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s PAGE TEN PLAN BATTLE ON IE Repeal Or Modification of Reciprocal Pacts With South Americans Sought. Washington, Oct. 25 (AP) Congressmen from 11 far west ern states were reported today by Representative Robinson ID Utah) to have pledged them selves to seek repeal or modifi cation of the administration's reciprocal trade program if tar iff reductions on agricultural and mining products resulted from impending agreements with three South American countries. "You may say for us that we were unanimous on that score," said Representative Robinson af ter a group meeting at which plans were formulated to carry a protest to Secretary Hull and possibly to President Roosevelt. Outlook Changes Robinson said "all but one" of the congressmen at the con ference had voted In 1937 for extension of the trade agree ments program. "Now, however," he added, "everyone of us is ready to vote against its further continuation If they arc going to trade our products off to the detriment of our country." Robinson was made chairman of a three-member committee which will call on Hull and pre sent reasons why duties on live stock and agricultural products should not be lowered In pro posed agreements with Argen tina and Uruguay and on copper in a pact with Chile. Oregon Represented . Other members of the group Were not named immediately. States represented at the ses sion, ' Robinson said, included Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Ore gon, Montana, Utah, South Da kota and New Mexico. He added full delegations were not present from each state, nor were Idaho, Washing ton and Wyoming represented, but that he had talked with the absentees and that "they are of the same opinion as the rest of us." MEETINGS SLATED Mrs. Leila Easson, supervisor of the family credit section of the Farm Credit Administration of Spokane, will be guest speak er nt a series of four meetings In Jackson County on "family credit", which are scheduled as follows: October 26, Mcdford. 1:30 p. m. court house auditorium. October 27, Ashland, 1:30 p. m. Southern Oregon College of Education auditorium. October 27, Upper Rogue. 8 p. m. Shady Cove School. October 28, Pomona Grange, 1 p. m. Central Point Grange hall. The meetings have been ar ranged by Mabel C. Mack, coun ty home demonstration agent and everyone interested is cor dially invited. Mrs. Easson will discuss many phases of credit which are gen erally used by families. She is especially interested In discus sing the aspects of credit in which her groups are particu larly interested and she will welcome questions from the au dience. Talent Dance Saturday. Talent, Oct. 25 iSpl.) The Talent firemen will give a mas querade ball Saturday night at the city hall. It will be the second annual masquerade spon sored by the firemen. All nrc urged to attend and enjoy the good music, noise-makers and prizes. "CHEF PAUL" BULKIN (Formerly of the Chateau) AT THE RUSSIAN VILLAGE Portland. Oregon., Announce! a New Entortnlnmont Policy with the GRAND OPENING FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 of Dan Warren's African Congo Revue Formerly ot Club Congo. Lot Angeloi Featuring Toby Williams and hii Congo Rhythm Swing Orchelra end Bevy ot Brown Beauties Three Show! Nightly, Except Mondeyi. wllh Contlnuo; Entertainment MAKE RESERVATIONS TAbor 1S23 S. I. 130th Ave. and Stark St. Out Baieline Road PORTLAND. OREGON OPENING NIGHT ONLY $1.00 COVER CHARGE REGULAR PRICES 35c WEEK DAYS, 7Sc SATURDAYS No Hero's These three men, shown ina Scottish hospital, are German fliers who participated in the raid on the Firth of Forth. October 16, but who didn't go back to a hero's welcome. Shot down during the raid, ell were wounded. Picture sent from Scotland to London by telephoto and transmitted to the United States by radio. E 7 J A circuit court jury, Ira C. Luman foreman, In a verdict returned yesterday awarded Jesse E. Brownlee $257 judg ment, the amount sought, in his suit against the estate of Mae B. Rankin. The plaintiff contended Mac B. Rankin acted as a nurse for John Brownlee, his father, and that he paid her for the ser vices. Later it wos revealed provisions had been made in the John Brownlee