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3TEDF0TTO MATE TRTBTTNE, MTJ)FORD, QEEGpy, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 193?. PAGE THREE E WiTHOUTJEATHS Morgan City Bears Brunt Of Property Damage Clothes Blown From Child Populace Saved By Warning. MORGAN CITY, La., June 18. (AP) A hurricane with a 70-mlle an hour wind tore in from the Gulf of Mexico at noon today, damaged practically every building in this town including the electric light plant which left the city In dark ness, but no loss of life was re ported. The storm caused heavy damage along the Louisiana coast but Mor gan City apparently bore the brunt of the blow. After sweeping the gulf the hur ricane turned Inward and blew north ward toward Baton Rouge, the cap ital of the state. Communication lines were blown down and highways were blocked by fallen treea and flying debris. A sixty mile an hour wind with a blinding tropical downpour and a falling barometer swept through Baton Rouge in mid-afternoon as the disturbance swept its way northerly up through eastern Louisiana, appar ently headed for the southwest tip of Mississippi and the Louisiana lino. Baton Rogue is about 60 miles dir ectly north of here. In the capital city state officials and employes, school children and every person in the vicinity were herded into the great masonry confines of the new tate capital in shelter from the howl ing storm. Business was suspended throughout the city and every resident of Baton Rouge ran for safety in the stronger buildings. Trees were blown down, minor damage was reported to resi dence and timbers flew through the air us signs were torn away. No in juries had been reported. The storm was felt over a radius of two hundred miles as far east as Gulfport, Miss., north to Natches and west to Crowley. New Orleans caught a fringe of the blow and trees and. parts of small buildings were blown down. Windows of Morgan City stores were blown in and merchandise was scattered over the city. - At Ferrlday, La., across the river from Natchez, the St. Thomas Cath olic church was demolished and clothes were blown off a five-year old child. Residents In the path of the storm were warned hours in advance by the weather bureau and they pre pared for the blast. Dwellers in low lands abandoned their homes to the high tides and livestock was taken to places of safety. Heavy damage was reported to the sugar cane crop, the principal crop of the area. TAYLOR GRAZING BILL APPROVED WASHINGTON, June 18. (AP) Legislative action was completed to day on the Taylor grazing bill to establish Interior department control over hitherto unregulated public do main, consisting of 173,000,000 acres of range land in 11 western states. A conference between house and senate managers of the bill reported modifications of two provisions In the act which had been found objec tionable by the president. The re port was accepted by the senate and then by the house without debate. The bill, written by Representative Taylor (D., Colo.) would permit the secretary of the Interior to establish grazing districts with an area of 80, 000.000 acres and to Issue permits for a limited number of head of livestock to range within them. In this man ner over-grazing and erosion resulting from abuse of the range would ' be prevented. The bill was supported at every turn by the administration. MRS. ROOSEVELT VISITS HOMESTEAD PROJECT Arthur Clum, Hawaiian, who la used to playing baseball barefooted, led the Pomona college club In hit ting during the 1934 season with a ,357 average. He played third base. TOO LATE TO CLASSIH CASH PAID for men's 2nd hand au'.tA hats and show. Will B WlUon. Si No. Front. 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Jennings Ran dolph of West Virginia; a woman reporter; Homer Morris, district superintendent of the homestead project; Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, wife of the secretary of the interior. (Associated Press Photo) BOND, Colo., June 16. (AP) The Rockies tonight were officially con quered by steel, before a cheering crowd of 2.500, a new transcontin ental railroad that fulfills the dreams of empire builders to pierce the heart of the gigantic mountains was dedicated today. It Is the first rail line to disdain natural passes or canyons to shoot at one of the highest Rocky moun tain peaks, pierce It with an $18, 000,000 tunnel, and continue on to the west coast. Railroad executives and state and city officials of Colorado and Utah, who participated In the dedication ceremonies, pronounced construction of the new line one of the outstand ing railroad developments of the country. "Inauguration of service over the Dotsero cutoff means that the Rocky mountains are now nothing more than a fence on which Utah and Colorado can rest their elbows while talking over mutual problems," said Gov. Henry H. Blood of Utah, In his address. Gov. E. C. Johnson of Colorado, echoed this sentiment. The new route, which utilizes the old Moffat road and Is connected with the Denver and Rio Grande Weatern In western Colorado. 