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-P. 0 CRAWFORD CONTKT iUDGING S
! RflURNS fRQM I J
CHICAGO VISIT: !
P. O. Crawford. vie-prfsident
and Ronrral m;inuff?r of the Cali
fornia tiicon I'uwcr company, re
turn d today from u i U t business
trip to the n.-mral ufflf of the
i. M. l: Mi sy Co.. in Chioatto.
Thi.s was Mr. Crawford's annuiil
trip to ihf home oil ice of ihe
'inp;ny for the purpose of dis
eiissinK the .po hmlK-t and
iu'iiviiit-s fur the roininfc yur and
j. he ifpoits that present' indications
point to a very satisfactory new
yi ur for Copco.
Condil hiis in CtiicaK" and the
niiddl.'WeM arc kimmI, uceorilinpr to
.l r, Crawfoi-d, who ulao reported
that he saw no evidence of "kuii-nn-n"
nr the "lead-poison in epi
demic!" which has hrouivht the
"Windy City so much notoriety
In recent mciuhs.
The weather was warm and very
Hi tie rain or nmv 'f'-U during his
Muy, indicating that the middle
west may he experiencing a "dry
winter" such as is in evidence hen;
this year.
The sensation of living on the
:;r,ih floor of the Morrison Hotel
was described by Mr. Crawford,
who was able to 'look down" on
many of Chicago's skyscrapers for
the first time, lie was nearly us
high in elevation as one of Chi
cago's powerful air beacons which
was located on a huge tower near
by. The Morrison Motel is one of
the tallest' in the world with 42
stories to its creilit.
Mr. Crawford said that he rec
ommended a 4S-ltour day for visi
tors to Chicago in order that they
might be able to keep up with the
hurried trend of their daily rou
tine. -
Outdoor Christmas HglHing is
very popular iA the east and mid
dle west, according to the Copco
executive, who reported .seeing
many beautifully lighted cities en
route to Medfonl.
in closing! -Mr. Crawford said
that he was very glad to return to
Medfonl, which is still the best
city of its size in America.
Homemade cakes, fruit cake and
plum pudding. Marsh Cirocery.
Our Sincere Wish
To Our Many Friends-
A Merry
Christmas !
This Bank
DifY, Tuesday, December 25. 0
Due to the unfavorable weather
! condition, the c o m m 1 t t e e in
I charge of the Christmas Outdoor
I Lighting contest, has announced
i that judging wtlnot begin until
I Wednesday, December C, continu
, ing until New Vear's day. This
I will give local residents plenty of
j time to rearrange any displays.
Jwhih have been disturbed by the
j wind and rain and give everyone
I an equal chance in the. contest.
Local people are again urged to
, enter their names and trddresses
1 at the Chamber of Commerce at
,onco if they euro to take part :n
:this contest. Those displays which
are not registered will not bo
judged and will therefore not
I bo considered in the nwarding of
, the four attractive prizes which
! are offered through the courtesy
of the California Oregon l'ower
'company, Medford Electric Co..
I Southern Oregon Kleruic and the
( People's Electric store.
! FOR CHRISTMAS DAY
John H. Carkln, chairman of
the slate tax commission, which
has been In session all week at
Portland, and who acted as me
diator to that body on the state
incomo tax, which was recom
mended to the legislature, will
return home in th morning to
spend Christmas at home. Carkin
did not vote on the incomo tax
proposition.
it is 'expected that the local
attorney will he busy upstate be
tween now and the opening of the
legislature, conferring and con
sulting on the tax program, and
getting ready for the final pre
sentation of the tax commis
sion's report.
Regular Communication, i
llenme.s Chapter O. K. K.,
Wednesday evening. Past !
.Matrons' night ami so-;
H ATT IE M. AI.UEX. Secy.:
clal
NNEYC0
Wishing You the Merriest
CHRISTMAS
You Ever Had!
The spirit of peace and good will which
brings all mankind closer together, may
it live on each year cementing more
firmly the bonds of universal friendship.
will remain closed all day
Jackson County Bank
Established 1888
O O
OPERA SINGER TO
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CHICAGO. Dec. 1. ll'i The
life of Mary Garden Is Kolng to be
an open book.
Hut not quite yet. Her memoirs
will not be published while a few
persons, who will be mentioned or
are mentioned (the hook already
Is started) are still living, yaid the
tit an-haired grand opera singer.
She returned yesterday from her
villa at lieaulleii. Prance.
She hns completed several chap
ters of her memoirs and the whole
SAFETY IN KABUL
NEW DEUll, India, lion. 24.--(A1)
Women and children having
been evacuated by plane from the
British legation at Kabul. Afghan
istan, which was threatened by
. rebels, other legations at Kabul
today requested liritish assistance.
