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r ford Mail Tribune Second Section Six Pages Second Section : Six Pages Twenty-Sixth Year MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1931. No. 90. t -PERIL LESS 1 I: rnn i iiiimia llNIHOP Hazards of Japan Flight Re :. duced by New Aviation ; ' ; Appliances Less Dan gers Than On Paris Trip I NEW YORK, June 20. There Is leas peril in Colonel Lind bergh's Pacific adventure than confronted him' when, In 1927, ho conquered the Atlantic In the Spirit of St. Louis. With a motor nearly three times as powerful and a plane embody ing developments of four years of aviation progress, today's flight appears far less hazardous than his finit ocean crossing. . Lindbergh's new low winged monoplane has a speed of .220 miles an hour, but since he has equipped it with pontoons it can make only 176 miles an hour on the ocean trip. - . Landing fields are few across the North Pacific route. The pon toons will enable the plane to land and takeoff on water, and will contain additional gasoline tanks. The plane liati a wing span of 42 feet, 10 Inches with a lenRth of 27 feet. 6 Inches. It fuselage and the cantilever wing are of! wood construction. Broke One Keoord A year ago, with the colonel at the controls, it spanned the conti nent In 14 hours and 4G minutes, a record later broken by Capt. Frank M. Hawks. Its retractable landing gear, only, recently re placed by pontoons, made a speed of about 220 miles per hour pos sible. It was an idea credited largely to Lindbergh. . . At the time, of the transconti nental flight the pane had a 42b horsepower Wasp engine, which has been replaced by a 600 horse power Wright Cyclone motor. The low wine monoplane- Is fully streamlined in design and the engine Is housed In a cowling that minimizes air resistance. He i bought the ship in January, 1930, after testing It In Califor nia. The cost was J17.825. The license number obtained for It was NR-211. That of the Spirit of St. Louis was XNK-211.. ... . ... More Costly Ship The' price was in excess' of' thnt of the trans-Atlantic plane which now reposes in ' the Smithsonian 1 Institution at Washington. The "Spirit of St. Louis," ex clusive of motor .,apd Instruments, cost JG.000, while the 220 horse power Wright Whirlwind J-5 ra- Ullll uir-tuuieu ninc-w uw . tor and the Instruments brought ' the total cost to about 13,oou. The Spirit of St. Louis was a stock model Ryan monoplane with a wing spread of 40 feet and riiaelnea 91 feet three Inches long. The cockpit was glass enclosed and Lindbergh saw through a perllscope. But he used equipment which was the very latest In 1927. There were the earth Inductor compass, tachometer, bank and turn Indi cator, air speed Indicator, mag netic compass, speed and drift Indicator, altimeter and oil gauges. Carrying no navigator and with out a Bextant. Lindbergh in his Atlnntlc flight arrived over Ire land within three miles of the 'point at which he aimed. NEAR REVOLT AS LONDON, June 20 FV-Revolt In Burma seems to be going hand in hand with the world depression. Burma la one of the greatest rice producer and rice has been suffer ing much the same as wheat. its other important crop la cot ton, and the woes of King Cotton are familiar to America. 4 Iilvliiff ftonlo Ijow " Even -when conditions are normal or better, the scale of living for most Burmese In Just above the existence mark. Pressed below that line by fatling prices for their prin cipal crops, surely dissatisfaction developed. Burmese are agricultural work era, for the most part. The ilump has sent these farm bands hunting work In lines here tofore occunled bv Chinese and In dlan contract workers. Economic conflict with these workers most ly manual has brought physical clashes. Fugitive Quit Connlry It Is against the Indians particu larly thi the outbreaks are said to be directed and they are report ed leaving Burma In large numbers. The government is attempting to assuage the situation by farm loans, temporary lifting of farm taxation, and by strengChenlnx the police and military. So far the outbreaks have been 4 confined to Lower Burma, and re cent military movements are aimed at maintaining this limitation. BYRD'S FAREWELL Adm. Richard E. Byrd, shown at left, bowt hit head In respect ai terrier companion and pal of hla south pole adventure, waa lowered to league cemetery In Dedham, itfaas. 