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Newspaper Page TextPAGE ,STX MEDFOTJDMATL TTJTT1UXE, AfEDFOTlD, OREOOX. RATTTTWAY. N'OVKAIHBR 10, 1928. ARMISTICE DAY IE WORKED OUT More Than 500 Persons to March Lineup at Wash ington School Veterans Three Wars Included Starts 11 A. M. Elaborate plana for the Armta tico Day parade to bo hold hero Monday morn I rip wero being per fected here thin morning by Chair tiiun Karl DuvIh and htH committee of work tf I'M. More than GOO. per sons ure expected to tako place In the lineup which will Hturt from tho WanhliiKt un bcIiouI ut 11 o'clock. : Jn addition to , tho American Lcpion which will turn out In full forco In memory of their departed ' "buddies" of tho Y.'oiv.; War, I ho remaining veterana of both tho Civil and Hpanlah American warn will have a prominent pluco In tho procpHnlon, All tho HchoolH in the county havo been ut-f;ed to enter their HtudcntB In parade, which 1h ex pected to outnumber uny marching body over formed here. The hitch uchool, til. Mary'w Academy and the vartouH Kiununur achoulft of tho city will participate. Alt fraternal and civic ornanf.a tloiiH, Including the AIiIkoiih, tho KntiihtH of ColumbUH, Woodmen of tho World, Odd r'elluwa, tho Boy Hcouta, tho KuHtern 8tar, He beknhs, and tho Elka will uIhu bo roprcaentcd. The parade will bo led by tho Klka band, tho Ameri can Legion drum corps and tho high school band. Immediately after tho pnrado tho American Legion port will bo host to nil ex-Hcrvlcemcn at n venlmin feed at tho Klka club. Veterans of all wars are Invited to participate in this affair which will bo free. Thu football game begins ut 2 p. m. umt in tho evening thero will bo staged the minimi Armis tice Day ball ut tho Oriental CJar dona. , newISace for radio fans, WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. (P) Ttadto listeners tomorrow will find almost all of their favorite sta tions nt till fax-nt pointH un tho dial. Tho federal radio commission's reallocation plan goes Into effect tit s a. m. The commission's engineers and a majority of the commlHsionei-H feci that tho new 'plan will eliminate a large amount of hoterodyno interference and fading and bring out distant sta tions with greater clarity, in tho regional and small stations Hold particularly, t-oceptlon la expected to bo Improved becauso of the wider separation of high powered illations. "The full benefits of tho reallo cation probably will not bo Im mediately apparent" Commlsalonor KItyos said today. I .."In tho first pluco. It may take' a few months for some of , the stations to become adjusted to1 tholr channels,, so that they will; not Intorfero with tholr neighbors on distant channels. In the second place, many of the cleared chan; net Hlatlons will not. he equipped for several months to use the power authorised by tho conun's fclon, . "Just as noon as tho realloca tion has been given a fair tost, tho commission will undertake to correct whatever fault that may have appeared. E CITY LEADERSHIP LONDON, Nov. 1 10. (A) Ten women wero among thu more than 300 mayors elected yesterday, Thero were no women among the arxtcon lord mayors but Norwich which v.as the first city to elect a woman to that post elected for the first tlmo a woman sheriff. Miss Mabel Clarkson who was chosen for that officii Is compelled by duty to attend any execution of a criminal which occurs In the city during her term. At, 1'orUiuuuth tho first Salva tionist ever to . bo numed lord muyur In Knglnud was chosen to licad the municipality, IS. J, Itymer, chosen mayor of Vork, Is tho sole chief magistrate to declare for a dry mayoralty, lie promised that the money saved by not nerving Intoxicants at munici pal bayui-ls would bo given to hospitals. '' JM'bmiiro l-ijture, WILMINOTOX, Del., Nov. 10. (4) IlPi bert Jloover'n officio! plu rality ovor dovernor Smith In pelawaro was announced today as 3i,fl27. The official totals for tho iitfltn were: Hoover. fiS.OSS; Jfmlth, 86,859, , AM PLANS IS Ti Elton Beeson, 29, died ut the Sacred Heart hospital lust night i from a pistol wound, accidentally j Inflicted, oreordlng to the author! .ties and the attending physlclun, I Dr. A. F. Kreatte. Tho tratdy oc curred about 4:3o o'clock yester jduy afternoon, at tho homo of his brother, Kverotl, near Talent. According to Dr. Ki who, Uochoji (who was unfnmilinr with the f itu'chanlvm of Lugcr arms, had I taken down a 22 rifle preparatory 'to going rabbit hunting. A Luger pistol in a holster was on a hhclf. Heeson took it down, and In some manner unexplulned, It was dis charged. Tho bullet pawned Just below the heart, and through tho upper part of the body. Uls brother, Kverett, working in the barn, heard the phot und met Kllon as ho staggered into the yard holding his side. In response to a cjuery, Klton said: I "I'vo shot myself." Ho was rushed to Sacred Heart : hospital. He was conscious for: about ten minutes and said to Dr. Kressc, "I. don't understand how I j shot myself, I had no business j fooling with that gun." i Death camo about seven o'clock, lieeson, a member of a pioneer southern Oregon family, is sur vived' by a wlfo and six year old daughtor. His home was in this city, where ho recently built a house on Quince Btreet. Thero will l)e an lniiuest at 7 o'clock this evening, according to Coroner Conger. Funeral arrangements have not been made, but will probably be held next Tuesday. IN If ALLEN, TEX. MIbh Ponrl Cods mil MIhh Enr. bara Kicker, who Htiirteri nut on u cro8 country hiko hIx weekn iiko. aro now in McAllon, Toxim, wlioro inns i-orni in acting aa HUimrlntend- ont of Urn McAllon liosjiltiil there temporarily. McAllon wan tho scono ot conxldernhlo Klrlfo on election liny, which made hospital iiUHIIiusH rumilii.r, nccoriliiiK to a card recolved from tho local gIrlH. MIhh t'osH and MIhh itlcker will will remain In tho miutli thruiiKh tha cold wlntor nicinllm, when they win tako a nont from Now Orlonim to New York and contlnno lliulr Journey m Into tho ntutn ot Amine, whero Minn Kicker's mm her Uvea. Tholr nlaiiH from thon on aro not yot ilocldod. It ImB just beenmo known that John W. Chase, who had been chief ranger of tho Crator National park for tho nnt six months, resigned a wook aiso and loft for KuKono. His successor hns not yot been named by Superintendent c. O. ThoniHon. It In undorstood lhat Cnptuln Chaso, who has had mvernl years of cxporlunco In tho tlmbor and logging buslnosB. will uot ro-enga.jo in It, and that he oxpects to ro Bumo Ills university training In business administration. Mrs. Chnso left lirta Meptoinbcr to ro sumo teaching of a uchool at Mablo, near Kt:-;eno. CHICKEN THIEF GETS PON OFF! FORCES ESCAPE AIO rOFKRYVILLK. Kuns,, Nov. 10 (A) After kidnaping unaided two police officers sent to nrre: him and forcing them to aid In his escape, a man identified an Dick (Ji-OKg. Oklahoma convict and bank robber suspect, was at largo today In the hilly, wooded country JI& miles east of here. Ills flight In a stolen automo bile was halted late yesterday I when tho police officers. Chief of Police Karl Hackney and Detec tive W. II. McMurtry. who had been released 26 miles east of hero, caught up with their ab ductor In a commandeered nuto mobilo, ami opened flro on him. The man, who foiced tho offi cers Into his car nt tho point of a revolver when ho wan caught stealing chickens In Coffeyvllle at noon yesterday, leaped from his automobile and ran ufter it suddenly veered from the road, crashed through a fence und Into a treo. Ho dropped twlco as the offi cers continued fire, but got up Mich time and finally escaped In thu underbrush. BLACKWELL K. 0.'S Ei;ciKXK, Ore, Nov. 10. V) Joo lllnckwell, Iftft poundH. Ku Bene, won ovor Kenneth Kent. Hood ttlver, hy a knockout In the ninth round of n scheduled 10 round mnln event nt tho armory hern Inst nlsht. Jimmy Leu, lit pound, L'ul- E! CHASE QUITS AS E GIVEN FREEDOM G HANTS PASS, Ore., Nov. 10. j W) Forty-eight wild turkeys wcro ; liberated In Josephine county to ; day, Thy were freed In two aec I tlons of 'the county und will be i watched closely during the winter I by Deputy dame Warden Fred j Merrill, under whoso supervision the birds were turned loose. The turkeys wero raised on shures by a local farmer, under an agreement with the statu game commission. The old turkeys, freed hero a year ago, wero captured and penned, a half of the Incresso being turned back. The young tur keys weigh from seven to ten pounds. When let out of the coops some of the birds started feeding and others sought the branches of high trees. The exact localities In which tho turkeys wero turned loose aro being kept secret to pro vent hunters