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PAGE SIT MEDFORD MATL TRTRTHCE. fEDFORD. OKEGOX. SUNDAY. APRIL IS. 1937 3MaMmoyii V 1 barman I .1 GRAHAM 1 20 FOR AFRICAN TRAILS Graham su perch si-Red power will esry Vivian Grey over the roughest African road when he starts hu next expedition to map the Jungle tralli for the University of Cape Town and the Royal Automobile club, according to Lawrence Pen nington, local Graham dealer. Mr. Grey vialted Detroit laet wee and took delivery on a Graham 130 aedan which la specially equipped for his work. After a brief tour of the eastern states he will sail for Fngland on his way back to South Africa. The new Graham Supercharger 130 will supplant a model 016 Gra ham which has been used In thi work since 1930 nd which, aftr rolling up a score of 145.000 miles orer the roughest sort of trails is still in active service. "We still get about 33 miles to the Imperial gal lon out of the model 610," declared Mr. Orey. "It has given the finest j etrvlee one could aak and we have j chosen a Graham 130 for our new ear because we know It will deliver the same type of satisfaction and ervlce." South Africa Is In the midst or t wave of prosperity due to the high world gold price, Mr. Grey declared. Automobile sates have In creased there until now there approximately one car for every white family, "Many of our roads are mere jungle trails." he explained, "and It Is the pur;xse of our expedition to map these for the Royal Auto mobile club so that dependable touring Information will be avail able to motorists, At the same time geographical and geological data will be gathered for the University of Cape Town and British universities." We Drivers A Strttt of Brhf DUeuuiont on Driving, DoiU cattd to tho Sal'ty. Comfort and Plmuuro of tho Motoring Public. Prepaid by Control Motoro E OFFERS BENEFITS Applications for benefit payment! under the range building program are now being received at the eoll conservation office In the court house, stated R. a. Fowler, county gent, yesterday. Any livestock operator who own or leases land and over which he has control is eligible to receive benefits for specified practices under this program. Range land means any land other than that owned by the United States government or any agencies thereof which produces forage for range livestock without cultivation or general Irrigation and of which ' ten acres or more are required to grane one animal. Payments will be made for the following practices which are applicable In this sec tion : development of springs and seeps; reservoirs for holding run-off: digging wells; range fences, except ing boundary fences; rodent oon trol. and reaeedlng. Paymente are made at the rate of 11.60 tlmea the grazing capacity of the land In a ranching unit. Ap plications must be In this office by May 1 and the blanks can be ob tained any time. I, CLOTHED. JAILED KIjAMATH TALLS. April 17. (AP) Homer Oladwell, who appeared In Chlloquln atark naked. Is now repos ing In the Klamath county Jail dreni ed In old clothes supplied by Chief of Police Flury of Chlloquln. Oladwell laid that he was held up Jut ouwirte of Klamath Palls and robbed of his clothes and that he had then walked the railroad tracks to Chlloquln as mllee away. Exam ination of Oladwell'a feet led officers to douht hi atorv. No. S DRIVING ON HILLS In aoMi parti of the country hills are taken for (ranted . . . and food steep ones, too. But for tome at ut who live In flatter country, hill driving is lot so familiar. Am m mattjtr nt fart, there are several condition! '''3 peculiar to driving in very iteep hills or mountains, eapecially if the altitude is high. Tor Instance, a car that develop! 100 horsepower at sea-level, hai only 82 horsepower at an altitude of 5000 feet, and only 60 horsepower on top of Pike's Peak. Another thing ii that sometimes grades ara de ceptive and we don't realize how steep they are, If then ii no level ground to Judge by. So if we go on ( road trip and happen to get into country where hills ara hills, we often have no idea of what is in atore for us. Like as not, we will come rolling up to a hill, taking It for granted that we'll make the grade. But before we'va gone very far we find that our power seems to be giving out, and we're ilowlng down. Then we realize we must shift to second gear, but we're lucky If we haven't found out to late that there we are, stalled on a hilll Now oeople who drive on hills all the time say sne thine: to remember la that there's nothing like I lsSjvS a good atari Of course, this 4 true, because the Tilnute we start up, gravity starts to work and work fast. Yard-by-yard it usee up our momentum till by-nd-by that momentum is Just about gone. Then we have to shift to lower gear to increase our power. Experts tell us that by far the most common fault ) in nui-ciunoing ia xaiiuro 10 iniu to a lower gear toon enough. So Just to be sure, some drivers set a definite point at which to change gears. The con ensus of opinion seems to be that we should always go Into second gear as soon aa our speed gets down to 20 miles an hour. There are times, however, when we want to ston on a hill. So it's important to know how to start again, with our car on an jpgr.de. And there seem to be two methoda used by experienced drivers. Some use their foot brake to keep their cars from rolling backward, put their engine in low gear and accelerate slowly with