40 miles west of this little station, first was vlsioned by William Gilpin, the first territorial governor of Colorado, almost 7fi yeara ago. It eliminates 176 miles of the transcontinental route from Denver to the west coast. The route pierces rugged James peak, through the 6 mile long Mof fat tunnel west of Denver and for the first time puts Denver on a trans, continental line. CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 16. (AP) President Roosevelt told West Virginians by proxy today the first year under NIRA "reveals significant and extraordinary Increases in Indus try and business generally." CHICAGO, Juno 16. (AP) The reorganized Republican party, said Secretary of the Interior Ickcs to day, Is "20 years behind the times In progresslveness." FOR COULEE BIDS SPOKANE. Wash., June lfl. fp) Eyeing a Job that will require from 15,000.000 to $20,000,000 to handle, representatives of some of the biggest builders in the nation were here to day preparing to bid on construction of the $63,000,000 Orand Coulee dam. Foremost among the contractors were The Six Companies, Inc., formed to build the Boulder dam, Silas Ma son company, of New York, which Is building four tunnels on the Fort Peck ai60.000.0OO project, for navi gation and flood control on the Mis sour! river. Silas Mason, which built the original tunnel under the Hud son river in New York city, has the contract for the Thirty-eighth stress mid-town tunnel under the Hudson. The Six companies. Inc., would nor bid under that name, but under an other name not disclosed. HOG TAX PAYING WASHINGTON, June 18. (JP) As one of Its final actions, congress to night voted modifications of the farm ac tto afford some relief from process ing taxes on hogs and floor levies on cotton, Jute and burlap. By general consent, the house adopted senate amendments to a nlll authorizing the treasury upon tUe recommendation of the agricultural department to postpone from 90 to 180 days the time In which the pro cessing taxes may be collected. The bill also redefines the process ing tax as affecting hog producers to compel packers and others processing hogs for the market or for other use to pay the levies instead of the farm ers. Chairman Jones (D Tex.) of the house agricultural committee said "the practice has grown up In cer tain sections whereby local packers require farmers to kill hogs before bringing them In for sale and there by make the farmers pay the pro cessing taxes." Able to Leave Hospital 'Mrs. W. E. Fulton, of Eagle Point, who has been confined to the Community hospital, was able to leave for her hame last night. D. S. Newland, of this city, also left the hospital last night. CONGRESS JUNKET WILL EYE COAST FORTS AND GUNS WASHINGTON, June 16. () Chairman McSwain D., S. C.) of the house military committee. In a let ter to Rep. Dockweller (D., Cal.) today promised to make an Investigation this summer of Pacific coast defenses Dockweller had introduced a resolu tion calling for a formal inquiry into the defense of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. "Because of the unusual press of administrative bills," McSwaln said "and relief measures your resolution has not been reported out of the rules committee for consideration. "You have my assurance, as chair man of the committee on military Af fairs of the house of representatives, that I expect to visit the Pacific coast this summer or early fall. "I shall invite several members of my committee, and In addition, such other members of congress who reside on the Pacific coast and Rocky moun tain states who may find it conveni ent to Join me with the view of of ficially Inspecting and surveying Pa cific coast defenses." RAIL RETIREMENT ACT BOOSTS JOBS WASHINGTON, June lfl. &) The more than a million employees on the nation's railroads will be placed under a federally supervised retire ment-pension system when President Roosevelt signs the Crosser bill snt to the White House today by cong ress. legislative action was completed with house approval of a senate adopted conference report composing differences between the two branches. Effective on the first day of the second month after the executive's signature, the legislation is designed to increase employment by a compul sory retirement system and at the same time to insure to aged employees an adequate subsist a nee. 4 HANDSUP" Or Whatever They Say yjOV need not be alarmed that la. If your wallet contains Travelers Cheques instead of cash. A wise hold-up man Is not interested in your Cheques because your signature makes them your individual "money" and only you can legally spend them. 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The First National Bank OF MEDFORD 'A Departmentized Bank" T WASHIr3TON, June 18 (AP) Congress tonight gave to President Roosevelt power to set up a special board to seek to settle such labor troubles as now spot the national industrial map. , The senate and house approved unanimously a Joint resolution, draft ed under the hand of the adminis tration, conferring that power and providing that such boards should have the rights to hold secret elec tions for the selection of workers' representatives for collective bargaining. The administration measure was a compromise substitute for the origi nal labor disputes bill by Senator Wagner (D., N. Y.) The substitute was approved after the Republican Independent, Senator ia Follette of Wisconsin, threatened to hold up its passage with a de mand for approval of the Wagner bill and, in turn, after Wagner him self haid prevailed upon La Follette to recede from that stand. The house