Pat« 4
Th« Jacksonville Minar
By Their Deeds Ye Shall
Pronounced Dead, Comes Back to Life
Know Them Say Employes
A likeable fellow, young, hand rule—just an old holiday custom
some, ambitious and with a degree > of the publisher, and employes
of skill in one of ths mailer trades would be fortunate to get more
yet Fate seems to have grimaced I than grocery orders.
Picture, if you can, this crusader
every time it looked his way tn I
fighting for the common man and
southern Oregon
all the while hiding behind his
Penniless, the future
black, this young man haa a dltTI- gilded wing hungry, gaunt em
cult problem to solve. A few weeks ployes with families at home shiv
ering because there is not enough
ago his automobile was
sensed by a finance company, this fuel to keep them warin burning
week he received notice that his old newspaper (part of that 5000
furniture was to be taken from circulation) to temper cold wintry
him. and he has until tomorrow to blasts.
"Nothing but an old hypocrite,
pay his light bill. Rent for the
modest house which he though! telling what's wrong with everyone
wos going to become a hippy home else In the county and starving his
for his family has been overdue own workmen—whom he charac
several months and the pantry terizes as faithless employes—to
shetf is bare of food. Little wonder do it But do his readers ever learn
then that this victim has grown of that man’s practices? No!" Thus
accustomed to a haggard, worried was one employe overheard to re
expression and to him life has mark this v.-e» about his philan
thropic »olf-pantsed Cadillac-driv
become a burden.
But as If that were not enough, ing boss who first promised to pay
his wife, a young girl just at the "in full and with a bonus" those
age when life should be a grand helpers who stuck with him until
adventure, is in a meager way pre fruit came in. and when that prom
paring for the overdue arrival of Ise faded, to further conjure pic
tures of great wealth flowing In
a new member in the family.
from hfs Foots creek mine to ap
A pitiful case, you say?
pease their pitiful requests for the
A victim of unemployment?
William Lindsay of Los Angeles (right) has been pronounced dead
Yes. pitiful enough—but not t a price of a loaf of bread.
by physicians but Is very much alive. His heart stopped beating con»
This
of
unemployment.
T
"A
man
should
be
Judged
by
his
victim
together with five oth- acts—and not by what he prints pletely as he walked on the street, and tests showed he had passed away
young man.
i
ers in a like fix save for the ex about himself in his own newspa But a doctor Injected adrenalin Into the man’s heart as a last resort and
pected arrival of Mr. Stork, make per” seems to be the philosophy half an hour later he was well on the way to recovery.
up the > “back shop” of the Med- which has been driven home to the
ford Dally News, that valley news Daily News employes, and to the
paper which seeks elevation of the worried wives and mothers of fam
poor and downtrodden above their ilies who sit at home during the
On Men’» Polo Team
FERRY’S GHOST SEEN
slavery to Big Business and Taxes. 12 to 14 long hours every night
The same newspaper publisher who while their husbands are sweating
IN CONFERENCE HERE
paints himself as a kindly, benevo in the News' backshop for a paltry
lent martyr to Jackson county Is grocery order each week and an
D. H Ferry and family re
the employer who expects his help occasional $2 in cash—which invar
turned Sunday morning from an
iably
has
to
be
demanded
time
and
—the men who actually produce
extended visit in the Puget
his paper—to live on a $5 grocery again before it is produced.
Sound country and British Co
There are those who will say the
order weekly, if they’re fortunate
lumbia. Mr. Ferry, who is man
enough to get that much—and no printers are getting what they de
ager of the Foots Creek gold
serve for “ratting" on union em
cash at all usually.
dredging concern, was surprised
However, that worldwide, admir ploy« 18 months ago and taking
to learn upon his return that ho
able Christmas spirit found its way jobs at half pay—and less. Yet. re
had been "seen In |>olltlcal con
gardless
of
the
background
sur
into the confines of the Daily News
ferences” here by a local news
rounding
the
present
mess,
they
December 25, and again on the eve
paper scribe.—Mail Tribune.
of a new year. Two weeks ago the are much to be pitied and doubt
employes each received $2 in cash less, unless some honest business
and the usual $5 grocery order save men intervene and force the Daily
TRAGEDY STRIKES
one. who was the surprised re News publisher to treat his own
DOUBLE ON HOLIDAY
cipient of 15—all in cash—and no workmen with more consideration,
grocery order. All but one of the will become charges of the county.