will for payment , so a return was asked on the grounds of double pay ment. The next Jury trial has been set for Thursday, November 0, when the damage suit of Rob ert Littrcll, a minor, against Lee A. Smith, taxicab operator, for $3000 for alleged personal injuries, will be called. The suit is based on an accident at Main and Central streets last June when young Littrcll, rid ing a wheel, was struck by a taxi owned by Smith and driv en by an employee. W. S. C. DRILLS ON PASSES OF ALL TYPES Pullman, Wash., Oct. 25. (AP) Passes and more passes, in waves, and single formations, in laterals, forward and shovels, will be the Washington State college strategy when the Cou gars attempt to halt the grid Iron winning streak of Oregon Stale at Corvallis Saturday. Key points in Coach Babe Hollingbery's aerial program. Halfbacks Dick Emerson and Bill Scwell. are getting over time work this week. Two Too Many Great Falls, Mont. (AP) There are two cats In Great Falls, the poundmaster admits that arc "too smart for me." Reporting to the city council on his alley-cat-catching cam paign, he said the two cats an noy residents in the Third street district. "They escape or evade every trap we set," said the poundman. "They are as slick as greased pigs." C. C. Sees Scheme Huntington Beach, Calif. (AP) Possibility of obtaining am bergis from oil is being studied by the chamber of commerce. The immensely valuable sub stance, which forms in whales and which is used in perfumery, has been discovered in petrol eum from southern California wells but has not yet been com mercially extracted. Gravy Topeku. Kas. (AP) The To peku Journal announces it Is sponsoring a "crusade" that is expected to strike a responsive chord. It is attempting to get restaurants to place the gravy on the potatoes and not on the meat. MEDFORD MAIL Return for Three Nazis m JL. ':" - i jj,.ju.. . . ATACTWIANMEET Members of the Active club, meeting in regular weekly dinner-session in the Hotel Mcd ford last night, enjoyed sound motion pictures of Africa shown by George F. Kimball, a mining engineer who resid ed in northern Rhodesia for five years. Mr. Kimball sup plemented the movies with an interesting talk and explana tions of the scenes shown. Frank Hull, guest of the club, urged all members to vote on the park development bond is sue. There was a good attend ance. GREEK STEAMER SUNK BY NORTH SEA U-BOAT London, Oct. 25 (AP) Fif teen members of the crew of the 5,962-ton Greek steamer Konstantinos Hadjipateras, in cluding the captain, landed at an English port In lifeboats to day reporting their ship had been sunk by a submarine in the North Sea. The captain reported three members of tile crew and the English pilot were missing. He said the sinking occurred early today. Capt. Alexander McGee Salem, Oct. 25. (AP) Capt. Alexander McGee, 50, U. S. army retired, died suddenly at his home here today. He re tired from active service in 1934 because of ill health. Since his retirement, he lived in San Diego most of the time, and moved to Salem last month. New Code Miami, Fla. (AP) Much has been written about policemen breaking into places provided they have search warrants. But now comes Florida with a new criminal code, one section of which gives an officer the right to break out again "if it is for the purpose of liberating him self. Rattler in Playbox Middletown, Cal. (UP) Two little sons of Mrs. Nancy Gard ner reported to her that there was "an electric wire buzzing in their playbox." Mrs. Gardner Investigated. She found it was a rattlesnake. A neighbor stopped the buzzing. AT LOW XrVfT" A$y 7r ' INTEREST COST TOflUILDHOMES REPAY MONTHLY OVER PERIOD OF MANY YEARS MEDFORD BRANCH of the UMTKII STATES X ATI OX A L IIAXK TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, E CALIFORNIA FEES Sacramento. (UP) Califor nia will begin shortly to collect registration fees for Oregon com mercial vehicles operating in this state, and also automobiles used by Oregon residents gain fully employed in California, Director of Motor Vehicles How ard E. Philbrick announced. "Collection of fees for certain types of Oregon licensed vehicles is in furtherance of the state's policy of allowing vehicles from other states free