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Medfoed Mail T The Weather Temperature Ml'nir tonljtlil and Wednesday wllli fog in rarly iimriuivc: nn.Tini liii I'loiidini'Ns Wcdiu-ihiy. llltiltvst yesterday ."V2 IrfiueM tills Hloi'lllllK 1!) Dallr tTvrntjr-fourih Yrr. ffkj Fif ty-elftiUi Year. TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD, OKEtiONY 'lTKNDAV. XOVKMUKli No. i:u. VI. l!)Ji). "i- Today jFRUlT MEN By Arthur Brisbane ffTU MffT 3000 Miles in 30 Minutes Arkansas Wonder Kicker. Tha Little Man. : ' RaBbit for Underwear. -W(CopyriBht by King Feature! . Syndicate, Inc.) On mi island in I lie Baltic, Germany V able Professor ObtM'th will experiment with liijrh altitude rockets. Using for fuel benzine ami liquified oxygen, the rockets will go up 50 .miles into what Professor Oberth calls "planetary space." It is believed that such rock ets, stcred by robot gyroscope pilots, descending lightly, re trained by automatic para chuts, will carry mail from Ber lin to New York in 30 minutes. Twenty-five dollars' worth of fuel will carry l:j00 letters. The s.ume rocket bodv can be used WO times. Julest Verne never j thought of that scientific pos sibility. I j Arkansas is a wonderful state, gigantic resources, only half appreciated by Arkansas: marvelous future, able citizen ship. ' One thousand newspapers will talk of Arkansas now, 'not because of the slate's greatness, but because a young l.'i.l-pound 'Arkansan, B. F. lirogden, play ing against the Osceola high .school team, kicked nine con secutive goals for points after touchdowns. In the world's records no such kicking appears. The Car negie Foundation will want to know how much the big col leges will offer ynungAh'' Brog. Men. Whatever they offer, he will be worth if. Wluit eliance have we, tin? lillle men, individual store keepers ask. reading that 4S jlialn stores in Oetober took in more tliun .24!),O(M).O0O about .tCiO.OOO.OOO more than' in last Oetober. The crowding out v,-ni,pss 's not new. One loeoniotive engi neer does tile .work of (H)0 stage e.oaeh drivers. Yet. com paratively well paid engineers are more numerous than conch drivers ever were. business more highly organ ized, selling for less, makiiii; more profit by efficient distri bution, will givc jnany and bet r.rr opportunities to the .small merchant. The period of tran sition will be painful. Hut then is no use in fighting tlie stream. Uo with it. (loot! news for rabbit bived- (Continued on Pitge Kour) "(iiT, I'll IM'I Mm. .lohli OmI IiIkc 'II Imtc t rrnul nut n cH brrMkCnM n fknve moi-nlii' Hkn tt!l." wld Mm. Ufp Hud. t(Mkl out tho window nt t)i flnl MUHitl o thi lHfluliriil Mg lilur ltmniilm- uilli nly mvpii imj mpiit ,u k U" Mlrn fnm In front o tln rn Thnrp Intmo lnt iilylil. 1 T 11 Leading Sections of Coast Will Be Represented Pear Growers to Discuss Problems Each Evening Winter Pear Committee and League Directors Meet Today. Opening sessions of the 50th an- until meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural association will be held here tomorrow with delegates ni-Duoitl Prnnt thu losidinir frnlt. ' growing sections of the Pacific coast In attendance. Addresses will be presented by speakers from the agricultural and horticultural de partments of the University of Call- j fornia, the University of Washing-1 ton, the Oregon State college, and heads of fruit growers' marketing organizations and Rogue (liver cal ley growers. It is expected that 300 fruit men will attend the meeting and that It will he the largest attended of lis kind in many years. Ill conjunction with the horticul tural meeting, but apart, will be the meeting each evening of dele gates from the pear growing dis tricts of the Pacific coast to dis cuss the feasibility of an all-coast advertising campaign portraying the glories of pears. These ses sions will be In the nature of fo rums. Pear Committee Meets Tile Winter Pear Committee David II. Wood, chairman met