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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MErFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 20. 1940. FACE THREB I BY USE OF WOOD FOR DRILL SHIPS Portland. Aug. 20. l.V A "bottleneck" is developing in the metal airplane industry, boosting the northwest's natur al defence possibilities through the manufacture of wooden training planes, Lieut. -Col. Jo seph L. Stromme said yesterday. The army air corps industry planning and procurement of ficer said thai 'already the met al plane industry can't get de liveries of raw materials in less than from eight to ten weeks." Skilled mechanics also are lack ing, he added. Colonel Stromme, in the northwest for a survey of spruce and other suitable airplane woods, told an interviewer that Portland has a "wonderful op portunity" to take a pi Act in the defense program by producing wood training planes. He pointed out thai wood Is being used by EuroDean nations for training and observation planes because of its availabil ity and the speed at which it can be worked. LIVESTOCK to feedlot $8): laivl)r she stock run. eteedy; odd head 640-700 lb heifera 7J0, frw 7: deilrabie range cows abeent. lata yesterday JSC lower. 3 load 50 4 75; few fleshy cirai $S 80: cannera and cuttera moat it 13 SO 60: odd graae bulls UaJO, lk?hte to $S&0. Calvee: Salable 10: nominal, food to choice vealere quoted $10-50$ 11 SO; good slaughter cairea )H 1040. Sheep: Salable 1.SO0: attire, around 3Se higher: a decie wooled 75 lb. lamba MRS. 10 head out: J decka 73 lb. ahom medium to food lamba u. aorted 90 percent at 17: horn ewea quoted 11-50 e 3 40. German Bomb Blasts a Crater at Croydon rhlraxo Chicago. Aug. 20. (AP-CSDAI Salable hoee: 14.000: total 17.000: general trade steady to 10c lower than Monday a average, top 10 93 epartngly: bulk good and choice 190. 340 Iba. as 65 .90: 340-370 lba. gen erally $8 SO .73. Salable iheep: 8.500: total 8500: late Monday's spring lambs strong to 10c higher; fat sheep scarce, steady: bulk good and choice western prlng lambs 9 38: few medium to good lota sorted $883: beat names 19.13 m35: throwoutal argely $7.50 down: one double medium weight western feeding lamba $8.40; today's trade very alow. Salable Cattle: 7.000: calves 1,000: general trade leas active, choice fed steers and all yearlings steady how ever, and strictly grain fed heifers strong; order buyers still a competl tlve factor In general markets: but steers of value to sell at $11 down ward 10ctlSc lower: Instances 35c off on common and medium kind: largely steer run; top $13.13 paid for long yearlings: grassy kind scarce however: fed heifers scarce; compara tively liberal run grass cows here. io15c lower. Portland Portland, Ore., Aug. 30. (AP-U-8 D.A.) Hogs: 400, active, around 13c 9 33c lower than early Monday, strong with close, good-choice 170 313 lb. drlvelns $7,104.35. 333-380 lb. SUS09.73. light lights $8,334.75, packing sows $4.30(9 5.35, few fairly good feeders $6.50. medium $3.50. Cattle: 100. calves 35. alow, steady with Monday's close, weak to 35c lower late last week, scattering com mon grass steers SB SO 7.25. grass fat steers salable $9.30. good light grain feds eligible to above $10, few short fed steers around $10, com mon heifers $5.35 a .50. beet grass heifers $7.73. canner-common cowa $3.2Sit4.50, very few dairy type cows $4.75, and above, good beef cows salable IS. 76 (98.25. good sausage bulls $7, light euttery bulls salable $5. good-choice vealers S3 SO a 10.50. common-medium $7 9. Sheep: 300. steady-good -choice 85 87 lb. trucked In spring lambs $7.75 8 10. carload lota quotable $8.35: feed lamba salable $8.50 7.35. few yearllnga $3, good fat ewes $3.35 .50. common $1.50 I DANCTOF FISH Phenomenon of Nature Oc curs Only On Beaches of Southern California Portland Wheat Portland Portland, Ore., Aug. 30. (API Wheat: Open High Low Close Sept. .70 .70 .70 .70 Cash grain: Oata, No. a, 38 lb. white $24. Barley, No. a, 45 lb. bearded white $20. No. 1 flak $1,531. Caah wheat (bid): soft white 734e. western white 73'4C, western red Tic. Hard red winter, ordinary 704e, tl percent 734c, 13 percent 73,e. 18 percent 74c. 14 percent 73c. Hard white. Baart, 13 percent 78c. 13 percent 80c, 14 percent 83c. Today'a car receipts: wheat 143. barley 1, flour 10, corn 8, oata a. mlllfeed 1. South "-an Francisco South San Francisco, Aug. 30. (AP-USDA) Hogs: Salable 800: stesdy to 10c lower to packers; most 190-3O3 lb. butchers $7,404.60, few 341 lb. $7: odd packing sows $5. Cettle:salable 60: steers nominal: odd head holdover 995-1.135 lb. steers A one-man amy hut he'll win a war Chicago Wheat Chicago Chicago. Aug. 30. (API Wheat futurea exhibited a firm tone today and the advancea continued through out the session. Mill buying, short covering and the strength displayed at Minneapolis were factora contrib uting to the rise. The May future advanced as much aa two cents a bushel. (wheat) Sep. Dec. May Open High Low Close .88', .70'J .684 .70j .72 , .70S -73 "4 ,734 .714 .73'4 . .70S . .71 Portland Produce Portland Portland. Aug. 30 AP) Produce prleee steady, unchsnged. TO OIL-FIELD operations in distant Saudi Arabia this Company has just dispatched a one-man expeditionary force. Half across the world he marches covering distances of which Alexander's army never dreamed to war on danger. He is a safety engineer, www The oil fields are where he men work. Derricks are high. Casings are heavy. Nitro-glyc-erine is well, nitro-glycerine. In Saudi Arabia exists extra hazards of heat and desert and the inexperiences of many native workmen. But we know all these threats can be licked. www Guarded from the beginning by general safety rules, this job will be combed expertly for every danger which is peculiar to it. Eventually it will be made as safe as walking down the street if they had streets in that land of dunes and vacant distances, sand, and empty sky. www However far away Standard may send its people seeking to reinforce this nation's oil reserves just that far does this Company extend those policies created for their protection. Our salety policy win assure pn rsl protection for those in Ssudi Arabia just as it does for our thousands of employees throughout the Pacific Vi'est, Guarding them otherwise is many another policy with an understanding management which buffers them from dan gers which are not physical but can cause equally grevjous hurt. Standard Oil Company of California Wall St. Reports San Francisco (U.B One of the most amazing examples of synchronization by Mother Na ture to attain her ends has been manifest on the beaches of southern California, according to Dr. Frances N. Clark, of the bureau of marine fisheries here. Back of the strange sight of fish that come out of the ocean and dance in the moonlight lies an interesting story. Dr. Clark said, of synchronization by na ture of tides, moonlight and re production periods that appear almost without parallel in the annals of science. The fish is the grunion. Why it only conies up on the beaches of southern California, and not elsewhere so far as is known, to execute its weird dance has not been ascertained. Stud? Begun In 1919 Little was known of what lay back of the moonlight dancing on the beaches till 1919. accord ing to Dr. Clark. Then it became known that it was fur spawning. Then, little by little, the veil of mystery was withdrawn and the whole tale of nature's syn chronization was revealed and reduced to cold statistics. 'The reason for these brief excursions out of the sea onto the shore during only a few nights of the spring and sum mer was found to be for the pur pose of burying their eggs in the sand." Dr. Clark related. "The time of the spawning is so mysteriously synchronized that the fish are ready to spawn only on three or four nights when occur the exceptionally high tides accompanying the full and dark of the moon. High Tide, Full Moon "The eggs ripen in the female at two-week intervals that syn chronize with the full moon and the high tides. "The eggs are deposited In the said by the female and are fertilized by the male, who. al so, is washed up onto the beach by the high tides. "These eggs lie in the sand for two weeks and hatch out baby grunion just at the time synchronized for the next high tide, which washes them out to sea. So perfectly has nature syn chronized the whole affair and the bureau of marine fisheries , has reduced it to such cold cal. cuiation, tnat the bureau was able to announce this year's schedule for the grunions even to the hour. Their first appear ance was at 8:30 p.m. on August 3 and the last at 12:13 a.m. on August 6. i Cloalng time for Too Lata to CUaw aify Ada la 1:30 p. m. Uet Mall Tribune want ads. Portland, Aug. 20. GTi Sen ator Holman (R-Ore.) added his endorsement today to the Re publican presidential ticket. He issued the following formal press release: , "I shall vote for the election of YYillki and McNaty with en thusiasm because I thereby shall aid in securing for the presi dency one who has demonstra ted economy and efficiency in the management of administra tive work such as is required in the presidency." Holman arrived here by plane from Washington, D.C, yesterday. Meteorological Report By r. . WEATHER Ht'KCAU mill This picture, sent by cable irom London to New York, shows a bomb crater made when German planes raided the Croydon district, an airport suburb of London. The air ministry an nounced that every plane which took part in the Croydon raid was dtstroytd before it got back to Germany. Bigger raids then followed on Britain. WOMEN ARE CALLED MENTALLY LAZY pression that politics Is a dry subject. "Politics can be just as exciting as any other subject," she said. "The idea that it is dull is due to a lack of understanding." Pittsburgh1 (UK) A woman professor at the University of Pittsburgh believes the average American woman has a lazy at titude toward politics and is in clined to rely on her husband's advice as to how she votes. Dr. Rosalind L. Branning, one of the few women instructors in political science, deserted the ranks of her sex to make the charge, but tempered it by as serting that both men and wo men should make a deeper study of politics. "Too many women are prone to vote only on the advice of others," Dr. Branning said. "Here m America, where wom en have a voice in the govern ment, they should take an ac tive interest in politics." Dr. Branning dispels the im- Radio Highlights rope WEAF-NBC, 3:15. 