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PAfiiJ BIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON". TTEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1937. DUCE AND HITLER E SPAIN FORC Italian Fleet Ordered to Hal Soviet Supply Ships Rome and Berlin Confer ROMS. June 2. MP) German and Italian war chiefs discussed military cooperation In Spain today aa Italia men-of-war, acting Independently or the neutrality committee and threat' enlng force If necessary, established a virtual blockade of eastern Spain, Two significant development mark ed the Joint policies of Rome and Berlin against what they deem the Communist Influence of Soviet Rus- ala over the Medrld-Valencla govern ment of Spain's republic 1. Marshal Werner von Blomberg, German minister of war, arrived by plane and Immediately engaged In long conversations with Premier Ben Ito Mussolini, who also heada Italy'i armed forces. They were believed to have laid the foundations for close cooperation between their forces and to have strengthened their unity of purpose In Spain. A decision for direct Italo - German Intervention however, was regarded as a distant possibility. 3. The Italian fleet was ordered to set Independently to prevent Russian merchantmen from delivering war contraband to Spanish government- Held ports. The Italian warships re malned off the government-held stretches of the Spanish coast they bad patrolled In the International neutrality fleet until 11 Duoe with drew from that plan. Under it, they collaborated with other powers In supervising an International embargo and were enjoined from firing. Now, under strictly Italian orders, they are free to enforce the blockade with their guns. A reinforced German battle fleet, meanwhile, was understood here to be cooperstlng In the Italian block ade against Soviet ships ' carrying armaments to Spanish government ports. (Berlin reports said four add I tlonal German submarlnea were sent today to reinforce the retch's fleet In Spanish waters.) The erstwhile World wsr enemies had extremely cordial conversations, well-Informed sources said, but they declared the military chieftains had reached no alliance, n Duoe and Von Blomberg were said to have gone Into considerable detail on military tactics In Spain and to have approved a vigorous of fensive against Bilbao, capital of the Basque provinces of Spain, against which Spanish Insurgents have been driving. A largt crowd Is expected to hear the world-famous Kltsalano boya' tend of Vancouver, B. O., at a concert to be held tonight at 8 o'clock In the city park. The ISO-acre band, said to be the greatest Junior band In the world, will stop here en route home after appearing at the San Francisco bridge fiesta. The organlratton la composed of young musicians and haa attained world-wide attention. FIRES REPORTED SIM FOREST BDOENS. June 3. (AP) Two for eat flrea, one of which nearly reached serious proportlona, were reported In the Slualaw national toreat late Tues day, R. s. Shelley, forest supervisor, asld today. One fire was on Vincent creek In the Smith river area and covered; nearly three acres before It waa con trolled. The blare was In dry fern and officials feared It would spread to much larger proportions. The other blare was on Upper Five Rivera and covered but an acre of land. They were the first serloua flrea of the area thla summer. is as fresh and Sprin3 Day S3 Motor Cruising for Fun . A Tour to the Recently Completed Owyhee Dam in Eastern Oregon This newspaper Is co-operating with As Oregon State Motor association mrf Tha nrecronlan In DresentlDZ a aeries of motor cruises under the ti ne, "Motor Cruising for Fun." It t hnned th.r.bv to stimulate travel In the Paolflo northwest. The follow-i Ing article has been conaeneea rroro a lull-page article appearing In The uregomao stay to- BY J. LYNN WYKOPT Uxf Writer, The orsgooiaa A LTHOUGH Owyhee dan iV completed only last year, already many new settlers have moved onto the landa which will receive Its waters; already many of these have grubbed out the sagebrush and given the desert soil Its first taste of plow ana narrow. On these new lands, tha first year or two, wilt be grown hay or grains to build the earth to its hlEhest productivity. Then will come other and better paying crops sugar beets, onions, potatoes, fruits, corn and a diversity of others. Soma farms already under Irrl gation, which hava heretofore utilized water raised from Snake river by pumping, will aoon be en joying Irrigation from the gravity flow system made possible by the new dam. Probably most Pacific northwest residents, except those In the im mediate vicinity of Owyhea dam, little reallie the magnitude of the dam and Its project of land recla mation. Bonneville and Grand Coulee, with their huge cost and promise of great alectrio power for Industry, have served to dwarf this eastern Oregon dam, which Is great enough to rata among this country's best engineering feata. 