PAGE FOURTEEN
.'HE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930
EGGS DROP TWO
TO THREE CENTS
BUTTER STEADY
Portland P) A cut of 2 to 3
cents in me price ox ejrgs was re
ported here Friday. With the ex
ception of standards, were reduced
2 cents per dozen. Standards drop
ped 3 cents.
Cutting of egg prices at tnLs per
iod. Indicates the rapid approach
of the flush production of the sea
son. Egg supplies are increasing
here with the greater country lay
and the same appears teue of the
coast and the country generally.
While there Is more or less
steadiness and even strength In
other branches of live poultry mar
ket, heavy hens are Inclined to show
very much of an easy feeling with
prices bid somewhat lower.
Market for country killed hogs
showed a favorable tone along the
wholesale way with prices gener
ally unchanged. Occasional sales
are shown at 16 cents but the gen
eral market does not move that
hish. I
Quality country killed calves are i
showing a very good tone here with
prices well maintained at the recent
high mark. Lambs continue gen
erally of poor quality with demand
sluttgish.
Decreased production of butter
. throughout the country Is giving
way slowly to an Increase, reports
Indicate. The losses are gradually
diminishing In the east and middle
west. There was no change In
quotations on the Portland mar
ket. Latest arrivals of broccoli from
the Roseburg section are showing
considerable Improvement and sales
are shown as high as $1.35 with
the best Californlan generally not
above $1.10 and Si. la. Borne or
dinary to poor Roseburg 75 cents
to $1 crate.
As expected there has been a
change of price basis In the orange
' rrTket. Large fruit Is 10 to 15
cenis higher generally and In spots
25 cents up while small fruit is
down a quarter. Sale of the latter
was nearly suspended on account of
the extreme price asked.
There Is a greater supply 0f spring
Chinook salmon reaching th-t local
trade with resulting decline in the
price. Columbia river smelt are
selling from 4 to 7 pcn.h pound,
according to quality.
With much more liberal supply
and even better quality, market for
Mexican tomatoes is somewhat
overloaded here at the moment.
Considerable price shading has re
sulted. Onions are weaker and lower
here, still low In the country.
Potatoes show fair movement lo
cally. Rhubarb market steady and un
changed for hothouse offerings.
Mexican peas are selling better
around 15.25 crate. . I
Lettuce market continues weak
vlth a wide price spread. Overload
ed. Demand for seed potatoes la start
ing unusually early.
GOOD PRICES FOR
POTATOES IN IDAHO
Roy Hurst of the Hurst Fruit
company of Salem, has recently re
turned here from several weeks
spent at Burley and I win Falls,
Idaho, where he handled a potato
deal shipping out around 100 cars
and he his more under contract
for shipment a Utile later when
the demand once more brightens
up which he expects In the near
future.
"About 3000 cars of pet a toe have
been available at thee places,"
stated Hurst. "I figure about 70
per cent of them have movea out
at average price of 11.90 net In bulk
f. o. b. shipping point. The low
price was $1.60 and the high price
2.15 In bulk. They were a good
grade but small, due to an early
frost, but for'smoothness and qual
ity were fine. This nas been a
growers market over there all the
way through. The srowers sold
enough at the beginning of the sea
son to finance their xpensrs and
have been gambling on the balance.
They have plenty of safe .storage
so have been able to gamble. While
the price has been good, the demand
lately has been slow, to movements
have slackened even with the price
holding firm.
Salem Markets
Compiled from reports ol Salem
dealers, for the guninnce of Capit
al Journal readers. 4 He vised dailyl
Wnent: No. 1, white. 97c; red
(sucked) 95c, feed oats 47c; mill
ing ouLa 6oc; bailey ta per ton.
aieats: Hogs: Tup grades 130
lfn) lbs. $10 75; 160220 lbs. $10 60;
tO-260 lbs. $10 75; 260-350 lbs. $10 25;
sows, $8 00 to $8 25: Cattle, top steers
steady $1U to $10 50; cows $5 &0 to
$7 50; culls and cutters $J to $4 50;
Cheep, spring lambs $10.00; bucks,
as to $H no; old ewes $4 to $3.
Cslves: Vealsia. live weight 140-1 8Q
tbs. $10-$ll; heavy and thins $7-$8.
Dressed meats; Top veal 15 rents:
No. a grade 14c; rough and heavy 13c
and up; tup hogs: 120-150 lbs, 15',c;
llier grades 13c down.
Poultry Light to medium hen
18-lHc lb : heavy hens 22 oenU per
Jound; broilers, springs 2U-22C; stags
So lb.; old roosters 7c lb.
KffH: pullets U tc; frent extras 97c;
Builerfa', 36c; prime butter 38-3Uc;
sUm extras 33c; standnrd cubes 32c.
uhoi lnao: ruirn
Fresh fruit: omnges, navels $4 25
98 case; lemons $8.75: bsnsnaa 7'c;
limes, XK Jonathans $2 75: face-fill
160; SplUenberg $2 26-13 75; De
licious XK $2 75; Wlnenaps, wrspped
and parkrd $1.75: Yellow Newtowns,
$l 75. Cranberries $4 box. O rape fruit,
Texas $6 26-$7 50; (California $5.50.
Khubarb $2 76 $3. 50 20-lb. box.
KrMh vegetablts; Tomatoes, nnt
Itouse $4 75 to $5 50: California $5 25
crate. Potatoes. Yaklmas $2 50-$3.
lttuc. Imperial valley $4 26-15 25.
