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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUK MEDFORDMAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1941. tfoothr Mll rrtfciiM." Dally M.we9i mmiQntmf. MSOrtJRO PRINTING CO. tffS Nortn rir St. Khon ROB SRI" W Rl'HU 141 tr. RNStT R OILSTRAP. MDlr. Xmfr Moond miliar at H4- ford. Orsoa. tlflflar AOt of March I, ItU atibaCHlFTlUN RATE Mr Mail im A-lrtneot Xaiiy and rtr rar Daily aad unrtii' -ati monthi... I to Dally od jnlar-" Ihraa month. .Q Dally m un1ir month... 1 Hy Carrier -In A1anea Hertford. h land. Central Point. Jaeliannvllla. Ool HHU lingua Rivr. Phoanla, Taicnt. anil aa motor ronuat Dally and Sunday -no yaar Daily and dunrlay na moot a... .1 AH ttrmi eih la advanca. Official Pa pot mi lha Ctly at Hdfar OrrietaJ Papw af Urk- Ooal ftttMHUH tl IUkABMM IAIa.il PHfeJM Baealrlna tull 4nm4 Hira Marvin Tha daaociatad Pro ia aioluaivaly dot i Had t iha uaa (or pubiioaiioa of all Hapatetaa rali'ad te It or nthnr wis araiitad to Ihi paper, and ajaa lo th lnal pubiiahad hnrotn. Ail right for publication of apaola,' 4;tpha naraio ara aiao raaarvad alKUUBH Of UNIIBD PRICttt WKMUICH UK AUDIT U'lRRAfJ OS CIRCULATIONS Advarttaina Rapraaaotatlroa WHT-HaU.IDAT COM FA N V. INO. Offioaa ia Nta If or a, ChioBo. Detroit. Ban PranelMtt boa Saailia. Portland, BL tjooia, Atlanta. Vaneoovar. B C AsociRTm Ye Smudge Pot Br Arthut Perry v4tfAiinl fears ara exDressed these times in various parts of the state and the nation, that Germany and her runt para noiac, one A. Hitler will not get square deal, at the peace table, If and when. Neither are en titled to It, so the solicitude appears Irrelevant, immaterial, and out ot order. Hcrr Hitler ahould be pickled away In a penitentiary, not called a fort ress, out of politeness to his military titles. The same fate should be meted to Messrs. Mus aolinl of Italy, Quisling of Nor way, and his other puppets. They should have a penitentiary exclusively to themselves. It would be cruel and Inhuman to compel run-of-the-mill criminals to abide behind the same walls with either one or all of them. Two world wars In 20 years spawned by Germany, should be sufficient to convince the rest of creation there Is no way to get along with them. They love war too much to be trusted as a unit, with any weapon more destruc tive than a broomhandle. THE BOOBY PBIZE (Blue Mountain Eagle) "There are now prizes be ing offered for the largest buck and the biggest doe killed during the hunting season. The Eaglo would like to offer a grand sweepstake prize of a wax forget-me-not for the smallest, weakest, scrawniest fawn. The record 1s a lS-pound fawn. But If the hunters will shoot every thing they can drop their sights on they can get one even smaller. No Jackrabblts go In this contest." Cong. Mott charges the New Deal is out to ruin the Repub lican party. Cong. Mott should be more definite. Docs he mean again, or yet? The football trams of Oregon's Institutions of higher learning, In their invasion of California gridirons made a fine showing Saturday. The Staters were head until the last 18 second', nd the Wcbfeet were ahead twice during the gnme with Stanford. The nicest time to be head is at the finish. "HAND IS HEAD OF COM MITTF.E ON CAMP PLAN KING" (Hdline Corvallis Gazette-Times) There'll be a lot of shaking of both. THE MUCHNESS OT MUCH Too many highways, too many cars. Too many people behind the bars; Too much poverty, too much wealth. Too many people In 111 health. Too much politics, too much booze, Too many wearing high-heeled shoes. Too many spending their dough on gas. Too much taking of other's sass. Too many living beyond their means. Too many buying canned corn and beans; Too many hiring their washing done. Too many playing bridge for tun. Too much buying good on time. Too many people don't save a dime. Too much taxes, too much spent. Too many folks spend every cent. Too much reform, too much law. It's the darndest mess you ever . saw. (The Teppcr Box.) Cloelne time tut CI-i;iriJ Arts a bjv Too lu lo Classify ia so p I . i Congressman Mott's Comeback IN legal and military circles there is a time-honored maxim: "The best defense Is strong offense." The Russian? are giving a good example of this now, in their persistent counter-attacks, in answer to each German advance. ( And Congressman Jim Mott,' as a capable politician and attorney, gave a good example of the same prin ciple in Roseburg Saturday, when he countered the attack of the 18 interventionist Republicans by de claring they were dupes of the Roosevelt administra tion, unwittingly serving as 6th columnists for the establishment of a one-party country and the New Deal. WE don't know how many delegates to the G.O.P. convention accepted that counter-charge as a valid one, but our guess is it had more weight in that partisan gathering than anywhere else in the state. For it "listened well", as the saying goes, sounded plausible if it did insult the intelligence. And