Another thought as to the dia
Practically starved and depend
employes have families, wives and
bolical tricks that fate can play
children, to be clothed and fed ent. not because they are indolent, I
comes with the new» of tragedy
from this slopover from L. A. shiftless or the victims of unem
which struck two southern Oregon
ployment, but simply because I
Banks’ gasoline money.
homes as they had prepared to
New Year’s another bonus was Llewellyn A. Banks is not the hon
make merry at Christmas time.
received. Instead of the customary est man he paints himself to be
At noon on Christmas day Lyal
lone grocery order—which is not and is, in fact and practice, a men
Hards of Big Applegate received
infallible and sometimes fails to ace to all laboring classes.
a telegram telling of the death that
Truly, there HAS been a mis-1
materialize—two dollars made a
bow to each employe, it was made carriage of justice in Jackson i Miss Katherine McCutcheon, n day of his brother, William, at
clear that this was not to be the county!
coed at Michigan State university Minerial. Wash., as a result of a
accident. Mr. Hards left for
has won a place on the men s i », i , car
Washington Monday to attend the
things rather fast and furious in team at the college and who «Hi funeral. He expected his slater.
these days of Democracy?
play In all Intercollegiate gun-» Della Snlerzek. of the local sani
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scheduled fur the teum.
tarium. to accompany him on the
OR
OUR PARANOIAC’S PRAYER
trip. The peculiar coincidence is
noted of the death of Mr. and Mrs.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
Lyal Hards' small son at holiday
I pray the Lord my Lies to keep contested Judge Fehl's right to ad- time
a year ago.
j
journ
the
court,
and
the
two
held
With No Apologies to
If I should die before I wake.
A
wide
circle of friends were sad
court
for
the
balance
of
the
af-
I hope I’ll go where I can HATE.
THE MEDFORD DAILY NUTS
dened with the death of Lester
temoon.
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(Or NERTZ to You)
True to Banksonlan style, Judge Holmes of Medford a few days
Well, here’s where I sign off
Christmas, which resulted
again, after quoting our mad friend Fehl presented his message to the before
commissioners by writing them a from Infection following extrac
The MIS-Leading Newspaper of All as follows:
"I guess this will make 'em sit j letter instead of facing them, and tion of a tooth Mrs. Holmes, form
Southern Oregon
| the typewriter upon which the let erly Ingrid Johnson, resided with
up and take notice.”
ters were written had the same, her parents In this city before her
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(Note—There is a similar kind of
small unusual type upon which the marriage, and attended the local
Yours till Yosemite Falls,
paper having a larger circulation;
|
letters of L. A. Banks are written. high school Interment took place
guess what it is!)
ONE OF HIS VICTIMS.
A comparison of the letter with the In the Jacksonville cemetery last
letters
signed by Banks showed the Monday.
Well, Mr. Editor. I thought my i
i
type,
although
unusual, to be iden-
"Once and for All” in your last V-OTTllC
x^OUI*t
■ tical. The ’’fine Italian hand” of
issue would be all that anyone1
County Budget Into
in Midst of Chaos ' which Editor Banks has so often
could stand, even your little friends
written while editorializing on
Llewle; but since like the users of
Hands of Assessor
Medford’s ''gang'' was, to all ap-
Castoria. they cry for more. I’ll I
(Continued from page one)
the
pearances,
thereby
changed
to
speak right out with a few more at least until such time as an in-
The Jackson county budget, dis
truths, even if it hurts.
ventory of the equipment owned by “iron hand,” of which he also has
cussed last Friday at a public hear
the
spoken.
It
is
believed
that
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the county was made. Commission
ing, was this week turned over to
I phoned a fellow victim this af ers Neaion and Billings were of thousands of Jackson county voters , County Assessor Coleman for ex
who
voted
for
Judge
Fehl
in
spite
ternoon and asked if the Daily | the opinion, however, that the ma-1
tension on the tax roll». There were
News had appeared today. He re , chtnery would be just as sate un- j of Editor Banks' support will be few minor changes and the much
plied in the affirmative, explaining der Rosebury’s care as under interested to know who the county discussed item of $3000 for ex-
that the worn-out $45,000 worth of j Ward’s and that no political plums judge really is.
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machinery had broken down again ' would be handed out until after the ,
and delayed the printing by sev- attorney general has passed on the \ LILLARD PROMISES TO
I
eral hours. I said, ‘.Well, I didn’t legality of Nealon’s appointment.
