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Mail Tribune, Scout Cubs to Sponsor Midget Speeder Derby August 19
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YOUNGSTERS WILL
BUILD RACERS
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VIE FOR PRIZES
Wright Is Chairman Hul
Contact Man Regula
tions Announced Select
Race Course Later.
Armed with hammers and saws
and with boxes and wheels from
wagons and discarded baby car
riages, Medford youngsters will con
struct midget Speeders or every ae
scrlptlon to compete In the big
Tribune-Scout Cubs derby here Au
gust 19. It will be a big day lor
the youthful Barney oicuieias, pride-
fully guiding their pushmobile
speeders down the race course, soon
to be selected, before enthusiastic
crowds.
There will be elimination heats,
official starters and Judges, prizes
. . . everything Just like the great
Indianapolis speed classic, when the
57 varieties of midget racers vie
for honors in Medford's first midget
derby. The event Is being Jointly
sponsored by the Medford Mail Tri
bune and the Cub division of Boy
Scouts. Committees are at work,
perfecting the many details of the
derby and now the youngsters hae
three busy weeks in which to con
struct their racing cars and practice
handling them.
M. C. Wright Is chairman of the
executive committee in charge of
the Midget Speeder Derby with Ray
Harrison and Horace Byington as
associate members. Those who com
plete the general committee In
charge of rules, regulations and
other details of the midget classic
are: Bay Baker, J. A. McDougall
Prite Niwn, Carson Thatcher, Emll
Tama, H. B. Brunson, H. l. Carlton,
H. C. Williamson and Verne Shangle,
Frank Hull, Boy Scout commis
sioner, is acting In the capacity of
contact man between the Midget
Speeder Derby committee and Crater
Lake council, Boy Scouts.
Those who are actively arranging
for the Midget Speeder Derby em
phaelze the fact that all children
are invited to participate, the only
requirements being that the cost of
their racers does not exceed $10;
that they conform to the qualifying
specifications: that drivers are with
In the age limits of the two classes
and that their parents approve of
their participation. Registrations are
now open at the Boy Scout hcad
" quarters on East Main street, east
of the Bear Creek bridge.
The class "A" division will In
clude drivers from 13 to 15 years
of age Inclusive, and the class "B'
division will include youngsters from
0 to 11 years Inclusive. The gen
eral rules and regulations are as
follows:
Construction, materials: The Mid
get Speeder Derby Is strictly a boys'
event and the entire construction
and assembly of derby racers must
be done by the boy.
Wheels, bearings, tires, axles, steer
ing wheels, and steering posts are
the only Items that may be used
In ready-made form. Any of these
parts may be purchased. No weld
ing, brazing, or soldering of any
type will be permitted on any car.
Cars showing evidence of adult
construction or machine shop as
sistance will be disqualified. Advice
and Instruction may be given by
parents, teachers, or sponsors, but
construction must be done by the
boy. No automobile parts, such as
steering knuckles, brake drums,
steering mechanisms, axles, springs,
brake rods, tie rods, or cut-down
wheels may be used.
No car may coat over 110 (ten
dollars). This amount refers to the
retail price of material used In
construction.
Wheels, tires No car may have
wheels more than 13 Inches -In di
ameter (Including tires). All wheels
must be equipped with some form
of solid rubber tires. Pneumatic
tire are barred. Wheels must be of
standard manufacture.
Wheel tread: No car shall have
either front or rear wheel tread of
less than 30 Inches or more than
3 Inches.
Wheelbase: No car shall have
wheel base of less than 40 Inches.
Length : The over-all length of
the car shall not exceed 73 inches.
Width: The over-all width of the
car shall not exceed 43 Inches.
Height The over-all height of tho
car shall not exceed 30 Inches.
Weight: The combined weight of
the car and driver in any class
shall not exceed 250 pounds.
