Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931, June 13, 1930, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text.'~Vi - 4 ^ ' - • . u . là • : . H. J ° ^ o n H istoric SccUty Auditorium 1 /^ f* * The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon, Established 1887 Friday, June 13, 1930 Price Fire Cotta «■* * The Man Who , Never Forgot OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENJERAUNTEREST By OWEN ATKINSON Principal Events of tho Week JO NES W INS NEW TITLE (CoprriataL) • A T PREt.’ISELY 8:26 a. m. John * * Pendleton Booth, plump, rt-d- fHoed. poThpous, successful, fifty, cam e down the steps of his New ilochette home and climbed Into the w aiting limousine. “ Right on th e dot as us ual.” he told Will, his chauffeur. . Will let In the g ears w ith a w ry sndle. Ue knew only too well w hat Mr. Booth’s dally schedule was. It hadn’t varied for th e ten years Will had been driving the big car. Is ite ly the chauffeur had found him self h«»[e Ing that Mr. Booth would be a m in u te la te some tim e during the dny. ” Be punctual and never forget a n y thing,** Booth announced to Will f«»r perhaps tliC thousandth time “ If I hadn’t followed those two p rin c ip le s I’d never be president of the New York Security T ru st today.” T here was no denying that Mr. Booth was president of that g rea t tru st company, so Will said Qgthtiiz. Mr. Booth leaned coinfortuhly ha« I; In the heavily upholstered seat and lit bis first of the day’s allotm ent »f cigars, the first puff of wlr|ch alw ays left his lips as the car passed Mcrl- dan road.’ Morning traffic at the crossing w is unusually heavy today and Will was forced to slow down to a hare five miles an hour. t G lancing obout hi n with an s ir of contented henevolcn.e, Mr. Booth's eyes alighted on the fig ure of a man balancing him self ..n the nearest curbing. Now It was m t the banker's habit to offer rides to strangers, but today be was In a gen erous mood and, besides, the man «>n the curb appeared to be prosperoas, well dressed. Booth ordered Will i ' o stop tii< ca r and. leaning out of ti e window, asked the w aiting g e n tle n m If be cared to ride Into the city. Ils did, and climbed Into the rear of Mr. Booth's lim ousine w ith alacrity, ex plaining that tils own cur had tiro .«-a down and Unit tie had an lm(M>: i nt nppoln'.ment that morning and iia I lieen derfierately trying to find m i . p . i to take him down to Wall »tree! M r. B ooth ch u ckle d and sal«l \Y 'l street happened to tie tils de sthm i o and th a t he understood the noce.-w; v o f keeping an ap po intm en t T-o s tra n g e r then In tro d u ce d liim seif n one D a vid C a rrig a n . Now D avid rlg a n happened to be president of ' o M echanics Savinas bank, an Ins* I- in tlo n w h ich Booth had every in,- a- lio n o f m erging w ith Ids com pany. Bor m onths lie..,hud !•• eo trying to arran g e »tie com ldriatt* it «f the tw o fin a n cia l organization*«. m .t to date had never had the pit—•- ■»» o f m eeting the p re sid e n t o f the Me Assembled for Information of Our Readers. i The Medford E lks ledge has voted to approve th e petition of G rants Pans residents for a lodge to be granted G rants Tass. ‘aasaKEßas < r | to .Mr B ooth's surp rise, hie . ; threw het arm s about his neck mt kissed ‘‘’film fu ll upon the lipa— i r tl'e first tim e In ten years. IV Bobby Jones. St. Andrews.—Bobby Jones won the most coveted of all titles in golfdom', the B ritish am ateu r championship, by defeating Roger W ethered 7 up and 0 to play. He had gained a title which he had never before held. He crow ned all his golfing am bitions by winning this match. Previously he had won the United S tates am ateu r and the ‘‘open” of both the United S tates and G reat B rl’aiu. PROHtB. QUERY MAY ' BE ON FALL BALLOT Pennsy. D em ocrats W et; III. Seeks V oters’ A ttitude. H a rris b u rg , Pa.— T he D e m o cra tic p a rty o f P ennsylvania d e fin ite ly w i t h on record ns being w et. T h e -.s ta te •com m ittee, w h |yh reorganized here, adopted a p la tfo rm th a t reconnnent!.