BRING
GRAPPLERS
HERE
receive my copy, and my first
thought was that no NEWS was
The true status of the county
good news.’”
I court disturbance dawned on the \ Mack Lillard, southern Oregon’s
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I close followers of the situation boxing promoter, alter spending
Friday and Saturday
I notice there’s been quite a RUN | Wednesday when County Judge several weeks In Portland battling
TOM MIX In
on the Banks of West Main street ! Earl Fehl. after apparently reach flu and wrestling match crowds,
the past week. Fore! (and maybe ing a harmonious state with his
“The TEXAS BAD MAN”
Foreclosure.)
two commissioners, Ralph Billing» has decided to bring some of the
Sunday and Monday
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and Emmett Nealon during the northwest’s premiere bone benders
hours,
returned
after
morning
to
this
section
within
the
next
;
“
RED
HEADED WOMAN”
POEM OF THE DAY
lunch in a frenzy, refused tO Hit ; month for the edification and en !
with JEAN HARLOW
with the court, and wound up the
Oh the moonlight^ bright to
Not Recommended for Children
afternoon by swearing out bench tertalnment of southern Oregon
night along the Willamette,
fans.
former
warrants
for
the
arrest
of
From the Banks there comes
Lillard, who will be remembered I Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
County Judge C. B. Lamkin, and
the smell of new mown Hate,
in
this city for bis contribution to
“HEAVEN ON EARTH”
Through the ’Sylum bars the former Commissioner Victor Bur- Jubilee attractions, has been Med
with Lew Ayres
sell.
licorice lights are gleaming,
gaudy
sensationalism ford’s most successful promoter
The
On the Banks of the Willam
and
promises
to
introduce
such
Friday and Saturday
smacked of L. A. Banks, as the
ette, far away.
HOOT GIBSON in
rule of the county affairs flopped characters to the mat ring as Wild
cat Pete, Rob Roy, Sneeze Achlu,
suddenly
from
that
of
a
so-called
“
A
MAN’S LAND
(Ed. Note: Banks not far enough "gang” to a dictator. Both friends Thor Jensen and other lighter
away to suit us.)
grapplers,
as
well
as
several
of
the
Continuous
Saturday Æ Sunday
and opponents of Judge Fehl who
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feel he will perform the duties of neavy-weight strong men.
The Daily Nertz says Wilkin, the court intelligently if left alone
Kin he? Or caint he? It remains were shaking their heads yester
to be seen.
day, convinced he was to be denied
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even that chance.
Definition of the . _________
Millenium:
Contest over the legality of the
"The dawn of a new day when even Nealon appointment was the bone
the hicks who live in the sticks up of contention during the morning
the cricks and never read anything session, when Fehl contested Neal
but the Daily Nertz, will no longer on’» right to serve. It was sug
need a Lie Detector to open their gested by one of the commission
eyes and see through the insidious ers that Judge Fehl and Commis
bunk they have swallowed whole sioner Billings sit as the court,
in the years of their Lord, L. 1».. with Commissioner Nealon sitting
HOT DINNER SANDWICHES
1929 to '32 inclusive.”
in but not voting, until such time
as the attorney general’s opinion
♦ ♦ ♦
Llewle’s misguided supjxjrters was secured, but Judge Fehl re
say he’s one man in a thousand. fused the compromise. Ail three
Well, the way foreclosures are members then moved into the in
Headquarters for
coming thick and fast these days, ner chamber of the court, where
he won’t be the one in 1000 West they got on amiably until noon.
THE JACKSONVILLE MINER
After noon, however, Judge Fohl
Main much longer.
returned
with
a
new
shot
of
high
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Perhaps the reason our contem life and the fireworks started.
Judge Fehl presented the two
porary worked so hard against the
construction of a sewage disposal commissioners with a resolution,
plant for Medford, was because he stating that "whereas the appoint
feared if sewage disposal was func ment of Commissioner Nealon was
tioning, there would be nothing left Illegal, and whereas he was not
Sandwiches, Fountain Drinks, Candy, Cigars, News
for him to think or print. (Can a bona-fide officer of the county,
therefore the county court should
you smell that one, Buddy?)
Barber Shop and Pool Hall in Connection
he adjourned until such time as
* ♦ *
the
opinion
was
handed
down.