in any party convention what sounds well from a radical partisan viewpoint, is always surprisingly potent. UOWEVER, in the light of any factual analysis, the counter-charge just doesn't stand up, hasn't even one little leg of reality to stand on. In fact we doubt if 18 prominent citizens in the state could have been SELECTED, less likely to be "DUPED" by anyone, much less by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, than these dozen and a half ultra-conservative and well-heeled Republicans, who certainly weren't born yesterday, and at least ya " or whom, we venture to say, have never graced even the most eminently respectable "easy sucker" list. NO James me boyl Call Harry Corbett, C. C. Chap man, Judge Sawyer of Bend and their insurgent associates, Anglophiles, Liberty Leaguers, Economic Royalists, if you wish, even Ambassadors without portfolio of the International Bankers Trust, but DON'T call them DUPES! Any smart guy with a phoney business deal to put over would shun this "Arlington Club" list, as he would the plague if he ever wished to get to first base in the metropolitan business environs of this great I commonwealth. DUPES! Might as well try to pin that title on old J. P. Morgan himself. SO whatever the precise motives behind this pre convention bomb-blast from Portland, duping had nothing to do with it. Anyone seeking the truth can put that in the old pipe and smoke it. Nor is there as charged any direct or indirect Fifth Columnist technique involved. These 18 gentlemen, are even more devoted to the power and perpetuity of the Grand Old Party than Congressman Mott, and far more allergic either to the New Deal, or any pro gram of radical social and economic reforms than the resourceful congressman from the First District. Imagine any one of them, for example, endorsing the venerable Townsend Plan as Mr. Mott has persist ently and conspicuously done! Individually and col lectively they would be as likely to commandeer a Columbia river ferry boat, and take to sea, with the skull and cross bones of Captain Kidd, nailed to the topmast ! DEAD them out of the Republican party because; they want the Oregon delegation to support more active intervention in World War No. 2? j Why Congressman Mott might as well ask the pow ers that be to "read out" Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler and the Honorable Jim Wordsworth! Without these 18 representative business and pro fessional men of this great state, AND the type they represent, the Republican party wouldn't be able to collect enough cash-money in Oregon, to put out a fifth ward shopping sheet, much less buy page-space in the Oregonian or send anything substantial to the national committee's war chest. Small wonder the Roseburg delegates maintained j a cold and unrelieved silence as the "Gentleman from Salem" made this extraordinary request! m m m 1V I0RE than that. While as before stated, we regard this pre-con-vention blast against the Oregon congressional dele gation, as bad politics from the party standpoint, and are surprised such a loyal and ultra-conservative group as this committee of 18 would not have FIRST tried to thresh the controversial matter out in com mittee rather than in the public press, All that after all is solely a question of procedure. As far as the direct issue is concerned, that of generally supporting or opposing the Roosevelt ad ministration's FOREIGN policy, the Mail Tribune entirely agrees with this committee, and is entirely J opposed to the program of the isolationists, which , Messrs. Mott, Angell and Holman have upheld by I their votes, in practically every important roll call. 1 A ND finally instead of criticizing the action of this j committee as detrimental to the Republican j party, or anything reprehensible or improper, in any sense, j We believe, such a move will prove helpful to the j party, that such action is in harmony with the best j principles and traditions of democratic government, that of representative responsibility and POPU-1 LAR rule, and that the net result will be to clear 1 the political atmopshere in the state, as far as Mr. j Mott and his Oregon colleagues are concerned. I Finally and even more important, it should clear I the heads of the Oregon delegation, as to what line the people of Oregon, really want their representa tives at .Washington to adopt I ' Personal Health Service Br William Irned letters pertaining to personal health end hygiene, not to disease diagnosis or treatment, will bo answered hy Dr. Brady II a etamped self addressed envelope is enclosed. Letters sboald be brief and arttten In Ink. Owing to the large number of letters reeelved only a few eaa be answered here. No reply can bo made to queries not conforming to Initruetlont. Addru Dr. William Brady. las El Camlno, Beverly Hills. Calif. SO YOU WANT A request constantly recur ring in the mail suggests that keeping up with the Joneses has good deal to do with the r1 - j mgn