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    Medford Mail Tribune
The Weather
forecast; tan tonight and Friday;
not much change to temperature.
Temperature
Highest yetterdsy , "
l.oHr this morning .41
To City Subscribers
in case our carrier falls to teats
a paper, phone 16 before 0 p m.
office elating time. A paper will oe
eent out by Special Delivery,
Twenty-eighth Year
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1933.
No. 138.
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Comment
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Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
(-pHE first H months of 1033 have
1 been the least favorable for
crop production of any aeason in
FIFTY YEArtd, according to the de
partment of agriculture of the United
States. Acreage planted has been re
duced, and prospective yields are low."
THE foregoing paragraph is quoted
from a little pamphlet entitled
"The Agricultural Situation and Out
look," published by the Oregon State
Agricultural college and the United
States department of agriculture, In
co-operation.
It sums up the story wo have been
reading In the papers for months. The
story Is one of reduced crops over
the nation as a whole.
NORMALLY, poor crops and bad
times go hand In hand. This year,
however, we see an exception to this
rather well established rule. In re
duced crops, we see an IMPROVED
OUTLOOK.
Why? Because over-production has
brought agriculture Into a bad atate,
with prices hanging around the
starvation point. Prices are low be
cause there are moro buyera than
eeilera that is to say, because supply
exceeds demand.
This condition can be cured only
by reduction of supply until it Is
brought Into something like a reason
able relationship to demand.
WE ARE undertaking to accomplish
that by law, but too much re
liance can't be placed upon crop re
duction by law. Nature needs to
take a hand if crop reduction is to
be made really effective.
If the figures of the department of
agriculture are" accurate, Nntwe ''1
TAKING A HAND.
WHEN Nature takes a hand in crop
reduction, her processes are tar
from Impartial. She lays the heavy
hand of punishment here, and ene
bestows benefits there. To some areas
she brings crop failures, and to others
she brings heavy yields.
But in the long run she reduces
production, so that accumulated sur
Dluses may be consumed.
. She has been doing that for a long
time In the past, and will continue
to do It for a long time to come.
nnHE Southern Oregon country, this
X year, Is one of the favored apots
In the face of general shortages,
which are bringing prices up from
the disastrously low levels of recent
" yean, the erorss In the Klamath
country are HEAVY In some cases
establishing new records for high pro
duction. . We have been happily dealt with,
and should be grateful.
OUR future, here In Southern Ore
gon, looks good.
The money coming In from our
bountiful crops should tide us over
the fall and winter, providing the
increase of buying power that Is
needed In order to bring about lm
proved business for the marketing
of these crops will bring new money
Into the country, and new money
brought into the country will stlmu
late business. '
By next spring, the lumber In
dustry, which la our great payroll in
dustry, should begin to show Im
provement. Our future looks very bright Indeed
THE lumber Industry has been
stimulated already, but Its real
Improvement has not yet got under
way.
People do not begin to buy lunv
ber IMMEDIATELY when times begin
to improve. Lumber isn't bought, to
any great extent, in small quantities
If your shoes are worn out. you will
probably buy another pair as soon as
you get s little money In your pocket.
Likewise with a new suit of clothes
It Is even probable that If your old
car Is worn out you will buy a new
one as soon as you begin to feel a
little easier In your mind about the
future.
But not so with building a new
barn, or a new hen house, or a new
duelling. Before you do that, you
must have got most of your bills
paid up and a little money ahead
That Is why real recovery of the
lumber industry Inge behind recovery
in other line.
OUT by next spring. If general lm-
U prorement In business conditions
Continued oa Psge BU
WAGES INCREASED,
FOR TEN
Recovery Chief Scans Au
gust Achievement Records
Launches New Cam
paign to Open More Jobs
N. B. A. Accomplishments.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (JPy
August activities of the N. R. A.:
Permanent codes approved 18.
Modified President's re-employment
agreements approved 240.
Permanent codes set for hear
ing approximately 25.
