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1EDF0RD MAIL TEIBUN Second Section Six Paget Dally Eighteenth Tear, Weekly Fifty-Third Tear. MEDPOED, OREGON", WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1923 TWELVE PAGES TODAY NO. 231 Second Section Six Pages 10 T.I CHICAGO, Dec. 19. Tho canf paten for Instructed deleRntes to back tho cundldacy of William Gibbs McAdoo for the presidency at the democratic . national convention will bo carried on in alt states where his friends feel It Is advisable, David Ij. Rockwell, chairman of the McAdoo campaign committee, said in a statement today. He announced that Mr. McAdoo would seek an Instructed delegation from ' Illinois. . Previously certain democratic lead ers had expressed tho belief that Illi nois democrats would ask an unln structcd delegation to tho national convention. ; ".'The course that Mr. McAdoo's can didacy shall take in each stato will be determined by the concurrent opinion of the majority of those among his friends best qualified to pass judg ment In that state," . Mi-r Rockwell Bald.- ' "In Illinois the 'concermua has from the beginning been to enter tho primary. Accordingly, Mr, McAdoo's name will, bo filed and he will ontor the Illinois primary. ' ' "We have but one object in enter ing the primary to secure a McAdoo delegation from Illinois to the 1024 democratic national convention. This we are determined to seek and arc convinced that we will be successful." SHERIFF AND 4 DEPUTIES FACE MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 19. Sheriff Paul Cazalas, former Sheriff W. H. ' Holcombo, Jr., member of the legis I lature and a deputy sheriff, together I with four other deputy sheriffs and Frank W. Hoykin, Mobile were placed ( under arrest hero today by United ! States marshals on indictments re turned by the federal grand Jury , which recently investigated alleged wholesalo violations of tho liquor laws hero. The Indictments charge Sheriff Cazalas with conspiracy to violate tho prohibition laws in two cases; charge Holcombo with conspiracy to violate prohibition law in two cases, conspir acy to bribo and ono of conspiracy to resist a federal officer. Roykin is charged with conspiracy to bribe and conspiracy to violato the prohibition laws. GATES MO COMPANY FAKE DOCTORS IN UNITED STATES CHICAGO, Dec. 19. If state medi cal licensing boards will admit to ex- jaminations only those qualified by education to be physicians while po llico powers of the states are directed , to search out and prosecute men" ' practicing medicine without a license, i the nation will be freed from unquali ' fled doctors, the American Medical association declared today in an offic ial statement by its executive com I mlttee. The statement said that the number of medical imposters and poorly qtml- ifled physicians in tho country "does not even approximate 25,000," the i number claimed by a man under In- jdictment for diploma frauds In Mis souri. It set out that during the past eight years, not more than 2500 grad uates of low grade medical schools have rocolved licenses. "Thero are today five medical schools In tho United States which are not up to the high standard of tho remaining seventy-six, " the statement said. Next Saturday, December 22 will be .used car day with the C K. Gates Auto Co. In 1922 they tried selling cars at auction, the highest bidder gotting the car. A number of pooplo bought bargains that have been talked of ever since. The sale was so satisfactory that tho people are de manding that another be held. There fore they have decided to hold another used car sale next Saturday, Decem ber 22 at 2 o'clock p. m. BREMERTON, Wash., Dec. 19. One hundred orphan children of this city will be tho guests Christmas day of the officers nnd sailors of the U. 3. 8. .Tennessee, according to plans an nounced today. Arrangements have been made to have a largo Christmas tree on the quarter deck of tho battleship. Every child guest will be given three gifts, a box of warm cloth ng, a box of toys and a package of fruit, nuts and candy. - A dinner will bo served the orphans at noon,' Tho dftornoon program will consist of a motion picture show and a. series of dance's. SLAYER OF LINN CO. RALEM,, Ore., Dec. 19. Chief JUS ttfn Min'lfln n t tho ulnla m'nT-drvin court yesterday refused to Issue a writ of probable cause in tho case of tho stato against George Parker, slayer of Sheriff Dunlap of IJnn county, and Parker will be hangod January 4. SCIENTISTS TO STUDY PETRIFIED FOREST LOS ANGELES, Dec. 19.; A party of scientists headed by Dr. David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Stanford university, planned to leavo here today to investigate three petri fied forests and several extensive de posits of petrified remains of prehis toric land and water mammals dis covered recently about thirty miles southeast of here. .... Excavations completed in this re gion are expected to demonstrate bo yond doubt, tho belief of scientists that hills, in Orange county, now 2000 foot above sea level, were once at tho bottom pi the ocean. ' largest Hotel In Chicago. , QHICAGO, Dec. 19. Tho Congress hotel built In 1803. and battleground of a host of national conventions, is to bo replacod by n ?22, 000,000 32 story structure which will make it one of the largest hostehi.es in the world It was announced. 