rugs, when new,
are a little too brilliant for Western 0 . Gordon, pastor of th* Beaverton M.
taste but they fade Into a pale, har E. church, broke both wrists when he
monious blending of color* with wear. fell while a t play on the school
There Is slight demand for chair* grounds.
or knives nnd forks In the souk*.
The Rev. John Richardson, tor 4 H
Chairs are used only by the stiff-
years
rector of SL Pauls Episcopal
legged Christian tourists who visit the
city and knives and forks are not church of T b * Dalles, has resigned to
necessary to eat couscous, the staple accept a call to St. George* church at
viand of the Moroccan meal. Couscous Bismarck, N. D.
Is made with flour and meat and
A child's shoe, found recently a t a
vegetables, nnd tastes not unlike the bend In the Um atilla river below Pen
American dish of dumplings cooked
dleton, spurred on the search for the
with meat. It Is served In a big pot
and everyone sticks In his hand and body of Maxine Price, 8, drowned la
brings forth his portion In three An the high water of May 7.
gers. To use four Angers or two
Boys took three out of five prize*
Angers la extremely bud manners. offered In cookery In the 4-H club con
Moroccan etiquette demands three.
test at the Deschutes county fair. The
Because of Its mild climate, Rabat boys concentrated on cookies and woo
Is a favorite residence of the present first, second and fifth prizes.
Sultan of Morocco, Sldl Mohammed,
A fire that started In peat soil near
who has other pnlucea In Fez, Meklnes
Klamath Falls swept over 3000 acres
and Marrakesh.
Marrakesh nnd Fez are the out of grain and pasture fields. I t was
standing Inland cities. Marrakesh 1st estimated that over 1000 acres in grain
one of the busiest marts In French had been destroyed by the blaze.
Morocco. An almost constant stream
Mrs. Anna Junk of Salem bad an
of camel nnd donkey caravan* passes
exhibit of 23 painting at the State
through the city gates where traders
meet each other and also the local fair. She la 84 years old, and one of
wool nnd leather merchants, tanners, her pictures was painted when she was
silk weavers, armorers and manufac SO years oi age. Painting la her hobby.
turers of agricultural implement*.
Bill Pedro, Jr., of Heppner killed a
In th* Marrakesh Bazaar*.
243-pound deer near La Grande, and
The bazaars In the narrow, dusty on hla way home stopped at a Pendle
streets of the city are thronged from ton restaurant to eat. When he re
dawn to dusk. In one street deeply l turned to hla car the deer was miss
sunburned Berber men In flowing, ; ing.
white robe* and turban-wound heads
A total of 6000 cans of salmon haa
stnnd In groups while others bicker
with sullen, bewhlskered shopkeeper* been received from Gold Beach by
over the price of Inexpensive mer Jackson county and an equal amount
chandise. Silent, heavily-veiled Mos of canned corn, beana, tomatoes and
lem women peer Into yarn and silk pear* w ill be returned from Grant*
shops where red, yellow, green nnd Pass.
blue strnnda form colorful displays.
Silveralde salmon have begun to ar
Fierce looking tribesmen from th*
near-by Atlas mountains with fire rive In Rogue river, near Gold Beach,
arms protruding from their belts ap- and good catches are being made
penr hypnotized by half-naked silk dally. This promises to be a good
spinners and dyers plying their trades sport tor fishermen for the next six
In congested stalls. Frightened black I weeks.
slave men, stooped under back-break- ; Picking of the Newton apple crop
Ing lontls, slink before the piercing 1
of the Rogue river valley is under way.
glances of their beturbaned masters.
Robust slave girls, with cumbersome It Is estimated that the total crop will
Jars bnlanced on their hips, cautiously run between 300 and 400 cars. Eighty
come and go without Jostling other per cent of the pear crop has been
pedestrians of high caste. Vivacious gathered.
Berber women, with homemade blan
More than 40 men were sent from
kets accost dusty camel men fresh i the Siskiyou national forest service
from the outlying desert regions.
office at Grants Pass to fight a fire
Around the corner peoples of many
bordering the Redwood highway on the
races watch metal workers hammer
switchback the other side of Oregon
copper, silver and steel Into plate nnd
receptacles of all kinds, between mountain.
