" MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931.
PAGE K1GHT
AND SCHOOL GIRL
. : VANDALIA, O., Aug. 26. (AP) An
18-year old Iowa school girl and a
, Detroit automobile salesman stood to
.day at the head of the amateur-trap-shooting
ranls oi America. .
:' Karl Maust, who selsautomobiles
U i. vocation, shot his 'way .out ft
h four Way tlo to capture the men's
North American clay target champ
ionship In the feature event yester
day of the thirty-second annual grand
'American trapshoctlog tournament of
the Amateur Trapshooters associa
tion., ;'-'-
To; Jcahetto Jay, 18, of Waverly,
la.,, went tho North American wo
men's crown after a shoot-off with
Mrs. H. E. Ortsby of Oklahoma City.
- 'The Detroit sniper tied at 109 out
of 300. with Frank Troeh.. Portland,
'Ori).j George Slaughter, Benton Har
bor, Mich., and Dr. K. U. Botts, Wav
erly, O. ' . ' '
In the shoot-off Maust shattered
ISO consecutive targets. Troeh placed
second, Botts, third, and Slaughter
fourth, i
A iu man team of western marks
men defeated an eastern term by
the margin of one target In the an'
nual eastwest team race. The 'west
erners shattered 1,953 out of 3,000.
EAGLE POINT SIGNS
r THREE GAME SERIES
The Eagle Point ' baseball' team
champions of the Rogue River valley,
this morning completed negotiations
for ' three-game series, September
e-T. In this city, with the Pacific
Outfitters of Portland, champions of
northorn Oregon. One game will hi
played Sundoy, September e, at the
fairgrounds, and two games on Mon
day, If two are needed to decide.
The Eagle Point team Is trying to
secure a game here next Sunday with
an outside team but to date Tias been
unablo to do so.
. '.- -v
Dempsey To Show
Wares In Eugene
SEATTLE,' Aug, aeA.(AP) Leon
ard Sachs, manager for Jack Demp
sey, said today the ' former heavy
weight king' would not be able "to
accept h Invitation to attend the
, Pendleton round-up. 1 -.-
Dempsey will go to Eugene,' Ore.,
for art (exhibition bou Friday . night
nd will'' go directly' from there' to
Keno;1 Sachs sard,.' "iit
GAME PRESERVATION
if ! JOINT SESSION TOPIC
. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 38.-A Joint
conference between the Oregon state
game commission and members of the
senate committee on wild' life "con-
'lervatlon will be held here Thursday.,
preservation of wild gam in 'tho
Psolflo northwest wtll bo discussed.
HAM
E STAFF FOR
it.
Enrollments are now being made
for the seventh Day Adventut acad
emy, located on the Phocnlx-Jackson-vllle
hlghuay, L. II. Booth, principal
announced today. Mr. Booth recently
arrived here from the Portland dis
trict to take over the southern Oro
gon,' school, which opens September
S3. . . .
The teaching staff at the academy.
Includes the following' people, nil of
Meilford: Miss Esther Miller; Mrs. T.
H. Folkrtibcrg. Miss Mabel DoURhrr
ty, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Harsh, and J.
B. Moohan, Tho enrollment last cor
was nearly one hundred pupils, end
effort Is being made to equal that
number this semester.
Grades one to twelve are taught,
and later In the year Mr. Booth In
tends to take up Industries along vo
cational lines so that students might
earn part or their tuition. 8chool au
thorities will cooperate with business
firms and merchants in the city car
rying out their school program.
ROSEbjCRO, Ore,. Aug-36. (AP)
Jerame Ferris. 87, Yonoalla Civil war
veteran, died at his home thore last
night, He had' lived and Ynncalla 40
years;
FIRE FiGHTERS GO
TO DUTY IN IDAHO
While the Crater national forest
has been kept very buey with fight
ing its own fires for weeks past, until
within the past few days conditions
In the forest are conducive to fires
breaking out any minute, yet that
menace is not so a?ute but that
Supervisor H. B. Rankin can spare
some of his best fire fighters to assist
forest district No. 1, which takes In
thb Idaho and Montana fire harassed
districts. In their trouble.'