use of Cali fornia highways'when those states extend similar reciprocal privileges to California register ed vehiclbes," the director ex plained. "Since Oregon requires own ers of certain classifications of vehicles registered here to pay fees in that state also, wc will pursue the same policy." Philbrick said that interstate commerce registered vehicles are exempted and that the naw regulations in no way apply to privately owned motor vehicles He will soon start an investi Ration to determine what fees arc due California. BIKE THEFT EPTDEMIC CONTINUES IN J'VILLE Jacksonville. Oct. 25 (Spl.) Jim Grigsby, Jr., is the latest victim of the bicycle stealing epidemic which has prevailed here for the past several days. Grigsby's blue and white Col- son bike was taken from the school yard Monday and was later abandoned near the Bybce corner, where it was seen and reported by passersby. Before the owner could recover il. the bicycle again disappeared. Job Increase Noted Washington. Oct. 25. (AP) Secretary Perkins reported to day an increase of more than 700,000 in manufacturing em ployment from mid-July to mid October. A steady increase in Jobs, she said, began in the early summer. Jacksonville Meeting. Jacksonville. Oct. 25. (Spl.) Missionary society of the Pres byterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. Reva Henspetcr, Thursday at 2 p. m. All inter ested ladies arc Invited. of Portland OREGON. WEDNESDAY. OLD TRADJTION IS BACK OF OREGON'S MDJTARYSERVICE Sterling Record Is Brought To Mind By Attainment Of National Guard Goal By Victor Dallaire U. P. Staff Correspondent. Salem. (UP) When the na tional guard of Oregon com pleted its quota of enlistments tile first in the United States under the present limited emergency, it added to a tradi tion of armed service that ante dates Oregon's statehood. The first residents of the Ore gon territory were necessarily armed and prepared to protect their homes from hostile In dians. The idea of military ser vice for the protection of the state and country seems to have been handed down from these pioneers, although at that time no permanent organization such as the national guard existed. When the Oregon rifles regi ment of the regular army ar rived at Vancouver in 1849, the pioneers constituted an auxili ary force to assist them in con trolling the Indians. Sympathies Divided. In the American civil war. sympathies were divided and the long overland crossing was formidable geographical bar rier, but even with those ob stacles, 2,800 Oregonians fought In the union forces. It Is pre sumcd that others, though no tabulation was made, served in the Confederate ranks. No complete records of the later Indian wars are available but it has been conservatively estimated that over 6,000 Ore gonians saw service in the Mo doc, Nez Perce, Cayuse, Rogue River and Yakima Indian cam paigns. . When President William Mc- Kinlcy issued the first call for volunteers for the Spanish American war, Oregon respond ed at once by furnishing a com plete regiment of infantry. The regiment saw long service in the Philippines during the war and in the insurrection which fol lowed the surrender of the Span ish forces. Mexican Service. The Oregon national guard served in the Mexican border trouble in the year before Amer ica entered the World war. Brightest spot in the military record of the state is the World war when Oregon was the first state in the union to recruit all national guard units to full strenght. Mobilization, when war was declared, took place overnight and Oregon had the first national guard regiment ready for action. The major portion of Oregon volunteer organizations was made a part of the 41st division. This division was used as a re placement division and the sol diers from Oregon saw action in practically every battle on the western front in which Amer ican forces were engaged. First in World War. The total in service from Ore gon during the World war, in cluding soldiers, sailors, marines, nurses and yeomanettes was 44, 166. Of this number, 15.605 served overseas. 367 were kill ed in action. 