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PAOTC TWO MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFOK1), OREOON". THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1936. Pending Townsend District Sessions Study of What Office to Run for Among Chief Reasons for Delay the four national party leaden, the list to be named Include 00 repre sentatives, 16 of the 30 state senators, three congressional seats, S supreme court Justices, 0 of the 28 circuit Judges, 35 of the 30 district attor neys, United States senator, state treasurer and attorney. , By CLAYTON V. BEHNHARD Associated Press Staff Writer SALEM, Feb. 20. (AP) Candidate filings for the 134 various state and district offices and delegates, for which party selections will bo made at the primary elections May 16 this year are coming In slower than usual for which political observers attrib ute three chief reasons. 1. The pending Townsend district executive sessions and subsequent rulings of the 21 delegates to the state meeting relative to various endowments. 2. The uncertainty of many poli tical aspirants as to which offices they may have the best chance to win, awaiting to see against wnom they would be called upon to com pete. 3. The ever-Increasing reports that s special session of the leglslatuie, probably during April appears Inevl. table If the elate Is to take advan tage of federal funds for old age pen sions. Only Eleven Filed To date only 11 filings have been made with the secretary of 'state, i.f which three are for delegates to the national party conventions. These do not Include the hundreds of county and city officials to be nominated and elected during 1039. Leas than six weeks remain to make filings. The final date Is March 30. The solidity with which Townsend old age revolving pension supporters voted at the special election January 31, defeating all four state measures, has the political aspirants upon the uneasy seat. The near-future Bessie n of the committee of seven from each of the three congressional districts Is likewise awaited before many others will file. A survey of the state made recent ly by one Portland observer revealed that the reported 182,000 or more Townsend members will go down the line with this "committee of 21" rec ommendations, and apparently are determined to fill every place with their membership or supporters. Many On Fence The second reason given Is that many members of the legislature, particularly of the house, do not know whether to run for the state senate, for re-elcctlon or for some county positions. State senators up for re-election are undecided whether to run for congressional places or for Judgeships! And those who nave run before again are awaiting to "see the lay of the land." The special session reason Is per haps the most problematical and will rest upon an attorney general's opin ion now being drafted, upon recom mepdatlona of certain legislators for a oeiinite program lr one is caned, and upon the acquiesence with which Governor Martin would receive these demands after his recently-stated de termination to not call ouch a ses sion. Age Pension Is Rub The entire matter hinges around old age pensions, which Issue was thrown wide open upon defeat of the sales tax for Its revenue and the ref erendum on the transfer of funds from old age pensions to general re lief, which will be voted upon next November. The attorney general at the present time Is working upon an opinion whether or not tlie referendum would hold in abeyance the old law per mitting use of about 1200.000,000 for old age pensions under the regular 1038 legislative act, or whether that old law now Is In effect. At any rate, It appeared highly Improbable that the federal matching of the old fund would be sufficient to pay the estimated 20,000 eligible for petitions, over the age of 70, In the amount which would satisfy the supporters of adequate pensions. One proposal that has been put up Is that the seMlon be called for one or two days, with a program already worked out by committees and put through the routine of passage. Should the revenue Issue not be dear, a speclnl session would un doubtedly run the entire 20 days, and many other proposals be brought up. A short meet appeared out of the question. Short Reunion flugitested It la known that the short session has been suggested to the governor, and It Is further known that sug gested programs are being worked out for submission. The governor has the matter under serious considera tion, but to date has not Indicated whether or not he would change his mind. In the meantime