cost or . I medical care. " 111. The request ?9r VoEeit I i. . A m thina llkethls:"Have been treated by several lo- J iurt cal doctors for A I over a year f "9 I I and have tried several (near doctors) too. They do not jeem to help me. Please rec ommend a good specialist in (city)." Apparently people who de cide to consult a specialist be lieve a specialist is a superior type of physician, a super-duper-doctor who knows more or has rr.ore skill than ordinary prac titioners or mere "local" doctors have. That is a foolish and cosUy notion. Certainly one physician. here or in a distant city, may know more or have greater skill than another, but that is not because the capable one pur ports to be a specialist, nor need a doctor have greater knowl edge or greater skill than his neighbors or colleagues in order to become a specialist in any field he prefers. Medical spe cialism in America is purely a matter of the personal prefer ence or choice of the doctor himself. Any doctor who has obtained the degree. Doctor of Medicine, bestowed by the med ical college upon completion of the medical course, and a license from the state or province, which permits him to practice medicine and surgery, may en ter upon general practice or hold himself out as a specialist in any branch or field of medi cine or surgery without further qualification or experience, if he wishes. While specialists rec ognized by the rank and file of the profession command the re spect and confidence of their medical colleagues by reason of years of postgraduate study and experience in their chosen fields, there are far too many of the other type of specialists in Yankeeland. I call the other type "brass specialists," meaning they are not genuine. Brass specialists take advantage of popular cre dulity to appeal directly to the public for patronage not In the honest way of a merchant who buys and pays for publicity, but in the devious ways open to a shrewd charlatan who does not choose to quack it openly. They use the prestige the name of Hugh Johnson Eyes Men and Issues of Day (Continued Prom Page One) to the coming disastrous result. You've got to have a parachute, and it will be no good with great holes In it. A parachute for both prices and wages is proposed here. No body is proposing any rigid ceil ing. No control of wages that is not tied to the certain increase In the cost of living has been discussed. In a war economy prices are bound to go up and under these proposals the wages of labor must go up in the same ratio. Nobody dreams of pre serving the old price structure nr preventing an orderly rise. The object here is only to keep it from running away to abso lute chaos and destruction. e IN such a sky-rocketing labor always suffers first and worst Nothing that labor, organised or unorganized, ever gained or dreamed of gaining would equal in benefit this proposal to control the rise, and, by Insuring automatically a rise In wages proportionate to the rise in the cost of living, to secure to labor, at long last a preservation of the present high scale of "real wages." That means to insure to every head of a family that his pay envelope will buy through out all the troublous days ahead at least as many groceries, as much clothing, rent and all the necessaries of life as it does to day. Those who oppose this are no true friends of labor. The reason advanced, that labor is not a commodity, is Just political hog wash without any bearing on the real elements of the prob lem. Its only effect can be to befuddle and bemuse workers to j heir own disadvantace. ; T'HFRE Is hardly a student of t!vs siibjct, ri !,'.er? i . : P that h" V.! ' ' r ? t leuce with it, woo ooes not i Brady. M. D. A SPECIALIST? "specialist" carries in the mind of the untutored layman in unfair competition with honest general practitioners. Right there is the outstanding differ ence between the brass special ist and the genuine specialist. A real specialist's practice con sist chiefly of work referred to him by medical colleagues who recognize his special capabili ties, or in giving opinion or advice in difficult or unusual cases in which the attending physician seeks his aid. The brass specialist cannot hope to build such a practice, so he devotes himself to making a noise like a specialist and beat ing the honest general practi tioner to the patient. Brass specialists catch enough suckers to live on, right from the first, because, as Bamum may or may not have said (you fill it in) or, as Ol' Doc Brady says "So you want a specialist?" QUESTIONS ANSHF.BS Children's Tonsils Our two children have bad tonsils. Doctor aatd they should be taken out before school starts. We have heard they can bo taken out by electricity, which Is better, taking them out by electricity or cutting them out? (Mrs. K. M. E.) Answer Electro-coagulation (dia thermy) is always preferable to sur gical removal of tonsils In my opin ion. This method Is seldom applicable for children under eight. Unless