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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON". TTEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1937.
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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
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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.
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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.
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