registrations are coming slowly. The most active are those for 20 delegates to the two national conventions, one for Demo ratio national commlttrewoman, two for congreaa from the second district, three for district attorney position, and one for circuit Judge and one for stat senator. In addition to the delegates and TIGATES F. H NEW YORK, Feb. 30. (AP) Col Theodore Roosevelt attacked the democratic administration's relief policies today and asserted, "all aliens on relief should be shipped back to the nation of which they are citizens." Sailing for England on a business trip, he Issued a statement charging the Franklin D. Roosevelt adminis tration with encouraging class hatred In the United states. "Right here In the United States we are carrying hundreds of thou sands of aliens on relief rolls, and the American working man, whether he be plumber, taxi driver, lawyer or doctor, Is paying the bill. All aliens on relief should be shipped back to the nation of which they are citizens. We are not a poor house for the rest of the world." 4 TO The Junior high school extends a cordial Invitation to all Interested to attend the assembly Friday morning, to commemorate the birth anniver sary of George Washington. A special program has been arranged by the history department as follows: Flag aalute, led by Raymond Crosby. Selections by the Senior high school band under direction of Wil son Wait. "Father of the Land We Love," sung by James Baize. "Revolutionary Tea," sung by sev enth grade girls. Selections by the harmonica band. "Cherry Trees," sung by the sev enth grade boys. Accordion solo by Barbara Bost- wlck. Reading by Richard Schuhard. Trumpet duet by Roes Webb and Douglas Plckell. Minuet by Stanley Qusttn, Ore tc li en McAllister, Durrell Adams, and Nona Heyland. 4 Plane Hits Tower. TRIESTE, Italy, Feb. 20. (AP) A passenger plane, en route from Trieste to Zaxa, crashed Into a cathedral tower at Rovlgno today, killing the pilot and Injuring three passengers. (Continued from Page One.) hereafter, the royal 'oak budget may be brought closer to a balance. A certain senator figured out a neat way of promoting his constitu tional .l amendment giving congress sole jurisdiction over commerce, de spite the supreme court. He decided to put Attorney Oeneral Cummlngs on the constitutional spot. He wrote a letter to the attorney general re questing an opinion about his bill. No cabinet officer dares to refrrain from answering a senator's letter. Nor did Mr. Cummlngs. He wrote a very, very polite note acknowledging the receipt of the senator's letter and saying he would look Into the matter. ' It Is understood Mr. Cummlngs will continue looking until next No vember 4. The election Is November 3. It sounds Incredible, but It Is true that the senate appropriated nearly three billion dollars In twenty min utes the other day. Only one sena tor objected, the sincere treasury watch dog. Senator- King. Only two others commented, approvingly. They did not even go to the trouble of having a formal note. But that was not the most Impor tant phase of It. The appropriation did not carry the slightest suggestion as to where the treasury la going to get the three billion dollars (for the bonus, new farm subsidy, etc.). The Idea behind this sensational streamlining of Legislation Is to duck taxes. Its backers are getting the big appropriation passed first, so they can consider the smallest pos sible tax boost later. They would like to dissociate the two steps In the public mind, aa well aa In their own. , against the antl-lynchlng bill). Con gressman Flab put Into the record the other day an account of how the Idahoan risked his life back In 1903 to save a negro from lynching. The answer to that Is there are generally a large number of negro voters In the Ohio Republican primaries, also In Illinois. WES GASSED We Visit Medford" by 0. E. INOALLS, Editor CorvallU Gazette Times Some new deal authorttlea are con. gratulatlng themaelves for having employed the Republican lawyer. John Lord O'Brlan, to handle their TVA case. They suspect they might have fared better on some earlier cases U they had called In some outside talent. Incidentally, the largest overlook ed fact about the TVA decision was that O'Brlan agreed the government had no right to build dame primar ily for power purposes, and the court ruled he was right. This con cedes that the whole yardstick theory of publlo power production to force down rates la unconstitutional. A Three Days' Cough Is Your Danger Signal No matter how many mcdlclnea you have tried for your cough, chest cold or bronchial