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arEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. fEDFORP, OREflOy, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1,' 1937 PAOE THREE AS TALLEST CORN DBS MOINES, I, July 31. (AP low' reputation the state of the tallest corn remained Intact tonight. Wisconsin, the challenger, didn't come within peering distance of the top of the Hawkeye sample. Even the Badger state's governor, Philip La Pollette, acknowledged to his host and rival. Gov. Nelson Q. Kraschel. that "you have us backed off the map when It comes to corn." Iowa's entry In the corn tourna ment was a stalk measuring 16 feet. Inches. Wlscondn's measures but 18 feet. 1H Inches. Thus, Governor Kraschel was spar ed the necessity of buying Governor La Pollette the dinner he wagered. The judging was done at noon on the oapltol steps which had been transformed Into a cornfield, soil and all, with an adjoining patch of oats and two prize pigs rooting In the lawn. Iowa's winning stalk came from the farm of Isaac Ogden near Enla, Iowa. Ogden said the corn was planted May 8 and grew in an old orchard patch first planted to corn last year. "I'm a little bit overawed by these tall corn stalks,' La Pollette admit ted. "This one looks tllke the Washing ton monument to me, he said, Indi cating the champion. LAST RITES FOR OF Episcopalian services will be held in the Siskiyou Memorial pari! at 11 oftclock Monday morning for Daniel C. White, 37, LaXevtew truck driver who was killed Instantly early Fri day morning when hla car left crater - Lake highway and crashed Into a tree four miles north of Prospect. Coroner Frank Perl made contact late Friday with the youth's step father. Albert McKmore of Hayward. Calif. Mr. McLemore wrote to the coroner yesterday asking that the fu neral be held here. The youth's moth er, he Informed Mr. Perl. Is serious ly 111 In a hospital. Perl funeral home will have charge of the funeral. . DETROIT. July 81. n Charges that Dearborn police "stood passively oy- during a riot near the Ford Mo. tor company May 26 formed the basis tonight for third official inquiry Into the beating of nearly a score of union members. Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Ud dy asked the safety commission of suburban Dearborn, where the Ford company employes nearly 90.000 men, to discipline or remove five policemen and a police matron for "wilful neg lect of duty." 50 VESSELS COLLIDE CARACAS, Venezuela, July 31. (AP) Fifty persons were reported dead or missing In first unconfirmed reports today following a collision between the seamers Blenvenldo and Veracity near La Pastors at the mouth of the river Orinoco. - The reports said the Blenvenldo was sunk snd the other vessel badly damaged. Ask Edwin Ray ment To Contact Police City police yesterday asked help In locating Edwin or Edward Rayment. who Is believed to have a small tract of land a short distance north of Medford. A letter was received from Port land containing the Information that Mr. Rayment's fther had died, and asking the local police to notify -the son. Mr. Rayment la asked to contact city police. Vodka, a Russisn distilled, liquor. Is known In some parts of Amerlcs se "Forty Rod." A Pleasant Stop over on the Trip to San Francisco Cro the Bridges Dunn: DsjUfhtl HOTEL WOODLAND WOODLAND, CALIF. New, fireproof building od D. Highway 9D-V? 80 ROOMS 80 BATHS RATES FROM $2 00 COFFEE HOP BOOM SERVICE - TAVERN OFFICIAL AAA HOTEL COOL IN SUMMER WARM CM WINTER Dare H. Chamber. Proprietor Smart for Fall This swagger topcoat Is the key stone of the wardrobe for somewhat limited Incomes. Worn with the smart fall traveler felt hat It carries plenty of swank, without too much cost. The trim double-breasted, one button effect is enhanced by the at tached ascot tie-over. This, and hun dreds of other mil fashions, will be shown next week In Oakland when the annual fall market week and fashion show opens. Hundreds or western retail style authorities are expected to visit Oakland, August 2-4, when the annual affair U to be held. TY IS HELD FUTILE WASHINGTON , July 31. (TV-Senator Lewis (D.