Body and frame construction: The
frame and body of the car must be
constructed of wood. The body of
the car must be constructed In
such a way that It does not con
fine the driver's body or head. Tin,
eheet metal, fabric, wood, leather,
etc.. may be used as hood and body
covering. The wooden frame of the
chassis may be reinforced with
metal braces or diagonal struts only
at the four corners. The car must
not be loaded with loose or con
cflled weight.
8teerlng: All cars must be steered
with a steering wheel. The hub of
the steering wheel must be secure
ly and rigidly fastened to the shaft
upon which it Is mounted. The
steering control must operate the
front axle or front wheels.
Brakes: All cars must be equip
ped with a brake capable of stop
ping the car with safety. Only two
types of brake devices will be per
mitted drag brakes and wheel
brakes.
Attachments: All attach ments
must be securely fastened to the
K'n will tw nrm!ttiwl nn
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Driver: Entrants must drive their j
own cars. 1
Typical Midget Racing Speeder
$5&5A
(Photo by Shangle. Cut courtesy Mar&hall-Smlth-Loonard).
Classification Drivers will be clas
sified in accordance with the fol
lowing ages: class "A" 12-15 inclus
ive; class "B" 9-11 inclusive.
Race procedure: All races will be
run on a heat elimination basis.
Racing cars will start from a stand
ing start. No pushing allowed.
Inspection All local cars must be
Inspected by race officials before
they can compete in the race.
Officials: Officials must disqualify
any car which, in their opinion,
may prove dangerous to the driver,
other drivers, or spectators. Officials
may disqualify any driver who shows
poor sportsmanship, or whose driving
is such aa to Interfere with other
cars. -
A Medfordite In Europe
Leonard Carpenter travelling in Central Europe writes
experiences to the Mail Tribune.
I INCREASE
STATE LAMB CROP
PORTLAND. July 30. ff An in
crease of 10 per cent In the 1938 Ore-,
gon lamb crop was estimated today
by the U. S. department of agricul
ture, which figured the total Herds
at 1,580.000 head compared to 1.429.
000 a year ago and the largest num
ber docked since 1034, when the es
timate was 1,700,000.
Breeding ewes fell off. however,
about eight per cent to 1,681.000 but
this was offset by the high lambing
percentage of 04 thia year compared
to 79 last year.
Pedestrian Killed
PORTLAND, July 30. ( AP) Cros
sing a street. George Peterson. 79,
was struck by the protruding rear
view mirror of a truck, knocked to
the pavement and killed, the 26th
traffic fatality of the year..The driver
has not been charged.
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Women To Die
MOSCOW. July 30 (AP) Two
women were sentenced to death today
for embezzlement of workers funds.
They were K. A. Soroklna and M. I.
Tichonova, bookkeeper and cashier
respectively of a workers' house trust
at Gorky.
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The 30 Latin American republics
have more miles of air lines In reg
ular operation than the United States
or Europe.
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MUNICH, Germany July 14. (
(Special Correspondence.) I think
Herr Hitler coming out of the Syno
gog which had been destroyed and
rebuilt for some other purpose, in
terrupted us. In our part of Germany
every bit of the land except where
there la actual rock outcropping. Is
used. Every hillside is cultivated or
in pasture; every hill crown is forest.
The roads and city streets are tree
lined and It really makes me reel
ashamed of our naked highways and
streets., imagine the difference of
Main, Riverside and Front Streets if
they were shaded by beautiful trees.
We are barbarlous In this matter.
Such a shadeless, treeless city as
Medford could not be found in all
of Europe. The forests are state or
city owried and operated and the
revenue is a considerable help in
keeping down taxes, or at least, per
haps 1 should say, In paying the high
taxes which the preparations for war
are making.
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SOMEHOW one feels depressed In
Relchland. I did not wish to
write politics and I was careful about
talking them. I decided that If a
German came to America that he
would be courteous If he saluted our
flag and that I would be polite, poll
tic and courteous If I saluted also.
Therefore when I saluted and said
"Heller" (short for Hail Hitler) I did
not go 100 per cent for the Fuehrer.
Munchen the home of beer (altho
alas!) a German tells me that It Is
sadly weakened from pre-war Munich
beer. Munich is also the home of the
National Socialist Party The NAZI.
