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MEDFCVRT) MAIL TKTBTTNTE. rEDTOTtD. OREGON1. TTTTTftSDAY, .TTTXE f), 1938. PAGE THREE IS GETTING CLOSE TO PAW DATE Repayment Of Advances Be gins In 1940 For Matan uska Colonists Their Value In Defense Cited. By Preston Groyer WASHINGTON. If the govern ment should aay that after October there would be no moio relief money for anybody, It would m somewhat comparable to what has been done for Harry Hopkins' northern outpost, the Matanuska test-tube pioneer project In Alaska. This most dramatic 6f all reltef projects has come to the Jumplng off place, and families which during the last two years have received as much as $75 a month for clearing their farms will get nothing after their fall harvest Is In. Jack London and other writers have painted Alaska as a land of perpetual snow and snarling male mutes. Probably there was not a handful of people In all the United States who ever knew that they raise carrots, pigs and peas up there. Mat anuska has at least demonstrated that Alaskan farming la a possibility It was two years ago that the re lief administration took the country by surprise and rounded up about 200 families from stranded farming and lumbering communities in Mich igan, Minnesota. Montana and other northern belt states to cart them off to Alaska. Taking them off to Siberia was the accusation at times voiced by critics, but after a few sensational desertions and complaints, news about the pioneer project petered out until the present order was Issued putting them on their own For "National Defense" Under the contract with the 200 families taken to Matanuska Id 1835, each was to have 40 acres of land, farming equipment, houses and a grub stake to last until cash crops could be raised. They earned their grub stake by clearing 15 acres of their own land, for which the government paid them $62.50 an acre. An energetic Swede could clear ott about two acres a month that Is, cut the trees and burn the brush. The government paid contractors to remove the stumps. Of the money he earned, each farmer was allowed a maximum of $75 a month and the rest was kept for him as a nest egg when the gov ernment should cut off the money. Some earned additional money build ing roads. All In ell, the government has 'put $5,000,000 Into the project At present only 170 families are on the site and If they had to pay off the entire five million they would fold at once. But the government has wlnkec' off about four of every, five dollars It has Invested there, justifying t-.c experiment on several grounds. First it Is called a national defense Job If the Japanese should move In on us, the argument goes, Alaska would starve to death unless It had some local source of food. Matanuska strategists explain, Is a starter. Sec ond, It demonstrates farming possi bility which may In time prove an outlet for more destitute popula tions. There It Is Such U the demand In Alaskan mining and fishing camps for Mat anuska'a dairy and farm crops that the .colonists get about $40 an acre In return each year. Besides that, they are In a Valhalla of natural food. Moose can be had frequently. Small game Is plentiful. Salmon swim up nearby streams and the colonists can catch and pack a winter's supply In no time. Nat ural berries are abundant. And the weather, believe It or not, Is describ ed by Impartial reporters as less se vere than Minnesota's. Just what will happen when the government demands Its pay for what It has laid out Is something for speculation. WPA officials pro fess not to worry. But beginning in 1940 the farmers must begin paying back an average of $5,000 a farm That will repay the government only $850,000 of Its five million outlay But the colonists claim they are as valuable for Alaskan defense as a destroyer, and a destroyer costs five million. FOUR SENTENCED ON AUTO COUNTS James Ashby, charged May 7 with driving while Intoxicated, changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. In Justice of the peace court yester day, and was sentenced to 30 days In the county Jail, fined $100 and costs, and his driver's license revoked for a year. Upon payment of the fine and costs, the Jail sentence was suspend ed because Ashby requires hospital treatment. A day or so after the charge was filed, Ashby Injured his foot and has been In the hospital since. Dewey R. Hondrlckson and Melford M. Hood, truck drivers, of Gold Hill, were each assessed $10 and costs for overloading a truck. They were en gaged In hauling cement from the Gold Hill cement plant. John G. Pierce, of Central Point was assessed $1 and costs for having a defective muffler on his car. San Francisco Butter , SAN FRANCISCO, June 9. (AP) B utter unchanged. SACRAMENTO. June 9. (AP) Churning cream butterfat: First grade, 26s; second grade, 25c, To Take Lake Land PORTLAND, Ore.June 9. (AP) Allan Hart, assistant United States district attorney, filed action In fed eral court yesterday to condemn