- the Im m ediate repeal o f the Snyder A rm s tro n g state enforcem ent act, the repeal o f the fed eral Volstead act, ami the rem oval o f the E ig htee nth amend m ent fro m th e fe d e ra l C o n s titu tio n . > T h e p a rty fa vo rs the subm ission t y congress o f nn aiuendo-ent to conven tlon.x elected by the people o f the states p ro vid e d by th e C o n s titu tio n . T he p la tfo rm , d ra fte d by the state candidates n t a m eeting re ce n tly, was approved un a n im o u sly by the p la tfo rm com m ittee. - Z- M r. B ooth was d e lig h te d at fit!« chance o p p o rtu n ity to get H cipia'ni d, b ill was loo shrew d a man to rah« advantage o f the s itu a tio n amt to at tem pt Io ta lk h iis liic u t. In.-tcnd e i < liuM eif lig h tly on flit* latest sub je h o f W estchester county gossip the a la rm in g Increase In hold ups of mo to ris ts on the h igh w ays am i by-roads. I, was a subject dear to M r Booth s heart and he expressed li in i s 'l f rlro n g ly . ' “ A m an’s a foo l to take chances.” lie said. “ A lit t le c a u tio n Is a ll th a t's necessary. Never stop fo r strangers, rlta t's w hat I say. I vo never had any tro u b le yet. I ’m too *Ctever fo r d ie crooks. T h e y ’ll never get me." As Mr. B ooth's car ro lle d In to Cen tr a l park ut ttn e H u nd red and I'enth street, he reached as nsttal fo r Ids w atch In o rd e r to check W ill and sea I f he was ru n n in g on schedule. llli hand fum bled at Ids vest pocket. J lien hung there, p a ralysed H is w a tch was gone! T hen In a flash the Answer came to lilm . T ills man beside him was not D a vid ('u rrig a q He. was n hold up m a n ! Now us Mr. Booth was in : the habit o f d r iv in g at n ig h t on po litic a l w o rk In the cou nty, he luid s e cured s license to c a rry a re vo lve r In hts autom obile. M r. Booth -acted . s w iftly . He snatched d ie b lun t nosed a u to m a tic fro m d ie pocket nt his side. Jammed the m uzzle In to th e . rib s of the man beside him and said In h :id d e term in ed vo ice : “ G ive me d ie w a tc h !*' «, A s ta rtle d look flushed ovei <’n r rlg a n 's face. W ith tre m b lin g li.it.l« lie plucked • hr» w atch and chain fro m his own vest p m k e t. handed th e n r deles over to M r. 'B ooth and lim n dived bend first fro m the ru n n in g «ttr. a ll In one con tinu ou s te rrifie d m ove ment. and was gone 'O n Ids return hottie that nrgld. Mr Booth proudly rela ted the moiuTng s Incident m tils w ife M artha As s':e w as ac«,i|st<>na*d to listen in g to tits u ltm ip lis sh e sh o w ed no p a rticu la r < u ip iis e But w hen her husbatid lea c h e d Mie part about d ie Will« It s ’.fi -a t up listen ed In ten tly And then i . p -o v e Ids story and to illy s lr a te •l int tie t«toh dre very tlm ep ie«* I t'e m tils pocket and dangled it • ‘'rout of his w ife ., S h e scizi <f tt, , -ned it «»vet and looked ¡on the hack, .'epfi strn tigely. Shp began to laugh. ■look John ” she gurgled. “ Look rhe initials on the back of the a i* a ‘D (” Ttiat was Mr. C arri- . i, von invited to ride with you this •;--:hinc I found your own w atch ufier yon left For once In your Ilfs you forgot som ething! You’ve made a m istake! Oh, John! This mnkee «on n human being again.** The se c re ta ry of state apportioned am ong th e various counties In Ore gon a total of >56,249.13 for county fair purposes. The tax for county fairs k< one-tw entieth of a mill, based on—all assessable p ro p erty In the stato. Checks ag g regating $12,220.14, rep re sen tin g a seventh dividend of 7.3 per 6ent, w ere being mailed by the state banking d ep a rtm en t to 326 depositors of tho defunct Bank of Jordan Valley. M alheur county, which eloerd its duo. s Ja n u ary 24, 1925. Tho W inona rabbiD y, owned by Mr. and Mrs. F red W onri-is Tualati.i, sufferod a real lore a few days ago i W. W. W ork of Albany suffered a when th e ir recently»? acquired goat ate all th e pedigreo tickets from the front i broken arm whgh his autom obile bo j_came u n m a n a g a b le o n tho Newpcrt- of the rab b it hutches.. V aluable «latu I Albany road and^overtu.-ntd. , w ere consum ed by the goat. chanics crowd. p At th e opening of th e Lake county wool m ark et a q u a rte r of a million pounds was sold* for 19 cen ts a pound. Signal, Eula, Warner. Unity and Fall Creek met and voted by a large ma jority In favor of the bonds, ggr <• Chicago.