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MEDFORh, OREGON, SUNDAY. JANUARY Jf 1934.
Twenty -einlilh Year
No. 251.
E I Outwitted by Crooner Mate
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Backed By Long Foes
RIBUNE
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By raul Mallon
(Copyright, 1934, by Paul Mallon)
Conversion
. WASHINGTON. Jan. U. The con
gressional ruah to get right with the
president la virtually a atampede
now.
Take the houae appropriation
committee, for example.
Moat of the thirty-five congress
men on that committee wanted to
restore government wagea. Appar
ently the only atrong dissenter waa
Boylan of New York. The rest were
eager to abolish the 16 per cent
wage cut. It waa the politic thing
to do. It meant more purchasing
power for themselves as well as their
friends in public office.
Mr. Roosevelt was Informed of the
acntiment In the committee and ask
ed members to drop In to see him.
They did and Immediately became
converted to a five per cent Instead
of a 15 per cent restoration.
Present
The convert even went ao far aa
to make their report appear to be
unanimous.
Some who could not bring them
selves around to supporting the pres
ident chose to vote "present" instead
of voting "nay."
That kind of voting Is becoming
popular for the first time at this
session. The practice la frequently
resorted to when items of admin
istration leglalstlon come up in com
mittee. It permits congressmen to
avoid definite approval of presiden
tial policies without being placed in
the position- of actually trying to
block those policies.
In fact, you might say congress
la Just voting "present" now for Mr.
Roosevelt on nearly everything.
Languor
The stampede liaa gone so far that
the house waya and means commit
tee aleo has let the White House
know It does NOT want to be mis
understood on taxes.
Some of its members have inform
ed the president that they will drop
their own tax plana and take the
treasury recommendations if Mr.
Roosevelt really wants them.
Such underlying aentlment makes
this session of congress different from
any recent sessions. There appears
to be an amazing absence of indi
vidual assertion.
It cannot be suppressed forever,
but for the present, at least, the
congressmen appear to be quite will
ing to let Mr. Roosevelt run the
country.
Individual bills have been Intro
duced by carload lot as usual. They
suggest everything from a twenty
billion dollar public works program
to payment of fifty-cent claims
against the government.
But no one pays much attention
to these bills not even the con
gressmen who Introduce them. They
seem to take It for granted that
they will not get anywhere with
their individual scheme and are
content to rest on the publicity
they get back home for introducing
the ideas.
Work
The puppet (unrecognized) state
of Manchoukou has opened up an
unofficial embassy here.
Prom a hotel suite the unofficial
ambassador hands out ideas for those
who care to accept them.
The purpose apparently 1 to dis
pel the popular Impression that the
Japanese rule Manchoukou. That Is
a difficult task. Even more diffi
cult Is the secondary hope that the
United States might recognize Man
choukou. The state department can hardly
be dissuaded from Its Impression
that the Manchoukouana are really
Japanese In Manchoukou clothing.
Rules
Some people teach things that they
cannot learn themselves.
Apparently that Is he explana
tion for the mishap to a Georgia
ex-congressman who visited the
house the other day.
When he was In congress he con
ducted a school for beginners In
politic. He held classes and taught
congressmen how to get re-elected.
His fundamental rule were: (a)
Never run against an old man, (b)
Never run against a young man. (c)
Never run against a cripple, (d)
Never commit yourself.
Hla rules have not been held In
high esteem alnce he failed to get
re-elected himself Isat time.
Notre
Treasury profits to be expected
from 60-cent dollar devaluation were
computed wrorurly In a recent col
umn. Profit would be more than
four billion Instead of two billion.
It emphasizes further the point that
Mr. Roosevelt's budget melancholia
can be almost completely cured by
devaluation.
Insiders are expecting amplifica
tion of the silver policy by extend
ing purchases to silver bullion in
stead of Just newly mined silver. Cp
to last Tuesday the treasury had
bought Just exactly 45 of ellver
under the purchase policy. Tou can
imagine how much Inflation that
created.
