PAGE Of financial difficulty. The wit- ardry of superb leadership appar ently wqa lacking. ■ Meaey > «as Seeded to carry on and Hugo Stln- m Jr., could ^ot raise It. When it »eemed that the great name of •ttn n ez would voce Its awesome atlnnes wosld lose Its awesome <20.000,009 from a wankers syn dicate and immediately began to rebuild. i Dr. Brlch W ill, vice-president of the Hugo Btlnnes corporation and Stlnnes Industries, Tuesday Issued a Hnancfal statement here, showing lis t preliminary reports indicate earnings fqr 192ft were in excess of tjie $2,(90,900 estimated last NoveMher and confirming the belief that the second Stlnnes was making good. W ar Scenes in Shanghai Where 2000 Died in • . Thirty Eight Story Has Brilliant BI NEW YORK, A pril, 12.— (IR)— Rearing Its whits bulk U stories above Fifth Ave. at the costliest center at the costliest street In the world, the Netherlands hotel became a flaming torch In the most spectacular fire New York has had in ten years. No lives were lost, partly- be cause the building was not com pleted and only a tow of the 500 rooms it contained had been oc cupied. But the blaze, starting in the uncompleted tower of the Impos ing structure, ate its way down ward, floor by floor, until the 16 upper floors were ablaze sim ultaneously. After two hours of effort, the flames were checked by hordes o f firemen, who unable because of the height to reach the blaze with their puny towers and ladders, worked gnome-like from within. They dragged-Jines of hose up the ¿levator shafts and at the 23rd floor, they met the blaze. Northern £!hirl£g£ troops loading their artillery prepara tory to fleeing from Shanghai before the Cantonese. tlve of U. of O. .talked, ttt the stu dent body on the subject of se lecting a vocation. He offered a . few suggestions to govern tbe student’s choice of his life’s work. He said that the student should choose a vocation that he could work the best in and enjoy the most; he should consider his own ability for the position of work; one in which he could* serve hlm- selft, and his community best and one that has adequate financial returns. An interesting fact he mention-, ed was that the high school grad uate must not feel that he owes the public nothing. He, when he is graduated, is a 91000 Invest ment of the people, and they ex pect some returns. This gave the Renters something to pander over. He met the seniors alone.after his assembly speech. Tuesday afternoon a few heroes of the battle with Medford were called upon to talk to the assem bly. Those named were McGee, Nutter, Gandee, Hartley, Kanaa- tro, Blbby, Moore, and the manag er, Elliott MacCracken. Some other players who- talked were noy Abbott, Horace Dunn and Lawrence Leedom. Mr. Cripe, coach, talked and commended the toaVn on the good fight they were putting up. The boys said they de cided they would wallop Medford and with the student body back of them they dt<^ It. There are three more games coming with Medford. The next two this week, Friday at 8:80 on Medford's diamond, and Saturday on the local* field here. These ; promise to be good. '* > M lsi Minnie Foley. tcach»r of Roosevelt high school in Oakland, Cal., is spending the week with [ her sister, Miss Evangeline P61ey. Miss Minnie POley was formerly a teacher of A. H. 8. Visiting Parents— M * and Mrs. Max Camps of Yrek? Cel,, are spending the d a y , in *ihJand visiting at the home of Mrs. Camps parents, Mr. and Mrs? 3. C. Kaegi on the Boulevard. ' A Japanese priest stands in prayer amid the smoking ruins of Mineyama, Japan, where an earthquake snuffed out 200 Jives. To the right of the picture, behind the Japanese carrying his son after'the manner of an Indian papoose* lies the twisted wreckage of a flivver. Railway coaches overturned by shell fire at the Shanghai North Station. Local Church Leads Southem District Because of these two features of the examinations, the testing of applicants for the 2500 newly- classified positions under the Bur eau of Prohibition is one of the largest single tasks ever under taken by the Commission. Fingerprints will bo made of all applicants who attain eligible rat ings. These will -ha used to eheck the accuracy of the