— T he firs t step to deter m ine the a ttitu d e o f the voters o f 111! nota on p ro h ib itio n at the election next Novem ber was taken the past week by the R epublican o rg a n iza tio n o f Cook county. C h airm a n II. W. Snow of the county «•entrai com m ittee announced th ^ : three p e titio n s under the pu blic policy net bad been put in c irc u la tio n throu gh ou t the c ity am i the c o u n try tow its. Each covers a separate «pies tlo n sought to be placed on the lilt!«- b a llo t In the state election. T h e firs t Is the question w lictb e t the E ig h te e n th am endm ent sha ll la- repealed. T h e second Is th e «ptesli«».' w h ethe r congress sh a ll m o d ify ^ , e Volstend act by g iv in g the In d iv id u a l states the pow er to de term in e for them selves w h at a lco h o lic content «»I beverages Is In to x ic a tin g . T he th ird Is the question w h e th e r the sta te leg N a tu r e s h a ll repeal the Illin o is prohi und seizure act. A few (lays ago the Republican W ashington state convention ndoj»le«l a p la n k c u llin g fo r the nimUficutlqu of the Volstead act. $356,144 DavU Ticket; Pinchots Give $109,603 W ashington.—E xpenditures aggre gating $366.144 in behalf of the tieke t bended by Secretary of I^ibor Jam es J. Davis, Republican senatorial candi date, and Frnncis S Brown, Repub lican candidate for governor, In the recent Pennsylvania prim ary, w ere re ported to th e se n ate’s election expend! tu rcs Investigating committee. In com parison, S enator J. R Grun«ly (Rep., Pa ), who lost to Davis, has reported expenditures of approxi m ately’ ’$338,000, while $200.000 was spent for a wet tieket beaded by Prof. F rancis 11. Bohlen. Laundrym en from all sections of O rcgtn gathered In Salem recently for the annual convention of the S tate Ijaundrym cn’s asseciaticn. ‘C onstruction w ork*on the Owyhee i Total resources of the banks or Oro- ! gen Increased from >.27,688,959.93 I t { the year 1909 to $348,'n 1,906.92 in t i— i year 1929, according to the annusl I report of tiio sta te superintendent rf project Is progressing rapidly with , banks com pleted rccem iy. » The g hn , more than 400 men em ployed on the i since 1909 was 5221,222 9 16.99. dam and tunnel contracts. To d em o n strate the possibilities of dusting orch ard s on a commercial The Pendleton P ioneer club has ded Icatcd a concrete bench In Pioneer , scale by airplane the N orthw estern park to the late Mrs. Aura M. Raley, , A erodusting com pany c.r.d the Oregon often referred to at the “m other of 's t a t e college extensfi a service will d u st th e prune orchard of II. A. Win P endleton.” Eton at W inston, Douglas county. A w arning to m erchants and Individ The plant of tho Owen Oregon I.u uals to bew are of bringing Infected ber com pany at -Medford will opt ra t: cherries into Douglas county has been one shift, of nine h cu rg this sum m it’ issued by A. C. Allen, horticultural The concern will also (; rate one log com m issioner. The O regon-W ashington W ater Serv ging plant as at preeext in the Butte ice company of Salem spent $5470 In F; l’.j d istrict. Tills m e n u the cm«pley Its unsuccessful cam paign ag ain st the m ent of betw een 300 and 250 men. R eports Indicate that the prune er. p m unicipal ow nerrhip am endm ent at in the E stacad a locality w/il be mu h the recent election. beUeij than expected c'.n e tim e ago Recent rains have increased the prospect«? fcr average yields In all tho G rowers who thought ¡5 crop' would be an en tire failure r w stato they m ajor crops of Baker county. Less wh-jat an d xpera barley and oata were will have a fair crop. Caterpillar^ are said to ha num erous on . causing som«'» planted this year Phan usual. trouble. The E astern Oregon L ibrarian a?jo- T h irty five cents an hour fo r'co m i ciation has been organized at Baker rr.on labor for fore3t l-.o fighting, by librarians from all r a r ts of eastern when th e labor is cbta d from cen Oregon. Miss Mabel Doty of La tral labor m arkets, is the rate fixcJ Grande was