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MTCIJFOTO MAIL TRIBUNE." MEDFORD. " ORF.G ON.' WEDXESD AY; JULY 16, 1941 PAGE THRES Society and Clubs by Betty Shoemaker Gladiolas Exhibit -At Hotel Medford Is Judged Success The William Warner exhibit of gladiolas which was spon sored by the Medford Garden club Monday at the Hotel Med ford was well-attended and a great deal of interest was evinced in the newer varieties. Representatives from all the garden clubs in southern Ore gon met at the Medford hotel Monday afternoon, at which time it was decided to bring (Beakers here from northern nnlnts as well as from Call fornia. Mrs. E. D. Lamb of Klamath Falls, chairman of the southern Oregon district, an nounced that the fall district conference of clubs will be held in Ashland late in September. The Illinois Valley club ex tended an invitation to all Gar den club members to attend tiicnic at Greyback Camp, at the foot of the Caves, July 25, The Ashland club invited the members of the Medford club and their husbands to join in a potluck supper at Lithia park August 1 at 6:30 p. m. Those who plan to attend are asked to notify Mrs. L.'G. Centner, Minnie Putman Weds in Alaska Of interest to many friends In Medford is announcement of the marriage of Miss Minnie Putman, daughter of George Putman of Eagle Point, to James White July 3 in Anchor- aee. Alaska. Miss Putman left here the latter part of June for Alaska. 1 Pythians. Sisters To Picnic Sunday Knights of Pythias and Py thian Sisters of Grants Pass are sponsoring a picnic in Grants Pass park Sunday for all Knights. Pythian Sisters and their families. Those attending are asked to bring a picnic basket and their own service, Coffee and cold drinks will be furnished by the Knights of the Grants Pass lodge. Lunch will be served at 1 p. m. Girl Scouts Hold Picnic Girl Scouts of Troop No. of Lincoln school enjoyed a picnic at Jackson Hot bprings yesterday. Baseball, swimming and relay games icmowea im picnic luncheon. The troop met at the home of the troop leader. Mm. Verna Thatcher, eu-si North Central - avenue, and transportation was provided by Mrs. Thatcher. Mrs. S. F. Long and Mr. and Mrs. Howard Glas cock. Attending were Shirley Mor row, Kosane uiascocK, ws" Powell, Bette Ann Shaw, Janet Shaw. Marearet Bismark, Ellen Howard, Alice Howard, Virginia Long. Mary Ann Long, Mrs. Jennie Howard. Mrs. S. F. Long and the troop leader, Mrs. Thatcher. Business Women To Hold Outing An outing 'at Helman Baths will be enjoyed Thursday by Medford Business and Profes sional Women. The picnic is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p. m. and those desiring transporta tion are asked to contact Jean Watson, 3482. Members attend ing are requested to bring their own service. Junior Band To Picnic Thursday Members of the Junior Ac cordion Prentice band will hold their annual picnic at Jackson Hot Springs tomorrow at 12:45 p. m. Those desiring transpor tation are asked to call 2897. Games and other entertainment have been arranged. Mrs. Cadwallader Entertains Club Mrs. Brica Cadwallader enter tained the Past President's club of the Degree of Honor lodge at her home on Benson street last week. The business meet ing was in charge of Mrs. Katn- erine Smith. Mrs. Mayme Siler, who returned recently from Oklahoma, told of her trip. Refreshments were served to Mrs. Hattie. Bradshaw, Mrs, Smith, Miss Adabee Slier, Mrs Mae Denman. Ashland: Mrs Siler. Mrs. Matilda Dietrich, Mrs. Denman will be hostess to the club at the Lithia park in Ashland, August 5. Mrs. Savage Visits Sister Houseguests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Don Newbury, 7 Eastwood drive, are Mrs. New bury's sister. Mrs. Harold Sav age and son Harold Savage, Jr, of Phoenix, Ariz., who are en joying a 10-day visit In this city Mrs. Savage and son motored to Medford and are planning to leave Sunday for Portland where they will visit her par ents, Mr. aud Mrs. W. A. Del zell. Mrs. Savage is well known locally having visited here on numerous occasions and former ly resided in Klamath Falls. APAN'S INDUSTRY DEATH FROM SKIES Heavy Toll Taken by Planes m Spreading Poison "On '.Warm Spgs. Reservation Washington, July 16, The commerce department said today available statistics Indi cated that Japanese industry "Is slowly deteriorating under the continual strain of the struggle in China." Factors responsible for the volume decline in output of Japan's industry during the year were reported as shortages oi skilled labor, materials, fuel and electricity," a press release said. Heavy industries, - the state ment added, were handicapped mostly by lack of materials. while consumer goods industries were affected by loss of foreign markets and restrictions on sales at home. Decreased production was in dicated particularly for cotton, silk, and rayon textiles, cement ammonia sulphate, paper . and sugar. Output ' of wheat flour in creased slightly last year and mining also gained. Br Gordon G. MacNab .' Warm Springs Indian Agency, Ore., July 1 6 VP Death rides in the sky for- mormon crickets as it did nearly a century ago. On the broad reaches of this Indian reservation on the east ern slopes of Oregon's Cascade mountains, man-made birds have been clearing this enemy of man's food from the hills and valleys. . ! This aerial counter-attack, the Federal Bureau of Entomology and. plant quarantine believes. may rjd western farmers of one of their most persistent pests. Gulls Saved Day In 1848 the followers of Brig- ham Young saw their Salt Lake valley invaded by hoards oi cri ckets that devoured all vegeta tion in their paths. Suddenly, soaring in from the west, came squadrons of veagulls, lured Dy instinct that the settlers T INDIGESTION may -fleet lh Heart flu trapped In the tocnart or gullet BMf f ; te talr-iMssrVon ilw hr.rt. At Ihu first tun of dliireai mart men and womrn depend on fli-ll-ans Tablrtsto Mt en fru. No lsistha but md ot the frt r.ir,, tti' K-'.ctf fcrKMm ror s-id ind! erst Ion. If trie TIBST lM'SK imn l prwe IMl-arit better, totum tVt9 iu end mil UuUBlJe Uomt hA A U N 15 aw" t llH Sunday School Class Plans Picnic Supper C. A. Meeker's Sunday school class of the First Methodist church will hold a picnic supper on the lawn of Meeker's home. 724 East Jackson boulevard. Friday at 7 p. m. Those at tending are asked to bring their own table service. For further information class members may contact Mrs. L. S. Blttle, 3872. Sewing Club To Meat At Tlngley Home D. A. V. Sewing club will meet tomorrow, with Mrs. Clara Tingley, 728 Newtown street. from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. Pot- luck luncheon will be served at noon. GIVEN $5 FINE Clarence C. Cartwrlght, charged with speeding a truck 50 miles per hour on the Pacific Highway, when the legal limit is 35 miles, was fined $5 and costs in justice court yesterday Ernest W. Beers was assessed $1 and costs for having no tail light on his auto, and Charles L. Kinney the same for failure to stop at a highway intersection. Navy Base Planned Coquille, Ore., July 16. OP) Naval officers signed a lease on Coos county land yesterday, In dicating that a small craft naval base may be constructed at Empire. to .canals. branching into wide ly scattered fields; they have spanned riven to Invade fields of grain; -they have moved over hills and .across semi-arid coun try into rich land beyond. For the past 10 years Mormon crickets have been fought each summer on a front stretching at times from South Dakota and Nebraska westward a thousand miles' to -the Cascades. Control started as a haphaz ard, trial and - error battle. Throughout the western states I trenches were dug to catch the crickets. ' Gradually, thousands of farm er and- workers employed by the federal- bureau of entomolo- bv and olant Quarantine, reduc- H - the" infestation east of the Rrwlrv mountains. Thi vear. although control work Is ' being carried on in South - Dakota. Nebraska, Wy oming, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington and Oregon, the crickets have threatened crops dprin.nl v onlv in parts of Ne vada. Idaho and Oregon. The airrJlane' attack in Oregon is new approach to the prob lem and B. M. Gaddis, in cnarge of domestic plant quarantines, rermrts that the speed and thor oughness with which the ground is baited, promises success. 