421 MUea From Portland The dam has been aeen by com paratively few, and It must be seen to be appreciated. Four hundred and twenty-one miles Portland to Ontario plus the 40 mllel or so from Ontario' to the dam, seems quite a distance to travel just to look at a dam. At least that's what I thought aa I planned the trip and that's what Harold M. Flnlay, manager of the La Grande Observer, remarked while we were en route to Ontario. But those 31 miles of highway present the Columbia gorge, Uma tilla wheat lands, the Blue moun tains, ' Grande Ronde and Baker valleys, Burnt river canyon and the high plateau of the Snake river country In a nevar-ending cento vista. The routs ta paved and smooth the entire distance to Ontario, of course, with the exception of one or two short stretches where repairs of winter damage are under way. Wide curves through mountains and can yons and long, long miles of high way extending straight as an ar row, make It an easy road to drive. Even In Burnt river canyon, where a narrow, sharply twisting road used to plague motorists, the state has almost entirely finished replacement with a wide, smooth and gently curving highway. Left Town Friday The motorlog car left Portland early Friday morning and reached Ontario In time for dinner the same evening. Saturday was spent on Owyhee lake and at the dam, and Sunday evening found the car coming Into Portland again. After a quick breakfast Saturday, we headed south to Nyssa, and then southwest toward the dam, accom panied by Fred Schlapkohl, our boat and guide. As the car left Nyssa farther be hind, well-kept fields and orchards disappeared, and rolling sagebrush covered desert took their place. Soon, however, came an area where wide fields were cleared of the low- growing desert plant, where plows and narrows were working the sou amid small clouds of dust. "This is some of the newly settled land," our guide explained. "Most of it Is being worked this year for the first time, although In a few valley spots where there has been An air view of the Owyhee dam and part of the lake some water available from the Owyhee river, farms were estab lished some years ago. Land Waa Appraised "Before the dam waa "started all this land was appraised and the own ers agreed to sell It at the appraisal cost so there's been no speculation and exorbitant pricing. After a few years come back again and I'll show you prosperous farms and nice homes where these plowed acres and little shacks are now." Mr. Schlaokohl. bureau of recla mation engineer, explained that the land we were viewing constituted only a small portion of the total area slated to profit from the Owy hee project. The water will T distributed, by a system of siphons, tunnels ana open ditches, over a belt of land extending from a point southeast of Caldwell, In Idaho, to a point In Oregon just across the state line from Welser. Of the 00,000 acres to be served, 68,000 will be "new" land, reclaimed from the desert, and 30,000 will be land previously irrigated by expensive pumping out of the Snake. After a stop to Inspect one of the embryo farms, the motorlog car wound Its way over the bumpy, nar row road that leads to the dam It self. Down Into a valley along the Owyhee river, to follow It upstream, around a bend, and there we were, standing before a gigantic man- made gate between two great rocky promontories on either side of a high canyon wall. Headquarter Comfortable A few hundred feet downstream, shaded by trees planted when the project was first started, is the superintendent's permanent head quarters, a comfortable appearing group of buildings. A small garden held orderly rows of vegetables, considerably advanced for the sea son, due to the shelter afforded by rocky canyon walls and the tower ing dam. A road up one side of the canyon led to the top of the 417-foot dam, and gave us our first view of the lake behind It, which contains 1,130,000 acre-feet of water. Leaving Inspection of the dam It self for later in the day, we decided to get started at once on the boat trip up the lake main feature of the day. "Red" Kraeger, diamond drilling expert, wild life enthusiast, crack marksman and pilot, Joined us to operate the boat. With a gentle breeze at our backs we pushed away from the landing float and headed south into what is literally a no-man's land, for no road or trail leads into It, and the only way to reach it, except by just hiking over the rocky ridges, is by boat. Only an occasional sheep herder ever wanders into those hills. This became increasingly evi dent as we began to encounter wild life of many varieties. Shoreline Ever Changing The shoreline presented an ever changing panorama of rocky cliffs, great sagebrush-covered bluffs and high-piled basalt columns. In places coloring was vivid, with red and orange hues predominating. When we stepped on shore to eat the lunch we had brought along, approximately 20 miles from the dam, we had been out about two hours, had seen no sign of humans or human habitation. A alight breeze blew against our faces as we started back toward the dam. "Red cocked an experienced weather eye at a few wisps of cloud and remarked It might be well to The motorlog car along the Owyhee river get going that breeze might blow up a wind. How right he waa! For about ten miles the home ward Journey was much like the outward one. More scenery, more wild life an antelope gazed at us curiously from the bank where he had been drinking, but loped quick ly over the crest of a hill when we tried to approach closely enough for a picture. The breeze beganto get stronger. The water began to get a little rough, and that little tin boat began to bob up and down on the waves. Then the waves began to curl over with little whltecaps that hissed as they broke. Wind Grew Stronger Minute by minute the wind grew to more nearly resemble a gale, the waves seemed more and more like ocean aurf. "Red" Kraeger skillfully steered a quarterly course, the mo tor throttled