elected president. by the sta te fo rester's < ‘ .u e, tho v ar The Marion county court has pur ious fire-fighting asuoci ’ior.s and tin' chased a new concrete m ixer and here , United S tates fo re st sc. vice, fur eu h after no sm all bridges will be built cf work d u rin g 1939. wood. Tho old wooden bridges v i'rl A large brown bear, v...ich n tta ik c d be replaced with concrete culverts. H erb ert F raacui Jr.. 12 ¿oar old Bend C ontracts for the Installation of bey, W0 3 chare J a w y by th e boy’s ornam ental stree t lighting on K lam ath stepm other,, who hu ?! d ston«« avenue and fqj tho 14th sew er unit the D esch u t'u river i.3 the bi.; were aw arded by ordinances parsed approached the lad. The bey, by th e K lam ath Fails city council. ened by tho bear, «¿row c l E xtensive lim estone deposits have ground, lie did i,«..t ace the been found in the Black Butte quick until it w aa-25 feet a way. silver mipe In southern Lane coun’y. Eorty-foot-liigh sand dunes l.'.oy.ng It is caid the deposits are sufficient 25 or 30 feet a year th reaten t«> d ■ to w arran t com m ercial development. «¿troy cen tral Oregon’s “lost fo:«’. t," E. V. M athews of/ Fossil «an killed, a four mile squaro tract of pine i . 1 or and L'an E. Flory, aL o of Foesil, was in the isolated Interior of Lake «■ r.'.;?, injured when their autom obile crashed . more than 39 miles d istan t Lorn tie iuto-a Columbia Gorge auto stage near P aulina m ountain tim l.or bell, i W arrcndalo on the Columbia highway. 1 of the dunes havo reached the cut The Oregon straw b erry crop this sk irts of the m iniature forest. year was estim ated by the d ep art i From present indications, the ap^Ic ment of agriculture at 13,230,000 quarts I crop in Oregon will bo considerably on an area of 9450 acres, as agair« t , larg er than last year and may closely 11,700,000 q u a rt3 on 10,500 acres last , «approach the good clop of 1225. P ro year. duction In the Hood Ri ver valley prom A pledge of cooperation In the ef t tees to be nearly normal this season. fort to bring the 1931 convention of In the Rogue river valley a large api la the sta te d epartm ent of the American •crop is ajp ected in altern ate seasons Legion to Roseburg has been given and this Is tho year of heavy produc Umpqua post by the Roseburg c h a n ber of commerce. Tha Consolidated Oregon Gold Except in cases of extrem e emer- Mines, lac., baa eouiidctod construe gencies and when the distance is rea tloa of a GO-tcn notation and nmalga sonably clo se,'th e Eugene fire appara ination mill at Snow Creek mine, 1% tus h ereafter will not be taken out of miles west of Granite. Tho mill was injuuediitely put into operation on a the city lim its, according to a decision one shift baois. A uc .v boarding house of the city council. A union high school building will be and an assay office are Doing built erected at Lowell, near Eugene, at a mndltvjw assay equipment la being in_ cost of $25.COO, The voters of Lowell, stalled. OREGON NEWS ITEMS OF SPECIAL^INTEREST the Week Collected for Our Readers. H erb ert Eeyqrs, m anager of the Douglas County T urkey G row ers’ as sociation, was nam ed oue of Tho 12 delegates from tho w cetern half of the United S tates selected to appear be fore tho federal farm board at Salt Lake. City, to a ssist in form ulating plans for the ^formation of the pro posed N orthw est T urkey G row ers’ as se d atio n . It will soon be aa difficult to get a lunch In Bly, as for the well-known «aniel to lope through the eye of a needle. T hree lunch rooms in that so u th ern Or/'ficu village were ordered padlocked for a year by United S tates District Judge McNary* for violation of the national prohibition law. No one shall be in the.