3:45; CBS, 4:53, 8:30; MBS 3:30, 6 WJZ-NBC 6 . . . army war games MBS 715 Interviews. WABC-CBS 6.15 Sen. Bur ton K. Wheeler replying to Ad miral Standley. What to expect Wednesday: Europe NBC, 4 a. m., 9:45 a.m.; CBS 4 a.m., 2:45 p.m. Foreraide Medford and vicinity: Pair tonight and Wednesday, little change la tem perature. Oregon: Clenerally fair tonight and Wednesday, but foga on the coast and In the northweat portion Wed nesday evening, slightly cooler In northeast portion tonight, moderate northweat wind off the coaat. Loral Data Temperature a year ago today: hlgheat 101, lowest 88. Total monthly precipitation, trace; deficiency for the month, .19 Inches. Total precipitation since Septem ber 1, 1839, 33 80 Inchea; excess for the aeaaon 4.88 Inchea. Relative humidity at A rf m. yea terday 33 percent; S a. m. today 78 percent. Tomorrow: aunrlae 5:38 a. m., aun- aet 7:03 p. m. Br C. E. Buttertield Associated Press Radio Editor (Time is Pacific Standard) New York, Aug. 20. Defense and war talk get a lot of time on the air tonight. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) re plies over CBS at 6:15 to Ad miral William H. Standley's pro posal the U. S. turn over re conditioned destroyers to Eng land. Standley also said con gress should declare a state of national emergency and advo cated military conscription. Wheeler has been a strong toe of- the Burke-Wadsworth con scription bill. At 7:15 Major Leonard H. Na son will describe the day's activi ties during maneuvers of the first army corps. Nason's broad cast will be over MBS. Tuning tonight (Tuesday): Eu- Obaervatlons Taken at 4:10 a. m. ItO Meridian Time. It h -! f r N Is I Towanda, N. Y., Aug. 20. (P) Let Ralph Pickering keep digging on the C. A. Pratt farm and there's no telling what he'll find. Several days ago while dig ging a silo pit he turned up a gold watch lost by Prait'8 fath er 20 years ago. A day later he dug up a watch fob, a souvenir of the 50th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ada la 1:30 p. m. Boles . Boston M 88 88 81 88 Chicago Denver Eureka Havre S3 Loa Arareles .!0l Medford $1 New York ... Omaha Phoenix Portland . Reno Roeeburg . Salt Lake San Francisco 71 Seattle 78 Spokane pa Wash., D. C 83 Yakima 83 74 100 77 B8 83 8 70 83 53 8$ St 81 88 85 84 7a 58 47 83 88 53 81 8t 80 70 .00 P Cloudy .18 Cloudy T P Cloudy AO Cloudy .00 Poggy M Clear .00 Clear M Clear J00 Clear .00 P Cloudy .00 Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear .13 P Cloudy .00 P Cloudy .00 .00 .00 M T M Use Mall Tribune want ads. Hr Distributed by Dairy It Produce Snider Company New York, Aug. 20. (P) The stock market displayed mod est recovery signs today, al though traders apparently failed to derive much inspiration from war dispatches. Dealings were just about as slow as in yesterday's session which tacked up the smallest volume in 24 years. Near the second hour gains of fractions to a point were sprinkled over the list. Today's closing prices for 84 se lected atocks follow: Al. chem. & Dye "PTitd Am. Can 04' A. T. at T. is', Anaconda Atch. T. A B. P. . Bendlx Avla. Beth. Steel Caterpillar Tract. Chrysler . CurtlM-Wrlght Douglas Acft. DuPont , , Gen. Elee. Oen. Poods Oen. Mot Int. Harvest. Johns-Man. Kennecott Monty Ward No. Amn. Am. . North Amer. Penney U. C.) Penna. R. R. Phillips Pet Radio j Sou. Pac. j Std. Branda ' St. Oil Cal. St. Oil N. J. I Trans. Amer. Cnlon Carb. Unit. Aircraft i Cnlted Airline i U. S- Steel n 13'i 39 , 78", . 43, . 70'. . 7 . 70 l3i; . 33'i 45H 43 . 58 . 38 , , 40 . 19', !.'. . 81 , 19 83i, 4S 75, . 8', 17S . 33", 4', . 8 . 3SV, . !', , 61',' Portland Strike Ends Portland, Aug. 20. (P) A five-day strike of 400 members of the Portland local. Interna tional Ladies Garment Workers' union, ended yesterday follow ing the signing of contracts with six shops, M. L. Labby, union official, announced. Just a Boy Again Independence, Mo., Aug. 20. (Pi Fellow workers told Or veal Robinson they'd ' wax" the whiskers he had grown for an "old settlers" celebration and they used rubber cement for the waxing process. The whiskers came off with the cement. Hastings, Neb.. Aug. 20. IIP) Five-year-old Billy Densford Is thanking his lucky stars he must have a lot of them that he is alive. He tumbled from the speeding car of his parents onto a paved highway here and escaped with severe bruises. California Butter Sail Pranclaro. Aug. 30. 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