Celery $7 00. Cabbage 4'4-5c; green
tappers 35c lb. Spinach $4 crate; cau
liflower $1.86; artichokes $1.00 doc
Bunchrd vrgeiablea IVtren ouncn
es: turnips 90c; parsley SOc; carrnu
40 to 90c; beets uc; oulous SOc;
yadlahee 80e.
Sacked vegetables: Onions local $3
so, carrots $3: ruubsgas $Sc: fH
lSe lb ; squash. Marblehead 4c; Hub
bard 4c; banana 4c; turnips c; pf
nips 4c; yams 7c lb.
H4MH.. MOHAIR
" Wool: medium Sue; coarse S7o per
lb.; Lambs uol S5c; lali dip 170.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
PORTLAND LIVESTOCK
Portland iT Cattle and calves:
QuouibJy steady. Receipt, cattle 36,
uiivei 10.
Btcera, 1100-1300 lbs. all to 411.85;
good Sll-24 to 112: medium SU M) to
ii.xb; common 17.60 to sa.50; heifera
ttood 10 to 10. tiJ, common to med
ium 7 to tlO. Cows, good St) .76 to
tit 50; common to medium JUS to
IB.7A; low cutter S3.50 to SO 35. bull,
yearling excluded. 8 to H 50: cu
ter to nifa.f m to so. waives, mea
lum to choice B6MJ to c,ii7a to 7c; Old corn. No. 3 yellow
to common u to sa.au. veaiers. mux
fed. good to choice S10 6O to 12 60;
medium S8.50 to $10.50; cull to com
mon SS.60 to SB 50.
Hogs, Quotabley steady. Receipts
Heavy we I ah t S10 to ill. 25: medium
weight S10 60 to SH OO; light weight
11.60 to 11.85; light lights 110 75
to si 173: packing aowt. aa to sio
Slaughter pig 10.50 to $11 25; feed
er and atooker pigs 00-130 lbs. med
ium to choice 11050 to 11.60. (Soft
or oily hogs and roasting pigs excluded
in aoove quotations;.
Sheep and lambs: Quotably steady.
Receipts 360.
Limoi, gooa to cnoice mv.io to sio.-
60. iJimbs, 84 lbs. to 92 lbs. 99.50 to
10 25; 92 lbs. down, medium 9 to
63.75: all wtirhts. common S7.50 to
3 00; yearling wethers 16 50 to 98.60.
Ewes, medium to choice 15 to S6 50;
120-150 ids. S4 to e All weights, cull
to common 2 to S4.
POIITI,AM IMCOIHTE
Portland (UP) The following Drtc-
es effective Friday. Butter quo
tations are lor smpment irom coun
try creameries and c a pound is de
ducted as commission.
Butter: cube extras 34c; standards
33c; prime firsts 32c; first 30c.
Eggs, poultry producers prices: fresh
extrus 2 tic; standards 27c; fresh mediums-
20c.
Uutterf&t, direct to shippers track
32c; No. 2 grade 27c: stations, No. 1
30c; No. 2 25c; Portland delivery pric
es No. 1, 33c; No. 2. 28c.
Milk: buying price 4 per cent, $2.30
per cwt.
Cheese: selling price to ' retailers:
Tillamook county triplets. 27c; loaf
28c; Tillamook lob. selling prices:
triplets. 26c; loaf 2Gc. .
Live poultry: heavy hens, colored,
over 4i lbs., 23-24c; heavy Leghorn
2'2 -23c; 3 '4 to 4 lbs., 20-21c; under 3
Jba. 18c; broilers, light 30-32c; col
ored 22c: old roosters 12c; stags 16o. i
Drensed poultry : turkeys, fancy
toms 30c; hens 28c; No. 2 24c; capons
30c.
Fresh fruit: oranges, navels $4 to
7.50; grapefruit, Tex 1.8 SU.7& to S7.50;
Florida stl.25 to S7; limes, S-doz. car
ton S2.5U; bananns, 6-0 'Ac lb. Lemons,
Calif. 16.50 to H. I
Cranberries, late Howes, 13.40 to
$3.50 per bus; Cape Cod J bushel
box- eastern. S15 barrel.
Cucumbers, Colorado hothouse $3.
; Ore. standard S2.50-S2.75 doz. Brus
sels sprouts. Ore. S1.25-S1 40 peach
box. Tomatoes, hothouse 27 -30c lb.;
mexican S4-S4.au lug repacgeo.
Onions, selling price to retailers:
sets 5'-OHc lb.; Oregon. S1.65-S2 cwt.
Fresh vegetables, selling price: let
tuce, Imperial valley $2.25 to $3.00;
Dcas 14-15C lb.
Celery. Calif. $1.40 to $1.73 doz.;
15. 00 to SO crate: Oregon. l. 2 J doz.
Ithubarb, hothouue, extra fancy
$2.25; luncy $2; ctiolce fl.&U ZU-1D. Dx
Bell peppers 26-27c lb-
Caullllower, locul, 7dc to 01; Calif.
75c to $1.25. Hose burg broccoli 75c
Sl 35.
Potatoes: Deschutes Gems $3.10 to
$3.23; yaximns sis.o 10 3 cwt.; west
ern Oregon $2.25 to $2.50. Sweet po
tatoes, uiu. nominal oc 10.; soutu-
ern yams, $35 crate.
Country meats: Selling price to re
tailers, country killed hogs, best but
chers under ISO lbs. ia-iac; veaj,
75 to 90 lbs. 17-lBc; lambs, 20-22c;
bcavy mutton 15c.