the hand throttle, gradually engaging their clutch and releasing the brake at the same time. Other good drivers do exactly the same thing, only they use the hand brake and the foot accelerator. But both groups tell us It doesn't mske much difference ... to use whichever method we happen to like the better. Now there aren't many hills that cars can't climb nowadays . . . and what goes up must come down. And that'a where we have to look out for momentum. He may have been a friend in need when we were coming up hill, but going down he'll run away with us if we aren't careful. And If there are any sharp curves or any bad bumpa or loose gravel, we have to be careful or he'll pitch us right off the road. Many drlvera aay that we should go down a mil In the same gear we would use to get up. In other words, If it's steep enough so we would have to go up In second or even low gear, then we'd better get Into that same gear before we start down. If our car is In second or low gear, our engine worka aa a very effective brake, and besides it saves a lot of wear on our real brakes. Speaking of gears, experienced drivers say we should never, under any condition, dliengage our clutch and coast down hill. That'i Just what momen tum la waiting for. Juit give momentum a free rein, without our engine to check it, and nobody can tell what's going to happen. When we do get in country where people are used to driving on hills all the time, it may seem to us that they take those hills without the slightest concern. But if we were In their cars with them and could watch them closely, we would see that they take all these pre cautions we have mentioned, Just aa a matter of habit. And one thing is sure. They make It a rule never to pasa other cars on hll.s, or get on the wrong side of the road, when they can't see far enough ahead to be sure whether anyone's coming. OOT-MAKI MITHOO HAND-IRAKI MITHOO PS IS HELD SUICIDE SHIPPENSBURO, Pa., April 17. (AP) Officers sought to trace the circumstances of a trip of more than 3A00 miles by James David Smith, aa. that started with his disappearance the day he was to have been married. three weeks ago, and ended In the Nevada desert where his body wtxa found In an automobile. Chief of Police Edward Hunter ssld lan night after a telephone conversa tion with Coroner Henry Wilson at. Elko, Nevada, that Smith's death vn caused by carbon monoxide poisoning. District Attorney Douglas A. Castle said at Elko that Smith "undoubted ly committed suicide." The young man left his home on Good Friday to drive to nearby Chamersburg to marry Miss Kathleen Herd. Dl MAGGIO'S TONSILS SNAGGED BY DOCTOR (ntW VORK, April 17. (API Joe Dlmngglo. star sophomore outfielder of the New York Yankees, today un derwent a successful operation for the removal of his tonslla and ade noids. Originally, only the tonsils were to come out. but attending physicians decided to take out the stars ade noids while they were at It. He la expected to be In the Yanukee lineup In about two weeks. Use Mall Tribune want ada New 94-1 -Ton Dodge Truck Above) is shown the new 1937 Dodge A- 1-ton express Its large- capacity body permits it to be used in a number of fields where general hauling is done. It is especially useful to farmers, olumbers. contractors and delivery systems. CALIFORNIA IH T E BAN FRANCISCO. April 17. (AP) Thomas J. Mooney's final pies In California for exoneration In the 1014 preparedness parade bombing finally was before state supreme court Jus tices today after a year and a half of preliminaries which added some 5,000,000 words to the case record. Attorneys for the greying prisoner. convicted of murder In the deathly blast, and the state ended final argu ments yesterday, placing a habeas corpus petition technically if not for mally In the hands of the Justices. Presiding Justice Emmet Seawell declined to make a format order of submission. Indicating to court ob servers that a decision will not be forthcoming within the 90-dey period provided by law. The Justice said the order would be made when the court's decision is ready, in order for the Justices to re ceive their salaries, they must rtito on all cases within 90 days after submission. Mooney, seeking the writ of habeas corpus on his contention he wss con victed by perjury In a frameup, was present In court jtesterday to hear his attorney, George T. Davis, call for erasing of "this stain upon the ad ministration of Justice In Califor nia." Z IN MOVIE TESTS HOLLYWOOD, Calif.. April 17. ( AP) The 31 -year-old widow of the late Congressman Marlon Zloncheck of Washington was In Hollywood, available for a motion picture career. Registered under her maiden name of Rubye Nix, si. ) sat in her hotel room and aald she had received six offers to enter the movies and had taken two screen tests already. I am depending on my own abil ity, not on the publicity I have re ceived, to gain success,'' she said. She would have come to Hollywood soner, Mra. Zloncheck ssld, but she postponed tho move "became I wish ed to stay In retirement in memory of Mr. Zloncheck. " Ose Mall rrlbune want ads. Structural strength In the body Is one of the big contributing fac tors to the safety of the well made motor car of today, according to Perry L. Ash craft, local Packard dealer. A Packard chassis, showing the strong Packard frame, is now on display at the Ashcraft showroom on South Riverside. Mr, Ashcraft says: "Recently In tests ,'inade at its proving grounds, the Packard Motor Car company piled sang bags to a total weight of 0,100 pounds on the roof of a Packard Six club sedan. Although thi , wss 1,750 pounds more than the total weight of the car itself and exceeded by tons any normal passenger load which the car would be expected to carry In a conventional manner, it could not be found that the body had been strained In the slightest degree. Each door opened and closed freely, without the slightest Indication of binding while the great weight rest ed on the roof." Demand F or Pine Shows Increase PORTLAND. April. 