1 CANTON, Dec. 17. (By Associated Press). Dr. Sun Yat Son, south China leader, whoso recent threat to seize tho customs funds of Kwang Tung province resulted in the concentration of warships of five foreign powers here, plans to take the first decisive step in the controversy on December 19, according to information obtained from official sources here. A strong anti-American and anti Japanese sentiment developed at a mass meeting here yesterday in con nection with the dispute over Sun's claim to the customs surpluses and the presonce of tho foreign flotilla off Shameen, the foroign quarter of Can ton. Japanese were accused by speak ers of supplying arms and ammuni tion to pirates and brigands. It is claimed there is complete unanimity , among officials of the Canton government concerning Sun's announced plan of seizing the cus toms funds, to prevent the surplus above 13 per cent, the amount allotted from going to the Peking government to be used later, according to Sun, In attempting to suppress his activities. T BEEF AND HOME, YULET1DE the loudest m m TBreontheMm' A C-T-C Tire FREE If It Does - Not Outwear Any Other Tire UNTIL January 15th authorized C-T-C tire dealers will match a C-T-C tire on any user's car against any other tire of the same size on the market. Place a new C-T-C tire on any wheel of your car opposite a new tire, equal size, of any other make you cafe to choose. Then drive them continuously .until one gives out If the C-T-C fails to outwear t a other tire, you will get another C-T-C tire FREE. . This astounding factory Guaranty is simply an offer to PROVE to every tire user the remark able performance of these hand-built C-T-C tires, and to demonstrate the good faith of the manu facturer behind them. C-T-C tires wont skid and can be driven at low inflation to "Conserve the Car." They ore the strongest, toughest, longest enduring tires built. BUY YOUR TIRES FOR SPRING NOW In spite of their GUARANTEED SUPERIORITY C-T-Cs cost NO MORE than ordinarjr. tires. so:. 'mm mm if 3! -'V, I t! moo - p t?Jmm pi I jw m fc&ft P niijK. ; LONDON, Dec. JuBt ns the Yankee living in foreign lands dny dreams, as Christmas approaches, of turkey dinners that are not to bo for him, so the Englishman" fur from home, hungers for roast beef. Most of these alien dreams go unfulfilled. tho dreamers contenting themselves with the thought that one of these Christmases they will return to the old family fireplace or radiator, and eat to their heart's consent. Hut there are other exiles, fortunate of placo and pockotbook, who enn obey the annual Impulse to go home for Christ ! mas. Their numbers seem on the in crease. ' v I The British iBlestare tho local point for numbers of Englishmen end Scotsmen who hit the homownrd trull Ifroin Canada, from India, nnd South Africa and the other overseas parcels of ompire as tho Yulctldo comes nigh. This year tho homocomlng Britons are so numerous that special excursion ships are being run up from South Africa to accommodate thorn. Throe such steamships will ar rive at English ports just a few days before Christmas. Trans-Atlantic Hners always find the winter lull in traffic enlivened a Uttlo at the holiday season by Ameri cans hurrying home from Europe Just In time to get in on the big eating. and Europeans coming back from America. This year Is no exception The Christmas pilgrimages have al ready begun. Among those who left England this week-end were several of the American students at Oxford There the Christmas vacation is long enough to permit the Americans to spend a month with the home folks, before returning to their rounds of reading and rowing and teas and tutors. Columbia Tire Corporation 8th and Riverside , Central Point Service Station, Central Point G. B. Holmes, Eagle Point . Fick's Hardware, Jacksonville T.I i.