with the directors of the Kruitgrow ers' league this afternoon at the Hotel Med ford. The purpose of the meeting is to make a complete re port on the Detroit Bosc pair cam paign to date and to consider the policy pt the local fruit Industry, in connection with the all-coast ad vertising plaiCas proposed, but still In Ilie Incubn'tlon stale. The program for the horticultu ral meetings was arranged and pre pared by' tho program committee posed of the following local- fruit men: David Rosenberg, chairmnn; Paul Scherer and Albert Burch, with II. Van Iloevcnberg. Jr., act ing in an e-officio and advisory capacity; and Prof. Clayton Long of the Oregon State college acting as secretary, an .office he holds wllh the Oregon Horticultural as sociation. A persistent and errone ous report slated that tho program was "inspires. '- mid hinted at dire political significance. Program Varied The program for tomorrow fol lows: Wednesday, November 13 10:00 A. M Address of welcome Albert Ilurch, president of the Fruitgrowers' league. 10:15 A. SI. -President's address H. Van Hnevenberg, Jr. 10:30 A. M. "Present Kconoinlc Status of Pear Industry" Dr. S. W. Shearer, University of Cali fornia. Discussion. 11:30 A. M. "Cost of Producing Pears" U S. Hesse, Oregon Stale college. 1:30 P. SI. "Looking Ahead in the Pcnr Industry" Dr. S. V. Shear er. University of California. Discussion. 2:30 P. M. "Orderly Distribution" David H. Rosenberg. Medford. 3:00 P. M "Kind'ig New Mar kets'David It. Wood. Medrord. 3:30 P. M. "Methods of Advertis ing Pears" Hen D Dixon, adver tising specialist. Discussion. i 7:45 P. M. "Possibilities of Adver Using on a ljirge Scale" Open fornpi for the delegates, growers' organizations. RE-ENACTS SCENE MIi;. N. J., Xv. 1 r.luilyft Miiy I'nrkf". ulna knuwn 11 "Mr. l;nktM' whs today nuUJrrt'd ti I ho p'vci"ift f rlfH t mhi? line untcrKm? lnrc tlw t'iimd'n, fiuthfilttios In-Run In tHt the "cnti-f'!-ljn" .hr haw niiuln t f f'-'t their chiiiRt that thj munlprPil two rhlMifn. . Sho vfH coniiollf(1 n (ncp many of her former nHKhhorn, and llptr-n to th'fr thrratt'ninn comim-nt. wltpn tf wm tnkfti to Hip Cam den Hu.H In which On- lilt H? onw, t-hlldren of Alan HnKer. a Woiid hiiry .nfinanro man, in ft death. For forty minute Hhe wax kept In a pollr ftutomohlle nutide the hntiiiv wliere four year old Dorothy Hotter rante to htr nd. from whaiMlM 1'arkn difcribe In her ronfewion a n 'lati" n th fare. Then phe wan tken Into the Archbishop Visits Grave of Miracle Cures for Shrine MAI.DK.V Musx., N'nv. 12 ITN WiMiiini CanUiifll OVonnell, Roman Catholic nrchhtshop of lioston. today vlHltPil Holy CrosM cemetery whore, nt the khivo of the Itev. Pat rick Hower, thous ands have nought relief from the bodily ills. .Hundreds had Kii t liered at the cemetery even before dawn. The cardinal's visit was a Hiirprlse. No unnutinceinent had been made known. It has been predicted unoffic ially, however, that ' some steps might be taken to cre ate u permanent shrine and to provide means for orderly worship at father J 'ewer's trrnvp. STATE ASSN. OF Twenty Million Dollars Left) in Oregon By Tourists) Last Year, Is Statement of Secretary To Dance at Rogue Elk. Apparently $20,000,000 wero ex pended in the state of Oregon by tourist travel during the past year, according to a report made at the opening session two days' conven tion of the Oregon Auto Camp as sociation In the auditorium of the .Merrick auto camp by Secretary Cliuton A. Amoroso of Portland this morning. This, he said.' was an estimate made atier an attempted check made on tourist travel by the state association. Tourist travel increased during tho past year and a registration ot 89,000 cars was recorded by the secretary of state during the pant nine mouths, he said. Mr. Ambroso stressed tho importance or improv ing conditions In tho Oregon auto camps and raising the standards to meet the requirements of the most discriminating tourists. This, he said, would