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Newspaper Page TextPAflTC ETflTTT WEDFORD MATL TTtTTHTXT';, MKDFORD, ORKf.'OX. .MONDAY, A I'M L'ST 11. 19:50. AL SMITH LOOMS UP AS ISSUE Shadow of Democratic Can didate Cast Over 3 Elec tions Tomorrow, Alabama Nebraska and Arkansas Prohibition Also. Issue Heavy Vote Is Predicted. Xrzf l WAKIIIXOTON, Aut,'. II. W'J Tlie Hhadow of Alfred K. Smith, J flL'S Demnernllc preHidentl-il ran dldalo will loom largo over tlireo of the four Htalo prlmiirlerj to lo held Tuen day of thin week. Voterfl of Ala bama, ArkiinmiH and Nobruuku, will have the burning Imhuch of two yearn uko brought bark to them Indirectly while in the fourth Btatu where bal lots are to be cunt prohibition Ih to flgurea largely in the vote. A la ha ma Democrat h itro to choline a nuceoHfcor to Henator J. lleflin, ouKled from thin yenr'H party prinniry heoautte ho failed to mipport the Democratic preHi tlentlal canrlldato two yearn ago. 1 lefllu, however, Iuih conducted a vlgorotiH campaign for ro-eleetlnn iiH an independent and will be Iho November opponent of the victor In the Democratic primary. John II. RnnUhend, of JiiHper, and Kred o rie.lt I. ThompHon, Mobile publlnh cr, lire the Kemitorlal ratidldates In the primary. It will he the f irt time In more, than 30 yearn that the Democratic Hcnatnrlal nominee facea oiipoNltlon at Iho general election. XoitIm Was Smith Aide Tho Nebrank r ace offered iih Hh chief IntercHt opposition to Senator (leurgo W. Norrln, who left the Itepubltcan fold to hup port Kmtth In the campaign. However, farm relief, tariff and prohibition lire numbered nmoiiK the Ihhuck In 1 the Kcpuhltcan content thero. Nor rlH Ih oppohed by W. "W. Htobbin, Htato treiiHurcr and Aaron Head. The fcUebbln campaign hun boon rtireclod at NoitIh for failure to fooperate with tho administration. S'ho veteran Henator curried to tho fulcra it claim for vindication of hia party bolt, annoi-tlng "oventH that have transpired liavo cleared Hip of erilielmn." The Demtieratlc primary In Ne hrunku off era a camtldulo who deneited the ritnkn of that party to suppurt J h over In 1U2X. Thin Ih Dr. Jennie Al. CullfiiH, oppoKed by funnei- Senator Ullhort M. Hitch cock. y- Prohibition Ih Ihniio v In ArkanaaH, Senator Joneph T. Roblnaon, tho Democmtlc leader, han conducted a Hlrenuoun cam paign HKaliiNt Hum W. Campbell, little Hock lawyer. Hohlnuon 'han championed the cuuko of national prohibition In vIkoi-ouk iiHhlon In manner that haH led to general belief he nought to eniinteract any nffect of IiIh having nlimed (he na tional ticket with Hmlth. HecauKO of Utile- opposition to Hep ubi lean eandlilatcH IntercHt In Ohio Iiuh eonlnrMl on the Demo cratic Henatorlal content In which prohibition hun been tho leading lHMiie. Tariff, farm, relief and present economic condltlouM have contributed lo campaign toplen. Hobert J. Huckley, of Clevelnnd, u former representative, advocator dry law repeal and Clcorge S. illyera of Cleveland, favora modifi cation. Tho other candid a Inn In tho Demorriitlc aenate ruco are W. V. Durbln, fr many yenra leader tif IiIh party In the Mate; former Hepi 'I'Mi'litiillvo John M rHwi'ciioy, nf WiiusUt. iiixI diarlm V. Truiix. oni-o Hlulo tllt-cctor uf iiKi-k'tilturt. No lirlumry uiipoNltlmi furi-H Hrlmtor Hunciii' l .MrCulloch, tin' Iti'lHlhlkiin im-umlioiH, who In H dry. KmllUK a whirlwind two.wopkK onlumli;ii of lilltor prl-KiinidltlcM, ONlahoitm Mi'inon-iitH will ko to the runoff lirlumry poIIm tomorrow to nomlimtu it Hovirnor mirl Unlti'il Htntpii Honutor. Kor their RiilM'rnutorlHl noiulnoo, hori'toforo lilwayH olct'toit. thi'y muni rhooHO hotwppn Krunk Hul (riini, Okhihonm City oil mllllon ulro Hurt colorful WHIIiini lli'iiry (Alfulfu Hill) lliirniy nt TlHhomln ro, coiiHtilullomil iiutlior JiiHt ro turni'd fjoni mi in fmoit Hollvhin rolonlmtlnn HttPinpt, who luiil u 06,00(1 votu lilllinllty In Iho frnt piimniy July 2D. rharlpii J. WrlKhtxmnn of Tnlna, UIho inailo wealthy !y iotrol(iinrH favora. anil hllnil Thoman P. dure, for 13 