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PAGE EIGHT PRODUCTION SEEN Latest Forecast Is Slightly Higher Than Month Ago Total Pear Production Also Placed Bit Higher WASHINGTON , Oct. 11. (AP The agriculture departments Octo ber crop report today placed pro duction of corn this year at 2,533, 417.000 bushels and the total wheat crop (winter and spring wheat com blned) at 730.445,000 bushels. Corn production was forecast i month ago at 2.623,002,000 bushels, last year's crop totaled 2.542.330,000 bushels and the average production for the 10 years, 1028-37. was 3.300. 074.000 bushels. The combined wheat crop was forecast a month ago at 736,118,000 bushels; production was D30.R01.0O0 bushels last year and the 10-year average production waa 752,953,000 bushels. Winter Wheat L'nrtrr Average Winter wheat production was put at 650.710,000 bushels, compared with 086,637.000 bushels last year, and 860.160,000 bushels, the ten-year average. Spring wheat, Including liurum, totaled 188.735,000 bushels, compared with a forecast of 185,406.000 bushels a month ago, 244.164.000 produced last year, and 102,702,000 the 10-year average. Durum wheat production was esti mated at 33.144 000 bushels, com pared with last month's forecast of 83,652,000, last year's production of 40,465,000, and the 10-year average production of 35,076.000. A 042,230.000 bushel oat crop was predicted. This compared with a fore cast Of 030.008,000 Inst month, 1.053 -830,000 produced Inst year, and 1,040. 800,000 the 10-year avernge. Hpud Crop Mirlnk The potato cmp of 358.680 .000 bus hols waa Indicated. Thla com pared with last month's forecast of M4.308.000, production of 371,617. 000 last year, and an avernge pro duction of 372.358.000 over the 10 jeara. I Indicated production of other im portant crops, with comparative fig- i urea giving last month's forecast and last year's production, follows: BABY'S Easy to relieve misery dlXKJL without "dosing". Rub throat, chest, aud back wltll . . . COLD UtID ev 1 OUT OF MOTHERS VapoRub W I L ROGUE Service Dept. 32 North Riverside OrkE-GONi) j . 7v AT LOW INTEREST COST TO BUILD HOMES REPAY MONTHLY OVER PERIOD OF MANY YEARS MEDFORD BRANCH of the UMTIill STATES XATIOXAL KAXK of I'nrllnnti uaar cn (or sugar 6.778,000 tona, compared with ft .900.000 and S.730.000; Sugar baeta 10.763.000 tona. com pared with 10,077,000 and 11.0U, 000: hops S8.fi70.000 pounds, com pared with 39,080,000 and 39261.000; applea (commercial crop) 100.998.000 bushels, compared w'.th 103,260,000 and 83,399,000; Mora Pears Peaches 61,730.000, compared with 61, 428.000 and 51.94S.00O: pears 80, 311,000 compared with 80,383,000 and 82,473.000; grapes 3.678.000 tona, compared with 3,645,000 and 3.704. 000. The Indicated acre yield of Im portant crops, with comparative fig urea for last year, follows: All wheat 13.4 and 13.3: winter wheat 14 3 and 13 8; all spring wheat 11.6 and 11.9; Durum wheat 10.7 and 11.4: oat 38.0 and 39.7; pota toes 116.7 and 133.1 bu.; sugar cane 22.1 tons and 22.8: sugar bceta 11.6 tone and 12.5; hope 1236 pounds and 1,119. The October 1 condition of other crops and comparative flgurea for a year ago: Apples 69 percent of a normal, compared with 48 a year ago: peaches 71 and 60; pears 68 and 72; grapes 78 and 79: pecans 43 and 38; pasture S6 and 76; soybenns 86 and 84; cowpeas 73 and 66. Stocks of grain on farnut October 1 were reported aa follows: Wheat 332.313,000 bushels or 44 9 percent of last year's crop, com pared with 401.411.000 and 43.1 a year ago, and 340.348.000 and 45.3 two years ago. THREE KILLED WAR, W. Va.. Oct. 