A female deer with antlers Is the
shelves where finished articles of
their labor glisten In the bright A fri proud possession of Dr. D. J. Legg. He
can sunlight.
shot the animal in the Modoc country,
The thronged streets lend the trav across the state line from Klamath
eler to believe that all of Marrakesh's Falls. The antlers were still covered
houses have emptied their 340,000 oc
with velvet.
cupants, as well ns the city's visitors,
Into the bazaars at one time: but near
I t Is reported at Reedsport that the
by, the Jama el-F'na, the Marrakesh Coast Fisheries, Clyde Chase, man
public square, Is also surging with
ager, Is purchasing fish from many
humnnlty, Jostled by donkeys and
points along the coast to fill an order
awkward camels, whose loads over
for 1,000,000 pound* of their mild
hang their sides.
From the roof of a one-story build. cured product, a form of amoked sal
Ing bordering the square, the traveler mon.
sees a group of men watching the per
A 2 m 111 decrease In Bend’* tax levy
formance of a snake charmer who for 1933 Is Indicated In a proposed
teases a reptile until It bites hts Iwdgeft calling for the expenditure of
torgue, which he cures by tilling hl* only 789.945, compared wUh a budget
mouth with a handful of earth. An
of (105,636 In 1932. The proposed tax
other group gasps as a smoke enter
levy Is (85,645, For the current year
chews a handful of yellow straw and
It was (99,836.
emits blue smoke from his lipa.
Pn«e
The hn";e meteorite that awakened i f f ;
resides s of the upper McKenzie val
ley roc intly, struck between Broken
Top an 1 the Middle Slater, according
to the calculation* of forest ranger*.
The irrigation season In Grants Pass
Irrigation district haa been officially
closed. The floodgate* of the Savage
Rapid* dam w ill be raised. The mud
dy water w ill stop fishing below
Grant* Paas for a few day*.
A rare specimen of the bat fam ily
was recently caught at Bandon by M r*.
R. H . Leneve. I t had a body lass than
three Inches long and about an inch
In width, but lta wing spread waa 12
inches. I t wa* gray In color.
Consolidation of the W illam ette Val
ley Lumbermen’* association with the
West Coast Lumbermen’s association
became effective October 1. Increased
facilities for inspection, grading and
marketing w ill result from the action.
Ranchers of the Pendleton area have
signed up 150,000 bushels for the p ro
posed wheat sale to China. Several
group* are still In the field to secure
more crop signup* in event the deal
1* approved by the reconatructlon tt-
nance corporation.
The first bop sale of any magnitude
this season In the Mount Angel dis
trict was reported last week. J. W.
Stavey Hop company of Independence
paid 16 % cent* for 172 bale* of the
Butach brother*’ crop and 101 bales of
the Carl Ertelt hop*.
Preliminary plana have been made
for a county-wide Armistice day cele
bration by the Eugene post of the
American Legion. Although the af
fair will be backed by the Legion, It la
hoped to make It a demonstration that
«rill take in everybody.
*$plittinq" Headaches
W ith a total of 3545 auarts canned
for the winter, the food conservation
committee of Medford haa closed ita
season's work In the conservation of
food for the unemployed. Future do
nations and Jara w ill be distributed
through Individual committee mem
bers.
TUMS'
F ifty carload* of huckleberry pick
ers were transported across Yaquina
bay In tugboats and acowa after the
ferry operating between Newport and
South Beach, loaded with 12 antomo-
biles, and their passengers, drifted on
to a aandaplt, where it remained fast
overnight
Ernest Sledge of Junction City
“spilled the beans” and landed In the
county Jail for a 60-day sentence.
Sledge was arrested by state officer*
for stealing 600 pounds of besns. They
said he left a tra il ot beans behind
him, the beans dropping out of a hole
in one ot the sacks.
More than 2000 ducks and other
waterfowl afflicted with the duck dis
ease have been found on the Adams
marsh, on the east side ot Upper Klam
ath lake. Ducks infected with the dis
ease lose control ot the neck and
either drown or starve to death. They
can be saved If caught In time and
put in fresh water.
Averaging between five and seven
tons ot Josephine county tomatoes a
day the Palmer-Norton cannery has
been running steadily for the past
month, having nearly reached the set
goal of 125,000 cans for the season's
total. For the past three weeks be-
tween 30 and 40 Grants Pass people
have been employed.
