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PSGE ETfiTTT 1IEDF0RD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON. SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1933. Crashing Steamer Lines For Voyage to Europe Is Hard Job for Applegate Editorial Rooms, New York Herald-Tribune, July 3, 1933. To the. Editor: One time when Bob Colvlg hd Jut made a trip on board the good ship "Larry Doheney" from San Pedro to Portland, to get Irom Hollywood to Xfedford. he wrote me a letter tell' Ing me about hU dutlei. All he had to do waa arlae at five In the morn ing, prepare breakfaat for tne crew, then clean up the kitchen afterward, wash the dlslies. etc.. and then con tinue by getting water out of the ocean to polish the whistle, ana eucn menial tanka. up until dark, and then, providing that the dishes were wean ed, he had the rest of the day off. That aeema to be the kind of Job Don and I have nailed for ouraelvea, IP we get It. If we don't we'll have to stow away, and don't think we won't If we have to. I'd rather have to man a four-maated echooner ain gle handed In a race around the Horn than have to get a Job on a boat out of thla place. One can alt for boura down at the water-front, and watch boata putting out to aea every few mlnutea, but Just try to get on one If you want to eupcrlence a helpleaa feeling aome time. Theme Song Selected. Do you remember In San Francisco I couldn't make up my mma wnrcn would make the beat theme song for thla trip? There no longer remalna the shadow of a doubt. You've gueaaed it i "i cnvr the Waterfront." If there's a quarter of an Inch of dock pace In New York harhor that we haven't explored thoroughly, I d like to ace It. We atarted out last week full of the plrlt of adventure, almoat expecting to get aboard a boat the first day. About the first dBy or two we were more or lesa partcular aa to where we went, but we aoon got over that I Now we don't care If we go to South Africa. Iceland, Borneo, Bwltserland or San Francisco. When we go out to a dock to Investigate a boat that Ml men tioned In the ahlpplng notea of one of the dally papers, we have to go through a cordon of copa that would make Lou Bloom and Cy Herr look alck, and that's anylng more than aome of you perhaps realise. How are you, Lou? When we get past the cops, which we generally don't, wa then have to ace the steward's secretary. If, by aome misunderstanding, he leu ua talk to the steward, that gentleman (?) saya "NO," without even bother ing to find out what we want. Captain ThBwa Out. In the middle of our work one day, while crossing on the Weehawkcri ferry to Jersey, we encountered the captain of the boat. The ferry boat, I mean. We had crossed the Hudson river In hopes of getting a boat on thp other aide, but from the river It waa obvious that no llnera were docked In that Immediate vicinity, o we decided to atny aboarfl, and go back on the same boat to avoid pay ing another fare. While sneaking about the upper deck to keep out of lent, we ran right smack Into the captain I He threatened to throw ua off, 'till he had heard our story, and by then he had grown Interested in us, and pointed out a atcamer dock near at hand. The Black Diamond Line, going to Rotterdam lyeth out., wait a min ute, I mean Rotterdam and Ant werp. We talked to the head man. and he aald tfiat ha had ten con gressmen's sons to every boat, and had no room for mere newspaper men That's what he thinks. I'll explain that later. After leaving the Black Diamond. we agsln went aboard the aame fer ry, and told the captain our atory. His name waa Smith, and he took ua up In the pilot house, and let ua watch him run the boat, We made severs! trips acroaa and back wlt,i him, and he finally aent ua to aee a. friend of his. a Captain Flem ing, at the customs house, who waa auppofeed to know every boat, and boat captain, In the country. We went down to ace Fleming the noxt day. and he Just aat and looked at us, and finally fell In with our own auRKcatlon that we go to aee the American Export Line. Said he knew Mr, Andrews, who did the hir ing over there. The American Ex port Is In New Jeraey, ao we tore over there brlnht and early the next day, to aee him. We got there at ten In the morning, and ran Into aome of the nastiest copa It llaa ever been my displeasure to see. They shunted ua around like ao many cattle, using no more mannera than ,ioga. They even went ao far aa to tell ua we couldn't aee And rews, and we wish now that we'd taken their word for It Job Seeking a Crime But at the time we weren't used to that kind of language, and It made us mad. We told the guard on duty i,iat we weren't looking for work, and he thawed out a degree or two. Looking for a job la aome sort of crime to