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( '. ; t J PAGE FOURTEEN1 VAN 0 FOR U OM WEED Vast Fields Being Sown in Russia for Home Supply Special Trust Formed to - Develop ; Industry Expect 60,000 Tons Soon ' By Victor Kuunnk MOSCOW (P) Soviet Russia, rich In oil, grain and other natural resources, Is rubber poor, But the communist leudcrs hope to remedy this flaw soon and roll their own In gutta-percha without having to spend good, hard-ourned gold with British unc Amorlcan syndicates. - The new hope of the Soviets Is In caoutchouc, sometimes called In dia . rubber, and the wherewithal is ' In the hondrllla und taou-sagylz, plants which hithorto have been aansldered only as weeds, ' To Sow Vast Fluids According to the doctors, of -the five year plan, some pO.UOO acres will be sown to hondrllla and taou Sagyli this year, Tn Kazuklstan, the Nkmlne and northern Cau casus. "' ' 1 How, .much .rubber , will bp ex tracted sfrom this .crop,. Is urolilem atlcal. , k . . Last year the soviet factories In Mascow and the Caucasus turned out only about 1500 pounds of homo grown rubber. This was dis couraging, but It Incited the com munists to' further efforts. : Wild Wood Failure Endeavors were made to utilize ' the s. wild-growing hondrllla and taou-sugylz In tho Ukraine and Tajikistan, but utilization of the "wild" ; product apparently has been' difficult. So now It has been decided' to tame and cultivate the plants. ; ' ,' The. Soviets are also planting ga vuuli, another plant from which rubber Is obtained. In addition a plunt called vatoohnlk, which con tains, a certain amount of rubber, Is to be cultivated. Tho Soviets have formed a spe cial trust for 'developing the rub ber Industry under tho name of "Kauchukonos." This trust has organized six farms for planting rubber trees, three of which are In Kazaklstand and ono each In Turkmenistan, tho Trnns-Caucusus and the Ukraine, limit Now IMantH ' Two scientific research institutes also are busy In hunting now rubber-bearing plants. , The hope Is that tHo Soviets will be able to obtain SO, 000 to 00,000 tons of rubber from their own re sources within three or four yoars. i Tho rubber plight of tho com munists is shown In the Import figures for 19S0. Last year somo 16,000 tons of caoutchouc were ' Imported at a cost of about 112. S00.000. The rubber factory at Leningrad consumed about 80 per cent of this product. - Cot So, American l'tants '' The Leningrad laboratory first had the Idea of producing home grown rubbor. The rubber trust In 1 0X6 sent an expedition to South America, which brought back rub ber plant seeds, 96 per cent of which were successful In maturing. Later experiments were mado with wild hondrllla . and tnou sagyiz. . These proved that while the wild variety Is not especially adaptable, the cultured plant can be made to yield about Vi per cent rubber. - 1 Meteorological Report . August 88, 1031. Forecasts, Medford and vicinity: Tonight and Saturday fair: cooler Saturday. ' Oregon: Fair tonight and Battir day; cooler southwest portion Satur day. ' ' Local Data Lowest temperature this morning S3 degrees. Temperature a year ago today: Highest. 93: lowest, M. ' Total precipitation f Inoo September 1, 1930, 13.87 Inches. .. Relative humidity at 5 p. m. yester day, 10; 5 a. m. today, 67. 1 Sunset today, 8:53 o. m. ' Tomorrow:. Sunrise,.. 6:33 a. m. unset, 8:60 p. m. Observations token at 5 a. m. . i ' Meridian Time. iffiir 3 V" e AJ'1 ! Baker City ......... 78 . Boston 711 438 ' Bols 1...Z 80 Chicago ................ 83 Denver 7 Dei Moines 88 Fresno .......... ........108 Helena 70 Loa Angela 93 Mrdford . Ml , New York 88 Phoenix ............... 108 Portland - 84 Reno ... 88 Roeeburg 68 Bait Lake ..... 7 I Ban ' Francisco... 08 1.44 .08 I Beattlf ..,.,.....'