Further airplanes were dispatched
from Peshawar on the Indian
frontier HiO miles distant, to
evacuate foreign women and chil
dren. Jt was reported that for three
days the British legation was iso
lated between the rebel and the
royal forces. The rebels have
been repulsed from the close vi
cinity of the legation. It Is
thought (jucen Souriya and the
queen mother have gone to Kan
dahar. - 1
A report, that King Amanullah
left Kabul for Kandahar also 1h
meeting with growing disbelief in
New Delhi.
CHRISTMAS
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Wm - ! DATES ANNOUNCED CONFESSES
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PUBLISH MEMOIRS
v ; 1
r:.!ti)K
i book is going to be "very frank
; No Isadora Duncan revelation as
for lov" affairs, however, as Alary
I scorns live interest,
j "Love, pouf! I am not so very
i interested in love. There are so
! many other thrilling things in tin1
world. Truly. I have not had so
many love affairs; well, perhaps
one or two. Mai.s oui, I shall write
of them in my book."
She will make her first appear
: a nee in opera here in "Sappho,"
i January 2.
IN TAX CLASS OF
NATIONAL BODIES
PORTLAND, Ore. Pec. 24. (VP)
State? banks are in the same posi
tion as any other lax payer of the
county In regard to collection of
taxes, Federal Judge !can ruled
today. He alio we'd a motion to
dhaniss the suit of the Canadian
P.ank of Commerce, the t 'iti-zens'
Dank, the 'ilibernia Commercial I
and Savings ItanU'and the Security!
Savings and Trust c o m p a n y j
against Sheriff F. M . Illirlbiirt, tax'
collector of Multnomah county.
The plaintiffs. Judge I twin ruled
.are not In the .same clnss for pur
poses of taxation as national i
banks. If exception can be made
In the case of state banks, then
any other person with taxable pro
perly may appeal on the same
grounds, and a serious detriment
to the public will result, the court
held.
The hanks, In n suit lo restrain
Sheriff Hurlburt from taxing their
property, alleged that county taxa
tion was a violation of the I'nlted
States and Oregon state const i tu
ions. Five days were allowed the
banks in" which to file a new hill.
SALKM. Ore., Dec. 24. (R
Junking the battleship "Oregon"
Is recommended In a resolution
adopted by the Polk county school
officers at the annual meeting held
in Dallas Saturday with 50 dele
gates representing the 70 districts
in the county.
Fewer laws, more simple means j
of sc hool supervision and lesser I
expenditure of money for public I
purposes where any extravagance
has been shown were urged in
other resolutions. DorIh 1 a t o r h
should be held rcsponsllne for such
expenditures, the school leaders
believe. Reduction of the two
elementary school fund Is not fa
vored while the Americanization
work is tk-plred and cooperation
pledged.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Receive Radio Word
CKrist mas Greeting
Mr. nnd Mm. C. II. How-
9Wnd received n radio Christ-
jHMims greeting message Sunday
; from their son. JJetitcnant
i C. If. Howard, who Is in the
! government aviation nervlce
at the Panama Canal zone.
The metiage wan picked up
by n KuKene radio station
4 and mailed to Mr. nnd Mm.
Howard. Thin kind of a
fhrfMtm.i gieetlnjt in cer-
tainly untmtiat. '
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nu mm
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HOMi; Dec. i,V All the
cardinals resident in Home called
upon Pope Pius today to present
their Christmas greetings, in ac- ;
cordatue with century-old tradi
tion. The pontiff, who this year com- ;
plett.l fifty years if his ministry. :
toin-hod on the illne.et of King
Ceoiue and the apparent averting!
of hostilities between Parauuay
and Pitiivia in his addis to the
carclinal. i
Of King Ceorge, the pope said:
"We have been afraid and prayed
lor the life of a sovereign who
came so courteously to isit us
here, a sovereign in whose empire,
the largest In the world, so ninny
million of Catholics live and pros
per in all forms of a Ca:hollc's life,
as the eucliaristic congress at Aus
tralia so recently has shown. We
have feared and prayed for the
life of this sovereign who has
shown himselr so well disposed and
b.Mieolent toward all these Catho
lics, and now divine Providence
seems to confirm us in our hope
of his early ret urn to perfect
health. "'
MAKsllFIKI.n, Ore., Hoc. L'l.
j(P)-.Hen H. Fisher, Oregon depart
ment commander of (he American
legion today announced dales of
district conferences and mass meet
ings in l. held in the state dur
ing the next two months. The
meetings will also Include n school
of insiruciion lor officers nt local
posts.
The meelinifa will im ua r.iiiou
Kiwetic!, January 17; Cranls Pass.
Jiintiary in; CorpiHio, Jantiarv lil.
Hi) vert on .liitnmrv - V.n.O. ,
.lanmity t ; Oregon (Mty. January
.'sioria, .lanuary iw Prinevnie,
February Kl : Wasco, February I I;
llHrmiatnn, Fehruury la; Wallowa,
February Hi; John Day, February
lJi and Ontario, February 111.