663 died of other causes and 1,100 were wounded. There were 191 desertions and over the whole state there were only 17 conscientious objectors. OCTOBER 25, 1939. Two other firsts In the nation i were made by Oregon at that ; time. It was the first state to complete the war census and i the first to complete machinery j for the operation of the selective service act. The records show that Oregon would probably have filled its quota without recourse to the act, because so many volunteer ed for service that only a small part of Oregon's military forces was drafted. 'PROFESSOR JIM' Hartford. Conn. (AP) The i memory of "Professor Jim" still ! lives at Trinity college three j score years after the old Neern janitor's death. Alumni have provided funds for a new stone to mark his grave. The old, weather-beaten tomb stone said merely that James Williams was "for more. than 40 years ianitor nf Tnnitv rnl- lege." The new one, President nemsen a. ogilby says, will com memorate "Professor Jim" n "faithful over a few things." iJroiessor Jim," nearly 90 when he died, virtually was a father confessor to the students of his day and the final, undis puted authority on matters nf Trinity tradition. Education Board Meets Saturday Corvallis. Oct. 25 (AP) The state board of higher education will hold a regular meeting here Saturday morning, attend the Oregon State-Washington State football contest in' the afternoon and participate in the annual Dad's Day events in the evening. Chancellor Frederick Hunter win iupuii on enrollment ln-j creases at the five institution.: of higher learning and discuss budget adjustments. Joke In Will Milan. Italy (UP) Gilbcrto Venturelli, one of Italy's most famous clowns, played a fare well joke on his son by be queathing to him his top hat. When the son dashed the hat to the ground in anger, a paper fell out. It was a deposit slip for 30,000 lire ($1,500) in the son's name. Fined London (UP) London's first taxi driver, Joseph Brown, was fined $1.25 at Clcrkenwcll po lice court for passing a red light. Brown told the magistrate that he had driven taxis in London for 37 years. His first cab was like a hansom with the steering wheel at the rear. imam ' MAKE SURE SURE ITS Y0U SETA REAL El 4? jttZZ "" J-g?C PURE AND HELPING-A BIG, l&fV VyM A SPARKLING 7ASTY" BIS BOTTLE" JTr B A C ,N C R REX L OF CACTUS IK GARNER Rex Lampman, well known in this city, Gold Hill and in Central Point, where his moth er, Mrs. Viola Lampman re sides, is now in Washington, D. C, and associated with Jack Foy, in the song writing busi ness. Lampman has written the words, and Foy the music, for what may be a campaign song for Vice President Jack Gar ner, mentioned as a Democratic presidential nominee possibility next year. The song is titled 'Cactus Jack," has ten verses, the chorus of which runs: "Cactus Jack, he's a riding straight. Riding straight for the White House . gte. Don't look away, don't look away. You can't look away from Texas." Lampman also has furnished the lyrics for two other songs, "There's a Pony on the Range," ' THURSDAY ONLY! UMBRELLAS! Fine 16 Rib Oiled Silks Attention Blue Ribbon Shop persl Here's a Sensational One-Day Sale of fine quality Oiled Silk 16-rob Umbrellas. Assorted Fall colors in new handle styles for only 89c each. Get your Winter Um brella tomorrow at Mann's. Regular $1.29 and "The Trailing Arbutuj". With his brother, Ben Hur Lampman of the Oregonian, the Gnnp writer ooerated the GnlH Hill News in its infancy thirty years ago, and saw service on that paper and the Portland Journal. Lampman also work ed newspapers throughout the land, and was one of the orig inal reporters on the American Legion publication when it was established in Paris during the world war. Writes On War Los Angeles (AP) So bitter did Mrs. Josephine Mair feel about war that she wrote a bit ter arraignment and made the document part of the public rec ords by legally filing it with the county clerk. The lengthy statement reveals that she is mother of two sons, aged 23 and 9. Community Day Jasper, Ala. (UP) Residents of this tiny Alabama town not , only gather to clean their grave- yards, but moke a picnic out of it besides. An ad in the Jasper paper recently read: "There will be a graveyard cleaning at Tubb's Cemetery. All interested come and bring tools and din ner." BLUE RIBBON SPECIAL