the American Ex port company, I guesa. Wa stood around for about live hours, being roiuuntly ordered out of the way, by throe dumb cops, before Andrews came In. We went up to him, ahow ed him our press carda, and asked him If we could talk to him a min ute. A more Ill-mannered ape I've never met than friend Andrewa. He did have the courtesy to Invite ua Into his office, probably with the Viought that he could work ua for something. But he made ua aland through the whole Interview. He fleet aald, aa 1 drew my letter of Introduction from Mr. rtuhl from my pocket. "Before you show nie any of that Junk, what do you want." Only ha aald. "Watcheawant" We told him that. Captain Fleming had aent ua over. Then he claimed hed sever heard of Fleming. Bo we told him what we wanted. That is want ed to work our way to Europe, com fort in accommodations being no ob ject to ua, 1! we'd take our own food, lr necessary, and our own bed ding. And that wed pay lor thif pnvtleee of doing ao. We we:e get ting de.perate, remember. Hectare llrnul Hmitilt Did that Impat'ioned plea ni'ke an? impression oa Una mu? On might aa well try to carve one's In Rials In granite with a piece of soap u sell an Idea to him. It wasn't his saying "no" that groined ua. We almost expected that. It was the wsy he ssld It. He cslled us "drugs on the market,'1 among other things. Personally. I think a steamship of ficial aa dizzy aa that one la the greatest drug on the steamship mar ket. If I ever have any ahlpplng to do, I'll let It rot on the dock before I'll let the American Export company ship It. He got off one of his most brilliant remarka of the day, when he said '"How do I know you're newspaper reporters?" He'd Just got thru look ing at our press carda. We reminded him of thla minor point. It didn't bother him at all. 8o we showed him a clipping from the Oakland Tri bune, with our pictures, which men tioned that I was writing for the Mall Tribune. Unfortunately. I had no Medford cllpplnga. To thla. he replied, "Just a periodical. Doesn't mean anything." I gueaa he was right at that. It wouldn't, to him Then he wanted to know If we had any Identifications from the paper, ana i pointed out that he had Mr Kunrs letter in his hand. He par- rica wis with a gummy grin, which he thought was passing as wit, by saying he hadn't Tead Itl There'a a limit to everything, ao Don and I left. First thing I do when I make my first million dollars Is to buy that ateamahlp line, and fire Andrews. Cheered on by this failure, we crawled back to our room about dark, and went to bed. It waa hot aa tho devil in New York that day. About ten It atarted to rain. At ten-thirty the thunder and. Ihjhtnlng was get ting dramatic, so we got up, slipped on an old pair of corda apiece, and went up on the room. We picked out a nice wet spot and lay .down to die. It waa swell. The lightning would light up the whole akr line or aiannattan every few mlnutea, and ine tnunder would roar Its approval of what, It saw by the glare. Wo atayed there till we were soaked through, and nice and cool, and then went back down and got aome sleep. Next day we atarted on the boata again, and Just missed going to South Africa and Madagascar by about eight houra. The point ger mane to the discussion la that we missed It. Heady for Anything That gave ua our Idea, and so we quit trying to go Just to Europe, and orrerea to go anywhere, still luck, however. Finally the altuatlng growing desperate, we decided to stow away, to Antwerp or Rotterdam, on the Black Diamond line, because It seemed the easiest to get at. Thla morning we went over to take a look at "our" boat. A acurvey looking old hulk It Is, too. Remlnda-me of And rews. While hanging about the dock, the Steward came ashore and passed us. We nailed him. and save him a sob atory that would make Simon Legree weep salt tears. Simon Le gree, you'll understand, waa a alasy compared to these guys. But won-der-of-wondera, he promised to try na get ua aooara. And If he doesn't he saya that all they do to atow awaya la make them work till the boat docks, and then they chase them out or Holland Into Belgium. wnicn suits us fine. We weren't planning on ataylng In Holland very long anyway. So the next article will be from Holland or Belgium or New York. How am I going to have an article a week when It takea thla boat eleven daya to cross, and the mall almost that long to get back to New York, to aay nothing of hav ing to crosa the continent after It doea get here? Perhaps I ahould do like Mclntyre does. I have It on his own word that he la on a three weeka vacation, and atlll hla artlclea are printed every day, as thoiurh nothing unusual were going on. Only ... ui'Huara w) oe writing a travel ogue, and Ifa hard