Farm Wage Rales
Said Down Slightly
The new year found farm wage
rates slightly below a year ago
and farm employment held fair
ly steady. There were a few less
hired workers but about the
same number of family workers
as a year earlier, the Oregon
State college extension service
reported today in Us weekly
farm price, crops and weather
review.
Last year brought the first
significant decline in farm land
values since 1932. The farm land
value index .nationally, dropped
six per cent from the high point
reached in November 1948 and
Oregon led the downward
trend, the college reported. Farm
land values here dipped twice as
far as the national average.
Values in Oregon are now 14
per cent below the peak reached
late In 1948. California had the
second largest drop during the
year.
Explaining the decline, the ex
tension service said buyer re
sistance is developing, with
greater importance being attach
ed to location, condition of build
ings, and quality of land. Also
owners are finding little incen
tive to sell as long as farm pro
duce continues to yield a high
rate of return on investments.
. Slightly lower crop prices
also tended to force farm land
values down, according to the
department of agriculture and
the extension service.
Garage Destroyed As
Gas Tank Explodes
Salem, Ore., Feb. 3 U.R
Fire destroyed a garage at the
home of 'C. A. Reed here Thurs
day night after a gasoline stor
age tank exploded. There was
no car in the garage at the time.
Firemen kept the flames from
the Reed home.
Loss was estimated at $500.
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SNUBBED Ejected and dejected members of the Japanese Diet walk
out of Boston's City Hall after the City Council voted to bar them
from observing council sessions. The ban was approved by a 11 to 8
Sote after one councilor proposed "feed them, but don't educate
lem." The Diet members are visiting the United States to see
"democracy In action" as guests of the Government.
Displaced Persons
Amendment Offered
Washington, Feb. 3 (U.R)
Chairman Pat McCarran of the
senate judiciary committee, has
introduced an amendment to stop
entry of displaced persons into
the United States whenever more
than 4,000,000 Americans are
unemployed.
The Nevada democrat's pro
posal also would halt the dis
placed persons program when
ever more than 2.000,000 mar
ried couples are forced to live
"doubled-up" in a household.
McCarran, outspoken oppon
ent of President Truman's drive
to liberalize the displaced per
sons act, called his proposal "a
minimum safeguard to protect
the people of the United States."
He said he will ask the senate
to tack his new proposal on to
the DP bill approved by his
judiciary committee last week.
Rooming House Fire
Leaves 12 Homeless
Detroit, Ore., Feb. 3 (U.R)
Fire destroyed a two-story room
ing house here Thursday night,
leaving 12 persons homeless. No
one was in the place when the
blaze, of undetermined origin,
broke out.
Fire spread to the nearby
home of Earl Layman and dam
aged a third of it before fire de
partments from Idanha and Mon
gold put out the blaze.
The rooming house was oper
ated by Mr. and Mrs. Vern
Franse, who estimated the loss
at $7,000.
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Laurifz Melchior
Quits Opera In Huff
New York, Feb. 3 U.R) Lau
ritz Melchior, the world's No. 1
Wagnerian tenor, quit his $1,000-a-performance
job at the Metro
politan opera in a temperamental
huff today for a whirl at big
time entertainment money.
The 59-year-old Dane sang his
513th role as "Lohengrin" last
night and walked out of the
opera house where he had sung
for 24 years, "never to return."
He said the Met's new direct
or, Rudolf Bing, had tarried too
long In approaching him about a
contract for next season. He ad
mitted he felt "slighted" because
Bing had signed up "a lot of
small stars" including a younger
Swedish rival first.
"I'll not be back," he said. "I
swam off on 'Lohengrin's' swan
boat tonight. Vive le compagnie
(long live the company)."
Melchior said he had grown
tired waiting for Bing and had
booked a heavy schedule of con
cert and radio programs to take
the place of his usual Met season
next year.
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Traveling Salesman
Turns 'Doctor' To
Examine Women
Portland, Ore., Feb. 3 (U.R)
Four blushing women pointed to
a smooth-talking traveling sales
man as the "doctor" who tricked
them into examinations in the
nude for a non-existent rash,
One woman's equally red
faced husband admitted that he,
too, let Paul D. Thomas, 29, San
Francisco, look him over in the
altogether.