The new I. C. C. commissioner
plawn, has a report In his aleeve
(continued on pa;e nine)
Mens of the Time
PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 13 (AP)
A penny for your thought mul
tiplied by 300 eqtiala fund for a
marriage license. A third purchase
of marrisce license nth 300 pen
nies was made here today, the
count y clerk reported Two other
audi fwebuca wer mad recently.
FIXEDBY BOARD
Report Filed After Hearing
And Study Of Situation
Rules Outlined Surplus
Supply To Be Studied.
E. a. Harlan, chairman of the Ore
gon state milk control board; Burge
Mason, commissioner, and J. D.
Mickle. executive secretary, made a
report last night setting up mini
mum prices for milk and cream in
the market area of the Rogue River
valley and defining the limits of the
milk shed of said valley following the
hearing conducted at the court .house
yesterday morning.
All prices listed are minimum
prices and all are temporary and de
rived from information obtained from
producers and distributors aft the
hearing.
The report follows:
1. Such Investigation and proofs
as the emergency permits having
been made, and public hearing hav
ing been held after reasonable notice
to the public through newspapers,
letters and otherwise and due delib
eration .having been given it is here
by ordered that until further notice
the following temporary provisions
shall govern exclusively the minimum
prices to be charged in the sale of
all grades of market milk and cream
by milk dealers In the Rogue River
valley counties of Jackson and Jose
phine, state of Oregon:
Milk Price
The price to be paid producers
shall be 2.36 per hundredweight,
based upon 4.5 per cent fat test, with
sliding scale up or down, f. o. b. mar
ket. Minimum prices wholesale to stores:
Pints ... 5c
Half pints - 3c
(Half pints supplied through school
to children shall be 214 cents, with
exception of certain designated cases
which may be supplied free).
Out of store (minimum prices):
Quarts, doorstep delivery or cred
it sales 10c
Quarts, ca&h over counter In
bottles 8c
Pints 6c
Out of milk depots (minimum
prices) :
Gallon lots In one container In
one delivery over counter ..... 30c
Quarts bottled by depot 9c
Pints 6c
Half pints 3c
Milk distributed at above prices
In quarts, pints and half pints shall
be mechanically bottled and capped.
Because of the number of high
(Continued on Page Nine)
'WOLF OF WALL ST'
NEW YORK. Jan. 13. (&) The mys
terious stock market operations of the
"Wolf of Wall Street" have been end
ed by death.
The body bf David Lamar, whose
activities in finance oftentimes
shady gained him this sobriquet
years ago, was found today in a hotel
room he engaged eight days ago.
Lam ah had been dead about 24
hours. He was 65 years old.
The aura of secrecy about his last
days rivaled many of the incidents In
his career in stocks. His police record
was long.
Early In the decade, he was Indict
ed for impersonating a representative
in oongTeas in Washington. The gov
ernment said his plan was to get on
the floor of congress and make a
speech to Influence the price of steel.
For this, he served two years.
Lamar was a handsome man, tall
and broad-shouldered, with graying
hair. He had a pleasing personality
and was easy of manner.
WILHELWl Li UP
DOORN. The Netherlands, Jan. 13.
fJP) An attack of rheumatism in the
legs hat compelled former Kaiser Wll
helm II of Germany to forego his fa
vorite outdoor exercise of woodchop
plng. Although confined within his resi
dence, the former ruler, who is ap
proaching his 73th birthday, remains
otherwise in good health. He keens
close watch on political developments
In Germany, refusing, however to
comment on them.
MEDFORD COUPLE
GET RENO PAPERS
RENO, Nev., Jan. 13 ( AP) A
marriage licence was Issued here to
day to Oeorge Albert Barnum. over
31. and Mae Laura Heath, over 18,
both of Medford. Ore.
The bride is listed in the Med
ford directory as a telephone oper
ator with residence at 36 North Oak
dale. Barnum Is a member of a weil
.known pioneer family. Tie marriage
will be his third. He is a garage
i operator.
