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11EDF0RD MAIL TRIBUTE. ArEDFOTtD. OREGON. THURSDAY, .TULY 23, 1933.
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WATER IS CARRIED
TO
T
Container Formerly Used by
CCC Spike Camp at Lit
tle Applegate Now Does
Duty for Forest Crews
BIG APPLEGATE. July S8 (Spl.)
Although fire lighters don't have
-2 many accommodations on their Joba.
T they do have a water supply on
wheels (or their camp 1( located In
an entirely waterless- region. A 500
gallon redwood tank Is tn possession
or the Rogue River national Jorest,
which Is mounted on a platform de
signed to lit a Chevrolet truck bed.
The tank has been ordered sent
from the Applegate to the Umpqua
national forest, where It waa feared
that fire would spread from the
Round Top region of the Evans Creek
' fire.
The container, not In use during
fire season, was taken from the form
er CCC spike camp et Little Apple
oate. where It waa used for the camp
water supply during encampment last
winter. The tank, designed and built
by the Rogue River national forest
several years ago, has a fauoet for
added convenience, and aftar being
filled with water from some distant
supply, the tank Is left on a true
until a new supply is neeaea.
Even though lookouts and firemen
are busy throughout the season, vis
itors always are welcome at their
A posts. Even giving mechanical asslst-
ance to motorists is a part of their
hospitality, as did John Harr at Perks
Pasture guard station for Mr. and Mrs
Leo Williams and family who had mo
tor trouble on their return to Yreka.
Mr. Williams also hiked a mile and
a half to Dutchman's Peak In his
search for help, and said he and his
family expected to return later In the
season. Otheer visitors at Perks were
Mr. and Mrs. C. R- Burton of Sacra
mento, who were guests of the let
ter's father, Alex Smith of Beaver
oreek. and Kenneth Knapp of Chevy
Chase, Md., who was en route to the
Blottlck mine on Wards Pork, where
be would be a guest of Henry and
. Joe Slottick. Mr. Burton reported good
luck and great sport In fishing in
Silver Pork.
Mrs. Ruth Cunnlngton and Douglaa
Bmlth of Medford were recent guests
of the former's brother-in-law and
sister, Mr. and Mrs Lawrence Kaiser
at Whiskey Peak.
Ashland visitors at Anderson Butte
lookout Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
George 8. Mason and daughter Marl
lee, and Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Powell.
Washington guest spending the week
end with Herbert Pennings st Wagner
r Butte were rda, Marie and Fred Merz
of yelm. They returned over the
coast highway. Picnlcers at Wagner
Gap Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. R. I.
Wllfley and daughter, Betty, of Med
ford. A minor change took place this
week on the Applegate fire staff. John
Byrne at Little Applegate guard sta
tlon, was moved to rallowbox look
out. All J. sandoz waa sent from
Tallowbox to Mt. Ashland to supplant
CCC men on duty there. The little
Applegate guard station will be
abandoned.
75? TRAFFIC
BY STATE COPS IN JUNE
SALEM. July 28. (P State police
arrested 757 persons for trsffle vio
lations during June with fines of
6.050. Charles P. Pray, superintend
ent of the state police department,
reported to Governor Charlea H. Mar
i tin today.
Arresta In the law enforcement dl
' vision aggregated 348 with fines of
(1 .368.55.
There were 118 arresta In the game
division and 34 arrests in the com
mercial fisheries unit. Pines in th?
game division aggregated e.2.710.
A total of 471 complaints were filed
with the department and 139 were
classified as cleared.
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His Dream
Angus h.
ASHLAND, July 38. Several years
ago Angus L. Bowmer. head of tho
drama department of the Southern
Oregon Normal school here, took a
look at Ashland j old Chautauqua
building. From that chance look
havo grown the Oregon Shakespearan
Festival and what Is believed to be
the only civic Elizabethan theater in
the world.
When Mr. Bowmer looked at the
old building workmen were busy tear
ing It down. It hod been condemned.
The top had been removed and with
the dome gone the building, Mr.
Bowmer reflected, strikingly resemb
led contemporary sketches of tho
Globe theater of Shakespeare's day.
Already Interested In Shakespearean
drama. Mr. Bowmer naturally visual
ized the structure as an Elizabethan
theater. With such a theater already
in existence, and practically In hU
backyard, he also naturally thought
of producing Shakespearean plays In
it. Thus was conceived the Idea of
the Shakespearean Festival,
Mr. Bowmer brought his reflections
to an abrupt end, emerging from an
Elizabethan reverie to become, a prac
tical business man. He went to lead
ing Ashland citizens and enlisted
their support for his undertaking.
