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PXGE FOUT? West of the By Herbert H. Hllscher, Photograph of Herbert II. Hllschcr, from the Far East, which stnrt today Sundny Mall Tribune. TOKYO: The capital of Japan Is atwltter todayl Everybody Is talking about It. No one ever heard of auch an occurrence before. And even the police the ever proaent police are puzzled, for one of the Al Capones of Japan, upon completing twenty years on the "inside looking out", officially called on all the police atatlons at which he had been arrested. Me pre sented flowers, his respects and money, and amid much bowing ten dered his profuse apologies for all the trouble he had caused. Zenklchl Nakaawa who had been convicted of 22 major crimes and 48 minor Infractions, such as burglary, forgery and general "sticky fingers" gave the chlof of the Sonju station a five yen note and said, "Give the boys a feed, Chief." 'To do up the Job In proper style, fc went to the plaza In front of the Imperial palace and bowed low toward the gates. That was his promise to the emperor that he'd stay good I So for the next month ex-Convict Naka gawa will be very busy dipping pic tures end stories of himself from very newspaper In Japan and past ing them Into a scrap book. As he posed for news photographers he was heard to say, "If Al Capone and Clara Bow can make the first page, so can I." Tokyo Is the tourist's paradise. Al though the capital of Japan Is as expansive as Los -Angeles, you can ride anywhere In a taxi for CO sen lBo In our money, A story has been making the rounds that a tourist came hore six months ao with a pair of shoes that needed half soles badly. Taxi fares are ao cheap that he hasn't bothered yet. Yokohama the major port of Japan Is 18 miles from Tokyo and a taxi right to the gangplank of the trans pacific liners coats 7fto. "Why walk" means something out here. The Japanese have a great relish for dramatic suicides. When the huge Tokyo department atores were flrt built it became the rage to rldo the elevators to the roof, look around a bit and then Jump. That became so popular and rather messy that the roofs of all buildings are fenced In now. Then the rage became hopping off from the top of Kegon Falls at Nlkko, 330 feet high. Now that location Is fenced In and policed. But the most popular spot today Is the erater of Mt. Mlhara Just a short distance from Tokyo by steamer, Last yoar 000 (nine hundred)) people pnld steamer fare to the Island of Oshlma, walked three miles up the lope of tr.li active volcano to toss themselves Into the fiery pit. The first "landing" u nearly a thousand feet down. Business is so good to Mt. Mlhara that a Tokyo syndicate Is now build ing an aerial tram from the steamer landing to the rlin of the crater to ease the way of the "One-way passage customers" and the sightseers. The popularity of Mt. Mlhara has risen so raoidiv t"i. th. iv., Steamship company hu announced ...... ,,, 1M support to stop. Ping the suicide rage by compelling all passengers to buy a round trip ticket. The dividend rate of the steamship company has been Increas ed as a result. The other morning i"wa awakened out of a very sound sleep by a wheeay organ pealing forth with "Shall wo gather at the river, The beautiful, beautiful river " It completely filled my apartment and for a hectic moment I double I my residence at Tokyo. But soon I becsme aware that the music enme from the government primary school yard below me. Three hundred youngsters were marching into the building to the strains of a Christian revival hymnl Two hours later a huge, grolcsque parade of Shinto priests carrying banners, symbolical Images, shrines snd a tub of Sakl came to give the school lu annual blessing, so I guess the score Is e en lor another year; Yesterday my best wrist watch re fused to tick. No amount of gentle S Hotel Figueroa m t'lEiieroa 8t at null. I,t Angeles Calif. One of Loi Angeles' newesi lintels. 1 J- J; J, -''' 1 Rooms of V::.. ..a, comfort. Downtown, nnrage In Connection Hales from ft. SO per day wit limit balb $3.00 per cl) nil h' bath 9.1.00 per it.it. twin bed, and bath A II till I II l.nwr. Date Line F. B. O. Explorers' Clab author of this series of travelogs and will be a new feature of the shaking would avail. So I took It to the biggest Jowelry store In Tokyo. Tatorl'a Is the Tiffany of Japan. A Japanese In morning coat and striped trousers escorted me to the repair department. The watch was placed on a velvet pad and reverently carried behind a decorative screen where Its Innards were examined. Ten minutes later the serious floor walker return ed and Informed me gravely, "Watch very very bad. It need two weeks fix. I am sorry." "Well, what In the world Is the matter with It that It will take two weeks to fix?" I asked bewllderedly. "Watch movement very dirty." "Well, If It takes two weeks, how much wlll.lt cost?" I prepared 10 steel myself for a tremendous figure, f saw myself paying for the moinhig coat and the striped trousers and the door man and the liveried elevator starters and the dozen functionaries standing around. A consultation was held and I pre pared for the worat. The man In the morning roat re turned. "I am very sorry. To fix your watch will cost two yen. That Is sixty cents In American moneyl I was dumbfounded: and my wrist watch must have been also, because It has been running perfectly ever since without the two yen-two