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Design for the George Rogers Clark Memorial i m OREGON STATE NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Eve n ts of the Week Assembled for Information of O u r Readers. Carl Olson. 35, was killed Instantly by falling timber while working in the camp of the S. & C. Logging company of Garibaldi. First photograph o f the plana for the memorial to George Rogera Clark, noted western pioneer and explorer, which bare Just been approved by the One arts commission at Washington. The memorial la to be erected at Vin cennes, Ind. Whaling Now Is Big Business Emerge« From Adventurous Form o f Hunting to an Important Industry. Washington.— "W haling has emerged from man’s most glamorous and ad venturous form o f hunting to the sta tus o f an exceedingly Rig Business, with two big capital ’B's,' and a third •B’—for the whale buslnesa Is Boom ing.” says a bulletin from the Wash ington, D. C., headquarters o f the National Geographic society. “ Certainly no other animal Industry can show a 73 per cent factory In crease In 1029, with the expectation o f a further 30 per cent factory In crease In 1930. Wildest "Pasture" Range. “ And this Big, Booming Business In volves corralling the biggest animal the world has ever grown, roving over the vastest ‘pastures’ the world a f fords— ‘pastures’ that range from the Bering sen to the straits o f Mngellun, from Spltzbergen to the Bay of Whales, last airplane ports o f call for the North and South poles. “ New Bedford was the world's whaling capital In the ’Moby Dick’ days o f venturesome sea dogs who risked limb, life and wooden ships In hand-to-hand encounters with whales. In 1854 the American whaling Industry reached Its peak production of 12,- 000,000 gnllons o f blubber for the whale-oil lamps one can And today In antique shops. “Tiny Norwegian towns, whose names you may find it hard to pro nounce, If, Indeed, you have heard of them— Sandefjord, Tonsberg, llauge- sund and Larvlk—are the ports which sent 39 ‘floating factories,’ , some 200 whaling boats, and nearly 10,000 men Into the world's loneliest navigable sens to bring back the major share of an estimated production this year o f nearly 70,000,000 gnllons o f whnle oil. "Each huge steel ship that steams ont o f the Sknggerak, with Its convoy o f tiny, bobbing tenders, to go whal ing In the antipodal land o f the mid night sun, will return with half a million dollars’ worth o f whale oil, or more, to be used for the soap that floats In American bathtubs or to help make a butter substitute for Eu ropean tables. “ These steel ships are the ‘floating factories’ which anchor In sheltered coves, and there extract the oil o f the ■ea animals towed to them by the tenders, or catchers, which actually harpoon the whales. Most o f the float ing factories have flensing platforms alongside, where the whale Is stripped, cut up, and fed to the huge vats within. “ A few new vessels are equipped with a forward hatch through which a whale’s body Is drawn by uu elec tric windlass direct to u cutting up floor In the vessel Itself. The modern mlrnrle o f a ship swallowing n whnle would afford Jonah a sardonic smile. Shooting ths Harpoon Gun. “ Anyone who thinks science hna taken the adventure out o f whaling should go aboard a catcher. These 110 to 120-foot vessels, with 300 to 750 horse power engines, and a speed o f 11 or 12 knots, afford an ultimate test o f sea sickness. They have no keel, so they can whirl, twist and double hack with the whale. On the bow o f each vessel Is the Invention which Is to whaling what the cotton gin was to textile making—the har poon gun. “The harpoon gun Is a muzzle load ing cannon on a swivel mounting which shoots a harpoon o f tempered Swedish steel, about six feet long. Set In the harpoon’s end are four 12-lneh barbs which spring out at a 45-degree angle when the harpoon Is lodged In the body o f the whale. And In the harpoon point is a bomb, charged with gun powder, automatically flred three seconds after the shaft leaves the can non. “ Aiming a harpoon gun at a whale from a notoriously unstable craft, plunging from crest to trough o f the Antarctic's rough seas, at the exact moment a whale rises to the surface for air, demands no mean marksman ship. To the harpoon shaft Is attached a rope which passes over a roller on the bow o f the ship and is attached to a powerful winch. The struggling whale Is played as a fisherman would