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MATE TRIBUNE. tlEDFORP. CREGON. SUNDAY. JULY g. 1941 PARE THREW F. R. WILL SETTLE President And Congressional Leaders Dated For Con ference On Question. lames Hilton Finds Shangri-La and Loses It Somewhere in Mountains of Southern Oregon Wuhlneton. July 8 A usualy well-informed mem ber of congress said today that President Roosevelt probably would settle next week a con troversy between administration officials and leaders on capitol hill over the question of enact ing price-fixing legislation. This informant said that Leo Henderson, chief of the govern ment's crice fixing set-up. was urging Mr. Roosevelt to reconv mend mandatory price-fixing to congress promptly. Henderson recently said "the honeymoon is over" so far as voluntary gov ernment-industry cooperation to 4 fix prices was concerned. At the capitol, it was reported that some white House lieuten ants wanted the president to de lay any recommendation for price fixing. They believed, it was said, that the legislation would stir up a long senate con troversy and prevent a projec ted rest period for the chamber while the house is working on the new tax bill. To Confer Mendar The question of whether the legislation will be sought im mediately may be threshed out w at a conference between the president and his congressional leaders Monday. Senator Hill (D-Ala). the act Ing majority leader, told report ers that any price measure un doubtedly "will be pretty thor oughly gone into, but in the fin- 1 analysis the congress prob ably would take favorable ac tion. "It is a very far-reaching and complicated question. Hill add ed, "and I have heard nothing to indicate that it would be brought up at once." Oppose Free Hand Senate Republicans were re ported by one of their number to be almost solidly opposed to granting the administration free hand to fix prices, and a bloc of farm-state legislators al ready is at work to block any such proposal. The farm group, led by Chair man Smith ID-SC), of the sen ate agriculture committee, adop ted a resolution this week stat ing that government efforts at price fixing should be delayed "until a definite policy has been adopted by congress." Henderson and other price of ficials conferred with house leaders this week, and the house The who r4 aa to0 w as. Von picture. -Coal Hortiofl." will rcU Aulaor JtmH Hl'lon'a 1alM of shangrl. La. - fanciful ratrast 'rom th troubled world. Such a riavan frona ear. Hi:ioo sara ha apiad whna flylnf mr MuUwn Or.goa. H. d.acnbu rt In tbla artltw enrt d.naad frooa Tha Or.fwlan Daculal amo tion. TIM coeapMH, erttcl, will apeaar July BY RICHARD L. NEUBERGER Spaclai Wntar. Tee Oragoeiea Millions of men and women have heard of Shangri-La. They have seen it in the movies, read about it in a novel which went into 18 printings and they have visioned it in their dreams and fantasies. Shangri-La is the mythical aurora-like sanctuary in the mountains of Tibet con ceived by James Hilton in his famous book "Lost Horizon." Each individual has iiis own estimate of Shangri-La. But what is James Hilton's esti mate? In the opinion of the author of Shangri-La, the most striking actual counterpart of that idyllic retreat is in the up lands along the Oregon-California border. Hilton's geographical descrip tion is not much more specific than that, except that the place is somewhere between Mount Shasta's white dome and the Medford airport. Just Where la Itt Exactly where is this Ameri can version of Shangri-La? Is It Colestine, Oregon, or Horn brook, California, or any of a score of other hamlets and vil lages which dot the forests of that region? 1 STARTS CHECK-UP ON DEFENSE GAIN Detailed Reports Given Ex ecutive On Return From Relaxation In New York. Si. JUaaseseav .-" This Is Hollywood's conception of Shangri-La, a cluster of airy pavilions perched in grim Himalaya mountains of Asia. Not even James Hilton is pre cisely sure where it is. He only is sure that somewhere, some place, in the neighborhood of the Rogue river ana bnasia national forests sleeps the quiet little western town, which re calls to him the legendary clus ter of pavilions and dwellings he created in "Lost Horizon." How did it all start? A few weeks ago the noted author flew north from Culver City, California, where he is writing movies, to speak before the In land Empire Education associa tion at Spokane. As his United Air Line plane passed north west of Mount Shasta Hilton was looking out the window at the rugged country far below. Nestled in the tree-carpeted foothills he saw a village, a group of houses clustered around a clearing like