' MEDFORD JIAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 4934.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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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