WITH RHEUMATISM
i vj
Sensational charges involving infidelity, vicious temper, vile lan
guage and niggardly financial settlements were revealed when tht
divorce complaint of Mrs, Rudy Vallee (lower right) against tha or
chestra leader was made public Above it Alice Faye, blonde actress
and member of Vallee's troupe, whom Mrs. Vallee accused of Indis
cretions with ;he crooner. Two other women also were accused but
were not named. Associated Press Phto
QUENTIN FELONS
SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif.,
Jan. 13. P) Hotcakes baked with a
blowtorch resulted in three Los An
geles burglars being placed in soli
tary confinements bore today.
Assigned to repair the . prison
plumbing, Steel Knight, 24; Charles
Campbell, 25, and Joe Arnold, 33,
were given some flour to make paste
for wrapping steam pipes with asbes
tos. Then Arnold went to the prison
kitchen, guards said, and requested
some grease for the pipe Joints. The
cook gave h'm a panful of grease and
for the next half hour there was much ,
noise while the prisoners apparently
fixed the pipes.
Guard E- J. Bonflgllo, Investigating
the process, came upon the prisoners
Just In the act of eating the last of
15 hotcakes which they had baked
with a blowtorch. Into solitary they
went and a guard will stand bytto
see that other prisoners finish the
repair Job without hotcakes.
AUTO DEATHS IN
STATE INCREASE
SALEM. Jan. 13. ftP) Death due
to automobile accident on Oregon
highways during 1933 totaled 24S. an
Increase of 19 over the previous year.
It waa reported by the secretary of
state's office today. The December
total of 28. or seven more than the
same month In 1932 boosted the fa
tasllty list.
Persons Injured last year showed a
slight decrease, with a total of 4.315
as compared to 4,384 In 1933. Of this
number 544 occurred In December,
which was 121 more Injuries thsn was
reported In December of 1032.
Aocldents occurring, however, were
less for the year, total of 20.341 be
ing reported, as compared to 30.e22
In 1932.
Of the 28 fatalltlea last month, ten
were pedestrian, eight resulted frcm
non-colllslon aocldents, six In au'o
collisions, three In rallrow accidents
and one listed under miscellaneous.
ALKY TRUST SUED
FOR TAX EVASION
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13 f, The
government was in full cry for liquor
revenues tonight under the policy
that tax liability rests not only on
"the little fellow but on very large
and powerful corporations as well."
The first points of attack were fie
United States Industrial Alcohol com
pany and the United States Chemical
company, which the government con
tended owe taxes of 18, 140. 514 88 on
1.371.955 proof gallons of distilled
spirits It claim w diverted for
beverage purposes between January
1. 1929 and January 15. imo.
Conredins that such diversion mas
Illegal during prohibition laws, the
attorney general enunciated the prin
ciple whi-h sent awh notorious boot
leggers as Al Capone and Waxey Ooi
don to Jail for income tax delinquen
cies: j "Taxea due the covernment may
j not be evaded br reason of the Hie
zMtty of the transaction under whioh
USE BLOW TORCH
PANCAKE BAKING
TO ROPE BY JURY
COLUMBIA, fl. C, Jan. 13.
Robert H. Wiles, South Carolina's first
kidnaper-killed In modern years, was
sentenced to death today, three weeks
after he killed a 15-yeartold school-
boy. .
Judge Hayne F. Rice decreed t.ie
49-year-old despectacled automobile
mechanic should die In the electric
chair March 12.
Ignoring an insanity plea, a Rich
land county Jury in less than half
hour of deliberation found Wiles guil
ty of murdering the schoolboy, Hub
bard H. Harris, Jr.
Wiles admitted on the witness stand
he lured Hubbard from home on the
lad's birthday, two days before
Christmas, to demand a $1,000 ran
som. He hammered the boy to death,
he said, with an Iron bar at a desert
ed farm house when his one-man plot
went awry.
Part of the 23 minutes ti- Jurymen
deliberated the case was spent In
prayer asking "divine gu'dance" In
their verdict.