play a fish with the reel on his rod. Inflated, It Floats. “This rope serves also to bring the body to the surface while air Is pumped Into Its body so that the bal loonlike cnrcnss, with a flag stuck into It as a marker, will float while the catcher pursues other prey. “ When the huge bulk Is towed along side the floating factory the flensers swarm about It, allce through the blub ber the length o f the body, and a winch Is attached to the end o f each strip, peeling off the outer coating as one would peel an orange. “The remnant flesh and bones are tom apart, and fed into the boiling pans so that, to paraphrase a stock- yards saying, every part of the wlmle Is utilized except the blow. An effi cient floating factory will slice and chop a whale In two hours. “ Whale oil Is graded as accurately as wheat. Tw o grades are made en tirely from the blubber, which yields a pale, yellow oil with but a faint, fishy odor, used primarily In cosmet ics and comestibles. The residue from which these grades are extracted Is left In boiling pans, the flesh thrown In and under pressure, a grade of darker color and higher acid content Is produced. The flesh and bonce to gether yield 'bone oil’ and the lowest grade o f all is the dark, odorous oil useful only for lubrication. “ It was the harpoon gun that changed the geography of whaling, ex tending operations Into the far south ern seas, In pursuit o f the mammoth blue whale, largest living anim al; the sw ift fin whale, ’greyhound o f the seus.’ and the flat-headed, hard-fight ing humpback. These types were too speedy, too vicious or too lean to at tract old-time hunters of the sperm whale and the aouthera right whale. Moreover, they sunk when killed. Tiny Islands Used by Whalsrs. “ When one of the world's most prof itable industries Invaded one o f the EMPIRE OF RUSSIA STILL U V E S! BEUEVE IT OR NOT “ Cyril I" Has Exiled Subject« Throughout World and an Am. baaaador to United States. New York.—In spite o f Stalin and the Soviets, In spile of the red flag that flies over Moscow, there Is still a Russian empire with u czar and a royal court—even with au ambassador to the t'nlted Stales! True, this empire doesn't possess a foot o f the earth : It Is recognized offi cially In none o f the world’s capitals. Bui to many o f the 8.000,'4)0 Russian exiles scattered around the glolie It la a* real ns the administration of H oover at Washington, according to Gleb Kotkln, son o f the physician to the murdered Cxur Nicholas, himself once a monarchist leader, who de scribes what he terms "the Empire of Hhadowland’’ In the North Americnn Review. Botkin describes the services receut ly held In Russian churches In New York and other world centers outside Russia to commemorate the fifth year o f the “ reign o f Cyril I." The Grand Duke Cyril, eldest o f the four living first cousins o f the mur dered czar, regularly holds court at his present residence In northern France and deports himself as If he had risen to Imperial rank over a material nation, he says. Moreover, this Intangible empire does not recognize officially any rear rangement o f the map o f Europe, for the title assumed by Its ruler Is ’’ His Imperial Majesty Cyril Vladimirovich, emperor o f all the Russia*, czar o f Poland, grand duke o f Finland, etc.“ Ringleaders o f the exiled Russians who cling to visions o f a re-estab lished monarchy are dignified with high poets In the shadowy empire, no matter what tlielr present statu* hap pens to he, relate* Botkin, who is now earth’s bleakest and most barren re gions It salvaged tiny islands from desolate obscurity. South Georgia re sembles a Matterhorn rising from the frozen teas. The South Shetland* af forded only markers for heroes' names — King George, Nelson, and Living stone— until some realist named ’Hell Gates.’ Deception Island preserves on modern maps, by Its shape, the tradi tion o f ancient charts which bore sim ilar strange forms o f coiled sea mon sters. “ All these Islands He In the Falk land dependencies, Great Britain's major political foothold In Antarctica. British capital Is Invested In some companies, British licenses must be obtained by all operating from their Island ports, but the major personnel o f the whaling fleets Is Norwegian. “ In one year one Norwegian com pany reported a gross profit o f nearly $3,000,000. A whaling captain, as be fits a captain o f Industry, may re ceive as much as $40,000 for a season o f nine months. Whalers Must Keep Diary. “This year every whaling captain has a new duty imposed upon him. He must keep a diary—a record o f the number, kinds and location o f bis catches. This will contribute to a pro posed scientific study o f the habits o f whales— including the food they eat, their migration routes from Antarc tic to tropical waters, and other data about their habits. Both the British and the Norwegian governments have passed restrictive legislation lest the tremendous increases In whaling dan gerously deplete whales, as Injudicious sealing did the seals. “ Science knows surprisingly little about the largest living creature. It can only guess, as yet, at the life span o f the whnle. It Is known how they eat. They open their mammoth mouths, and as they plough through the seas, thousands o f tiny crusta ceans and other minute sea organ isms are swept In. These catch on the fringes o f their baleen (whale bone), and are sucked down continuously, like soda through a straw, while the salt water filters out again through the corners o f their mouths. Plankton Is Oceanic ‘■Hash.’* “ The generic name o f this food Is plankton, which Is no more precisely descriptive o f the Items therein than the human appellations o f ‘hash’ or ‘pot pourrl.’ “ An elephant or a hippopotamus Is a child’s Idea o f a sizable animal. It Is hard for an adult who has not seen one to comprehend the enormous size o f a whale. Dr. Roy Chapman An drews made exact measurements of one specimen. It was 78 feet long and weighed 63 tons, the equivalent o f a hundred steers, or three score limou sines o f fairly heavy type. Its bones alone about equal the weight o f the eight-ton winter's coal supply for a small house. Its flesh tipped the scale at 40 tons, it yielded 8 tons o f blubber, and the blood, viscera and baleen made up the other 7 tons. ‘The size o f a whale Is one o f na ture’s most interesting examples of adaptation. Prehistoric land mam mals grew too large to move about readily and obtain food, so they be came extinct. A bird, like an air plane, cannot exceed a body size that Its wings will support In air. But In the friendly, buoyant oceans the whale grew larger and larger. Even the hugest dinosaurs never outweighed a whale. Give him time, scientists be lieve, and ns the ages roll on he may grow larger still I" a writer and artist living in New York. The recently appointed “ Am bassador to the United States’’ Is a Russian lawyer, now a book seller In this city, who unfortunately has been unable to Impress official Washington with his position. The door man of a Fifth avenue botel Is nominally gov ernor o f a central Russian province. And the emperor recently Issued a royal proclamation presenting peas ants now living under the Soviet regime with Russian lands. Unfortunately, even this imaginary throne Is not without those who would unseat Its monarch, says Botkin's North American Review article. The followers o f the Grand Duke Nicholas, who died In 1929, claim that he wua t the legitimate successor to the last j czar and that the succession goes to [ his family since Cyril's mother, Grand ! Duchess Marie, was a Lutheran at the time o f hie birth, while the law pro- I vide« that a Russian emperor must be ' born o f Greek Catholic parents. An- [ other clique acknowledges the "Prim cess Anastasia.” now living In New York as Its “ em press“ The first artesian well to be brought In the Klamath marsh district was completed on the Frank Bollinger ranch a few days ago by C. E. Will iams, Lake county well driller. There Is sufficient flow to Irrigate 200 acres. Despite the fact that every house In Ontario Is occupied and that more than 50 new homes have been erected «lnce 1920, census figures Indicate a less population than In 1920, when the figure stood at 2039. This year the preliminary count shows only 1941. Five motor fire pumps were distrib uted in the Cascade national forest Six new 4-H clubs have been organ during the past week in readiness for ized In Lane county. Tw o are cooking the coming forest fire season. Packs clubo, two sewing clubs, one poultry were assembled In various sizes for single fire fighters, two-men units and and one flower. Blx-man, ten-man, 15-man and 50-man Fire of undetermined origin destroy crews. ed the Silver Star motion picture the The motor vehicle department and ater at Freewater and damaged the the state traffic division, which Angerman brothers’ bakery. have occupied quarters In the state The 