PORTLAND EANTNIIIE MARKET
Hothouse rhubarb continues to fea
ture offerings on the Eaatside Farm-
era' market. Hales were shown at $2
for extra fancy ii0i.
Hoot vegetables snowea an ncuve
tone, especially carrots, but supplies
are am Die.
- Oreen onions were In good call at
35 -40c doz. buncnes. Brussels sprouts
held mostly $1.10 peach box for best.
spinacn was in sman supply arouna
$1.40 orange box. Celery hearts sold
rapidly at si 2d doz. bunches. A small
supply of celery 75c doe.
Potatoes steady at S2.33 lor iacny.
Carrots 30-3 5c doz. bunches. 40c lug.
Beets, aoc doz. buenbes, oo-boc lug,
sacked stork $1.50. Turnips 35c doz.
bunches, &0-6OC lug.
Potatoes, sacks S2 to sa 30. onions
dry. large. $1.30 to $1.75: green 35 -40c
doz. bunches. Cauliflower, No. 1$1;
No. 2. 85-75c. Apples. Jumble pack $1
to $1.25; fare and fill $1 25 to $1.50.
Hquasn, iiuobard $1 crate, cabbage,
fancy $1.50 crute.
NI TS, HOPS, woor,
Portland (UP Nuts: Oregon wal
nuts, 2a-28c; Calif. 20-2Hc; peanuts,
raw 10c: Brazils, new crop 22-24c;
almonds 34-35c; filberts 10-20C; pe
cans 24 -25c.
Hops: nominal, 1029 crop p'jc.
Wool. 1U2B crop nominal: Willam
ette valley 28-33c; eastern Oregon 18
27 SC
HAY marki:t
Portland- Hay. sternly, buying
prices: Eastern Oregon timothy, $20.50
to $21; Do valley $19 to $10 50; al
falfa, $18 to $19: clover $16. Oat hay
$16; straw $7 to $8 twi. Selling prices
$2 more.
CAM AHA BARK
Portland (A) -cuscara burk steady.
7 to VjC
IIH1KD 1KI IT, HOPS .
New Yotk w Kvaporated apples.
steady; choice 12 to 13A4c; fancy
14 to 15. Prunes steady; cam. to
12 Kc; Oregoii U1, to 17c. Apricots
dtrady: standard 13l4 to 15c; choice
to 17c: extra cnoice is to uoc.
Peaches, strady; standard 13, to 14c;
chohe 14 to 15c; extra choice 14
to I5;c.
Hops steady. State, 1929 18-20C;
1928 nominal: Pacific coast 1929 15
18c; 1928 12-Mc.
SAN IRANriSCO rOI'l.TRY
Sun Francisco f (Fed. -State
Mar ket bi remit ; Net prices paid pro
ducers for live poultry delivered San
Francisco; Hens, Leghorns, all str.es,
24-25o lb ; colored 4 lbs. and up 27
2Hc, Broilers. Leghorns, tinder IS lbs.
per doz. 28-30c; 10 to 22 lbs per do.
2H-28C. Fryers, colored, under 3 lbs.
2R-30C; Leghorns up to 34 lbs. 28 -30c.
Young roasters 3 lbs. up 30-320; ca
pons, none. Roosters, old Lrghorus,
13c; colored 17c.
Turkeys, voting: toms. 15 lbs. and
up, live, nominal, drewd. 34-35c; hens
young ana oia. iu io. ana tip, me
nominal: drewted 32-33c: old toms
and tindergradcs, live, nominal; dress
ed 20-28C
ft AN' t'RtM'IMCU APPITS
flan Francisco i.4t iFedrralBtstt
Market News Service) : Apples, boxes,
Calif. Newtown Pippins, $2 50 to $2 -
7; loose, si o-sj; nonnwrsiern
Home Beauties fancy $2-$2.25; HKs and
lamer S2 50-S2.76: C eiade S1.75-S2:
Bpltr.enbuig. extra fancy $3 25-$3 35;
i mey bj ao-s.t; iJeuciotia, exira inncy
$3.75; fncy $2 50-$3; WinesaiMi $2 75
$3; fancy $2 M-$2 75; New ions, extra
fsucy $3-$3.25; fancy $2.7&-$J.
PORTI IM Nl tlAR. ri OIR
Portland l Cane sugar, sacked
hauls, strnfly. Cane, fruit or berry.
$5 15 per cwt. Beet sugar $3 cwt.
Flour, rlty delivery price. Steady.
Family patent 4Us, $7 40; whole
wheat $6 50; graham $6 30; Baker's
hard wheat 96 $tt0; bakers' Blue
stem patent B5s, $7 00; pastry flour,
4Us, $6 DO,
a IN VHAM'lCO IH TTI MKAT
Flan Francisco Hutterfat prices,
f o b. Ban Francisco, 3D to 3tt,c lb.
PORTI.AMt UK. AT
Portland ir Whrat futures: Mar.
all trading $1 10. May. oten $1.11:
htch $1 12: low. close $1 10', July,
oiH-n, hlsh $1 IS; low. close $1.12
Brpt . open, high $1.13; low, close
$1 13V
Cash wheat: Biff Bend Blue tern.
hard white $1 SO; soft whit, western
white $t o; hard winter, northern
spring, western red $ 07.
