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TkfEPFOTCD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEPFOHL), OREGON. SUNDAY. JANUARY 20. 1035. PAGE FIVE Einyi rrt 1 "Ti 1 in ii ii- t r I "A ; - " ; HiiUHMMMHUIUlHauMUIUflill " " r 7 AUTO AND STEEL TRADE IKE 1935 PROSPECTS ROSy Seasonal Slump Held Nor malLabor Leaders Hint of Spring Strikes Coast Business Improves. B.v BAUER WINtiKT Associated Press Financial Writer The 40-day business bulge of the year-end has shown some signs of leveling off in reports of the past week from leading industries and the various federal reserve districts. Business analysts did not regard this as more than a normal reaction from an unusual upswing, however, and 1935 prospects were not regard ed as dimmed. In fact, the automobile Industry till continued to shed a rosy glow over the business reports of the week. Production of the week ended Jan. 12 was estimated at 59.826 units, the highest point since December of 1030, nnd retail sates were said to be limited only by the capacity to run cars off the line. Steel, aided by the demand for the automobile makers and from mis cellaneous lines, again lifted Its pro duction schedules to new high levels since last June. The American Iron and Steel institute estimated the past week's operations at 47.5 per cent of capacity, up 4.1 percentage points from the previous week. This has brought the steel Indus try as a whole out of the red again, and U. 6. Steel restored last Septem ber's reduction of salaries of white collar workers. The week closed with an ominous note of labor difficulties which might break In the spring, labor leaders disclosed plans of an alliance be tween workers In textiles, automo biles, steel, oil, and tobacco. San Francisco Most Pacific coast business news pointed last week to moderate Improvement over the 1934 start. Retail trade was spotty. The wholesale women's wear trade was brisk. Exports slowed during argu ments on the gold clause before the supreme court. California employ ment and payrolls were better with labor purchasing power reported 14 per cent above 1934. Lumber sales were far ahead of last year, and Port land reported pine sales more than triple a year ago. OF ALIEN BIRTH WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) Fifteen of the men now serving In that distinctly American Institution congress were shown by a survey today to have been born in foreign countries. Pour are senators, and the group Includes the richest man In the senate And one of the richest In the country. Senator James Couzens (R., Mich.) who was born In Chatham, Ontario, in 1872. Among the 11 house members born abroad is the dean of that delibe rative body, Snbath (D., 111.) a native of Czechoslovakia. Ten of the 15 are Democrats: five are Republicans. The British empire leads with six native sons. Three were born in Ger many, two In Austria, two in Italy, and one each In Czechoslovakia and Denmark. SAN QUENTTN PRISON. Jan. 19. (AP) Warden James B. Holohan of San Qiwntln prison, beaten severely when four convicts escaped Wednes day. Is apparently on the road to recovery. Dr. L. L. Stanley, prison physician, said today. It had brrn feared that a frontal skull fracture and other wounds might prove fatal. THE AUTO WAY (continued from page four) which we think should be mentioned The seats on the new cars are from 4 to -V, inches wider than any other Ford ever marie, which makes ample room for three passengers in either front or rear seats. There Is also a new "soft" action clutch which Is extemely eay to disengage, but the blggo-st improvement is the Ford "center poise." This is the name given to the new feature which moves the passengers and motor ahead, thus giving a new weight dis tribution, and adding materially to the comfort of the rear teat ride TliU "center - poise" gives unusuni ridine comfort but at, the same tim it re . ins a maximum of stability and s.ilciv. I'orl l.ni'l Mi-peit Held PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 19 (AP) R x Duo!. arrr'-Tfd in Sin Francisco toci.y I ,T "(jrtlar.d pollre, !a wanted hrrr on r.i.irj-'s of participating In n fi:''t h-'t! :p t:ic ari" nlcht George Alctoff. whiv-halred grocer, was shot tn i' .v. J r ' w-.z hnidup. T r '.