do much to increase torn 1st travel and to encourage the outsider to linger in the state than any other factor.. Issue Motor Guide , Steps have been taken during the piist year to place in the hunds of the tourist public on the Pacific coast a" trimotor guide, giving to the traveler a list of the better auto camps in the states of Oregon, Washington and California. At the same time a definite campaign has been Inaugurated to better the con ditions in the camps belonging to the association so as to make them worthy of the recommendations of the UHHoelatlon. Ilecognizing the value of tlie ser vice rendered to the Oregon as sociation by the camp owners of Washington and California, the lo cal atute officers, according to Mr. Ambrose, are now attempting to co operate and work with the mem bership of these two states. H. M. Sievert of Portland, presi dent of the association, presided at the opening session this morning Registration and secretary's re port were the only Hems of busi ness handled. Approximately 5 auto camps in the state of Oregon wero represented here at tho open ing of the afternoon ssHlon, with good will visitors in attendance from the state of California. Most of the delegates having ar rived here by motor yesterday and last night, took up lodglugH ut the various auto camps In and near Medford. Dance Tonight The delegates will leave late this afternoon In caravan for Kogue Klk where the. official convention din ner dance will be held af 0:30. Among those who had registered by 11 o'clock this morning are the following': AM States auto camp. Portland: J. H. Massen, Ever Shady Hiito pHik, .rcdford; Mr. and Mrs. CI. N. Htrntty. Portland West Side; Allen Hooker, While Cabin auto camp. Ashland: Carl K. (ireen, state hoard of health, Portland; H. S. Shaw, Phipps auto fservlce. Med rord Mrs. W. C. DcLavy. Anlauf auto Park. Anlnut: O A. (ilea. Cherry City cottages. Salem; O. A. dishing. NelKcoth. Ore.: Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Putnam. Hlue Soose camp. Sacramento, fill. : Aoron Hughel, Grants Pass auto park; II. M. Seivprt, Portland anto camp; .!. C. Ottingcr. Jackson Hot Springs; Karl C. Hurk. Riverside auo park, Salem; A. A. Solvers. Portland auto ramp; (i. V Sabln, Oregon Caves; C. A. Krlckxon. Mount Sexton, (Irants Pass; Mr. and Mr". A. P. U;rch. Portland; Mrs. Winifred Putnam. Yuba City, Cal.; Stuart Todd, Ia) Angeles. housi. ho Hint she might re-rnart for Proswutor Clifford A. Baldwin and the Camden city and county dteritve the manner of Horo thy death. sText he whs taken to a houe on Burns street where whe wild Timothy, two yearn old. was kilted by a fall down a Rtaln. CAf OWNERS GARDEN CLUBSDRY DEPUTY TO ! ! a am A. A. m mm mwm m MB m A Vm, nnru nj.rrT.iini m pi imi1 m i imm iidkmim i n l fHU IVI r I-1 1 IMI.IIM I.I IIMUrlV I II 111 Tnl.M KM n In III Ul Lll ITILLI lllU 111 uui 1 1 1.1 1 1 iui 1 i I'luuu lua uu IN CAPITAL ENFORCEMENT ROW Associated 'teas I'hoto Interest in controversy over law enforcement in Washington centers in decision of Senator Smith W. Brookhart (right) to go before grand jury to support his charge that liquor was served at dinner for senators. Senator Cole Li Blease of South Carolina may be called to furnish information on his charge that liquor Is sold in capitol. HEAR EXPERTS Prof. Peck and. Dr. Sulligerj Oklahoma Raider Who Slew On Program Luncheon I Farmer in Bitter Denun Held for Delegates Hor- j ciation of Witnesses As ticultural Assn. Meeting! Long Sentence Heard--Opens Wednesday. Deny New Trial. With an lUtondance of K0, tho meeting of the Garden cluus of Oregon opened this uficrnoon in the IocIkc room of the Klks tempi.. Prof. Peck of Oregon State collego talked upon home landscaping. lo declared that simplicity and direct ness were greatly to be desired, and that "psychology was a hand maid of pleasing home planting." Curves about tho home, and in the wulks and drive should bo Justi fied, and "when