-IU.) said today the United States could be at war with China or Japan, or both "within an hour," if It compiled with demands for immediate enforcement of the neutrality law. Discussing the administration's pol icy with regard to the Asiatic crisis, Lewis told the senate: Those who are demanding that the United States enforce Its neutrality law at once fail to see that the mo- ment we announce either one of the nations as the aggressor and declare both as being at war, our ships of trade delivering American goods In the Orient would at once be seized by either China or Japan, or both, as bringing supplies to the enemy. "The American citizens would be seized and Imprisoned, and then It is that America must go to the res cue of her people and her property, and this she must do by her Amer ican navy, and America becomes at once involved In the war of China and Japan." Pulp Mill Merger. Pr.RTT.ANn .Tulv 91 ISA A 70.000,000 merger of the Rainier Piiln anri Prr mmniinv flrnv Har bor Pulp and Paper company and the uiympia Forest rroaucts company is a poE-KiDiiuy, ino uregonmn saia vo day. WE MUST UNLOAD ALL NEW 1937 HOME 9 oJ OFF 1 7-Tube Console .... $69.50 2 6-Tube Table . . ... . 49.95 2 6-Tube Table ....... 42.00 2 5-Tube Table Used LEWIS SUPER SERVICE STATION 8th and Front. WE NEVER CLOSE. Phone 1300 BOND SALES NET LARGE PROFIT TO PWA SAYS 1CKES WASHINGTON. July 81. WV Sec retary Ickes said todsy the govern ment profited sll.3--.38fi through the sals of bonds accepted as security for public works administration loans to munlclpsmles. The ' new high" In bond sale prof its. Ickes said, resulted largely from contract for sale of remaining bonds of the trl-borough bridge au thority to Dillon, Read and company. New York City, He listed the govern ment's profit at 1840.000 on the pur chase of $38,000,000 worth of bonds at 103. The Reconstruction corporation. which has served as a sales sgent tor PWA in marketing the bonds, now holds only $87,75.590 worth of bonds delivered to It by WPA. Ickes said PWA had made an aver age profit of about 827.80 per thous and on the sale of municipal bonds, which were accepted at par when the securities "were going begging .on the open market." Through July 37. J937. tne pwa had accepted 8843.580.908 In muni cipal bonds. Bonds with a par value of 8499.813,900 had been placed with the RFC, and PWA had retired.' sold of leaving bonds on hand with a par value of $138,082,743. RELIEFERS FIGHT PORTLAND. Ore.. July 31. (API Sixty WPA workers .labor union rep resentatives and citizens met here Isst night to draft a plan to stop the discharge of workers from rolls and obtain the reinstatement of those thus far released. Claiming administrative plans call for the discharge of 1100 workers, the group elected a committee with full power to make protests to adminis trative officials and take sueb action ss It sees fit. WALLY AND EDDIE VISIT IN VENICE VENICE. July 31. (Ft Th Duw and Duchess of Windsor were lunch eon guests of the Duke -of Genoa, cousin of King Vlttorlo Emanuele, today. The Windsors will attend Bn out door performance of Romeo and Juliet tonight. C..O. Leader Denied Admission To U.S.A. VANCOUVER, B.C., July 31. W) Pres. Harold Prltchett of the Inter national Woodworkers of America said he had been refused admission to the United States and that his ap plication for citizenship has been denied. Refusal to renew his visa wss made on the grounds he mlgnt become a public charge of the state, he said. t Chemical analyses ' have shown dried bodies of grasshoppers hare a high protein content. New $52.10 37.45 31.50 29.95 22.45 We have several Sets at S5& $10 LOCAL and Here on Bu sines H. E. Green wood of Seattle, Wash., transacted business here yesterday for the Na tional Res.rve Insurance company for which he Is a special gent. Meeting Tuesday Southern Oregon Oem and Mineral society will hold a regular aeml-monthly meeting in the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce at 7:30 Tuesday evening. Apricot Gift Mall Tribune staff was yesterday in receipt of a box of apricots, a compliment from the Tcs s i tore orchards in Eagle Point, whlcn are reputed to produce smong the finest fruit In southern Oregon. The staff declared the gift apricots men sured up to the excellent reputation of the orchards. Back from Camp Charles Over myer