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PXGE EIGHT MEPFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1935. National Guard Head IS WHERE RICHES HIS TENT Business of State Shifts As Emperor Moves About Court Is Held Under Trees New Touch Seen By James A. Mills ADDIS ABABA (AP) Whers the emperor's red tent Is, there Is the capital of Ethiopia. In few countries, are there o many former capitals a here. Oondar, An kober, Aksum, Debra Daxl. Magdala and Harar are a few of them. Until half a century ago the finest palace of the grandest emperor was nothing more than a circular oui made of narrow wood uprights pounded into the ground and covered with a straw roof. Seventy-five years ago several Brit ish missionaries and two consuls were arrested by Emperor Theodore. They were put In chains and dragged about from place to place so as to be kept near him. That was the capital. Administration Simple The capital has always followed the ruler and the system has worked fairly well because there has not been much state business to be transacted. Government was subduing. Adminis tration was plundering. Taxes were gathered In kind and often ruthlessly. Each high official was lord In his own domain. Ho had little need of communicating with the king of kings and was happy not to see him. The army was a band of retainers under feudal chltfs. They fed off the land they happened to be passing through. Their departure was wel come. There was no commissary de partment and no war ministry. OH, FOR THE LIFE OF A SAILOR i j i I ' f ' J ft -H Sty. 6i 10 I MEXICAN HIGHWAY SLATED GAIN Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Rllea of the Oregon National Guard waa choien president of the National Guard Association of the United States at the organization's con ventlon In Santa Fe, N. M. (Asso ciated Press Photo. RED-SKINNED APPLES HAVE MOST VITAMINS, FOOD BOARD STATES In her spare moments between pictures In Hollywood pretty Joan Bfondell takes an Interest In ship models. Here she Is perched atop a canoe looking over an early type sailing vessel before launching It or a trial run. (Associated Press Photo) Link in Alaska-Argentina Motor Road Scheduled for December Opening Scenie Beauty Is Noted MEXICO CITY (UP) The flow or auto ' traffic between the United States and Mexico la due to increase rapidly, reaching a climax with the official inauguration of the Laredo Mexico City highway In December, according to indications today. The end of the dry season Is at hand, another sign that more motor ists will use the "high drive." On the Inaugural day 1,500 automobiles are expected to start from Dallas, Tex.. to Increase the vast cavalcade. A considerable portion of the rdad which is 770 miles long is over mountains. These have been careful ly graded and "terraced." These ter races were completed In September. For all practical purposes, .the road has been completed, but considerable ! building will continue far into 1936. Four Bridges Finished Motorists at various places are now forced to use ferries. Four bridges are being built, and according to the Department of Communications and Public Works they will be completed as follows: Bridges over the Axtla and Mocte zumt rivers. November, 1935. Bridge over the Tasqulllo river, February, 103a. Bridge over the Tamp son river, April, 1836. Approximately 3.500 men have been working on the highway In recent months, principally In the mountain ous region around Jacale and Ma- talpa. The highway, which eventually will oe a link of the proposed Argentina- Aiasxa motor-roaa originally waa scheduled to be opened to traffic in June, 1933. Last year It was hoped to inaugurate it before the close of 1934. Various delays, however, have pro longed the work. It has been more expensive both in the number of lives lost In work-accidents and in pesos than was estimated originally. Offers Scenic Wonders Now, however, the road la a reality. and affords all sorts of spectacles and scenic wonders to the motorist. From Laredo, Tex., to Monterey, it Is as pood as any paved highway anywhere. This stretch of 151 miles Includes a 45-milo straightaway in the desert. From the industrial city of Mon terey often called the "Pittsburgh of Mexico," the road leads over the , mountains to Saltillo, capital of the : state of Coahuila, through a region where longhorned cattle abound. Leaving Coahuila, the drive goes work of paving, oiling and bridge- through the fruit-growing section of Mexico to Cludad Victoria, the capi tal of Tamaulipas state. Then on to Valles. in the state of Sau Luis Po toal, and thereafter comes the moun tain -climb to the Mexican plateau. It waa In this section where the work was delayed. Rises to Tableland Between Valles and Jacala, in the state of Hidalgo, the road winds, leav ing behind the tropical part of Mexi co's Gulf region, and reaching the tableland. After Jacala the motorist arrives at the big mining center of Pachuca, and from then on it Is a relatively short ride into the capital. Experienced motorists already have made the trip from the United States border to Mexico City in two days. The Mexican government, while showing a great Interest in the high way, has at the same time maintain ed a candid attitude ai progress of construction. torists, but strict compliance with all regulations, posting of bond, etc.. Is demanded of them. Soma motorists have said that they considered the "red-tape" a little more complicated than they feel would be really necessary. OSTON HAS SIX PRE-1 775 HOUSES True Facts Presented In the past, when reports would arise In the United States that the highway already had been completed, the Mexican Highway Commission would be the first to deny it, and to state the true facts. Such reports, which circulated as far back as 1932. were generally attributed either to mistaken information, or to the mis guided zeal of tourist seekers. Even now the road has not yet been declared officially opened, but motorists are using it satisfactorily. Some motorists, who do not care to make the hard mountain-climb, drive down to Monterey and then ship their cars to Mexico City. Once there, roads leading In all directions will carry the tourist to places of Interest. Every facility Is being offered mo- BOSTON (UP) Only six dwelling built before the Revolutionary War remain standing here. They are: wnti wni!iA nt Rim Court and to actual North