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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.
Sheriff Coleman said McCall bore
generally a goon reputation in rnn
ceton and Sheriff Frank Hancock of
Jasper, Fla., his blrthploce, described
the suspect as a boy who some-
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tlmea got Into mlachlef. but never
Into ny real trouble."
Several peraobi bad been brougnt
to FBI headquarters tor questioning
and later released. Among them were
M. F. Braxton, unemployed Prince
ton carpenter, hta son. Jamta, and
his son-in-law. Ray Rayburn.
Second Recent Kimiap.
The "break" In the casa came a
few hours alter the house In Wash
ington had voted unanimously to
appropriate 50.000 to finance the
FBI Investigation at the request of
President Roosevelt.
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.
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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
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mitter or the receiver. .
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Installed In an ordinary automobile
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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.
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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."
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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.
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S. L. Divine of the First Presbyterian
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Beautious Eleanor
LOS ANGELES, June 9. (AP)
Arthur L. Jarrett, singing orchestra
leader, today obtained a divorce
from beautious Eleanor Holm, one
time Olympic swimmer.
All this talk of a romance between
Eleanor and Billy Rose, theatrics,'
producer, caused Jarrett "great men
tal anguish and embarrassment," he
testified In so mnny words at the
hearing. Judge Charles. E, Hsnr
granted him the decree.
And thus was removed one of the
bars to the marriage of Miss Holi
and the diminutive Rose.
Cat Nurses Coyotes
McFADDEN, Wyo. (AP) MrP
Tven Corder of McFadden la raisin
a strange family of pets. Her whit
Persian cat. Snowball, has adopts.
four tiny coyotes found In a den
The cat had Just had kittens, which
were taken from her, and she began
nursing the younrf coyotes.
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