irritation, you can get relief now with Creomulalon. crloua trouble may be brewing and you cannot alTord to take n chance) with anything less than Creomul alon, which gooa right to the seat of the trouble to aid nature to sooths and heal the inflamed mem branes as the germ-laden phlegm la loosened and expelled. Even If other remedies have failed, don't bo discouraged, your druggist la authorized to guarantee CreomulMon and to rrfund your money If you are not sat laded with results from the very nrat bottle. Oct Creonmlaluu right now. (Adv.) Air Train Ones High. MOSCOW, Feb. 20. (AP) An air train, constating of a plane and five gliders, ascended 3150 meters (al most 10,330 feet) today to establish what aviation officials described as a world altitude record for nly trnlna with more than two gliders. Oat Mall Tribune wnit da. Most oppressed man In congress la Mr. Blanton of Abilene. Bare la the week he does not rise to a question of personal privilege to consume half a dozen pages of the congressional record (coat 954 a page) answering some personal acousatlon against him In the Washington press. Congress men do not mind the expense,, aa he affords an opportunity to go to lunch without fear of missing any thing Important. Borah boomers are going to lengths to offset the attacks on him In the negro press ( based on his vote WOBURN, Maes., Feb, 20. (AP) Oas felled two nurses, partly over came a third, and rendered the at tending physician almost uncon scious during the birth of a baby In the operating room of a Woburn hospital last night. A nurse flung open the doors of the room and staggered out to tell others that two nurses were uncon scious on the floor Inside and Dr. Thomas F. Halpln was on the verge of collapse. The fresh blast of air from the open doors helped revive Dr. Halpln. Another doctor was summoned to his aid, but before the second phy sician arrived, Dr. Halpln had strug-j gled through the delivery. Neither mother nor child apparently aui-1 fered any lasting ill effects. Dr. Halpln, still 111 today after his experience, said he believed the room had been filled with carbon monoxide gas, but ventured no opin ion as to Its origin. SALEM, Feb. 20. ( AP ) Salvage Of waste and residue of local canneries for manufacture into industrial al cohol waa suggested today by State Treasurer Hufus C. Hclman as a substitute Industry at the peniten tiary to replace the flax industry. The suggestion was made to the governor by Holman in a letter in which he stated the plan was pro posed In view of the announced policy of the board of control to eventually eliminate the state flax plant and withdraw It from Indus trial competition. The alcohol manufactured, Holman suggested, would be used exclusively In the operation of state owned automotive equipment. 88 BULDINGS RISE IN PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 30. (AP) The PWA has 88 building project comprising a $0,042,093 program un derway In Oregon now, O. C. Hockley, publlo works administrator tor Ore' gon, said today. The work, he said, Is being carried on In all parts of Oiegon to relieve unemployment and stimulate return to prosperity." Furthermore, the program Is accomplishing necessary Improvements and is financed in pwt In all cases by the communities di rectly affected, he said. R7 SCHENLEY'S MAYFLOWER itraight RYE whiskey PINT 90c $1.75 QUART n.. UJA The mildest-tasting, lightest straight Pennsylvania rye you can buy . . . you'll prefer it! ECHO SPRING KENTUCKY STRAIGHT WHISKEY Every drop 2 yea6 months old. $i 35 pint $2.65 QUART N. 14 A straight whiskey value you won't find it easy to duplicate. AVAILABLE IN OREGON chialtr Dlmlbuiort, Inc., Ntw York. N. Y. " . ....... '.'I -MmI. III r 'a. fm Mt mi WINI-THI OHAT HUNCH A PMITI - At COHOl ) IV VQ1UMI J Mratght or in rock tail. Ptibonnti H America's Favorite New Prink . Pchrntry Import I A HO I IOTTLI $2.00 No. A40A This coUn had the pleasure this week of a visit to Medford, the pear center of the world. The occasion for the trip waa an invitation from the Lincoln club of Jackson county, to deliver the Lincoln Day address Wednesday evening. The meeting was very largely attended, the big dining room In the Medford hotel being packed to capacity. We were sur prised to see so many former Oorvallls people there. The retiring president of the Lincoln club Is Earl Newbry. who married the daughter of Prof. B. A. Johnston of this city. She too was present. Kenneth Denman, son of George Denman of this city, is practicing law there and doing very wen. He too was at the head table, having Just been elected vice-presi