street. Built about 1680. Only overhang house left in Boston except Paul Bevere'a. Old Corner Bookstore at Washing ton and School Btreets. Built In 1713. Marshall House, on Marshall Lane, off Hanover Street. Built in 1713. Langdon House, on Unity street. Built in 1713. Brick House, at Tileston and Han over streets. Built In 18th century. Daniel Pierce House, next to Paul Reveres House. In North Square. Built in 1711. Most of them need immediate re pairs If they are to be preserved for future generations. Mexico to Mark Printing Date MEXICO CITY (UP) Plans are be ing made to celebrate the 400th anni versary of the introduction of the. printing press In Mexico next spring. LONDON (UPJ Twice as many : vitamins are contnincd In apples with ' rosy skins aa in thone with green ; skins. Tills Is one of the diBcoverie the ' food investigation board has made. Another Is that the concentration of vitamin C is six times as great in ap- ' pie peel aa In the core. ' The board's report for the year also . states that some fruit and v(7t.ihv ' Wherever the emperor went he waa japped ln i0dized paper remain free at home. He looked more regal In led tent than ln a straw hut. Persons who wanted to see htm had to page him all over the empire. Sometimes they had to hunt htm half a year. Menellk Founds Capital But whether business was attended to this year or next mattered little. In fact many preferred not to have It attended to at all. That left every man master. The strong and clever dominated. . Emperor Menellk changed that ayatem somewhat by limiting the power of local chiefs and founding Addis Ababa as a new capital. It stretches over a vast amount of land and contains from 60.000 to 100,000 Inhabitants according to the season of whom 80 per cent live In crude hula. There are, however, two palaces, postofflce, a telegraph station and number of ministries where one can never find a minister. It would be all the same If one did, since they are virtually Imperial office boys. There are a few schools, courts of a kind under trees, a place where taxes are brought and where salaries are paid. Imperial ordera are sent out by post, telephone and telegraph and a bit of centralization has been estab lished. But if the city were bombed and all of the public buildings destroyed, Ethiopia would remain Just the same and the task of governing would be little affected. The principal tragedy would be that when the bank blew up the army of war correspondents hero would not be able to cash checks from home. Ethiopians who do busi ness with btg silver dollars would not lose much. Country Is Itomb Proof At first Addis Ababa was only group of tents clustered about the Imperial marquee of Menellk. It could become that again and Halle ficlaasle would continue to rule Ethl opla as his predecessors have done for two mllleniums. There are no factories to close, no workers to starve, no vital communi cations to be cut. All the food and fuel ln Ethiopia Is carried on the backs of donkeys and the heads of men and they can trot to a tent as well aa to a pnlnce. Ethiopia Is bomb proof. A land as large ns France and Germany can't be put under gas and a nation that has no houses can't have It homes destroyed, Ethiopians may not be able to over come modern weapons, but they can evade them. Ethiopia can't be con quered until the Ethiopians are killed. That's the way Menellk conquered It. from mould for much longer periods : than those wrapped In plain paper. Some varieties of pluma and peaches, however, are adversely affected by this treatment and fall to ripen properly It haa been discovered that the de gree of alkalinity of the white of egps. which rises with ae, can be kcp. down to that found ln fresh eggs h storage ln air enriched with carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide storage will also add many weeks to the life of bacon, it 1 stated. TREE 405 YEARS OLD FELLED BY LOGGERS CATHLAMET. Wash. (UP) A gi gantic spruce treo.-one of the largest ever cut In Washington, was felled by Jacobsen Bros., logging contractors. near here. The tree was 11 feet In diameter' where It waa cut, 10 feet from the ground. The first aawlog. 16 feet long, scaled 11.000 board feet. Tht top of the stump showed It was 405 years old. Jonaa Laraen and Pat I Jacobsen felled the forest zlant after a day and a half of work. It took j John Ashley six and one-half hours to cut the log In two the first time. Thieve Profit In Hmntnn HOUSTON, Tex. (UP) Thieves made a profit of $7,582.30 during September, according to Houston po lice records. Officors recovered 9814.00 In loot. ' FOR NEW SERUM TO LONDON (UP) Research work ra are trying to perfect a serum to check the epidemic which is killing thousands of cat In all parts of Britain. The death rate 1 rising The dis ease appears to be Increasing in viru lence, and dm Hi is following more rapidly upon Infection A est. one day in perfect condi tion, may be dying or ded the next. The attack may even prove fatal with in 13 hours, and veterinary snrnecna are helpless In the absence of a serum. The dlseaae has been Identified as a form of gastroenteritis due to a virus infection. This virus Infection Is peculiar to cat and there is no risk to any otheT animals or to hu man beings. The research staff of one of tie finest scientific laboratories In the world is now cooperating with vet erinary surgeons In the search for a serum. Professors lienerve Pity BOSTON (UP I The record fori long names at Boston College wa broken this year when Nicholas Har alsmhopoulos registered as a fresh neuu boui Price Roui RvsiEabie! Colonel WHISKEY fsi i a 1 Lamp Shades . J In JHBf CuFP'S M Fine, 16-inch parchment Lamp Shades . . . 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WE'RE NOT CONSIDERING OUR COST IN THIS SALE PElCEj Furniture Prices Are Advancing BUY NOW While These Low Sale Prices Prevail CUT To the BONE! V QASH Choose From This List Card Tables, Coffee Tables, Floor Lamps, Bed Lamps, Table Lamps. Smoking Sets, End Tables, Pillows, Novelty Rugs, Desks, Secretaries, Occasional Chairs, Club Chairs, Bedroom Suites, Bed Springs and Mattresses, Dining Suites, Daven port Suites, Foot Stools, Ranges, Heaters, Rugs a 1 1 sizes, Linoleum, fi 1 e c t r i c Appliances, Mixmasters. FURNIl'URE STORE Sixth and B'rtlett Medford Talks During This Sensational Sale C 25 to 50 on C Holiday Gifts FIXTURES FOR SALE BflSti