applicants* statements as to arrest, indict ment, or conviction for crime*or misdemeanor. The Civil Service B C. Gaddis, R. G. Fowler. Vara H. Pendleton, George Alford, J. to. Wakefield, M. J. Norris, 8. Sumpter Smith, F. B. Upton, J. R> McCracken, Alex Sparrow, O. O. Alenderfer. A. C. Ninlnger, B. B. Day, E .O. Coleman. Royal Brown, James Owens. R. B. Rob inson. C. E. Gates,' W. H. Gore, Fred Week» and H. <X Frohbach. The officers chosen were: C. B. Gates, president, H. O. Frobach and A. C. Ninlnger, vice-presi dent*, 8. I. Brown, secretary and Rev. H. T. Mitchel more, pastor of the Presbyterian church and Petitiona Will be Circulated G. M. Frost of Ashland returned Asking for a One Mill last, night from a two days ses Tax Levy sion of the Southern Oregon Presbytery, held 'at Grapts Pass. MEDFORD, April 13.— At the This was the sem i annual meet- anaual meeting of the directors ing and was attended by about of the Jackson County Fair dsso- W a S h T W * ' ' ? “ «Vary. jvicinity In Southern Ore ciation held last night It was de-; elded to ask the people of the gon. county to sign petitions to the This meeting was particularly county court asking that they call fortunate according to the local .men in havhjg*W. Thompson. n special election June 22, a t the election to vote a one-milPlery for <928 * {©r complete th J fa tr grounds buildings, as tbs original plan was ahd to make it poasible to hold a f i i r this year. • This is necessary, owing to the loss of the 93000 premium appro priation of the state. A ll directors will be sent petitions. - One of the most necessary building to be erected first w ill be a suitable structure for the school displays of the county. This the association pledges to erect as noon as the funds are available. It was also decided to* hold the MEDFORD, /April l3<— (U>)— fair earlier this year, possibly The finding of the skeleton of a August 31 and September 1, 2, man in the new course of Jack- and 8, to. get better weather and son creek, created by the recent before the school opens.' floods, took Coroner Conger to It was decided to do away with Jacksonville Tuesday for an Inves professional horse racing this tigation. year, owing to shortage of funds, The skeleton is that of an aged and put on other attractions, like man. The back of the skull bad baseball games ( relay races, etc. been crushed by a heavy blow and The directors will try to got the the body had Ijeen buried under a pile of stone which had been three championship league games washed away when the creek between the Southern Oregon and chapged Its course. Conger be Northern' California teams, as lieves the remains are those of they are to be held the first of an old miner, who was probably September. A good program of events will murdered more than a score of be arranged in place of the qrofes- yaars ago. Commission feels that any person •who is worthy of appointment to a position under the Bureau of Prohibition will not object to the most searching investigation of his past life. TJie act bringing these positions Into the competitive classified service provides that those now employed who were not appointed in hccordance with the civil ser vice law must compete with others in examinations If they wish to have an opportunity to retain their positions. Copies of the examination an nouncements and . application blanks may be obtained from the United States Civil Service Com mission. Washington, D. C., or from the secretary of the local board of civil service examiners at the post office In this or any other city. The examination an nouncements give detailed Infor mation regarding .the scope of the examinations and the require ments for entrance thereto. * Here's a one-armed pitcher who in the star ©f the U k iw o ity o f Mto- uri baseball elgh. ■ Hie nam© b snry Feldcamp. tn his last two years |a *tg b oohool, Mo lost only on© fa fte i» Btuo» pitched. « W . H . Gore, trea su re r A Cook Honored ( Continued from Page Ona) teftr warehouse watchman will re agire the assembling of competi tors In examination rooms for written mental tests. These will* be given th approximately 000 pules throughput the country. The I other «ftanftnltion* listed