1AKER AT HEAD CHICAGO COP CLEAN-UP Under New System Every Policeman in Uniform and Captain Held Personally Responsible for District. CHICAGO, June 20 W) Chi cago's police department has gono London, and a two-fisted detective story "copper" of the old school will head Its newly created "Scot land Yard." Uie la big,' burly grey-haired Capt. William "Shoes" Shoemaker, and they call him an "Iron man" of the force. It wlir be hie job to uncover cor ruption in the police department, to conduct secret Investigations in dependently of the rest of the force, and he reports only to one mnn, Acting 'Commissioner of Police John Alcock. , A veteran of the forco, he has a "card Index' mind that has every prominent Chicago criminal and gangster catalogued. He knows them all their, records, pedigrees, height, weight and appearance. Independent, deliberate, with a fair for studying a case In the detective-story manner. Shoemaker Is known as a policeman who "won't" take a nickel from any body." Once he conducted a secret In vestigation for the state's attorney's office that brought the Indictment of six police captains In a million dollar slot machine scandal. Chicago's Scotland Yard, how ever, is only part of the plan to put the police force on a more ef ficient basis. When Mayor Anton J. Cermak was inaugurated, he gave Commis sioner Alcock carte blanche to run the department as he saw fit. Al cock has been doing It. "The real crime preventive.' he said. "Is uniformed men on post. I Intend to keep as many in uni form as possible. Hla latest move In that direction was to replace Inefficient detectives and pin in clothes men by others who were ordered to patrol duty In uniforms. His shakeupA of per sonnel have Included hundreds of policemen In the last few weeks. "Under the new system." he said, "every captain is held responsible for conditions In his district. He must make a report every 15 days of the number of crimes committed in his district, and. Che number, that have been cleaned up." j HUGETRDUfPULLS ANGLER OFF PIER BANFF, Alta., June SO (UP) . When a man catches a fish It not news; but when a fish catches; a man, it is. Authenticated by police reports, this is the story of a fisherman who refused to give his name. He was fishing last week off the pier at lake Minne-! wanka near here with a light rod and line when a 20-pound lake trout struck eo viciously that the nngler lost his balance and was hauled off the end of the pier Into twenty feet of water. He did not lose his head with his balance, but still dinning to his rod and line. focht the trout in the water until Constable James of Calgary and another man put off in a boat and landed both fish and man. The fish is now at the taxider mists and later will be displayed In a gloes case. CaHclum nrsenate dusts or sprays are recommended to control the Mexican bean beetle. I TO A BUDDY OF THE POLAR WASTES t & ppf; h ft EXPERT URGES USE OF YELLOW FOOD PRODUCTS Carrots, Turnips, Yellow Corn and Sweet Potatoes Rich in Vitamins, and Better Than Cod Liver Oil for Children. NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 20 (UP) Eat yellow vegetables, Is the advice of Professor Lafayette B. Mendel, Sterling professor ' of physiological chemistry at Yale and one of the country s pioneers In nutrition research. Itecent experiments have shown yellow vegetables, such as carrots, yellow turnips;, yellow corn and sweet potatoes, abound In tha Im portant vitamin A, which is found in butter-and' cod. Hyep oil. Profes sor Mendel has disclosed. He fail ed to add that mothers might sub stitute these vegetables for cod liver oil In the diet of children. "The pigments of plants have attained new significance In recent years through the discoveries of unexected potencies of some of their colored constituents, In hu man nnd animal nutrition," Pro fessor Mendel said. "It has been known for some time that. In the long run, we are dependent upon plunts for the supply of those re markable food essentials now term ed vitamins. . "For some time It has been ob served that various yellow vege table food products seem to fur nish the equivalent of vitamin A, the food factor that Is abundant In butter and In cod liver oil. Yellow corn Is more effective than the white varieties: the yellow sweet potato Is richer than the ordinary white potato; and the yellow car rot abounds In something that can avert the lack of vitamin A In the dietary." 