Number of workers re-employed
aa estimated by Hugh S. Johnson
2.000.000.
Number estimated by N. R. A.
as working under codes and P. R
A.'s upwards of 10,000,000.
Permanent codes approved which
became effective in July cotton
textile.
Permanent codes spproved which
became effective in August coat
and suit, corset and, brassiere,
electrical manufacturing, fishing
tackle, Iron and steel, lace manu
facturing, legitimate theater, lum
ber, rayon weaving, ship building,
photographic manufacturing and
wool textile.
Permanent codes which become
efective in September and the
dates automobiles, September 5:
hosiery, September 3: men's ready-to-wear
clothing, September 11:
oil, September 2; and rayon and
synthetic yarn. September B-
By MELBOURNE CHRISTERSOn
(Associated, Pres Staff Writer.)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (JF)
Hugh 8. Johnson and his recovery
administrator counted August em
ployment gains under the Blue Eagle
today and launched a new effort to
open the doors of factories, mines and
stores td.an even greater number of
idle in September.
Their immediate problems were the
speedy formulation of permanent
codes of competition for bituminous
coal operators and the retail trade ,
affecting more than a. million work
ers and the question of bringing
Henry Ford and his huge plants
within the scope of the automobile
agreement.
Ten Million Benefit.
Recapitulating August activities tn
President Roosevelt's drlre to stimu
late employment and purchasing pow
er before winter seta in, the N. R. A.
chieftains found that 18 permanent
codes and 240 temporary trade pacts
had been approved, bringing upwards
of 10,000,000 workers under shorter
hours and higher minimum wage
agreements.
Simultaneously, Johnson was con
fronted with a demand by labor's
chief spokesman, William Qreen, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor that even shorter hour pro
visions be inserted in codes so as to
spread 'employment at a faster and
greater rate.
Qreen said federation figures show
ed that 3.000.000 idle men had found
Jobs since March 1. This estimate
agreed In substance with an estimate
made by Johnson, the only re-employment
figure announced by N. R.
A. officials.
Silent on Ford.
Johnson returned last night from
a speaking trip to Boston to find
a request from President Roosevelt
for a detailed report on the failure
of Ford to sign the automobile code
approved last Sunday.
The recovery administrator declined
to comment. He has said repeatedly
he has had no word from the Detroit
manufacturer. It appeared today
that a showdown between the ad
ministrator and Ford was near.
Ford has until September 5 to
come in under the code and obtain
Mb blue eagle. If he falls to do this,
Johnson said he though the American
(Continued .on Page Two)
"GOTO!"
WHEN ASKED
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 31. (UP)
Senator Huey P. Long returned home
last night with a scar over his eye
snd rancor In his heart for news
papermen. ...
The "klngflsh" leaped from an Illi
nois Central passenger train at the
Carralton avenue sub-station, on the
edge of town. Four bodyguards
hemmed him in.
Oscar Wilton, photographer for the
New Orleans Timea-Plrayune, an
ant I -Long newspaper, rushed up with
a camera.
"Let's break lt.M yelled Wheaton
Sttllson, one of the bodyguards. SMI1
son and snother guard then charged
the photographer. They seized and
held him while Earl Chrlstenberry.
Long's secretary, rushed the senator
i to a waiting automobile.
I "How about that fijht?" a reporter
sJaouted to &a BUCagfUh, .
Premier Catch
I '
Dr. Donald D. Jones, Seattle dent
1st had the "pull" necessary to get
this 51 '2 lb. salmon out of the wat
irs of Puget Sound. A broken hook
In Its mouth showed it had been
inared before but had gotten away.
(Associated Press Photo.
S
RECENT ADVANCE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (Jf)
After, weeks of steady decline, an
upswing in the wholesale prices on
farm and food products for the week
ended August 36, paved the way to
day for an increase In the general
wholesale price level for the week.
The bureau of labor statistics of
the department of labor today placed
the index of the general level of
wholesale prices for the period at
69.6, aa compared with 69.3 for the
preceding week.
