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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.
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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.
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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
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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;
. ,
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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« ' «
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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,
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We Handle The
s
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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!