Oats. No 3 31-lb white $3.1
Today's ear receipts, wheat $7, fl ar
10, sura $, ou 1, bay $,
HI iO liK.tl
Chicago Wheat futures: Ma
4.i w ; nun ii.iu; jow
i.OB'i; close Si. 10. May, open SI.
14 5-8 to 11.15; high 11.15 5-8; low,
1.13; close SI.H'-j to . July, open
l 17 to A: high sl.17',; low ai.is-3-8;
close $1.10!. to . Sept., open
1.184 to high al.lB 3-8; low
1.1 o-o; cioee ai.lB' to i.
Cash grain: Wheat No. 1 hard 11.20;
No. 6 northern aorlnir B7c. New rnrn
No. fi mixed 71 to 72o: No. 4 white
ic. wi. no. ? Willie to 43c;
No. 4 white 41 i to 42c. live. No
77c. Barley. Quotable ran we 58-BAc
Timothy seed $5 40 to $8.35. Clover
sera siuzs to mu.id.
Lard $16.62; ribs $13.25; bellies
$13.73.
ni.WII'Mi WIIKAT
Winnipeg (UP) Wheat range. May
open $1.1714; close $1.17 5-8. July,
open $120; close $1.1&4. Oct., open
LIVERPOOL WHEAT
Liverpool lUPj Wheat ranee. Mar.
open, low $1.09: high, close $1.I4.
may, uycu, iuw fi.ii, lllKll, uiuse 91-
1U 5-8. July, open, low $10 3-8; high,
rillCAfiU LIVKSTOCK
Chicago U. 8. D. A.) Hogs.
18. 000. including tooo direct. Top
$11 50; bulk $11 to $11.50.
Butchers, medium to choice $10 40
to su.iu: Digs, medium to choice
to B1U.
Cattle. 1000: calves 1000. Slow, un
even trade. Slaughter classes: steers,
$12.75 to $15 25. fed yearlings, good
and choice $12.75 to $16; veaiers. milk
Blockers and feeders, good andC
fed. good and choice 810 to S14.50.
Blockers and feeders, good and choice
io yd u si 1 . 70.
Sheep 8000. Market steady. Bulk
fat lambs $11 to $11.50; few choice
$11.75 to $11.90: fat ewes $0 down.
Lambs, good and choice $iu.40 to sia;
medium to cnoice sa.25 to siu.aa:
ewes, medium to choice S4.75 to $6;
feeder lcmos, gooa ana cnoice $u.ou
to $iu.oo.
PEP COMPANY HOLDS
SALES TACTICS FAIR
Continued from page 1)
has enabled it to avoid any Increase
in rates which otherwise must have
accompanied the rising cost of ma
terials and labor entering Into the
manufacture and distribution of
power, Mr. Hamilton alleges.
Mr. Hamilton does not contend
that lower "unit" cost has re
duced the rate of the consumer
who Is using the same amount of
power as in 1910 or subsequent
years that having remained prac
tically stable but he claims that
the lower rates which attach to
increased consumption justify the
company's policy of charging the
costs of stimulating the sales of
appliances to operating expenses.
As to the allegation of the Inde
pendent dealers that the power
company is using unfair tactics In
making a census of the appliances
tud by its customers Mr. Hamil
ton enters a complete denial. He de
nies that the information as to
outlets and appliances used In pri
vate homes secured by the com-,
pany's meter readers, given access
to these homes for serving purposes
by the rules of the public sen ice
commission, are being u.wd by the
company as prospect lists for Its
sales department, contending that
tuch information as Is collected by
these meter readers would be of
little value In this respect. The me
ter readers, he says, only get
around to the separate home about
once In three years.
"All of the information collect
ed by our meter readers is filed
away In an Index system for the
information of the service depart
ment, and any dealer who thinks
he can make use of this informa
tion is welcome to it," Hamilton
cays.
In any event, there will be no
"fight" over the matter at issue on
the part of the company," says Mr.
Hamilton, announcing that "we do
not consider our Judgment infal
lible, and are perfectly agreeable
to having a board of arbitration,
the public service commission or
the courts, review our policies and
decide whether we are right or
wrong. If we are found to be
wrong we will be good citizens and
abide by such decisions willingly
and falthrully, and will hold no
ill will towards anyone."
Contending that the company be
lieves Its policy justified in that H
produces the greatest good to the
greatest number, Mr. Hamilton's
statement, in part, continues:
"Increased use permits customers
to enjoy more service for the same
total cost, or much more service at
a slight additional cost.
Therefore, anything we can do
at a reasonable cost or expense to
promote the use of electricity, par
ticularly In the home, will tend to
continue to reduce the unit coat,
and Increase the amount of service
actually rendered per dollar paid
for such service.
"Had it not been for increases
In the volume of business done by
the power companies, they would
have been forced to increase their
rates for service as have other in
dustries been forced to increase
their prices.
"The industrial and business
fields have now become fairly well
saturated with electric power ser
vice: as an illustration of which
here In Salem, we have the case of
the Spaulding Lojrain company
which has even electrified its plant
and is purchasing power from us.
On the other hand it is com
monly conceded that there Is still
a great field for the increased use
of electricity in the home which
will be as of great benefit to the
housewife as the use of electricity
has been to the factory employe.
It I therefore in the Held of
the home that the power com pan- i
les must look for their increased I
sales of power which are required If I
we a re to m a ima i n our i ncrease i
in volume of business, and there
by be able to meet the Increased j
cost of doing business without In I
creasing our rates.
If we can do this and at the
sams time charge a reasonable
amount of expense of securing this
bustners to the operating expense
of the utility as we have been do
ing In the past, it seems fully logical
to do so.