The figures are based on average
prices for the year 1926 as 100.
Farm products, after- decline from
59.6 to 57.5 during the four preced
ing weeks, stepped back to a 8,3
level. ,
Wholesale food prices had exper
ienced a similar dtp, going from 66.1
on July 29. to 64 4 on August 19.
For the most recently recorded week.
however, they swung back to 65.0.
The general increase In wholesale
prices was shared by all major groups
except building materials, chemicals
and drugs, and certain miscellaneous
products. Hides and leather commod
ities led In the price upswing with
an Increase of 2 per cent. The index
numbers compiled by the bureau were
derived from price quotations on 784
commodities.
Negroes Confess
Murder Of Girl
DALLAS. Tex., Aug. 31. p) Tie
body of Miss Katherlne Prince, 31
kidnaped from an automobile last
night by two negroes, who shot her
escort, Mace Carver, 37, was found
In a cotton field southeast of Dallas
today.
County officers said two negroes
arrested had confessed killing the
girl after attacking her in a field.
UMPQUA BRIDGE PLAN
GIVEN U. S. SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. (AP)
Plans submitted by the Oregon state
highway commission for a bridge
across the Umpqua river at Reeds
port :n the Oregon Coast Highway.
were approved by the war depart
ment today.
Ths Reedaport bridge, one of five
proposed by the Oregon commission
for the coast highway. Is the second
to be approved.
SHOUTS HUEY
ABOUT FIGHT
"Go to hell." the senator replied.
Long's automobile was trail wl to a
night club In an adjoining parish.
SEATTLE, Aug. 31 (UP) Resent
ment over ejection of newspapermen
at the national convention of Veter
ans of Foreign Wars at Milwaukee,
Wis., at the request of Huey Long,
led Chester Gibson, publicity director
of ths V. F. W. in Washington, to
reaign today.
Newspapermen were forcibly barred
from the convention meeting Tues
day at the pugnacious senator's be
hest. "It !a hopeless to attempt to give
publicity of a constructive sort to
organizations which permit forcible
ejection by direction of its national
officers, of newspapermen at the rt
quent of a character such aa Huey
long." GilMon. a beattls nesyper-
ENTERS PICTURE
Campus Publisher Had Fre
quent Meetings With
Blond Divorcee in Sacra
mento Testimony at Trial
By DAN BOWERMAN.
United Press Correspondent.
SAN JOSE. Cal., Aug. 31. (UP)
A story of domestic strife In the "per
fect marriage" of David and Allene
Lamson, and of the husband's trips
to Sacramento to see a blond di
vorcee was told today si the trial of
Lamson for his life.
The 31-year-old sales manager of
the Stanford University Press is ac
cused of beating Allene to death last
May 30.
Pieces fell Into the Jig-saw puzaue
of circumstances rapidly today, com
pleting part of the picture the atate
la assembling. To hang David Lam
son the atate must prove bla wife
was murdered, that Lamson did It.
and that he had a motive.
Motive Hinted.
Testimony concerned motive. Ear
lier witnesses had not clearly estab
lished that Mrs, Lamson's death was
murder, and not the result of an ac
cidental fall.
Witnesses charged:
1. That Lamson told Frank J. Tay
lor, Los Altos writer, that his wife
was not happy, that "the situation
could not go on Indefinitely, and that
a climax would come soon."
3. That Lamson drank In Sacra
mento-wlth Mrs. Sara M. Kelley. They
were seen breakfasting together in
the morning. They went to a enow
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BEER TAX PLAN
IS OFFERED FOR
JOBLESS RELIEF
SALEM, Aug. 31. (AP) Solution
of two problems likely to be Included
In the agenda of a special session of
the legislature. If one la called, In a
single measure will be proposed to
the governor's committee appointed
to study and report on methods of
financing state unemployment relief
by Earl W. Snell, speaker of the house
and a member of the committee, ac
cording to word received here today.