to write one, I imagine, wnen not traveling. Did you notice, In Mctntyre'a co! umn, about Frank Ray and Barbara Stanwyck? The article that I wrote aoout them must have been printed acorn the aame time. Do I feel proud I Missed Big Tight Wa were planning on going to the Sharkey-Camera fight last week, but we were too busy to line up any ticket. The fight waa pretty good, too, from what we've heard of It. One guy here in the orflce auf.gested that, we atow away In one of Camera's ahoea. Another coincidence in our lives, proving that the world Is a small place. Hera In the Herald Tribune offices, Mr. Newman, the theatre editor who haa betwi so nice to us. Introduced ua to a Mr. Robinson, a young reporter who went to Russia, work-away, last year. Mr. Robinson, during the coure of the conversa tion, asked ua what lines we d seen We mentioned the Mataon line, in Chicago. He asked us If we knew Joe Hurd. As he anked ua. I was In the act of taking a card from Joe Hurd Irom my pocketbook. He knew Joe in Honolulu, where they lived together. Joe had written hla name on the back of the card, telling ua to look him up when we got to Now York, but he didn't know what paper ne waa working lorl And we dis covered him by accident. Today, after finding that we might get aboard thla ahlp for Antwerp, we . went down to the Belgian Consulate to gel advice. We got there at three ten. and the office closed at three. 1 Tha'. a a heck of a time to close any , office. The Netherlanda consulate wan also closed. So now we have to I ws.lt till Wednesday, alnce tomorrow ' la the Fourth. And Wednesday we re auppoaed to be getting ready to atow away, or go to work. When I (ret home, I'm going to punch a lot of nones of people who promised to write to me. but haven't ; Lardo la the only faithful one of the whole township. i The Lord only knows where next i weeka letter will be from, but Join prayra with Don and me. and hope It's from Europe! Felicitations and Ovulations. DICK APPLEOATC. ' NATION'S NOTABLES SPONSOR MACHINE MAN AT WORLD'S FAIR 2-i if 25 of DirATtriM CtMtMONV f r w MX I On the crest of a wave of popularity started by Chicago's notables and potentates two superhuman robots housed in the General Cigar Co., Inc., building at the Chicago 1933 World's Fair are entertaining visitors with the most modern method of manu facturing cigars. As many as eight hundred people an hour, it is estimated, enter the exhibit to watch the machine men, or fresh work cigar-making ma chines, at work. Few exhibits sponsored by an in dividual Industrial onterprlse receiv ed as sensational a welcome aa did the superhuman robots In the White Owl exhibit. Mr. Itufus C. Dawes, President of tho Exposition, was offi cial spokesman for the World's Fair Committee In officially opening the exhibit, the only one of Its kind at the Fair. Several thousand people, on hand for the dedication ceremo nies, heard his address, as well as I scintillating dance music by Guy Lombardo and his orchestra, and a comedy aklt by George Burns and Gracle Allen. One of the outstanding mechanical triumphs of this century of progress, the machine man performs more than twenty separate involved and Intricate operations In manufactur ing a cigar. Duplicating the manipu lations of the .human hand with un canny skill, at Is a marvel of co ordinated action. It Is manned by four human operators who feed and direct It and who represent the hu man equation of selection In manu facturing without which no product Is dependable, Togethor with the combination cellophanlng, handing, and packaging machine In tho mod ernistic, air-cooled General Cigar Co., Inc., building on the 23rd Street Plaza, tt-derrronstratcs the last word in the manufacture of White Owl tne cigar of a Matron. Tibbett Registers Thrill Over Hooking Steelhead On Visit to Rogue River PUZZLES, READING LEGION TO ELECT GIVEN CCC BOYS Jig saw puzzles, msgazlnes, books, decks of cards, and gamea have been coming In to the chamber of com, merce very freely for distribution to o, o. O. headquartera for the boya in tne various camps, It was an. nounced by the chamber of com merce today. There la atlll need for more of these thtnga as the camps are now fully manned and there are over 3.- 000 boya working from the Medford headquarters so those desiring to give donations are urged to communicate with the chamber of commerce Im mediately. In the event that no transport tlon Is available to bring the books or magazines to the chamber, ar. rnngementa can be made to have them picked tip by ringing 3. "The chamber of commerce Is ap preciative of the ready response which was given the first announce ment that books, magazlnea. decka of carda and gamea would be celved," stated President W. 8. Bol- ger," and we hope that during the next week we ahall be able to de liver more literature and games to tne camps. 