-;,-. r. to deceive i 1935 LA Ti' &h , J? viw ! The LaFayette, Nash-built con tender in the lowest price field, enters its second year with smart, new lines and more than ten mechanical innovations and im provements. "Synchronized Springing", "Sealed Coolinir", "Feather-touch Control". "Clutch UNEMPLOYED ILL BENEFIT BY E STATE ROADS The unemployed man will profit greatly this year through tremendous sums contributed to the state for highway purposes, according to Dr. E. B. McDanlel, president of the Ore gon State Motor association. An analysis of the estimate of highway Incomes for 1935, revealed (21,882.000 will be handled through the state highway fund. This total, with' the exception of $3,300,000 which will be paid for bond servicing, will go for labor and construction. "This represents the state's most pretentious payroll, and at no time In the past has the highway depart ment extended Itself to furnish em ployment as at the present," said Dr. MoDanlel. Borrowed from the federal govern ment for coast bridges will be $3, 200,000 of this huge sum. (2.200,000 will be paid Immediately , from the state highway fund to other state departments because of legislative appropriations. This, In turn, will go for labor. Maintenance of highways will con sume $2,750,000. There will be avail able for new construction $13,250,000. Of this new construction fund $6, 000,000 will come from the federal government, and $7,000,000 from state funds. It was pointed out. 8AARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter ritory. Jan. 19. (AP) A virtual nazi "revolution" In the ffaar, effecting changes similar In many respects to the January, 1933, upheaval in Ger many proper, tonight saw the basin's League of Nations government almost completely effaced. So completely were Adolf Hitler's adherents In the saddle, this sixth day after the smashing nazl victory in the Saar plebiscite, that socialists were frankly advising antl-nazis o get out of the territory "until things blow over. The Oregon golf association has de elded to set Its 1935 championship dates back to mld-surruner so college golfers will have a chance to compete. aasxgwaMsSSSSjtffi ' The TERRAPLANE "6" See and Ride in It and the Powerful Hudson "6" and "8" EAKIN MOTOR CO. 103 South Riverside. Fayette Pedal Starting", "Noise-proofed Bodies" and an 80-horsepower motor are some of the new me chanical features introduced on the 1D35 LaFayette. In 1935 the LaFayette makes even a stronger bid to substantiate its claim to being "The Big Car In the Low est Price Field". OREGON SENATORS F. D. R. TO WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) An appeal to President Roosevelt to again save the Chemawa Indian school at Salem, Ore., will be made next week by Senator McNary and Representative Moot, Oregon Repub licans. No appropriation was carried In the bureau of Indian affairs for the school, only an Item for $60,000 for educating Indians In public schools In that region being included. Last year funds for maintenance of the boarding school likewise were not in the bureau's report, but an appeal to the president brought the funds. Unless the president reacts favor ably to the request, Mott said today, It will mean that Chemawa school will be closed and the public schools take over the work It has been doing SOLONS TO SPEED BONUS BILL VOTE WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) Heading Into their first week of real rapid fire action, congressional lead ers today gave signs of a willingness to speed up the bonus and prepared for six days of hard work on social security legislation, war profits, a $4, 880.u00.000 public works bill and les ser odds and ends. Advocates of the Patman $2,100,- 000,000,00 -bonus bill meanwhile de cided at a meeting today to use every means possible to expedite that meas ure In preference to the American Legion bill. The former would pay the bill by printing new money: the latter by whatever means congress thought best. Patman said that If the measure was not mrought to the floor soon, he would use the petition method to force a vote. Under that procedure, the bill would be voted upon on March 11. 4 Wyoming university Is placing great faith In her four 'D" backfteld this year. Dunn plays quarterback, Doyle and Dlr halfbacks and Detl fullback. They talk most who have least to say. The Sensation of 1935! THE MYSTERY CAR WITH THE ELECTRIC HAND Pathfinding Car for Pan American Entering Mexico at the r WWW 13 . 