Then he convinced the city council
of the practical value of a civic Eliz
abethan theater. The council got be
hind the plan and, with WPA flnanc
clal assistance, built an authentic
Elizabethan stage as the first unit of
the new theater.
Four years ago the first Shakes
pearean Festival was held. Two plays
were presented, The Merchant of Ven
ice and Twelfth Night, with side at
tractions such as fireworks and a car
nival as appropriate and characteris
tic adjuncts of Elizabethan festivals.
As Insurance against an anticipated
deficit from the theaterlcal venture,
boxing bouts were held In the after
noons on the stage Curiously enough
the prize fights went Into the red
and had to be paid for out of receipts
from the plays which more than cov
ered expenses.
Attendance at the second annual
festival doubled that of the first. Re
ceipts last year trebled those of the
second year. With an efficient or
ganization now handling business af
fairs, the festival this year is expected
to set a new record for attendance
The schedule this season has been
expanded to Include four plays In
eight productions. The festival will
open on August a with Hamlet, The
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Merchant of Venice. Twelfth Night
and The Taming of the Shrew will
follow on successive nights.
Mr. Bowmer has been Interested In
community dramatic work all his life.
He got his first smell of grease paint
at the age of four when he was cast
as Kermtt Roosevelt In a one-act play,
"Teddy Bear's Picnic." a travesty on
Theodore Roosevelt's big-game for
ays. After graduating from Belllngham
Normal school In Washington. Mr.
Bowmer taught In grade schools for
six years, always continuing hia work
In dramatics. Subsequently he re
ceived an M. A. degree in drama at
the University of Washington. It
waa there that he studied with B
Iden Payne, now director of the
Shakespearean theater in Stratford-on-Avon.
England. From Mr. Payne,
Mr. Bowmer learned to produce
Shakespeare's plays In the true Eliza
bethan manner.
Mr. Bowmer has now been head of
the Southern Oregon Normal school's
drama department for seven years,
director of the Shakespearean festival
since he conceived the idea of the
Elizabethan theater as he watched
workmen tearing down the old Chau
tauqua building.
Last year Mr. Bowmer studied
Shakespearean lore In England. He
studied contemporary portraits for
authentic details, such as halrdress.
Jewelry, costumes, designs, colors and
materials. He was assisted In his
studies by his wife who is art direc
tor of the Shakespearean Festival and
who majored in costume designing at
the University of Washington after
graduating from the Belllngham Nor
mal school.
The Shakespearean Festival Is not
Intended primarily to be cultural or
artistic, though it Is both, Mr, Bow
mer says. Primary purpose, he as
serts, is entertainment and he be
lieves that Shakespeare's plays are
entertaining. For proof of this he
points to recent popular successes of
Shakespearean productions on stage
and screen.'
"We produce our plays in the Eliz
abethan manner because we can more
closely attain the story-telling tempo
which was Shakespeare's Intent," Mr.
Bowmer says. "Our purpose Is not
academlo In any sense of the word
and our Ideal does not keep us from
using such modern conveniences as
we have at our disposal. We cling
to the architectural plan of the Eliz
abethan theater because, with Its
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many stages. It makes possible a
tempo' which Is astonishingly like
that of the modern movies,
campaWmeIds
OF TENNESSEE OEMS
HELD QUESTIONABLE
WASHINGTON. July 38 (AP, The
senate campaign expenditures com
mltteo said today "every scheme and
questionable device that can be used"
for raising funds and Influencing
vote appeared to be "In full swln?"
In the Tennessee Democratic primary.
After hearing a preliminary report
from an Investigator sent into that
state, the committee said In a state
ment conditions there polned "sharp
ly toward an election contest In the
United States senate regardless of
which group's candidate triumphs."
The committee also disclosed It had
asked the postofflce department to
investigate what It termed misuse of
the franking privilege by the farm
security administration on behalf of
former Oovernor Berry In his success
ful candidacy for the Democratic
senatorial nomination in South Da
kota. The committee sent Postmaster
General Farley a copy of a FSA press
release referring to work done by
Berry In 1938 when he was governor.
"These franked letters contained
what your committee believes Is a
veiled If not a direct effort to Influ
ence votes In behalf of a candidate
for public office in South Dakota,"
the committee told Farley.