"All other buslne.vcs spend large
amounts in their sales and adver
tising departments In develop ntt
new business, so why should not
the light and power Industry, and
how else ran the electric power In
dustry develop new business aa ef
fectively and rapidly as by selling
and placing electrical consuming
apparatus and appliances? -
"As to tht allegations that the
CAULIFLOVe
FROM OREGON
FIELDS LISTED
Portland Ore. 0P1 Reviewing the
fruit and vegetable situation, the
Portland bureau of the United
States Department of Agriculture
says:
"Oregon cauliflower from the
Roseburg district Is increasing In
volume ol arrivals. Cariot cauli
flower movement from this section
will start about March 1. One
hundred to 125 cars will probably
be loaded during March. Winter
injury to this crop was much less
than was first anticipated, and
according to present reports was
not over 10 to 20 per cent. Quality
is improving daily, and is now
about equal to best California
stock, but extra fancy cauliflower
Is extremely scarce.
The potato market continues
excited at Yakima . valley points;
but this had not been felt at Port
land or other Pacific coast mar
kets. Shipping point prices increas
ed again to $43,000 for stock grad
ing 50-60 per cent No. 1.
Onions continue dull. Much
stock of excellent quality Is being
sold by farmers at the Labish dis
trict as low as 75-SOc per cwt. plus
sacks.
Tomatoes were less expensive
today, but still too high i$4.50 ner
lug) to obtain very extensive dis
tribution.
The lettuce market is about as
low as it can go, without dealers
losing money on it. Present prices
just about pay cost of harvesting
and packing, transportation, and
distribution charges."
OF WORXLESS
STORM HALL
Chicago (VP) Several hundred men
and women milled aoout the city
hall Friday In protest against un
employment. Squads of mounted po
lice charged the throng, using bil
lies to keep the leaders from har
anguing the mob that quickly ga
thered. Seven persons suffered
bruised heads, and several were ar
rested. The march on the city hall start
cd after a mass meeting at Redhifer
hall on North Wells street, called ' to
fight unemployment."
Squads of the mounted officers
warned of their approach, hurried
their horses to the walks, striking
right and left with clubs and knock
ing several persons down. Ringlead
ers who climbed to boxes on the cor
ners and started addressing their
followers were pushed down and
beaten.
The disturbances broke out si
multaneously on all four sides of
the city hall, which with the county
building occupies an entire block
in the Loop, surrounded by Clark,
Randolph, Lasalle and Washington
streets.
When the throng gathered at the
Clark street entrance to the county
building four policemen rode abreast
down the sidewalk.
The boldest of the marchers was a
young girl who bobbed up on a ros
trum every time she was pulled down
by the police. She was one of the
dozen or more herded into a patrol
and taken away.
Handbills urging the unemployed
to "join the International demon
stration against unemployment
Thursday, March 6, were tossed
about.
The demonstration took place
about the noon, hour, attracting
thousands of loop workers.
LA GRANDE PLANS
BIG CONSTRUCTION
LaGrande. Ore. JP) Approxi
mately $1,122,000 will be expended
in LaGrande and vicinity during
1930 on new construction, according
to an estimate made by a chamber
of commerce committee in response
to a request from Governor A. W.
Norblad.
The construction includes about
$401,000 in local building, includ
ing a new Union Pacific station.
$210,000 in cotmty work, $105,0)0 for
super-sen-ice stations and about
$406,000 in state highway work in
this territory.
The building- work represents a
large increase over the 1929 figure
which was less than $305,000.
PROTESTS BY SUICIDE
Bruenn, Czechoslovakia, (U Be
cause her father, at the age of 83,
Insisted on taking a flapper of 48
with him on h.s third trip to the
marriage altar Julia ittl. a 51-year-old
spinster of Unter-Bajanovttch,
polsonrd herself on his wedding
day.
regulations of the public service
commission granting our employes
access to private homes for the
purpose of making service surveys
are being abused, I wish to say
that as far as I know none of the
men referred to are gaining access
to the private homes under any
regulations of the public service
commission granting them that
right, or privilege.
Th?se men are salesmen to each
of whom has been assigned a
definite territory as Is customary.
in many sales organisations, and
these men are calling on their cus
tomers to learn If their present
equipment Is giving them satisfac
tion, and If it is not, they endeavor
to have the cause of the . trouble
and dissatisfaction remedied, and
then to Interest the customer in
additional equipment that will be
of benefit to the customer and pro
duce additional load for us,
"As far as w can see. the tales
men of any electrical dealer can
have the same entree into the
home if he is representing a re
sponsible and weu-known dealer,
and approaches the householder in
a gentlemanly and diplomatic
manner,'
WEATHER CUTS DOWN
ATTENDANCE AT MEET
Dayton Because of Inclement
weather a small number of poultry
men were able to attend the second
of the series of poultry men's night
school meetings held in the Dayton
high school Wednesday evening, un
der the direction of Burris L. Young,
instructor of the Smith-Hughes de
partment. i
xnis meeting was for the ex
change of ideas on feeding for best
results. The few men who did at
tend received many helpful hints.
they report. .
STOCK MARKET
TURNS DULL IN
FRIDAY TRADING
New York IP Stocks turned dull
Friday and even acceptance of a
railroad merger plan by the inter
state commerce commission failed
to start any more than a temporary
buying movement.
Carrier shares moved up as a unit
for a time and then turned quiet.