a child has ear trouble or faulty de velopment of cheat or face or Jaw or other serious effect of obstruc tion of breathing. I would not do anything about merely large tonsils and adenoids, other than to see that the child's general nutrition and health are maintained and especial ly see that any cavities In the teeth are promptly filled. Isn't tt Stupldr I find your articles a souroe of great Interest and helpful knowledge, but you put some things too blunt ly. Still, I shall be grateful If you will send me the pamphlet "It Is Stupid to Suffer Prom Plies." Mrs. B. A.) Answer Well, Ma'am, that's what a lot of people say after they have been cured. Fad I called the pamph let "Why Suffer from Piles?" that would Imply that I have a oure. and I haven't any. All I offer Is knowledge of how to have 'em cured. sleeping In Feathers Just at present I am unable to buy a new mattress, so I sleep on a metal bed with feather tick, the tick covered with a cotton comfort, and another cotton comfort for my own cover. I am ST. have fine health, ex cept some backache. (Mrs. M.O.) Answer It la as healthful as any other sleeping equipment money can buy. (Copyright 1041, John P. Wile Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. vvilllnm Brady, M. D, 6.1 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Calif. know that prevention of infla tion through price control is an utterly foolish and futile gesture a mountebank's clowning if farm and labor prices are free from control. Yet, because some politically minded labor and farm organi zation leaders have seemed to accede to this demagogy, some even more politically-minded federal officials have been will ing to set aside the most obvious facts and logic of this case, even though the effect may be to sell the country down the river to the most terrible Inflationary boom and deflationary bust that this country has yet known. We are asked to get out of the realm of politics into the realm of unity and nearly everybody seems anxious to do Uiat except the leaders who are asking for unity in their own support. Canadian Trainees Balk at Boarding Crowded Transport Ottawa. Sept" 297 (AP) A thousand Canadian-trained em pire airmen stalked off a trans Atlantic transport recently be cause of conditions they found aboard, the air ministry, ack nowledging they had room for complaint, promised today "there need be no fear of any repetition of the unfortunate in cident." Canadians, New Zealanders. and Australians were involved in the affair which came to light last night when Air Minister C. G. Power announced that all but "a couple of hundred" of the air men reboarded the ship and now ha e arrived overseas. Vhose left behind, he said, caught another ship a short time later after being nominally dis ciplined with a reduction in pay. "The first airmen who went aboard didn't like what they saw," Power said. "They found the ship dirty, they objected to the sleeping arrangrments, they doubted that the food would be lood." Olotn vr-.e C.i- '.J A-! m. Tuo Let to C'.aestfy 11 so p Kelly's Comment Prom Washington Smaller Army It Proposal New Cantonment Building Doubtful Ceiling on Fir Start Wednesday By John W. Kelly Washington, D. C, Sept. 29 There is a bit of agitation in the upper crust of the administration regarding the army that may ma terially affect the northwest. In short, insiders are discussing whittling down the size of the army and making what we have thoroughly efficient and armed to the teeth. There were in the army on September 4 a total of 1,580,775 officers and men. Plans are now in operation to return to civil life 200,000 by the end of this year, among them many national guardsmen and draftees. Brass hats say they will not require any more cantonments until congress votes an increase in the army and appropriates money. Also, they assert that they have no present intention of making such request from con gress. There are being dispatched to Iceland, Newfoundland, Puerto Rico and other bases many thousands of soldiers, as well as marines and naval forces. These bases must have land forces with artillery and antiaircraft weapons. In the Pa cific 50,000 men are now in Hawaii; other detachments are to be located at such bases as Midway, Wake, Johnston, Sa moa. Thousands of soldiers are at the many bases in Alaska. No figures are available, but 400, 000 or more troops are now scattered at all the bases. There are probably as many soldiers in Panama as there are in Hawaii, e e e ' DISPATCH of such a number of troops makes available the existing cantonments for new enrollees without building new ones. With the Japanese situa tion quieting, army men say there will be no need of main taining troops in cantonments on the west coast; that the places preferred are in the south and on the Atlantic seaboard, where weather conditions will permit a longer period of training and where, if necessary, an expedi tionary force can be more quickly embarked for service than