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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TftTBLWE. JfEDEORD, OREGON'. SATURDAY. .TULY 15, 1922 SPLENDID RECORD JACKSON COUNTY BUILDING S LOAN Declares Four Per Cent Semi , Annual Dividend Increase of Assets Past Six Months $28,630.52 Is Splendidly Managed. On another page you will find the semi-annual statement of the Jackson County Dulldlng anil Loan association The past six months shows greater growth than any previous six months. The past year's business surpasses by far any previous year. Its records show It has increased In total assets at the rate of nearly f 1 100 per week. Besides declaring a 4 per cent dividend for the six months, it has Increased its surplus fund, making a total of J7C1D In that fund. ' ' ! . Tho object or. olni this association is to help people! In moderate circum stances lor suva !a definite amount monthly and toSlid worthy people, by loans, to own their own homes, to pro vide an absolutely safe place to Invest your .money and receive a higher rate of interest than elsewhere. Its safety and reliability Is not questioned by our most conservative citizens, being Under tho direct supervision of tho Corporation department of the stato of Oregon and subjoct to that depart ment's rigid examinations. The Jackson County Ilulldlng and Loan association is a splendid institu tion and deserves tho support of our citizens. Every cent placed with it is kqpt In Med ford and immediately put to work helping some family get a home of its own. The overhead cxpenno Is very small, which enables It to pay dividends that amount to 8 per cent annually, which do not have to bo accounted, for by the Investors when making up their In come tax report as dividends declared on building nnd loan association stock is entirely exempt for tho next five years. , Business and professional men in Medford should own some of Its paid up stock and employes should be put t'ng away somo 'dorinlto amount monthly In its savings, installment stock. SELL COURTHOUSE In a telephone conversation of a Medford citizen with Thud Stevenson, secretary of'tho Klamath Falls cham ber of commerce Stevenson stated that much is heard In Klamath county in regard to the, splendid fair buildings which Jackson county Is building. As fair buildings are badly needed In Klamath county and as they have an ,oversupply of court houses, It was sug gested that an exchango be made. Following this' suggestion tho chum bcr of commerce has nppointod ltomeo Koppcs and Top Gates who are now in Klamath county as commissioners oxtranrdlmiry, to consummate tho no- , gotlutlons. MATE LOCAL LADY Armed with a razor, Sam Kubtils, 32, a bootblack, was arrested by the police Into' Thursday night whllo he was hid ing behind a tree in front of a house at Itith and Everett streets, and when he was taken to headquarters bo ex plained his actions by saying he was looking for his wife. Kulfuls declared his wlfo recently left him, and that he had telographed to Medford, Ore., to her parents to sec if she might bo there. On receiving nl'Wgu'tlro reply, he suddenly had a "hunch" as to her whereabouts and stS&lfld'oufr tQ look for her whllo he was in the aot of saving himself. fUHP-:; IRELAND NOW FACES "FAMINE DANGER LONDON, July 15. (Hy the Asso ciated Press) A serious food shorl- ace thratons the clvllinn population In the areas occupied by the republi can military forces in Ireland, according- to statements from free state sources, because of the commandeer Ing of food supplies for tho uo of "' th,o"n0ftTon,mUn.cat.ns thru ' thoSruction pt bridges and- re- movai of rails & said to he adding Sorab.y to the " (, , "0PU,t8HoOse dTstrtl's'wnerrre insur" , UTnrimmediate.y operating. NO DEVELOPMENTS TODAY IN RECALL E Neither sldo in tho recall squab ble had taken any action up to noon today, and nouo is expected before tho first of the week. A local circulator of petitions for the nomination of Dr. XI. Lowe for sheriff on the recall ticket was cir culating among the crowd at the band concert Friday evening. , Tho petition filed with the county elerk Thursday, and now claimed to be "only uu endorsement" shows that a majority of the names on the petition resided In Ashland, which seems to be the hotbed of the recall sentiment. It Is claimed by the supporters of the recall, that they have until Tuesday, July 18th to file the nom lnatlng petition, nnd It Is likely the petition will bo filed Monday. The injunction against tho county clerk restraining him from taking any fur ther steps to hold the special elec tion called for July 2 9th, will prob ably be filed at the same time. Mrs. Stella J. Leavltt of Ashland, has addressed