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Vain MttHM lillT M)OP 111 Main STATE DELEGATES Delegates to the atate convention will be elected at the regular meet ing of the Medford Post, No. 15, Am erican Legion, Monday evening at the Aromry, Klamath Palls will be host this year tj the atate convention August 10. 11 and 13 and three excltlntr daya are promised all Leglonalres. A large attendance Is desired at Mondny a meeting In- order that the delegatea can be elected by a lar.e vote, truly expressing the wishes of the membors. By By Irra Fewell. Lawrence Tibbett likes showman, ship. He decidedly prefers appearances on tho atage In concert or In opera any day to making movies and thla. he explained, la "for the almple res- son that you come In direct contact with tne people for whom you are expressing yourself. There la a psy chie or spiritual give and take whlcA must be considered. Movlea are Juat hard labor." Thla was the world's famous barl tone'a view expressed Friday after noon, while he sat on the veranda at the Nlon Tucker aummer lodge, "Rogue's Roost," overlooking the fa mous atream. And hla Showmanahtp was dleplayed In his attire. Tibbett liked the Russian blouse he wore in the screen production, "New Moon." and It was that same tan allk ahlrt, with metal buttona, that the alnger was wearing. To complete hla outfit, Tibbett had on bright blue trousers, and red and black allppera, without socka. But far more Important to him than music at the moment, was two steelhead, one weighing 1 pounda. and the other V7 pounda. which he landed In the morning. In fact, ne was so enthusiastic, that he Instated on another fishing trip later In the day. Tibbett was thrilled over his visit to th3 Rogue, end spoke often of the "perfectly marveloua streams" and the great foreata. "Oregon la too beautiful," he aald, and viewing the river from the porch, wondered where the week had gone for the few daya of vacation .had seemed ao brief. Mrs. Tibbett Is also a guest at the lodge, and today they plan to leave for Hollywood, where Tibbett will consider prospects of making a new picture. "I prefer a costume vehicle, with a heroic, character role, for I'm not a beautiful young thing." the good looking dark-haired alnger and actor remarked modestly. "Living lute a savage" (without aocks) Isn't al ways so good" was hla comment when Interrupted to scratch a large mos quito bite on hla ankle.. Getting back to music, Tibbett said that following hla appearances In New York snd Chlcsgo during the past season In "The Emperor Jones" and later "Pagllaccl." Tibbett came to tho coast. He participated In the "Century of Progress" opening cer- emonttis In Chicago, however, before leaving that city. "I ang the Star Spangled Banner. and forgot the words, if you can Im agine a good American citizen doing that. However, a chorus Joined In and rather muffled and muadted It." he added apologetically. "After all, I have- appeared before a-few audlencea In my life, ao I couldn't aay I waa frightened, although I waa a bit nervous, with tie ceremonies being broadcast throughout the world." "It is thrilling work." the singer said, teferrlng to his leading role In The Emperor Jones.' "Thla type." he aald. "may Indicate the trend of opera lesa mualc and more theatre, i The lines are hall-spoken in a mu- j steal voice." j "Of all the foolish things the Am- I erlcan people have allowed on the stage ta the presentation of operas In I foreign tongue none of the Euro- 1 pean countries do. They demand 1 translations into their native lang- i uage unless they have some fsmous guest artist from the country where the score originated, and then It Is sung as written. Psrla Insists on all translationa. "For yeara people have refused to atate their dislikes to the foreign op eraa for fear of revealing a lack of cultivation, which Is nothing but i nonsense." t Tibbett will open his fall concert tour In Portland sometime In Oc-: tober, and will also appear In Seattle and cpokane. He will be In "The Emperor Jones presentations both In San Franclaco and Los Angeles, i "Pagllaccl" and "Travlata" will be j on the 8an Francisco opera program I "Oood heavens, It seems months ! since I've heard these namea." the singer said, Interrupting his own j methodical Itinerary of concert and ; operatic appearance of the winter ! aeason. "I haven't done any singing since ! coming out .here, except when I i strolled up and down here on the i veranda to keep my throat oiled up." As a part of hla summer's pro- I gram Tibbett will learn his role In "The Merry Mount," a new Ameri can opera by Howard Hansen, which will be presented by the Metropolitan i Opera company In New York. j He will be forced to do some flying across the continent In order to keep up with his concert and operatic program. Ttbbett will present a con cert In New York Hie first week In November, and will open the opera season on December 26, remaining there until the close. The singer, w.hose nearly black hair is slightly greyed sbout the temples, said he had '"always sung," and made his flirt public appearance while In high school at Los Angeles. He made his first professional pub lic appearance In New York during November. 