taking troops from the Pacific coast. More American troops are in adequately equipped In the rush to supply the British, Russians and Chinese, with some muni tions going to Latin America. There are army men who Insist that the time is arriving to have a somewhat small but thorough ly armed and trained force of fighting men and to build up the two-ocean navy. These pro posals, however, do not affect the army air corps, and the bases in Oregon and Washington will be developed and others added. e e AT a White House conference two weeks ago President Roose velt inquired of a northwest senator what would happen to a bill to repeal the neutrality act in the senate. He vas told that "at this time such a proposal would be defeated two to one." Repeal of this act is, however, practically certain and very shortly. All that remains of the neutrality act is forbidding the arming of merchant ships, pro hibiting Americans from travel ing on belligerent vessels, and keeping American merchant ves ! sels out of the war zone. Within a few months It is re garded as certain that the mer chant boats now being construct ed in Columbia river and Puget Sound will be provided with weapons. Plans for the "C" type cargo carriers of the maritime commission call for the strength ening of certain parts where guns can be mounted. This ar rangement for armament was re vealed by Joe Kennedy when he was chairman of the commission and before he was sent to the Court of St James as ambas sador. e e ABOUT eight freighters will discharge chromite on Puget Sound for a stockpile. A similar number will unload the same kind of ore on the Willamette river. A government agent has been sent to the west to arrange for space to store the ore. In ad dition to the far east, quantities of chromite are to be imporled from Russia and some will be brought from Alaska, where northwestern capital Is being used, partly furnished by a tim ber owner. e e e SEPTEMBER 30 is the last i day before the price ceiling is ! effective on Douglas fir. Leon I Henderson, who imposed the ceiling, thinks that the fixed : price will save about S5.000.000 1 to civilian consumers and na tional defense' in the ensuing 12 I months. Top price will be J60 for better flooring, vertical i sraln; it has been $75 and up. : Drop sirling will be $30, a reduc tion of $8 to $10. and 1x4 ceilirg ' v.-ill be $43. a cut of from $7 to $10. Sales outside the schedule will not be affected prior to October 1 "where actual delivery has been made by the mill to the purchaser or to a carrier for de- i livery to a purchaser. Anyone j selling 34.000 pounds or more of ! Douglas fir lumber for shipment I at the mill in any calendar month must keep a complete rec ; ord for office of price adminis i trator and submit it upon re ! quest. The ceiling, f o b. mill, j does not prevent charges for I switching, actual transportation I charges, etc. This is the first blanketing of prices in an lm ! portant industry in the north- west the most important single industry. By FRANK JENKINS f EAVING Washington after an Interesting two weeks. In these hectic, boiling days, i with a world in flux. Washing- i ton must be one of the world's most Interesting cities. At any rate It is Interesting enough. Not merely to country folk. The great of the earth are gath ered here, for one purpose or another. DROXIM1TY to the source of great events adds astonish ingly to the excitement engend ered by them. Out on the Pacific coast, the evening the President was to make his "rattlesnake" speech was just another evening. In Washington, you could feel the tension in the air. It was known that he was to make an Important utterance. What it would be was not known. As it turned out, what he said was not particularly spectacular. But the crowds here were Jumpy. That's what being close to the source of big news means. And, aside from the act ual battles, Washington is the source of most of the big news these days. JJOTEL rates are high. But the 4 wonder isn't that they are high but that they aren't much higher. The room clerks are a harried lot. Night after night they stand behind their counters and ex plain to worried and Impatient and often angry people that they simply haven't another room left. Much of their time is spent phoning around to other hotels to find what is available else where. Usually the answer is "nothing." One disgusted customer turned away muttering: "Boy, wouldn't I like to have a business where I could spend all my time telling people I'm all sold out!" Washington Is a good modern replica of a western boom min ing camp in the old days. 1VHAT do Washington people " think of the great Issues that are in the making? That Is a perfectly natural question, and the answer is ab surdly simple. If you will get Into a crowd ANYWHERE IN AMERICA and listen to people talk, you will know exactly what Washington people are thinking. In other words, opinion in Washington divides along the same lines as opinion all