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The Sherman County Observer, Moro, Oregon,
Established 1887
Friday,
June
13,
1930
Price
Fire Cotta
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* 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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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