Concerning Tennessee, Chairman
Sheppard (D-Texas( said the com
mittee hoped to send at least six ad
ditional Investigators Into that state
at once.
WASHINGTON. July 28. () A
television telephone designed to make
It possible tq see a person while talk
ing to him waa patented today by
Alexander McLean Nicolson of New
York.
Nicolson said the system was pri
marily for Inter-office communica
tion In a single building. He sug
gested It use also for long-range
radto-televlslon communication.
The bell-shaped horn, resembling
the early types of phonograph and
radio loud speakers, contains tele
vision scanning devices for both
sending and receiving, as well as a
radio microphone and loudspeaker.
Present television systems, now be
ing used experimentally In a few
large cities In various countries, are
one-way methods of transmitting
sound and moving images.
STATE TROOPERS WILL
ATTEND CLATSOP CLASS
SALEM, July 28. iTP) More than I
150 stat troopers, from every part of
Oregon, will gather at Cnmp Clatsop :
during August for the annual state !
police school of Inspection.
The school will begin August 1 and
will continue until September 1 :
Charles P. , Pray, superintendent of
stat police, indicated that he would !
spend considerable time at the school.
Pray said the school would be
divided Into three periods with one
third of the entire department per
sonnel In attendance at one time.
This will be the fourth year that
the school has been conducted.
PINE PULP PIONEER.
AMSWERS LAST CALL
SAVANNAH. Ga., July 28. (Jp) Dr.
Charles H. Herty. 71-year-old chem
ist who pioneered In the development
of paper pulp from southern pine
trees, died today.
Success of the scientist In the
making of newsprint from slaxh plno
was widely heralded.
Dr. Herty reported even with the
vast Investment of capital required
for manufacturing plants, newsprint
could be produced from southern for
est much cheaper than the Im
ported paper.
Oae Mall Tribune Want Ada
MEXICO SEEKS
TO
LAB0R0NWARD
Bid For Leadership Is Seen
In South American Move
mentCardenas States
Economic Philosophy,
By William H. Lander
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
MEXICO, D. F. (UP) Revolution
ary re-organizatlon of Mexico indus
trially and agriculturally has been
proposed by President Laaaro Car
denas, simultaneously with the in
itiation of a movement to lead other
countries of America toward their
"economic liberation."
In a series of speeches made In
his recent tour of San Louis potosl.
Tampico, Tux pan and other points
In the oil fields of east-central Mex
ico, Cardenas enunciated a new eco
nomic philosophy for his own peo
ple, and made a bit for the leader
ship of a labor movement through
out what the Mexicans cafl "Indlo-
La tin-American.
Labor leaders have seconded his
proposals, and have urged that Ven
ezuela follow Mexico's example in
confiscating foreign oil companies
and their properties. Furthermore,
Vicente Lorn bard o Toledano, secretary-general
of the C.TJvl. (Confed-
eraclon de Trabajadores do Mexico)
Mexican Confederation of Laborers)
In his recent tour of Europe and
the United States did not waste any
opportunity to denounce the govern
ments of Peru and Brazil as "reac
tionary." Policy Undergoes Change .
As late as his New Year's day
speech of 1938, Cardenas sought to
create the Impression that the Mex
ican expropriation law of Nov. as,
1938, "was In no way confiscatory,"
while he also affirmed that his ad
ministration welcomed the coming of
foreign capital Into Mexico.
"It Is pertinent to insist." the
president said on January 1, "that
the government Is not an enemy of
foreign capital, nor of the productive
Investment . . . which foreigners
make in our territory."
The tone of the official speeches
and decrees In the "Official Daily,"
however, has changed considerably
since the foreign oil controversy, and
later, since Mexico has found that
it It not an easy matter to find
Important foreign markets for its ex
propriated oil.
Cardenas' original program for the
jisirS
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development of Mexico counted on
capital's co-operation. The essence of
his new prcgram for the economic
vltallzatlon of the republic, however,
counts neither upon the participation
of foreign nor Mexican capital,
Three-Point Program
Labor has been urged to achieve
the development of Mexico into a
great and rich country by Itself,
under its own management, princi
pally in three ways:
1. pooling Its savings to form labor
co-operatives, which will stimulate
the construction of railways, irriga
tion works, development of mining
(especially as related to Iron), build
hydro-electric plants, textile mills,
and utilize the natural gas which is
now being wasted in the oil fields.