7 ( AP)--R?portS from 130 mills showed lsst week's new business of 75,295,000 board feet of lumber was 3 percent above the previous week 's ms rk , the Western Pine association said today. Production totaled 67,787,000 feet, an increase of about seven million feet over the previous week, and ship ments reached 72.507,000. a slight gain over production and ship ments totals for the corresponding werk of 1936. To date, orders were reported 20 percent above last year. Georgia Lifer, Tired H tinted Life, Gives U p ATLANTA. April 17. (API 8. J. (Slim) Scarborough, life term killer who has escaped six times from Geor gia chain gangs, surrendered to police today in his attorney's office here. "I'm tired of dodging the law." he said. Scarborough has spent twelve of his 29 years in and out of prison. He made hts lstest break April 3 from the Cherokee county convict camp In North Georgia. Scarborough was convicted of the slaying In 1935 of W. C. Wright. Put nam county school superintendent, who had given him and two other men a rlrle in an automobile. BLACK EYE FROM AIMEE. SHE SAYS LOB ANGELES. April IT. (API The house ot McPherson was still divided today, with Mra. Minnie (Ma) Kennedy declaring emphatically there would be no reconciliation between her and her daughter, Almee Semple Mcpherson, under present conditions Mrs. Kennedy livened the lull brought on by a week-end receea In the 1190,000 slander trial of Roberto Semple agalnat Will Andrews, Almee's attorney, by scathing rumora that mother and daughter were ready to call a truce. "Frequently, over the years, I've hod personal telephone calls' trom Almee," she said. "I've had amplt opportunity to go back to Angelur ttmple. If I had wanted to. "I've always told Almee that I'll never come back until thlnga up there are drastically changed ano that still goes," Almee and her mother have been estranged ever since Mrs. Kennedy displayed a black eye and attributed It to a fight with the evangelist. Mra. Kennedy, who la friend and ally to Ro'erta, also on the out with her mother, Almee, voiced crit icism of the testimony Mra. Mc rherson has been giving In the trial. "Why, the things Almee has been saying from the witness stand about Roberta I" she laid. "Almee talks a lot about Robert Semple, her first i husband. I'll bet a pretty penny that he'a turning over and over In his grave If he'a able to hear the tes timony Almee's been giving about hie daughter." T TIES UP AKRON, 0. AKRON. Ohio. April 17. (AP) Some 390,000 residents of greater Akron, the nation's rubber capital, started a week-end without street car or bus service today. Union officials reported no peace negotiations in a day-old strike against the Akron Transportation Co.. which forced this northeastern Ohio industrial area's transportation to depend on private cars, taxlcabs, or walking. "We're not going to attempt to op erate until we find out what these fellows want," said M. P. Gill, sec retary of an American Federation of Labor union which claims a majority of the drivers as members. GUI, who termed the walkout an "outlaw strike," announced that the Amalgamated Association of street car, electric railway and motor coach employes of America local's SCO members would meet tomorrow and that no attempt would be made meanwhile to resume operations. LAWN MOWERS sharpened. We call and del 81ms Bros.. Tel. 261 33 N. Fir. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Onion Profit VANDALIA, 111.. April 17. (AP) When Mrs. M. L. Staff, Bluff City housewife, looked over her winter onion patch she found 940 in clear profit among the onion tops. She figures it must have been lost by some motorist on the nearby high way. It was two (20 bills. Phone 542 We'll haul away you) reiuse City sanitary Service. Ml W New Upholstery for your car this year Not only will new coverings improve the appearance of your car, renewing your pride in it, but it will actually increase its value for the time when you want to trade it in! AUTO GLASS Cut and installed Shatter-Proof, Plate or Sheet AUTO TOPS Rumble Seat Tops HOHLWEG'S TOP SHOP 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE 8th and Bartlett. Phone 687 fh j- w ? x f 1 La rVjtj . -0 ) i Crooner F.ntera Plea BOSTON, April 17. (AP) Rudy Vallee, orchestra leader, pleaded In nocent today to charges of assault and battery upon a newspaper pho tographer. Hi case was continued until April 31, We Invite You To See The New PACKARD CHASSIS Now On Display Call at our showrooms, or telephone, and a Packard will be placed at your disposal so that you also may know the pleasure of driving a Packard. . Vou can buy a Packard for i memora Perry L. Ashcraft 128 South Riverside Phon 191 JUST ARRIVED! A CARLOAD of 1937 DODGE TRUCKS CHECK The GREATEST ECONOMY Truck of the Year! 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