do not tàciti As written Mental tests In Modenster of '.the. general.assem Saws tim e > a» < the sp©ciai-i '.'state --------- r t r T f - --------- Tuesday moriihg a*fi»presenta- Arrived In Ashland— Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Patterson. who have spent the winter months in Palo Alto, Cal., where Mr. Patterson attends the Stan ford uqlrorsity, have arrived in Ashland end will probably re main here through the summer. Mr. Patterson Is an entomologist. slonal races. ' z It was decided to lease the grounds to an auto racing associa tion for July 4th for cash rent, the fair association not to. he In any way connected with the races,. The directors chosen for this year by the county court, city of Medford add the fair association are as fplloWa; . , . * Society Women Are Robbed at ä Party LOS ANGELES, April 13.— ftp) — Pretending to be police officers, two bandits forced their (way into the home of Mrs. J. M. Cummins, held up a gathering of society women, locked tbeir victims in a clothes closet and escaped with jewelry and cash valued at 915,- °00. Mrs. Ted Rice and Mrs. George W . Carrie, of San Francisco were included among the victims.' Both were robbed of diamonds and money. The women were driven into a bedroom, one at a time, and re lieved of their jewels. When the bandits gathered in all their loot, five of the women were locked in a clothes closet while tbe sixth re- mai ned outside ojj her promise not to release the prisoners until the bandits "trad been gone 15 min- ntes. Mrs. Cummins, hostess, suffer ed the ¿neatest loss. She estimat ed the value of her stolen gems at 910,900. CHICAGO, April 12. — H u t© Stlnnes, Jr., is not a chip off ih© old block, for there was only one Napolenolc Stines, but the son of the great German Industrial bar on. who died two years ago, has succeeded where a majority of his oompartots thought he would- fall. When the elder Stlnnes died ,ntany believed his gigantic mani fold eifterprlaes which encompas sed activities throughout the world would collapse. The man of the iron hat and the Don w ill had omerged, Phoenix-like from Germ any's postwar troubles to become a most powerful figure. . > ■ , He left his epn a Gargantuan task. ' Soon after Stlnnes* death his organizations which controlled coal and Iron mines, steamship lines, railroads, public utilities, hotels, banks, foundered in a sea eXnmtàat|8ntT©oà« ' « “ bly of the ''Presbyterian diurch, and a. noted pducator, In'attend ance. 7 On« of the interesting facts Drought,* oat in This-, tpeetlfcg was that th©' local chhreh - was found to be' the leader In the district in the matter of Benevol ences, the record for the year being more than 99100. ' , ^ M Ì3 a m )n a tip n s ' Will * J Sales figures for 1926 proof enough—what m want in a cigarette is natural tobacco tastej ih- :cTudft rittlttgs on training and ex-1 pérteasee,'it searching oral test; a p d - c h a r a c t e r Investiga-1 ttànì m agehy thè Civil Service I ComnityitQh with the assistance of I other (iwornment agencies. to i M © to k it« the oral tests I It will h© necessary for the Codi-1 mission ""to send investigators 'to Interview applicants in variogs parts of the coiihtry The chat-1 actor investigations w ill be made I Skeleton Found , Close to Medford with the most painstaking care. Tanner/ Attention! * Look at your, mowers for broken and worn parts before cutting commences. We keep in stock repalro tor any or most oft mower’s made. Tom Stevens, who is paying his way through college by cooking In hiz »pare time, has been elected president of the University of Ok lahoma student body. Hte pretty wife, pictured with him above, is one. reason for his victory— she swang a lot of votes/ Garden tools, hose, lawn mowers, fencing and posts of every description. Peil’s Comer 2\[atu ral tobacco taste, • • We Handle The s i * ■* JOHNS MANSVILLE TRANSITE ASBESTOS SHINGLES BEAUTIFUL EVERLASTING Carson-Fowler STOP THOSE SLIPS With Heel Grips hoiee of Scholl’s* Lyon’s or Paranaoant, OVERLAND SHOE SHOP what a world o f mean ing in each word! The natural purity o f fine fo&Kror made to yield every last bit o f taste and character. That’s h o w g o o d th e "nat ural” is!