As Clerk of Court C. E. HInnant In
toned the fatal word, "guilty," Wiles'
throe-year-old son. Robert, Jr., could
be heard outside the court room cry
ing, "daddy, daddy." The child had
been with his father In the court
room, but was taken outside by his
mother and two grown half-sisters
before the Jury retired.
Wiles heard the verdict with the
stern composure he had maintained
during most of the three-day trial.
His only sign of nervousness was the
rapid chewing of a quid of tobacco.
E
F
HOOD RIVER. Ore., Jan 13. (AP
The campaign for ship locks at
the Bonneville dam of the Columbia
will not be abandoned by the Inland
Empire maritime conference. Secreta
ry W. S. Nelson declared here last
niftht.
The conference Is exponent of a
number or eastern Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho organisations cam
paigning for sea locks at Bonneville
and extension of ocean shipping fa
cilities as far as The Dalles.
"We are determined. If necessary,
to take the matter directly to the
prealdent," Nelson said. "Petitions,
now being signed by hundreds of In
land Empire cltlrens, call for inter
vention by the chief executive In or
der that producers of this area may
gain the benefit of their natural
heritage In the Columbia river.
"We are determined not to cease
until we gain what we believe la our
natural right."
FARRELL EAST ON
L
Attorney Frank Parrel left Med
ford Friday night for Washington,
D. C , where he will' represent Irri
gation districts of the state? of Ore
gon, regarding refunding loans, be
ing sought. He will remain In the
east for two weeks.
Floyd Hart. vl president of the
Timber Products company, also left
Fridsv ntffhl for Wabuviton In the
I nterwt Utt lumber cods.
RUDY GOHECORD
Phonograph Noted Talks
With Dancer And Deceit
Of Wife Revealed
"Stocked Up" With
Dresses, Says Rudy.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13. ) Lifeless
wax, like that which the voice of Rudy
Vallee so often has creased with songs
of love, spoke another story for him
today.
On evidence provided by transcrip
tions of telephone conversations be
tween hla wife and others one of
whom was Garfield Leon, an adagio
dancer Vallee won the right yester
day to sue for divorce wherever he
chooses.
The specific ruling was a refusal by
the appellate court to grant a petition
of Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee by which
she sought to enjoin the soft-singing
maestro from seeking a Mexican di
vorce. The transcriptions, obtained by "a
very simple device attached to a tele
phone extension and without the ne
cessity of wire tapping." led Vallee to
tell the court (in his affidavit) that:
"My wife carried on her affair with
Leon right under my roof, with shock
ing callousness.'
One of the phone conversations cut
Into wax by Vallee's telephone devise
was described In the affidavit as fol
lows: Mrs. Vallee: Rudy la leaving at 10
o'clock to go to Philadelphia and I
told him I would come to the sta
tion. Leon: All right.
Mrs. Vallee: Listen, we have to be
awful careful, Oarfleld. I mean there
are a lot of spies around watching us.
But my chauffeur Is my chauffeur,
see? So would you get In taxi and
meet me In the park some place and
ws can ride around the park?
Leon: Oh, that sounds kind of
mysterious.
Mrs. Vallee: I want to see you so
badly. It sounds nice, doesn't It?
Leon: Yes, well, alt right.
The date of that conversation, Val
lee"s affidavit said, was March 23,
1033, and took place from his home,
Another recorded conversation led
Vallee to aver;
"Not only was she (Mrs. Vallee) ac
cumulating money she received from
me for the purport of maintaining
any Illicit love affair, but my wife
told Leon she was 'stocking up .
A part of that conversation quoted
Mrs. Vallee as saying to Leon:
"Yesterdsy I bought five dresses
and three pairs of shoes and three
hats. I'm stocking up."
To which the voice of Leon replied:
"You'd better. You're no fool."
One conversation between Vallee
and his wife on March 20. 1033. was
reported. It went u follows:
Mrs. Vallee: I called you up to tell
you I love you.
Vallee:: Really?
Mrs. Vallee: Uh-huh.
Vallee: How much?