a letter to tho Ashland Tidings, which was printed, apologiz ing for a previous letter, In which It was Inferred that the county clerk had sent out circulars In behalf of Sheriff Terrlll, and, for which the county clerk received several letters of condemnation. STAGE BATTLES I1KLFAST, July 15. (Ily tho Asso ciated Press) News slowly filtering through from the zones osi military activity Indicate that fighting has been going on in Hligo Intermittently for tho last ten days. ItuslnesH Is nt a- stand still, t,he majority of tho people having fled. At Coolloney n small freo state force Is attempting to drivo out a large body of republicans, hut thus far has met with littlo success. All tho civil ians In the district have fled. A gunboat flying tho IriHh flag under control of the free stato gov ernment arrived yesterday at Lough Swllly nnd discharged largo quanti ties of war material, artillery and armored cars at tho Buncrunti pier. UP JULY DEBTS PARIS, July 15. -(By Associated Press). Germany's July payment of 32,000,000 gold murks for reparations which tho reparations commission re cently refused to cancel was to be de posited some time today, principally in, Iiritish und llelglan bunks, according to unofficial Information reaching the reparations commission. Formal no tice of tho receipt of tho money, how ever, Is not expected by the commis sion until Monday. The payment is duo Monduy. 'WOLVERINE FLYER' I1ATTLE CRBF.K, Mich., July 13. Westbound Wolverine flyer, the .Michigan Central's finest train went over loosed trucks, two miles cast of Dattlo Crook at noon today nnd flvo rear coaches wore derailed while tho main line track was torn up for ubout a quarter of a mile. Two per sons wero slightly Injured. Latest Arrivals at Auto Camp Grounds Nineteen cars and sixty-three people npent last night nt the Med ford City Auto camp. The occupants wero as follows: John tieorge of Se attle, en route home from the south: K. K. Trcmenak nnd party nf l.inn Klono, la., en route to San Francisco; U. It. Wright and party of Kepo, New. on the way to Greenville, Calif.; N. Krickson and party of Napu, CnUf., en routo home from the north; S. K. Richards and party of four! en route from Idaho Falls to Ontario, Calif.; W. I,. Shak and party of three, en routo from Jlarcee, Ida,, to Murys vtlle. Cultf; C. Kngman and pasty of San Ilego, en route back to Oakland. Calif.; K. 11. Klsher and parly of Portland, en routo homo from the south; Scott Campbell and party of Itutte Fullw, spending the day In Medford; U. I llennett nnd party o( throe, en route from Hrawley, Calif., north: Chmies IJonnrt nnd party of Klamath Kills, en Auto homo; M. K. Mrown and party of threo of Prospect who may lot-ato here: F. M. lleadiee en routo from i.os Angeles to Van couver, It. c; William Itnkcr of Los Angeles, en route north: H. Annyer of New York, on route to Portland; F. C. l-Irnert nf Woodland. Calif., en route to Seattle: K. W. Huerr nnd party nf I'ortlaud, en route south nnd V. K. Woodruff and party of Long Iteai h, Calif., en route to Seattle. i BUSINESS QUITS TO PLANS FOR PUTTING A committee of merchants met at the county fair grounds last evening and after inspecting the buildings now under construction and being shown the location of the merchants indus trial pavilion, they were enthusiastic In getting such a building started with in the next two weeks. The' proposed merchants bjiildlng will be sixty feet wide and one hun dred and thirty-two feet long, it will contain forty booths each having a frontage of twelve feet and a depth of ten feet. The building will be substan tially constructed on cement founda tions and the floor will be of cement. It will be of an architectural design and painted to harmonize with the other buildings being constructed on tue grounds. The cost of this building will be $8tiU0 and to secure the funds to con struct same, the merchants committee will solicit the business men to lease space for a period of four years and pay a cash rental in advance for the entire period. A booth with a twelve foot frontage will cost at the rate of ?no per year, or a total cash payment of $200 gives a merchant complete con trol over such a space for four years. The committee will begin soliciting for space on Monday morning and mer chants who have already made up their mind to take space should not wait to be called upon but should see the chairman, A. II. Miller and sign up. It Is necessary that all booths be sold within tho next ten days xs lum ber will have to be ordered and It may take two or three weeks to get delivery on same. It will also take three weeks to construct the building and there are less than two months bofore the open ly