August 8, 1933 PA(JE EIGHT THE KLAMATH NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON LIMBER CODE LOOKED FOR NDUSTRT By Chnrlfn Mym, I Tba Oregonlan Requests for Information re ceived by ths Wei Coast Lum bermen' association indicate that many interested people In the lumber Industry misunder stand what la occurrinn back at Washington In . connection with boure and waea of labor In the hearings on the national lumber ode. . The West Coast Lumbermen's association and the West Pine association, one speakina- for manufacturing and loggers In the Douglas tir region of west ern Oregon and Washington, the other for similar groups in east ern Washington and Oregon Idaho northern California prepared separate codes, but each of those associations worn- ao-hour week ana basic minimum wage scale First $517 of $100,000,000 for Cotton Acreage Cut of 41 M cents per hour In mills; ig- ) ! k urMntlnni' The DOU i.. pi. Mfri fnr aS-hnnr week In logging camps at 4114 cents j Hlnlnnm iflli tllS per iiu ui wiuiuiHw, - Western Pine recommending minimum wages In Arisona ana New Mexico to o me same to Southern Ptne. Hrlnn.l DItIsIoIU XuniCTOUS. Besides these two codes of pri mary Interest to the people of the Pacific northwest and north era California, the national mas ter lumber code contains . other regional or species divi sions, each of which has recom mended wage snd hours to suit local conditions. It Is pointed out. Included In these Is the South ern Pine Industry, on 10-hour day or 0-hour week, where the common labor mostly to colored. This Industry with nn.thom nine, northern hemlock U In the lake states and the nonneasiern u.i..w. In New England hare been employing men on 10-hour shifts. These, with several hard wood Industries have U indi cated la their codes a wllling- . - - M.Hn h rui r to 4S na w - " and So pay minimum wsges ol from ilri cenis w v. tie more than one-halt the base , in ih rndea of was" aw-i,. the western manufacturers ane loggers. The law as Interpreted by the rnmre a national Industry, such as lumber, to come forward with one code. This the lumber Industry did. General Johnson. Immediately stated the lumber code with minimum rents to 4 2 cents and hours of labor from 4 to 48 was "wholly anac- epteble." Tennaat Makes Appeal. J. D. Tennaut of Longview i n n h national lum- hr committee presenting the code, stated publicly that the "whollr unacceptable" did not a all tn the 42-cent minimum and the 40-hour week of the West Coast Lumbermen's association and ol tne western Pine association. Saturday. July XI, Mr. Ten imMrMi before the ad ministrator and urged that the code wages and hours, as sub mitted, be put Into Immediate effect to stop overproduction ot lumber and to satisfy the em ployes of the lumber industry who were becoming restive un der the promises of the code. This request General Johnson ..4urul wlthnnt ttnlnnllnn. The Intention of the govern ment tn setting up the industrial recovery act was to bring back . MnMlv mm nna.thln thA rnil. auming power which Industrial workers bad in ls-'ti-isza. ine two western lumber associations in line with this principle ac cepted the finding of the Loyal . Legion oi Loggera ana Lamrer- nm In June that a 42-cent waaa n-hfi-h waa the minimum wage of the Douglas fir ana tne western rine in dustries In 1926-1929 would De tne proper oase witn wnicn to start the code. Northwest Wage Largest. This 42 4-cent minimum wage has therefore gone with the nv tional lumber code to the gov ernment and it approved will be come the standard for the first under the code for all sawmill ana logging camps worKs in Washington, Oregon, Ideho and northern California. The minimum wage ot 42 Vi cents j,er hour offered by the two lumber associations of the waa. la tlia hta-hoat n hnnr minimum so far written into a cuae uy any 01 tne major in dustries reported from Washlng- ple. the steel Industry's code has a av-evnt oiiiuiuuni in ins norm and the electrical industry mini mum waa reported as 3a cents per hour: the shipyards ss 40 ctnts. The minimum wage is paid in western lumber to from 10 to 15 per cent of those em ployed on an average, most of the employes being skilled and ranking higher rates of pay. BEDS SEEKING RESERVATIONS HERE More than 1000 advance rfs ervutlons for rooms during the American Legion state convention here have been received from members expecting to attend from over the state. The housing committee under the direction of Bogue Dale, chairman, has been carrying on t campaign to enlist every avail able room In the city for use during the meeting when more than 3.000 visitors are expected. Kesldenta having extra rooms re requested to rail either Mrs O. D. Matthews. 