The majority held their gains, nev
ertheless with the highest grade
shares strongest.
Utilities generally were up frac-1
tlons to 2 points with Consolidated
Gas leading; oil shares perked up
on rumors of a large merger Im
pending; motors were firm under
the lead of Packard. Good demand
was experienced by such issues as
Gillette Safety Razor, American
Can, Radio, .Westing house Electric,
and Montgomery Ward.
United States Steel held a frac
tional gain well below the high of
the day, despite efforts of the bears
to break it.
The bearish element was much
more successful In. such stocks as
Simmons company and Safeway
Stores, but even these Issues re
gained part of their losses.
Toward the close a move started
in the oils. This was duplicated
on curb market also. On the stock
exchange, good demand came out
for Mexican Seaboard, Standard Oil
of New York, and Union Oil of
California. Buying operations spread
to Standard of New Jersey and
Houston.
New York Central spurted 3
points and ruled strong around 184,
whlls substantial gains were made
by all the other carriers save Un
ion Pacific which reacted on expec
tation of competition with the new
Great Northern Pacific Railroad, a
combination of Great Northern and
Northern Pacific Railroads. This
was the merger which the Inter
state commerce commission approv
ed, and when the announcement
came from Washington rails sprang
into action.
MERGER OF HILL
LINESJUTHORIZED
Continued from page 1)
the Spokane, Portland and Seattle
railway.
In ordering the roads to i divorce
themselves for ownership of the
Burlington, the commission held
that question had been disposed of
by the consolidation plan.
In awarding tne spoxane, fort
land and Seattle to the unified
system, the commission said suit
able assurance must be given that
the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul
and Pacific railroad will have ac
cess from Spokane to Portland over
this short line.
The Great Northern company op
erates 6154 miles of which 558 are
in Canada. The Northern Pacific
raifway operates 6668 miles of which
74 miles are operated under track
age in Canada. The combined sys
tem would be one of the longest
railroads in the country. I
The two northern roads asked
control of the Burlington because
they hold 91 per cent of the capital
stock of that company which oper
ates about 11,437 miles of line.
In rejection of this, the commis
sion pointed out, "by consolidating
the accounting department ol the
northern lines and the Spokane
company, it is estimated that an an
nual saving oX $669,399 can be ef
fected." The commission pointed out the
two northern lines serve a total of
3619 stations of which 96.1 per cent
is non-competitive and tnat only
50 competitive points are served ex
clusively by the two roads.
The proposal of the two northern
lines to operate the Montana West
ern railway, a line connecting with
the Great Northern at Conrad,
Mont., and the Nez Perce and Idaho
railroad which connects with the
Camas Prairie flt Cralgmont, Idaho,
is cared for under the commission's
consolidation plan, the decision said.
The decision also requires "suitaole
aseurance that the Chicago, Milwau
kee. St. Paul and Pacific' ralroad
company may have access from Spo
kane to Portland and intervening
points over the lines of the S. P. fc
S. railway company, as provided In
the said plan of consolidation."
Chairman McManamy and Com
missioner Eastman dissented from
the commission's decision.
McManamy declared the consoli
dation was 'In complete disregard
of the specific mandate of congress
that competition shall be preserved
as fully as possible."
Eastman said the practiramny
of really divorcing the Burlington
from the Northern lines is in Itself
a matter of grave doubt," pointing
out its stock Is now pledged under
mortgages of both roads.
HATLESS FACE POOR
SERVICE CAMPAIGN
Biidnnest (tPuAx nart of their
campaign to combat the ever mora
prevalent custom of Hungarian
of
youths to go bareheaded "for their
health's sake' several hat dealers
of tliis city have posted notices in
their show windows that no one
entering their shops will receive
notice unless he or she is be hatted
or quickly expresses a wish to pur
chase some kind of head cover.
W. O. "Big Blir Dairta. wrestling
captain at Virginia Poly, has won
nine straight matches by falls In
tht last two years. Davis is six feet
six Inches tail, weighlag 237 pounds.
GOOD BUSINESS
IN FINE WOOLS
DURING WEEK
Boston fPi The Commercial Bul
letin of Boston will say Saturday:
"There has been a further good
business in the seaboard markets
this week, mostly in fine wools,
which are now getting well liqui
dated. Prices have been steady on
the basis noted a week ago.
"Foreign markets generally are
steady. The extension of the sales
in the foreign primary markets, as
as to distribute offerings over a
longer period, appears to have been
more or less salutary.
"In the west, there is a steady ei
fort being made to tie up wools both
on account of the eastern dealers
and the new cooperative scheme.
Boston dealers bought the best wool
at the Phoenix, Ariz., sale at a clean
cost landed Boston 'basis of 70-72
cents.
The goods market is clarified by
the decision this week of the Amer
ican Woolen company to drop prices
on staple goods to a competitive
basis with other large mills, so that
business may now be possible in
larger volume.
"Mohair is sviil rather quiet with
prices steady at about 60 cents for
best original bag Texas hair and
foreign markets quotable on this
parity."
Quotations to be published by the
Bulletin follow:
Scoured basis: Oregon, fine and
F. M. staple 76-77; fine and F. M.
Fr., combing 70-75; fine and F. M.
clothing 69-70. Valley, No. 1 73-75.
Mohair: domestic, good original
bag: Oregon 48-50; domestic grad
ing, first combing 60-62; good card
ing 65-65.