over the country. I EAVING by Highway No. 1, " headed toward Baltimore. As a general rule, the high ways entering and leaving the large cities of the enst are far less modern than in the west. Instead of wide, easily followed four and six-lane , routes such as those leading into and out ot Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, they are apt to be merely none-to-wide streets with route signs none too frequent. You have to keep a close watch to avoid getting lost. Washington is no exception to this rule. DALTIMORE. One of Amer lea's great manufacturing cities. Hard to get into by high way, and no easier to get out of. But they do have a route by passing the business district, which saves welcome time. In Baltimore there are literal ly miles of uniform brick apart ment houses with white steps leading down from the entrance to the street level usually about a half dozen. In the better class apartmtnts these steps are of white marble. In the poorer ciass districts they are of wood, painted white. They are KEPT white. Obvi ously they are scrubbed several times a week most of them i every day. I Scrubbing these steps has been a tradition in Baltimore j for generations. IT you pass through In the I morning, you will be almost 1 sure to note that some of them j have been scrubbed more re loesUy and wore carefully than In Hie News others. Baltimoreans tell you there is reason for this. The reason, they say, is SUP ERSTITION. Maybe some unscrupulous person with occult powers may have come aroifnd during the night and put hex on your door. In that event, the thing to do is to scour your steps thor oughly and painstakingly, with water and plenty of soap. Otherwise, something highly disagreeable might happen to you. You might be stricken with a loathsome disease. Or you might fall and break leg. Or your boy friend might run out on you. There are many things that might happen. fT course you don't believe It much. In this modern world, things like that just aren't. Still, soap and water are in expensive, and the steps do look a lot better after they have been freshly scoured. Anyway, these white steps are kept amazingly clean as a whole and some of them are undenW ably cleaner than others. Flight o' Time Medford And Jackson Coonty History from the files of the Mall Tribune 10 and 20 years aco. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY September 29, 1 93 1 (It was Monday) Hunter shoots brother in mis take for deer upstate. Nine California couples ob tain marriage licenses at county clerk's office. Tourists continue flocking to Crater Lake. Architect rush plans for new courthouse for early call for bids. Medford high football squad to play Marshfield here next Saturday. Cloudy and warmer, with a high of 70 and low ot 40 de grees. Three women prisoners In county jail spend time singing at all hours. Both Republican and Demo cratic leaders put "soft pedal" on return of beer. Mail Tribune will broadcast world series games starting next week. Apple crop of valley hard hit by worms. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY September 29. 1921 (It was Thursday) Jackson is banner county at state fair with a total of 98.4 points. Mrs. C. E. Gates wins first prize for exhibiting the biggest pumpkin pie. Fatty Arbuckle, film come dian, charged with manslaugh ter, is freed on bonds and re turns to Hollywood. Tramps numbering 450 seize Southern Pacific freight train near Santa Barbara and police await arrival at Los Angeles. Adkins building and Stewart building in business district bought by J. F. Hale. Home offices of the California-Oregon Power company to move here from San Francisco at an early date. Plans discussed for turning old ball park into high school field. Warm days and cool nights prevail. High 84, low 36 de- H grees. U. S. Power Expansion Is Planned to Exceed Ail Axis Facilities Washington, Sept. 29. VP) The federal power commission disclosed today that It had "launched what it Intends to be the largest electric power expan sion ever undertaken, with the announced objectives of giving the United States greater gener ating capacity than all of Ger many, Italy and the axis occu pied countries. The projected expansion con temptates expenditure of more than $1,500,000,000 in private and public funds over a five year period. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has made available $150,000,000 to get the program going. The commission program pro poses to raise the United States kilowatt hour output in 1934 to 214.000,000,000. 'This plan," the power agen cy said, "is today based on the necessity of preparing for de fense expenditures which, by 1943, will be running at $3,000, 000,000 per mor.th." DRIVERS' PAY "BOOSTED Portland, Sept. 29. (,?) Portland trucking firms today increased wages of 1,000 AFL drivers 25 cents a day, Marvin Mayo, teamster's union secre tary, said. Closlci time (or Classified AH a. m oo late tt. Classify 13 JO p. Ceo auu rnauae s-ani mat.