woek cleaning Job. (To be continued.) MEOTOREf MAIE PRESIDENT GIVES FISH PROTECTED PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 4. (p) The Columbia river fishing Industry muit be adequately safeguarded. Thia la the attitude of President Roosevelt. , In train conference yesterday, It waa said by Marshall N. Dana, advisor to the public worts administration, President Roosevelt said plainly that despite the great power development on the wide Columbia, the $10,000,000 salmon fishing industry must be pre served at all coat. Pear had been ex pressed In several quarters that the big dams would block the annual mi grations of spawning salmon. Frank T. Bell, United states com- miss loner of fisheries, waa aboard the presidential apeclat train. He aald ne Intends to recommend every precau tion be taken nt the Bonneville dim to Insure continuation of the migra tions of aalmon mUrratlons that have occurred for many centuries, and have caused the Columbia to be known as one of the greatest fishing streams In the world. Commissioner Bell indicated he be lieves aalmon will be unable to pas the Grand Coulee dam, and he point ed out to the probability that hatch ery facilities may be established at Grand Coulee, At Bonneville, Bell expects to urge the use of fish ways, aa well as hy draulic lifts. "I'm going t recommend everything," he aatd, 'that promises to prevent damage to the salmon In dustry," EVOLUTION TRIAL JUDGE LOSES 001 JASPER, Tenn., Aug., 4. For mer Circuit Judge John T. Raulston. who presided at the Scones evolut'.on trial In Dayton In 1925, failed In his attempt to be elected to the bench in Thursday's balloting. . Returns today from the 18th udi clal circuit showed that Judge Leslie Darr, a democrat, was re-elected for an eight-year term over Raulston, a republican. Darr went to the udge ahlp in 1936. Raulston lost six of the seven coun tlea In the circuit, but carried Rhea, where the evolution trial was held, by a majority of 337. Judge Darr'a ma jority waa 3,484. Phone 542. we'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. K tcev,e TRtBITNE, MEDFORD, Magicians Spoil . Hotel Manager Attempted Hoax OAKLAND, Cal.. Aug. 4. (UP) Seven magicians en route to at tend the Pacific Coast Magicians' convention were In an elevator to day which atopped abruptly be tween the third and fourth floors of a hotel. "Left see them get out of there," laughed Jimmy Mulr, ho tel manager, perpetrator of the Joke. Mrs. Beetrlce Houdlnl, widow of the famed magician, whispered briefly to William Harkness. Van couver, B. C. member of the ele vator party, Harkness slipped through the roof of the elevator, opened the fourth floor and re leased his six fellow craftsmen. Gravely, the seven magicians stalk ed downstairs past Mulr. NEW DEAL CHIEFS N WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. Nat lonal democratic leaders, officially keeping their hands off primary con tests, are manifesting preferences for senate candidates believed to be fa vorable to the "new deal." The administration and the demo cratic national committee, so far as open pronouncements go, are avoid ing pre-prlmary matters with one ex ception. The full weight of the administra tion and committee la behind Senator Hiram Johnson, seeking nomination In California on the democratic, republi can and two minor tickets. Johnson, an Independent republican, supported President Roosevelt In the 1933 cam paign and in the last congress. This has met generally with the ap proval of California democrats, ob servers here said. But In other states where preferences have been made known considerable lntra-party strife Is reported developing. The situation In West Virginia, where Postmaster General Farley has smiled on the candidacy of Clem Shaver, former democratic national committee chairman, is understood to have raised the Ire of democrats sup porting former Senator William L. Chilton. Seamen, who during the last three years have retired to other employ ment, are reported again flocking to the water front as Indications point to an Increase In shipping. 'OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1931 DRIED FRUIT PAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. (AP) The Pacific coast- dried fruit Industry formally presented to the National Recovery-administration today a pro posed code of fair competition de signed to govern wages and hours for 15,000 employers and to set up an industry committee. Dwlght K. Grady, vice president of the Dried Fruit association of Cal ifornia, presented the code for the proponents. His association, he said, handled 80 per cent of dried fruits In California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. "In our opinion," Grady said, "It Is a good code, eminently fair to labor. The mlnlmums provided In the code will represent a substantial In crease In wages In an Industry which Is noted for Its fair treatment, there never having been a strike In Its 50 years of history." Two appearances were made In op position to sections of the code. Robert C. Paulua, of Salem, Ore., appeared on behalf of the Northwest Dried Fruit association, which has as members most of the packers of Ore gon, Washington and Idaho, to pro test that the wage provisions were too high for application In those three states. He suggested that labor commissions of the three northwest ern states be allowed to regulate wages and hours within their Juris