-V". V vr v HOBOES ARE GETTING PARTICULAR ABOUT 1ERE THEY SLEEP CHICAGO. Dec. The once teem ing "flop-house" has suffered a no ticeable patronage for homeless men, even in their periods of unemploy ment, now demand a hostelry of a higher grade, according to tho Rev. Dennis J. Dunn, chancellor of the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago. These men, says Father Dunne, are choosing In Increased numbers the lodging houses where baths nnd the fumigation of clothing are entrance requirements. The change has come (tbout since the enactment of prohl bitlon, according to the chancellor. "Homeless men are saving their money now," explains Father Dunne. "It is surprising how woll some of them are living. "They are eating more and better food. They also are more particular about where they sleep. In many cases they are going to the Mission of the Holy Cross, whore there are news papers on tables to be read, and to other institutionally conducted lotlgr ing-houses, with an evident deslro to learn rather than slcop on the floor. Our mission is full, and twice as many men as there la room for would like to, lodge there." BETTER IS REPORT WASHINGTON, Doc. 1J. Tho fed eral farm loan board urged tho far mers of tho country today to turn to diversification of crops and the de velopment of co-operativo marketing as "tho only sound basis for agricul tural prosperity." Basing its observations on data sup plied by the twolvo land banks presi dents who have just completed their winter conference hero the board said in a statment that conditions In tho agriculture industry show a very sat isfactory improvement. The information furnished by the land bnnk officials gave every reason, the' statement said, for the belief that the improvement noted in the past year would continue Collections were described ns most satisfactory In most sections and this was accepted ns indicating tho fur mers are getting on their feet finan cially. "Agricultural conditions on the whole," tho statement added, "con tluuo to improve although thero are soctions which on account of partial crop failures, the low price of the principal crop or scarcity of labor, are not prosperous. This of course, in cludes only a fractional part of the total farming area. The fruit grow ers and cattlo raisers nppear to be the most unfortunate. The wheat farmer, on tho wholo has not had a prosper ous year. Thero is every reason, however, to believe that this Improvement will continue. The most encouraging part of tho report to the board Is the ten dency throughout the United States to diversify farming. It Is our belief that diversification and cooperative marketing furnish the only sound basts for agricultural prosperity." Portrait ami Stat no or Pop BERLIN. A portrait and statue of Pope Pius XI recently have been com pleted. Tho former was painted by Ernst Heilemaun, the Borlln artist, while the statuo Is the work of Prof. Theodor Genrgl of Munich. SIBERIA REVOLT HARBIN, Dec. 19. (By Associated Press). A mutiny of soviet Russian troops commencing last Monday is re ported from Vladivostok. Nikolsk and Khabarovsk. The mutinous reds, tho reports say, are being assisted by par tisans of the white or anti-soviet fac tion In Siberia. The populations of the cities named are said to have beon driven to des peration by the ruthless collection of food taxes, religious persecutions and the harsh official soviet regime. Gold Star Fathers Protest CHICAGO, Dec. 19 Protest against the contemplated removal of the fields of crosses from national ceme teries in this country and abroad with a substitution of ordinary grave markers, was made to the secretary of war and President Coolidge by the I Gold Star Fathers association. Ear Ache Caused Suicide) LOB ANGELES. Dec. 19. Mrs. Adetalde Manola Hughes, wife of Major Rupert Hughes, author, took her life by hanging while mentally deranged from the Intense pain of ear ache, according to a cahlegrom ' re eclved today by Major Hughes from Haiphong, Indo China, containing the details of his wife's death. Martial Iaw In Honduras. . TUGUCIGALRA, Honduras, Dec. 19 Martial law was declared through out the republic with a view to fore stalling a possible revolution. 39c I ! 39c TOY SALE Thursday, Dec. 20 For the benefit of those who cannot get in during the day, we will keep our stores opcu . till 10 p. m. ' Another Big Money Saver Folks, we have secured some wonderful values for this sale, and we expect to be sold out early on some of our numbers. So we advise shopping early.. Our .doors will be open at 7:30. Those who came early Saturday were well repaid, and will never forget the bargains they secured' for 25c. . , j The Biggest.' Bargains in Toys Ever Offered in Your City Will Be on Sale Thursday All Day and Evening For- . . ' . : -. 1 JOINTED DOLLS, VALUES UP TO $4.00 39c Unbreakable Dolls Doll Trunks N House Keeper Sets Aluminum Sets of Dishes Laundry Sets Steel Ranges Table Sets China Tea Sets All Steel Wagons Popular Games Sail Boats 9-in. Autos ' 9 in. Steel Boats . MECHANICAL TOYS Auto Bus, Turtles Trains, Hens Birds, Ducks " ; Monkeys, Bears Mother and Baby Pig and Clown - Dog and Cart ' Dancing Figures ' Bird in Cage, etc. Toy Telephones Musical Tops Fur Animals Air Rifles Tinker Toys . Tom -Tinker Belle Tinker Tennis Racquets Drums Mandolins Violins . Saxophones Banjoes : ' & J' AND JUST HUNDREDS OF OTHER TOYS FOR 39c THEMEDFORD HARNESS CO. ! The Sporting Goods Store Watch Our Windows for Saturday's Big Dollar Bill Sale. A . . ) Present for Each Customer. . iv i I i - 4