date of the fair. GOLF TOURNEY OMAHA, Neb., July 15. (Dy Asso ciated Press). Rudolph Knepper of Sioux City, Iowa, is the 1S22 trans Mississippi golf champion. Tho Sioux City Btur, who recently won premier honors at tho Iowa state tournament, took the trniiB-MlssisslppI title from George Von Him ot Salt Lake City 5 and 4 In their 36-hole mutch here to day. Jesse Guilford, national amateur champion, continued to play ordinary golf In the last round, taking 78 for a total of 305 which was one better than tho final score of Willie Hunter, for mer Iiritish amateur champion who took 80 in his last effort. HUSBAND IN STONE AGE (Continued from Page One) Los Angeles, July 12, according to Chief of Police D. S. Ford. Tho local authorities are said to nayo been advised today that Los Angoles police wero told' by Mrs. Peggy Caffoo, In her admission, that she had boon an eye witness to tho slaying, that the rings were takon from Mrs. Meadows' body by tho as sailant. TUCSON, Ariz., July 13. Still re fusing to admit that she is Mrs. Clara Phillips, wanted in Los Angeles for tho murder of Mrs. Alberta Meadows, the woman held horo under tho name of McCluycr today Issued, a signed statement proclaiming hor Innocence of the brutal hammer murder. The statement was authorized by tho lawyer who was said to have been engageti by A. L. Phillips of I.os Angoles to protect the intcresst of his wife, Indicted by tho Los An geles grand Jury for tho killing. "Here Is tho mesa go I sent back to Los Angoles: " 'I am Innocent of nny crime. Hut when Sheriff Traeger calls for me 1 will bo glad to go back and face whatever tho unknown holds in store for mo,' " the statement concluded. I.OS AXG1CLKS. July 15. The veil is being lifted today from the life of Clara Phillips, former movlo bathing girl, and A. L. Phillips, oil promoter, by detectives seeking to uncover the chain of circumstances leading to the hammering to death ot Mrs. Alberta Meadows, 20-yoars-old widow, last Wednesday afternoon on a lonely hi Initio road In tho northeast section of Los Angeles. Police say that nil doubt as to their conviction that tho widow was bonten to doath by .Mrs. Phillips was remov ed by the graphic tale of horror re cited before tho grand Jury yesterday by Mrs. Peggy Chaffee, chum of Mrs. Phillips. This was tho story ot eye witness participation In the tragedy which led to the Indictment of Mrs. Phillips upon a charge of murder. Her story Is awaited by tho authori ties, she being expected to be return ed here tomorrow afternoon from Tucson, Ariz., in custody ot Sheriff W. I. Traeger. Attention Oreharditti! i We are prepared to quote you on Concreto Pressure Pipe for Irrigation, sizes six to twelve inches: guarantee ing same up to one hundred foot head. We have molds for making nnd in stalling the California type pipe. Lot ur figure your Job. MKHFOHO CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION CO. 9S KNEPPER WINS !N FAKE HOLDUP TO HUSBAND JAILED SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. Henry Wilklns was arrested yesterday charg ed with the murder of his wife, Anna Wilkcns, as the result of a statement alleged to have been made by Arthur Castor to District Attorney Drady and Policewoman Kate O'Connor, it was announced by I. M. Golden, chief deputy district attorney here after Wllkens had been lodged in jail. Mrs. Wilkens was shot and killed the night of May 30, supposedly by one of three highwaymen in an attempted holdup. Arthur Castor; held in jail here on charge of passing worthless checks, is said to be one of the highwaymen. According to Castor's purported statement, he and his brother Walter had arranged with Wilkens to stage a fake holdup ot the Wilkens automo bile. The Castors, It is claimed by the police were to have robbed Wilkens of what money he had and also were to rob Mrs. Wilkens of her jewelry. The holdup, Arthur Castor is said to have declared, was staged, as planned, with Walter Castor wielding the revol ver. In the holdup, according to the reputed confession, a shot was fired, but Arthur Castor is said to deny he knew who fired it, his brother Walter, or Wilkens. During the robbery Arthur is report ed to have said, it is claimed, Walter Castor took a wallet from Wilkens. After the holdup, continued the statement, the pair drove back into the city and the next morning Walter complained that Wilkens had double- crossed him that the wallet was empty and that Mrs. Wilkens had worn no jewelry. Then, Arthur Castor is said to have explained, he and his brother went to the Wilkens home, where Wilkens gave them three $100 bills. The $100 bills were found on the Castors when they were arrested the day following tho shooting of