previously had whisked the measure through without debate. The substitute measure, when it finally emerged, contained, in addi tion to the general purpose bill, two expressions of policy. It declared that not only should workers have the right to select In dividual spokesmen for collective bar gaining but should be allowed to choose organizations, while It did not specifically mention unions, the provisions were interpreted by some officials as designed to bolster the position of union recognition. It declared nothing In the resolu tion should be Interpreted to stand in the way of the "right of workers to strike or engage in other concerted activities." The former provision had the em phatic '.eking of the White House; the latter was Inserted at the In stance of La Follette and on a unan imous roll call vote. ANSWERING FOES OF BRAIN TRUST CHICAGO. June lfl. Attacks on the "brain trust" were declared by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes tonight to be inspired by fer of that group's ability. The criticism, he told the graduat ing class of Northwestern university in a commencement address, masks a fight to block "social advance." "Should the president, the cabinet and all other administrative officials be required to prove beyond a reason able doubt that they are perfectly dumb?" he asked. Playing a stream of sarcasm on the brain trusts' foes and on the brain trust issue, Secretary Ickes said: "It is their very ability that of the men In question) that creates forebodings In the minds of a privi leged class who, by the unfair use of usurped power, have come to be lieve that they constitute the real America. "What they fear is not brain as such, but brains that are used for the benefit of the masses of our people. Instead of for privileged few. "If Lincoln were at the head of the government today he would feel per fectly at home. there Is the same implacable resistance to an overdue reformation of the social order." Brains, the secretary observed dry ly, have been "too sparingly used' at times in the past. "If not the brain," he asked, "what part of the anatomy should be employed in the solution of our normal problems?" The criticism will die down, Secre tary Ickes predicted, and the critics sink into obscurity. No Operator's License Archie F. Find ley, of this city was arrested by state police yesterday afternoon for driving with no operator's license, when he failed to stop at an Inter section on Sixth street. He is cited to appear at Justice court Monday. . A. A. (Continued from page one) groups known to be reluctant to sup port either Joe E. Dunne and Charles H. Martin, the nominees of the ma jor parties. The grange unanimously passed a resolution to oppose any candidate for the state legislature who did not stand squarely behind the three chief points of the organization's legislative program anti-sales tax, state owner ship of power transmission lines from Bonneville, and the state banking bill. Candidates for the legislature could learn whether or not they would receive the reputed grange suppoit by classifying himself on these issues. These Issues, too, were the prin ciples advocated by Zimmerman as the platform of the "regular progres sives." for which he said he would work. The grange, following three hours debate, passed the state bank ing proposal, and likewise separately approved the other Issues. There wa more consideration of the banking bill than any other of the more than 79 resolutions introduced, ranging from suggestions affecting world fi nance down to the time of holding the Oregon state fair. The banking bill would provide that all public funds be deposited In tht State bank. The bank would do a general banking business and could make loans up to 50 per cent of as sessed valuation, and further would loan on warehouse certificates up to the same per cent as the interme diate credit bank now does. It was Ore and! Bullion Purchased LkauMd by Stat ! California BiMUikid 1907 WILD BERG BROS. SMELTING & RHFINING CO. Officut 742 M.rk.t S(.,Sn Fr.ndtce Plant! South San Francisco alleged during the debate that bank now In operation were opposing th grange efforts to secure signature f the Initiative banking act petition by coercing borrowers. Criticism of the ;oajiI agricultur al ad'ustment administration mth ods was voiced by Strelt in th grange session when he commented upon th government ordering the plowing un der of cotton and "at the same tlm appropriate funds for the extermina tion of the boll weevil." It was reported following th ad journment of the convention at Saturday morning, that a pool of votes was found necessary on virtual ly every issue but the banking bill. The vote in many cases waa very close, ALBANY, Ore., June lfl. (p) H S. Wlrth, Portland Insurance agent, today launched his campaign her a an independent candidate for gover nor of Oregon. He la starting a tour of the Willamette valley. ROSEBURQ, Ore., June 18.- Ray W. GUI, master of the Oregon state grange, today spiked the report he was seeking election as national master with the statement he htl never had such an Intention and thai reports he was an aspirant wr "surprising news to me." Has Operation Mrs. J. Keenan, at this city underwent a minor operation at the Community hospital yesterday. 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