3. Besides the fapltal obtained
from savings, this Industrialization
program Is to go farward by creating
capital out of extra work, or, as Car
denas put It, through "doing some
thing more creative and more decis
ive; doubling our efforts to increase
production in the fields aund in In
dustry." 3. Besides Increasing the produc
tion in Mexico's agricultural fields
notorious for the low yield com
pared to that of other countries
Cardenas has urged the workers In
the oil fields to dedicate their spare
time to agriculture and cat tie-raising.
He explained that the oil business
Is highly speculative, and It la more
secure to raise bananas or cattle
to create sources of lasting wealth.
But the socialization program of
Mexico la not meant for Mexicans
only. Already Cardenas, in a special
broadcast to left-wing elements of
Havana, has Invited Cuba to Join
the Aztec republic in a Jolnt-defenso
"Rgalnst all possibility of economic,
moral or political Imperialism . .
in order thus to contribute to the
liberation of our racial brothers. . , .
let us stimulate a strong, free un
ion, based 'on the solidarity of all
workers."
ANNOOlElST SALE
OF
PORTLAND, July 38. (Pi Project
Administrator J. D. Ross announced
today the Northwestern Electric com
pany had made the first purchase
of Bonneville dam electrical energy
by private interests.
The company's four-month con
tract called for ,6,000 kilowatts. The.
firm will pay the regular $17.50 pnr
kilowatt year rate for 3,600 kilowatt
and the secondary power rate of
911.50 for the remalndez.
The energy will be delivered to
the Northwestern'! flfl.OOO-volt line
on the Washington side of the Co
lumbia river and passed on to the
Portland General Electric and .the
Paclfio Power and Light systems.
T G O'M
FRANCE STARTS
I FOR GOLD
By Hurt, speck
(United Press staff Correspondent)
PARIS (UP) France It going to
making a great effort to become one
of the world's gold producing coun
tries. By a decree 300.000.6oo franoa (ap
proximately S3. 000,000) has been set
aside for prospecting the mineral
resources of the French colonies and
to Improve the gold producing meth
ods now In use where the precious
metal is to be found.
Although France is by no means
one of the leading gold producing
countries It is not among the first
13 producing countries and the total
production In 103 only amounted
to seven tons, tt Is hoped that with
the funds now available this amount
can be doubled or even tripled In
the shortest posses time.
French West African possession,
now produce the largest amount of
gold for France and Its colonies, with
the annual output amounting to
almost three and a half tons; two
nnd a half come from Oulnea while
Madagascar' and French Equatorial
Africa furnish around three quarters
of a ton yearly. Only about 600
pounds are mined in Indo-Chlna.
The first real tangible effort to
Increase the country's gold, produc
tion was made In 1934 when a move
ment was started to step up the out
put. In 1937 a project allowing
Oulnea a credit of 80.000.000 francs
waa framed but never passed and
early this year a colonial mine bur
eau waa set up. Its duty was to aid
In prospecting while Its expenses were
to be paid from a tax on the metal
mined. A portion of the present 100..
000.000 franca will be turned over
to this bureau, while the remainder
will be used to Improve methods now
used to mine the metal.
According to the terms of the de
cree law which provides the funds
the money is destined to:
Finance explorations and prospect
ing: Intensify the exploiting of dif
ferent strata: carry out the work nec
essary to exploit the zones already
prospected such as constructing
roads, etc., and where necessary make
sanitary Improvements; improve
housing conditions and assure that
the workers are protected from the
many tropical diseases to which they
are exposed.
All of this will be under the di
rect supervision of the minister of
colonies who will be assisted by the
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WASHINGTON, July HMIHtll
bureau of agricultural economic estl-
mated today the 1D38 lamb crop at
o'l.vai.ooo nead. tne largest on record.
The bureau ssld the crop waa about
S percent larger than last year and
about 9.000,000 head, or nearly 7 pet
cent, greater than the average for
the last five years. The previous
record crop was 31,816.000 in 1931.
Western sheep states, the bureau
aald, contributed most of the In
crease over last eyar. The crop la
these states waa estimated at Jl.
193.000 head, or 9 percent larger
than last year, and the largest on
record for the region.
The bureau aald weather and feed
condltlona In the western sheep state
during the 1938 lambing season wen.
on the whole, the most favorable la
recent years. The death losses of
breeding ewes since the first of the
year were said to have been relatlvly
small.
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