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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRTEUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUART 3, 1940. Harlem Ghosts Will Meet Southern Oregon Cage Coaches Tonight MEDFORD SOPHS FACE PROSPECT IN PRELIMINARY Colorful Barnstorming Ag gregation Feature Fast Passing, Fancy Shooting. Basketball In Ita most inter esting and exciting form will come to Medford tonight when the Harlem Ghosts, traveling Negro outfit of New York, clashes with the Southern Ore gon coaches. A fast prelimin ary between the Medford high sophomores and Prospect high If slated to begin at 7:30. Always noted for their fast basketball and tricky ball-handling, the Ghosts this year are no exception, as they have been piling up numerous wins on their barnstorming trip west ward. In opposition to the fast, colorful barnstormers, the coaches will floor an imposing array of ex-college stars, now imparting their knowledge of the game to high school and college players. Coaches All Stars, All stars In their own right the coaches are combined to present a strong team. From Medford, Russ Acheson and Bill Bowerman will per form, Acheson being head bas ketball coach at the local high ichool, and Bowerman, at pres ent, coaching the sophomores They are former players at Ore gon State and Oregon, respec tively. Rlney Cook, mentor at Med ford Junior high school, will also represent Medford on the coaches' aggregation. Cook for merly played at Linfield col lege. Gens Eberhart, six foot, four inch coach at Southern Oregon College of Education, is due to tart at the center, post. Eber hart Is an ex-University of Ore gon star. Only member of the coachos' outfit not actually employed as a coach, Is Bob Hardy, who is the property of the Dotroit Tigers baseball team, i He was member of Oregon's national championship basketball team last year. Also scheduled to perform with the mentors is Leonard Patterson, ex-Southern Oregon Normal and Oregon State play er. Patterson is now coaching at Jacksonville high school. From Grants Pass will come George Hibbert, head coach of the Cavemen, who was selected on the all-Pacific Coast confer ence team, while playing at Ore gon State college. Ghosts Fast Passers. The Ghosts are reputedly the class of the traveling independ ent teams and fans can be as sured a fine evening of their favorite sport. Their game is featured by plenty of fust pass ing and unorthodox shots, with no set style of play used, as superior play and lightning-fast breaks are relied upon to pierce opponents' defense. The coaches' starting line-up will be selected from the seven players named. Complete ros ter of the Hnrlem Ghosts Is not available. The preliminary will start promptly at 7:30, with the night-cap immediately follow ing. BASKETBALL By Associated Press College basketball last night: Detroit 47, Nebraska 46. Stanford 39, Wisconsin 26. Ohio 78, Buffalo 23.' Duquesne 47, Colorado 45. Colorado Mines 37, Wyoming 28. Marshall (W. Va.) 51, California 47 (overtime). Whlttier 36, California Aggies 34. Washington State 54, Eastern Washington 27. . College of Pacific 40, San Jose State 38. CIoUik tlm for Too ut to Clas sify Ads Is 1:80 p. m. BONDS or STOCKS? Kfp Inrnrmritl I turn In fsrlr mnrnlnl markrt nm and flnanrlal hnclat . . . Knrtln KMH :O0 to S:I5, eerj hinlnrnl morning, ri-rpt Saturday. W offar a FINANCIAL Conrad, Bruce & Co. Investment Securities (Room 9 and 10, Jorkinn County Hank llilMithil) AcroM from Hit l g. National llank I.O AVCim. KF.ATTI.K AN FKA.NCIM O Ml llt ORIl. OHI C.ON FORI I AMI Lanky Laddie Will Play Here Friday ff Si . . ' 0-. This is the six-foot-four Laddie Gale, who will perform on the Medford senior high school court Friday night with the great Rubonsloin's Oregsnians from Eugene in the game with Southern Oragon College of Education. Gale was an ail-American forward last year on the national champion University of Oregon basketball team. This year he is one of many luminaries on Rubensieln's. The Rubensiein-Southern Oregon game goes on at 7:30, with no passes honored. As a nightcap, Medford high school will meet University high school of Eugene in its first important inlerscholastic game of the year. Passes will be honored at the high school games. WILL TOP PROGRAM IN Prince Mchalikls and Cowboy Dude Chick will be the top performers on Promoter Mack Llllard's first wrestling card of the new year in the Medford armory Monday night. King Kong Clayton, the popu lar Negro who consented to ex tend his year-end stay for a few more grapples here, will go In against the Polish Pa looka Joe Smollnskl in the mid