and Ted Taylor returned by motorcar Priday night from the citi zens military training camp held dur ing July at Vancouver Barracks, Wash. Other Jackson county youths attending the camp had also left for home. They all qualified in the rifle and pistol firing and participated n a night sham battle with regulars that entailed a 7Vg-mlle march. Over- myer said. He described the camp as one of the best ever held. when burned 'VP SB SSSB These are "all new 1937 models purchased at 1936 prices. We protect way. ORDER now and save $10 to $15 per heater! UNW- . r.nV ou TO SUIT 212 West Main PERSONAL At Summer School Oladys Bene is attending classes in English at the summer session at Mills college, Cali fornia. Visiting parents MLsa Olive Gard ner returned to Medford Wednesday from Sacramento to visit her parents. Mr. snd Mrs. George Gardner cf Kings highway. Mlsa Gardner spent the past three months visiting in Los Antceles. Lake Tahoe, San Pranclaco. Santa Cruz and other California cities. She plans to return this week to Sacramento where she will be em ployed for the remainder of the year. On Sonora Project Warren H. Conrad of 632 Palm street is now engaged on a blister rust control project In California, his headquar ters being In Sonora. He la serving under Roy Blomstrom. supervisor of blister rust operations on the Stanis laus national forest. Before being assigned to duty at. Sonora, Conrad was employed In blister rust control In this district, having been foreman of Mutr Creek camp In 1035 and f Bear camp in 1036. Known popu larly as Connie, he was a football star at Medford high school. Later he studied and played football at J Southern Oregon Normal school in Asnisna. in a Spark Oil you against price rises while the stock lasts "17 v,eat ujM "K. . M - W ssfmsssa, I I W JWxXasWlLlt. " fc. BssT TERMS YOUR PURSE! PEOPLES FXECTRIC STOR On Vacation Mrs. Myrtle Blakeley, secretary of the Mall Tribune, left last evening by motorcar for Eugene where she will spend a fortnight's vacation with her sister, Mrs. Nina Colvlg. To Lake Resort Max Pelrce went to Lake of the Woods yesterday to spend the week-end with Mrs. Pelrce and their son who are vacationing there. Mr, Pelrce was flown to the resort by Thomas A Culbertson In his Waco plane. Airport Arrivals Yesterday's ar rivals at Medford municipal airport Included Lieut. W. W. Lazarus of Moftatt fWd, Suni.yvale, Cal., who was en route in a Douglas attack plane to Port Lewis, Wash.. Lieut. H. A. Reynolds, making a tught from Pearson field, Vancouver, Wash., - to Medford and return In a North Amer ican basic trainer, Lieut, p. W- Broii son of Hamilton field. San Rafael. Cal., en route to Pearson field in Douglas observation; and Jack Bellly. piloting a Stlnson cabin plane owned by the Trans-Pacific Lumber com pany of Port Orford. Bellly brought from Port Orford P Veltch, who left here on the United Malnllner at 10:56 a. m. for Oakland. Cel., whence he was to continue to hla home In Berk eley. Bellly flew back to Port Or ford P. W. Gorman, company execu tive, who arrived on a United Maln llner at 12:44 p. m. from San Prati-clsco. w Heater equipped with an H. C. A LARGE OILSS HEATER in this USE? MI - "" - We Offer A LIBERAL ALLOWANCE FOR YOUR OLD HEATER! Atlantic Clipper Lands. SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 31. OP) The Pan-American Clipper III landed here at 4:60 p. m. (10:50 a. nv, GRAIN STORAGE 323 N. Front BONDED WAREHOUSE LOW INSURANCE RATES Negotiable Storage Receipts Bee us now for grain storage space in our new concrete warehouse. Our storage warehouse is dry and clean and rates rea sonable. A new 20-ton truck scale has been installed for quick and dependable service. Let us haul your grain for you direct from the field to our storage. GRAIN SACKS -. 5c and Vrt each All very good qaulity sacks for Wheat, Barley and Oats. See us before you buy F. E. SAMSON CO. SEEDS FEEDS FERTILIZER 229 N. Riverside SHIPMENT OF mm PATENTED ...to I a.T.i o- A mei"w W ' .we. E-S T.) from Poynes, Irish Free State, which she reached yesterday to com plete her second North Atlantle cross ing from Bo t wood, Newfoundland. Little Burner .s toot VT" wis " v SPARK HEATERS For as Little as $ Delivered Phone 252 050 six:
