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GUEST CONTRIBUTOR
Maybe you can micceufully
head a committee, sponsor a
"City Beautiful" project, win in
an open tournament of golf but
If you don't know how to let
a hen, why you re not aucn a
much. Not that I'va ever head
ed a committee, not ttlrred my
townsmen to a panting eager
ness over beautifying the city.
And ai for golf, well I've made
It a life policy to have no truck
with golf. Infinitesimal calculus
or the dlalectable world-plan.
But I do know the rudiments of
letting a hen.
First, of course. In setting a
hen, the basic requirement is
cooperation on the part of the
hen. Before you can set her,
she must have developed an
almost fanatical desire to set.
Never waste your time, and
eggs, on a biddy who knows
about her feminine rights to
change her mind. But if she's
pent several days in passion
ate attendance on a china egg
(or a potator or a gourd), you
ara warranted in assuming her
urges to set have properly
"Jellied.-
In selecting the eggs upon
which ihe is to set, there is
one law; probably made by the
Medes and Persians; at least it's
unalterable. Always place 13
eggs under the hen. Thirteen
or 16 eggs under a hen Is un
luckier than walking under a
ladder.
Too, tha Inter the vintage of
these eggs, tha better Often,
lacking ona egg, have I stood
before a supposedly laying hen,
waiting for the oval necessary
to round out a IS setting! And
"wait," was about all I could
do. A hen about to lay an egg
won't be bribed Into haste;
won't be scared Into it, either.
Nothing so smug as tha face of
a hen which knows you are
waiting for her to lay. She
knows she has you In her power
Finally depositing tha coveted
oval, sha shrieks in derision
and the lord of the flock sup
ports her with ribald Jeers and
struts.
The setting now rounded out
to a complete IS, you get the
bluing bottle, shake it, use the
cork to mark dote of hatching
on each egg. This naming tha
data may later prove to have
been presumptuous on your
part; likes as not only 12 will
hatch. And once, 18 chickens
hatched out of, I swear, but IS
eggs. With a prudish horror of
scandal, I've never before let
this be made public. I'd thought
from the first that hen was a
wanton huzzy.
Of course, the rule of 13 does
not apply to Juliette, the ban
tam hen. Set her on IS Ply
mouthrock eggs, and, come the
end of the 21 days necessary
for hatching, you have to dig
her out from under a batch of
defunct eggs from which the
desire to amount to something
has long since departed.
Well, we've "set" the hen
and. tha laws of biology being
what they are, In three weeks'
time bits of fuzzy down will
emerge, their eyes bright with
innocence. One wonders how
an old rogue of a rooster and
a bunch of termangent mothers
can beget such adnrables.
TOMORROW
(Ben Hur Lampman. nation
ally known editorial writer of
the Oregonian, tells a hunting
episode In southern Oregon
macy years ago, when he was
editor of the Gold Hill News).
Cm stall TriouM a ant eda.
The President's War Speech !
A17HAT was wrong with President Roosevel't Lab
" or Day speech?
It was a GOOD speech, and as is always true of the
President's radio efforts, ingratiatingly and effective
ly presented.
Vet if it did not exactly fall flat, it did fail to arouse
any enthusiasm, in this part of the country, or appar
ently in any other.
NOW after reading the text of the address, we are
even more puzzled. For the President sums up
the case against Germany excellently. And he did
unquestionably speak for an OVERWHELMING
MAJORITY in this country, when he reiterated the
determination of the American people, to do every
thing in their power to crush Hitler and his Nazi
forces.
Also what was said about the vital importance of
labor, is entirely true, and appropriate for labor day,
as well as the start of the third year of the war.
A ND yet, we doubt, if the feeling in this country, or
abroad, was changed in the slightest degree by
what was undoubtedly nearer an absolute U. S. de
claration of war against Germany, than any former
utterance from the White House, since World war No.
2 started. And if that opinion is correct then of course
the speech was a failure, for its sole purpose was to
increase and intensify the war feeling in this country,
and strengthen war morale abroad.
THE only explanation we have been able to dis-
cover to date, consists of two counts:
First, the matter of timing. If the same sort of rous
ing declaration had been delivered six or eight
months ago, it would have been far more effective.
Second, the absence of explicitness, the continua
tion of generalities, the refusal of the President to
put all his cards on the table and take the people
COMPLETELY into his confidence.
IN other words, does this determination on the Presi
1 dent's part to defeat Hitler and Hitlerism, mean
employing the U. S. navy in Atlantic convoy duty or
doesn't it?
Does it mean, the seizure of bases in Africa, or in
the South Atlantic or doesn't it?
Does it mean another American expeditionary
force, or doesn't it?
Does it mean the shipment of gas, oil and munitions
to Russia via Vladivostok or doesn't it?
Finally, does it mean a shooting war, or merely a
continuation of a "supply war;" this country not ent
ering as an active belligerent, but serving as a vital
supply base?
I TNLESS we are greatly mistaken the American peo
pie would like to know the answers to all these
questions.
No doubt the reply from Washington would be,
that to answer them at this time, would not be to the
public interest.
In other words for the President to put all his cards
on the table, take the people entirely into his con
fidence, would be to reveal America's hand, give
important information to the enemy, etc., etc.
If that is true, then of course, it can't be, and
shouldn't be done.
BUT, until it IS done, until the people, ALL the
people of this country, are given all the salient facts
we fear the effort,
To secure that national unity and fervor of spirit
which is so desirable in this world war crisis, will re
main an extremely difficult task,
U. S. War Morale
THE success or failure of any particular speech is
not important. But we do feel, the spirit of this
country is extremely important.
And while there is no doubt an overwhelming ma
jority of the people, want to
is consicieraoie ciouui, tney are m any mood to do
what must be done, if that is to be brought about
And what must be done, can only be done, by creat
ing and sustaining a UNITED fighting spirit.
THAT is why as we see it, giving the people all
the facts as far as that can be done has become
so important.
For if they are not GIVEN the facts, the facts
which will bring home to them, the real dangers
threatening them and their country, no united fight
ing spirit is possible.
I TAKE this matter of army
why is the army morale low 7
Because the rank and file of the armv, can't believe,
this country is or ever will be, in REAL danger. With
the center of the conflict on the other side of the
world, there is no reality to all this war talk, as far
as they are concerned. They dismiss it as allied pro
paganda or plain politician's pap.
And there won t be. until someone tells them the
"facts" of life so to speak, or until Hitler has con
quered Europe, and the western Hemisphere's num
ber is actually up. when it will be too late.
With the proper publicity and tmth telling, this
misapprehension could be eliminated.
Until it is eliminated, the risks of failure in Ameri
ca s war effort, are great.
Portland. Sept. 2.(.r A
Multnomah county grand Jury
vesterday accused James Craln.
i8. Portland, of healing Thomas
Martin Hawkins. Portland, to
death with an iron pipe Julv
23. then attempting lo burn the
body.
see Hitler smashed, there
morale for example. Just
Portland, Sept. 2 F Four
Salem residents, en route home
from a week-end trip to Seattle,
were hospitalized last night af
ter their automobile collided
with a trclley car.
taa Mail Trwuoa vast eda,
Personal Health Service
By William
Slined lettere pertaining to personal health ana hytlene. not to dlaeaat
dlatnoil. or treatment. Kill ba umrM by Dr. Brad; It a stamped eelf
addreaeed antelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink.
Owing to tbe buie number of letters received on I; a few can be answered
here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions.
Addrea Dr. William Brady, taj El t amino. Beverly Hills. Calif.
OUT AND THEN IN AGAIN
Speaking of "immediate den
ture service," that is, preparing
and Installing plates or the like
immediately alter extraction of
the teeth (be-
fore the pa
tient leaves the
office), a den
tist says, in
the May, 1939,
Jour, of the
American Den
tal association:
Some of the
advantages are
elimination of
the humiliat
ing edentulous
period, less
oain
the denture acting as a
sDlInt to protect the gums and
the clot, less change in muscle
and other structures to accom
modate to chewing without
teeth, less alteration in appear
ance of face from tongue spread
ing and cheeks falling in, more
perfect setting of the artificial
teeth in the positions of the
teeth that have been lost.
Another dentist discussing the
subject observes that he has
been practicing and advocating
immediate denture service for
many years and he has yet to
hear a single valid objection
to it.
The latter dentist should lake
a trip to Chicago sometime. The
Chicago Dental Society frowned
fiercely upon me when I sald'in
this column recently that "Com
petent dentists Install plates, not
temporary plates, but the plates
the patient will wear perma
nently, immediately after ex
traction of the teeth." This,
declared the secretary of the
Chicago Dental society, simply
is not the truth.
Let me quote further from
the article above mentioned:
"There can hardly be adverse
discussion as to the advantages
that a patient derives from the
Insertion of dentures (plates) the
instant teeth are removed."
I have before me a high stack
of dental journals and recent
dental textbooks which amply
back my assertion about this
to which the Chicago Dental
society took such unfortunate
exception unfortunate, I mean,
for the professional repute of
dentists who do not keep pace
with modern developments of
their craft.
In the October, 1938, issue of
the same official organ of the
American Dental association an
other dentist, describing the
technique of immediate denture
service says:
During the eight years that I
have made them, less than a
third have been refitted.
In The
Day's
News
By Frank Jenkins
rysrATCHES fro.T. home to
di.y (Sa.i rdi.-y) let the cat
out c the Hi;ler-Musolinl meet
ing hag.
Hnm a.-Wnrtwlrlcre that
among the most urge.it problems
ducussed by Adolf ana Benito!
wire these:
1. A crying need for OIL for
the axis war chariots.
2. Means cf bulwarking the
European continent against the
possibility of British or Ameri
can invasion
These dispttchc: are PASSED
BY THE ITALIAN CENSOR.
'THE AP today adds:
' Coming through the
Italiran eaniiiriKin Mli-ino ta-itht
this unusual " acknowledgment
wis word from well-informed, ' "
political sou.ee, that Premier I The hEAL purpose Is to throw
.Mu.sol.nl hod asroetl to supply," f"r,h1.rr rare '" ? -'"P""-
AS MANY ITALIAN SOI.DlERs! Washington, at the same time
FOR THE FRONT and workers
fir Germany as Hitler might re
quire. "
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THAT is a Hal admission that
the Russian campaign has
been so terribly destructive of
German man power that the
gaps t.,rn in German ranks by
. . .
i Russia's guns must ba
I ITAI U .M,.r.
filled with
ANOTHER thought .1 this O? " L"?1!?0"'
Jt t TORRENTIAL RAIN, along lactories. the Bremerton naw
,.J?J ui - ... w. ..!h' ""-" ,rort- So yard or wherever Imocrtan'i
Italian soldiers so far haven't
been so hot as fichter. One rea
son is that their hearts haven't
been in their work. They've
known, almost trom the start
that they're f.ghting for GER
MANY and not for Itily
fromwell tot, I 11. . Inna tim
! ago that the Ideal soldier is the
I one who knows whst he t fight
; Ing for and LOVES what he
' knows
l The Italians know they are
fighting for German, and they
don't love it
Brady. M. D.
In other words. In two-thirds
of the cases the plates installed
immediately after extraction of
the teeth have been as "perma
nent" as any plate could be.
A business man I know, who
had all but three or four of his
remaining teeth extracted four
years ago, attended a dinner
party wearing his new plates
the day the teeth were ex
tracted. No one noticed that he
had lost his teeth. He has worn
the immediate dentures, as the
dentists call 'em, uninterrupt
edly ever snice and never had
any refitting or other changes.
Ql ESTIONS a ANSWER
En(lneera Kidney
Article In paper eaye "Engineer's
Kidney la contracted, not by Inhala
tion, but by absorption through the
porea.of the akin of dirt and grit
unavoidable on a railroad." Is that
true? (H. M.)
Answer There la no ailment or
dlse-se of the ildney to which en
glneera are more aubject than other
men. There la no scientific evidence
that anything la ever absorbed thru
unbroken akin.
Pneumonia
la It poaslble to get pneumonia af
ter you have already had It?
(Mlaa I. M.)
Answer Tea. In fact. In some In
stance, one attack aeema to render
the Individual even more auaceptible
to the dlseaae.
Nicotinic Arid
For montha I have bad burning,
smarting actuation in mouth, tongue
and throat, and a very bad appear
ance of lining of cheeks and under
the tongue. I am quite anemic and
have some stomach trouble with diar
rhea ... A doctor aald I need vita
min Bl. (Q. H. W.)
Answer Deficiency In Intake of
nicotinic add may produce such
eymptoma. Nicotinic acid la one of
the entitles of the natural vitamin
B complex (Bl or thiamin la ano
ther) aa it occurs In plain wheat,
wheat germ. Ir in pork, lean beef,
beans, peas, fresh raw cabbage, let
tuce, cooked broccoli, canned toma
toes or canned tomato juice, carrots
preferably fresh raw, esjga. eto. In
stead of trying to take pure nicotinic
acid, pure vitamin B or other syn
thetic. It Is always better to take
r s whole B complex. It Is easily tak
en In capule or tablet form, when It
la difficult to get an adequate ration
In food.
Salt
When canning string beans T ran
out of aalt. and used some table salt.
Afterward found on the bos "This
salt contains 1 carbonate of mag
nesia", will this render the beana
unfit for use? IE. A. H.l
Answer No. It Is present In most
free running salt and la perfectly
wholesome.
(Copyright 1941. John P. Dllle Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send letter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D.. Z3 Fl
Camlno. Beterly Hills, Calif.
jfJITLER must not be so well
J off for man nower if he has
to call on Italy's UNWILLING '
soldiery to fight his battles.
H
.ERS and Muisolinis an-
nounced aim to "remove
the causes of war" and "develop
cooperation for all the peoples
of Europe" are eye wash These
Italian dispatches give a reveal
ing picture of what they're really
talking about.
a e a
IF you were a Turk these dis-
patches would be particular
ly interesting to you but NOT
reassuring.
The axis' crying reed is for
oil. The nearest available oil
; i i ,
Turkey lies across tne German
p(1)h to jraq anci iran
If you're a betting man, it's a
fairly safe bet that Turkey is in
for trouble before ery long,
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A LITTLE more light today on
th Jap question:
The British announce they're
going to send a shin (tpe not
stated maybe a WARSHIP) to
i tV . 7.7.1 " "w'lstiimpage and manufactures
about 1 000 there The alleged jf , ,im , d
reason is that freezing of funds lth. m.h,, , ,h ,"" "" e
: mak difficult for English
""""" '. usm
ing of oil restrictions as apply
ing to Japan is urder study.
The Japs are being told to be
0i nt, rr ;r
B". ,
a"'- " "
ru,t,n lo H''ler "",
enmma e r in the rik-ht airte of
coming over to the right side of
the fence.
far. Hitler s panrer divisions
haven - had to ligH General
Mud. It looks as If they might
have to now.
Transfer Squadron
rWf'anH Ore Sen 5
The armv ve.terrt.lv ordered te
123d obervatlon squadron nf thel711' means that the large cper
Oreson National Guard, based tors are compelled to hire an
at the Portland airport, to be : increasing number of men who
ready by Septemrer 25 to leave know nothing of the lumber
for Grsv field. Fort t fwi The business With unskilled and
nn(lr':i is to go on duty there semi-.kil'ed workers, the pro-
(October 2. iduction per man is decreasing.
Kelly's
' Comment
From Washington
Lumbermen Make
Good Showing
Henderson Plana
To Boost Price
Social Security
Adds To Cost
By John W. Kelly
(Note: During tha absence of
Mr. Kelly on vacation his daily
column will ba written by Mr
Paul Dunham, member of our
Washington, D. C, staff).
By Paul Dunham
Washington, D. S., Sept. 2.
Reports on the public hearing
in Portland when statements
were received regarding a ceil
ing on the price of Douglas fir
lumber, and which hearing at
tracted the big and little oper
ators of Washington and Ore
gon, are trickling into the na
tional capital. They are steno
graphic reports taken by the
West Coast Lumber association;
rough notes made by partici
pants and, in the main. It ap
pears that the lumbermen made
a good showing of their case.
Leon Henderson, of OPACS,
has had his agents watching the
lumber prices for several
months and he decided that the
time had arrived to step In. His
present campaign affect the en
tire lumber industry of the two
Pacific northwest states, but
does not touch the transporta
tion lines, the chief beneficiaries
of the extraordinary demand for
lumber. In abeyance, for the
time being, is the demand for
higher wages by the unions.
Aside from the mill operators
and a few labor leaders, the
average resident of the north
west has failed to grasp the
transition taking place in the
industry, although it affects
either directly or Indirectly the
business blood stream from the
grocer to the workman.
e
THANKS to the federal mar
itime commission which has
almost denuded the coastal and
intercoastal steamship business,
most of the lumber moving out
of Washington-Oregon territory
goes by rail. The lumber is
Dreaking Into the eastern mar
ket where the minimum weight
is a 50.000 pound load, and the
rate is 82 cents per pound. Most
cars carry 70,000 to 100,000
pounds capacity, the average
being 80,000 pounds. At the
82-cent rate the carload means
$636 to the railroad. Before the
maritime commission interfered
this lumber went from the
northwest mills by boats to
eastern markets at $16 per
thousand, or $11 cheaper than
the railroads are charging on
freight alone, which is $27 per
thousand. The wholesaler adds
a couple of dollars for handling
the account and the retailer
adds a few dollars for hauling
from the yards to his plant.
r,. , ,u Mi a .....
i .i, . kiu . i
I m ,he M wi probabI . y
approximately $60 per thou
sand.
What Leon Henderson sees Is
the price to the customer. Ig
noring the railroad freight
charges, he is going after the
Douglas fir mills and places a
ceiling on what the mills can
charge. If they can sell for less,
he thinks it a good idea. It de
veloped in the hearings that th
sawmill which must buy its logs
is worse off than the company
which has its own logs, for logs
are going up and the difference
between the price paid for logs
and the finished product is the
maximum the company can
collect. There are many mills
in this predicament and their
number is increasing as the
timber disappears and they have
cut their holdings. On Ihe other
hand, the little mill which buys
... ,u, Ac irrr,-
ations yet can sell at the ceiling
which l intended to curb prices
of the hid operators. At first
the small mill operators feared
they would be injured by a ceil
ing, but as the hearing progress
ed they dicovered that they
will be in clover.
j-'i.uu.i laDor in tne mills
--s pmi, on--., 7.
ntrrrm nf the emn uvea yo i.
common labor. Thev are aklng
. . " ''a
now for an additional 7'j cents
I increase. Millwrights are be
coming scarce; they are going
; w orcterj e Mng m for
,,. ,, m u They are
recelving good rT in the mills
but the better pay Is templing
mem awav. Skilled and semi
skilled workers are desertina
,ne Sawmills for War industries
so that the cost sheets show that
while tha operators ara taking
In more money most of them
axe making less than formerly.
Under the various social se
curity laws, payroll taxes, it
costs a mill employer In Wash
ington about 80 cents a day (a
little less in Oregon because
Washington has a couple of
taxes not levied in Oregon) for
the privilege of hiring a worker
at 75 cents an hour or $6 a day.
Operators argue that paying
common labor a minimum of
75 cents an hour does not re
flect the actual cost for on top
of the daily wage must be in
cluded the various payroll taxes
which, in round figures, are ap
proximately 10 cents an hour,
and all of which are paid for
the benefit of the individual
worker. Secretary of Labor
Perkins does not consider these
payroll taxes when talking of
wage of workers in the lumber
industry.
News Behind
The News
By Paul Mallon
(Continued Prom Page Ona)
still good for reconnaisance and
meeting tanks of their own
weight but they cannot even
stand against a .37 millimeter
gun. Mass production of these
tanks is not going to get any
body any where against Nazi
opposition.
The publicized production fig
ure on this type of tank the
only one we are getting in quan
tities sounds good, but does not
mean anything.
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THE medium size tank Is what
is needed, the 26 tonner,
which will eventually weigh
about 30 tons.
British military officials have
said, as a result of the lessons
of the Russian campaign, that
any Invasion of the continent
will require 50.000 tanks most
ly mediums, some large.
Well, we produced about 50
of these mediums last month,
the first month of mass produc
tion. It will be the end of 1942
before we produce 1,000 tanks
a month. How long will It take
us to produce, say. 40,000 me
diums needed? Four years at
lease on the present schedule.
CIRST, and right now, the
British need heavy bombers.
Mr. Roosevelt has tried to throw
all i the pressure possible into
bomber production, but it will
be June, 1943. before we are
producing 500 heavy bombers a
month under the existing OPM
schedule. We will only average
30 to 40 a month for the re
mainder of the year under the
existing OPM schedule. The
Nazis are now producing 200 a
month according to figures cur
rent in this government.
The British have the men
ready to fly these ships. Their
aviation school in Canada is the
talk of all who have seen it.
They have doubled their flier
production schedule twice since
the training fields started.
But with 30 to 40 big bombers
a month (not all of which they
will get) they will only be able
to annoy the Nazis, not to pay
back the attack on London.
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CROM what little of this I have
r been able to gather here,
the officials who made this pro
gram, are spending most of their
time trying to convince Mr.
Roosevelt they were right in all
they have done. They are al
ways trying to justify them
selves and Uieir actions, rather
than devoting their thought and
energy to keeping up with an
ever changing war situation.
! They have limited their goal to
their former decisions.
I It looks as if they will have
j to lift their frozen vision, or
officials with a wider vision will
have to be brought in.
The War Today
By
By Dewitt MacKenila
Special Writer
We ought to hear a bit more
from the Tokyo government be
fore attaching too much finalitv
to the rather fiery declaration
I by a spokesman of the Japan
iese army that Nippon will if
I necessary use force to fight her
way out of what she terms en
circlement by America, Britain,
Russia and other nations.
This statement was broadcast
i by Cclonel Mabuchi. chief of
.the army press section of im
; perial headquarters, who assert
ed that Japan was determined to
carry out her Asiastic program
even if it meant "a long-term
iwar aealnst Britain and Amrr
ica." Now that is very blunt
language and It would be a mis
take to underestimate Japan's
determination in this crisis,
j Still, one suspects that the
co!erel was blowing his trum
pet not so much with the idea
that the Wall of Jericho would
fall as that ha might strengthen
Japan's hand In the projected
negotiations in Washington.
Had the colonel and his mili
tary superiors been better ad
vised as to the present temper
of the American government
toward the Japanese maneuvev
in the Orient, probably tif
fighting speech would have
been left undelivered. However,
It perhaps will do no harm.
Indeed, soma observers thought
President Roosevelt may have
avoided reference to the far
eastern situation in his Labor
day broadcast in order to give
diplomacy a chance to achieve
an agreement.
The weakness of the Mabuchi
statement to my mind is that
if the United States, Britain and
Russia were trying to encircle
Japan, she would have small
chance of fighting her way out
by force. The encirclement
which Japan fears is quite as
much economic as military.
You may destroy an enemy
warship with a 16-inch gun. But
a shell won't demolish the fact
that if Japan gets herself In
volved in a war with the United
States, Britain and Russia sha
will cut herself off from essen
tial supplies and from trade,
upon which her very life di
pends.
Few would doubt the bravery
of the Japanese in battle, or
their ability to absorb punish
ment. The cold truth is, how
ever, that no matter how great
Nippon's determination might
be, she couldn't fight her way
out of the encirclement, be
cause forsooth there's no place
to which she could fight her
way. The countries whose coop
eration she virtually needs right
now are, first, America, and
after that Britain.
By the way: Muscovites and
Hitlerites today continued to
issue conflicting claims of the
disaster being inflicted on the
other fellow. The significant
point of this bloody conflict,
however, is that there apparent
ly has been little movement of
the battle front for some da
This means that the time is
approaching rapidly when the
Germans will find themselves
forced to fight a winter cam
paign unless they can break
through the Red front in tha
very immediate future. The
mere fact that the nazis had to
maintain a battle line in Russia
would represent a major victory
for the allies.
Flight Time
Medford and Jackson Connty
History from the files of the Mall
Tribune 10 and 20 yeara afo
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
September 2, 1931
(It was Wednesday)
Valley pears to be shipped to,,
Europe this week, by boat frorr.af
Portland.
Pope and Mussclir.l bury hat
chet by mutual accord, and
three months controversy over
Catholic action clubs end.
Espee to inaugurate travel
bargain days.
Council discusses p'ans to col
lect delinquent taxes on city
lots.
City had 32 fires, rone serious
last month.
Mercury mounts to 101; low
69
State sets aside million dol.
lars for road work to aid unem
ployed. State police to wear blue uni
forms and black boots.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
September 2, 1931
(It was Friday)
Federal troops are ordered to
West Virginia coal strike beHsj
following all night attack upon
national guardsmen Scores ara
killed and wounded as labor
trouble flares.
Major General Leonard Wood
accepts post as governor-general
of Phillipines.
Babe Ruth hits his 49th home
run of season.
Thousands of unemployed men
in England demand doles.
Medford folks order three
days supply of groceries, for usa
over Labor day holiday.
Pear shipments from the val
ley to date amount to 360 cars.
Fall weather prevails, with a
high temperature of 70. and a
low of 40 degrees
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