diction. Paul Flshback, secretary of the National Food Brokers association, of Indianapolis, attacked the proposed code on the grounds It failed to prohibit such unfair competitive practlee as secret rebates. German Libel Punished BERLIN, Aug. 4. (AP) Chancel lor Hitler today suppressed Julius Strelcher's antl-Semltlc weekly "Der Stuermer." for a fortnight, for pub-. llshing an article defamatory to President Masnryk of Czechoslovakia, which said among other things that he Is half Jewish. To Graft. Rate Parley SALEM. Aug. 4. (AP) A. F. Har vey, supervisor of railroad transpor tation for the state utilities commis sion, left tonight for Chicago to rep resent the state of Oregon at a con ference being held there for the con sideration of grain rates In rail trans. portation, he announced today. f DONT FORG FT Speedboat races next Sunday, Aug. 6th, Savage Rapids Dam, north of Medford on Pacific highway. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Fan Dancers Don Pants On Orders Of Chicago Cops CHICAGO, Aug. 4. (AP) Fan dancers wore pants again today at the world's fair. Declaring "the lid U not off." pollen squads last night raided five villages and "The Bowery," seised gambling wheels In each place, closed an exhibition, and on their way out ordered pants placed on Faith Bacon. fan dancer. Officials said they would not permit abuses of their new liber alized policy, adopted at the In sistence of disgruntled concessionaires. WESLEY LEAGUE IEIHONIGHT Miss Luella Corn will lead discus sion at the Wesley League meeting this evening, for which the topic Is "Your Church and Mine." There has been much preparation made for the meeting by several of the leaguers who will endeavor to explain the dif ferences between the various churches. At the beginning of the meeting a well worked-out worship service will be led by Miss Mildred Walker. As a part of the service a duet will be sung by Luella Corn and Florence Neuman. A few weeks ago at the First M. . church the Wesley league was organ ized expressly for young people of college age. The league meets every Sunday evening at 7:30 In the audi torium. So far very Interesting dis cussions have been held and thoy promise to be even more Interesting, j All young people of college age are 1 cordially Invited and urged to attend. Texas Plant Damaged DALLAS. Aug. 4. (AP) Although brought under control within thirty minutes from the time it started a fire which broke out Friday after noon at the Dallas machine &nd locomotive works here ran wild dur ing that short time and damaged buildings and equipment to the ex tent of several thousand dollars, It was estimated. The snout fish has a snout extend ing almost as far In front of Its eyes aa the body extends behind. a qa For Electric wiring U3II uU or repairing. MEDFORD ELECTRIC B. M. BUSH, Owner Basement, Medford BIdg. LUMBER NEEDS OF MOUSING PROGRAM CHEERS MIL LIN WASHINGTON, Aug- 4. CAP) A cheerful future for the lumber In dustry was depicted today by a nat ional lumber manufacturers associa tion report which said that at least 36,000,000,000 feet of lumber, anout four times the 1933 production, would be needed for repairs of frame buildings under the housing pro gram. Statistics prepared by the associa tion from department of commerce surveys indicated that 92 per cent of urban dwellings and farm struc tures are of lumber. Based on that figure the association estimated that wood-built city dwellings would re quire at least 34,000,000,000 feet of lumber "merely for urgently needed repairs.'' This estimate would give 1.000 feet for each of the 34,000, 000,000 wood-built city dwellings reported by the commerce depart ment. It also was estimated that 6,000, 000 farms In the United States would require 3,000 feet of lumber each, or a total of 12,000,000,000 feet. The association pointed out that "some Idea of what 36,000,000,000 feet of lumber means may be Infer red from the fact that 12,000 feet r f lHartl II T I 1 ' T I Convenience and Economy Stop In OAKLAND Hotel San Pablo offers: Comfort without Extravagance Central Location BATES: $1.00 to $1.75 FREE OARAGE MODERN COFFEE SHOP Directions to Hotel: Stay on Main Highway (San Pablo Avenue) directly to 20th St. Management (1ARRS B. STRANG WATCH DATES will build a five-room bungalow." Thus, using mai average, tna efC J mated lumber needed for repairs .lone would be sufficient to uiumiN 3,000,000 bungalows. SING 'RED' SOMES NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (P)An antl wsr parade and demonstration la which police estimated 15,000 persons took part was held today with 77 or. ganlzatlons represented. The demonstration was under ths auspices of the American League against war and fascism. William 8. Tallentlra, chairman of the New York central committee of the league, aald It was the largest demonstratUn against war ever held In the city. The paraders formed at Columbu circle and marched to Madison Square park. The marchers sang "Solidarity Forever." and a communist song, and shouted "free the Scottaboro boys." The demonstrators Included about 3,000 negroes. DONT FORGET Speedboat races next Sunday, Aug. flth, Savage Rapids Dam, north of Medford on Pacific highway. Pickers and packers' tally cards, in large or small quantities, ready for delivery at Job Department Mall Tribune, 28-30 N. Grape. Two Hotels Tijlyl' That Jz&M Afford yPvl all yfl Comforts $? - m ALL AfgS SgsSj em s&jBm 3SlB