1 1 . (Af A dis abled school bus careened from a highway and plunged down a 75 foot embankment today, killing three stu dents and Injuring 63 other persons. some critically. The big, 70 passenger machine, car rying 84 students and the driver to Big Creek high school here, fell on the Norfolk and Western railway tracks and smashed to bits. The dead were Identified as Mnx- Ine Beavers, 18, Lucille Mull inn. Er nest Wood. 17. Physicians held little hope for sev eral others who were badlv hurt. Woman's Death Fall Caused by Slapping PORTLAND. Oct. U. (AP) A manslaughter charge wavi filed against Petros Nlcklos, 46. last nlfiht after he told Detective John Abbott he had slapped Mary Anderson. 35. twice Just before she fell to her death from a third floor fire escape at a Portland rooming house. Abbott quoted Nlcklos as saying the woman lost her bnlance and fell after he had slapped her. Nlckloa waa released on tl500 ball. Use Mall Tribune want ada. ffin f WHY NOT ? I JUST PLACED MY ORDER FOR THE NEW1940 EVROLET WHY DONT YOU RIVER CHEVROLET Office and Salesroom Sparta Bldg. MEDFORD MAIL OREGONTANS PAY LESS INCOME TAX IN CURRENT YEAR Levy On 1938 Earnings $371,000 Below Receipts From 1937 Increase Ex pected On 1939 Incomes flALEM, Oct. 11. ( AP) Oregon Income tax.es, payable this year on Incomes earned In 1038, will total about 4,600.000. a decline of $871,000 from the amount paid last year but about 1500.000 more than the tax commLsslon had estimated would be collected. Collections on personal Income, cor pora l Income and Intangibles taxes during the first nine months of 1930 totaled 4, 170. 181, compared with 5.255,487 for the same period last yenr. September collections totaled 1,000,189, virtually all of which was the last half of the personal Income tax payments which were due Octo ber 1. Fewer Returns Filed The number of taxable returns filed during the first nine months was 84.613. compared with 85.508 during the similar period last year. A total of 54,025 non-taxable returns were filed, compared with 46,601 dur ing last year's first nine months. Commission members predicted the boc t 1 n com mod I ty p r Ices and ln crcascd employment would r&sult In laryer tax payments next year, pay able on Incomes earned this year. However, they could not predict how larse the lncreime would be. 'Hie boost In personal Income tax. authored by the 1939 legislature, also should mine some additional revenue, although the Intangibles tax waa reduced slightly. These tax chniv?oB are effective on Incomes earned this year and are payable next year. Must l'ay .More A married man with no dependents who earns $2000 a year will continue to pay $10 a year tax. Here's how his tax will be Increased If he e.irns more than that: $2500 Income, tax1 boosted from $20 to $25; $3500, In creased from $50 to $65; $4500, In creased from $90 to $115; 5500, in creased from 140 to $175; $0500, In creased from $200 to $255. COUNTY EXPENSES IN Jackson county expense,- for Sep tember totalled 24, 486.68, according Used Car Lot 234 North Riverside, Foot of 4th St. TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, to the monthly report of the clerk' office. The amount waa 6.3 per cent of th budget with all offices and departments, within their allotments. Total expenditure for the first nine months of the year was 67.5 per oent of the budget. The budget balance up to October 1 amounts to $151, 580.80. All funds, including relief and kindred agencies were wlthtn their appropriated amounts. Livestock Portland PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct. 