1 Plans MuniciiKil Orrlioslra. IIIO r 13 .! A N Bl HO, Brazil (VP) This city will soon have Its own municipal orchestra. Its own singing and ballet nchooIs, which will function .with the Mu nicipal theater for a national op era organization. A recent mu nicipal decree creatPd the new organizations. COUNT THE YELLOW BOXES Real Proof That Country People Read the MAIL TRIBUNE Aatociatoa Preta fsoK tha body of Igloo, hla little for Its grave In tha Animal Rsacut STABILIZATION Study of Commodity Dol lar's Purchasing Power Interests President. But Action to Federal Bank Action. WASHINGTON, June 20 &) While President Hoover was said to have listened with Interest to the American Farm Bureau feder ation's request for a study of means for stabilising the purchasing pow er of the dollar, little action was anticipated before the 1932 cam paign. The question Indirectly involves numerous political measures, pos sibly revival of battle scarred silver Issues and certainly the fact that money-values will enter, largely into the next -presidential cam paign, i , It is ImpliwJ in the bureau's re quest that gold would be listed with GOO other commodities so that all would fluctuate together and the parity of exchange would bw constant. ' Commodity, values go up and down ordinarily under the assump tion that supply and demand deter mine prices. The bureau holds that prices are determined by the rate of exchange, or the relationship of the commodity dollar to the gold dollar. Stabilization would mean that the dollar earned by selling a commod ity always would bear the same relationship to the value of the gold dollar. When the gold dollar becomes dear, on account of gold scarcity or other reasons. It takes more com modity dollars to buy a gold dollar. It is just a way of saying that It takes more of a commodity to be worth a dollar in gold. Likewise, exchange requires less of a commodity when gold Is more abundant nnd easier to get. No plan of stabilization is pro posed by the bureau although It believes "tha situation could be helped by proper handling of the discount nnd rediscount rates by the federal reserve board." IlllnolA uses about 25 per cent of nil limestone uspd In the country. WILL BE ISSUE '32 CAMPAIGN RED' VOTE mm NEW SPAIN Election Next Sunday Brings ' New Woes and Alarms to T Founders of Republic ; They Hope" to Muddle Through. j , MADRID, Juno 0 P To the ' right and to the left, Spain's politi cal forces already are dividing, pre saging tome bitter struggles In the jearly life of the new republic i , How much actual voting strength communists ard extremal left 'groups can muster Tor the June 28 'elections Is one of the unknown factors In tho uncertain situation. Another is what effect the divi sion among the republican allies will have upon the constituent as sembly when that body meets in July to frame a constitution and Install a more or less permanent' goVernment. J It has been an open secret In Madrid that the cabinet recently j was upon the verge of a break-up. The cause was sub-surface friction 'between right and left, republican .and socialistic, conservative and: radical, elements which had united! to .overthrow the monarchy. I A lea la Z a mora, and Miguel Maura ready to resign one night and turn the power over to Alejandro Ler roux, minister of foregn affairs. Only after a long and deeply ser ious cabinet session did the factions afirree that tha hatchet should be hurled until after tha elections. ! j There scarcely Is a doubt but j that the republican-socialist bloc I which dominates the provisional (government, will control the as sembly. There will he an extreme left minority of communists, also, , an extreme -right minority of mon. nrch'sts, who, however, do not dare use dhnt name. ! ..All anti-monarchists played to gether to establish the republic, but row they sesm tv be getting ready to padd'e ''he'.r own political canoes. They would unite ognln if the ( n wn.chy throaunei h icturn. But il that menace appears, earn far a on wants the rKJlltioal- piokinw afforded by Its own pet govern mental theories with Its own crowd holding the public jobs. Tho communists and radical labor ; lefts, while not likely to win more than a few seats In the assembly,! may develop a voting strength that! will encourage them to redouble' iliAtr. effort with the jwrlmm hnne' of winning some future national election. The leftists want nationalization of the land, abolition of the arm v. expulsion of the Jesuits, closure of; all other religious, orders and con I flscatlon of their properties, and severe punisnment tor trie omciais of the late Berenguer and Prlmo de HI vera governments. The prevalent view of Spaniards themselves Is, In Bhort, that the re public will "muddle through"; that there will be plenty of grief In the muddling and yeans, perhaps, In the evolution. She Never Played Hookey HOLLOW ROCK, Tenn., June 20. (UP) Hilda Edwards. i. has neither missed a day of school nor been late since she started six -years ago. I s?l Dependable Abstract Service When it cornea to all matters pertaining to ti les, we are equipped to serve you well. For 26 years we have been com piling authoritative title records enabling tic to offer the finest possible service. Title Insurance Jackson County Abstract Co. 12) E. Sixth St. Phone. 