. t& J ipokln...Av.!t 90l- 80 Washington, 1J. la . M J0 SHE SPURNS FARM GIFT FOR CHANGE IN MOVIES Adrleiine $mvn' hunlmnd, n iiirmlier of tho New York Ntotk exchange, cmiltlit't reMnt her plea when she coaxed for per mt union to accept a Hcreen offer. And who could? i By Ilohbln Coon. HOLLYWOOD Beautiful young society matrons sometimes have been offered fabulous Inducements by movie producers to lend their charms Perfect Air Team Formed When Post, Gatty Joined Fortunes Over Year Ago By LEON H. DUR8T . (Copyright, 1932, by the Associated Presa) . PART VI Ills months an clilof pilot at the Diirhank, Cnl., airplane factory gave glow to tho dream of Wiley Post to do something "hlg for aviation." Art Clochel's record non-stop transcontinental flight In 1028 and tile 111211 rofuollng endurance con tents further wltettod His aviation appetite. : Ho sayB Ills hopes for a refuel ing flight wore dashed ufter he had colluded checks to back him. "I got tho cbeckB," be relates, "on a Saturday. Sunday a couple of oth er tilers went up and crashed, and Monday my checks were no good." Post expected to go after the transcontinental record (luring last year's national air ruces, hoping to fly the Pacific non-stop derby to ftfEDFOTlD MAIL to the screen. Adrlenne Ames, one of them, was offered a beautiful Connecticut es tate by her husband If she would stay off the screen. Chicago, where he would refuel and head for New York, He became lost but . won the derby. He felt he could not go on to New York, In thla race from los Angeles to Chicago, he roared homo winner over a fast field, which' Included Qoebel, His time wna 0 hours, 9 minutes and 4 sec onds. . . v , As In bis earth-ctrcllng course, be pllotod a "Winnie -Mae," . pro vided by V. C. Hall, the. oil man, who backed him and Harold Gntty on their record-breaking world trip. About two years ago, Hall said, Pont bogan to agitate for the round-the-world flight. He spoke about It at practically every opportunity. And be finally won over the man for whom he worked Intermittently the lust three years or more. "He finally sold It to me," Hall said. "Sold It to me on the Idea .... RHaE'Es ITDnese Parties THE MAIL Old and New Readers TTlTRUyE, MEDFOItP, But-here she is In Hollywood. Adrlenne Ames, nee McClure, Is a Fort Worth, Texas, beauty, a rival to all other contenders for the title of Hollywood's best-dressed woman. She has, moreover, a warm and cultured southern voice which with her natural poise, and grace, la ex pected to make her a popular screen favorite, even though she never "be fore has acted on screen or stage. Two years ago Miss McClure, in New York and Interested In' fashion designing, met and married " the wealthy Stephen Ames, member - ox the New; York Stock , exchange. ' ' This , summer - they visited.' Holly wood after a Honolulu - vacation. Adrlenne, meeting Ruth Harriet Lou ise, the noted woman photographer, had some professional pictures made. Mlw Louise ' suggested , that these be sent around to the studios. The result was several Invitations for Interviews, and the offer of a term arrangement with Paramount as a featured player. Mr. Ames, meanwhile, had gone on to Chicago, where his wife Joined him later. Her task, then, was to convince him that she should come back to Hollywood. "Naturally," . says Adrlenne Ames, "he was opposed. We are In love. But ho understands my viewpoint, too. I want this chance to do something creative.' : "We talked It over on the train, all the way from Chicago ' to New York. Yes; It's true that he of fered to buy me this Connecticut farm, which I adored, If -I would give up the notion of pictures. But finally he .consented, agreeing - with me that if I did not take this op portunity I would spend the rest of my life wondering what I might have accomplished. ' She Is very matter-of-fact about her movie trial. "I'm not going to stay It I find out that I'm to be Just another hanger-on. If I don't make -the grade, I'm not going to waste my own time or the studio's." that It was a sporting proposition. Just a sporting proposition. That's all It was to me." It was while thla bee buzzed In his bonnett that Post met the per son to whom he passes much of the success of that globe circling feat his quiet and studious navigator, Australlan-born Harold Gatty. . "Coste and Bellonte, the French filers, were a great pair, but they have nothing on us when it comes to co-operation," said Post. "We work together. I have every confidence In the world In Gatty's ability an a navigator and feel that one could look the world over and not find another dne like him." The friendship of Post nnd Gatty the Damon and Pythias of the air dates from their meeting more than a year ago 6n the Pa. clflc