Here was the first beer hall putsch
which failed with some three score
killed In street fighting and a lormer
Austrian corporal whose only record
military feat was grovelling on his
stomach while his companions were
being shot and if he had had an
ordinary German bay-window we
would probably be " spared one of the
dictators who was clapped into prison
and given time and facilities for pro
ducing "Meln Kampf." The bible of
the Nazis In Germany
ONE goes past the Brown House,
still Nazi headquarters, to two
h ollow sq ua res mode of gran 1 te
raised about 10 feet from the pave
ment and about 100 feet on each side.
In the center part of the memorial
are six black basalt tombs shaped
like large bath tubs and here rests
the remains of those first turbulent
youths whose strong arm methods
raised the Natlonai Socialist Party,
composed of Hitler and 8 others in
1930. to Hitler and millions of others
in 1938. On each Aide of the steps of
each resting place of heroes, stands a
black uniformed Nazi They stand so
motionless that you can only guess
that they are alive. Everyone who
goes up or down these steps gives the
Nazi salute. Also just around tho
corner are two more motionless
figures guarding night and day the
spot where those first bloody paving
stones pointed the way to Europett
most tragic -evolution. It's tragedy
is world-wide because today no Euro
pean nation feels secure. Therefor
each one is spending every available
penny on rearmament and curtailing
the liberty of Its citizens.
A TAXI driver told me that he had
been to America In 1933. but
now, he added, he would be unable
to leave the Fatherland. It Is very
difficult to write understand! ngly of
the German situation partly because
it is not wise, prudent or possible to
obtain the data necessary and partly
because one has no real basis of
comparison.
This much Is certain. Germany to
day la totally in the hands of the
Nazi. The Nazi party Is purely and
simply a political party. This political
party Is autocratically controlled by
Hitler and his friends, To belong to
this political party you must oe ac
ceptable, go thru a period of proba
tion and Initiation and finally re
ceive credentials In the form of a
party book very similar to a pass
port. "YYAIL Hitler" and the salute are
l really party affairs, but so com
pletely has all activity in Germany
been seized by the Nazi that they
have become a national salute Thus
every party act becomes a national
act. It Is The Party that la anti-Jew
but is la the government which Is
carrying on the spoliation and expul
sion of Jews. It la Hitler and his half
dozen closest friends who are antl
Uberal but it la the government that
has driven almost every first rate
mind out of Germany.
SET6N Watson in his book "Eng
land and the Dictators" which Is
welt worth reading and studying,
calls the present regime in Germany
"The rule of the Gunmen." And this
is a true description of the situation.
I had the opportunity to talk with
a young man who la a lawyer In
Nurenburg and la a party Judge in
charge of a party court before whom
all cases are tried involving party
discipline. He made this statement
"Hitler was justified in going into
Austria because Schuschnlgg allowed
some party memberr to be hung who
wore not guilty and he will be tried
and convicted but I do not think he
will be killed. He will go to a con
centration camp."
Schuschnlgg was the head of an
independent country and was trying
to keep the disorderly Austria Nazis
AMERICAN TIES link
Jean Dull, 17, wen In British
court presentation town, to
V. S. Her mother, Jean Gordon
Duff, nas American: the tirl
was educated at MarlborouKh
(".iris- school in California. Both
J cam may visit west coast In (ill
TREE PROPS
Assorted Lengths
1x2 Net Size
Made from Clear Rough Dry
Lumber for Standard Hooks
TimberP
Pbone 7.
Company
End No. Central Ave.
under control. Can one wonder at
the fear of every one of Germany's
neighbors? Certainly one approached
every subject with this party Judge
with circumspection but so certain
was he on every subject that it was
only necessary to show aa Interest
to keep him going.
The expulsion of the Jews is right,
he says proper, legal and fair because
they engineered Germany's defeat in
the World War. They are sntl-soclal
and they are not Nordics. The sup
pression of Individual liberty and
liberal Ideas Is right and proper be
cause Germany stands alone In the
world and everything must be pointed
towards world control and this means
as a preliminary, the destruction of
democracies and bolshevlsm.