75th anniversary of the found printing office structure for two, have ing of the Central Presbyterian church moved Into the new state office build of Eugene was observed recently at ing. The two departments will occu special services at the church. py the entire lower floor of the new Ralph Dunn, about 50, was burned structure. to death in a fire which destroyed the Two tracts of land located near the Ed Parker residence on Bear creek, Oregon Coast highway a short dis about 30 miles southeast of Prinevllle. tance from Reedsport are to be set Census returns show that Jackson mo__ ______ _______ aside by the Douglas county court ___ for ville, former county seat of Jackson park purposes, The parks will be do- county, Is not a dead town. Since 1920 nated to the use of the city of Reeds Its population has Increased from 469 port but legal title will be retained by to 760. the county. The formation of the Forest Grove Pendleton is to be northwest head nnion high school district. Including quarters for the Farmers’ National 19 districts, will be submitted to vot Grain corporation, according to Henry ers at a special election to be held W. Collins, district manager. There June 16. will also be branches In Portland, Se Fire broke out In the Jefferson ware attle and Spokane. Mr. Collins stated house, and it was burned to the ground that there is about 225,000 acres of together with a large quantity o f grain, wheat planted In Umatilla county this chopped feed, a car of salt and other year. products in storage. Joseph Lee Weaver, 42, of Enter Albany’s postal receipts for the first prise, died In a hospital from Injuries quarter o f 1930 were $13,163.22, or suffered when he was pinned beneath $167.37 higher than those for the cor an overturned automobile on the road responding quarter of 1929, according between Sbaniko and Antelope. W eav to R. N. Torbet, postmaster. er’s plight was discovered by a pass Harold Dobyns o f the United Statea ing motorist, who was unable to lift Biological survey and Jim Carsner, the car from the injured man and had coyote hunter, killed 163 adult and to return to Antelope for assistance. pup coyotes during April In the Butter Orders issued at the Oregon state creek and Willow creek regions. hospital In Salem were to kill a large Arthur T. Yeaton, who has been a resident of Salem for 61 years, cele brated his 90th birthday May 1. By the old reeidents he Is remembered as one of the best horsemen of his day. Miss Helen Pearce has the honor of being the first woman graduate of Willamette university to receive the Ph. D. degree in English. It was con ferred by the University o f California. number o f squirrels which have roam ed the grounds there for several years. Dr. R. E. Lee Steiner, superintendent, said the squirrels had killed a number of trees and had caused other damage. The squirrels originally were brought to Salem from Pennsylvania by ex- Governor Olcott. P$¡cfa SCIATICA? Here is ■ never-failing norm o f relief from sciatic pain: KEEP BULL UNTIL QUALITY PROVEN Sire Should Be Kept Until Daughters’ Work Shown, The value o f a dairy bull cannot be determined until the production of hla daughter« bus been tested. Then it often happens that the bull has been slaughtered for some reason and bis valuable Influence lost to the herd. John A. Arey. dairy extension spe cialist at the North Carolina Stute college, says the bureau of dairying at Washington had proven the value of 834 bulls up until September. 1929, through records kept by dairy herd improvement associations, yet when the bureuu began to search for these bulls, only 126 were living. The re mainder were dead or no authentic Informtaion was available. For that reason, says Mr. Arey, the herd sire should not be disposed of until his value has become known through the production of his daughters. After the bull has had a chance to prove hts value, he should he kept as long as he Is fit for service, provided he ts a good one. If a poor one, he should be slaughtered Immediately. Many bulls are sold to the butcher when quite young because they have developed a vicious disposition. Vi ciousness is not a characteristic on which to condemn the animal, thinks Mr. Arey. Frequently such animal Is one of the most valuable that the dairymen could own and there are ways In which a dangerous bull may be easily handled. One o f the best ts the method used by a group o f farmers In Caldwell county. These men have an eleven- year-old