Bnell'a plan contemplates one en
actment to license, regulate and tai
the sale of beer In Oregon, with the
proceeds to be applied to unemploy
ment relief in such amount and for
such a period of time as circum
stances may warrant, but his proposal
differs from others heretofore ad
vanced In that It would make coun
ties instead of the state the adminis
trative unit.
Optional Procedure.
Further, the Snell plan would leave
it optional with each county whether
relief funds would be diverted di
rectly from beer revenues, as they
were collected or obtained through
the aale of bonds or certificates of
Indebtedness to be amortized out of
the beverage tax. Thus, emergency
unemployment demands such ax now
exist In some of the counties could
be immediately met out of bond
funds without imposing a further ax
upon property.
Unemployment. Snell explained, ex
ists quite accurately In direct pro
portion to population, and beer con
sumption likewise runs in a relative
ratio. Relief funda would consequently
be collected in amounts correspond
ing to demands snd population.
Would Specify Rates.
"The legislature would confer upon
the counties suthority to levy beer
taxes at specified rates for relief pur
poses while the emergency exists, or,
If larger sums of relief money were
Immediately needed than could be
collected from a reasonable levy on
beer isles, issue bonds to be fi
nanced through a beer tax over a pe
riod of years," Snell said.
"Surplus tax collections over re
lief needs or bund retirement require
ments could be credited to the gene
ral fund of the county to be applied
to the reduction of burdensome prop
erty taxes and to relieie, In ft meas
ure, the financial difficulties the
counties now face as a result of tax
delinquencies.
"Collection of the tax would be
through the established tax collection
agenclea of the counties, and enforce
ment of the license requirement and
regulations would be made primarily
the duty of existing enforcement of
ficials. EIssllc Regulation.
"Provisions for regulation of the
sale of beer snd control of places
where It is sold would be written into
the Isw. but would be administered
by local officials in conformity with
lm Mntiment. thus preserving thf
BASEBALL
R.
10
3
and
H. E.
13 3
8 S
Lewis;
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Batterlea: Cai
Mungo, Leonard,
Outen.
Shaute and Lopez.
Second game: R. H. E.
St. Louis 10 IS I
Brooklyn 4 10 1
Batterlea: Hatnes and O'Parrell;
Benge, Shaute, Ryan and Outen.
R.
.13
Pittsburg
Philadelphia 11 18 1
Batteries: Smith, Hoyt and Grace;
Moore. Fearce, Colllna, Rhem, Berly
and Davis.
New fork ,
Boston .
Batterlea:
Parmelee, Bell and Man
cuso; Cantwell and Spohrer.
American.
R. H. E.
Cleveland 4 13 u
Chicago 1 9 0
Batterlea: Harder and Pytlak; Lyons
and Berry.
R. H. E.
Boston .......... 15 18 2
New York 3 8 3
Batteries: Rhodes snd Perrell; Fen
nock, Utile, MacPayden and Dickey.
EARL FEHL DOING
AVER
Earl R. Fehl, former county judge
of Jackson county, serving a fourr
ycar term In state prison for ballot
theft complicity, Is "doing hard time," 1
according to Medford people, who
have been In Salem the past week,
and came In contact -w4th prison of
ficials and attaches, "Hard time" Is
penitentiary slang for Inmates, who
grieve and worry over their fate.
Fehl so far has been unable to re
concile himself to prison life, and Is
bitter, particularly against the Klam
ath county Jury, who returned a ver
dict of guilty in the record time of
13 minutes.
L. A. Banks, serving life for mur
der Is taking his fate, far more philo
sophically, is cheerful and willing, and
when not working on the "hog fuel
pile" mixes with other prisoners, and
Is a friendly soul, alike to guards and
fellow convicts.
Banks and Arthur La Dleu, his for
mer business manager, and devoted
aide, are the only two of the Medford
delegation who have had visitors, ro
far.
