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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. '
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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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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
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