11. (AP USDA) Hogs: Salable and total 400; market active, mostly 10-15c higher; good-choice 165-216 lb drlvelns mostly $7.00-10; few outstanding lota $7.25; 230-295 lb. butchers, $6.25-65; light lights, $6.25 to mostly $6.50; packing sows, $5.00-75; choice light feeder pigs quotable to $7.00. CATTLE: Salable 150, total 200; calves salable 25; total 40; market active, strong. Instances 15-25c higher on cows; few common-medium steers $6.600 7.50; grass lat steers quotable $8.50; grain feds eligible to $9.50; cutter-common heifers mostly $4 .50 t 6.26; odd head to $6.60; mixed steers and heifers, $7.25; cutter-common cow. $3.50a 4 25; dinners, $3.00; fat dairy type cows. $4.50 5 00; good beef cows, $6.25; sausage bulls, $5.00 75; good beef bulls. $6.25; choice vealers. $10; medium-good vealera. $7.00(3 9.50; common down to $5.00. 1 SHEEP: Salable 100; total 150; mar-; ket active, strong: good-choice 82- 100 lb. lambs mostly $8.00; extreme top late Tuesday, $8.25; medium-good Iambs. $7.00-25; good-choice 75-95 lb shorn lambs, $7.00; Rood slaughter ewes upward to $3.00. South San FrunrlM'o SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 11. (AP-U&DA) Hogs: 800; early trade steady to 10c lower on butchers compared Tuesday's average: early top and bulk good to choice 170 to 210-Ib. butchers, $7.65, lighter weights and 230 to 260-lb. sorted out. $7.15. Cattle: 100; calves, none; steers scarce; fully steady; load medium to largely godo 986-lb. California fed steers. $8.75; medium to good oeef cows eligible $5.75 c-t 6.73; few canners and cutters. $3.505.00; bulla firm. package 1.182-lb. Brahma bulls, $6.75, sorted 1 head. $6.25; good weighty bulla quoted $7.00; calves nominal; choice vealers quoted $9 50 to pos sibly $10.00. Sheep: 125; holdovers, 30; steady on light supply; new good 70 to 82-lb. wooled lambs, $8.90(7 9.15; few me dium to good 78 to 8I-lb. medium pelt kinds $8.00i!?8.50; part deck at $8.50; odd common light lambs, $7.00; new medium-pelt yearlings, $6.50; few head good early shorn slaughter ewes. $4.00. Chicago CHICAGO. Oct. 11. (AP-USDA) Hogs. 14.000; active; 10-25c higher than Tuesday's average; practical top. $7.26; good 270-360 lbs. packing sows generally $6.50-80. CATTLE 9500; calves 1000; another very draggy trade on medlumwelght and weighty steers; choice to prime 1480 lbs. average $10.75; boet yearling steers. $11.15; mixed offering 811.10; heifers S10 7.V SHEEP 4500; fat lambs strong to 10c higher; fat native lambs. $9.75; bulk $9.25-50; small lot fat native ewes, $3.25-75. Portland Produce PORTLAND. Oct. 1 1 ,-) Butter Prints, A grade. 32'ic lb. in parch ment wrappers, 33',ic lb. In cartons; B grade 31!ic lb. In parchment wrap pers. 32'ic lb. tn cartons. Butterfat First quality, maximum of .6 of 1 per cent acidity, delivered Portland 30lje lb.; valley routes nnd country points 2c lees or 28' ac; pre mium quility maximum of .35 of I per cent acidity, lc more than first quality: second quality 2c less than first quality. Fgga Buying "price: Extra lnrgt 26c; standards large 20c: extras med ium 18c; standards medium 17c; ex tra small 11c: standards small 10c. ATTENTION COAT BUYERS A Representative From the House of ROTHMOOR Will Be In Our Store Thursday Oct. 1 2th. SEE HIM FOR SPECIAL COAT ORDERS R0THM00R COATS EXCLUSIVELY lili Hotel Cornelius 811 8 W ran Feel at Home in "The Heart of Portland' Comfort Convenient Conrtety aerrlc Ittrartlra Rales: Detacbed M t h lit bath OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Che eat, country meat. Uv poultry unchanged. Turkeys Selling price: new-crop hens 10-30c lb.: toms 18-190 lb. Buying prices: No. 1 hens 17-17Vic lb.; toms 18-lfl'ic lb. Potatoes unchanged. Onions Oregon 40-500; Yakima 40c sack; Oregon Bermudas lb. Portland Wheat PORTLAND, Ore.. Oct, 11 (API Grain: .Wheat: Open High Low Close iDec .78'-i .79'4 .78 Vfc .794 Cash grain: Oats. No. 2, 38-lb. white, $26 60. Barley. No. 3, 45-lb. b.w., $23.50. Corn, No. 2, ey., shipment, $36.50. No. 1 flax. $1.79. Cash wheat (bid): Soft white, 79 : western white, western red. 77'. Hnrd red winter, ordinary. 