Walter J. Jones, the former mayor
of Rogue River, Tom L. Brecheen, and
La Dleu, are "doing easy time," hay
ing adapted themselves to prison rou
tine, and are as cheerful as their
surroundings will permit. All three
were lieutenants of Banks and Fehl
in the turmoil that rscked this
county. Jones and La Dleu are under
four-year sentence, snd Brecheen,
who plead guilty st the finish, after
spending six months In the county
Jail awaiting ball, Is serving 18
months.
Wesley McKltrlck. "captain of the
Banks gusrds," who plead guilty to
ballot theft, and was not amenable to
a parole, because of a previous convic
tion of a felony, and was sentenced
to one year, entered prison with a
hopeful attitude, and has already been
rated sa ft "model prisoner." "Model
prisoners" get trusty Jobs. The prose
cution. In uaklng a parole for Mc
Kltrlck, declared, "he undoubtedly
saved bloodshed In Jackson county
when he gave information to the dia
trlct attorney's office." He Is eligible
for parole In seven and one-half
months.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. (Ft
Secretary Dern said today a program
of tome 170.000.000 to 140,000.000 for
modernising the army's fighting
equipment on land and tn the air
Is being held up to set what happens
at the Oeneva arms conference.
He and his associates have wanted
to atrengthen the army with the as
slstsnce of money from the public
works fund.
8uch money, he ssld, provides i
ready source for expenditure: where
ss. under ordlnsry conditions, It
would be difficult to get army mod
ernlzstton appropriations through
congress.
STANDARD OF INDIANA
ADDS JOBS UNDER NRA
CHICAGO. Aug. 31. ( AP) 8erv.ee
stations of the Standard-OH company
of Indiana will begin operating 8pt.
1 under ths oil code with mors than
200 new attendants under employ
ment, officials announced today.
The Increase In service station per
ronnel mill advance wage and salary
, reseat b tboufc ftZiltftQQQ I Vi
OPENING DATES
Majority to Start Next Mon
day Medford Schools
Open Sept. 18 Teachers
Are Assigned to Positions
Dates have been set for the open
ing of 85 schools of the county next
Monday, September 4; nine for the
following day, Tuesday, September 6,
and seven for Monday, September 11.,
The Medford schools open Monday.
September 18 the latest date In
many years, and the last of all the
high schools In southern Oregon
counties. Of the 63 schools In the
county. 44 open the coming week.
Schools scheduled to open next
Monday are:
Jacksonville, Griffin Creek, Ash
land, Nell Creek, Eaglo Point, Ante
lope, Agate, Independence, Lake
Creek, Sams Valley, Derby, Sterling,
Meadows, Brownsboro, Pankey, Lost
Creek, Table Rock, Trail, Reese Creek,
Dead Indian, Gold Hill, Laurelhuret,
Watklns, Oak Grove, Anderson Creek,
Elk Creek, Liberty, Alder brook. Butte
Falls, Tolo, Fern Valley, Howard,
North Trail, and Bell view.
The following schools will open
next Tuesday:
Lone Pine. Missouri Flat. Provolt.
Rogue River, Crater Lake. Wagner
Creek, Evans Valley, Plnehurst, and
Went Side.
Monday, September 11, the follow
ing schools are scheduled to open:
Phoenix, Central Point, Talent, Mt.
Pitt, Applegate, Forest Creek, and
Shady Cove.
Nine districts have not yet filed
with the county school superinten
dent thetr opening date, and are as
follows:
Antloch, North Phoenix. Union -town,
Thompson Creek. Long Moun
tain, Proepact, Little Butte, Hatchery
and Little Applegate.
The list of teachers assigned to the
various schools of the county, aa filed
with the county school superinten
dent's office, Is:
Jacksonville Milton E, Coe, prin
cipal, William Joe Nee, Edith Fen
wlck, Raymond Hunsaker, Florence
Hunsaker, Daisy Lewis, and Mary
Norvell.
Griffin Creek Cecil A. Poole, prin
cipal: Mrs, Edna Beeson, and deorgi
anna Huasong.
Ruch Nettie Armprlest.