339-M; Mrs Vina Cossd. 1744 or Mrs. Ruth Roskamp, 672. -PI r ( 1 - 3T1 . rN. --V w J I i C I 1 ii S 1 ELECTRICITY CONTROLLED BY REGULATOR From the hand of President Roosevelt to thst ot George Morris, Texas cotton farmer, a check for 1517 Is passing la the above picture. It was the nrst trickle In a Hood ot f 100.000.000 which the government la pouring uron southern farmers who cut cotton acreage. Left to right. Representa tive Marvin Jones, Texas: Cully Cobb. U. 8. cotton administrator: G. R. Euvally, Texaa atate ax eeatioa service: the president: Morris, and Secretary ot Agriculture Wallace. PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 1. (JP Edward Khrman, 79. veteran Portland wholesale grocer, died here last . night from a heart at tack. He was president of the General Grocery company and of Mason, Ehrman and Co.. and a member ot the board ot di rectors of the United States Na tional bank. Ehrman was born la Balti more March 18. 1854. In 1871 he started his (0-year csreer in the grocery business with the firm ot M. Ebrmsa Co., of San Francisco. Hs came to Portland 10 years later and wi4h W. S. Mason, former msyor of the city, founded the firm bear ing their names which later be came one of the largest whole sale grocery concerns tn the Pa cific northwest. He la survived by his widow, a son and a sister, Mrs. M Greenblatt ef San Francisco. chase a license. He paid costs I of the suit McKinley George, charged with being drunk and disorderly, sent enced to 60 daya in the county Jail. Dean George, charged witn be ing drunk iu a public place, sentenced to 60 daya tn the county Jail. W. W. Edwards, charged with obtaining money by false pre tenses took time to enter a plea. Bond set at 1100. T S i rninm mwii iinu i r-Liiiiu mini inuv LLUIUII HUAILIHIil j ! i Lm W. Jacobs, man rer of the Klamath Falli branch of J a sun, carman to., receiTeq a telegram on Wednesday morn ing telling him of the death in Portland on Tuesday evenine o Edward Ehrman, president of Mason, Ehrman 4 Co., and ot the General Grocery company. He left shortly after noon on n ednesday for Portland to act as a pallbearer at the funeral which will be held In Portland on Thursday. Courthouse Records TUESDAY, AUGCST 1, 1933 Divorce Suits Filed Clem Brown filed suit for a divorce from Bernsdlne Charlotte Brown, charging desertion. No children or property rights in volved In suit. Couple married in Lemans, France In 1919. - Other Suits Filed M. A. Young filed suit against O. F. Palmerton and William Palmerton. Plaintiff asks that defendant be ordered to com plete payments of a certain con tract or that possession of pro perty be granted plaintiff. Divorces Granted none. Orders Signed none. Marriage Mcensen none. Car Accident Reports none. Justlre of Peace Court Virgil Clark, charged with angling without a license, re leased after agreeing to pur-1 ALTVRAS. Calif. The first serious forest fire of the season on the Modoc national forest occurred northwest ot the town of Lookout Fridsy when a care less smoker stsrted a blaze In a heavy stsnd of pine timber. Forest rangers from the Big Valley district, with a special suppression crew from the 977th Company at Hackamore, brought the blaze under control before it had burned more than seven seres snd the damage to mer chantable timber was compara tively slight. . The trained civilian conserva tion corps men, experiencing their first baptism ot fire, were highly complimented by forestry officiala for their efficient work. WiTED BT POLICE One thousand pine canes with a colored pelican parched on the top for a handle will be sold by the American Leg ton auxiliary for the hgion state convention to open August 10. Sale of the canen and tickets for the midnight matinee to be sponsored at the Pelican theatre are the two financing programs planned by the auxiliary for its state