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' MEDFORD JIAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 4934. PAGE THIRTEEN IS I Central California Expects Strife When Migratory Workers Come for First Crops Early in April By EDWARD J. HEILMAN (United Press Staff Correspondent) FRESNO, Calif.. March 30. (UP) Ominous clouds of tension and un rest overhung most of California's great Central Valley today as farmers and thousands of transient farm laborers expected strife which may stain crops with blood before the harvest season. Communist leaders of migratory fertwrf. hands plan to call strikes In very harvest, regardless of wages of fered, farmers say they have been told. If the strikes come, If neither side gives way to the other. It Is be lieved there will be riots like those In the cotton fields last fall, when three men were shot to death and scores were beaten. Start With First Crop. According to special Deputy Sheriff Barry Perry of Tulare county, the , strikes will be called when the first crops are ready for the harvest. Perry, sent out by the Tulare county district attorney to Investi gate activities of communists, lived with them during last year's harvest strikes In southern California. He became one of them, and learned their plans, he reported. Southern California communists told Perry, he Bald, that the Kern county potato harvest, which also will mature early In April, will mark the real opening of the harvest strike campaign. Center In Tulare. The trouble, If it comes, probably will center In Tulare, Kern and Kings counties, and, to a lesser extent In - Fresno and Madera counties, the very heart of the great San Joaquin valley of California. It may be that the expected trou bles will not materialize. Perhaps a solution will be found before the first crops ripen but the farmers sre not overly optimistic. Already a labor shortage Is in prospect, a fact well known to agitators. Spokesmen for the ranchers of ficially deny reports that they have formed "vigilance committees,' but . It -Is known groups of farmers have been meeting secretly to plan methods of meeting the situation. The ranch ers profess to have no confidence In tue ability of the county or state authorities to prevent or control the menace of strikes and spoiled crops. Relief Delays Truce. Most of them feel .that last sum mer's troubles were prolonged by "promiscuous" state and federal re lief to striking harvest hands. Many of them charge, bitterly, that the two governments "encouraged" har vest hands to strike by providing them with better and more food, free of charge, when they were striking than they would buy for themselves If they were working. The ranchers Insist that they are not slave drivers. They say they do not want a system of peonage. But they are determined that their crops shall bring them a reasonable profit, and help them reduce their burdens of debt. They point out that they volun tarily raised harvesters' wages last year, before there were threats of strikes or any hint of dissatisfaction. They raised cotton pickers' wages 50 per cent before a pnund of cotton was picked; they gave Increases to pickers of other crops. The ranchers Insist that they are willing to pay fair wages this year, based on the market prices of their products. ELK CREEK AND RAND Forest supervisors have presented ratings to the Civilian Conservation corps headquarters here, listing Camp Elk creek and Rand Ranger station camp as the highest, wUh a 90 rating. Others at the top of the list were Applegate.'-wlth 08.3, Carberry creek with 08.1 and Lower pistol River, with a 08. No rating has yet been announced for Camp Cape Sebastian. LOS ANGELES American Women Too Busy To Use Beauty Methods KANSAS CITY, Mr., March 30. (UP) American women are too busy to be beautiful, R. Avon Kartyshal, Persian philosopher, de clared today. "They allow themselves too Utt'.e time to develop their personali ties," he opined. "They have too much responsibility to be truly happy, and this affects their appearance." RULES BY GEN. J 13 STARS FOR 1934 HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 30. (AP) Thirteen young women banded together today to prove once again that there 1b nothing unlucky about the number If one happens to be a baby Wampas star. They emreged last nlgftt as the winners among 38 girls nominated by the Western Association of Mo tion Picture Advertisers for film fame. The first letter of each word In the title of the association Is taken to spell the nickname of the girls sponsor Wampas. The thirteen finally selected by Wampas as the women most likely to achieve stardom in 1934 were: Judith Arlen, Hollywood. Betty Bryson, Los Angeles. Jean Carmen, Portland, Ore. Helen Ccthan, New York. Dorothy Drake, Santa Monica, Cal. Jean Gale, San Francisco. Hazel Hayes, La Crosse, Kas. Ann Hovey. Mount Vernon, Ind. Lucille Lund, Buckley, Wash. Lu Anna Meredith, Dallas, Texas. Glgl Parrlsh. Cambridge, Mass. Katherlne Williams, Everett, Wash, Jacqueline Wells, Dallas, Texas. They were choices of 113 publicity men, who annually select Wampas stars and sponsor their careers through the bright lights of Holly wood, j All of the winners in the group, the eleventh to be chosen by the press agents, enter the future with varied experience in pictures or upon the stage. Most of them .have de voted the few years of their lives since school to careers and a mi nority have mixed marriage, the ma jority unsuccessfully. Each is around 20 years of age. The winners chosen, a thorough going campaign extolling them to the picture going public will follow. Including a nation-wide radio pro gram, a transcontinental train trip to the east, climaxed by a frolic and Subordinate Heads of De partments Can Talk Only of Weather and Not Much of That, Reporters Find ball. By J.AMES COPE WASHINGTON. March 30. (AP) Orders regulating the Issuance of news to the press have just been given all NRA officials. They estab lish stricter rules for news announce ments than have existed since the early days of what Oen. Hugh S. Johnson has called his "gold-fish bowl" administration. All subordinates were "reminded" In a memorandum that "Informa tion to the press (other than that Issued from the administrator's of fice) should go out through the pub lic relations department and not di rect to reporters." Rule Once Modified Last winter the treasury decided to establish strict rules for news. , In the resultant furore, charges of cen sorship were made. The rule was subsequently modified. Alvln Brown, executive officer who sent out the NRA regulations, added this caution; "Will you please convey this in formation verbally to all in your di vision whom it might affect?" This limited the copies In exist ence to no more than a dozen or so, but the order was found after deputy administrators began answering news men's queries with the formula: "You'll .have to ask Mr. Lawson about that." i (Williaia V. Lawson, one-time Chi cago newspaper man. Is head of the press publicitysection at NRA). Johnson1 Less Talkative Johnson, wh6, in speeches de nouncing the Idea of censorship, fre quently has called newspaper men to witness that NRA busings Is conducted openly "as In a goldfish bowl" recently .has made known displeasure at some accounts of NRA doings. He has held but one press conference since the end of February when a series of officially invited public criticism meetings, code au thority sessions and automobile strike negotiations began. Since the first months, when rules prohibited contracts between subor dinate officials and reporters, the latter have had virtually free run of the organization. A few deputies this week have continued the usual practice of giv ing explanatory information direct to newsmen. However, in the division headed by Administrator Kenneth M. Simp son, handling metals, mining, ship building, automobiles, etc., conver sation with reporters has been lim ited to the state of the weather and very little of that. News originating from this divi sion was believed to have brought1 down the order. CORVALLIS, March 30. (&) Oregon and Washington livestock producers benefited by at least $130, 000 in Increased cattle values during January and February of this year through the expenditure of only $26,- I 000 by government relief agencies for surplus beef purchased on the Port land terminal market, on the basis of a survey of market trends completed at Oregon State College. The study of market changes dur ing the past winter was made by B. W. Rodenwold. assistant professor of animal husbandry, at the request of Oregon livestock organizations. The report was issued today. GLENN YVONNE Cosmetic Special. Powder, lipstick, rouge, $3 value for 98c. Woods Drug Co., Main and Central. STATE'SCONTROL Iron, Gold, Petroleum, Tim ber, Opium, Liquor, Live stock Markets Among Lines Under Monopoly By JAMES A. MILLS HSrNKING, Manchukuo. yP) A policy of government control of all the principal Industries of Manchu kuo la being worked out by the gov ernment of the erstwhile Henry Pu Yl, now Emperor Kang-Teh. It la not a new policy, for It has been in process of evolution ever since the Japanese began to consoli date their foster state In what for merly was Manchuria. Iron, gold, petroleum, timber, opi um, liquor, the livestock markets and slaughter house, posts, telegraphs, telephones, railroads, air lines, muni- EVERYMAN'S ible Class COURT HOUSE Easter Morning 9:40 O'clock, SPECIAL MUSIC , GOSPEL SONG BY CLASS Live Wire Talk for Men and Young Men By W. R. BAIRD tlons. matches, lottery systems snd even horse racing -are subject to the plan. Army as Trade Power. State monopolies have been formed or projected In virtually all these lines. Ostensibly the buslneAS is managed by the civic authorities, but actually, say those who have come in contact with the system, the real power is to be found in Japanese military head quarters. The army authorities explain that they must control these activities "In order to rationalize industry" and be cause of strategic reasons, both eco nomic and military. Foreign business men. including several Americans, have complained that only Japanese and Manuchu kuans are benefiting under the sys tem. It is virtually impossible, they eay. for any Chinese or Caucasian business organization to obtain per mission to establish any major enter prise in the new empire. One Vmlka Company. The "pone door." one sarcastic American observed, Is being kept ajar only enough to enable foreign con cerns to make a graceful exit. One example of the state-fostered monopolies Is a comparatively new vodka combine. Capitalized at 2, 000.000. it embraces all the Impor tant distilleries In Harbin and other cities and has an annual output of 3,000,000 gallons. The vodka sells for 25 cents (gold) a quart. In addition the combine has un dertaken to distill "shaohungchleu" a popular liquor hitherto produced oniy in southern China. A subsidiary com pany Is to have a plant at Pushun. 40 miles from Mukden, capable of producing 2SO.O0O gallons of the bev erage annually. Japanese Control oils Similarly there Is a new corpora tion for marketing petroleum prod ucts. The Japanese-owned South Manchuria Railway company and al lied commercial interests formed it with a capital of 5.000.000 yen. Another government company has the exclusive right to manufacture weights and measures. Its capital is 1.500.000 yen. The government mean while is starting a graduated Intro duction of the metric system and by the time this system becomes stand ard the new company will be equipped with scales, weights, rulers and tape lines. 4 For Garden Plowing Tel. 912-J. WASHINGTON, March 30. 7Pi Permission for unlimited importation of American type rye and bourbon whiskies during April from any coun try was granted today by the alcohol administration. Joseph H. Choate, Jr., made the an nouncement. Such Importations may be In bulk or In bottles. Choate said the order was the third of this nature and in this case "serves the purpose of filling In the gap be tween the expiration of the second period covered by such an order which ends March 31 and the beginning of the third import May 1." During the Import period beginning May 1 there will be no limit on amount of alcoholic beverages that may be Imported. 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