Salmon w ill travel faster than ever
before to market, following the estab
lishment of refrigerator motor truck
service between Astoria and California
points. Carrying fruit north and rush
ing southward with fresh salmon, the
American Motor Express company of
Los Angeles expects to carry fresh sal.
rtion from Astoria to southern Cali
fornia tables In 36 hours.
The present low stage of the W il
lamette river has forced the Stranger,
packet boat of the Salem Navigation
company, to reduce Its cargo to 80
tons. So far, the company has ship
ped 22 tons of canned fru it from
Salem to Portland.
A. S. Ashcroft, Bend, Is feasting on
venison steaks because ha earmarked
his pet fleer. Last December the buck
left the Ashcroft lawn and disappear
ed into woods. It was returned to
Bend, In the form of venison, by Le«
Carver, local hunter.
in Health Teat»
Million* of boy*
and girls all over the
world, thousands of
them right here In
the West, are being
No. 0.
restored to health
Responding to P a rtn e r’» O rig i
and strength by th *
nal Suit Bid o f One
purjly vegetable ton
* T 'H E basis of all successful co-op-
ic and l a x a t i v e
eratlve bidding depend* npon part known as California Fig Syrup and
ner* thinking In terms of "our hand" endorsed by physician* for over 00
Instead of “my band.” When your years.
partner make* a bid, listen to him and
Children need no urging to take IL
try to visualize hla holding. Register They love Ita rich, fruity flavor.
a mental picture ot I t see how It Nothing can compete with it aa a gen
fits with yours. Hear everything the tle. bnt certain laxative, and It goes
opponents have to say. And then en further than thia. I t give* tone and
deavor to co-operate with your part strength to the atomach and bowel*
ner in arriving at the declaration that so these organa continue to act nor
would be made If each could see the mally, of their own accord. It stimu
other's card*.
lates the' appetite, helps digestion.
When contemplating a raise of hla
A Kansas mother, Mrs. Dana All-
partner's bid s a lt the supporting hand glre, 010 Monroe St., Topeka, saysj
, counts:
I "Bonnie B. la absolutely the picture
First—Trump length and honors.
of health, now, with her ruddy cheeks,
Second—Long card*
and
honor- bright eye* and plump but graceful
' trick* In aide suit*.
little body and she stand* at the top
Third—Ruffing trick* produced by to every health test.
short suits.
Much of the credit for her perfect
The most vital question In consid condition la dne to California Fig
ering a suit raise Is whether or not 8yrup. We have nsed It alnce baby
yonr hand contains the normal Dum hood to keep her bowels active dar
ber of trumps expected by your part ing cold* or any children's ailment*
ner.
Before counting your raising and she has always had an easy time
tricks, look to your trumps and re with them. She always respond* to
member that you must not raise yonr Ita gentle urging and to quickly back
partner's original bid of one or two to normal.”
unless you bold at least four small
Ask your druggist for California
trumps or three headed by aD ace, or F ig Syrup and look for the word
a king, or a queen.
"California" on the carton so you'll
The reason for this stringent rule always get the genuine.
I* apparent when you realize that
your partner’s hand may contain no
T h a t S u s p ic io n s F i v e
more than four trump*. If, In spite
Office Boy—Your wife called and
of the fact that you lack trump sup
said she wants to see you about—
port, yon encourage your partner to
‘ Boss— About what?
go on with hla suit bid, be may end
Office Boy—About 5, sir.
by playing a high contract, with the
Boss— H ’me— O'clock or dollars?
opponent* disastrously In control of
the trump situation.
Holding good
support for your partner In honor-
tricks, but a deficiency In trumps,
your recourse lies in a take-out, never
In a raise.
When your partner, without assist
ance, reblds his trump suit, you may
If holding Justifiable values raise him
with three small trump* or two with
j an honor aa good aa a queen.
In
U n fit
MR Tablets (N atu re'»R em edy). Now «he gets
’ short, one trump less than the nsual
along
—
s.s_ fins
___ with
-—S.S everybody.
- a
■ Thia
. _■ . safe, ■ depead-
■ _ —
• o
normal expectancy I* sufficient to
»e Drnugni quic* i
i it cleared ber tyi
raise a rebid suit
o f poisonous wastes — mada bowel a c tio s
I f yonr partner, unassisted, reblds
easy and tegular. Thousands take N R daily.