convfntioo to be carried on in conjunction with the men's organization. I The canea will be placed on! sale August 9 and may be pur chased by local people or visitors. They are made of a square pine stick, prepared at the Weyer haeuser Timber company, and a small hand sited pelican painted wmte witn black eyes and a yellow bill. The pelican was cut out, painted and placed on the cane by the Modern Cabinet shop. More than 20 loving cups, trophies, plaques and prizes of the auxiliary, to be presented during the state meetiug here, hare ben received and are on display in the show case of the May King studio and the legion convention headquarters. Another feature ct the con vention to be carried on by the auxiliary will be the nursery at the Presbyterian church under the direction of Mrs. T. D. Case. Games, pictures and attractions will be carried on at the nursery by Mrs. Case for children of lo cal and visiting legion members. V. It. McAukUml Xevvs-llerald Correspondent BIKBKR, C-.IU. Installation this summer of new lumber mills Is more than doubling Big Valley's demand for electric power. To meet the need for more current and also to take care of abrupt lnoreasea and de creases in the "losd," the Pa cific Gas and Electric company has built at a cost of $9,000 and just put Into service an auto matic voltage regulator station a few miles east of Plttvllle on the Mr A rt h ur- ttleber tra munis ston tine that waa built two years ago. "Kut-h more Juke. and. 1 j ternately. "Cut tt down." la how the three regulators, one lor each wire on the high tension tine, interpret wordless messages they get several times a minute over the wires from Big Valley. The orders are filled Instantly. Electromagnets leap, transformer ratios are changed, and right away the voltage of the station's output Is rained or lowered as the case may be. "They are sawing a log at Caldwell's mill now," remarked Henry tlertholaa, district man ager for the P. ti. and K., as he opeued a regulator and re vealed Its mechanism whirrhii first one way and then reversing in a slow rhythm. '"Whenever the saw starts a cut, its motor wires back here for more power and these regulators respond by I boosting the voltage. As soon as each cut la finished and lu saw is running Idle, this station instantly knows It and drops the voltage.' The regulators are set to maintain an average voltage ot 12. Sou In the high tension Hue at H.eber. the terminus. They have ironed out fluctuations that were making lights flicker tn tiieber and Nubleber. Recording voltmeter testa since the station went Into use have shown the current strength on customers' service low tension lines to be virtually constant. New lumber mills of Davts and Bowers and the Stockton I Box company will take over 400 hnPsmnnrr frnm thm P. fa. Bttfl ! K. Bertholas estimated the Big i Valley total load on his com pany s lines at 900 horsepower, of which he classed 800 as Industrial. Ike Re-Signs y NLA'! OREGON ASKS MORE MONEY BRIDGES Ika Armstrong, who haa won Rorky Mountain Confsrtnce championships fnr University of Utah for sis consecutive yesr has a chance for at least five more. He has Just signed a con tract for tire more football coach ing IAI.KM. Aug. I, IAD Due lo recent price Increases, lbs slate of Oregon la -king nno oon Instasd of 13. 400. 000 In ! the form of a federal loan and grant for the five proposed Ore gon Coast highway bridges. Dsns have been completed for the Waldport and Florence hrlilgea on the roast highway and completion of the plana for the bridge at Iteedspnrt Is as peeled by August Is. II waa learned at the stste hlghwsy de partment today. Hrlilgea rwtorrd Plana tor the bridge at Cooa Bay will he finished nest and the Newport bridge plana will b last, although all I he plans will he ready within the o.it III days. In the revl.ed application for tu mis. IDOU.ouo Is inught ss an outright federal grant, the re maining ll.loii.oou lo be borrow ed from the federal government at four per ceut Interest fur a la-year period. " J, M. Hovers, counsel for the highway department, said evsry advice from Washington and In formal word from the regional administrator of the puhllo works program, la favorable lo the bridges. Bevsral weeks ago Secretary ot the Interior lokes ..pressed himself