from kelllng them. ONCE MORE UNDER GRAND JURY EYE LOS ANC'.EI.KS, Oil., Nov; 10. (I') Almce Scmplo Mcl'lierson's talo of a BtrniiKe abduction, now nearly two years old, has been flunK again Into tho secret (unv tors of a grand Jury. Newspaper Btorlus put It there. They had linked tho AngoluB temple evan gellsts's exporlencus beforo an other grand jury to recent Indict ments chin iln'g the district attor ney and seven others with gross corruption. This last twist to a flood or In vestigations which have poured out of the grand Jury's rooms upon the heads of scvural prominent cit izens, found newspaper men, bun dles of documentary evidence prossod beneath their arms, facing tho InquiHllnrinl body yesterday. They wore thoro to toll of the sources of tholr Htorles and to di vulge evidence, claimed to havo a direct hearing on tho Mcl'hcrson kidnaping caso. It was reported that tho evidence had been bc curod from tho evangelist's own mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy. Tho stories, published shortly after the grand Jury had aired its Indictments against District Attor ney Asa Koyes and othors, con cerned reports that tile dlsmlsHal ot charges agaliiHt tha evangelist had been tainted Willi corrupllnn. Sho was chawed with obstruction of Juatlco alter a grand Jury had Investigated her tale of kldnnplnx which she preHontod as an expla nation of a HUddeu dlHnpiioaraucu nenrly two years ago. In the grand Jury's Indictments ogaliiHt Keycs, the district attor ney had been accuHed of a con spiracy to secure the dlsmiHsnl ot charges against defendant h in Bev era! notable cases, particularly the promoters of the Julian Petroleum fiasco. The Mcl'herson case had not been named in tho grand Jury IndlctmentB. . PROGRESS OF AGES IS TOLD IN PAGEANT LONDON. Nov. 10. (TV-Educa tional progress throughout the ages was tho feature of Friday's brilliant pageant In tho annual lord mayor's shpw given by Sir Kynaston Studd, London's new chief executive. . The fine weather brought out unormouH crowds. (log and Magog, giant effigies closely connected with legends of the ancient city of London, made their first appearance for more than i!D0 years In tho pageant. The figures were modelled by students of tho Polytechnic- Institute, Lon don's great popular educational center of which Kir Kynuslon Is president. Kach Is fifteen feet high, and ten Polytechnic students act an legs for each Image. According to legend, Gog and Magog wero the survivors of a race of giants from the S3 wicked daughters of Diocletian. They aro supposed to havo been brought to London and compelled to officiate as porters at tho goto of the royal paluco. One ancient chronicle also nets forth that tho oiiKlnuls of Oog und Magog wero giants who tyrun- Izcd tho western horn of Kngland until slain by foreign Invaders. A score uf bands, symbolical floats, tableaux by the ancient liv ery companios, marching "territor ials," or mtlttury guardsmen, and troops vt gaily garbed men repre senting all phases of London life furnished color In the putieunt, but In view of thu association of Kir Kymiston with the Polytechnic In- ntltutlon. It wrm impropriate that the character of tho procession dealt mainly with education und with social service. The Salvation Army, which does Important relief and religious work In Knglund, hud n place In tho parade with a float Illustrating tho emigration work of the army In relation to Orent liiitulu'a unem ployment problem. verslty of Oregon, knocked out Cleoiii Dunn, Hi. Cottuire Orove. second round of n four-round ovont. , McCray Rebuilds Warren T. McCray, ex-governor cf Indiana, who spent 40 months in the federal peniten tiary at. Atlanta, Ga., for using the mails to defraud, has started, at the age of 63 years, to recoup his fortune and regain his name as a cattleman. . Twenty friends have made it po&siblo for him to purchase land and cattle. Ko il above with a small friend. SHOW GIRL GETS FOR TEN YEARS NKW YOItK, Nov. 10. () A iouncr show girl is to receive one sixth of the Income from tho es Intu left by Arnold ltotliHtclu, the Hluin gambler, under tcrniB of n will signed on his deathhed. Although tho will has not been filed ror probate, Its provisions wcro made known by tho slain gamhhir'B associates. Mis cstnto Is estimated at .SI0.IM1U.ihm, but much of IhlH is said to