dent of the club. As they have a habit of promoting the vtce-prest dents to the presidency, Ken, who waa one of the best half-backs the O. S. C. team ever had, will auto matically go over , for a touchdown with the presidency one of these days. Kenneth Is taking the right course politically too, In our estimation. He had it In his bonnet a year ago to make the race for district attorney, but has decided not to tackle it this year on account of the Townsend business. "I made up my mind when I started practicing kw," Kenneth told us, "not to climb onto any band wagot. just to get an office. If a movement cannot merit my approval, I am not going to join up with It Just to get a few votes." If Kenneth keeps up that attitude, he will at least have the respect cf the sound thinking people of Medford and such regard will, in the long run, win him more laurels than will switching around after all the Isms that afflict this unfortunate country. Among other former Corvallls peo ple were A. A. Schramm, and O. H. Barnhill. Mr. Barn hill came from Ashland to attend the meeting. He is engaged In his old trade doing publicity work, and is coming' north for some writing this spring. He hasn't changed any worth mentioning since he left here for California some dozen or IS years ago. Mr. Schramm was formerly cashier of the Corvallls State bank and was appointed by Gov. Patterson to the position of state bank commissioner. He made a fine record In this place during one of the severest banking strains In our his tory. When politico forced him out, the First National bank of Portland made him manager of Its Medford branch, formerly the Plntt National bank of Medford. The change of own ership should be a good thing for Medford, especially in the fruit pick ing and packing season, aa It will enable growers and packers to get all the money needed right at home for carrying on this important enterprise. Mr. Schramm knows the banking ! business in all It various angles. We visited the bank Thursday forenoon. and It was a busy place. Aa one Im portant business man after another came into the bank, Schramm would draw him Into the compartment where we were altttng and Introduce them. Prom these various men In all walks of life, we elicited mnv opinions on "the state of the nation Among them were some Democrate. We also reached the conclusion that Medford probably has more high grade, substantial and Independently wealthy citizens than any other com munity In the state. them the finest fruit In the world. The S. O. 8. company officials gave high praise to the college, especially Professors Hartman and Robinson, for valuable assistance they had given the pear industry. Of course, they raise lota of apples and peaches In the Medford district, but It Is for Its wonderful pears that It Is chiefly noted Industrially. Among other people we met In this way waa Alfred S. V. Carpenter born In Colorado and educated In Harvard. He is president of the Southern Ore gon Sales, Inc., a substantial concern engaged in the business of growing, packing and shipping fruit. He drove us out to the company's packing plant. It is an eye opener to one who has never visited one of these concerns. There we met the manager, 8. M. Tuttle, and a former Corvallls man, Lyie Wilcox. Lyle went from here ten years ago to act as county agent of Jackson county and made good. A year or so ago the S. O. S. took him into its organization and he likes the work very much. The plant has five acres of land with 1100 feet of trackage, and Is of course mod ern In every respect. Much of the work Is done automatically, such as making the boxes. The box-making machines are self-feeding. A man lays the lumber on a platform and It comes out at the other end, a com plete pear box. During the packing season, hundreds of girls are engaged In sorting and wrapping the pears' being sorted. as to size by machinery and carried to the girls by endless I belts. The process Is too complicated to describe here. A mechanical con veyor takes the boxes of fruit to a machine which nails the lids on at one stroke and a mechanical conveyor then takes the boxes to a cold stor age department. There are 40 of these cold storage rooms In this one plant and each has a capacity of eight car loads of 720 boxes to the car, or a total of 340,000 boxes. There Is also a separate line of mechanical convey ors which carry the boxes to the re frigerator cars, where they may load as many as eight cars at a time. Med ford pears bring the highest prices both In New York and Europe. They raiss five different varieties and the soli