to Senator Charles L. MrNary aa In favor of the bridge project. At the aame time he declared he would not approve a regional program such as the bridges, until a regional admin istrator had been named., Marshall N. Uaua, newly ap pointed regional administrator, snd his board ot three advisors can lake no action on the bridge project until they receive furth er Instructions from Washington on the esaot procedure they must follow. MILL ERECTED More Credit Held Business Basis WASHINGTON. Aug. t. (AP) President Roosevelt wants new credit "made available to all classes of our cltlsens" so busi ness may be "re-established on a permanent, workable basts.' That was the chief executive's request as made public last night In an address by Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the reconstruction corporation. LOOKOUT, Calif. A. lEatn bont and James Castelll, veteran lumbermen of Modoc county, j have a crew of ten men engaged In the construction of a sawmill; plant at Widow Valley, north j west of this place. Zambonl and Castelll have, owned and operated a sawmill1 under the name of the Davis Creek Lumber company near l)a-, vis creek for the past fifteen i years but are moving their plant to the Widow Valley section. I where they have purchased the , Wendt tract of timber. This' tract, almost pure pnnderosa ' pine, with a sprinkling of white fir and Incense cedar, Is located' nrxr the nw main Hue of the, Great Northern over which the i output of the new ' mill will be shipped. The parrel of timber is estimated to contain around 12 million feet of merchantable timber. i Logging and sawing oper . ations at the new plant will be; In operation within the next1 couple of wsks and will emplov ! between 2& and SO men. The owners expect to cut In the' neighborhood of 25.000 board , feet average per day, working! one shift, but may Increase their) output later by working a don-1 ble sulft. Practically all of the lumber will be shipped out for: export. I I io Dear Mothers: Our Fourth Annual Ken nell Ellis Studio Lost River Dlry "Moat Attrctlv Child Contest" It in pro greM. This content,, judged pho tographically, i open to all boys and girls from S months to 6 years of age. You receive a free sitting for each entrant You have an equal chance of winning very worthwhile prizes. ' Remember, this contest Is open for all children with in the age limits. Telephone us for any additional information. Kennell-EIlis Artist Photographers 8U4 Ore, Rank Bldg. Klamath Falls Phone 9010 MEDFORD, Ore., Aug. I. OP) Medford police are "gazing In- j to the crystal" for some clue tot the whereabouts of "Madame Howard, platinum-hatred seer ess who, according to complain ing clients, faded out of the pic ture Monday night with an as sortment of jewelry, clothing and other valuables deposited with the mad a me for "study." In obtaining a warrant latt night for the missing mystic. a woman client told police she had left a diamond-set wrist wat h, three dresses, a valuable purse and a man's ring with the seeress when the latter declared that through study of the arti cles she would be able to reveal her client's future. E-BBK i England Is trying out a bus which uses steam as a motive power; the bus ha. 100 horse power engine and accommodates 40 passengers. "Wheelbase" Is the distance frem the renter of the front axle to the center of the rear axle. 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Starting Monday, Aug. 7, busi ness hours will be from 9:00 to 6:00 o'clock week days and 8:00 to 7:00 Saturdays. - Em ployes will work a forty-hour week. Following are minimum prices: Permanent Wave $5.00 Extra Curli 25 Finger Wave 75 MarceU 75 Plain Shampoo 50 Long Hair 75 Soapiest Oil Shampoo 75 Scalp Treatment 1,50 Henna Pack 1.50 White Henna 2.50 Rinet 25 Hair dying (without material) 5.00 Retouch . 2.50 Hair Bleaching .... .... 5.00 Retouch ... 2.50 Brush Curl 1.50 Paper Curl . 2.00 Haircuts .......................... .50 Facial ........ 1.50 Manicure 50 Eye-brow Arch 50 Eye Brow-Eye Lath Dye 1.50 ACCEPTED BY Alaine's Beauty Nook Daisy Morin Hazel Beauty Shop Houston Beauty Shop Lorraine Beauty Shop Moe's Beauty Shop Murphy's Beauty Shop Orlean's Beauty Shop Pal ace Beauty Shop Pearce Beauty Shop Permanent Wave Shop Swansen's Beauty Shop