straw berries on a shortcake. Plane Beyond Shasta The plane was somewhat be yond Mount Shasta's glacier- barricaded ramparts when he first spied the place. Huge motors thrumming, the ship was soon past the village. Hil ton watched with fascinated at tention until the group of wood en buildings was swallowed by the green mantle of fir and pine. Even after the place had vanished from sight he con tinued to search for it in the sprawling countryside behind the plane. Finally he settled I back in a reverie and thought : over what he had seen. Author James Hilton says he ! At Seattle, and later in Spo found real "Shangri-La" in i kane, he said that the nearest mountains of southern Oregon approach to Shangri-La of which he knew was "a little town, up in the Oregon or Cal ifornia mountains, that I flew over a couple of days ago. Mil lions of people in Europe would think that town was Heaven. The village was on the right of our plane, very close to the border between California and Oregon." Retreat From Chaos As ha looked from the air plane that Sunday morning a few weeks ago James Hilton unquestionably did not see Shangri-La as conceived by the lavish designers of Hollywood. Nor did he glimpse his own airy pavilions clinging to the grim face of the Himalayas. What he sighted was the al legorical Shangri-La, the sym bolic retreat, the place quiet and apart from the bombs and chaos and turmoil of a world In crisis. Where is that place, a place which connotes to the author of "Lost Horiron" mythical village familiar to millions? Hilton insists he will make every effort to revisit the area. Perhaps he can combine air and land transportation in his hunt. He can fly over the terrain, looking for hamlets which are potential Shangri-Las, and then he can inspect the places more closely by cur. In the mean while, at any rate, the search is open to everyone and not alone the author of "Lost Hori zon." To fishing, camping, hunting, driving and other at tractions of southern Oregon and northern California now is added another Shangri-La. Mink Coat Starts Three-Day Sneeze Atlanta, Ga., July S. W) The Atlanta Constitution's fashion writer la allergic to mink coats. She held a $3,500 mink coat to be photographed for a fashion article illustration. Brushed it gently against ber face and sneezed. She hai been sneering three days. Her husband has been smil ing three days, confident he won't have to buy her a mink coat. Portland Stork Busy On Fourth Portland, July 5 (PI The stork had no time for a Fourth of July holiday or fireworks yesterday. Portland hospitals re ported that he delivered 12 babies, nine of them boys. Cm Ua.ll Tribune want ada. FOR BALB Dining room aulte. WMt and. TOR SALE 14-foot boat. Metal wit air chamber. Factory made. Call at 33 South Riverside. Prion 361)8, Too Late to Classify FOR 6AUE or RENT 7 -room hou. 1013 South OftktUlt. Opn 9 to 13 a. m. dally. Spectacular Northern Lights Give Medford Viewers ThriD (By The Associated Press) A display of northern lights provided the finishing touch last night (Friday) to an Oregon Fourth of July celebration that witnessed record crowds at resorts and community festivals. New York, July 5. (rP Magnetic earth currents early ..""..-."Tr-irritoday disrupted wire and wire- iy rejei-itru Bugacrjicu rckjisia-, . . . tion. German Attache Takes Own Life Mount Vernon, N. Y., July 8. Julius Otto, 54, attached to the German consulate gen eral in New York before it was closed last week by order of the U. S. government, hanged him self with a sash cord in the bathroom of his home here to day, police said. Otto was the second such L nazi to take his life this week. In Washington Tuesday, Hein- rich Kurt W. Nostiz, adminis trative clerk in the German em bassy, shot himself to death. Owen Flying East To Meet Sprague Salem. July 8. (IP) Jerrold Owen, Oregon civilian defense , coordinator, said today he would leave Portland by air plane at 5:50 p. m. Sunday for New York City to meet Gov. Charles A. Sprague and confer with National Coordinator Fio rello H. LaGuardia. He plans to return to Salem Thursday. less communications several hours before dawn blacked out all radio and cable contact with Europe. The disturbances were de scribed by technicians as akin to those sometimes caused by aurora borealis, or northern lights. The aurora borealis thrilled a number of southern Oregon residents in the early hours yesterday morning and provided a spectacular climax to the nation's Fourth of July cele bration. "It gave me the. biggest thrill I've ever had and it showed how puny man's efforts are when comnared with nature's." said Mrs. Dave Gould