and climate combine to make The Medford district has about half ! the annual rainfall we have In Cor vallls. The weather Thursday was de lightfully warm and the air was In vigorating, the altitude being approx imately 1,000 feet higher than Cor vallls. Much of the land Is Irrigated, the total as we remember, being about 26.000 acres. There are 12,000 acres of pear trees, from which are shipped annually 2,600 carloads. There are 3,000 counties In the United States and Jackson la one of the first 20 In the production of fruits and nuts, the annual production there be ing around M ,000.000. Fruit raising Is, of course, not the only industry In this prosperous section. The dairy Industry la very Important. This makes a market for hay crops which yield abundantly on the lrlgated lands. Medford itself, a city of 12,000, has a number of factories, creameries, a flour mill, lumber yards, and so forth sufficient to produce a pay roll of $5,000,000 annually. It adver tises its Ice-cold water, brought down from the mountains with a summer temperature of 52 degrees at the fau cet. The pipe lines were Installed by Swartley Bros, of Corvallls. All these things help make Med ford territory nature's most favored valley. The city is beautifully located, being completely aurrounded by mountains. Here flows the Rogue, A world -renowned fishing stream which has attracted tourists from al over the world. Wealthy Oallforniana own sumptuous "cottages" on the river banks. From here too, one goes to j Crtner lake, which reminds us that Wednesday afternon, there came ft somewhat familiar voice over the tele phone. It was Oscar O. Gibson, for mer pastor of the Madison Street Methodist church In Corvalia. He came to our room and stayed for half an hour, chatting about his new field. He likes It down there very much. Aparently he likes the coun try around Medford to. for he became inspired about the beauties of Crater lake to the extent of writing a "pome about It. He had It printed on a card beneath a two-color cut of the lake, the picture of which la familiar to most Oregonlans. "DOLLAR - WEAR" will mean more to you than DELAWARE did to Washington. See the S10 Coats and Dresses at ETHELWYN B. HOFFMANN'S. Use Mall Tribune want ids COMMON .COLDS I Relieve the dUtreulirf symptoms by applying ' Mentholatum In notlrlla and rubbing on cheat. II III I, III I llld IT you prefer nose d rape, or throat spray, call for the HEW MEHTH0UTUM LIQUID In handy bottle with What SHE TOLD WORN OUT HUSBAND She could have reproached him fee hisfitsof temper his "all in" com- Saints. But wisely she saw in oil equent colds, his "fagged out," "on edge" condition the very troubl- she herself had whipped. onsupauon i i ne very morning after taking NR (Na ture's Remedy), as she advised, he felt like himself attain keenlv , i men, peppy, cnccriui. nn mc saie, oepenaaDie, au-vegeiaDie laxauve ana corrective worksgently.thoroughly.nat' unwy iisumuiaiesineeiin) inative tract to complete. regular luneuoo ing. Non-habit forming. Try a box tonight. Z5c at druggists. aff.Tii NATIONAL COAL PUKE UTAH BURNS LONGER Medford Fuel Co. 1122 N. Central. Tet 31 WELDING Arc and Acetylene Welding EARL (MAO) McBEE 40 South Fir it. mm. SJ t lM W7 OVIM the twin controls of titer new ranges spare the housewife much time and worry! Oven control and time control lead the way to easy and economical cooking the electrical way. The dinner cooks because the controls have been set for the proper time and degree of heat for perfection. Just think of the time this gives to the housewife . . . time to be with her children . . . time to go down town to market . . . time to visit her club . . . time to play bridge . . . time to knit or embroider or to do other household tasks. For those who have not changed to the convenience and economy of electric cookery from old-fashioned cooking meth ods there are still a few electric ranges left from the 1935 electric range bargains. As long as these new high-grade ranges last they will be sold at bargain prices. Model 16-100 Crawford range with lamp, condiment set and automatic timer, $159.50. Model GB 63 Westinghouse automatic, $119.50. Model 16-400 Crawford automatic, $89.50. Model 16-300 Crawford automatic, $79.50. $5 down pay ment, very easy terms and & liberal allowance for your present fuel range installs any one of these ranges in your kitchen. But that isn't all, for the duration of this clearance only yon will receive without one cent additional charge this five-piece aluminum oven cooking set COSTS NOTHING EXTRA THIS iMONTH The California Oregon Power Company