Mrs. Vallee: Oh, about fifty thous
and million, billion, trillion, trillion,
trillion times around -his world and
all the other planets.
Valle: More than anyone In the
world?
Mrs. Vallee: More than anyone In
the world. More than anything In the
world. And I really mean It, too. And
I'll show you.
Two days later, according to Vallee's
affidavit, Mrs. Vallee and Leon had
another conversation on the phone.
BY MORAL WAVE
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (Police
axe squads battered down "Ice box1
doors, smashed gambling devices and
paraded 164 prisoners Into magistrate's
court in a series of gambling raids
today.
Ordered by Chief Inspector Lewis J,
Valentine to clean up Broadway and
tho entire city, police worked long
hours raiding known gambling estab
lishments. In most cases tht defendants wva
dismissed, but in a few instances op
erators of establishments were be!d
for grand Jury action. Most of the
dismissals were based on lack of di
rect evidence.
"Big Dave" McAullffe, who was ex
iled in the Walker administration for
hla drives against gamblers, was In
structed b? nolle to pay no atten-
Hon to the courts' action, but to
"narrass ' gammers uniu iney grew
! tired of trips to police stations.
THE DALLES, Ore.. Jan. U.
fAP) Dr. O. E Sanders, 81, retired
dentist credited with discovering
cherry pollenlration secrets, died at
hla ranch home hers today.
His experiments with Bing. floya!
Anne and Lambert cherries led to
discoveries that these varieties are
both sterile and intra-sterlie a dis
covery later colaborrsted In teits
made by Oregon State college.
Sanders waa graduated from Uni
versity of Michigan Dental school in
jiaflO and commenred practicing den
ntrv here In 102. Later he enter
14 !al orchard, ftusies.
, Noted Dead
l id
Th old "regular" democratic
organization In New Orleans, now
opposed to Senator Huey Long, in
dorsed Mayor T. Semmes Walms
ley (above) of New Orleans for re
nomlnatlon In the city's January 23
primary. (Associated Press Photo)
WOES AT POLLS
PROMISED SOLONS
WHO OPPOSE FDR.
Political General Farley In
Speech Says President
Not Inflationist Jobs
Given To Thwart Doles.
CLEVELAND. Jan. 13.-H) Any
congressman seeking to embarrass
President Roosevelt and make his
tasks more difficult, will. In the opin
ion of Postmaster General James A.
Parley, "come up missing" after the
congressional election this fall.
The postmaster general expressed
this and many other opinions con
cerning the trend of the present ad
ministration, in an address today at
a luncheon opening the Cleveland
automobile show.
He predicted President Roosevelt
would not "spread his salts before
the lnflatldngale, with all the perils
that beset such a course," but added
that neither would the Prealdent
"sacrifice the advances which have
occurred in commodity prices by tak
ing the views of the international
bankers."
He admitted that "perhaps some of
the public works that are being exe
cuted under the new dispensation aro
not urgently necessary" but asserted:
"How much better It is to have an
excess of roads, or bridges or public
buildings, or flood-prevention or for
est preservation work, or any of the
other improvements involved, than to
hand out the money Jn doles, and so
create a permanent class of state pen
sioners. Let there be no doubt about
It; the blunt fact Is that It was a
choice between doles and Jobs, ther
was no alternative."
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. (AP)
Chairman Black of the special sen
ate committee Investigating air mall
contracts said today the Inquiry was
"Just beginning."
As more replies to committee
questionnaires came In from persons
prominent In the fields of aviation,
finance and politics, the committee
Investigators checked them against
Income tax records obtained from
the treasury department. About two
hundred Individuals and corporation
groups have been questioned.
Members of the committee refused
to say whether the comparisons had
developed any discrepancies.
Black said the entire Investigation
of both air and ocean mall subsidies
would require several months, much
of whlrh would be devoted to the
air contracts.
EDISH BLONDE
IN 'SALOME' ROLE
NEW YORK, Jan. 18. (AP) s
lome, once called a hussy and kick
ed out by the "Golden Horseshoe.'
csme back to the metropolitan opera
tonight wearing her seven tells.