-places during the year, but tho fixtures m ust rem ain In the rpon.e. Tho Rogue river valley one-crop straw berry yield has suffered a loss of ^t least 50 per cent, according to growers, as a resu lt of continued cold .fiid wet w eather. However, the ono- cri p berry in tho valley Is planted only tor barrelling, while tho ever bearing varieties are planted for m arket, and with intensive Irrigation tho ever bear ing v. ill mako a heavy crop until late next fall, which will overcome the loss to tho early crop. I Because of uncertain m arket condi tions Marion county cherry grow ers arc planning to establish a m araschino plant fcr the barreling of Royal Annes. Growers say puch a plan wus neces sary for the protection of th eir in tercets. The Jackson County Game P ro tr. live- association will oppose the grant ing of perm its for the construction Cl any power dam s in tho Rogue river ot the taking of w ater for any purpose, ether than irrigation, th at will reduce the stream flow. M ortgage M ade M atter of Record in Babylon If you believe th a t the first m ort gage-loan plan Is som eth in g a lm ost new, you’re about 2,400 years behind the times. A short while back an archeological expedition working In the w aste of an antique city In Babylon excavated a «lav tablet with odd characters drawn upon tt. The translation of these char acters re a d s : “Thirty bushels of dates are due to Bel Nndln Shun, son of Marashu, by. Bel Bulllsu and Sha Nebu Shn, sons of K lrbetl, and their tenants. In the month of Taslrrl (harvest month) of the thirty-fourth year of King Ar- taxerxes I they shall pay. the dates, thirty bushels, according to the m eas ure of Bel Nndln Shum, In the town of Bit Bulntsu. T heir field cultivated and uncultivated, th eir fief estnte, Is held as a pledge for the dates, nam e ly thirty bushels, by Bel Nadln Shun. A nother creditor shall not have power over It.” T his prehistoric tablet and other records excnvnted show th at the men of old conducted business on the same plans th a t we are prone to call u ltra modern. Ninety-eight out iff every -hundred persons, says Dr. S. Huebner, of the University of I’enusylvnnla, tire "finan cially Incompetent.” The other two, l.t seems, keep the country prosperous. "Did you get much response from your audience?” “None nt all,” adm it ted the great orator. “ I’m beginning to think Demosthenes was right, lie used to go down and shout at the ocean.” Ford Offers New De Luxe Sedan — L acion B u ild in g for A thens At liens, G reece.—The cabinet fins «leclih'd to g ran t a site In the center' of Athens for the Arheflchn Legion’s building H alt« Canadian L iq u or to U. S. Award« $ 1 3 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 Contracts New York.—Nearly $13.000,(MX) In rapid tran sit contracts, mrflnly for the city’s new subway system, were aw ard ed recently by the board of trans-, portntlon. 1 Ford Dc Luxe Sedan T HE De Luxe Sedan, recency added to the Ford line, Is designed for those who desire distinctiveness and unusual comfort In an automobile. The Interior is In viting and roomy with wide doors to both compart-, merits. Absence of rear quarter windows gives the car a striking Individuality and affords privacy to the oc cupants. . ' .Interior trimmings ^and appointments are luxurioua. tlphohrtery Is either In brown mohair or a deep tan Bed ford cord patterned after that used in high-priced cars. Other refinements IncluBe arm rests for the rear seat, mahogany .finished garnish mouldings on the windows and bsneath tho windshield, flexible robe rail and hard ware In an attractive pattern. The front seat Is adjustable within a range of four Inches to suit the convenience and comfort of the driver. It is moved quickly and easii/ by a small, inconspicuous handle In the front center of the seat just above the floor. The De Luxe Sedan, like other Ford body type», can be obtained In any one of several color combinations. ALLOW $779,500 FOR ILLINOIS WATERWAY Sums Allotted for Wiscon sin and Other Sections. Grief Resume of Happenings of Har.'Isburg, Pa.—Gifford Plncl»«t contributed $04,000 to his own success ful cam paign for th e Republican pont liiatlon for governor and his wife gave $ir».OO0 Ills statem ent of cant p«Rgn expenditures revealed when It was filed w ith the sta te election bit reiut. O ttaw a, O ut.—With notifications is sued to ull Canadian customs officers that th e ‘liquor export ban Is now In effect, the 'C anadian government has officially, cut off nil liquor exports to the United States. M AY BE SENT TO JA P A N W. Cameron Forbes. W ashington.