animal owned Jointly. They have constructed a pen with shelter and with a breeding pen adjoining. This equipment was built at small cost to each individual and yet tt pro vides ample facilities for handling the bull and at the same time insures his safe handling. Such equipment Is recommended by Mr. Arey to other farmers who may wish to keep a herd sire that has grown dangerous with age. Good Pasture Essential to Keep Up Milk Flow To keep up the milk (tow In summer A bronze tablet erected over the it Is essential to have good pasture. grave o f John Templeton Craig, early Grass probably provides the cheapest feed that Is available for dairy cows. The city council o f Heppner recent lay mail carrier between western and Because o f Its succulent character It ly decided to number the houses and central Oregon, who died in a blizzard produces a larger flow o f ndlk than name the streets. Meters are to be in McKenzie pass in 1877* will be ded an equal amount o f feed furnished In placed on the city water, which soon icated during the state convention of some other form. Cattle showing a will be piped from the artesian well. letter carriers at Bend June 12 and 1 mineral deficiency on many other The Eugene playgrounds maintained 13, It Is announced. The grave is lo ! types of feed will generally show no ! mineral deficiency when they are on by the city during the summer months cated near the McKenzie highway on good pasture. will open June 23, It has been an the west slope o f the mountains. Overstocking Is probably as great a Owners o f cattle running on the nounced. A new playground has been cause as any other for damage to pas added, making a total of five In dif Swamp Creek range have lost 15 anl- . tures. They should be top-dressed ferent parts o f the city. mala from ticks this spring and the I with manure or a complete fertilizer Transfer to the Eugene Lumber remainder of the stock has been to give them the proper amount ot company o f vast timber tracts in the rounded up and treated to protect nitrogen and minerals. Lime and The ticks phosphorus also have been found upper Callpooia river district, hereto them from the Insects. fore owned by the Dollar Portland gather in knots along the backbone helpfuL Lumber company, Is made in a deed from the head back over the shoulders, i filed in the Linn county recorder’s cause temporary paralysis and the New York State College animal falls to the ground helpless. office. Favors Early Cut Hay If the ticks are removed the animal Plan to cat hay early and feed some Work on the new downtown orna joon recovers. | of It. Feed well on grain. For Hol mental street-lighting system for Pen The federal government has allocat stein* and Ayrshire*. New York Slate dleton will start soon, according to word received by Mayor L. J. McAtee ed $125,000 for the Improvement of the college recommends one pound of from the contractors at Seattle. Part Willamette river between Salem and grain to five pounds o f milk produced during the early summer, and one to of the lights are to be ready tor use Oregon City, according to a telegram received from Senator McNary. The four as soon as pastures show any by July 15. original appropriation was $40,000. drought. Jerseys and Guernseys need Howard Sherrill, 10, eon o f Mr. and more. The college recommends one The Increased appropriation will make to four of milk early and one to three Mrs. Charles Sherrill, of the Oakgrove It possible for the government to build later In the season. orchard district near Hood River, died regulatory works, dikes and retaining The grain mixture the college sug after being run over by a car driven walls, and Insure navigation between gesls Is 300 pounds wheat bran. 400 by Walter Regnell. The boy, playing the two cities during the entire year. pounds hominy. 