Phoenix A. E. Whitman, principal,
Mildred Patterson, Nadlne Mayfield,
D. R. Sloan, Edith Fish, Clara Goldln,
Edith Thompson, Marie Prescott, and
Mona Ferns.
Central Point H, P. Jewett, prin
cipal; Ethel Fleischer, Mildred Ross,
Evelyn Hamilton, D. F. Amlck, Lottie
Franklin, Mabel Hansen, Edith Deuel,
Bessie Murphy, Arlene Hay, and May
a. Richardson.
Nell Creek Gladys Sloan.
Eagle Point C. F. Davlea, princi
pal; Yetta Olson, Fern Simpson,
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HOlTOlTALK
K. IS. Wslter, assistant manager of
tha Oregon Agency for the Home
Loan corporation will be In Medford
tomorrow and address a public meet.
Ing In the auditorium of the court
house at 13 o'clock noon.
All people with mortgaged homes,
or holding mortgages on homes, sre
Invited to attend. All details of the
relief neasure will be explained, and
questions regarding It answered. The
meeting will be brief but will be de
cldedly worth while to all those In
terested In ths problem of stabilis
ing local loans ond residence prop
erty throughout Medford and Jack
son county.
MYSTIFIED MEDICS SEEK
GERM OF ENCEPHALITIS
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31 (UP) A mys.
tilled medical fraternity today In
tensified efforts to build up a defense
sgslnst the swiftly spreading aleeplng
sickness epidemic here, as an addi
tional 40 persons were ordered to Iso
lation wards during the day.
Hampered, by their limited know
ledge of the disease, heslth experts
under the leadership of Or. J. P.
Leske of the United States depsrt
mtnt of publlo heslth, admitted they
were baffled by their Inability to ef
fectively fight the malady.
Dr. Leake today ssld he believed
that the germ, which a half a down
trseterlologiata are trying to locate. Is
remaining hidden because It la too
small for the mightiest microscope to
reveal. A two weeks search for the
germ haa failed to reveal a alngle
clue, Dr. Leske ssld.
As the death toll climbed, hower.r.
scientist considered widening their
iMMSb 0 P.UW fl-W
In 'Kiss Shooting9
f i" tar, a
1 V
Albert C. King, 49 (above). Chi.
eago executive, was charged with
aaaault with attempt to kill by hit
29-year-old wife, a former Denver
aoclety girl, who aald King tried
to shoot her at a party where one
of his business associates had
stolen a klaa from her. .(Associated
Kre.a fitw1
DRY LAW REPEAL
MAY BE FACT IN
NEXT TEN WEEKS
By JOHtt F. CHESTER
(Associated Press Staff Writer.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. (TP) A
clear-cut possibility that the eigh
tee nth amendment could be voted
void within the next 10 weeks emerg
ed today from the three-to-one re
peal majority cast by voters repre
senting nearly three-fifths of the na
tion's population.
The heavr recordlnor of Wash in ir-
ton afi the 24th atate to ballot In
favor of the 31st or repealing amend
ment carried the anti-prohibition
surge across two-thirds of the dis
tance to Its goal.
lli More Vote Boon,
At least 15 or more states will vote
before November 8 providing a min
imum of there more than necessary
for repeal should the uninterrupted
procession of the first 34 be con
tinued.
New- England became the focal
point of national wet and dry Inter
est today as Vermont and Maine
sharpened pencils for early Septenv
ber balloting. They were the first of
seven states to vote within the next
three weeks.
Should 13 of the IS states sure to
vote before November 8, follow ths
line of the first 34, the prohibition
(Continued on Psge Ten)
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BY NIGHT RIDERS
SMITHLAND, Ky., Aug. 31. (AP)
A report of the flogging of Louis
Skinner, prisoner who was forcibly
removed from the Livingston county
Jail, was on Its wsy to Gov. Ruby
Uffoon todsy, dispatched by circuit
Judge Charloa H. Wilson after an In
vestigation. Jailer James Martin tald he was
awakened late Tuesday night by a
large crowd of masked men, who de
manded he unlock the Jail. Ths Jailer
ssld he refused, and as choked by
soms of the men who took away his
keys.