Mrs Wilkens. The brothers later were turned loose because of insufficient evidence against them. Wilkens claim ed that he had been robbed ot three $100 bills In the holdup in which his wife was slain. . .. L OF N. TO MEET !N LONDON THIS TIE LONDON, July 15. (By the Asso ciated Press.) For the first time since its organization tho council of the League of (Nations Is to meet in London. The sessions which are ex pected to last ten flayswlll be held in at. James palace, beginning Mon day of next week, and will be attend ed by an unusually impressive array ot ministers and diplomats. Among the twenty-two items on the agenda are the reduction of arm amenta, treatment of minorities traffic in women and children, the deportations from Asia Minor, the opium traffic, disputes over boundar ies and Incursions of bandits, discus sion ot the Palestine, Syrian and other mandates, epidemics and the situation In the eastern Mediterrain Ian. PORTLAND, Ore., July 15. Dem ocratic committeemen from all parts of tho state were hore In session to day mapping out the fall campaign Dr. C. J. Smith, stato chairman, pre sided. Waller llembree of McMlnnvilte, was mado chairman of tho creden tials committee; Fred C. Whltten of Portland, chairman of committee on organization, and Sam Garland, Leb anon, chairman of the committee on resolutions. Walter M. Pierce, candidate for governor, spoko this afternoon. JAP TO EVACUATE WASHINGTON". July 15. Tho text ot tho foroiKn office Btutoment In Toklo yesterday announcing Japan's purpose to withdraw her troops from the mainland portion of the province of SuRluilion, Siberia, shows that, coupled with her previous announce ments on the intended withdrawal by October from tho Vladivostok resion. it is Japan's purpose to hold only the northern or Husian end of the island of jjHuKhalien pending adjustment with some Russian povernment of Japanese clHims nrlslnK out of the massacre of Japanese troops at Nikollcvsk. Politicians: X. n. hlll authorizing the sale of surplus itiw rr ucvciopcn in i nv cji 11 i iver by the senato and npw (roes to the presmem. rne wale won to ne unucr fifty-year contracts and the proceeds would he nlnceil to the credit of the Bait river project. TY COBB CLOSES UP E CHICAGO, July 15. (By Associated Press). Ty Cobb's challenge for the batting leadership of the American league was not a flash in the pan, judg ing from averages compiled today which show the Detroit leader closing the gap separating him from George Sisler, the St. Louis marvel, who Is leading the race with an average of .40. Cobb is just II points behind Sisler, as compared with 31 a week ago. The noted Georgian's remarkable batting streak netted him twenty hits in his last nine games, as against twelve hits collected by Sisler in eight games. Trls Speaker, manager of the Clevc land club, moved back into third place with an average of .301, deposing Harry Heilmann of Detroit, who drop ped into fourth place with .354. Sisler is showing his heels to the contenders with a string, of 32 thefts, while Ken Williams, tho homerun hit ter, is second in line with 20. The see-sawing fight between Wil liams and Tilly Walker ot the Athle tics for home run hitting continues with honors even, each having knock ed out 21. Kuth is down in the list with 14. Other leading batters for 55 or more games: Miller, Philadelphia, .354; Schang, New York, .353; O'Neill. Cleveland .349;, Bassler, Detroit .34"; Iilue. Detroit .342; Witt, New York 330; McManus, St. Louis .333. Perhaps the most impressive stick work in the National league was the batting of Charllo Hollocher, shortstop with Chicago, who in seven games smashed out 13 hits which enabled him to jump from ninth to third place In the list of leading sluggers with an average of .359. Rogers Hornsby, the St. Louis star. with his record of 24 home runs', con tinues to top the league in hitting with an average of .399, nine points above his mark of a week ago. Hank Gowdy of Iloston is second with .372. Max Carey of Pittsburg Is holding onto the lead in base stealing with 22, with Tlerney, also of Pittsburg, second with 16. Hornsby is third with 14. Other leading batters for 55 or more games: Higbee, Pittsburg .358; Johns ton, Brooklyn .357; Grimes, Chicago .357; Daubert, Cincinnati .355; Dun can, Cinalnnatl, .354; Carey, Pittsburg .345; Smith, St. Louis .344. SPEED UP COINAGE SILVER DOLLARS PHILADELPHIA. July 15 Orders to speed up coinage of silver dollars to replace part of the $300,000,000 sold during tho war as bullion to Kngland, have been received at the Philadelphia mint. Fifty, thousand are to he coined daily and shipped to Washington for deposit in the treasury vaults. Silver certificaloH