200 pounds gluten tag, tripped over a loose shoe lace and Members of the old W asco County feed and 100 pounds cottonseed meal. fell in front o f the car. Pioneers’ association from all parts of Feeding In summer boosts the yearly Bids for the construction o f approx the Pacific northwest were in The average of cow s; and all records imately 55 miles of road and a frame Dalles recently for attendance at the show that the higher the yearly aver building for caretakers' quarters at age o f a cow the greater the profit annual gathering of the organization. from her. Emigrant Park on the Old Oregon Despite a number o f deaths during Trail will be considered at a meeting the last year, there are still 698 mem l-H -H -l' H -H - l-t-H ; | ¡ n i l l-H o f the state highway commission to bers on the association’s roll. Mem be held in Portland soon. bership is limited to persons residing in W asco county prior to 1883, when l-l-HH -H "M-l-l I I I I l -H ' I I M i l l ! THE MARKETS the transcontinental railroad was con Portland Calves should have all the milk they ; will take without causing digestive Wheat—Big Bend bluestem. $1.1$; structed. trouble. soft white and western white, $1.02; The Oregon state fair is the first In • • • hard winter, northern spring and the United States to require a dairy Finish In calves Is highly Important western red, $1 00. abortion test for animals exhibited at and It can only be produced by the Hay—Alfalfa, $20 per ton; valley the fair, according to announcement liberal feeding of whole milk. timothy. »20 50 0 21 ; eastern Oregon made by W. H. Lytle, state veterinar timothy, $2350 0 24; clover. $17; oat ian. The requirement becomes effec- Breed cows in December and Jan hay, $17; oats and vetch. $17.50018 tlve at the 1930 state fair. Dr. Lytle ! ,lary and try to avoid breeding In Butterfat— 32 0 3ic. said that beef animals would not be March, April. May and June, Eggs—Ranch. 21 0 24c. required to have the test this year • • • Cattle— Steers, good. . W »10.75011.25. _ as they will be Judged in the open as Tbe bu" th* ' '* fRllln* fo »rive Hogs—Good to choice. »9.25 0 10.50 In previous years, and will not come "U , P®. m®^ be to° ,nt r* ,s P**- slble that he Is not gening sufficient Lambs—Good to choice. $9,50010.50 in contact with dairy animals. exercise to keep him In good eondl Seattle Tax received by the state from gas tlon. Wheat—Soft white, western white • • • j ’line and distillate eales during the hard winter, western red and northern irst three month* in lt$o totaled $1, The barn should he whitewashed at spring, $1.03; Big Bend bluestem 595.882.46, as against »4.802,192 44 fot least once a year. Proper gutters $1.13. the entire year In 1929, according to a should be constructed, so the cow» Eggs—Ranch. 25029c. statement prepared by Hal E Hoss can be kept clean. Butterfat—38c. secretary of state. Refunds for the Cattle— Choice steers. $9.00 0 10,50 The milk pall should be so eon first three months of 1930 aggregated Hogs— Prime light, $10,40 0 10.50. $165.603 65. with administrative c*»ts structed that the minimum amount of Lambs—Choice. »90 1 0 . 'lin can get Into it during the process of $3538 63. Of the gross receipts *»f milking. Sookane from the tax. »1.424.305.15 was turned • • • Cattle—Steers, good. »10 25011. over to the state highway department After the milk has been washeo H ogs—Good to choice. $10.25. for the construction and maintenance from the surface with warm water Lambs—Medium to good, $9.5001« f roads. onlling water or steam should be used Dairy Notes to sterilize all dairy utensila, Take Bayer Aspirin tablets tnd avoid needless suffering from sciatica— lum bago— and similar excruciating pain* They do relieve; they don't do any harm. Just make sure it is genuine. BAYER A S P B R IY P e n a lty o f S u ccess It Is the land o f the free until you become a success, anil then you ar* doomed to address luncheon club* fo r the remainder o f your life.— San Francisco Chronicle. For Barbed Wire Cuts Try HANFORD’S Balsam of Myrrh *1 U n u* uH irisI to idul nu----- t to» tto Km took H sel uiW. M iu o u r i P h ilo so p h y It's not the weather, nor where they live, nor whether they are sick or well, poor o r rich, that makes people grouchy— It’s their disposition. — Hopkins Journal. FOR C O N S T IP A T IO N Feenamint O n the O ld B ranch L in e “ Is this train ever on time?” growled the grouchy passenger. “ Oh,” replied the conductor, “ wa never worry about It being on time. W e're satisfied if It’s on the track." — Stray Bits. Makes Ufe Sweeter T oo much to eat— too rich a diet —or too much smoking. Lots o f things cause sour stomach, but one thing can correct It quickly. Phil lips Milk o f Magnesia will alkallnlze the acid. Take a spoonful o f this pleasant preparation, and the sys tem is soon sweetened. Phillips Is always ready to relieve distress from over-eating; to check all acidity; or neutralize nicotine. Remember this fo r your own com fort ; for the sake o f those around you. Endorsed by physicians, but they always say Phillips. 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