used should leavo the impression of naturalness.' Prof. Jv;ck Illustrated his lute: esting talk with a chalk black board. Sessions of the (.Jarden clubs of Oregon, western and Boiithern di visions opened here this after noon, with represontiitlves from the Illinois Valley club of Jose phine county, U rants Pass. Hose burg. Ashland, Klamath Falls, the Rogue Iilver valley, and this city in attendance. Speukei's at the meeting were Prof. Peck, landHctfpe expert of the Oregon State college ut Cor-1 vallls and Dr. SulllKer of Seattle, i Wash., member of the. Jtoyal' Horticultural society, and curator of the Portland rose test -gar-i den. ' He spoke on "ltoao Cul ture." A luncheon was held this noon at tho Hotel Medford for the vis iting delegates. Tho Garden elub'H session is the preliminary meeting of the 50tn annual meeting of the Oregon State Horticultural association. which opens tomorrow for a threel days' session. The Garden clubs J of OreKop recently became affll-j lated with the Horticultural hu clety. I The meeting Is being held In the Klks' Temple, convening thlsu ufternoon at two o cluck. The committee on arrangements is composed of M is. 1 1 . Schoeii pen. M is. Ua vld Rosenberg, .M rs. Will hi in Kheppnrd, and M rs. Her'. Ijowry. besides the two talks, there wiU be a genernl discussion of flower; rulture. There will be no bust-1 ness transuded. Mrs. Hrl A. Hwi-t gar', president ut the .Medford i (iardn club, presbled. BE HEARD TOMORROW SAN FUAXCISCO, Cal., Nov. 12. (VP) One of the great railroad battles of the present generation one involving II railroads and 1" states will open in San Francisco tomorrow. The interstate commerce commission will begin hearing ar guments on' the petitions of th-j Ureal Northern and Western Pa rifle railroads to unite their track system by building 20 miles of new line In northeastern Cal I Torn la. OREGON STATE STUDENT INJURED BY AUTOMOBILE (MjIIVa IAAH, Ore.. Nov. 1 2. ' Louis Kichardson, Olcndale, Cal.. j sopnomorH hi hip wregon rtaie college, was Injured seriously bint night when he was struck" on .i crow-country run by an automo bile driven by Harry Kline. HIIU boro. Ittcbardson wan knocked unconscloun. , MrownsvllI) Itlalto theater opened to public recently. YEARS IS ORDER CHANDLF.It. Oklu.. Nov. 1. iP) Jeff Harris, deputized federal liquor raider, was sentenced to 50 years in the state penitentiary to day by Judge Hal Johnson In dis trict court, for the murder of Oscar Ijiwery. Pottawatomie coun ty farmer, during u raid on the hitter's farm. Harris was convicted here two weeks ago, Harris.. In a bitter statement be fore rho court." said Tie" never could forgive, the witnesses who testified he Knot howery without provoca tion. He said he hoped the wit nesses some day would find them selves in IiIh predicament. Rcfore ' pronouncing sentence Judge Johnson overruled a motion for a new trial. Harris also Is charged with the murder of James Harris, I'iwery's brother-lnlaw. Itoth men were killed last July 4 on the James Harris farm J miles southeast of Tecumseh. W. W. (Snake) Thomason, fed eral prohibition enforcement agent who led the raid in which the men were killed, faces trial in federal court on a charge of killing James Harris. Tho federal court refused to take Jurlsdict.'on In the Jeff Harris case but assumed jurisdic tion of Thomason's. -t ' Nationalists Force Retreat to Tengfeng -7 Hundred Thousand Build Trenches One Thousand Casual ties Arrive at Hankow. SHANGHAI, China. Nov. 1J (P) Japanese press dispatches from Hankow today slated that national ist troops had scored a victory over the rebellious "people's army" at Mihsleii. Ilonan province, driv ing back the Kuominchiin forces 'J.'j in lies westward to Teimfeng. The "people's army" was said to be entrenching nt Tengfeng. The dispatches said tho national ists had captured Mlhsien only aft er Incurring heavy losses, and that ihy now are throwing in all pos sible reserves. The