of 223 West Jackson boulevard who first saw the "northern lights" from a boat on Lake O' Woods a short time after midnight Friday. Max C. Henne, manager of United Air Lines here, said that the company's radio communi cation had been "fading or skipping" the past couple of days, a condition usually no ticed whenever the aurora bo realis appears. MONTANA WILL LOSE SEVEN CCC CAMPS Mr. and Mrs. Gould were boating with Miss Maude Ab bott, and Eldred W. Corley, of Medford, when they saw the lights about 12:30 a. m. yester day. At first there were Just beams of white light but as the morning wore on the rays took on color, red, violet, green and other vivid hues, Mrs. Gould related. Driving home, Mr. Gould awakened his three young children, Norman, Don ald and Jerry, so that they might see the spectacular light. The illumination remained visi ble to them until about 3 a. m., Mrs. Gould related. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbef Stevens of Route 4, Box 106, also re ported seeing the lights shortly after they had returned home from a trip to Lakeview. Mrs. Stevens said she had seen the aurora borealis before but this was the first time she noticed the light in the form of curtains as background for the colored illumination in front. The light filled quarter of the heavens and extended slight1 ly east of the municipal airport and around Roxy Ann, Mrs. Stevens stated. Missoula, Mont., July S. UP) A third reduction ' of CCC camps in the northern Rocky Mountain forest region will trim seven Montana camps from the list immediately. Major Evan W. Kelley, regional for ester, said today. Major Kelley said the camps would be abandoned but the men would be distributed among other camps to fill exist ing or expected shortages. rWin A LOAN CAN BE OBTAINED HERE Quickly! We do everything possible to give "while-you-wait" service. Requirement are simple. No embarrassing inquiries made among friends or relative. Repayment term to uit you. Come in or phone for a loan up to $500 . . . tomorrow! LOANS MA0I TO M IN OP DRAFT A I OREGON FINANCE CO. W. I. IHOMtS. Mir. 43 tooth Central. Dial 44J. Lit No. S-lll. M-ilt Home asmed and manaeed 1nce 192$. Washington. July 8. (IP) Rested by more than a week In the relaxing atmosphere of his Hyde Park home. President Roosevelt returned today to Washington and an immediate checkup on the situation of the nation's defenses. A few minutes after his ar rival, he was closeted with his immediate advisors on defense production and foreign relations. Reportedly, they gave him a de tailed review of developments which he had followed closely but in general outline while he was gone. Welles Reports Among his conferees were Sumner Welles, the acting sec retary of state, who gave him a report on foreign a'fairs, includ ing the expulsion of American consuls from nazi-dominated Denmark; and General George C. Marshall, the army chief of staff, who. on Thursday urged that restrictions be relaxed to permit the army to send draftees outside the Western Hemisphere. They and Henry L. Stimson, the secretary of war, James V. Forrestal, the acting secretary of the navy and Rear Admiral Royal E. Ingersoll, assistant chief of naval operations, con- suited with the chief executive for more than two hours. Meanwhile, developments re lated to the defense and foreign situations included: An announcement that Wil liam S. Knudsen, director of the office of production manage ment was planning a tour of in spection of the nation's princi pal aircraft, ship and ordnance production centers. The trip will begin on Monday in the Detroit area. 11 Marines Safe The navy received word that 11 marines en route to Lon- don who became castaways when their ship was torpedoed had been picked up and were safe. After the incident, three were missing. The eight others previously had been reported rescued. Secretary of Commerce Jones disclosed that usual regulations had been suspended to permit tankers plying the eastern coast to carry heavier loads of oil and in that way offset, in part, the eastern oil shortage. In addition, the war depart ment took cognizance of the high cost of living In Washington, crowded now with service men and government workers drawn in to fill defense posts. Only army lieutenants who are single or have independent financial means will be ordered to Wash ington in the future. AFTER 16 YEARS AND E, CHICKS Hampehlree and Rocks. weekly hatcnee In July. No advance In prlca. Central Point Hatchery. Prior SOS. WFLL CARE FOB CHILDREN during fruit season. Box 6646 Tribune. FOR RENT 6-room home, plus two bedrooma flnlahed upatalre. Hot, water heat. Fenced Tear yard, fire place, hardwood. See at 906 Queeit Ann. Unfurnished. Oliver Rogers, BCTUJ TOUR HOME NOW. Plane and P. H. A. loans arranged at oua office. Porter Lumber Company, 304 South Plr. Phone asst. FOR RENT Unfurnished 4 -room due plei. 316 Bestty. FOR RENT 6-room houee, oak floor, fireplace, east aide, Inquire 930 North Central. MORE MONET for your furniture. Tllley a Furniture. 