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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
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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.
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ALL
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ROOF
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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
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BENEFITS of X-RAY FUND j
Sacred Heart Hospital
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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.