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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.
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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
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' 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 ; (
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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