39 South Front. FOR SALE New 6-room houae. hard wood floors. Inlaid linoleum on kitchen, utility and bath. Venetian blinds, nrvpiace, automatic- oil fur nace. Attached garage with eement floor and drlreway. Inspect this house at 660 South Holly or phone Cecil Owen at 30M. BOYSENBERRIES Picking; 6c your container. B. V. mad, West Stewart Are. today. Oood LEAVING STATE Will sacrifice foe 63SOO. terms If sold by July 12, 48 acres: 16 acres pears, some soft fruits and nuts, 16 acres farm) ground, balance wooded pasture. Good 6-room house, bam, chicken house, garag. Farm mschlnelTa electricity, good roads. S miles from Phoenix. Box 3666 Tribune. Irritated Officer Kills Youngster Cedarville, Ohio. July 5. P) Hayes A. McLean, 72, town marshal here for 28 years, con fessed today he shot and killed Walter Collins as the 19-year-old boy discharged fireworks in front of McLean's home Thurs day night. Prosecutor Marcus Shoup said. The marshal asserted that he was irritated Dy ureworxs shooters, but did not intend to kill the youngster, Shoup an nounced. SOUTHERN OREGON TO SHIP FIRST CHROME Marshfield, July 8. m Creation of county organize tions to promote development of Oregon's mineral resources was urged in letters sent today by the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce to similar groups in the state. Coincidental, the first car load of southern Oregon chrome was scheduled to leave Co quille late today for Pittsburgh, Pa. Vancouver. B. C, July 5. (CP) Mrs. David Galloway, 42, whose sight was returned by a miracle of nature after IB years blindness, gazed at me much-changed world today and declared: "There is so much to see I wonder if I shall have time to take it all In." Her sight returned to her while visiting her family recent ly in Alberta, she related to day, and doctors who had de spaired of restoring her vision were "amazed. I had been visiting my daughter, Mrs. H. J. Wilks, at Aldersyde, Alt.", she said. "We were returning to her home af ter a trip to Lethbrldge. The train stopped at a little place called Brent, Hearing voices on the platform I turned my head . . . People began to take shape on the platform and I saw a Dorter with some bags. I could not understand it. 1 thougni i was going crazy. . I was afraid to tell my daughter for fear it wasn't true. But when we got home l couio not keep it from her any longer. "I said: 'Are those red squares in your linoleum?' "She said: 'Yes, can you see them, mother?' " 'Yes, I can see them. And I can see you tool'" Mrs. Gal loway replied. EUGENE HORSE RACES CLOSED BY BAD GATE' Eugene. Ore., July 8. UP) The second day of tha Veterans of Foreign Wars horse ractng nroeram was called on xoaay following the second race. Own. ers refused to run their horses because of the small attendance, determining factor in the purses. Pat O'Brien Saves Children From Sea San Dieao. July 8. (IP) Actor Pat O'Brien rescued both of his children after a strong cross current swept them into a deep hole In tha ocean surf yesterday. Capt. Bill tiumsey oi me San Diego county lifeguards, said O'Brien carried Shawn, 8, to safety, then returned and rescued Mavourneen, 6, before guards could reach tha scene. BLOX Big wad, 63. Rough, part dry. Full Medford Fuel. Tel. 6111. WANTED Your watch and clock repairing. Work guaranteed. Rea sonable price. C. 1. Myers. 116 North Central. EIGHT CHOICE WEANER PIOS for sale. B. C. Gardner, phona Ashland 6746. FOR RENT 1 -room furnished house. 930 North Central. FOR SALE One hind Quarter of beef. Drain fed. Cold Storage Plant. IT COSTS TOn NO MORE to have the best Body and Paint work done at Daily's, 29 South Bertlett St. Medford. FOR SALE Ranae with eolls. 613. 690 Allison St, Ashland, Billings Aency. TERMITES I Wa check your houae free and five eatlmatee on cost of spraying If you have them. Phone Hubbard Bros, for further Information. FOR SALE West side income prop erty, includes one completely lure nlshed epartment plus unfurnished living qusrters for owner with, three bedrooms and piped In oil heater. Price 34660. Terma can be arranged. Charles R. Ray, Room 317 Medford Bldg. Phone 6901. PORTER Lumber Company finance) plana, resningle. repaint, remoosu Rent received from wssted spsce will more than mske the payment 304 South Fir. Phone 3861. FOR RENT Furnished 6-room house electric stove, inquire iwi a uroce ery. Adults only. WANTED Lady tor cabin and lauive dry work. California on tha Rogue, Trail. Ore. SEWINO Alterations. Draperies a specialty. Call 3396 lor appointment. WE BUT POULTRY and BOOS at your ranch. Phone us before you sell. Lon Pin poultry Co. Phona 6611. 