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.
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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
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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.
The federation's board of direc
tors also voted to give active sup
port to the federal plan of legis-
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