dle event. Bob Montgomery, the Geor gia boy who needs no introduc tion to Medford wrestling fans, and Zim Zimovlch, a 200-pound Finn, will Inaugurate the 1040 mat season. They will go to the post In the curtain raiser at 8 o'clock. Promoter Llllnrd, still full of the Christmas spirit, cast dis cretion to the wind and an nounced it would be ladies' night, despite the fnct he felt confident the general excellence of his first 1040 card could fill the big armory to capacity with paid customers. So indies' night It Is and each patron buying a ducat may take one fair damsel in free. FOR TEXAS SERIES!" Los Angeles. Jan. 3. Of) niwo WHICH, KIUUIIHIC lIlflMHltt'r of the University of Oregon, riis-! closed today that a home and home series of football games with the University of Texas I had been practically completed. Under the plan, the northern ' team will go to Austin for a i game Dec. 6, 1041, and Texas i will travel to Portland for a contest Sept. 25, 1D43. Athletic boards of the two Institutions will be asked to approve the games. Cornell also said ho had complala SERVICE V ' p- J- ft h V e h( i l n Jt'- opened negotiations with the ' University of Oklahoma for a I game next fall. Oregon has an open date November 30. Fights Last Night By Associated Press T o r o n t o Dnye Castilloux, 132, Montreal, Canadian feath erweight champion, outpointed Leo Rodnk, 133, Chicago (10). White Plains, N. Y. Yoshio Nakamura, 1281!", Honolulu, outpointed Lee Harper, 128:!j, Jamaica, N. Y. (B). STUDENTS LIVE IN FIE USE Ames, In. (U.R) Four Iowa went State college students each year drive are in the Graybar build earn their lodging by fighting! ng, New York City. In a news fires. release Mr. Hoover makes clear Headquarters for fire station, Wo. z are located under one corner of the college football stadium. The assistant fire chief of Ames and another full-time fire mnn are in charge of the sta tion, but four students comprise their crew. This year the stu dents ore Willnrd Duniclson, Marathon, la.; Bob Zimmqrmnn, Merrill, la.; Bob Miller, llawnrd en, la., and Lowell McLaughlin, Marathon, In. Each student must be on duty three half days a week, every other night and every other week-end from Saturday iglit until Monday morning. Captivating Offer Bowling Green. Kv. i.D Wanna buy a jail? The 70-yenr- Jn tnn. llM Ultl with all fixtures and equipment I thereto attached." has been of-! fered for sale by the fiscal court. I The rub is that the buyer will 1 have to take the Jail home with him. The court has sold the lot on which the old structure stands. Debts Are Long St. Joseph. Mo. i.Ii St. Jo- ,cnn bnks still are making good , on scrip issuea in me panic ol ; nnn any amount will be 1907. Three pieces, one for $1, j accepted. one for 50 cents and one for 25 cents recently were mailed in' Despite tile increase In the from Leavenworth. Kans.. for m,mui'r of new chemical indus redemption. The bank paid par. ' tr"'s am1 t1"" marked expansion I o' established industries, uncm- Planty Of Scrsp pluyment in the chemist nrofe. Houston, Tex. i.Ti Scrap iron and steel prime food for the Jaws of war will float in tre mendous quantities, barring ac cident, to British ports in the next 12 months. Exporters esti mate 350.000 tons of 800.0,10 ordered by Great Britain will be sent from Gulf ports. Sinuous Of War Paris il'i French soldiers at me iioiu win oe lriauu to tue i, French can can, the dance that v. thrilled their fathers at the end j of the last century. A Tans ni-:ht ' dub announced that it is s. n.l n ; ( its troune of can i-in lmi : i.i .1 1 it (h. .I A" ' ' ' if ' imilnifiHin;itWii FII RELIEF FUND IGIIZAIN IS Portland, Ore. A drive for funds for the Finnish civilian population, recently launched by the Hon. Herbert Hoover, at the request of the prime minister of Finland, is now well under way throughout the United States, and is being or ganized in Orcson under direc tion of Philip H. Carroll, Port land, whose experience in vari ous foreign countries tinder Mr Hoover as relief administrator was extensive. National headmtartcrs for the the purnnsc for which the mon- cy received will be used. It is as follows: "The field of the Finnish relif fund is the major prob lem of distress of the civilian population due to destitu tion, food shortage, textiles, shelter, care of children, movements and support of refugees, and the other ma jor problems which affect civilian populations in war and which are much the largest part of relief to such populations. We do not, therefore, enter into the field outlined officially by the Red Cros. and which it so com petently occupies." ' Mayor Joseph