for the government 340 acres of land In Lake county. The section would be included In the Hart Mounatin ref uge. The defendants were Ben Daly heirs. MAN IN CUSTODY LEADS OFFICERS TO HIDING PLACE (Continued from Page one.) special grand Jury to convene Mon day morning. Hidden In Thicket Sheriff D. C. Coleman said McCall. without any show of emotion, led Hoover, himself, and a equad of agents to the dense thicket where the dead boy had been left, without an effort at burial. Little remained but the skeleton and fragments of the pajamas the flvo-year-old tow head wore when he was seized from his bed May 28. "The body of the boy was found a little less than a mile southeast of the cash home. The ransom money waa discovered about 200 yards east of the body. When it was explained what con dition the body was in the boy's father decided not to look at It. Friends of the family said they planned an early, private funeral. It was McCall, who called Cash's attention to the tnlrd ransom note two nights after the abduction, say ing he found It on the floor of Cash's apartment and that the kid naper apparently had slipped It under the door. Arrested June 1 Sheriff Coleman, Busplclous be cause the note had been wadded into a ball, arrested McCall June 1. After questioning he was released, with G-men shadowing him. The following day he Joined the volunteer possemen hunting for clues over the very ground where the body and the ransom were hidden. That night au thorities picked him up again and he has been held over since in a detention cell at the FBI office atop a downtown skyscraper. There he could be protected from violence, but Princeton received the news the case had been "broken" without any great stir. McCall's wife had left town and her whereabouts was not disclosed. In addition to recovering the ran som, the authorities also found the shocbox in which Cash delivered the 1500 bills of small denomination. It had been torn to pieces and hidden beneath a stone In a palmetto clump. Played Lone Hand. The locations of the body, the ransom and the shoebox Indicated the locale of the entire crime never ranged farther than two miles from the Cash home. Tills circumstance apparently strengthened authorities tn their belief McCall carried It out by himself. He did not own an automobile. Worley took charge of the prose cution as Hoover Indicated no federal law apparently had been violated and the kidnaper should be tried In the state courts. Whether he Is charged with murder or kidnaping for ransom, he would face a possible death sentence upon conviction. 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Discovery of the Cash boy's body came exactly 10 days after the head less torso of kidnaped Peter Levlne. washed up on the rocky snore of Long Island sound, not far from New Rochelle. N. Y. The 12-ycar-old son of Murray Levlne. New York attorney, had dis appeared February 34 on his way home from school. Subsequently his father received ransom notes, the first of which demanded 60.000. The father attempted unsuccessfully to negotiate with the abductors, and publicly offered to pay 30.000 for his son's return. James Mlzell, attendant at the Cash filling station, said McCall ac companied Cash and others to the home of a negro where a ransom note was found the night of the kidnaping and was a member of va rious searching parties looking for the body. Aided In Hunt. ' "We met McCall as we approached the home of Asbury Cnsh, where the first ransom note was found, as we were orr our way to John Emanuel's home." Mlzell said. "He was walking and' carrying a large flashlight, which he used to wave down the enr of Ishmael Cash, which was Just ahead of the one In which the boy's father and I were riding. He got in with Ishmael and went on to the place where the note was found. "I wasn't with him any moro that night, but I saw him In the crowd around tho Cash homo several times and I know he went around with the searchers for tho body. "He did not seem nervous when I last saw him." 'Mlzell said McCall rented Cash's rear apartment lost winter, moving out In April. Mrs. F. P. McCall, mother of the man held, declined to comment on the arrest of her son. She remained secluded at the homo of a daughter. Mrs. C. T. Shepherd, In St. Augus tine. Mrs. Shepherd said her mother re ceived first word of McCall's arrest through an early morning broadcast. "We simply don't know what to think of It," she said. 15 ' i! I MINER 'FISHES' GOLD NOME, Alaska (AP) An enter prising operator has "fished" suc cessfully for gold through holes chopped In thick Ice of the Bering scar. Howard Lyng, former legislator and member of the territorial wel fare board, told how Joe Sullivan old tlmo miner, conducted the firs; productive venture In extracting gold from Bering sea sands. The mining Innovation was under taken 1,000 feet from the beach through-a large hole cut In the Ice near Bluff, 62 miles down the coast from Nome. Dirt was