77'i; 11 per cent. 78; 12 per cent, 80; 13 per cent, 63; 14 per cent, 86. Hard white, baart. ordinary, 85; 12 per cent 85; 13 per cent 88; 14 per cent 91. Today's car receipts: Wheat, 21; barley 1; flour 3; corn 3; oata 4; hay 2;mlllfeed 8. Chicago Wheat CHICAGO. Oct. 11 JP)- Wheat Open High Low Close Dec. 82'; 83 '4 82 'i 83 May 81-82 83i 81 i 83 July 803 81 i 797, 81', Wall St. Report NEW YORK fVt 11 ca. With aircrafts In the lead some selected shares worked higher In today's stock market. In which price changes were generally narrow. The opening was quiet and busi ness was never very active. With a turnover approximately 550,000 shares It was the slowest session since the "war boom" started more than a month ago. Today's closing price for 32 se lected stocks follow: Al. Chem. St Dye 184 Am. Can 113 Am. & pgn. Power ..... 2' A. T. & T 162V4 Anaconda 331; Atch. T. & S. T Bendlx Avla. Beth. Steel Caterpillar Tract Chrysler 31 28 5734 - 01 H iasi Coml. solvents uurtiss-Wright ........ 7 DuPont ... iboi'j Oen. Electric 4014 Gen. Poods ..... .... 40 Gen. Motors 543; Int. Harvester . 544 I. T. fc T I 5'4 Joh ns-Man vl lie ... mm 73 Monty Ward 533; North Amer 23'i Penney (J. C.) 00 Phillips Pet ...... 451; Radio 51 Southern Pacific .. 17. Std. Brands ...... a Std. Oil Cal 284 Std. Oil N. J 48 Transamerlca unquoted Union Carbide 89 United Aircraft . 44 U. S. Steel 73 H Pear Markets Yesterday NEW YORK. Oct. 10. ( AP-U8DA) Pears: 11 arrlvtd. 8 California. 10 Oregon. 1 Washington unloaded. 18 on track, market slightly weaker. Oregon Bosc 2525 No. 1. 91.65 a 2.15. average si.85: Bartletts 745 extra fancy SI 853 10. average S3 03: 1465 fancy Sl.70.i3 03, average 1.85: Co mice 330 fancy 81.45a .85. average 81.71: Anjous 150 extra fancy 81.75 ct2 20, average 82.08; 80 fancy 81.60 ttt.95, average 81.81. Use Mall Tribune want i -81 00 sa 1 JO as III fiuS III Euj m P&rk A v Hotel 8!J 8.W. Part OCTOBER 11. 1939. REAL M ROLE Dominion Now Drilling and Forming Overseas Force Taxes On Many Items; To Furnish War Supplies OTTAWA. Oct. 11. (Canadian Press) One month after declaring war on Germany, Canada's precise role In the conflict has yet to be de termined. The length of the war and the United States' final action on neu trality legislation probably will be the chief factors In guiding Canada's courM. All action so far has oeen based on the assumption a, long struggle Is ahead and this country will be called on to pour large quantities of food and war supplies Into England. The dally sight of marching men and uniforms, plus special taxes on tea, coffee, beer, wine and whLskey are reminders to Canadians that they are at war. An Infantry division for overseas servlco already has been organized It Is under the command of Major General A. G. L. McNaughton, for mer chief -of the general staff who saw service in the World war. This and another overseas division now being formed, will Include about 32.000 men. More than 60.000 youths recently recruited now are In training camps. Moreover, an undisclosed number of trained filers are being prepared for overseas duty and others are patrolling Canadian coasts. The Canadian navy Is aiding In convoying ships across the Atlantic, in cooperation with British convoys. 