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FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE PTVH Freight Car Shortage In Oregon Relieved, SP Says RAT.FKf in Thar v.. 1 Hi' freight car shortage in Oregon since July 1, and there is not likely to be one the rest of the year, a Southern Pacific official asserted Wednesday. J. W. Corbett, San Francisco, a vice president of the Southern Pa cific, told, the governor's Emer gency Transportation Committee that despite a nationwide shortage. Southern Pacific Is overcoming it by constructing more cars, bring ing empty cars to Oregon from as far away as Houston, Texas) and by adding to car-handling facili ties. C. E. Ferguson, supervisor of Farm Products Prices Drop CORVALLIS to Prices re ceived for farm products dropped 2 per cent In the month ended July 15, Elvera Horrell, Oregon State College extension agricultural econoimsl, said Thursday. This dropped farm prices to the lowest level in nine years. Prices are 3 per cent below a year ago. At the same time cost of living Items remained faiiiv steadv. showing scattered Increases, to nring tne parity ratio the rela tionship between prices farmers receive and prices of things they buy to 84. This is four Doints be low a year ago and 18 points below the "100" set by Congress as a fair ratio, Horrell said the month's drop came from lower values placed on hogs, potatoes, apples, cattle, wheat and watermelon. Crop prices and livestock prices have slipped about equally, w."h hop and sheep raisers taking the biggest drop in livestock and feed, grain, potatoes, and oil-bearing crops bearing the brunt of the drop on grain. Most notable drops were 50 per cent on potatoes and 23 per cent in oats since July 1954. Meanwhile, the U. S. Department ot Agriculture in Portland said the change to cool showery weather last week was a hindrance to the seed and grain harvest, vegetables, and specialty crops In Western Oregon. It did, however, help fill out spring grain. Additional moisture In Eastern Oregon was' expected to help fill sut the wheat. Rains and cloudy weather closed down combines for several days last week, but no sig nificant damage was reported. Late rains and thundershowers are expected to prolong the carry ing capacity of summer ranges. Livestock Is improving in condi tion on the relatively good feed for this tune of the year, the depart ment said. rail transportation for the public Utilities commiKinnr rilfforoH nn some of this, saying that when uiegoa was snort ot cars earlier this year lumber mills in North ern California and Washington were able to get plenty of cars. Corbett said hp wrtlllri hm "tr. rifically surprised if that is cor rect." The committee invited the rail road oilicials to the meetine to discuss the supply of cars to Ore gon's lumber industry. John F. Buchanan. Sutherlin lumberman and member of the 14- man committee, asked the South' era Pacific men if they would Join in a request to the Interstate Com' merce Commission that Western Oregon lumbermen be allowed to order cars from the northern lines lor shipments to Chicago. W. G. Peoples. San Francisco, P. vice president in charge of freight traffic, said the railroad wouldn't. He advised against such move because "it would hurt our friendly relations with the northern lines, and make us dis criminate as between shippers." Peoples referred to the ICC as a "gestapo" organization because "it orders us what to do." When Peoples said the northern lines have a worse car shortage than the S. P., Ferguson said bis investigation showed there hasn't been any car shortage in the state of Washington. Corbett explained the shortage is nationwide, asserting it is ser ious in the East. Lumber loadings in Oregon, he said, are setting new records every month this year over comparable months in previous years. The committee decided to ask Congress to give the ICC the power to increase the daily rentals which railroads charge other lines for use of their cars. These in creased rentals would apply only in periods of severe car shortages. The committee believes that In creasing the rentals would result in quicker return of cars to their home lines. Buchanan read a letter from the Western Forest Industries Assn. asking the U. S. Senate Committee Interstate and Foreign Com merce to investigate the shortage, The association said the S. P. has failed to build enough cars, asked that shippers be allowed to order cars from the northern lines. and said the S. P. ships Oregon lumber to New England via El Paso, Texas. . Peoples said that 90 per cent of his -railroad's shipments from Oregon to the East go via Ogden, which he said is the shortest route to Chicago. He said 7 per cent goes through .Portland, and 2 per cent via El Paso. ' The association said Southern Oregon has had car shortages for 50 years. ALCOHOL FUMES BDRBANK, Calif., If Alcohol fumes accidentally released at an electrical plant yesterday sent at least 65 workers to tne hospital, Twenty-six remained in the hospi tal after treatment but none were considered serious. An official of 'the Advance Relay and Electric Co. said the fumes escaped when Industrial alcohol was being trans ferred from a large container to several smaller ones. t-r' T.LKtf.V..MMl "1 finally persuaded my wife to stop shouting -at me it was making a nervous wreck out of the dog! .j Armored Car Guard Lauded Hammond Organ Chord Orfan Largest stock lead ing male pianos in thia part of the west. Rent a Spinet piano. Rental pur chase plan. BUFFALO, N. Y. ( The guard who foiled a holdup of Brink's armored car carrying half a mil lion dollars is "too brave to be protecting just money," one of the captured bandits says. Sylvester Mazzella, seized with a companion Wednesday after a dramatic gunflght, said yesterday that guard Eugene Clohessy 'should be protecting lives, which are something you can't replace." Clohessy, 37, alerted police de spite a shoulder wound he suf fered when a trio of masked nen cut loose with a aubmachinegun at Brink's garage, Mazzella, 46, of the Bronx, and Anthony Pattinato, 39, of Balti more, traded shots with swarms '55 CHEVROLET $1845 DUGAN & MEST 410 So. 6th Ph. 4UJ ot police but were caught within an hour. Their loot ot $150,000 was found abandoned. The third bandit fled. A 14-state alarm was Issued for Jimmy Sheri dan, alias Jimmy Salemerio, of New York City. Canadian police were alerted after a report that Sheridan might have lied across the Peace Bridge. Detectives discounted theories that the gunmen were involved in the biggest cash haul in the na tion's history. That was the !,- 219,000 Brink's holdup in Boston Jan. 17, 1950. "We wanted to hurt nobody, Mazzella told police. "It's ironic that we're here because of one mans courageous act." CLOSING OUT SALE continues t KLAMATH FURNITURE CO. 221 Main Farmers Seek Tax Change SALEM I The Oregon Farm Bureau Federation will support the Legislature s attempt to get per- Grapes Dumped On Highway WEED Thirteen hundred crates of grapes from Indio. California destined for Vancouver, B.C., and owned by Al Strain of Portland. were dumped onto the Weed high way one nmnl recently. They were being transported in a truck-trailer driven by Kenneth Marshall of Los Angeles wilb Strain as a passenger. The California Highway Patrol investigated the accident. Appar ently Marshall attempted to pass a car driven ry pete Pellegrlso ot Weed at the cemetery lane in tersection on Highway 99 north of town. Pellegrino was attempting to maxe a leu turn and the truck overturned to avoid hitting the car. The Pellegrino car swerved to the right and remained upright. He was uninjured. Marshall suifered a slight in jury to his left leg. Truck dam age was estimated at more than $650. Loss of cargo amounted to some $4,500. - lative apportionment, and will aid Under this plan, each county would) in distributing Initiative petitions. have s senator, " ' i mission to put emergency clauses on tax bills, and thus make it im-1 possible to refer them to the peo ple. - The action was taken at a meet-1 ing of the federation's house of delegates at Bend. George Dewey, federation secre tary, said delegates from 12 coun ties voted for the resolution, and eight against. He said some of those opposing it want an immedi ate sales tax, instead of waiting for a possible emergency measure later. He added ihat the federation might take the lead in promoting the emergency clausa measure. 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