1 1 1 flrt 90 acres, Irrigated and Is) y a) iUU clover. Neat four-room cow tage, barn for 13 cows, chick house, etc. 13 tons hay. six cows, three helfera, some furniture. All goes for above prtce. Mnijr Four acree In clover, lrrle ytCJl J gated. Four-room modem cottage, barn, chick houae. Fantlly fruit, spring water pined to house. Oars ere and cooler. One cow, hay In barn, chickens. All goes. tJAAA 40 acres, 1 Irrigated, It aStUUV tub-irrigates, all In clover. grain, garoen. Moaern lour-rooim cottage with Medford water, bam, aheds, etc. Fenced and cross fenced. Four cows, two borsea, farm mia chlncry. bam full of har. All coca. ELMER HERRITO 44 North Rlverld Dial 6367 or 4660 ACREAGE FOR SALE 8 acres of Irrigated land. Easy Until Owner at 147 North Holly. Wife Slayer Given 10 to 20 Years Bath, Me., July 8. (IP) Dr. Merrill E. Joss, 34, Richmond physician convicted of man slaughter In the slaying of his wife. Dr. Luverne Harris Joss. 38, was sentenced today to 10 to 20 years imprisonment by Justice Raymond Fellowi in su perior court. The prosecution contended he fatally beat his 38-year-old physician-wife, a native of Jack son. Ala., in their Richmond office-home so that he might be free to marry comely Mrs. Eliz abeth Chapman Mayo, 35, Rich mond tea room operator. Kind-Hearted Cop Helps Pay Fines New York, July 8. W Pa trolman Morris Serf arrested seven negroes for shooting dice, and then had to go down into his Jeans for dime when the seven found they had only $6.90 to pay fines of $1 each. But that wasn't all. Each defendant successfully induced the patrolman to give them 8 cents each for carfare home. Total cost to Serf 48 cents. Cloudburst, Hail Hit Wheat Crops Heppner, July 8 IIP) Frank Anderson blamed a combined cloudburst and hail storm today for the destruction of more than 1,000 acres of wheat on his ranch at tight Mile. The storm, which gwept through the district Wednesday, also damaged wheat around lone and Cecil. Takes To Plane Sandusky, Ohio (U. Wil liam Arthur, 28, Inter-city bus driver, used his week-end lay over here to good advantage by becoming pilot at Hinde airport. Closing time for Too Lata to Clas sify Ada Is 1 :60 p. m. rrVft Furnished 6-room modem vOjvU houae, corner lot, dose In. TnTftiftrt Apartment house of $lu,lUu apartments, near busi ness center. Good terms. 01 AA 6-room modem houae. flnt- SaClUv place, lots of bullt-lna. ooq aown. H. W. TjOTLAND 436 South Oakdal) writ, trade PIOS tor milk cow. Schroeder, Midway Road at Four Comers. Boa 34. FOR SALE 1400-lb. gentle gelding team; e-yemr btt "' - , yearuim in.'-'". ' 1 14 miles past Old Four Comers on Gregory ttoaa. iwi. WE PAT CASH FOR USED TTRES We went laooo gooa usea Tok in .our e-arssre. attlo. ba tnent everywhere. We pay high. eat prtcee. FIRESTONE Auto Sup ply and Service stores. 9th and Riverside. Phone 478T. FOREST FIR Direct from woods. 3 tier lots or over. 13-lncn S3.ms 16-lnch 63.60. City Fuel. Tel. all. FOR SALE New 6-room modem house, lawn, ahade. paved atreea. Near grade and high school, fjle quire owner. 617 Catherine. EAST SIDE A new 4-room modem home, 63.000. Terms arrangec,, Inquire owner Carl Oottsche, reel dence 1003 East Jsekson. office 7 North Bartlett. Phona 4646. F. H. A. LOANS quickly, efficiently Bandied. Mark Ooldy Agency. FOR SALE 160 acree. 110 acres bote torn land cultivated. 70 acrea free) water, bulldlnga. 66600. 164 acres, 70 acres free water mostly in clove er. modem home, soma e toe la, 610.000. 93 acres. 3SH acrea ! clover, buildings. 69.000. good terms, 360 acres, 170 acres farmed, free wa ter, house and large bam. 610.000 Fine camp ground paying Roo4 Interest on Investment now 17,000, EDWIN P. HUGHES REAL ESTATE AGENCT 709 N. Riverside. Phone 3816. w BIO DOUBLE LOAD Green Fir Slabs, 64.50. city Fuel. Phona 4114. Aids Fraa French Sydney, Australia UP The New South Wales division of the Australian Red Cross has pre sented the Free French forces in northern Africa with mobile advance dressing station. It was constructed at a cost of $2,31)7. ,WyMvVKV aJvr varna v lfjfrrifjTBTsa'u VSavAT MOlfTAO FURNACES Com p leu tnmeertB Service Tor MM ky LEONARD ELECTRIC CO sot K. Mala. Dial 4411 SCREENS SCREEN DOORS Buy ',m tn factory. 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