1 Al Tl TIENTSIN, Oct. 11 Marcell Szymannky, a private In the United States Marines, was held by Japan ese police tonizht after an altercation In which a railway pot!eemn was reported wounded tn the thigh after drawing a sword. While at first it was believed the wounded man was Chintz, Japanese authorities later sold he was Japan ese. Other sources reported, without confirmation, thnt a second Japan ese policeman wa struck on the head with the butt of a revolver. Lieut. Col. William O. Hawthorne of the Marines mid he had been in formed by Lieut. Gen. Masaharu I """ ' '- .'-' hii-r:. GET I'SI TmAKE sTtL BOTTLES IN THE I THE FLAVOR'S) ss HOME CARTON BETTER y3flqg Bommi. commander of Japanese troop In Tientsin, the wounded man was Chinese, but added he thought Homma was incorrectly Informed at first. Another Marine, identified as John V. Armonia. was said to have left the cene after the clash, which occurred early this morning while the marine were standing guard over freight cars containing supplies on a siding near Tientsin. Railway police In the Tientsin area are under direction of the Japanese force occupying North China. The United States maintains two marine companies each in Tientsin and Pei plng. The marine commander named a board to investigate the affair. 3 DIE IN BLAST IN NEW YORK. Oct. 11. ( AP) Three persons were killed and 31 others in jured Tuesday wen an explosion wrecked a dry cleaning plant and tore through the wall of a motion pic ture theater housing 75 spectators. The dead Included Sylvia Binder, cleaning shop manager. Police Commissioner Valentine said 19 persons, including several pedes- THURSDAY ONLY! Crown Tested Rayon Net Panels Here's Another Anniversary Blue Rib bon Bargain 44x8t-inch Crown test ed, water repellent Rayon Net Cur tain Panels for only 59c each. These lovely decorative panels come in eg nhell, ecru, and peachbloom. Regular 89c each. Your choice tomorrow only at Mann's. trians nil by Hying debris, war take to hospitals. A dozen other were treated at the cene. vintiM said "two or three" mora bodies might be burled In the wreck age. Fir men exDressed belief the blast was caused by cleaning fluid funics accumulating in the casement. S. F. Mutter SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. U , (USD A) Butter, 92 score 31c; BU 29c; 90-28c; 89-26',c. SACRAMENTO. Oct. 11 JPl Churning cream butterfat: --First grade 34!jc; second grade 32 '4 e. Closing time for Too bate to Clas sify Ads 1 1:30 p. m. Use Mall Tribune Want Ad WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILE- WilbosI CiW And YmH Jo rap Out sf M u the Mais Ruin' ta Gt The ller ahould pour out two ponnd, of llauid bile into your bowel, daily. I f thl. bil. It not flowins- Ireely. your (ooddoesn t durt.L It just decay, in the bowc-li. G. bloat, up ymir ,toma:h. You set constlpstrd. Your whole yt-m la poisoned and you feel lour, t unk and the world look. punk. t A mere bowel movement doein t set afl the cause. It take, those good, old Carter', Little Lir.r Pill, to art thee two pound, ol bil. flowini (rly and make rou feel up nd up." KarmleM. f entl.. ret amailnc la makina bile flow (reely. Ak for Carter. Little Liver Pills by name. Refuse anythlnf Ike, At all drua ,tore. IOC and iiu BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL ea BFN OS 0RIM8ON Hp Portland BUY THE CARTON IN THE HEART OF THP CITY f a. '.us m , t -. - r-