In response to a request from dis
tinct 'iN'i fl, Karl Janquch, assistant
Crater national park forest super
visor, and Albert Young and.Waltev
Stcvens,ftwot of that' forest's most
capable and experienced fire guard ,
whose place of duty Is In the Apple-
gate section, left this morning for
the fire districts In . -Montana," or
Idaho, where ther services In com
manding duties are so badly 'needed.
The regular force of experienced
forest fire leaders In district No, I
Is oo tired out with tholr continuous
hard fighting of big forest fires for
weeks past, that they must have a
rest.
Tho Crater national forest 'contin
ued today to be clear of any now
fires, but the district state protected
land on a slops of Black we 11 Hilt
near Oold H1U, had a brush fire
burning under control, which started
yesterday afternoon and which the
efforts -of ten fire fighters checked
by 10:00 o'clock last night. This
rire burned over an area of about
7ft acres. ;
.
TO BE IN T
Indications up until this afternoon
were that the color pages ; being
brought Into the Mail Tribune office
by '1,'ie. boys and girls would reach
a total doubling that of last week.
All of the sheets printed in last
Thursday's paper must be In the
Tribune office not later than 7:00
o'clock, or if mailed, must bear a
postmark previous to that time.
A supply of 600 delicious Hamilton
bars have arrived to be given to the
children bringing In their pages.
Thursday's winners will be announc
ed In Saturday's- paper, with Mrs.
Eunice Hlllls and Miss Eleanor Curry
as judges again, ' Another color page
will be printed In tomorrow's issue
of the paper.
LUMlflilEO
TOE
PULLEDJ CELL
James E. Klngaley, convicted slayer
of Sam O. Prescott, Ashland police
man, awaiting a supreme court de
cision on his plea for a re-hearing,
had an Infected tooth pulled this
afternoon by Dr. ft. C. Mulholland.
Klngsley has been suffering of late
from rheumatic pains and the molar
was pulled, without aid of any pain
killer. In the hope of affording re
lief. Klngsley faced the bare forceps
without flinching., and, Joked wjb
the dentist. ' ' '
The supreme-court, low.. on vaca.
tlbn, will resume' September 1,' and
It Is expected that one of the first
matters considered will be Klngslcy's
plea for a writ of, re-hcarlng.i;'
JUDGE ROSSMAN IN
"" BRIEF LOCAL VISIT
Judge George Rossman of the state
supreme court, was a brief visitor
in the city and valley yesterday.
Judge Rossman was an overnight
guest at Ashland, and Is on his vaca
tion. Judge Rossman, In the Kings
ley appeal, concurred wltb his col
leagues in the decision, but was the
only Jurist to .hold no error, revers
ible or otherwise, had been made
during the trial.
STORY 2
(Continued From Pace One)
ON APARTMENT BLAZE
Gwetholyn Rees, local young woman
In charge of the county matron, alleg
ed to have passed fictitious checks In
the city, was yesterday questioned by
Fire Chief Roy Elliott and Stanley
Oearhart In connection with the fire
in the Schuler apartments last Thurs.
day.
The Investigation Is being carried
out by the authorities, who have been
working on the case since Miss Rees'
return to Med ford following her ar
rest. Firemen reported at the time
of the fire that the blaze was started
by a cigarette In the bed clothing.
Miss Bees' clothes were sard to be
Insured.-- 'Included -in' toer wardrofoe
was .an expensive fur coat
photographers Of ,
Valley Win Prize
Information was received from Sac
ramento today saying that J. Verne
Shangle had won a aolon honors rib
bon for the best photograph of a toy
at the Pacific International , Photog
raphers . annual convention being
conducted In that city.
Blue ribbon for the best associa
tion display was awarded the South
ern Oregon Photographers association,
the message said. . i.
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GRENBREMMER URGED
BY ASHLAND LEGION
Ashland post of the American Le
gion last night nominated William
Orenbremmer as commander for the
coming year. The nominee has been
active lit Legion affairs for many
years. i v-1 - ' ' . " ', - , -.
!,., f ,,, , .,.;
A ' state-wide Invitation has gono
6ut' tO' -alli Lutherans " to nttond :a
rally at Sunset home, Eugeno, Au
gust 30, "it 'WAS' announced nbere
yesterday! m'ir..Mm i.
