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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.
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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
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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
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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. It will be a
picnic and clean -up day combined,
and the patrons of the district are
asked to come and help make, the
day a success and bring a basket dinner.
TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL
On Flight To U. S.
"Til ' '' ' '
ixaolnlcd I'nu 'dole
Wolfgang Von Gronau, Gorman
trans-oceanic pilot. I attempting a
second flight from Germany to
America. He la flying the north
Atlantic by way ol Iceland and
Greenland. '
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BEAGLE. Ore., iAug. 28. (Special.)
Bill Harten, Jr., of Rogue River la
visiting here this week with his
friend Ralph EUls.' His parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Harten, brought him up
last Sunday and called at the Ellis
home t.iat afternoon.
- Miss Donito , cftder of Medford
3pent the week end visiting at the
Wllliams-Seegmiller home.
Mr. and Mrs. Sollee and daughter
Mary have gone to Los Angeles for a
visit of two or more weeks with rela
tives. 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
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Several nf ih.
a Pleasant
Mu .lollen hom . lM Chi
Thelma 1"
Mi. and Mr- Tnm : .. .ml4
of Table Rn, 4
.'h. l"" to, i
to go to Gold Beach ana otnlJ
on the coast. nn ,. r PI
she last of the week.
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valley residents are wonderlnj V
er the boys learned from tL
or the birds from the boys i,
youngsters and iiin. "..-
advantage of the.inu, ,.' ' n
, , ore!
turlng troui by chasing the ftj
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water.
Dance at. "The French VillaJ
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