Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 23, 1921, Image 5

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Newspaper Page Text' PACE Ml II i ui KELLY OF. GIANTS IS BABE RUTH usual for a wealthy man. particularly if it in his second or third marrkiKe, to show no bills nt all but to ask the briilo if she has any change. "Men w ho have been married before generally show the wisdom of never showing too much money.' NEW DIRIGIBLE FOR U. Si. will: FLASH BIG ROLLSiBAR AUTOMOBILES ! THAN BEFORE WAR i medfoird !r;n; tktbfxe. TirETiroTm mrcfloNr, ratttjday. 'apt?tt; 2.1. 1021 i f i 'i i 1 CHICAGO, April "3. Willi the sea bou little more lLan a week uld, Tlr ney of Pittsburg, tops the regulars of thc National league in batting with an uvi'innc of .020, according to averages released today. Deal of Chicane), Is the runner up with .500 and Druggy of 1'hiladelphla Is third with .462. Southworth or Boston is leading the league in stolen bases with thn-e. Leading batters: Hollocher, Chicago .450; Flack Chicago, .429; lirown, New Vorlc .429; Nicholson, llostnn, A'l; Rawlings," Philadelphia, 417; Pnncroft, New York, .412; Maranvllle, Pittsburg. .40G. In the American circuit Stephenson of Cleveland tops the regulars in bat tine i'u Biark of .683 with Tobia of St. Louis the runner up with .560. O'Neill, the Cleveland backstop is third with .5.24. Buau of Detroit lads for atulen base honors with five. Leading batters: Rice, Washington, .483; Harris, Washington, .4S1; Sisler, St. Louis, .440; Scott, Boston, .400: Kewell, Cleveland, .400; Hulh, New York, .400. . The figures include games of last Wednesday;1 . arfdi players .vlio have played In five or more games. Babe Kuth, the home run king with the New York Yankees, is far ahead of his cir cuit drive record of last season. Ho cracked out his' t'o'urth homer Friday while last Season he did not make his fourth until May 11. He is being close ly pressed, however, by Elmer Smith of Cloveland who has bagged his third. Zwelllng of Kansas City leads the batters of the American association with an average of 526. In the National league home run race, Meusel of Philadelphia, was topped off Friday by Kelly of the New York Giants when the latter cracked out his fourth circuit drive. Kelly is thus tied with Babe Ruth for the sea son and what promises to be the most spectacular batting contest in baseball history between individuals of the two major leagues is believed by the base ball wiseacres to be under wa Above "Rubs" Dslroy and Jack Harris with "Dynamite", the famous Al. G. Barnes trick Mule. Below Life's happiest moment for the youngster who is holdinn an honest-to-goodness talkfest with "Curley" Phillipps, one of the 50 funny clowns coming to Medford-Wednesday, Mar. 4, with the Al. G. Barnest big 4- ring wiia Animal circus. ' F FORGO! GETS LIFE SENTENCE 10 DISINFECT ALL EMIGRANTSTO 0, S. flHRKVEPOUT, la., April 2. . The death sentenco of Lonnie Katon, the ncKro the sheriff of Ouachita par' j been commuted by the st.ite pardi n board to life imprisonment, aceoiilin; to reports received here Loday fi-un Baton House. Eaton was convicted of iiiurd.r several months ago, and was brought .from Ouachita parish to th Caddo parish jail for safekeeping. As he afterword wrote to Governor Parker, the nherlff said he was so busy with other affairs in his office that he fur yot the day that he was to hang Katon. CHICAGO. April 22. A new drive to mnltG Chicago dry was launched today by Edward J. Prundage, state attorney general, - obtaining temporary-Injunctions from Federal Judge K. M. Jandiu, closing 85 saloons. ATHENS.Aprfl -42'. -A"' -favorable repoj-t on the grunting of suffrage to the womtm-oftGrecce has been, decid ed tfnon -by tho "parliamentary" -oom-mltte 'etShsIderirtff the meaaure.-; HAM nUHG, April America's en forcement of stricter quarantine reg ulations to prevent vermin -in fen ted em i grants from currying typhus into the ports of the I'nited States has caused German shipping eom panics, operating from this port in connec tion with American lines, to use great er vigilance in the inspection and de lousing of passengers The facilities are so good here for -an filing passengers ami tin disin fecting pl?int are so large and mod ern that German officials have found little difficulty in meeting the sug gestions of American health officers. The Hamburg-American line, which is co-operating with the I'nited American lines, has had model emi grant halls since 1907 which are iso lated in a section of the city acrosi the Kibe. Arriving emigrants are first j ut in what is called the "unclean" section. Alter the emigrants are examined and found to be healthy liny are 1 allied, their clothing is disinfected, t nd deloused, and they are then transferred to the ''clean" section. Here they are examined twice dally ly physicians until they .ail to make p'tre that they carry no disease upon the ships. Alt emigrants who are 111 are isn 't ed In hospitals and persons who t aveled with the sick passengers, are I ut Into observation stations until itN I I certain t hey have no communi tible disease. MEEK DEFEATS IK SMYRNA DUE 10 WAR PROFITEERS N'EW YORK. Old second-hand wnr nmteriiil dumped into Oreeoe utter the armistice upon which profiteera made u fortune is the cause of the roversoa lately suffered by (ho Greek army In Asia Minor, according to Dr. Harton W. Drush, of Elmhurat, 1,. I., who has Just returned from service uchlnd the Clreelt front with the Near East Itellef. "All the lefL-ovor war supplies for which the European count rles had no further use after 11118 seem to have been sold to the Greeks in the past three years, and that Is all the Greek army has had to fiKht with," Dr. llrush declared. "in the past throe years vast for tunes have