A program of music and addresses
will be held and a plcnlo lunch en
joyed ductus 'the, .noon hour.j , tfho
meeting adilj ' tWi1 '.at ;10j a.mi. wn
the .'grounds! itwoj ; bloct.i ; from 'be
city hall.
I wf tcdmh( adclrov ivjlli; be given
hi I He! H i We"! ,, mohittir1,. I 8cr
hibna - will' also' be delivered by Rev.
J. M, Jcnaon and Rev. H. L. Foss.
Speakers to be heard on the after
noon program are Rev. P. J. Luvaos,
E. a. Harlan, Prof. Oscar A. Tlngel
stad and Rev. M. A. Chrlstenson.
Miss Rees Expects
Liberty Late Today
Helen Clwotholyn Roes, former local
office worker held In tho custody of
tho county Jail for allcgod bad check
operations Involving local merchants,
expected to be freed late this after
noon. - "The friend of the family."
conducting negotiations looking
towards: restitution, encountered
somo difficulty In the settling, as
some business men were not prone
to compromise Local frlenda of Miss
Race-say she Is now contrlto and her
experlenco with the uiw.",'ias been a
terrific lesson.'
Ashland Sexton
' ;! Dies Near Grave
M.' J. Olson, ' of' Ashland, sexton
of the Ashland cemetery, was found
dead beside ' a grave he had Just
finished digging yesterday noon.
Heart troublo was given as the
cause of death, and he had been
In III health for some time. Ho to
61 years of age. The body was
found shortly after noon. Olson was
last seen alive when he called nt a
confectionery store for a drink or
water and complained of a pain In
his side, about 1 1 :30 yesterday morn
ing, i He moved to Ashland from
Woodburn. OrrRon. five years ago.
1030 Chevrolet coach, looks and runs
like now, 'V ' ,
$550
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tit Knuth Riverside Phone ISO
USKD CAR LOT 8th and tlartlett ts. Phone Ml
STORY 1
,, (ppntlnuert From Pace One)
had-not met with curbstone opposi
tion." Carleton said "they are nolBy,
but that la about all It amounts to."
- Ben E.' Harder, banker, said that
he ."could see nq grounds for Uegttlr
mate opposition, but that opposition
always arose, particularly In times
of distress, 'I ,, He' characterized the
experimental orchard as a - "good
business proposition." ; . )
Judge ' Sparrow and Commtaloncr
John At.Bnrneburff" expressed them
selves as ' highly "favorabUr to the
signing of -the agrroment. Commis
sioner Victor Bursell was absent.
O.' C. Lemmon. - chairman of the
committee of agriculture, transporta
tion and trado, Informed the court
that two carloads of oqulpment, be
longing to the government, were now
on the sidetracks, awaiting definite
action by the county court, and
that scientists to conduct the or
chard were now here.
A4 8. V. Carpenter Informed the
court. "The government Intends to
establish an experimental orchard
on the Pacific coast and If Jackson
county does not want It, they will
go elsewhere."
President Carleton of , the Fruit
growers' league -asked for fruit rep
resentation on i the budget commit
tee Inasmuch as the fruit Industry
Is the ope unfailing payroll of the
valley and heretofore has been, with
out representation.
The delegation visiting tlie court
included B. R.' Rater, -Paul Schercr.
B. U. Hnrder. C.'C. Lemmon, A. 8. V.
Catpentcr and K. W. Carleton.
nlng as high as 40 to 60 per cent.
This -probably Is not an accurate In
dicator of the situation, as many
of these cars belong to people main
taining a residence In this district
who 'have' been In. California the past
two :pr thre '.months, seeking em
ployment In the fnilt Industry
there."
The committee suggests; no rem
edy!' and states that the,, packers
have'fShown an attitude of helpful
ness, and a desire' 'to employ local
labor, whenever they can con
sistently do so. i .
The report In full Is as follows:
Boardof Directors,
Medford. cnamber 'of commorce.