—W. Cameron Forbes, Boston banker and form er govern jr general of the Philippines, has been tentatively selected as the new am bassador to Japun, according to Infor m ation learned In adm inistration cir cles. Mr. Forbes, a close friend of P resident Hoover, served ns chairm an Of the special commission which re cently Completed a survey and report on th e American adm inistration of nf- falrs In Haiti. R A IL R O A D S P L A N T O H A N D L E W H E A T CROP A bout 6 0 ,0 0 0 Cars A re Being Moved to Side TVacks. Chicago.—P lans fo r a quick, system atic movement of w heat during the nn- nual harvest-—which begins In a few weeks—were Announced here by rail road ^officials. Between 55,000 and 00,- 000 freight curs will be made avail able, many already having been moved to siding In the Southw est grain coun try, a survey Indicates. “Conditions this season point to fuvorable shipping of the grain crop,” stnted n Chicago railw ay association official. “The problem of having cars available when the crop Is ripe Is be coming g reater each year, ns a result of the modern m ethods of harvesting with Hie ‘combine* or harvester- thresher. T rucks and good ro^ds bring th is grain to th e elevator urtu Into tl)JB_Cflrp In a heavy stream th at has nt tim es caused tem porary delays nt certain points. No such condition Is anticipated this year.” Never before have so few orders for delivery of the oncoming wheat crop to seaboard ports for Immediate export been listed nt this tim e of the year, according to Chicago grain In terests. Reports of prlvnte crop sta tlsticlnns Indlcnte th a t th ere will be about 245,000,000 bushels of wheat In the Uplted S tates on July 1, when the new crop season Sturts. This Is the largest “carry over” of w heat the country has ever seen, the reports show. “ We realize these conditions and the F a n n e rs’ National G rain corporation, since It expects through Its stockhold ers to handle nearly half the new crop, is almost dally announcing new acquisitions of storage space,” stated Wllllum Stahl, vice president of the central sales agency created by the federal farm board. While the 1Ü30 crop will niove through about the sam e channels It alw ays has, he explained. Indications are th at more grain will he m arketed by farm ers’ co-operatives than ever be fore In this country. Mr. Stahl re turned a few days ugo from a survey of the situation In the N orthw est and Pacific const. Washington.—The sum of $779,500 has been allotted by the W ar depart ment for expenditure on the Illinois river link of the lakes to the gulf , waterway during the next fiscal year, , it was disclosed when the 1981 allot m ents were made public.«. Allotments amounting to $39,580,090 were an nounced. The allotments are out of the lump sum appropriation of $55,000,000 for river and harbor Improvements carried In the annual army appropriation bill wl^ch was signed by the President a few days ago. Inasmuch as $15,000.- 000 remains unallotted It will be pos sible for the W ar department to as sign from this money such funds as may be necCM»7 during the coming . fiscal year tow’ard the completion of the Illinois state waterway project, if the pending rivers and harbors bill Is enaqjed Into law. Amounts carried In the rivers and harbors bill are au thorizations as distinguished from ap propriations and are Intended to pro vide » program for expenditures over a period of years. The appropriation allotm ent for the Illinois river is .to be expended under th e authorization of the 1927 rivers and harbors bill for the expenditure of $3,500,000 for a nine-foot channel be tween U tica and the mouth of the river nt G rafton, 111. The sta te w ater way project which will be taken over by the federal governm ent under the pending rivers and harbors bill ex tends from Utica north to Lockport. A total of $26,000 is carried la the bill for exam inations, surveys, and coa- , •tlngencles In the first and second Chi cago districts. T he Chicago river la allotted $33,100, while $197,700 la set aside for the Chicago harbor. Tbe. sum of $77,400 la alloted for work on Michigan City harbor and $42,000 for expenditures on the Calumet river and harbor, In Indiana and Illinois. Wisconsin