consist of heavily mortgaged real estate and loans granted gamblers. Tho girl Usateo I& Inez Norton, who has been living ut tho Fair field hotel, owned by Kothsteln. Of her his associates know llttlo. except that she bad been a show girl and was a divorcee. Her one- sixth interest in the income Is to run only for 10 years. HothHtctn's widow, from whom I e had becu estranged hut who visited hi 111 nt tho hospital after ho was shot last Sunday, receives the Income from one-third of tie estnto fur life. At her death the money Ib io go to chnrlty. l4irgo Apples Grown FAIRMONT. W. Va.W) The apple crop produced In tho orch ards of Mrs. W. 1'J. Unrtholow of Colon district, Marion county, this year In proving unusually lurno, In one respect ut .least. Sho has on display ono apple weighing 1 6 ounces and measuring 14 Inches In circumference, and another only an ounco lighter, which are the largest seen in this district In many years. Mnll Trlbuno ads are read b In unit titMinli evnrv rinv. tf STATE THEATRE Any Seat 15c Anytime Children under 12, 10c Shows Chango Daily TONIGHT "Fashion Madness" Featuring Olaire Windsor Also Last Episode No. 10 'Mark of the Frog' And the Yellow Cameo PATHS NEW SERIAL Featuring Ailecn Ray and Cyclono, the new dog star. W'-X J OF BUTTE FALLS; i mm IUTTK FALLS, Ore.. Nov. 10. (Special.) City officers elected ut the general election Tuesday arc: Muyor, Itod Uaker: recorder. Claude McOee; counclimen. Merle Hralnard, Kay Hpencer, Horace Ocphart. Two years ago the pupils of the fifth and sixth grades were mem bers of the Junior Red Cross. The chief aim of this organization is to promote world peace by getting to know und understand und love each other. In 1926 we wrote to a school in Kzcntes, Hungary, asking to ex change portfolios with them. On November 1, 1H28, we received a portfolio. Tho length of time re quired was due to a misunderstand ing. I'suttlly tho time requfred for art exchange of work is from two lo three months. The portfolio received Is a work of art, and is on exhibit nt the grand schuol for any who wish to see it. It has Kiven the pupils a better idea of the work, play, school life, etc., of that nation. We feel us if they woro -friends. If thero are other schools In the county who .belong to the Junior Jted Cross and who have portfolios from some foreign country, we would like to exchange with you. Our first meeting for tho new organization was held Monday. The fotlowlng officers were elected: President, Leslie Casey: secretary, Velmn Vincent; treasurer, Calvin Stoddard. . The following commit tee was appointed to collect and take charge of material fur our portfolio: Pwight Short, Mae Lee Jourgeson, Delorls Squire, Frank Llndstrom. C.I. CORVALLIH, Ore., Nov. 10. (JPi j Co-operation of educational- in- i st It ut Ions and chambers of com -1 inercG In spreading knowledge of , advantages of Oregon and the northwest was avocatcd last night by President W. J. Kerr of Ore- j gon Slate college In an address ! to tho association of chamber of ; commerce secretaries In semi annual meeting here. President Kerr said the state, in the past, has not fully appro-; clatod tho value of advertising. ' President C T. Uaker, .Medford, j head of tho association, and other V'sltlng secretaries, praised busi-, ness Institutes started hint year and asked their continuance. After; spending most of yesterday con sulting with specialist s on tlm agricultural program of the state. the secretaries today devoted time to their own business uf fairs, in-; eluding consideration of state pub-1 llcity. i Hoover Welcome. ltL'FNOS AIRES. Argentina, i Nov. 10. P) News that President elect Hoover Is planning a visit to; fc-'outh America, Including Argcn-. tlna, was well received here. The i government already Is preparing a ! .cordial welcome. TURKEYS We have $40,000 at our disposal with which to buy Dressed Turkeys for the New York Market We pay CASH when car is loaded. Three or four carloads will go out next week, the 15th, 16th and 1 7th. The New York buyer is here and the cash is here. Phone 929 or 932 for particulars and instructions. Poultry Producers Association CLAY D. PARKER, Mgr. ami KNOCKOUT PUNCH : BY VERNON WINS I FROM CARTWRIGHT Jlobby Vernon of Port land knocked out Eddie Cnrtwrlght of Los Angeleint the Armory, in the nlntlj round of a