TO BOX CHICAGO
CI I1C A CO. Dee. 24. (VP) Dos
ing In Chicago has perked up, fol
lowing announcement that three
contenders for the heavyweight
title have been signed to box
here.
Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia,
wornTs light heavyweight cham
pion, has signed to meet the best
heavyweight obtainable before
March 31, while JueV Sharkey.
I tost on and Johnny Itlsko, the
bounding Cleveland baker, have
signed, with Matchmaker Jim Mul
len of the Chicago Coliseum ath
letic club.
lilsko has signed. Mullen an
no ti need to meet the winner of
the match between Joe Sekyra
Dayton Ohio, and "Cuban Hobby" '
Drown, Philadelphia, scheduled for
.lanunry 4. Sharkey bun agreed
to meet anyone In a bout Janu
ary 18.
RENO, Nov.. Dec. 2 1 - fP St 11 1
ttailing MImh K it t li McConiicI
ncroHH the continent, K. li. Koxv
lian, Onmhti aviator, took olf from
(ho Reno airport nt 8: ir a. m. to
day for Salt Lake City. He brought
MIsh McConnell and Dr. D. O.
Meoltcr to Keno Salurtluy night
ami they departed it few hours
Inter by .train, for Ogden. Itowhau
remained here. When he left this
morn in ? he declined to Htate
whether he was -to meet the two
In Salt Lake City or expected to
fly back to Omaha alone.
COQCHJ-1-:. Ore., Dec. 24.Wf
Dud McOowan, captured Cocpillle
bank robber, waived hearing bo
fore Justice J. J. Stanley this morn
ing, nnd was held to the grand
Jury under $20,000 bond, officers
announced tha tcvidence prencnted
to the grnnd Jury will determine If
charges additional to Intent to rob
will he placed uniilut him.
foniuiiiniiy Tm.
ItFfcDHPOUT, the., Dec. 24.
(!') More than 1000 persona nt
ti tided Christ ma m programn given
around n community ChrlKtmar
tree on Main street hero Thurs
day nnd nt a community church
party Friday night. Five hun
dred (" children received present
amid colorful Htirroun'dlbgs.
iliilli-l Alive
AfC'K!-ANI. N. Y... Dir. 34. (JPl
HhoiittriK "ThlH'll ilo mo." u nilriiMp
urmI. uiii'lpntiflt'd man Iwipfd Into
of the world fjimoiiH ThiTin:ri
Klon n-ftr hvro ycKU'l-'jv. Ilo whs
hnil.'il alive I)ffii' Hi-i-tnlorH rc
rnvrrcd his body with Kruppltng
Irons.
U S EXPERTS TO 5jisRf!9
1 SETTLING
WASUlNCiTOX. Hoc. 21. uVi
The Washington goveriru-'nt today
gave its assent to the appointment
of American experts to serve upon
the expert cminiltee in the settle
meat of the t'lirnmii n-parai i"ti-;
ith the ntiderstandim: I bat the
American representatives 'are to l
chosen and appointed by the allied (
and tier ma u over n merits. ,
The American position oil thi
H ues t ion u as outlined late today '
by Secretary Kellogg in Sir Kmmc ;
Howard, the P.ritirdi aniba-s.ui.o . j
who earlier In the day had pre- .
settled to the .state depart nu n: ,
head an inquiry as to whether the j
I'niled Slates would participate in '
the negotiations.
After the ambassador's call, See-,
retary Kellogg conferred with
President Coolnle and the answer,
of the Washington government was.
communicated to Sir Esine How
ard within two hours of the time
he had made the impiiry.
El'OENE. Ore.. Hec. M. (l'
j Police an nou need t hat Walter
Butler, a senior in journalism.
confessed thai he was the mysteri
ous prowler who bad entered sev
eral sorority houses recently on
the I'nlversily of Oregon campus.
Butler is being held on an open
cha rge. I n I he confession But lor
said be entered the houses "with
out authority of any inmates, after
dark, and for, the purpose of an
noying the members," and for get
ting food.
Itcyal Prodigy
Bl'C'l I A K lr.ST. Dec. IM. f1't -Seven
year old King Mihal attend
ed the christening of a big locomo
tive named Jitter him and was told
how it works, lie astounded tho!;c
present by explaining In detail how
in comparison, an electric locomo
tive runs, lie was given a minia
ture electric locomotive for Christ-
h
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TODAY ' F0R 3 -BIG DYS HsH
The King of AH Western Stars Makes a H JH
Triumphant Return in His Master Production
"The Dead wood
Coach"
If there is a thrill left in you and if you love to stop
back to those days of American Pioncors here is
the 'entertainment for you. Filmed in the exact
locale the Black Hills of South Dakota..
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