const. Founded on mutual re spect, It ripened rapidly. Post's talk of a world flight drew encour agement from Catty. - , -t Post was working at the Lock heed factory, where a plane was being shaped up for a Pacific flight by Harold Hromley. Gatty had been obtained to teach Bromley navigation. The former had dip ped deeply Into navigation at the Australian naval academy and had supplemented . the course with nttidies under Lieutenant Conv SEPTEMBER 7 OREGON, FKTDAY, AUGUST 28, 3931. mnndef. Van Horn 'Weems, naval officer; now at Annapolis instruct inc.ih navigation: -- - - -Eleven years in the British mer chant and naval service also were chalked to the credit Bide of bis nagivation ledger. When Bromley took off last summer from Japan on a non-stop flight to America, Gatty rode with him as navigator and successfully charted a return to land when they were forced to turn back from about 1200 miles out on account of a broken exhaust valve. in taciturnity the pilot and the navigator of the wondrous "Win nie Mae" register about the same, with Gatty probably having a bit the edge. When questions are fired at them by Jnquistllve reporters they look at each other and shyly smile, each giving the1 Impression that the other should do the talk ing. , If Post finally yields to the plea peeping from Gatty'g clear blue fiyes, be takes up the conversation gauntlet for the man he terms his good pal." But not for long. Kncb man listens closely to the other, and the .observer often "de tects nods of encouragement from the partner in reticence. rout just could not underntand why the slender Australian had to bang so fondly ovor bis books in preparation for their fame-crowned cruise. "If I was doing that end of It, I'd of had those figures all memorized by now," he once Jok ingly said. Gatty tmiled, leaving through the thousand-odd pages of tables, logarithms and churts to reply: Fellow," you work the other end of thlH plane and I'll do this end. You know we want to take that round-the-world record from the balloons." Somehow these two "flve-foot- fiverR" In height have the knack of understanding oach other. They seem to like about the same things, both love their home firesides. when adventure in the skies Is not knocking at the door. The 28-year- old Gatty has three boys with whom he liken to romp of an even ing, and the 32-year-old Pont han an aviation-thinking wife with whom he loven to fly. Both have won golden opinions from plane experts. No lean a com mentator than Col. Charles Lind bergh said that Gatty, who gave Mrs. Lindbergh lessons In how to fly, "is one of the greatest navi gators in the world." That's how Post feels, too, about bis aide of the eir. And to every encomium for Tost as a pilot comes the Australian's "Amen." , Telegraph Code Taps Edison Conversation WEST O RANGE, N. J., Aug., 28. (AP) A Morse code game which Thomas A. Edison, the Inventor, taught his family yea's ago Is a boon to him now. Members of his family carry on conversations with him ty tapping out sentences on hla hand'i or fore head In the telegraphic code he once taught them, The inventor at 84 is 11 land deaf. PLAN CLEANUP DAY c FOR BEAGLE SCHOOL BEAGLE, Ore., Aug. 28. (Spl.) The school board has fit aside Fri day, September 4th, for cln-up day at the school house. 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Walter Jones and Mr. Seegmlller were Medford business visitors Satur day. ' Mr. and Mrs. Grant are entertain ing this week some friends from Bend, Oregon. . , Mrs. Paul has returned home after several weeks stay In the hospital in the northern part of the state. Her friends are glad to have her ,nome again and hope she will continue to Improve in health. -, --.7 v , Mr. Qerber of Sams Valley bought part of tho Wllilams-Seegmlller dairy herd last week. Leo Martin was leader of the Friendly Neighbors meoting Sunday evening. The subject was "Love,1 The text taken was John 3-16, with to 1 references- on th : 4 and Mrs. EU Mr. ll on the lesson. Th 5"B "l . Mr. and Mrs., a i Jtosadena, Callr.. spent th? ""I at the Sandern toe W they ent i7a7i lakes. Thev r . " " DlH Mr. and Mrs. s.n. LTW'M Mr. and M i " 11 llvwereSnnH:;8.1""1"'! tarl Mellln, "rJ'i rtl.frl " ! 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