Oentlemen:
Your committee appointed at the
last meeting of the .board to make
an Investigation of the various pack
ing houses located In the Medford
district to determine, If possible,
the amount of outside help employed
In handling the present fruit crop
as compared with the amount of
local holp used, has made Its in
vestigations and submits the follow
ing report: . .
we have found that, out of ft: total
of 1258 persons-" employed In -the
packing , houses . ln the Medford dis
trict, 1111.. are local people and 147
have been employed from - outside
sources. Indicating that of .the gen
eral, labor employed In the packing
houses,- 11.7 per v cent are out-of-state
employes. : In the division of
skilled labor, the percentage. Is
higher! of the 428 persons employed
as skilled-'labor, there are 331 local
employes and 97 out-of-state em
ployes, a percentage of 80.3 per cent
outside labor. , ,
Short Crop Factor. -
In the opinion of your committee,
this is not an abnormal condition,
but rather it is much better than
the conditions that usually, prevail
In the fruit Industry here. In its
studies, the c6mmlttee has found
that under normal conditions there
are approximately 3000 persons em
ployed in picking, packing, handl
ing and shipping the Medford fruit
crop. Under the conditions that
obtain this year, and due to the
shortage,, of the crap, the number,
of necessary , employes - has, ,been
naturally , reduced, , and that condi
tion has , lead . to a majority, ,of the
complaints- reqetved by , the , county
court, Red , Cross, . and other, local
organizations. ) , Your.- committee-, has
been reliably Informed. -by, the local
offices; of the U. i S. .federal . em
ployment service that normally there
are not - over lOOO- persons tfri. the
Medford district who can be, cpurited
upon year after yoar, to offer,, their
services In harvesting ..the ,frul crop,
and that at least two-tl)lrds of the
normal labor demand must , be rer
orulted .from outside sources This
condition Is not true . this , year,, . as
seen from the . foregoing figures.,-.- ,,
Kklllpd .Labor Required,.,
It Is further noted , that from the
standpoint of the packer and grower.
a highly perlshsble product Is being
dealt with, which must be handled
spcedllv and efficiently lest, a great
part of Its value be lost. ; Packers
have stated that It Is most difficult
to'ohtaln efficient local fruit packers
In large enough numbers to handle
the necessary work, and thus again
outside assistance la an absolute
necessity.
Statements from practically every
packing -house' manager Interviewed
during the course ot this Investiga
tion indicate that the packer is
keenly aware 'or the sltnatlon. and
Is doing everything In his power to
use local labor whenever and, wher
ever .possible. In a few cases, the
manager does not exercise any direct
control over the packing operations,
which are being done by contract.
but even In them cases, contract
packers hare Indicated an attitude
of. co-operation.- .
' Complaint Dwindle. .
A majority of tho complaints re
garding the situation have . come
I
Brunswick-Balke's
Latest Creation
OVAL
BILLIARDS
Now In Medford
, The first Oval Billiard table
in Oregon has just been in
stalled at the
SMOKE HOUSE
318 East Main
All billiard players are invited to come in
1 and see this new table.
from people who have been employed
In the fruit in -previous years, but
who have been unable to secure
employment this year. This condi
tion may or may not be directly
traceable to a surplus of outside
labor being employed, but la more
possibly a result of the shortage of
fruit this season. The local head
quarters of the Red Cross states
that numerous complaints were re
ceived prior to the beginning of the
picking season, but that there has
been a noticeable reduction In the
number of complaints during the
past 10 years.
A survey of the number of cars
with foreign licenses parked adjacent
to the packing houses would Indicate
a higher percentage of foreign labor
than shown In the foregoing figures,
in some cases running as high as 40
per cent to 60 per cent. -This Is
probably not an accurate indicator
of the situation, as many of tihese
'cars belong to people maintaining
residences in this district, who have
been in California for the past -two
or three months, seeking employment
in the fruit Industry there. It is
certain that a lack of employment in
Medford for the past four months
has caused a certain; amount of this
procedure. j ' J-
Reports Kxagserated ' . .