Ooeta Llungberg, the tall and
blonde soprano from Sweden, had
the title role In Gluilo oattl-Cas-area's
revival of the tragic music
drama of Richard Strauss.
The seats were all sold out two
weeks ago. Several railroads operat
ed opera specials from Westchester
and Jersey suburbs.
fnii.t ruction Ialna
WABHINOTON. .Ian. 13. (API
A survey by the T. W. Dodge cor
porstlon showing s Isrger volume ot
construction during December thsn
In any month alnce October. 1M1.
was cited by the public work ad
mlnlatratlnn tonight aa dlacloalng
"definite reeulta" from It drive '
tfiSVX tUiainAa)
AIR MAIL PROBE
PROMISES THRILLS
Family Neglect
On Pay Day Laid
To CWA Workers
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 (AP
Warrants for the arrest of 100
San Francisco civil works em
ployes, charged with forgetting
their families after regular pay
had replaced relief rations, were
in the hands of police today.
The warrants, charging non
support of dependents, were Is
sued at the request of Charles
M. Wollenberg. city relief head,
who said wives and chllden were
left destitute while the money
earning family heads spent their
pay. Most of the men. while re
ceiving groceries and relief sup
plies Instead of money were con
sidered good husbands and fath
ers. Wollenberg said.
FEBRUARY 10 SET
AS OPENING DATE
Medford Listed For Store
NRA Hours And No Sales
Sunday Liquor Supply
On Way.
SALEM. Ore., Jan. 13. (AP) The
state of Oregon will launch Its re
tall liquor business by February 10,
the liquor control commission an
nounced here tonight.
On that date hard liquors will be
on sale at 18 state bottle houses and
80 authorised agencies. The an
nouncement was made despite the
pending constitutionality suit which
had been brought against the new
liquor law by the city of Klamath
Falls home rule exponent.
The 18 stores will be set up In
17 cities. Portland will have two
at the outset. Other cltlea which
will have stores are: Salem. Eugene,
Medford. Albany, Cor vail Is, Roseburg.
Marshfleld, Grants Pass, Klamath
Falls, Bend, The Dalles, Astoria, Mo
Mlnnvllle. Pendleton, 1a Grande and
Baker. Agencies will be established
in every major community in every
county feue commission stated, -
Headquarters for t,h state stores
will be set up here Monday, two of
fice rooms having been assigned Ad
mlntstrator Oeorge Sammia of the
commission on the third floor of the
capltol building.
Sammia, reporting his plan today
to the lequor commission, estimated
that 10S employes would be needed
to get the organization set up and
operating. There will be 80 agents
aside from those In the stores.
Detslls of the commission's ptan
came In the form of a report by Ad
ministrator Sammls. His plans were
adopted In rapid-fire order by unanl
mously passed motions of the com
mlssloners.
State liquor stores will run under
NRA hour schedules, opening late
In the forenoon and closing at 8 p
m., except on Saturdays, when 10
o'clock will be the closing time,
Stores will not open on Sundsys.
The commission was told that
stocks of liquor were already moving
to the state and virtually all varie
ties will be available by the time
the retail stores are ready. Goods
will be shipped by rail and water to
Portland and kept there In bonded
warehouses, remaining the property
of the shippers until the state elects
to purchase the stocks. The com
mission authorized 8250,000 for pur
chase of stocks.
Chairman George L. McMorran
said the state would lose nothing by
going ahead with organization de
spite the suit In circuit court here
brought by Klamath Falls to test the
legality of the act.
READY FOR EXIT
CHICAOO, Jin. 13. (AP) John
Factor, suvlng off a little while his
own trlsl before ll British court,
(sees four Touhjr gsngaters In Chi
cago crlmlnsl courtroom next Tues
day In tha valedictory scene or his
second plcturesqus career In Amer
ica. He has sworn vengesnce sgatnst
those who kldnsped snd Imprisoned
him last July, selling his freedom
for S70.S00. This Is his chance.