yenra United Htatea nenator. will content for the Demoeratlc aenatnrlal nomination. They fln iHhed the firm primary on virtually even ternia. The winner faeea a Htlff Reneral eleetlon content Itxniniit Henntor W. It. Pine, He pulilloan and an Independent field Including J. (', (Jack) Walton, ouHted aa Rovernor In 192a when lie ordered martini law to nuell KU Hlux Klun dlnturhnnecii. SUNDAY SIZZLE Eastern Oregon Hottest Place in State With 102 Only S in Hertford Mercury Climb, to 108 in Nevada. (IMATILIA HAS flp flSS RECORD HEAHN dv nDni itu V i UIUU 1 1 1 1';.DIJ;T0N. Ore., Auk. u. (A't Sunday wan "jutit anuther hot day fur J'endletun and envlroiiH. The mercury touched a hlh of, 101 dcKrccti. Iast nlKbt's minimuiu waa till degrecM, 7 PER CENT July Estimates Cut By Cli matic Conditions Com and Wheat Suffer Host All Prosj)cts Below Last Year's Output. 1'OKTI.AXlJ, Ore., Aug. 11. (Af) j To I'matllla went the heat rec ord for the Htalo .Sunday, on the luiKiH -of rcpnrtH from tliuno cftlea anil towns in which the weather bureau taken obnervatloiiM. Tho muxlmuiu In tho eunlern DreKon city wiih 102 deKreea. I'endlcton wan next in litlo with 101 dcKrcoa. .Medford had a maximum of !I0 dcKreea. Salem waa next with K II, and Portland and Albany tied with un H7. Other tcmperatureH were: Maker 80, Marhricl 7X, RuKeburK H2. The maximum In Yakima waa !), In Walla Walla MA, and livd illuff, !Mi. Wiunemucea, Nev., waa tho hut teat place In the country yeaterday with a maximum uf 10U degree. i isr . i mvp.tf U , i mm Screen life Hollywood Hy Kuhhln ('(mmin. llolJ.VW'OOD Dual rolea In Mltcnt pIcttiri'H Ioiik Mince have eofiaed to be cauae for curioaity, biU putting tho a in e phenome non Into a talkie, ucltliiK "il actor to ronveiKo with himself An the ereon, o f f c r a new problems. .1 a c k M nihil 1 1 ii "Dark StreetHMi lad the fiiHt dual talkie role, and now l.orcttu Yountf Ih under aklnK tho fli'Kt oich role for a .vomau. linw Ih It dune? Very Hlmi)ly lack .M ti Ilia II and very palim- takliiKly. The "picture" portion Ih taken Just uh In Hih-til picturoH, llio camera foeuMhiK only on one Hide of each Hceue in which the dual character appeai'H. Ouo nt a Thin. When this side haa been pho tographed, the film Ih rewound, and then the other Hhlo Ih ex poHcd, while .llsa Young portrays the other character, on the oppo hlto Hide of the Hceno. I In Hcenes where tho two appear on the name side, one of the kIiIh always ban Jier hack to the cam era, and Ih a 'double." The meth od Ih the Hiune as that used In Hllent dual rolcH. (letting the dialog In straight" h more difficult, although simi le, t'erfcitinn all depends on timing. MIhh Young '-ehearseH, HpeakliiK her llnea while snmeoue cIho reads her oilier character's. in Iho filming and recording, (he sound expert In IiIh booth al lows only Miw Young'H Uiich to be recorded, leaving gaps In the record Hurriclent for the replies. Then when the nctresH HtepH to the other side of the mene. in her other character, the same pro cedure for timing is followed and the Much she Hpeaks then fall Into their proper place on the wax disk. ' WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. (IV Crop proHpectH in tho United Stales were reported today by tho department of agriculture to have declined nearly seven per cent during July uh a result of drought and hot weather. Tho corn crop this year was placed at 2, 21 1,823,000 bushels, buHlng Its forecast on tho condl-j lion of the crop August 1. That; compares with 2.802,000,000 fore-j cust a month ago and 2,1)14, 000,- 000 bunhels produced last year. I The Indicated production of all wheat was placed nt 820.U 13,000 bushels, compared with 827,000, 000 bushels hint month and 8 0 ti , - ' 000,000 bushels last yeur. j The preliminary estimate of winter wheat production was 11117. aitL'.OOO bushels, compared with f fix. 000, 000 bushels Indicated last month, and 578,000,000 bushels produced last year. Tho quality of winter wheat Ih 911.4 per cent, compared with 86.7 last year. Durum wheat production Is In dicated at -18,2!