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MEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. ilEDFOKD. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 7. 1934. PAGE FIFTEEN SUBSTANTIAL CUT ! IN LOSS BY FIRE SEEN F0R0REG0N First Nine Months Shows 2771 Fires in 1934, Against 2970 Fires in Same" Period of Last Year; HOW BRIDGE LOOKS TO SWIMMER SALEM, Ore. (UP) Substant al reductions in fire losses during the first nine months of 1934 as com pared to the same period In 1933 were reported today by A. H. Averlll, state lire marshal. During the 1934 period there wer 2,771 fires endangering property hav ing a sound value of 929.238.496. anil with an actual loss of $1262.934. while In the first nine months of 1933. there were 2.970 fires, endau Bering property valued at $35,312.32. with an actual loss of $1,723,337, J 9!) Fewer Fires. In other words, there were 199 Ids fires In the 1934 period than In tlv: same time In 1933, with a reduction of $440,403 In losses on property re duced $6,073,726 In sound value, com pared to that endangered this year Total Insurance carried on this j ear's losses was $26,604,922, and $1. 063.343 was paid by the insurance companies to cover losses In the fire. Percentage of loss to value was 4.3S per cent. This percentage was .E0 per cent less than In the first nine months of 1933, when Insurance to taled $31,064,390, and $1,499,660 was paid for losses by the companies, and the per cent of loss to value was 4 as. Heating Main Hazard. Heating hazards caused, the great est number of this years fires, 895. rid endangered property valued a. $4,381,870, with an actual loss of $284,842. On fires caused In this manner, $3,647,756 of Insurance 'was carried and $231,377 was paid by tiio companies to cover losses. The per centage of loss to value was. 0 65. The percentage of loss to value was much greater In unprotected farm areas than In protected cities, to taling 47.62 per cent, compared to 2.P8 per cent. There were 430 fires In unprotect ed areas, endangering property with a sound value of $921,114, and re sulting In an actual loss of $438,685. compared to. 2.341 fires In cities, en dangering property valued at $28. 817 382, but resulting In a loss of only $344,249. Insurance on farm properties ta taled $1,666,951, with $324,903 paid by the companies for damages; while protected areas Insurance was $24. 637.971 and $738,440 mi paid for lceees. )W :..vjNt kvi r v TABLE SALT MAY AID IN FIGHT ON Tail Tomato Plants. AUGUSTA, Me. (UP) In his back yard Leon E. Silver grew tomato plants that reached a height of mere then nine feet. He collected 300 quarts of plum tomatoes from the vines. Fox Hound. Whelps 16 Pups. BARNESVILLE, O. (UP) A fox hound owned by Oscar Morris, loca! dog fancier, has Just whelped 18 puppies. An unusual picture from sea level of the $80,000,000 San Fr.-u.iiscc-Oakland bay bridge now under construction. The work It proceeding ahead of scheduio and this i part of the eastbay section. (Associated Press Photo) T E LOS ANGELES (UP) Peace offi cers may soon be equipped wih an attachment for their service pistols which will make each officer a dead ly marksman In the dark. The device, known as the Auto matic Nite Sight, the Invention of A. B- Scott, Los Angeles engineer, soon will be In quantity production, although offered for sale only to city, county and state peace officers. The Invention, which fits securely on the muzzle of a regulation police pistol, consists of a small flash bulb, a clover-leaf shaped aperture and a system of lenses, in operation It throws a clover-leaf shaped beam of light along the path of the bullet, with the bullet striking the point where the Inner points of the four beams of light meet. The secret of the device Is In the lenses, which en able the light to Illuminate the ob ject aimed at, although a person In front of the pistol cannot see the rays. Each set of the equipment . wilt bear a serial number and Bales will be registered Just as the sale of pis tols Is now recorded. Married by Sign language. COSHOCTON, O. (UP) In & cere mony conducted mostly In sign lan guage, through an interpreter, Her man Moore. 