will he Issued against them. Tho mint has approximately 45,000,000 ounces of silver bullion on hand. LANDIS REFUSES TO AID KENWORTHY CHICAGO, July 15. Commissioner of Baseball Lnndis today refused to modify his order permanently disbar ring William Kenworthy, former man ager of the Portland club of the Pacific Coast league from professional base ball. Judge Landis criticized the agreement which limits punishment of minor league club owners to a ropri mand. AILING WOMEN OF MIDDLE AGE Mrs. Linton Tells How Helpful Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is at This Period Denver. Colorado; ' I have taken Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound forseven years and I cannot tell you the good it has done me. It is good for young and old and I always keep a bottle of it in the house, for I am at that time of life when it calls for Lydia E. Pink ham's help. My hus band saw your ad. in the papers and said 'You have taken everything you can think of, now I want you to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound! So I let him get it, and I soon felt better and he told me 'I want you to take about six bottles.' So I did and I keep house and do all my own work and work out by the day and feel fine now. I tell every one about tho Vegetable Compound, for so many of my friends thought I would not get well. ''-Mrs. R. J. LINTON, I860 West 33d Avenue, Denver, Colorado. After reading letters like the above, and we are constantly publishing them, why should any woman hesitate to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Veeetable Com pound if she is in needof help ? It brings ' relief l-her nthpr tneriii'inf.a f;,n ' a ER YANK JiNX I HOMER FOR ROGERS; CHICAGO, July 1:. By the As-, Bocyitcd Press) Urban Shocker, ' pitching aco of the St. Louia Urwwns, is no longer a Yankee jinx. He h;is started four times against the Xw Yorkers in the last seven ames the teams have played and lost them all, the fourth defeat coming yesterday when tho leitgue leaders bowed to Bob Khawkey'a superior box work, 4 to 0. Tho Huymen drove Shocker from the box on two successive days In St. Louis and Joe llush bested the spit ball Htar Tuesday at the I'olo j grounds. The victory put the iankees back within a half game of the pace setters.. lioKers Jlornsby walloped out his 24th homer ducing a seven run rally hi the seventh that Rave the Cardinals a victory over the Phillies, 9 to 5 and put them within two and u half games of the Giants, who losf- their second straight to Chicago. Hack Miller's two homo runs and Virgil C'heeves' relief pitching fea tured the Cubs triumph over Mc Graw's men, 8 to 4. OFFER 10 WILLAR TO. MEET BREf LOS ANGELES. July 15. Author ization to offer Joss Wlllurd $25,000 with -.privilege of SO oer cent of the Bross receipts less tho state tax, to meet Hill flronnnn of ChictiKo was conveyed by wire to the sporting editor of tho Evening Express here! today from Hiivey liurns, match-1 maker for tho Oakland Athletic as-' sociation of Jersey City. The nies-1 sage said the club will post the Kuar- antee for illard twenty days in advance in full, and that any dale suitable to Willard will suit the einli. Voicer Repairer URBAN SH LONG C. M. RICHARDS Will practice throughout Rogue Kiver Valley ' Phone orders to 323-J Rebuilds old pianos, rcstrings, etc. Riverside Garage Headquarters for the Famous De Luxe Pistons and McQuay-Norris Rings We repair nil makes of cars and gasoline engines. Host equipped shop in Southern Oregon for cylinder re-boring nnd rebuilding motors. LATHE WORK A SPKCIALTV P. P. CLOSE, Prop. A vast spectacle. You've never seen any thinq like ii. before. 3 'EVERYTHING TRXZ INTERESTING . EDUCATIONAL ENTERTAIN1NG TREE Demonrlrations' lectures, Movies f RADIO. Concerts' MEDFORD TIME TABLE EFFECTIVE JUNE 20, 1922 M EDFORD-ROSEBURG STAGE DAILY EXCEPT SI XDAY Lv. Medford 7:45 a. m., 1:00 p. m. Lv. Koseburg 8:30 a. m., 2p. m. MEDFORD-GRANTS PASS STAGE IAILY KXCKPT SI XDAY Lv. Medford--7:45 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 4:45 p. m. Lv. Grants Pass 7:30 a. m., 1:00 p. m., 5:30 p. m. Sl'M)AY ONLY Lv. Medford 10:00 a. m., 4:30 p. nt. Lv. Orants Pass 10:00 a. m., 4:30 p. m. Citv6 connect wlth 8taes tor Portland, Marshfleld and Crescent INTERURBAN AUTOCAR CO. Phone 300 R I ALTO Here's Our New Show for Tomorrow ! FROM sat eve STORVSLIPPEOTONOti, frt WM.J.NEIDIO A vidid pieluro of the Welt und Its men, headed by ragged. 1'Ynnk Mayo, who portrays the role of ii hoinc-tWef with n. smooth, tonsuo and a way with the ladle. Von will liko both him und tho picture. ' Last Times Tonight JACK HOLT in "The Man Unconquerable" Tuner Action Adjustment mxms TOirills Mystery-Suspense