41 The Grange p (Salem The editors of the state have paid all too little attention to the meeting of the state grange In its annual convention at Medford. The grange Is now the dominant po litical party In the state. Granger Meier Is governor; the grangers like Sam Brown and Bay Gill and Mor ton Tompkins ran the legislature; alt the laws the grangers asked for were passed and all they opposed were killed. The republicans ran the state for several year;, but now the grange runs It. It looks like the grangers will continue to run the state because Grangenmster Hulet Is a preacher and takes an unfair advantage of the republi cans, judging from his speech, he said: "Our prayer is that God may raise up more men like Julius I Meier, Franklin T. Roose velt. Senator! Norris, Borah and others to champion the cause of the farmer and the working man; that righteous ness may "i exalted and jus tice preserved. "Let us Implore our Divine Master for His continued as sistance and guidance In our work." The republicans will have to get some strong-lunged pulpit pound er who has a pretty good pull with the Almighty if they are going to have any chance in the future. Not satisfied with free power without cost to the tax-payers which they put over in Oregon at the last election, the grange is planning a new drive to give freer power than that, and decided at the Instigation of Expert Kennle Harlan to Initiate a constitutional amendment which will permit the state, of Oregon to go Into the hydro Dusiness "in a big way." The grange- resolutions touched most everything from Chinese eggs to hiring the schoolma'ams. barges on the Columbia, lower freight rates 60,000 YEARS OLD NEW HAVEN, Conn., Juno 20 (UP) Discovery of tho skull of a Neanderthal child near Jerusalem is believed by archaeologists here to have given undeniable evidence that human life existed In what Ib now Palestine 60,000 to 100,000 years ago. Report of the) discovery In a cave at Athllt was made to Pro fessor Oeorge Grant MaoCurdy of Yale, Director of the American School of Prehistoric Research, by Mlfl Dorothy rburrod, woman ex plorer; in charge of the school's Joint expedition with the British b'cliool of Archaeology. Previous remains had Indicated man Inhabited the section as far back as 30,000 years ago. It was Miss Qarrod who dis covered a Neanderthal skull at Gi braltar In 1826. t ' Methods of teaching music In Iowa's rural schools will be demon strated this summer at the Anglo American music conference In Lau rnnnn, Hwitzerland. , Freewheeling A few minutes in a new Graham Six or Eight with Improved Freewheeling and Silent Gear Shift will reveal a new kind ' of motoring ease and enjoyment such as you have never before experienced In any motor ear. i , , t Improved Free Wheeling, available at the very low extra cost . f of $35 in all new Graham Sixes and Eights, meant that you can shift gears easily and silently without touching tho clutch oxcopt for starting. It means that during a great part of your driving, the car rolls smoothly forward while', the engine idles. It brings real economy and longer car life. - . Graham Improved Free Wheeling possesses every advan- tage of earlier types but with important improvements that , , add greatly to your enjoyment. Let us demonstrats) , Graham Improved Free Wheeling and show you th 54 other important reasons why Graham cars are better tors. , . Slso, 78S vpi (Igliu. HSJ up ol lh factory. Yo prsi.nl car lll 1 . probably taks tka placs al a catb deon payar.t, vary tamable Mr. J , CRATER LAKE AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY 103 South Riverside Convention Statesman) and higher education. The grange went on record as favoring doing away with everything but mlllage taxes for support of the higher educational Institutions, but shook a fist at the board on any cuts In services to farmers. Granger Cor nelia Marvin Pierce was one of the committee reporting the fol lowing which should be read with interest by Member of the Board of Higher