In the opinion of. your committee,
the condition Is not as bad as ad
vanco reports havo Indicated, and we
do not believe Vint there is an great
amount of experienced local labor
which Is not able to find employment
in the fruit Industry. Of course,
there are undoubtedly isolated cases
where persons who have been suc
cessful In securing employment in
previous years have been unable to
obtain that employment during this
current season, and we do not believe
there Is any action which .can be
taken by the chamber of commerce
other than Viat already takexf ln urg
ing upon those engaged .in '.the fruit
Industry to use local help whenever1
possible; as . stated before, ' the em
ployers have indicated an attitude of
helpfulness and the desire - to assist
In solving this community problem
Insofar as they can without Impair
ing the efficiency of their plants and
without Involving a loss due to delay
In handling. .'
Wanes Are X'te,L
A by-product i of (the; labor' lnvestl-:
gatlon Is shdwn'ln the results or your
committee's findings peitajnlng to
wages paid In the various packing
houses and although this was not
designated as a part or your com
mittee's duties, It might be well to
outline, briefly, wage conditions as
they have -been found. Wages for
common floor help in the packing
houses vary from 30c to 40c per hour;
one organization Is paying as high as
65c to 70c for skilled labor, but the
majority of the Institutions are pay
ing from oOc to 60c per hour; pack
ers aro paid from 6c to 6c per box
In a majority of the packing houses.
, Your committee wantsito take this
opportunity to. J-nank those concerns
In the fruit Industry for -their assist
ance In making tills survey; the In-,
vestlgatlon was made in tho following
packing houses:
' 'American Fruit Growers
Bard well Fruit Co. '."'.7.
'- Bear Creek Orchards - .
..jBlg .7. JTrult ,X)lstrlb.ut,ore.
Del Rio Orchards
Growers Kxohange, Inc.
Kimball Fruit Co.
Medford Fruit Co.
Newnry and Sons
Palmer Corp.
Pinnacle Packing Co.
Rogue River Co.
Sgcbel and Day
Southern Oregon Sales, Inc.
Suncrest Orchards
H. VanHoevenberg. ,
Respectfully submitted,
MEDFORD CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE EMPLOYMENT INVES
TIGATING COMMITTEE.
B. E. Harder, Chairman.
W. A. Gates. .
John Anderson.
August 28, 1931.
Brisbane's Today
(Continued from Page On)
A '.housand devils, at .their silly
antiquated tricks, i would -be dull,
compared with that phalanx of steel
biting dragons. For seven dollars
and a half, material and labor In
cluded, 8mlth njakes irame i that
once cost more- than- J00-
ri Mr i
Do you.sk "of "What possible use
can six liundred ;cleritlst be to a
mechanical Industry," T: R. Smith
will tell you. His scientific build
ing. Its surface nearly all glass, has
window Ves nine feet wide, thir
teen feet high. The lowest bid to set
those giant sheets of one inch plate
glass In tho window frames was
thirty-five thousand dollars.
One of the scientists, made vacuum
cups to hold and move the gloss
sheets, nine men did all the work
In a short time, and It cost five
thousand dollars, Instead of thlrty
flve thousand.
- Also glaziers came by fast train
from all over the United States to
see how it .was, done. That will in
terest L.- J. Horowitz! 'chief glazier,
who was In Europe at the time. ,
j. R. Smith says the way to make
money Is simple. "Find something
In universal demand, that is being
made by old fashioned people, whom
easy prosperity has made Indifferens.
Take their business out of tho rut,
do It yourself, at half the price and
at a good profit.
"Thus you 'benefit the country and
earnmoney to experiment In other
directions, which Is the only thing
worth while."
Returning to good old Wall Street,
you find that broker Bernard E.
Smith bought from a gold mining
company of Juneau, Alaska, a large
brick of gold, genuine, not the usual
kind, paying twenty-five thousand
dollars. It was stamped "Brick No.
1.000." Broker Smith Is supposed to
have said "I want to be able to prove
that SOMETHING is worth what we
thought it -was, two years ago."
England's plight, with France taking.--all
her gold, forced to make a
combination government, of Labor
and -Tories Is the world's most pa
thetic picture, If you forget China.
v'Vhatever wo unfortunate Ameri
cans do, someone 'hates us for it.'
Returning to ancient barter and ex
change we trade our" surplus wheat
for Brazil's surplus coffee.. Argentina
saya j;Vou, are jteaJlng.mymSouth
Aonerlcan 'Wheat market, shame' 'You
can't please your neighbors, especial
ly If youare rlch-"r:.M - -.,i---t
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