allotments follow; Green Bay harborK Wla^ $40,000; Fox river, Wls„ $55,000; Sturgeon bay and Lake W ashington ship'canal, Wla.. >16,000; Algoma harbor, Wla^ $8,000; K ewaunee harbor, Wls., $12,500; Two Rivers harbor, Wls.. $8,000; Manitowoc harbor, Wls., $5,000; Sheboygan har bor, Wls., >40.000; Port Washington harbor, Wls., >10,000; Milwaukee har bor, Wla., >140,000; Racine harbor. Wls., >14,000; Kenosha harbor, W la, >9,600. Some of the largest allotments are for expenditures on Mississippi and Missouri rivers. The sum of $2,280,- 000 Is allocated for Improvement of tlie Missouri river from Kansas City to Sioux City, la. New Co-Op Scheme for Dairymen Is Announced Minneapolis, Minn.— W. F. Schilling, dairy member of the federal farm board, announced that a new co-opera tive setup for dairymen of South Da kota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Mis souri and Oklahoma would be organ ized ns a central marketing u n it Schilling said the new letup Is ex pected to he organized -this month. It will maintain sales agencies In Chi cago a td New York, especially for distribution of butter. One conference has already been held with dairymen of the states named and another la scheduled for this month. “Under the new plan,” 8chllllnc said, “thft cooperative« are being set up so they will he able to accumulate reserves and eventually finance them selves.” This was taken to mean eventual withdrawal of the farm board from active participation In the co-operative movement ' Washington.—Farmers* dairy organ izations doing a business of $850,000.- 000 annually will discuss further ex pansion of and farm marketing pro gram of the federal farm board at a national conference in Colnmbua dur ing the week of July 7. Rail Raté Cut to Help Farmer Is Held Illegal No Program Determined for New Wheat Loant W ashington.—Reductions made In freight rates by the In te rsta te Com merce commission In conform ity with Its Interpretation of the requirem ents of the Iloch-Stnlth resolution adopted by congress about *’ve years ago were held Illegal in a leclslon rendered by the Supreme court reversing the Dis trict court for th e northern d istrict of California and settin g aside nn order of the In tersta te Commerce commis sion lowering deciduous fru it rntes from C alifornia to enstern destina lions. The decision which was w ritten hy Ju stice V/Illls Van D evnnter Is the first ru l’ng by th e C ourt of Last Re so rt on the lloch-Sinlth resolution which was widely proclaim ed ns hav ing farm relief ns Its objective through authorizing freight rate discrimina tlons In favor of ag ricultural products. Washington.—Chairman Legge of the farm board has announced that the hoard has not yet determined Its program for making commodity loans on the new wheat crop. The loans, he added, probably would be made by cooperatives on a “normal basis,” which In cotton and wheat he defined ns approximately 75 per cent of the cash marketing value. He said that members of the com mittee of apple growers, appointed to study plans for handling of the commodity on a national basla, have recommended that the present apple marketing system be disturbed as Ut- tle ns possible. The apple growers believe, he said, that local groups are not sufficiently well organized for the establishment ot ceutrnl distribution of sales agen cies. Cochet D efeat« B ill Tilden Girl Wins Golf Hnamro Brookline, Mass.—Mias Frances Wil liams, eighteen, of Pottstown, Pa„ a daughter of Harry Williams» profUs- slonal, won the eastern women’s go» chnmplonshlp and set a new courea record of 254. P aris.—I le n d Coehet of France, de feated “ Big Bill” Tilden of the Unite«! S tates and Helen Wills Moody, the American em press of International tennis, defeated Helen Jacobs, her fel low countryw om an. In the French hard court singles finals ot Auteull. K ille d by Switch Explosion Omaha. Neb.—One man was klled and eight were Injured by an explo sion of a 13,000 volt electrical switch here. $75,000 fa r T U a te r T< Muscow. — Tbe Soviet government haa assigned $75,000 tor an all-ankm theatrical tournament to ba given In the Park of Culture here lata thia month. v I • A * • 1 «-•ii