Skinner said the mob whipped him
snd tried to force him to reveal the
Identity of hla companion In the
beating and robhlng of Murray Rum
msge, farmer, Skinner protested his
Innocence, he said.
Oflldat figures relessed by the
Metropolitan Health Council, formed
to fight the encephalitis epidemic,
revealed that 47 persona had died
one today since the dlsesse wss dis
covered here a month ago. A total
of 3S3 persons have been atrlcken
during that period.
Today's total of new victims wsa
the isrgest number to be received In
any one day since the disease first
sppl-ared. 343.
Because all efforts to Isolate the
germ In the hope of using that re-
sesrch as a basts for fighting the
disease have failed, health experts
sre grsvely hsndlcspped.
Treatment Is being confined, phy
slclsn said, to drainage of spins)
fluid to relieve Inflammation about
the brain no serums have been de
veloped despite frantlo efforts of bao-Milplogltte
EXPORTERS FACE
RECOM PLANS
System Devised Only to
Boost Wages and Prices
Within Borders Plaints
to Johnson Are Fruitless
Copjrrljhted by McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.
By GEORGE DURNU.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. -Four
yesrs of depression have given Amer
ican exportera and Iraporters a ter.
rlflo truing around.
It is to be hoped this period of du
ress hw hsrdenw them. The bumps
of the psst Till seem like caresses
compared to what the Blue Eagle .haa
In at jre for their businesses.
Government economists n
talking about this Impending prob
lem but off the record they concedo
It has come over the horlmn v.r.
definitely.
om- highly nationalists svstem of
recovery was designed solely to boost
wages and prices within American
borders. Scant consideration was
given to International trade. As a
result our exporters and Imixrun
are about to Buffer plenty.
iraae ootn ways with our world
neighbors todsy is little more t.n
a qusrter of what It was in 1938. As
mo tui cooes oegln to operate do
meatlo production costs will go up so
high American gooda cannot compete.
luragn imports unless protected
by a much higher tariff.
And when Uncle Sam slips more
tariff on Imports It will only be hu
man mture for other nations to re
taliate tn kind against our goods.
They will do It of course where It
will hurt most striking a vital blow
at American exports.
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OFF FOREUROPE
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 31 (AP)
Carrying the first fresh fruit ship
ment of the season from Portland to
Europe, the Italian motorshlp Rlslto
cleared from the Columbia river to
day. The cargo Included 1200 boxes
of Medford Bartlctt pears, loaded In
the refrigerated chambers of the big
motorshlp.
T. B. Watson, general manager of
the Oceanic terminal where the peara
were loaded, aald he la looking for
ward to the movement of millions of
boxes of peers and apples during the
text few months.
The pears bore Medford labela on
the sides of the boxes, with the
printing on one end of the box In
French, and on the other end. In
English. The first, shipment will be
discharged at Marseilles. Each pear
was wrapped In tissue upon which
was prlntod directions for properly
ripening the fruit.
WILL
ROGERS
BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., Aug.
30. So Germany has barred
Schumann Heink. Say, if my
own wife barred Schumann
Heink from anything I would
be with Schumann, a grand,
liberal-minded soul.
Some fellow on Long Island,
New York, in a dress suit
pounced on my old friend Huey
Long. Huey didn't recognize
him in the disguise. Dress suits
are only used in Louisiana to
encase dead politicians.
By the way, did anybody
ever see a U. S. senator in his
home state after the night he is
elected t I have met 'em all
over the world when congress
was not in session, but never
saw one at home. They are al
ways making speeches about
"my fine people back home"
but they never want to go see
'em. So I hereby start a move
ment to create another week,
like apple week, prune week.
It's "meet your own senator
week," and make him come
home, no matter what happens
to him.
Cte.
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