(),000 bUHhels, com pared with f 7,M)0, )(K bushelH laHt month and 52,000,000 bushels last year. The Indicated production of all olhi;,' spring wheat Is placed at 17 l.1KI2.0O0 bushels, compared with 1113,0110,000 bushels indicated last month and 17(1,000,000 bushels produced laHt year. The Indicated production of oalH was announced at 1 .!( 1 ti.Iltl!', 00(1 bushels Indicated latir month and 1.2:14.000,000 bushels produced last year. , NATION IS PREPARING. FOR MASS AIR TRAVEL MAP SHOWS NUMBER OF AIRPORTS. LANDING FIELDS. LICENSED AND IDENTIFIED PLANES AND PILOTS BY STATES L 2 4"7"" MAP s,,ows NUMBER OF AIRPORTS. LANDING FIELDS. LICENSED i LHASII 190 I M IDENT,nD PLANES AND P1L0TS BY STATES . us mow. H.o. 191 ZylL a ' i : 3s i 15 I "- s 13 299 ?f r LOS.! J 7 IDWl 0' j 79 St). MINN. 'n. ,5 9 tfJ Jli-V :?oS U T-J 25 m k isT-Wj ) wcH-ifVCNr 1 J 35 23 '433 1423 28 QJjr mi I try -- vL ark. (44 51 y AIR TRAVEL. nt . sss riTA 6 is ) Z 7 DIVISION LEGEND, J I gi XjtJ UPPER FIGURES . ) 77JJ&iK 100 13 -A. LICENSED AND IDENTIFIED AIRCRAFT J-T 7 'l3 '$fjLJL& AIRPORTS. ALL TYPES X -jf I II INriltHCOIATK AND AUHILIAHV FICLOB I ttff f '1 " , - ' C 1 II PIVlHtR FIIOM AKRON AUT : aHANRH hkE ' ttea II DEPARTMENT OP COMMERCE . '"" .mLJ CENTER FIGURES' TOTAL PILOTS LOWER FIGURES- Ozarks Farmer, Who Says He Is 118, Planning Next Birthday Party Soon STORY 1 (Continued from Po 1) OTTAWA, Auk. 1 1 . (!) Can- atla's spring wheat crop as of July 31 was in a less favorable condi tion than on June 30, a crop re port Issued by tho Dominion bu reau of statistics Indicated. The condition at tho end ot July was Kivcn ns 8 5 per cent of the ten year avernRe. At tno onu or June, the condition was HI per cent and tho end of May 9(1 per cent. However, tho condition was con siderably bettor than on July HI, 1 1120, when It was sot at 00 per cent. F . 'M AALSlQ, SAY,OL)-i?E JU?T trarflc act, ttt that the only eom maudliiK oTI leer in the depart ment would be the chief. At pres ent there are five commissioned besides tho chief. These are two captains and three lieutenants. While the newspapermen walled two ami a half horns to talk with Hons three 'ofriceiH of the depart ment appeared and were nlvoii audience ahead of the press men. These were Captain Hloom, the deposed orricer. who applied In cltixcn's clothes, Lieutenant . Nichols and officer Huston of the Halem district. Hoss denhd thit he had held se.eret conferences with McMahon, ' He has not Mulled my beach home for two yearn and bus never been Inside my houne In Salem." he said. The letters, ask Iiik the reslnnatlon. he said, were written after he went to the beach, from where he returned last nlnht. It had been apreed with liaffety. h shl. that the ehiinRe be not announced for three Weeks. As noon as It leaked, he said, he wast has the WASHINGTON, I). C Aug. 8. 1 tones of ricHlppus, the very Ki'eat Krandfather of Gallant lix, marvel of American race tracks, have been discovered In Idaho where scientists have identified amotiK skeletal remains the nilss Iiik link of the horse family, I'lesippus bore slight reset n blanco to tho winner of tho 11)30 Kentucky Derby. Ho was a pro historic horse about the sixo of a collie dntf and had three toes on each foot. While crossing i swamp I'lesippus Rot bombed In the mil o and perished. The de posit that -rinsed over his car cass preserved tho fossil hones for more than a million years. .Modern Horses l.luk with Past Hut the modern horse's link with the past can he observed without vIslthtK a museum. "Thero are certain apparently useless structures connected with the Ioks of a horse," wrote Major General William II. Carter in 'I h ones of the World.' prepared for the National Geographic soci ety, "which give rise to many theories concerning his probabte evolution from an animal of dif ferent typo. There Is on the In ner surface of each foreleg of the horse, above the knee, and on the inner surface of each hind leu, below the hock Joint, a callous, elongated piece of skin known