K. Carson. Jr.. j has already set up a committee Tnml 1 ,,1. . . i . Iomm Ulk, 't .chairman, '',5.ors of e'"" Oregon . fl btcn r,liuested to name f'."" . Rrmlps for ,,,c Purpose of planning the raising of funds u.rougli direct appeal or other wise, and citizens of smaller communities also are urged to organize a Finnish relief pro gram. All checks should be made Payable to the Finnish relief ion is generally found in the lowest levels, reports the Amer ican Chemical Society. A Phone 1300 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service j AND DEFENSE TAX IContlnued trom tag One.) entitled to action on our part and not merely admonitions of optimism or lectures on. eco nomic law," he said. "Some In our midst have sought to Instill a feeling of fear and defeatism in the minds of the American people about this problem. "To face the task of finding jobs faster than invention can take them away is not defeat ism. To warble easy platitudes that if we will only go back to the ways that have failed, every thing will be all right is not courage." In his discussion of national defense Mr. Roosevelt said that "for several years past we have been compelled to strengthen our own national defense." Defense Common Sense mat nas created a very large portion of our treasury de ficits," he declared. "This year in the light of continuing world uncertainty, I am asking the congress for army and navy in creases which are based not on panic but on common sense. "They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as un realistic persons claiming super ior private information would demand. "As will appear in the annual budget tomorrow, the only im portant increase in any part of the budget is the estimate for national defense. Practically all other items show a reduction. "Therefore, in the hope that we can continue In these days of increasing economic prosperity to reduce the federal deficit, I am asking the congress to levy sufficient additional taxes to meet the emergency spending for national defense." The stress placed on problems created by a world at war, the president said, does not mean the government is abandoning or overlooking the great signifi cance of domestic policies. But for the most part, he touched but briefly on those policies, to examine in a coldly analytical manner the ways in which con flicts across the seas have left an Imprint on America and her citizens. Peaca Hope Repeated Standing on the house rost rum before a battery of micro phones and with a great Ameri can flag draped from the pan eled wall behind him, Mr. Roose velt declared as he had in pre vious addresses that he hoped the United States would not be come involved in those wars. Yet, he asserted, "there is a vast difference between keeping out of war and pretending that this war is none of our busi ness." The senators, representatives, cabinet members and Invited guests who packed the chamber and its galleries listened intent ly as he spoke. A step or so above and behind him on the rostrum sat Vice-President Gar ner and Speaker Bankhead also paying close heed to every word of the message which they and the senate and house majority leaders went over In the rough with the chief executive yester day. With his discussion of inter national problems, the president linked a defense of the recipro cal trade treaty program a pro gram which has given every in dication of becoming one of the storm centers of the session. Trade Act Needed The trade agreements act, he said, "should be extended as an indispensable part of the foun dation of any stable and durable peace." He added: "The first president of the United States warned us against entangling foreign alliances. The present president of the United States subscribes to and follows that precept. "But trade cooperation with the rest of the world does not violate that precept in any way." At that point, Mr. Roosevelt made a transition to the defense portions of his speech: "Even as through these trade Indian & Chan Uft-4 jur nrrnai irmruj, uo hat: A tin ma. Half rr. Stnmarh M fJU Trunhlr, Cnmtlpatloti Chronic Couth. Khr iimtlim. SI nut Trouhlr. Ptlrs, Arthrlltt, Co i hi, Krifma, Anni1li UK High HltKKl l'riirc. Prom ale, Mrart l.Urr. Itltttirlfr, Klrtnrtr. t.unss ntMMl, I Hilary trouble. II r b i will fUf yon rvllff. t3A E. M.iln NOW OPEN DAILY in a. tn. to A:St p. m. r.xcrpt Wed. Nrd. 10 a. m. to If agreements we prepare to co operate in a world that wants peace, we must likewise be pre pared to take care of ourselves if the world cannot attain peace," he said. "For several years past we have been compelled to strength en our own national