Education Cornelia Marvin Pierce: "Rumors that the Board of Higher Education may retaliate on the purported action of the grange upon the referendum of the appropriation for higher education, by reprisals upon the farmers extension and re search work, because of said referendum, and this grange warns the Hoard of Hlgther Education that It will do everything in Its power to pro tect the farmers' Interest, the extension service and the re search work devoted to the ad vancement of agriculture. "That while we favor an adequate mlllage tax to pro vide funds for the Institutions of higher education, we are op posed to any appropriation in addition to the funds derived from the mlllage tax, and that we favor an Itemized budget ing of the funds for the In- ' stitutlons of higher learning- The humor Is that the grangers who take themselves very seriously will see no Inconsistency In their position. Of course the big Joke Is on the remainder of the state I which hasn't taken the grange as1 seriously as the grange took Itself. With this organization now funo- tloning as the dominant political! party In Oregon, Its acts and reno-l lutlons will have to receive more consideration at least until the re publicans get the deity back on their side. NO ALCOHOL WINE FOR SCOTCH RITE EDINBURGH, Scotland, June 20 (UP Non-alcohollo wine will be used In ' the celebration of Holy Communion In Scottish churcheB If wine of that description can be found In Scotland. ' The goneral assembly of the Church of Scotland recently ad vised all ministers to consider the use of non-alcohollo wines As a recommendation from, the assem bly Is virtually an order, It Is ex jieoted that the majority of mlnltt' ters will attempt to comply. The eommlttee which made the suggestion to the assembly con demned the present use of port wine for communion. Opponents of the suggestion claimed that "non-alcohollo wine" was a contradiction In terms. They said that If the assembly adopted the suggestion churches would have to resort to ginger wine, a sort of soda pop. JEFPEKHON New equipment Installed In Elite Confeotionery and Rpstniimnt. Announcing & A AAA IMPROVED J. 0. OBEY H." D. GREY Graham-Paige Dealers 1894 BELT TTONING Middle; Wesl,. Farmer Dis cusses Times in Middle West, and,, Argues That Depression Is Good for Mankind. . "Yes," sald?;01d -Times, one of the retired farmers' of the valley, "we're In the grip of mighty hard times, but some of us old fellows can recall harder ones." Old Timer has traveled afar In life,-, geographically speaking. At '. one time he was a farmer In Iowa, then In Nebraska, from whence ha removed to Montana to live many years before coming to the Oregon ', country.. "Somewhere I've read about a., fellow who said, 'I've -known deeper wrongs. I ain't worrying abewt deeper wrongs, but . I am .fussed UB a bit about harder times this winter, and It is Urns . for a lot of us to get on tha pay-as-you-go plan and get located on Provision street- . As I review yeans It doeBn't seem "so. long ago that we were in a much tighter depression , than we are' today. Just now I'm thinking of 1M' out in Nebraska, . when wife .and I undertook to go down the line, together. Tea, tha country was In a bad financial tlx then and, on top of It we In Ne braska were confronted with an almost complete failure of crops. The, people. .were not only reduced to strictest food economy, but there was no feed for the stock, and you couldn't give-. 'em away. -. No one had any money'ito buy with and If they did they had no feed ta -feed 'em with. ... "Remember that fall I hauled cedar posts with my team of mules for a dollar a day, and I was glad to get It, for. the wife and the kid dles and 1 was heeding more oorn bread and gravy the standard grub, of the season. Coffee! Naw, we didn't think of spending money for ,coffe& how could we when, we didn't ,have It, to spend? Parched corn, barley and rye proved ft mighty good substitute and we ware sparing of that., Never felt better in my life though, and sometimes I think a little fodder at that kind might be a mighty good change of diet tor some of us now. "Yes, I remember that fall I had a big bunch of fine shoats, In food trim for the, blook. Loaded a bis wagon with them and went to town, all day trip. I got just 12.60 for the entire load. Had a lot more of 'em at home. Came home, butch ered all, t could take care of tor my winter meat and made fertll llaer of the remainder, Just to get away . from the pig squeal of hun CnnHntiftil nn Pnr ThfM Phone 303 M 1