1923 as an actor In Shakespeare King Lear, as Editar. The press notices were "not so bad," and young Tibbett received an offer from Mnrjorle Rambeau to go on a tour. The baritone of the allver screen gave swimming as hla pet .hobby. He had not ventured Into the Rogue "for fear I'd shrink into nothing." Motoring with a fast car that can I keep to the road, la another of Tib bett'a favorite pastimes. He drove to Medford last Monday. There'a a good golf pro at Burllngame, and Tibbett plana to take hla golf a little more aeartoualy thla aeason. Tibbett laughed amusedly when asked about bla "dlaphraghm trick." He aald he had read aome time ago where Caruso had developed hla dia phragm ao that If anyone would atand on It. by force of expansion, he could bounce them up and down. "I thought If Caruso did that, I could too. so tried It. I found It didn't take any practice at all aa my diaphragm was developed" Otto Heckert Will Manage Gas Station Otto Heckert announced today tht he has taken over the man agement of the Richfield aervlce sta tion acroaa from the S. O S packing plant at South Riverside and Stew art avenue. Mr. Heckert. who waa formerly a printer In thla city, ears he will feature Richfield products and U. S. tires and accessories. Call the Soucnerti Oregon Credit Bureau They can eli you who pars a la debts protnpc.y Your Last Chance to Purchase CHEA LUMBE For a few days only, we are making special prices on the following low grade stock F. O. B. Mill: 2x4 R'L Fir, surfaced .... $5.00 per M 2x6 RL Fir, surfaced .... $5.50 per M 2x8 & wdr. RL Fir, surfaced, $5 per M Boards and Shiplap, surfaced, $5.00 and $6.00 per M 4-foot Dry Pine Slabs, $1.25 per cord 4-foot Dry Fir Slabs, $1.75 per cord We also have a complete stock of grade marked Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Ply. wood, Doors, Windows, Brick, Cement and Roofing at Mill Plant, North Pacific Highway. Owen Oregon Lumber Co. PHONE 771 (RETAIL DEPT.) VfV pro HI : v v 3 ju ; Sa ' to - There are some things we refuse to do to sell a car. We like sales, but fair-dealing and the confidence of our customers are desirable, too! For one thing, we refuse to poison anyone's mind against another make of car. We know what our car is and what it will do, and we are ready to tell you about that. But to imply defects in another car is not our business. We have done our utmost to encourage intelligent buying of motor cars by showing purchasers how to protect their own interests. All that a good producer asks is a customer who knows quality when he sees it. An intelligent purchaser will speedily conclude that only a bad product requires bad sales methods. We refuse, also, to adopt the role of trfeky traderthat is, pre tending to offer you a larger trade-in allowance, and taking it away from you in some other way. Ford trade-in values are high, but we do not make fictitious allowances in order to get a sale which may be otherwise disadvantageous to the buyer. Our. dealers take used cars upon a system of values, not by haggling or barter. In this worjd no one gets something for nothing, although there are many ways of making people think that they do. The sure way to get value for value is. first, by being yourself willing to deal on that basis and second, by dealing with a concern that has no other policy. We refuse to keep dinning in your ears that the Ford V-8 is the best most economical, lowest-priced car. That is claimed for several cars Obviously it cannot be true of all. There comes a point where claims 'and adjectives and all advertising hysteria disappears in its own foe Psr sonally, I prefer facts. We say the new Ford V-8 is the best car we have made. We say that our 8-cylinder car is as economical to operate asanv lower number of cylinders. We say that we have always been known as the makers of good cars and that the many good, well-balanced qualities of our present car daces it at the head of our line to date. P U Anyone wishing to do business with us on these principles will find our word and the quality of our product to be A-l. What we say about economy, operation and durability will stand good anywhere July 7th, 1933 1