defense. That has created a very large portion of our treasury deficits. Defense Only Increase "This year in the light of con tinuing world uncertainty, I am asking the congress for army and navy increases, which are based not on panic but on com mon sense. They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as un realistic persons claiming super ior private information would demand." "As will appear in the an nual budget tomorrow," the president said, "the only import ant increase in any part of the budget is the estimate for na tional defense. Practically all other important items show a reduction. "Therefore, in the hope that we can continue in these days of increasing economic prosper ity to reduce the federal deficit, I am asking the congress to levy sufficient additional taxes to meet the emergency spending for national defense. The general welfare of the people, Mr. Roosevelt asserted, lies behind the army and navy as the ultimate line of defense. While production is back at 1029 level, he said, the unem ployment of millions supplies a symptom of unadjusted diffi culties in the economic system. Refuse Europe's Solution "We refuse the European so lution of using the unemployed to build up excessive armaments which eventually result in dic tatorships," the chief executive declared. "We encourage an American way through an increase of na tional income which is the only way we can be sure will take up the slack. Much progress has been made; much remains to be done." But he did not say how far the country had moved toward the goal he set a year aeo in his message to congress a na tional income of $80,000,000,000. At one point in his address Mr. Roosevelt said the time was long past when "any political party or any particular group can curry and capture public favor by labelling itself the 'peace party' or the 'peace bloc'." "That label," he said, "belongs to the whole United States and every right thinking man, wom an and child within it." Two Facts Paramount Out of all the military and diplomatic turmoil, propaganda and counter-propaganda of the present wars, Mr. Roosevelt went on, two facts, acknowl edged by the world, stand out: "1- Never before has the United States government "done so much as in our recent past to establish and maintain the policy of the good neighbor with its sister nations." 2. In almost every country there is a true public belief that the United States has been, and will continue to be, "a potent and active factor In seeking the reestablishment of peace." "In Recent years," he said, "we have had a clean record of peace and good will. It is an open book that cannot be twist ed or defamed. It is a record that must be continued and en larged." Although he emphasized at one point "the leadership which this nation can take when the time comes for a renewal of world peace," the chief execu tive did not venture a guess on when that time might arrive. He said he could understand the feelings of those who warn they would never consent again to the sending of American youth to fight on Europe's soil and added: "But as I remember, nobody has asked them to consent for nobody expects such an under taking. Majority Expect Peace "The overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens do not ;'?V'WASHINGTON In the center of social and diplomatic aiiairs-thit distin guished hotel caters to guests who demand the best in service . . . comfort . . . cuisine. NO T1PPINO AllOWID -i unique feature of The Dodge OS0 M50 at DOUIUfrM T SINGUt Oraefion el KARl P. ABBOTT Harmon Moocnbucble. Mgr. Tl abandon in the slightest their I hope and expectation that the 'United States will not become I involved in military participa I tion in the war." USE LOAN SYSTEM TO T C o r v a 1 1 1 s (Spl) Nineteen hundred Oregon farmers used the government's wheat loan program In securing immediate cash from their 1939 harvests, thus enabling them to await better markets before selling their wheat, according to a year end summary by the state AAA office in Corvallis. Farmers borrowed nearly three and a half million dollars from the government, putting u p approximately 5,750,000 bushels of wheat as security. These loan figures are some what smaller than those of a year ago, according to the state office, probably because of higher market prices than pre vailed in 1938. "Farmers found the loan pro gram of special value during July and August," said Will Steen of Milton, chairman of the state agricultural conserva tion committee. "During both those months, growers could borrow more on their wheat from the government than they could get on the market. If there had been