hauled from the ocean bed In a three and a half foot bucket, "high-lined" to the beach and dumped. After SO days' work the dump was "Blulced" and Lyng sold. Sullivan brought $200,000 In gold Into Nome. Sullivan Is repeating the opera tion, and others are expected to try the same system. IS LATEST AID IN FOREST FIRE WAR PORTLAND (Spl) ''Calling all rangers" may sooa become a familiar radio summon In fire-threatened forests, states A. O. 81m son, radio engineer for the U. S. forest service. Slmson announced a new radio mobile unit recently perfected for use In mngervs' automobiles, fire trucks and other moving vehicles attached to the fire fighting army. This radio equipment Is designed to operate on a frequency channel especially allocated to the forest ser vice for fire protection use. Slmson, recently returned from a loop trip covering several western states, waa able to demonstrate from a moving car the efficiency of the new device under favorable as well as unfavorable conditions. Under favorable conditions he contacted forest service stations as far distant as 400 or 600 miles. Conservatively, the mobile Instrument has a send ing and receiving range of 35 miles.' Slmson said. Its extraordinary performance, which Slmson considers a real tri umph for the forest radio labora tory (national headquarters of for est service radio development) la : mode possible by a special matching unit at the base of tho "fish polo" antenna, which Insures the maxi mum transfer of power from trans mitter to antenna and conversely from antenna to receiver. The unit is equally effective at the trans mitter or the receiver. . The tiny Instrument requiring eight watts of power (obtained from the automobile batteries) uses a sixty-cent fish pole for Its antenna. The complete transmitter Is easily Installed In an ordinary automobile requiring space about eight Inches square and a foot long. It Is seen that the new radio unit may become extremely valuable In fire control work; for example, In sending messages to trucks headed for a forest fire or In receiving mes sages from rangers or other fire con trol officials traveling forest roods during critical fire conditions. Qunrry Dooms Castle LONDON (AP) Demolition of Belmont Castle, near Grays, Essex so chalk beneath the castle .an be quarried, la removing n famous Thames-sldo landmark. The castle was built In 1700 by Zacharlah But ton, high sheriff of Essex. . There are no Jury trials tn China. In the lower courts, all powers are vested In a single Judge. In the case of appeal to the high court, three Judges render the final decision. t. ii - 8 ... ,r'!C "Mti ' X!, M S i 4 ;, r J IV h X " it , DOMINATING $5,000.. 000 Empire exposition at Glas gow, Scotland, just opened for mally by King George and Scotch-born Queen Elizabeth is above floodlit einpiro tower. OV Diz Due For Longer Vacation CHICAGO, June 0. (AP) The (186,000 right arm of Dizzy Dean, of no use to the Cubs since May 3, Is to be rested again, this tlmo indefi nitely. Charlie Grimm, manager of the Cubbs, announced today that Dean, who has been graduatlly condition ing his arm now for five weeks, will not pitch In any of the games dur ing the Cubs home week, which con cludes on Sunday. 'Dean, after warming up yester day for relief pitching tjuty, reported to Grimm that his arm was tired and ached. "All we can do," said Grimm, "is give hlVn more rest." . The principal products of A tank a are berries, coal, copper, fish, gold lead, reindeer, sealskins, silver and vegetables. IN VIRTUAL FREEDOM PORTLAND, June 9, (AP) En forcement records of the state liquor control commission showed today that while some cities had fewer violations than others no community could be singled out as a model. The comment was made by the enforcement division after the com mission said Ashland had been "vir tually free" of Infractions. Neither could any community be presented as a "bad example." Out side of Portland, where beer and wine licenses were most abundant. cities In logging and other Industrial areas were about equal In the num ber of violations. The commission amended Its regu lations to provide that outdoor adver tising by billboards and signs would be permitted only when it was not prohibited by local ordinance. Action taken Included: Licenses granted Mr. and Mrs. Hannlbnl A. Swab, Evergreen Auto court. Gold Hill, beer class O; A. C. Nlnlnger, Nlnlnger'a store, Ashland, restaurant license; Peter Negleas, long Side Inn, Talent, beer class O. Susan Butler Rites Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for Susan Franew Butler, who passed away at the fam ily home in . Eagle Point yesterday, will be conducted from the Perl Funeral Home Saturday at 3 p. m S. L. Divine of the First Presbyterian church officiating. Interment will take place In the family plot la the Ashland cemetery. Astrology PROF. M. ZARK0FF Let me tell you what the stars say about you. 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