18 SO: mrdlum-flood bulls 68 60-6 60; trtctly sood beef bulla to 76: food-chol.- realer 613 0O-1S0O; common down to SB 03; culls down to.se oo. fiheep 460: market aetlY. stdy to strong: good-choice spring lambs motly S59 23: tew 6 SS-60:feeder Uroba salable 68.35-60: or above; fat ewe 64.00 down; few breeding ewe 66 .36-4 SO. South Nan Kranrlaro 6outh Ban Frenclaco, July .16. - (Fed. State Mkt. Newal Hcas 600. around 10-20 higher: one load choice 330 lb. butcher 613 3.1.. bulk 165-335 lb. California 613 00-10; odd packing owa 8 .50-8 00. - Cattle 100. Ranee cows ateadr, load too lb. fraaarra 67.86; load atred 1.006 lb. 67.35: about two loada low-medium range cowa 66.25-75: cannera and cutters -acaroe. mostly . 64 50-635: bulla nominally 66.25 down. Calrea 5. etrone: choice realeri ebaent, quo ted 611 JO: few light real 67 00-1100. Sheep 1.300; active, steady; 3 decka medium to pood 73 H. Oregon 68 85; medium to choice ewea quoted 62 50-1.50. Chicago Chicago. July 16. ;P-USDA Hogs 17.000; active on weight 370 lbs. down. 10-20 higher than Tues day's average: top 611.80. Cattle 11,000: calves 800: all weights and gradea alaughter ateera and heifers moderately active ana steady. Shoep 7.000: iprlng lambs moitly steady to 16 higher. OREGON AFL PROTESTS CHOICE. OF SWEETLANO CALENDAR Wednesday 8:00 p. m. R. N. A. lodge ice cream social at Jacksonville, old courthouse lawn. Thursday 12:30 p.m. Alpha Delta class of First Christian church, home Mrs. A. W. Denney. Oakgrove. 2:00 D. m. Women's Belief corps at armory. 6:30 p. m. R.N.A. outing, Jackson Hot Springs. 6:30 p. m. B. P. W. picnic at Helman Baths. r...,.,,,u ,, -"!"- r? V V Y tfPife Builds ,t; ?Hf ifiin for aUfaifs tufa Local Agent ar writ C. U Blwhoff, T. P. A. gjt American Bank Bldg. Portland. Ore. TIT knew was horn of their prayers. The crawling invaders were de voured -and the fields were saved. Meeting this years invasion, two birds with deep throated roar sifted to the crawling ground a poison that spells death as surely as did the sky- filling thousands of gulls. Day after day. these airplanes haye been winging over the reserva tion, baiting more than, a thou sand acres a day with sodium fluosilicate mixed with bran. sawdust and water. The crickets that ' devoured vast areas of wheat and stripped from range land the grass on which the - west's cattle and sheeD subsist are being halted by this sky-born control. 100 Miles in Montn . Two years ago on this ground mormon crickets coverea - iuu square miles in a month, cutting a path 27 miles wide, one norae branched off , into ine green wheat fields of Sherman county ; and became a tumbling, uresis-, tTble' river of death a mile wide, i tweeping inexorably onward. ' Tour, years ago they inched down on Sundance, Wyo., blan keting that town of 500 persons at the foot of the Black Hills until there seemed not a foot of uncovered ' ground. Forced ; on ward by those behind, they cov-' ered the streets and sidewalks, invaded ' hbuses and left the town denuded of every blade of vegetation, , . . . In 1938 at Kennewick, Wash., guards with brooms were -posted on the Snake River' bridge to sweep the invaders from Wal la Walla county. ' Span Rivers ' The crickets in their .attack on the west; have poured into irrigation ditches and floated In Portland. July 16 W The appointment of Monroe -Sweet-land; secretary 'of ;the- Oregon Commonwealth Federation,- to the office of production manage ment labor division was pro tested yesterday by the Oregon AFL. " ' Sweetland ha I no industrial or labor union experience and has been "bitter partisan against the AFL", D. E. Nicker son', state AFL secretary, charg ed in a letter to Sidney Hillman, OPM' labor head. ' Portland Produce point lower. Turnover was around 600.000 shares. Today'a closing prices for M se lected stock follow: AI. Chem. Dye 1 83 '4 Am. Can 88 A. T. T. . , , , 158', . 2S . 38 H . 68 . 9 . 734 -152 . 33 S - 381, - S8S . 65 . 88 . 38', . 