3 t The Studebaker exploring car within a foot of the boundary of Mexico on the International bridge be tween Laredo, Texas, and Neuvo Laredo, Mexico. It la tarring itt journey of more than seven hundred miles to Mexico City to find the facta of the new and nearly completed Pan American highway link joining the United States and the Mexican capital city MEXICAN ENTRY PROCEDURE EASY By WILLIAM C. GARNER NUEVO LAREDO, Old Mexico, Jan. 5. By mail) In interest of the MallaTrlbune I am driving to Moxlco City over the new Mexican federal highway from Laredo, Texas, to the capital. The new road Is the most Important of all links In what Is des tined to be, in the short space of a few years, the greatest highway In the world a paved road stretching from Fairbanks, Alaska, down through Canada, through the United States, on through Mexico, through Central America, across the Panama Canal and down the west coast of South America to the Important cit ies in Chile and across the Andes mountains to Buenos Aires, capital of the Argentine. The Mexico City link, now rapidly approaching completion, Is the most Important of all. It Is the most im portant because It links the Spanish and American cultures all below the Mexican border clear to the Straits of Magellan at the south tip or south America is Spanish. All above the border clear to the north pole excepting only a few Eskimos la American Canada la so largely Americanized that It la one with the United States. When, fascinated by the prospect of the opportunity of being first over a roaa that will always rank as one of the world's greatest roads, I de termined to make the trip In my own Interest, my good friend Paul Hoff man, head of the Studebaker Cor poration, said that his firm waa highly Interested In the highway In the matter of giving .the American motorists the latest and best Infor mation on touring In our great neighboring republic to the south. He was good enough to furnish me with a new 1935 model Dictator Six five passenger sedan. It's a honey of a car so the first stage of the trip is a success the best equipment pos sible. The Medford Mall Tribune ex pressed a high interest in the trip. so in my own behalf and that of the Tribune I am making the trip and making it leisurely. Starting point. The road! Is not yet officially opened and won't be for several months. There Is all kinds of advice about it it's Impassable, it's fine and its everything In between, I 'will know exactly In a few days, 2y the coming of summer thousands. yes scores of thousands of American cars will be traveling the road It presents the only opportunity on the American continent for a foreign trip without shipping one's car. In June the Lions and the Klwanlans hold their International meeting In Mexico vi xtHawwir City. Of Itself It will bring thousands of cars. The road la now open for 534 miles into Mexico and I will tell In this and following stories Just what the motor tourist to Mexico finds. Passing the border Is very simple. I came through today. The operation took about three quarters of an hour. First there Is the formality of passing the United States customs office. It Is nothing at all. One does not have to stop, in case, though, one Is carrying merchandise that might be dutiable on return, It Is well to stop and procure Identifica tions for the articles. The ordinary articles are cameras and typewriters. I had one of each and so stepped and had them identified and procured a written authorization to return them to the United States. At the customs office I was told again, for I have passed Into the United States many times, that on returning to the United States no written declaration is necessary If the value of articles acquired abroad and being returned Is less than $25, that a written decla ration is necessary If they are In ex cess r,f that, and that $100 In value Is duty free. With that explained I drove across the border and Into Mexico. Before I passed the Mexican customs I ehang ed some money. The Mexican peso Is silver standard. It varies between three pesos and fifty centavos to the dollar and three pesos and seventy centavos. Three fifty Is about the rate you will get. The Mexican customs Inspector stopped me. I wheeled up to the sta tion and he courteously asked me to step inside. I did. Willing workers took my baggage irom the car and It waa examined. No contraband, ex cepting only that my camera, a mon strous Graf lex, weighed more than five kilograms, about eleven pounds and needed a special permit. The car had to be bonded to Insure that It would not be sold or left In Mexico. Over to the bonding station. The car bond waa applied for, approved and handed to me within half an hour. The fee waa $1.50 for thirty days. Fees range from $1 for ten days to $3.50 for six months. That was all. The whole thing was quite simple, Even Including the Mexican tourist visitor card which must be procured at a Mexican consulate on the Amer ican aide. The fee for the card Is $1 anrl Its Is $1 for each person except ing children less than thirteen years of age. All that Is required Is Iden tification as a tourln, occupation and the assurance that you have at least seventy five dollars a m-.nth to support yourself while In Mexico. The card Is readily procurable at Laredo. Go to the chamber of commerce