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ford Mail Tribune
Second Section
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Second Section
: Six Pages
Twenty-Sixth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1931.
No. 90.
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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has been replaced by a 600 horse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
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The Grange
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(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.
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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
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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
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