BARBOUR BUYS IN
MILES LINEN MILL
Continued from page 1)
dream of 65 years. The first flax
for linen purposes in the valley as
grown near Jefferson in this
county by Charles Miller in 1875
and captured an award at tne cen
tennial celebration at Philadelphia
In 1876.
The Barbour company has an
extensive market in the west for
its sack twine, fish net twine and
allied products and its decision to
enter Oregon means, unquestion
ably, .that as time goes on a heavy
share of these products will be
manufactured by the Miles Linen
company.
It is understood that the Miles
Linen Mill will continue to be
operated as an Oregon plant under
Oregon officers and directors as It
has been since its Inception. It
will continue to make its own pro
duct but In addition will manu
facture western marketed sack and
salmon net twine at the order of
the Barbour companv.
While the local mill now manu
factures a considerable product in
salmon twine for use by Columbia
river and coast fishermen and sack
twine for use in harvest fields par
ticularly In western Oregon and
Washington, it is estimated that if
the present mill operated at full
capacity the year around It could
not supply possibly much over a
tenth of those products f'jr nrestern
states alone with its present facili
ties.
According to the story last sum
mer a representative of the Miles
Linen mill while on an eastern trip
called on the Barbour brothers in
New York. He Interested them suf
ficiently in the mill that one of them
in the fall visited Salem and went
over the entire flax possibilities in
the valley. He pronounced the
small mill operating here as a mod
el plant and when he left the deal
was virtually closed. By this, capi
tal in a company which has been
in the linen business for nearly 150
years came into the world's newest
flax producing field. It is under
stood representatives of the Bar
bour firm contemplate a visit to
Salem in the near future when the
destinies of the plant for a few
years, at least, will be decider1. At
that time it is further understood,
plans will be made for tin doubl
ing of the capital stock and also
lcr Increased capacity of the mill
to meet conditions in the near fu
ture. Last year around 4500 acres of
flax were grown in the Willamette
valley and it is expected jiwh heav
ier contracting wm oe maoe mis
year due largely to the appearance
of the Barbour people in the field.!
At the present time the preparation
of the flax into tow for the spinning
machines is handled at the state
prison flax plant but moves are on
foot for the establishment of private
scutching plants which no doubt
will work out as the demand for
flax products multiply through in
creased capacity of the mill.
Far over two years t'.ic Miles
Linen mill has been operating 24
hour a day with the netting ma
chine for fish nets operating 24
hours a day, seven days in the week
under the direction of P. J. Oil
braith, superintendent and sales
manager of the mill. Over 100
knitters have been working on net.-.
In addition. 60 of these at Astoria
and the balance here. In addition
orders have been secured by Mr.
Oilbtalth to keep the machines busy
and orders also are on file to keep
the mill working at full capacity
for several months if not another
order was taken.
Probably to Charles Miller, now
deceased, must go the credit of be
ing the pioneer in the flax in
dustry of Marion county. For In
1875 on his ranch near Jefferson
he grew flak which he sent to the
Centennial exposition at Phlladel-
phia in 187ft. And for it he receiv-
ed a bronze medal and certificate
saying that the lint wan of extra
ordinary length with superior gloss
and Mlky finish.' In a little case
at Marion, property of a grand
child or Mr. Miller, Is still preserved
this old exhibit. In light of re
cent developments this case may
j become to Salem what the first
Ford automobile means to Detroit.
While flax was discussed off and
on after the experiment by Mr.
Miller which showed the world In
a small way superior flax could be
grown In this valley, it was In IBM
that Mrs. William P. Lord, wife
of an Oregon governor, who had
talked flax, dreamed flax and its
future possibilities In Oregon organ
ized the Oregon Women's Flax
Fiber association. She believed if
the men could not advance her
dream the way she believed it could
be advanced that perhaps the wo
men could do it. And It was Mrs.
Lord who kept the tiny spark alive
until the state eventually recog
nized the possibilities of flax here
by giving It financial support
This women s association sent an
exhibit of Oregon flax to the Omaha
exposition. And it was the same
association that sent a ton of flax
to Belgium, the then heart of the
flax growing Industry. This was
ni m ionn mH nun intn
napkins and several of these are
still in passession ot Miss Elizabeth
Lord of Salem, caughter of Mrs.
W. P. Lord. Henry R. Crawford.
president of the Miles mill, has
another and a few more are scat
tered around as precious keepsakes.
But Mrs. Lord was not content
With such petty victories for Ore
gon flax. In 1910 or 1011 she In
terviewed E. H. Harrlman, then in
the height of his activity as a rail
road wizard. She so impressed the
flax growing possibilities upon Mr.
Harrlman that he sent two experts
out here to Investigate the possi
bilities. And the possibilities so im
pressed the investigators that Mr.
Hartman urged the organization of
an Oregon flax manufacturing plant
and offered to subscribe to from
$75,000 to (100.000 stock to aid in
getting it established. But his
2Si """hL 52!'
which had flamed so brightly sud
denly died.
A few years later Dr. Diemel,
linen manufacturer of Alx-Ia-Cha-pelle,
was interested through Mrs.
Lord in flax growing possibilities.
With undying faith ani enthusiasm
in her cause she scoured the world
for people who might be interested.
She so interested this big European
manufacturer that he sent one of
his experts, Eugene Bosse, here, not
only to investigate, but to live and
work out the flax growing possibil
ities himself. And he with Mrs.