as 'chest nut,' which has long been a subject of invest Iga lion, based upon the idea that it represents the former existence of an ap pendage which has disappeared In the process of evolution. "There Is also n bony, wartlike structure, at the hack of the fet lock or pastern Joint, quite pro nounced In some animals, which selves no useful purpose to the horse In his present form. .lit Mother of Hmnotimtcil Horse "Practically all writers on tho history of tho horse who have given serious study to tho sub ject Incline to the belief that tho wild horse of the steppes of Asia 1 most legitimate claim as . says he remembers the presidential nlootl.in nf 1 S 1 fi it ml ovnrv Mni- palgn since. And there's nothing very infirm about this rugged old farmer. He thinks nothing of walking the five mi I oh from hi.s 40-acr farm in the Ozarks, to Poplar Biuff. Outside of being partially deaf, Kemp says he's "as well as a man reasonably can expect, to be when he's nenring his 1 1 Oth birthday." His memory still ia good and hia eyesight keen. Tie still likes to cultivMe hi farmand he says he's been farm ing for 110 years, since ho was eight. Even now he always can find time to ,wt out his shotgun and go hunting "with the young folks." "I was born in Huntingdon, Car- I roll county, Tennessee," says the aged farmer. 'My parent. Aaron and Tab! t ha Kemp, died when I was young. I was working regu larly when 1 waa eight. "And In those days," Kemp re calls, boys had to work from the time they could lift a hoe." His first "regular" job was as a rider on the pony express and mall. He was married In Ken tucky In lS3fi, and his firt wife died five years later. Two chil dren were horn to them. In 1841 he was married again, this time to the sister nf his first wife. She died . 40 yours later. They were the parents of seven children, six of whom are dead. One daughter, Amanda, is 5S, and Kemp makes his home with her. "Some persons doubt my age," t',..., mi,.,, , 1 . ii i.h t or '.nil other relatives have checked all possible sources, and tney are cer tain I was born in 1811- "Of course am looking for ward to many more birthdays," he insists. SECT DAVISON, ASST.SEC'YWAR A LOCAL VISITOR Head of U. S. Aviation Stops at Medford Airport On Country-Wide Trip Re fuses to Comment On Politics. ASHLAND ASHLAND, Aug. 11. (Spl.) Kd Dunn's threshing season Ih over and the result of his wheat har vest were peacefully resting In sack neatly filled In the field. Awak ing eurly this morning, he looked with sleepy eyes in the direction of his grain and saw it moving away. It had been loaded on a truck and was being taken toward the Held. Koul play at work, thought he, and forthwith ho called the Ash-: "There seems to bo a shortage of matches In the western part of the United States,' F. Trubee Dav ison, assistant secretary of war, said yesterday morning when UrM Ing a cigar after having eaten breakfast at the local airport. Mr. Davison refuse to uso a lighter and also refused to talk about pol itics or International relations. Mr. Davison was accompanied by Pilot Collins, Captain Ira Eaker, who was a member of tho Question Mark endurance crew, and Major D. C. Kmmons. With Collins at the controls, tho Fleotstor mono plane lunded at the local port shortly after 7 o'clock. They had left Crlssey field, San Francisco, at 4:50. On an annual inspection tour which will continue for another week, the assistant secretary and officers have visited air fields along the extern coast and In the south ern states since leaving Boiling field, Washington, D. C, on July 30th. Captain Eaker stated that they had encountered good weather, with the exception of a heavy rain storm at Flagstaff, Ariz. This was Mr. Davison's first trip into Oregon, and although he had only been in the state a few min utes, was confident he would en juy tho flight to Portland. They expected to land at the Spokane airport at 1 o'clock. Previous to visiting in tho south and west. Mr. Davison, whose work deals entirely with aviation, made several