”
On
Court-Contemp-
I see where your
SOUND HORN FOR CURB SERVICE
tuous-Contem porary has created the resolution was a space for the
signature
of
Judge
Fehl,
and
a
the offices of Czar of the Public
PHONE 162
Utility Commission and Czar of S'tace for Commissioner Billings’
Foots Crerdt. Aint that Russian signature. Billings and Nealon then
Once and for All
Never Again
r
NEW JAILOR ALLOWS
PAIR PLAYGROUND
What promised to bo the first
jail break In Jackson county III
years was prevented Tuesday
morning by the peculiar con
struction of th«> county jail when
two Inmates, Alvin Mlles and
Roy McCulley got out of the
the jail mill onto the roof of
the court house. Thom being no
way of getting down off the
roof, they wore captured and
tiiken back.
Details of the near break were
slow In leaking out. as the now
jailer, John Glonn, had not be
come acquainted with the In
tricacles of the many doors and
locks. He now knows which
ones to keep well locked, how
ever, and no more prisoners will
be taking their sunbaths on the
roof.
penses relative to sale of county
land hns been eliminated.
More than hulf next year's bur
den of taxation in southern Oregon
will be In the form of school levies,
district, county and state. County
Assessor Coleman now estimates
that the levy for districts fnilil,-
high school districts will be be
tween 11 and 12 mlllr., state ami
county, and between 16 and 17
mills outside high school districts.
These estimates nre based upon
the forecast that the state tax will
be around 8 ” mill».
Four-sevenths of the millage In
Jackson county, according to the
assessor, will be devoted to the
school fund and the remaining
three-sevenths to nil other county
government activities.
The school lew Is mnndiitorv
under state law. and It Is Incum
bent upon the budget committee to
make the levy. The W. II Gore tax
committee of 1931, and the Med
ford chamber of commerce commit
tee this year, sought to find a way
to lower the $10 per pupil levy.
After weeks of wrestling and fig
urlng both bodies were unable to
find any escape.
RED HEADED WOMAN’ WILL
BURN ’EM UP AT ROXY
"Red Headed Woman." the Kath
arlne Brush story which recently
created a sensation as n novel, now
appears In screen version at the
Itoxy theater Sunday and Monday
lean Harlow has the title role while
others in the cast Include Chester
Morris, Lewis Stone, Leila Hyams,
t'na Merkel. Henry Stephenson and
May Robson.
Edward G Hoblnaon, who tuk«a
th« lend In "Silver Hollar” show
I iik at the Fox Cratertan today and
tomorrow In one of the year"»
outstandIna pictures denllna with
the early day» of Denver, Colo.,
which enjoyed a almllar rush a«
that here In *52.
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^ItATElUAS
wi « i
<n*»t iMtAfai«
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
EDWARD G.
ROBINSON
‘SILVER DOLLAR’
SUNDAY, MONDAY, TUESDAY
JOAN
CRAWFORD
“RAIN”
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
“WILD GIRL
wlth
CHARLES FARRELL
JOAN BENNETT
■SCARLET DAWN' AT RIALTO
THEATER SUNDAY. MONDAY
"Scarlet Dawn." at the Rialto
theater Sunday and Monday, brings
together for the first time Douglas
Fairbanks Jr and Nancy Carroll
in a story of Russia, before and
after the revolution. Young Fair
banks playa the role of a Russian
nohlemnn. accustomed to take what
he wants, with never a thought of
what the morrow will bring until
the entire nobility Is wiped out by
the overthrow of th<- Czar's ml--
Nancy Carroll playa the part of a
aervant girl, a slave to the whims
and fancies of the nobles. With the
revolution cornea a sudden realiza
tion to both of mutual love.
Saturday Only
BOB STEELE
“RIDERS of the DESERT’
Sunday and Monday
D our . Fairbanks Jr. in
‘SCARLET DAWN
Nancy Carroll—Lllyan Tashman
with Sensational Scenes of
Reckless Russian Nights
Tuesday and Wednesday
“DIVORCE in the
FAMILY”
“DAD” DYNGE
Jackie Cooper—Lewis Stone
Now Playing at
Thursday and Friday
DREAMLAND
LEO CARILLO in
“DECEPTION
HALL—MEDFORD
with Thelma Todd
Every
ANY SEAT
ANY TIME
Continuous Shows
Saturdays 1 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Sun. and Hole. 2 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Saturday Night
9 to 12
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