Lord became an Oregon flax grow
ing enthusiast. He grew flax which
won medals at a number of world
expositions and was pronounced in
all flax growing sections as second
to none. Mr. Bosse worked away
with Mrs. Lord for a number of
yearj, but in efforts at interesting
capital their progress was extreme
ly slow. A venture was made at
Turner years ago in a little flax
plant in which Theodore Roth and
others were interested but it never
expanded to speak of.
Then In 1915, Governor James
Withycombe, before his first legis
lature, addressed himself to seeing
flax recognized by the state as a
great future industry. Mrs. Lord had
often expounded her belief in flax
to Governor Withycombe and her
hopes soared high with his election.
And this time she was not disap
pointed. He secured an appropria
tion for establishment of a llax
plant at the prison and this has
been maintained ever since with
varying fortune.
Then came organization of the
Miles Linen mill in 1924 and about
the same time the Oregon Linen
mill. Mrs. Lord's dreams were com
ing true, but too late. For she had
passed on but to her unwavering
faith may be given the major share
of the credit for what has finally
oeen developing into an industry
which Is apt to grow here far be
yond her fondest dreams.
B. c. Miles was the moving spirit
in the Miles Linen mill, with his
money mainly backing It and sev
eral months of hard labor put in to
get it established. The mill started
with paid-in capital of $150,000 and
$50,000 worth of treasury stock. A
little later 950,000 in preferred stock
was Issued.
The mill opened In November or
December and the following June,
first deliveries were made. Orders
for salmon twine were large, better
than'first expected. When deliveries
were made and the twine put in use
in nets in the river, almost a death
blow was received. The twine proved
inadequate to the task assigned to
it. It didn't stand up under actual
use. The officers and directors were
stunned at first. It looked like fail
ure for the mill and that all the
hopes built up were to finish in a
wreck. But they pulled themselves
together, brought a fisherman up
from the Columbia and went to
work to manufacture twine that
would hold up. And succeeded. Now i
hundreds of thousands of pounds of
it are going into nets on the river,
pronounced by fishermen, and can
ners as equal or superior to any
made anywhere.
The dream of Charles Miller.1
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EXPORT BUYING
RAISES WHEAT
PRICES HIGHER
Chicago (JPi Export purchases of
2.000,000 bushels Friday led to lively
buying ot future deliveries Friday
and hoisted prices here about 3i
centa over Thursday's lowest level.
Selling pressure increased on thtt
price bulges, however, and sharp
j reactions occurred. A (actor whicti
at times gave a good deal cf addi.
tional impetus to specuwUve de.
statement from a lead-
In P P that unseasonably
mUl' weather is causing prematura
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Wheat closed unsettled 1 cent to
2 cents bushel higher than Thurs
day's finis:.. Corn closed '4 to 1
cent up, oats H to U cent advanced,
and provisions showing 7 to 25 cents
gain.
Chicago (P, Wheat prices her
took a derided upward swing early
Friday influenced by a brisk unex
pected Jump in quotations at Liver
pool. It was asserted European im
porters had accepted all available
wheat tendered from this side of
the Atlantic overnight but only after
the Canadian growers pool had,
comlpetelv withdrawn its export of-
Stnafnn til. n HA rinrttl
higher. Chicago wheat future dellv-
erics afterward scored additional
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OiVOHCE LEGALITY
QUESTIONED, PARIS
Paris (LP) Paris divorces may be
fashionable in the United States
but grave doubts have been cast
upon their validity by an American
kgal expert visiting Paris.
Otto Erwin Koegel, lawyer of
Washington and specialist in mar
riage laws on which subject he has
written several books, declared
during his stay here that he doubt
ed if Paris divorres would hold
water if contested in American
courts.
"I believe,' he said, "that Paris
divorces, in which residence is es
tablished solely in order to comply
with the local laws, are very likely
illegal in the United States. How
ever, they are seldom subject to
collateral attack as the principals
agree to the divorce beforehand."
SEIZE MOTOR LAUNCH
San Pedro, Calif. (LP) Seized after
a race with the coast guard cutter
Tingard in which she was sprayed
with shot, the motor launch Liberty
Friday was held in dock here for
investigation.
The cutter Montgomery towed the
launch from 150 miles northwest of
here after the fleeing boat was cap
tured by the Tingard.
Captain A. R. Ringross, and ah
engineer and deckhand aboard the
Liberty protested the capture. No
liquor was found aboard. The Lib
erty Is registered under the name of
Fred Orlando, of Long Beach, and
is a 70 foot craft with two engines.
ATOMS BECOME NUMBERS
Pasadena, Cal. i&) Using num
bers to Identify the atomic ele
ments composing the world Is be
coming increasingly important,
says Dr. Arthur A. Noyes of the
California Institute of Technology.
The numbers come from counting1
electrical charges believed to form
the nucleus of an atom.
As no gasoline is refined in Chile.
all the 600.000 barrels which will
have been u&ed there this year are
imported.
drenmed on his ranch at Jefferson
In TCT5 had come true in Oregon in
1928. A reorganization wa3 perfected
in the mill. Mr. Miles said his health
would not permit him to continue
againet what then appeared a losing
game. Henry Crawford became pres
ident of the mill, with Henry Myers
as superintendent and Tom Kay a
guiding factor. A little later when
Henry Meyers became superintendent-at
the penitentiary F. J. Gil
braith took hold as sales manager
and general manager. And gradual
ly they forged ahead.
The product of the mill has been
as big a factor as any in late de
velopments and this product was
only secured by careful, conserva-
tive and scientific management.
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gallonage increased
383.7 per cent for 1929
over 1928. More than
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