88i - - 13, - 83 V, - 344 - 43 H - 41, - 12 - i - 33V, 3H - 4 '-4 Union Carb. 77s Unit. Aircraft 41 4 United Airline 10 li C. 8. Steel 67S Sacramem Plrat grade, 37 He Anaconda Atch. T. S. P... Bendlx Avla. Beth. Steel . Caterpillar Trae Chryiler Curtlu-wngnt Douglaj Acft. DuPont Ocn. Eleo. Of n. Poods . Oen. Mot. Int. Harvect Johns-Man. Kenneoott Monty Ward No. Ann. Av'n . North Amer. Penney I J. C.) . Penna. R. R. Phillip Pet. Bdlo Sou. Pac. , 1 1 , Std. Brands St. (MI Cal St. Oil N. J Trana. Amer uiy 18. Butter 3Vio: aecood grade, San Francisco Butter San Pranclaco, July IflP) BuS- ter 3 score. Sec; 61 scora, Mr. ( . 84c; 89 score 83 Vic BswBwstsBV. Menthoiatuat reiuraa the irrltfttloa. i r Jinn. Good Livingl CoavtiutlM L Oct no Cfh Skos- autist Tanri own mt anouet teaa mouUr ' 'sag Medan- AppoHitmastS Saragf OpoOSJts PorUand, OreH July 16. p) But ter Prlnu. A grade. 39c lb. In parch ment wrapper. 40c in carton: B grade. 38c In parchment wrappers. 39c In cartons. Pea Oregon To. 1, 8c lb. Other produce unchanged. . ' Japan Hal Quake Tokyo, July 16. (P) Five persons were Kinea ana many others injured during an earin- quake late last night in Nagano prefecture. Thirty houses col lapsed and more than 100 others were damaged. After-shocks con tinued throughout the night. Closing time for Too Lata to Clas sify Ads is 1 30 p. m. , Portland Wheat Portland, Ore, July 18. W) Oraln: Wheat: Open High low Clo Sept. 89 894 89 89 Caah grain: Oat No. -38 lb. whit 637.50. No. I flax. 61.91 Cash wheat (bid): soft white 64K. Hrd red winter: ordlnry 80c; 11 pet. 84c; 13 pet. 93; 13 pet. 96c; 14 pet. 98. Hard whlta-baart: 12 pet: 00c. Today'a car receipt:, wheat 48; barley 3: Plour 7; mlllfeed 3. ' - LIVESTOCK Chicago Wheat Chicago. July 18. (yp Wheat: Open High Low Cloa July .1.04 . 1.04 1.03 1.03 Sept .1.05i 1.06 - 1.04 - 1.06 Dec. l.08H 1.07 . 1.08 ' 1.08H I- , rorxiana Portland. - Or., July 16. ffV- (PSDAI Hog 650; marxet acuv. meatlT steady wrong; early top 10 higher; good -choice 176-215 lb. drive In mott 612.00; few lot to 613.10; one-very outstanding lot 612.26: 230 370 lb. weight 611-25-50; light light motly 611.00-35; packing sow 69.00- 78: good-choice arouno to-vu feeder plga 913.00-14.00; heavier weight downward to 611.50. ' Cattle 160; calve '89; market ac tive: vealer' S0c' higher than early Tuesday; good fed - ateer - lacking; few medium grade ,610 00: load weighty gr teer . 69.50 sorted; common teer downward 68.25: good light fed heifer 610.40; grw heifer mostly '68.25-9.25: common dairy heifer down to 67.38: canner cutter cow 65JS-8J3; fat dairy cows 68.60- 78: heafy houtetn to 87.00; gra fat beef cowa 6760; young cows to H A I L-These hall stones, big as eggs, fell during a ZO-minute bombardment of Pueblo. Mrs. Marlon Cnrrence (above) gath ered pans full, the better to makt Iced drinks. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ad 1 1 30 p. m. IMP tit Ht IDEAL HOTEL I1M 3A FIlAiNCISCO Distinguished In noma ond In service. The Maurice Is one of San Francisco's finest hotels. Quiet location en fringe of downtown oreoj finely ap pointed rooms, all with bath and shower. Single from $2.50 Double from $3.50 DRIVE-IN OARAOI HOTEL MAURICE Fast Street at Jones It M. 'to r.i.iife ' f ' & 1 I ,ia'i"t; it-JW.,. (' '3- ' 7 I; .V".'i!i ,'.'-.. 1' r-.-; V m , - at Wall St. Report New York, July 16 (fl The July rise in stock prices encoun tered profit selling resistance to day, and leaders, generally closed fractions to around a Here's a Loan .. . to Build Your Home! It Is good business to obtain loan from this Association to build your homo. Costa are low, interest rata reasonable, monthly -repayment plain suited to the borrower's ' ability to pay. Jackson County Federal savings & loan association 126 East Main When tho ball gamo's over. pause and -1 r!"!- . At xa 1. . at. r tol ju -a . w i x , mr m a - at- l J. (I! 0: Ik v - r h f i m l xn toss) After any exertlen, a pause It always welcome. Doubly to If yew enjoy lee-cold Coca-Cola with if. ice-cold Coca-Cola U pure, wholetome. Yew faffe He quality . . (Witt refrethment. So when you pause throughout the day, make H the pause mat refreinef with Ice-cold Coca-Cola. YOU TASTE ITS QUALITY SOTTUD UNDflt AUTHOMTT Of TK1 COCA-COLA COarfAXT ST COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., of Medford, 601 No. Crepe St Phone 3X3 e1 WAV emwT