ithort inspection tours through Michigan and northern 4 and mid-weatern states. Two years ago his observations carried him to Panama. Captain Eaker ac companied him on that flight also. The party commented on the al ia nd police department and was; ready to summon the sheriff's of-j tractlveness of the field, but being flee from Medford. Uy the time he gain ed the w i d ex pa nses o f the field, the truck had gone. His wheat was gone and the Ios pained him. However, the pain did not con tinue long. He learned a short time later that a truck driver from an A.shland mill had driven to his field for a load of wheat that was to have been waiting for transpor tation In an adjoining field. . Ilea verton Sound equipment will be Installed in Heaver theater. used to runways where you "wore out the tires taxiing to the han gar." the Medford port seemed small. Another army plane which did not stop at Medford, was traveling with tho assistant secretary, and the two groups planned to meet In, Portland before continuing east. Coquille $35,000 will be ex pended for installation of trunk sewer for north end, and paving of two blocks of North Henry street. Theso "hovM lire spry despiiu. i ludr yours. Zero Aglm (rlglil), the old Turk who says he's I5. 1ms into mi edge on Thomas N. Kemp (loft) of Poplar Ulutf, .Mo., who claims to Ik IIH, but Kemp says he's just getting started'. POPLAR HM'FF, Mo. &) nlnff to celebrate his ll'Jth birthdityi Speaking of longevity and 1 ."iti-year-' anniversary soon. old Turks, here's a Vhan" from the This American-horn patriarch Ozarks who claims 1 IS summon, j ays September 10, 1811. was tho and who was too old to servo in date of his birth, and folks around. the Civil war. Poplar Uluff generally accept his Just now, while Zaro Agha. the j claim. Turk, Is demonstrating to America j When the War of 1 SI 2 broke the spryncss of his reputed i.ii mil, Kemp says, ho was just tod years. Thomas N. Kmp is pluti- dling around learning In walk. Hi Abu, powerful TUD EISA IKE El SAILEMU Oregon's Capitol Market OtATC capital, county scat, Salem is the leading outside market of happy, prosperous Oreson, its sec ond largest city. Sixty-two factories, 5,000 farms, all major state Institutions bring a con slant Row of wealth to this all Amerlcan city. Salem's industrial payroll Is $17,500 per day (Sun days Included); state and county institutions pay another $3,500 per day. Each year farmers produce $9,000,000 worth of cropsi flax, hay, fruits, hops, nuts, berries, livestock. Over T0,000 paid-in-advance (A. B.C.) subscribers pay $50,000 per year to read Salem's Capital Journal, Oregon's largest out side daily. Supreme in its field, the Capital Journal is keenly edited, dignified, alwaysgrowing. It is the key to Salem's prosperity. Capital Ajounia! bef-leged with telephone calls and . the source from which tho domos-vl-iix Hh.tut fin men unprurhia to Heated horse was derived. ask for Jobs. John H. Thlmas, Hi, of Council Iliurfs, la. han chftllanged Helen Jensen, Council Hluffn, national spelling champion. The eighteenth child win horn 'io Mr. and Mrs. A. H. HrxhrrK. Yorktown, Iowa, farm couple, re cently. 1 Montell Knapp, 22, Cedar Ids. la., traveled half way around tho world In 7 months on 20. Mrs. Christina Heim, 1 0.1. old est cltlxen of Sandusky. Ohio, was born on Friday tho 13ih. Ministers of Council Hhiffs. la., taklnic religion to tho peoplo. ko Into city park Sunday evening And preached 40-mlnute sermons. 'Scientists all agree that In pre historic sues certain typos of ltap-j horses ran god over parts of Ala and of North America and South America, and that while the wild horses of Asia appear to have de scended from the original stock, all such animals had disappeared from North and South America befoi o any modort F.uropeans landed here. Forest drove Ventilating sys tem of Star theater improved. 2 ' kJir . i O N H 1 7 " 'iTu fH .VvW , ..... (vary JV ttO.000 Oregon bvytn rood iSci twtlvi Mrffnin nwseaf(i. 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