Youth Is organized at 0 years of age
into trainings groups After 8 years
of Nazi controlled schooling, where
every fact put before them has beei,
Nazi colored, they must do their
further preparation along special
lines. A boy who la going to be a
mechanic, goldsmith, cobbler etc.
goes for three years as an apprentice
If he gets any pay at all, It is very
little and only after he has learned
his trade. He then has his work co
perform In the labor battalions and
two years of military service In the
regular army.
THE University boy goes on with
his studies but he also must work
for the state and perform his mili
tary duties. A girl who wishes to
work for her living must perform
housework for a years at home or one
year out of the family before she
can take a Job as a stenographer for
Instance.
"INHERE are a lot of people In Italy
1 and other states In Europe who
want to come back under German
rule and our Puhrer la going to help
them just as he did In Austria"
Those are not the words but they
are the sentiment of the Judge from
Nuremburg.
The most amazing dleflcatlon of
Hitler Is underway This is partly due
to the fact that at present physical
conditions are not bad here, partly
to party propaganda and largely to
the fact that be has brought back
to the German man and woman Indi
vidually their self respect,
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ONCE more the Germans are hope
ful of the future. The world opin
ion of Qermany and Germans hold
both as aggressive, dldactlo and self
glorlflers. They have always had all of
the hateful attributes which go with
an Inferiority complex. Today they
are walking in the same direction as
they did In the pre-war days when
they drank their toasts to "der Tag."
Everything in their past history has
been recolored and Justified. They
have been the golden haired boy In
the wicked world. America, England.
Italy, France and every other peoples
are Inferior. Germany again bears the
torch and Hitler Is the torch bearer.
Perhaps there will be a pricking of
the bubble before war comes again.
One can only hope When Hltlei and
Mussolini paraded thru Florence the
local enthusiasm was so lacking that
loud speakers were Installed all along
their route and all of the 'Hall Hit
lers" came from them.
LEONARD CARPENTER.
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A LADY SLAPPED
CHEFOO. China. July 30. P
Japanese naval authorities accepted
responsibility today for the slap pin?
of Mrs, Florence Massle, wife of Lieut.
Tiiomas H. Masslo, American naval
officer, on June 25.
They expressed regret to the Unit
ed States consul and told him thosr
responsible had been punished ana
orders Issued to prevent a repetition
Mrs. Massle Is the former Florence
Storms of Chewelah. Wash. She is
the second wife of Lieut. Massle, tlie
naval officer who figured in the fa
mous Honolulu Massle attack oace
of 1932.
The West Virginia coal Industry
has paid 58,306.467 in work men 'a
compensation In the 34 years of the
law's existence.
Old Faithful Geyser Becomes
Unfaithful; Rangers Mystified
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK.
Wyo. (AP) It must.be the weather,
say the rangers, for there's no other
way of explaining why Yellowstone's
geysers should go haywire.
Old Faithful, which has been
erupting on train-like schedule for
so long that the rangers set their
watches by it, Is almost a minute
behind time. It spouts every 1.57
minutes now, Instead of eveiy 1,7
minutes.
Rainbow and Congress pools, nor
mally quiet and colorful little bodies
of water, suddenly have turned Into
spouting whirlpools Theli vicious
torrents have washed away the walks
which were constructed so that tour.
lets might get a glimpse of the
placid waters.
Rainbow la spouting SO feet Into
the air; Congress U tossing out a
water spout of almost pure mud. It
has drifted over the highways and
fences and haa covered them with
gray powder.
Ledge Qeyser is erupting ever
hour. Heretofore Its spouting, could
not be predicted at all. Its neighbor,
The Valentine, was as dependable as
a 10-year old work horse. Now It
shoots any time.
The famed Old Whirligig haa given
birth to a new Little wnirllgtg which
erupts to a height of from 10 to 13
I feet every 30 seconds.