been made In Greece out of army supplies, and now the Greek sol diers are paying for it. There, are no hospitals, no hospital equipment, no ambulances worth the name, and the wounded have little chance except for such care as the American Near Kast Itellef can five them." According to Dr. nrush the Greok people were wildly enthuslustlc about the war, and oager to drive the Turks out of Smyrna, for good.' SAN FRANCISC- - ificiais of the Sau Kruncii-co mur i.i lieeiifie bur eau Bays that hecuu-- prospective bridegrooms endeavor to display money In large rolls, their office is called uton to change mure luouey daily than any other county office ex cept that of the treasurer. A ajnall boy is kept busy by the bureau Ret ting $10, $20 and $00 bills changed. This Is the greatest place in the world for a man to put up a 'front,' " Grant Munsoll, deputy county clerk, in charge of the bureau, said recently. ".Men, oung, middle-aged and old come here with their prospective brides and take out marriage licenses. They know the license Is $2 but they come with about all the money they can lay their hands on. done up iu a roll. "They chaos the money before they come into the kiccest bills they can set and then come out here and make a flush before their brides-to-be. "Of course some men do not do this. The really successful business man usually pays In silver. It Is not un- HAMILTON-, Uti-tnuda. Wenewed efforts to enact a law permitting the use of automobiles in llermuda have been made this spring by members of the llcrmuda assembly. These Islands have held out thus far against what is considered a "dunger ; ons innovation," but there is a strong party for rapid transit. he chief opponents of automobiles ure American winter residents and tourists. .Mrs. Vincent Actor, of New York, who has been occupying u resi dence on Hamilton uarbor for the past two seasons, sent a letter to the local newspar obioctlns to their introduc tion In the Inlaid. As this colony ha.i only a little more than 1ft square miles of area, visitors do not regard motor transport a.s a necessity. Since the island of Nan tucket udmllted automobiles, this Is about the only civilized place from which they are barred. Dl'SSKI.nonVrt April Enormous and fitili iticii'usliig piulitN compared with those made in lttM ate being made Iu the German coal, iron, ma chinery, textile paper. glas and elec trical industries, according to un article in DuesMeldorl' l.okal Znttimg. The paper quotes the reports of nu merous companies, among them being one manufacturing copper and brass ublug and plate at Duishurg. which nald a dividend of 24 per cent and a bonus of 2 0 per cent. Its shares, which were quoted in liertln at I & T ut the end of lHlit are now 630. A 12 per cent dividend declared by -ho Kammgurn Spinning Works of iHlcsseldorf was only ltn nor cent of profits earned, says tho German newspnper. In ihu ten years prevtoUB this company had regulurly declared a dividend of only eight per cent. A similar company declared in is 110 a dividend of 4 0 per cent, as compared with one of 1 1 per cent in ttii three preceding year's. The writer of the orticle points out that hut. for the. evidence of such figures Germany could more effec tively have resisted the demands of her opponents that she make full rep aration to the allies. PHILADKI.PH1A, AprlVPlaofl 1V a "return call on thi R-IM, (Vrtut Britutn' monster dirigible, trhluhi veiled America in 1919, by a VriUrft tit-uten navy dirigible balloon of even Kreater dimensions, havA been a ban doned at least for the comlnc eummfrr. Work on the largest and fastest dU risible designed continue at Iho' Philadelphia navy yard, but haw been retarded through lack of a p propria tlona, and those in charge of the con struction of the great cm ft of the clouds may it probably will be a yeact before she ia completed. k The airship will be 800 feet Ion. SO feet wide, and will havo a pos sible cruising radius, when equipped! with ruus of 6.000 miles. Thut will enablu it to cross the Atlantic arid rw- turn without refuclinc- When- fully equipped, the cruislnc radius will he reduced to 1800 miles. Naval off(-i tern declare the ship will be superior in every way to the firitUh 1134, the first Hjzhter than afr marhine to crovfi the Atlsntle. The Hpcfd of the cmrV has not yet been definitely deter-'. mined. Iceland has numerous hot springs. MAXDAX, X. D., April 22. James Flanagan, 84 years old, fwid to be the Unt surviving white eeout of Cunter'a seventh cavalry, dieil here today. Flanagan also was a Civil war veteran. mcnhcwwiimi ALL UNDER ROOF ONE Uiil. We have completed the new addition on the rear cf cur double store on West Main street, have put a mezzanine floor in both rooms, have moved our stock of goods from South Fir street there, and now have complete stocks of NEW AND SECOND-HAND FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS We can supply your every want in these lines at prices that are in keeping with present conditions. Come and take a look at this up-to-date store. Our Second Hand Department The impression that we have gone out of the second hand business is not true. We have a larger and better stock than ever and buy and sell all kinds of second hand goods and exchange new for second hand goods. ' Mordoff & Woolf 219-221 W. Main Street , r.tin : BENEFITS of X-RAY FUND j Sacred Heart Hospital I SALE A Worthy Enterprise That All Should Patronize GRAND BALL'S Wednesday, May 1 1th General Dancing, Solo Dances, Etc. Tickets will be on sale at the stores. SPLENDID MUSIC RUMMAGE Saturday, May 7th At which time everything for wear and use will be sold We also want every one who can to donate wearing apparel, food, horses, cattle, pigs, chickens and any thing for this cause to phone 77-J-2 or 380.