34. of Akron. O., and Eva L. Parks, 19, Roscoe, O.. both deaf mutes, were married by Justice of tr.e Peace Milton J. Croft. NEW YORK (UP) New type de pendable engines are the latest ally of the big air liners In overcoming unfavorable weather, as seven-ton transports can when required to be flown to an altitude of 27.200 feet with full load, show actual tests made with one of United Air Lines' twin-engined coast -to-coast Boeings. This enablea the pilot, when neces sary, togo to an altitude well above the elevation of even unusual storms, and wfTen above the bad weather the pilot holds his true course by the directive radio beam. However, airplane executives said this altitude Is only Infrequently used, as passengers prefer cruising at 8000 to 10.000 feet. The ability to cruise one of the Boeings at an altitude of four and one-half miles above sea level. If the occasion should arise. Is due to the production of an engine which produces one horse power for approximately one and one quarter pounds of weight, and Is geared and supercharged to give low altitude efficiency at rarefied elevations. California Scientist Experi ments With 'Deutron Gun1 to Transmute Salt Ra dium With Powerful Ray BERKELEY. Cat. (UP) Radium treatment for cancer, long regarded la too expensive for the patient of ordinary means, soon may become a commonplace method of treating the disease as result of the discovery of Prof. Ernest O. Lawrence of the Unl- I verslty of California. I After exhaustive experiments with ; a "deutron gun," Dr. Lawrence found j that ordinary table salt, composed 1 of sodium and chloride, contains ra ; dlum-llke substances of great poten tial therapeutic value. Discovery Announced , The "atom smashing" physicist an nounced his findings In the Physical Review, a science publication. Through the use of tho "atom gun," Dr. Lawrence transmuted "salt radium" by bombarding samples of salt with a one and three-quartor million volt ray of deutrons. . The salt red turn discharged rays more powerful than those from the price less radium used by medical science m Us treatment of cancer, according to Dr. Lawrence. T h a salt's sodium constituent changes from under the bombard ment, becoming "heavy sodium" of atomic weight of 24 Instead of 23. This heavy sodium disintegrates In the same manner aa mined and re fined radium, but for a period much shorter than the rare mineral. Powerflul Ray Otvrir Off During the disintegration, a new- lerful ray Is given off from the trans , muted substance. The discharge, while lasting only hours or perhaps days, is surncientiy long for therapeutic use, according to the physicist. Rays of Invisible light are dis charged from the "salt radium' with energy estimated at five and a half million volt. Radium used fn hospitals gives two and a half million volt gamma rays. Drr. Lawrence emphasized that while ordinary radium radiates mixed rays, some weak and some strong, the salt rays are puro and unmixed. f Multiple Birth$ Are Common To This Ohio Family MONROEVILLE, O. (UP) As a mother, Mrs. Edith Stewart. 39, believes she la entitled to some sort of national honors. She has been the mother of twins, triplets and a second set of twins. In suc cession. All are living. Besides the multiple children, aha has four others. The "dupllcatea are : Float a, Forest Ie and Fay be lie. triplets, now 3; the first set of twins Allene and Eugene, 5; and the sec ond set of twins Louts Jamea and Lois May, Just one year old. The four other children are Dennis, 16; Vivien, IS; Virginia, 10: Donna, 7. v LIGHT DRINKERS Car Rams Bridge Into rreek. SHADYSIDE. O. (UP) Thi time the bridge es well as automobile got the bad end of a crash. A Wheeling! W. . Va., machine which rammed a bridge spanning Wegee creek smash ed the bridge into the creek. The occupants of the car were unhurt. PHILADELPHIA (UP) Even the moderate drinker Is a menace on the highways, according to Dr. Evert Kendlg, of the school of pharmacy of Temple university. Dr. Kendlg offers scientific proof that his contention la right. "Laboratory experiments show," Dr. Kendlg asserts, "that from the time the eye begins to record an object until the Impulse la transferred to the brain and thence to the nerves and muscles such as applying the brakes, or turning an automobile one-fifth of a second, tinder normal conditions, has elapsed." A drink of liquor or beer, ac cording to Dr. Kendlg. will increase the lapse