State proaecutors boaated tonight
ther had piled up evidence enough
to blot out the leaders of the Touhy
gang, which aprsng Into dominance
of the underworld aa the Caponea
allpped Into s, forced retirement.
GOLD BEACH, Ore., Jan. 13.
AP Tht loaa of both hla hands
will not stop George Du Barry from
operating his gold claims.
That was -his answer to what he
described as "an epidemic of claim
Jumping" after he lost hla hands In
accident last summer, His claims art
In the Mult Creek mining district on
thr Rogue river 48 miles up from tht
LOSES HAND BUT
MINES ON ROGUE
TO ASSURE RAILS
Cong. Lea Holds Army
Board Action Will Speed
Building Coast Line
Cites The Transportation
Needs.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. f API
Representative Clarenoe F. Lea (D.,
Cal.) said today he had asked the
army board of engineers for rivers
and .harbors to recommend the ap
proval of the report of the divisional
engineer for the development of the
narrjor at crescent City, Cal., subject
to a provision that assurances be
given that a railroad will be built
connecting with Grants pnss, Ore.
ine request was made In a letter
to Col. W. J. Burden, chairman of
the army engineering board. Lea ob
served that Colonel Robblns. division
engineer, had recommended what
may properly be regarded as a snlen-
dld and adequate deep water devel
opment of Crescent city harbor."
ine report. Lea said, recognized
t,he Interior country Is now denied
any advantageous outlet to the sea.
oy pnysical handicaps that render
satisfactory transportation practical
ly impractical.
Manifestly." Lea wrote, "the re
port anticipates that If such a har
bor Is provided, rail connection with
the interior will follow and Justify
the enlarged harbor. Thus, a deep
sea harbor and a railroad are much
dependent upon each other. One
must be assured before the other
can be provided."
For that reason. Lea said, after
conferences with proponents of the
developments In Del Norte county,
California, "we waive the requtit
the project be adopted without a
railroad. We now pray that your
board recommend approval of th
Robblns report subject to a provision
in substance that the Improvement
be dependent upon satisfactory as
surances to the secretary of war that
a railroad be built within a reason
able time from Crescent City to
Grants Pass."
The basic problems of the mld
Paclflc Coast area, Lea added, are to
secure both the railroad and the
harbor, each to aid the other.
"If we can have definite knowU
edge of the conditions on which this
harbor can become available, then
these two problems will be greatly
simplified."
Lea said the Interstate commerce)
commission ,had approved the con
struction of a railroad from Crescent
City to Grants Pnss. The California
and Oregon Coast railroad already
has 15 miles of track In use extend
ing south from Grants Pass toward
Crescent City, and It was upon this
apllcatlon that the I. O. O. author
Ized construction of the remainder
of the route.
Construction of the railroad and
Improvement of the harbor would be
a great boon to the lumber and pulp
wood Industry of southern Oregon
and northern California, proponent
pointed out.
The Robblns report recommended
deepening the entrance channel and
turning basin of Crescent City har
for sufficiently to allow large freight
ers to make It a port of call.
HEAVY SNOW, RAIN
ON WEATHER BILL
Oregon: Unsettled with rain tonight
and Sunday; heavy anow In Cascade
mountains; moderate temperature:
south and southwest gales shifting to
northwest and diminishing.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 13. The
forecast for the coming week for tor
western states Is for unsettled weath
er with rain the first part of the
week over northern California and at
frequent intervals during the week
in Washington and Oregon; there will
be local snows over the northern
plateau region.
ROGERS
RIVERSIDE, Cal., Jan. 12.
Tho senate passed bill tlmt
vc only buy drinks from those
who pay in. That had every
body rushing to the statistics
to seo how Scotland stood.
I don't know what Finland's
nationnl drink is, but we better
be getting used to it, for they
arc the only ones that have
really paid in full. Whatever it
is, you can certainly run on it.
I guess it's a "Nnrmi punch."
Well, I het this scheme goes
just like all tho rest have. They
have tried everything in the
world to bring France tn time.
France is a nation that don't
shame easy.