there. Its officials will readily straighten you out on everything. And there la very little to be straight ened out on. Mexico la friendly and nice and wanta tourists. All lta of ficials make it quite simple. I am driving now to Monterey for my first night's stop. In my next ( IN THE LOW PRICE FIELD Phone 304 Highway Laredo Gateway story I will tell of my first encounter with the real Old Mexico, POLES TOPPLE ON POP GATES' AUTO Snow and Ice have been getting on the nerves of many southern Oregon residents the last several days, but what put Charles E. ("Pop") Gates Into a blue funk was the fact that Thursday night a power pole fell out of Its designated place at the corner of Fourth street and Riverside avenue and crashed into the hood of the well-known auto dealer's passing Ford. A roar such as comes from earth quakes, Gates said, startled him as the pole, rotten at the bottom, top pled onto the car Junt In front of the rain - streaked windshield, behind which the driver waa unable to see at first what had happened. Gates pulled to the curb when steam gushed from the badly crippled hood, but said the crash did not in- pure the engine. Tension of wires on the pole probably caused It to bounce off the car without causing a more serious accident that might have cost the driver's life. Hanks Protest Levy WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (AP) The capital heard today that big banks are up In arms over a proposal to levy an assessment of one-eighth of one per cent of total deposits as a membership fee In the federal de posit Insurance corporation, Clemaon, A. C, college la experi menting with combining basketball and intercollegiate boxing In sport ! double-headers. No, a penny In the' colleotton hardly counts as a down payment on a harp. AS LOW AS DELIVERED Vrp'SA J, IN MEDFORD Jcf ' ' . ' Slip Behind the Wheel What a MIRACLE RIDE is in store for you . . . The new STUDEBAKER CHAMPIONS are CHAMPIONS in appearance, appointments and PER FORMANCE . . . Mechanical perfection that only years of engineering experience and decades of successful car building can assure . . . You haven't seen 1935 's greatest automobile value until you've looked at the STUDEBAKER CHAMPIONS! SANDERSON MOTOR CO. TS MP 1! Eugene Coatea. 24 Jeanette avenue, member of the Eagles' Washington school basketball team, nearly sev ered a finder from his left hand with an axe Thursday night and Is beln-j treated at the Sacred Heart hospital. The accident occurred at Coates' woodshed when the blade struck and glanced from a door frame above the youth's head, striking the hand with which he was holding the wood. At tendants believed Saturday that un less Infection seta In Coates will re gain the use of the finger. People would rather be amused than instructed. Dse Mail Tribune want ada. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS ARE ALL In every inch of Design In every ounce of Construction TRUCK quality has to be of an altogether different stamp than PASSENGER-CAR quality. Truck users have learned that. They want rugged stamina for rigorous service. They want to know how strong truck is... how dependable in the pinches . . .whether it can be counted on to take plenty of punishment. That's why many manufac turers are talking "all-truck" in their recent advertising ...aiming to satisfy the demand. But they have just be tun to claim what SlteiW-tonto 10toni Chatil, pricci, f. o. b. factory Iron $390 Walter W. Abbey, inc. Nash, Graham, Willys 77, LaFayette, International Trucki Sales and Service. 123 South Kiverside Experience A NEW Driving i E NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (UP) Babe Ruth has an orfer of $75,000 to make a circus tour of the United States and will announce a decision upon his arrival from Paris within the next few weeks. Zark Miller, old time showman who Is reorganizing his 101 ranch circus, opened negotiations with the Babe before he left on the base ball tour. 4 Endeavor to be what you desire to appear. Socrates. The more happiness you give the more you have left. Don't mortgage the future for ft good time now. TRUCK Kl lillllB tot truck ItlujtrdMd (f th 1 M 5-ttn 6yUnitt Model C-fO u4lh flake Ml. Oitar frodlu .wiliU for U Im4j. Internationals have delivered for many years: EXTRA capac ity for taking punishment and giving value. For more than twenty years the International Truck builders have built ONLY TRUCKS. No automobiles. So they have had no tempting op portunity to compromise. Come in and learn what ALL TRUCK QUALITY means in these new stream lined Internation als. Or telephone us for a try-out of any model on your own job. Why no do it now? THRILL! of a 1935 207 So. Riverside