of time, "which means the driver, who has had a drink. Is much more likely to have an accident than Is the non-drinker." Citing statistics. Dr. Kendlg said during the first nine months of 1934 in Pennsylvania, there has been an Increase of 03 per cent in automo bile accidents in which liquor was a contributing factor. Acorns (iolf Tees. GALT, Ont. (UP) Members of the Waterloo Golf and Country club have found a way to save money. Instetd of purchasing tees, at about 25 cents a hundred , the golfers are us! ng acorns as ball stands. They break the acorn shells In half, each half mak ing a perfect tee. TABOOJBY NAZIS National Labor Act in Ger many Strictly Prohibits Cessation of Labor Name Arbiter for Disputes rule becama valid for the trade In question throughout Germany. After the minister of labor stepped in. It was practically Impossible for the unions to call a strike, for In at- doing they could be held responsible- with their fund for any dam age. Naturally, the unions did not want to run that risk. Hence during the strict application of the "Labor A1 Vltratlon Act" only few local strikes were called. Br F.RlC KF.VSER (United Press Staff Correspondenc.) BERLIN (UP) Strikes nd loct ot;ta are unknown In the new Ger many. Both are strictly prohibited under the "National Labor Act." The Nazis like to point to this fact as conclusive proof of their auocess in overcoming the "class struggle" theory either preached, or at least tolerated, by their predecessors. I Strikes Ised. During the decade preceding the Nazis' ascent to power, strikes and lockouts were used In Germany to settle labor disputes. From 1934 to 1931, the number of work-days lost throigh both strikes and lockouts smounted to 91.557,200; of this totn! 44.313,500 work-days were lost through strikes and 47,343,700 through lock outs. However, during the years Imme diately preceding the Nazi regime, the strike wave In Germany already had been receding. In the years 1929 to 1931 Inclusive, work-days lost by labor dispute totaled 10.427,900 7. 026.400 lost by strikes and 3,401,500 by lockout. This decline partly was due to the economic depression. Partly, however, the extent of strikes and lockouts during the Im mediate pre-Hitler era was due to administrations! and legislative mea sures. Labor Arbiter Named. Labor legislation provided that all .abor disputes had to be submitted to a government arbiter. In cavi bis efforts for a compromise failed, the arbiter settled the dispute by special ruling. Tho parties were then given a specified period usually four weeks to accept. If either refused, the minister of labor could declare the arblter'a rul ing aa binding. In this case tne Generation of power at Bou!dr dam 1 expected to atari January 1, 1936. 3 STATES ORGANIZE! MEN A, Ark. ' (UP) Over 1200 farmers In Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas have Joined the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union for the "emancipation" of share-croppers. Lu cien Koch, a director of the move ment, said after a tour of the three Mates. Koch, who said the "share-croppers live under circumstances worse than these prevailing In feudal times'' found the "membership realizes pret ty well the nature of the struggle ahead of It." The organization opposes 511ml nation of share-crop work, charged i against the New Deal, and the con- j sequent reduction of the tenant! farmer to the status of a day la- I borer, The retail price of Ruxton Rye is a small price to pay For complete wnlikey satis faction and assurance of quality, purity, and better . taste. Ruxton Ryo is naturally aged, not processed. 100 MARYLAND STRAIGHT PURE RYE WHISKEY CONTAINS 97V CMOICI 111 GRAIN ON SALE ALL STATE STORES 3be i I'n.i. j V PINT OF ANCIENT Nanking (AP) Centuries ago, thj Chinese knew the value q sea weed as a remedy for goiter, Dr, Bernard E. Read of the Lester Insti tute of Medical Research, Shanghai, said In a medical address here. While old-style Chinese medical practices are closely tied up with superstition. Dr. Read said, there Is a foundation of scientific fact in many of the ancient remedies. He recom mended a thorough. Investigation ol the folklore and superstitions of the ancient Chinese in the field of medicine. 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