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JURY DEADLOCKED
LONDON, Ky., July 80. (AP)
Foreman L. F. Johnson of the Jury
of 12 mountain men deliberating the
Harlan antl labor conspiracy case re
ported to Federal Judge H. Church
Ford tonight "It looks like It will be
an Impossibility to make a verdict."
The Judge replied:
"I'm not at all surprised that a
case of this magnitude can not be
agreed on In a few hours of consider
ation. Gentlemen, .recess until Mon
day. You've had a iong day. Relax
tomorrow and don't discuss the case
until you come here to resume delib
erations at 9 o'clock Monday morning.
The trial took eleven weeks.
Thirty-nine Individuals and 17 cor
porate defendants are charged with
conspiracy against union organiza
tion of the Harlan County coal fields
under the Wagner Act,
SIT LITERATURE
LOSES TEST CASE
PORTLAND, Ore.. July SO. (AP)-
District Judge J. Hunt Hendrlckson
today ruled that publishers of so
called obscene and suggestive litera
ture cannot collect from vendors of
their products In Oregon.
His decision was made In the case
of the Reliance News Company of
Chicago against O. T. Olson, maga
zine distributor.
The company sued for 1140 it
claimed Olson had failed to remit for
magazines. Olson said he retained the
money deliberately to provoke a test
case.
Japan hopes to obtain American
and British capital to help her de
velop the newly conquered areas In
China, Japanese economists and of
ficials say.
Use Mail Tribune Want Ada.
WHAT THIS NEW ...
1 00 per cent COOPERATIVE
PLAN Means TO GROWERS
of the ROGUE RIVER VALLEY
O Class B PREFERRED STOCK (Far Value $10. Per Share) IS NOW
BEING ISSUED TO GROWERS who have previously availed them
selves of the COMPLETE packing, pre-cooling, shipping and market
v ing service of this company.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? It means that Southern Oregon Sales, Ino.,
NOW A FULL COOPERATIVE, Is giving to those growers who have con
tributed to its success, an INTEREST in the company, together with the
OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A VOICE IN ITS OPERATIONS. The Class B ,
Preferred Stock is being issued in the proportion each grower's packed
fruit for the past four years bears to the total volums of packed fruit handled
during that period.
ThiB stock involves NO LIABILITY ON THE PART OF THE GROWER
... It is actually a PATRONAGE DIVIDEND for it will be TAKEN UP
IN CASH AT FULL PAR VALUE when fixed obligations of the company
have been met. These obligations represent the remaining balance of the
initial investment incurred in establishing the present, enlarged plant and
facilities. Within the past four year period, a total of $60,000. has been
paid to the Spokane Bank for Cooperatives, indicating the progress that is
being made in retiring all obligations,
There are fixed costs and necessary overhead in the operation of ALL packing
plants; it is obvious that a-larger plant handling greater tonnage of fruit
can operate more economically. Southern Oregon Sales, Inc., HAS both s
large plant and substantial tonnage. An increase in this tonnage will,
however, be reflected in lower operating costs , . . thi spells BETTER
DIVIDENDS for growers In the form of Class B Preferred Stock)
Equally obvious is the fact that the greater the volume of fruit handled
by this company, with resulting lower operating costs, the sooner existing
obligations will be paid off and Class B Preferrd Stock held by growers
TAKEN UP IN CASH1
Frankly, we feel that this cooperative plan offers the ONE PRACTICAL
MEANS OF LOWERING FRUIT PACKING COSTS . . . Growers realist
a PROFIT on the packing of their OWN CROP I
Oron who wirt te ptrllrlpite In ttiti hlhlr ttrartln
ropra(lT plan are Inrltra to trcur ALL THE FACTS.
Complrte parkin', pr-roolln. ahlpptni and marlln t1c
I. available PLl'S tha added adrantacra of brromlns STOCK
HOLDERS In this ucCTful cooperative orranliatlon.
SOUTHERN OREGON SALES. Na
MEDFORD, OREGON
PHONE 1234