down to minimum speed. Every point the boat rounded and the lake meanders aimlessly among the hills brought increas ing fury to the wind, until the boat's motion seemed more up and down than forward, and1 until at least one member of the party was firmly convinced with each sicken ing rise, lurch and splash, that the next wave would swamp it. Finally even "Red" and Mr. Schlapkohl conceded there was little chance of getting the boat back to the dam, and decided we'd better make for shore and hike the rest of the way. Our battle against the wind had consumed nearly two hours more than we'd allowed for the boat trip; hence, our actual inspection of the dam itself was cut short Mr. Schlapkohl guided us to an elevator, larger than that usually encountered in department stores, pressed a button, and we began to descend into the interior of the dam. Owyhee was the first dam to have an elevator. Down . . . down . . . down . . . passing four "floors" until we finally came to a stop, 295 feet be low the top of the dam. With thou sands of tons of concrete around It, ana billions of gallons of cold water behind that, the year-round tem perature of that gallery would make it an excellent storage room for perishable produce. From one end of the dam to th other, and out to the north face, where surplus water the dam ia filled and "wasting" was spouting through the valves provided for that purpose, runs this cotridor. Similar ones traversed each of the other four levels. Gauges and instruments providing constant check on the dam's condi tion are located in these. Skipping a detailed explanation of these, it It evident that the government builds its dams to endure, then takes every possible step to maintain a constant check on their enduring qualities. neat h To Herder CONDON. Jun a. (AP) The tc- cidentfil rllachu-fie of a pistol while herding sheep killed William Ma lion, 13, of Lonerock. Monday. The bullet pteropd his heart. ASTOAlA. June 2. (TV-Mrs. J. W Merwin, Portland, suffered a frac tured collarbone nt Cannon Bench Monday In a fall from a motor scoot ?r. After treatment at the Seaside hospital, sho returned to her home. HAPPY HEALTHY L,CROWINO r'TUOCB. THEY DRINK UUH rUKC rllLN. I . ft I VU w a- a- DAIRY PHONE 1289-1 ORTCU THE DRIVER r--y ' DLGfJDED UniSKY , fI ' , ; 1 7ftc ,uu I 4 Ki I m y pint J 'v-viZ" 55$l i si.as sun quabt li 01 iivT.'.'S? IfiljNritl I aTwiii ii ilia v jm msw jf -.r jsla? r h m pi re I I a v v, hfdp ' ' ' oi Ciltilled oroin .ulra P"iti 7i WAGE-HOUR BILL COMMITTEE TOLD New Deal Aide Denies 'Any Parallels' Killer: Pro posal Meets Opposition WASHINGTON, June a. Rob- ert H. Jackson, assistant attorney general, assured a Joint congressional committee toaay the administration's proposed wage and bour bill was "dla tlnctly not an NRA or anything like an hha. When Jackson Unlshed his prepar ed statement, Representative Keller (D.-m.) suggested there might be written Into the bill a flat minimum wage to obtain until the admlnlstra tlon board had llxeo mlnlmuma for each section and Industry. jaexson agreed It would "take some time" to fix the various mlntmums, but said he believed the provision suggested by Keller would endanger constitutionality of the bill. The NBA was brought up by Sen ator HOlt (D.-w. va.) He asked If the bill didn't "do In a mandatory way wnet the NRA tried to do In a. voluntary way." I suppose we have tried to reach some of the same objectives aa NRA but I don't see any parallel In the workings," Jackson replied. He added that he was aware the bill was "popularly . called a new NRA." Chairman Black (D.-Ala.) of the senate labor committee Interposed. "you mean lt'a called a new NRA by those who don't want regulation of nours and wages." Black said he had voted against kka but nad introduced the pending bill In the senate. He pointed out that It would "give the government the right to control labor practices and would not delegate It to any group of employers as the NRA did." Jackson advised the committee that long established precedents were the basts for the bill. Except for Its child labor provision, he said, the bill was backed by pre vious definitions of federal power to regulate Interstate commerce. WARM DAYS SPEED IN STATE PORTLAND. June 3. (API Wrm westher following urjon a cool nerinrf speeded growth of Oregon crops In the past week, which saw extensive planting of corn, the n. ft. 4niLrt. ment of agriculture weather summary said today. Winter wheat In some eastern sec. tlons waa reported as spotted and suffering from dry westher, while the spring crop, although late, Is showing good growth. The set of cherries and prunes was described as "quite spotted" with peers and apples more promising. Spittle bugs were damaging straw berries. Pasture Improvement also brought about a steady gain In livestock condition. DE HALTS TAX VOTE WASHINGTON, June 3. (AP) A dispute among Democratic mem bers over such items ta gasoline and automobile levies blocked a vote In the house ways and means commit tee today on a measure to extend some (600,000.000 In "nuisance" taxes for two years. Representatives Dingell (D.. Mich.) and Disney (D Okla.) said they were planning attempt to elimi nate or reduoe levlea on automobiles and similar products and on gaso line and oils. i VAj .i ir.u v i- r ' i li" in H. i Quicker Kill Better Control at No Extra Cost GENERAL CHEMICAL COMPANY 343 Suiioma St, San Francisco 1031 S. 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