It's such a sure, pi ru s o t corrective, M ild ,
as high as three odd, or makes an
habit
opening bid of three or more, prac
iiw N Nobsds/ter-
o
effects. A t your
tically no trump support I* needed
d ru s x a t's -K c .
for a raise; nor la It necessary to
consider trump support when rais
ing a partner's Jump-overcall of three
after an opponent's bid.
O s a L u c id I n t e r v a l
The trump length and honors are
Nurse— Your wife has been delir
valued thus:
ious all day, Mr. JoDea. She does
Trumps
Tricks
nothing but repent your name and
Three small or less
•
ask for money.
Four swuli
Mr. Jones— Hah 1 Delirious? She’*
Five small
1
not dellriona!
Six small
2
1
Add for ace or a king
sometime*
Add for queen
F ifty trolling boat* in the Nehalem
river and bay recently caught one ton
of salmon. The catch was the largest
on record for trolling. Coast Guards
man McCormick reported a five-pound
fish Jumped into his boat.
A tentative budget of (212,601 haa
been adopted by the Astoria school dis
trict for the coming school year. I t
■will require a tax levy of (167,015.
Actual school expenses other than
fixed charges, capital outlay and debt
service Is estimated at (125,376, or
(26,000 less than last year.
Cir/ of the Top
Modern Contract
Bridge By lefts Hattcrsfcy
A move to repeal the charter amend
ment authorizing the expenditure of
82,600,000 for a water system for
Salem haa been launched. I t is plan-
md to have the measure on the No
vember ballot.
The Sunset dahlia gardens at Hob-
sonville, are suffering from depreda
tions from the mountain beavers.
These furry little animals gnaw the
dahlia stalk In two and drag it away
In the same manner that their larger
cousins, the well-known beaver of the
streams, do with trees.
a
(A queen Is counted
as one trick when
necessary
to com
plete the count of a
hand for a raise or a
takeout)
In side suits which have not been
mentioned by an opponent, high cards
and length are valued the same way
In the assisting hand as In the hand
of the Initial bidder, that Is by honor-
trick values and length values.
But If an adversary has bid. a s 'lft '
must be made In estimating the value
of guarded honors and tenaces In hla
suit according to whether you are I
{ over or under the adverse bid.
When holding four or more trumps, !
the ability to trump side suits Is a
tremendous asset In the dummy hand.
In an assisting hand which holds four
trumps, the ability to ruff a suit from
the first lead Is worth at least three
tricks; a singleton I* worth two
tricks, and a doubleton one.
With
fewer trumps these short suit values
are proportionately reduced, as will
be seen from the following table.
<
:
j
Holding 2
short suits,
only
one,
the short
est, should
be counted
With 3
cards In
trump
suit
M is e r a b le
with B ackache?
A persistent backache, w ith
bladder ir r e g u la r it ie s and
a tired, nervous, depressed
feeling m ay warn of some dis
ordered kidney or bladder con
dition. U sers everywhere rely
on Doan’s Pills. Praised for
more than 50 year* by grateful
user* the country over. Sold by
druggists.
With 4
or
more
in trump
suit
A Diuretic
for th*
A
double
ton (a two-
card side-
suit)
U trick
A singleton
(one card
of a suit)
I trick
1 trick
j
2 tricks
A t L a s t!
Miss Thirty-Odd—Oh, Mr. Blunt,
this is so sudden.
Mr. Blunt—I know, but 1 thought
you could stand a surprise better
then suspense.—London Tit-Bits.
{ Try tydls I . Pinthsm's Vsgstsbls Compound
1 A void (not
1 any cards
of a suit)
2 tricks
3 tricks
(© . l« 3 t, by b e lt s H l t t s r e le y .) — W N U S ervice
B ro o k F a r m
E x p e r im e n t
The Brook Farm Institute of Agricul
ture and Education was composed of
a stock company of nearly 70 mem
bers. Tlie organization had a farm
of 200 acres at West Roxbury, Mass.
Among the members were: George
Ripley, Charles A. Dsns, George W il
liam Curtis, Margaret Fuller and Na
thaniel Hawthorne. Among their fre
quent visitors were: Ralph Waldo )
Emerson, Theodore Parker and Bron- j
son Alcott. The experiment lasted
from 1841 to 1840. The Brook farm
was a failure, hut It was Important In
Intellectual results. Waning enthusi
asm and a disastrous fire hastened its
dissolution In 185(1.