It wasn't until the four wom
en compared notes they discov
ered that Thomas really wasn't
a public health doctor trailing a
mysterious epidemic.
Answers Ad
Thomas, father of two chil
dren, advertised over a radio
station as representative of his
Los Angeles firm, that he was
seeking housewives' to do home
weaving. A mother in a Portland
apartment house answered.
When Thomas visited her, he
noticed something was wrong
with her daughter's foot. "One
thing led to another" and Thom
as told her he had medical train
ing. She let him examine the
girl's foot.
Thomas returned to the apart
ment building that afternoon,
representing himself as "Dr. Jen
sen of the Portland health bu
reau." At the door of a 22-year-old
divorcee he asked to exam
ine her child for a "contagious
skin rash that is spreading all
over Portland."
Examines Mother
After a glance at the child, he
allegedly asked the mother:
"Would you mind if I gave
you a thorough examination, too?
We believe parents are transmit
ting the rash."
The woman promptly disrobed.
"I was completely fooled," she
said. "He out on a Hood act with
his fluent medical lingo and his I
casualness about it all.
Thomas "examined" two oth'
er women. At one couple's apart-1
mcnt, he even had the 35-year-old
husband undress for him.
Acted Like Doctor
"He acted exactly like a doc
tor and what a conversationalist
he was!" one woman said.
Thomas made one mistake.
When the four women and the
man talked it over, they recalled
that the doctor hadn't worn rub
ber gloves.
They notified police, who
traced Thomas to his hotel and
charged him with disorderly
conduct.
Pear Prices High At
New York Auctions
Pear prices reached recent
new higlis at New York the past
week with No. 1 Oregon bosc
pears averaging better than $6 a
box in Monday's auctions. The
average of $6.14 on 2,070 boxes
sold was the highest for any day
in more than three years. Unit
ed States department of agri
culture figures released by the
Oregon State college extension
service show that the average of
$4.61 on 2,285 boxes of an.ious
was also high compared to other
recent seasons but below last
Friday's seasonal peak of $4.88.
The marketing season has been
lengthened by early harvest and
good storage quality and the
quantity of winter pears in stor
age is now smaller than a year
ago, according to the extension
service. Movement is said to
have been favored by a short
banana supply and rising pricts
have also stimulated trade in
terest this season and more
stores have made special efforts
to move winter pears.
CARD Or THANKS
Mr. and Mn. A. J. Hudson wish tu
thank all of their friends and nelih
bora in the Shady Cove-Trail district
for their sympathy and aid during
their recent loss.
Friday, Fabruary S, 1950
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Oregonian Sought
In Montana Robbery
Missoula, Mont., Feb. 3 (U.R)
The federal bureau of investiga
tion has been called into the
three-state search for two fugi
tives wanted in connection with
Monday's safe-cracking at a Pol
son, Mont., hardware store.
The FBI was called in after
local authorities Identified one
of the yeggs as Omar August
Pinson, an escaped convict from
the Oregon state prison. Pinson
had been using the name Sam
Cignitti, authorities said.
Pinson escaped from prison
May 30, authorities added, while
serving a life sentence for the
murder of a law enforcement of
ficer. The FBI record stated
Pinson was "extremely danger
ous" and usually carried from
two to four guns.
Pinson has been quoted as
saying, in connection with the
current manhunt, that ho "would
not be taken alive."
Oregonian Building
Will Be Razed Soon '
Portland, Ore., Feb. 3 (U.R)
The Portland real estate repre
sentative for Store Properties,
Inc., of Los Angeles, Leon Bul
lier, said here today an office
building would not replace the
old Oregonian building, slated
for razing later this month.
Bullier said the site was
"ideal" for a merchandising lo
cation. He said three bids had
been submitted to the building
owners for tearing down the 58-ycar-old
landmark, formerly the
home for 55 years of the Ore
gonian newspaper.
The Portland building depart
ment was notified yesterday by
the Los Angeles company that
the structure would be torn
down rather than repaired as
the city had ordered.
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Austin, Tex. (U.R) A citizen
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reported the theft of 11 chickens
from his yard. One of the chick
ens, he said, walked with a limp.
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