no loan pro gram, many would have been forced to sell on the low mar ket and would have lost thou sands of dollars." Steen pointed out, also, that the loan program was a sus taining influence on American wheat markets which normally follow world market trends. This past year the Liverpool wheat market fell to the lowest point since 1592 and Oregon farmers might have expected to get only feed grain prices for their wheat, according to Steen. Yet at no time did the Amer ican market fall very far below the level of 50 to 60 cents set by the loan program, compared with 1932 farm prices as low as 25 cents with higher world prices than this past year. To date, Oregon farmers have redeemed less than 20 percent of their wheat under loan de spite current higher prices, Steen said, indicating they are satisfied at present with the loan return. Many are holding for a possible further rise be fore there will be a general move to redeem wheat and sell it. December 31 was the final date for borrowing on the 1939 loan program. All wheat loans will mature on April 30, 1940. Aluminum Arch Rome (yP) Corresponding to the trylon and perisphere of New York's world fair, the theme center of Rome's world exposition in 1942, is to be a mammoth arch 325 feet, high, with a span of 756 feet, made entirely of Italian aluminum. Does Her Bit Houston, Tex. (IP) The Red Cross chapter here, which has been accepting donations for the aid of Polish refugees, received an envelope bearing a Houston postmark. Enclosed were two one-dollar bills folded neatly within a sheet of tablet paper on which was written: "You have heard of the widow's mite. Well, this is an old maid's." The note was unsigned. l A Feel at Home in "The Heart of Portland" Comfort ConTenlenra Courtesy Service Altracihe Rates: Detached bath.. With balh Hotel Cornelius S1J s.w. Park Tort land BEN O. IN THE HEART OF THE CITY SEED CROP YIELD, REPORTS REVEAL Corvallis (Spl.) Oregon'i leading position in the produc tion of many field crop seeds is emphasized in the current federal crop report summariz ing agricultural production in the United States for 1939, says G. R. Hyslop, head of the divis ion of plant industries at Ore gon State college. The official figures for 1939 showed Oregon with the highest yield per acre of alsike clover among all the commercial seed-producing states in the country. Oregon also compared well in red clover and alfalfa seed pro duction. Average yield of alsike clover seed in Oregon was 5.7 bushels in 1939, 1.2 bushels per acre more than the production in Ida ho and from two to five times the acre production in the other commercial states. In 1938 Ida ho alone exceeded the Oregon average yield. In total produc tion of alsike clover seed Ore gon has exceeded all other states for the past two years and is credited with 89,000 bushels or 5,340,000 pounds in 1939. Oregon also occupies an en viable position in red clover seed production, says Hyslop, having the third highest yield per acre among the states dur ing the past two years, being exceeded in yield per acre only by Washington and Idaho. Ore gon's average for 1939 was 3 bushels an acre with a total production of 49,000 bushels or 2.940.000 Bounds. This nlao. Oregon clover seed production ai a mtie over 8,250,000 pounds with a value in excess of SI. 250,000. Alfalfa seed production is im portant in Oregon which is one of the high yielding states. Total yield, however, is slightly below that of last year while the dry season erst of the Rocky moun tains has resulted in a much larger yield of seed there than heretofore. This climatic condi tion tended to influence not on ly the yield per acre but the acreane that was saved for seed purposes. Larger acreages of alfalfa and red and alsike clover are expected in Oregon for 1940. With the prospects of nearly double the plantings of hairy vetch and winter peas, the seed business in Oregon should be a good one for 1941, Hyslop predicted. PLANETS PROVE YEAR OF ELOOD Rome (U.R) The scientific confirmation that the deluge ac tually occurred in the days of Noah and that the mythical island of Atlantis existed 10 000 years B.C., is declared to have been reached by the famed Italian scientist and as tronomer, Prof Raffaele Ben dandi. In an exclusive interview by telephone from his hometown of Faenza, Prof. Bendandl said that his recent discovery of four planets beyond. Neptune gave him the first indication of which he has been working ever since. .41.00 up . SI M op CRIMSON, MT. ilia Eu3 ill SiijJ Park At.. Hotel 33 S.w. park fort land l22 A - .... " H' U1HKL' IU1 lU llUl'l'Jj. f-fl MaBManaBeaeeaWBSflHaMBsaaaaai
