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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.
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1935 LA
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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 ' ' . '
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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
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Iron
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Walter W. Abbey, inc.
Nash, Graham, Willys 77, LaFayette, International Trucki
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Experience A NEW Driving
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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.
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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.
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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