slam-bank, affair. The colored boy who led on points throughout the battle, was clipped over the heart and on the chin. "and crumpled over the ropes, in a rally by Veiyion. Both boxers mixed freely and it was a good bout with plenty of action. Cartwrlghl was the more scien tific, but after the third round seemed In constant danger of los ing his tights. It did not seem to worry him. Frankle Werneclte of Portland wuh too much for Jimmy Weir of Klamath Falls, who Is getting slightly bald. He slapped his younger foe into the ropes in the second with a wild haymaker, but after that ho covered up and let Wernecke poke him In the ribs. Finally his seconds mercifully heaved In tho towel. Mickey Itiley f this city and Sllvinl Tomascn started the show. In the first round Tomasco was floored a couple of times, and seemed to be diffident about fight ing. In tho second round, Riley went ufter him with great ferocity and was stretched out on the can vas by a chance wallop to the chin. He managed to stagger to his feet at the count of nine and weathered n shower of blows, to knock out Tomasco with a solid clout to the chin. Poncho Villa lasted half a round with Kenny Dyson, taking several Evangelistic Services Nov. 12-27 FREE METHODIST CHURCH Come Every Night and Sunday . wuUo In the stomach before the coinit. q . 'JThere was rrgood sized crowtl In atMiulunce. Kverett lirayton and I)(kt Jlowem ucted as judges and Bill L'rickson as referee. MULTNOMAH GRID HOHTLAXD, Ore., Nov. 10. (P) A tfrldlrou as wet as four days' hard ntlti could! mako It was the object of much solicitude today as painstaking plans were executed and a small army of men -endeavored to soup up the dampness be foro the Washington State college and the Unfvotvtlty of California at Los Angeles football teams took the field. Tho Kame today marked the last Pacific coast conference football match in Portland for the ; season. I Both teams were In good condi ! tion, their coaches said. Fights Last Night ( l!y the Antedated Press) DETROIT Tuffy Griffiths, ot Sioux City, la., stopped Joe An derson, Covington, Ky., (4). Kay Miller, Chicago, knocked out Lope Tenerlo, Philippines 2). Harry lObbets, Freeport. N. Y outpointed Billv Peterson. Detroit (10). WOUCKSTKIt, Alans. Harry Devine, Olympic boxer, outpointed Cap Columbo. Manila (10). OKLAHOMA CITY, Qkla. Kid Pancho. San Antonio, Tux., out pointed Joe Lucas. Detroit (12). HOLLYWOOD. Cal. Farmer Jo Cooper, Torre Haute, Ind., outpointed Miko Mayan, of San Diego (10). DILVVEIt Don Lung, Colorado Springs, outpointed Dave Popp, .Memphis (10). HAN DIKOO, Cal. Dolus 'Kid" Kvilliums, New Orleans, outpointed I Alfredo Imperial, Filipino (10). Plfl"slflrt ftrtwrttHtne' pt ritiilt REV. D. L FENNICK, D. D. A Thrilling Speaker A Master Mind A Man of Outstanding Spirituality In . t,'l 'nWC EM STRONG AS EVER The .Mottford und Ashland high school football teams clash Mun- day afternoon nt Van Scoyoc field. In their nnnual ArmbUice Day j game, and tho fires of rivalry ! burn as fiercely us of yore, in j both camps. I.nst evening stu i dents of both schools held rallies, and the .Med ford school burned 'a fiery "M" upon the sides of l The Medford .team held a hard (scrimmage yesterday afternoon, land this afternoon will go through In light drill. In preparation for II he game. There will be no over cgnfldence In the local squad, and they arc all grimly determined jto win. i The Ashland team has been de feated by Klamath Falls twice, but always puts its best foot for ward in tho .Medford games, and. In fact, have taken no other con test with any seriousness. They want to topple tho "Happy War riors" from their high perch. Ash land will probably depend en tirely on a forward passing game, as they aro outweighed. In Sonny Leedom they have one of tlu flashiest hulfbacks In the state high school circles. The game will be called at two o'clock, and Ik the main athletic feature of the local Armistice Day program. . ; ; . Xcjrro KkvMtl TOPKKA. Kan.. Nov. 10. For the second time In tho hlsiorv of Kaunas, a negro has been elect ed to the state legislature. Dr; William At. Blount of Kansas City, Kan., a Republican, was elected, representative from tho eighth legislative district, defeating James M. Meeks, Democratic nominee, by a margin of 626 votes. The dis trict Is populated by many negroes.