advices anticl pitted a still more sanguinary battle at Tengfeng. "One hundred thousand of the Kuominchiin are entrenching about Hie city." said the press reports. "The nationalists are racing a ler rlflc task to capture the place, as the terrain favors the defender. Chalng Kai-Shek, nationalist com mander, accompanied by a German military adviser, Is remaining at the front. One thousand wounded national ists arrived at Hankow and also Htod Kuominchiin prisoners who were Interned nt Wuchang. Two shiploads of wounded nationalists are reported to have arrived at Woo-Sung. near here. Cn verified ostium ten from Hun Kuw stated that each side had lost 10.0'tO killed In the battle of Mill Men. i PEOPLES ARMY PREPARING FOR BLOODY BATTLE PI AMD Tfl!.! ELIMINATE Lobby Quiz Hears Purported j Scheme Hold Southern j States in Line By Electing ! Colored Democrats to i Congress From Northern! Districts Plan. . -Letter Tells oi WASHINGTON. Nov. H!.- Pl j The senate lobby committee today , began inquiry Into reported plans to organize a southern Republican eouneil "to hold in line" the south ern states, and among other ex hibits placed hi the record whs a j letter under the nitme of J. A. j Arnold, manager of tlie Southern j Tariff association, discussing the j place of the negro in soiulicru t politics. j In addition a document Intro- t duced into the record, which pur ported to give plans of the South ern Republican council, snld, "t:ie negroes In southern Republican j politics can best be eliminated j through tlie election of negro Democrats to congress from St. Louis, Chicago, Harlem and other colored districts." It added that "this matter Is In capable hands." The letter under Arnold's mime was addressed to Vance M use, a field man of the tariff association. lief ore presentation of this let ter. Chairman Caraway had asked Arnold if he had assisted in or ganization of the Republican Council which was projected, the chairman added, "to hold n line" southern slates. Arnold testified he had nothing to do witli the for mation of the council. 1-eiter Head The letter as placed in tlie rec ord reud: "1 went with the darkey toduy to see Vice-President Curtis and he thought well of our negro eon reHMinau ,-tdeUy.but -siiid It was u nmtLcr that should be taken up with .Mr.. Hoover and that he would talk wllh Hoover about It. They all seem to want to get HoL-ver'a idea about It firsj?. Curtis said he thought of getting a better grade of negroea to lead in the south but I told" him that would be the complete remedy, "Our line of approach Is much more acceptable to politicians and to negroes of equalizing by black ening the Democratic party than by whitening the i Republican party; the negroes will go In revolt over the plan of kicking them out of the party or of leadership; they will have to tako themselves out of the way for tlie present. Kncx Problem "Our talk Is down the race prob lem line; they all see that the race problem must be solved first be foro anything further can be done. We have the best solution yet. "Think you should get Dr. Lewis here on tho loth and start some thing; we will never get anywhere talking around In circles; if neces sary to see Hoover before It starta off then go see him and get his decision." Ur. Lewis was Identified by Caraway as Or. Hurdgett K. Icwls of Jacksonville, but Arnold assert ed he did not recall who he was. Later Arnold testified Aluse had wanted to form "some sort of or ganization, but nothing came of it." Another l-tter to .Muse under Arnold's name and dated Decem ber 17, 1H2X, was placed In the record. It mild Arnold talked with Kenator Waisoti of Indiana, the Republican lender, about the coun cil ujid that he was "furious" over the activity of Glenn Skipper, Republican national commit tee man from Clorida. RETURN CHECK FORGER j IN GRANTS PASS CASE j CHAXTH IMHH. Ore, So. V2. an juilfimnliilo from n finitn I 'mm lee ler by rii'Mtrm of a wort litem Hn-rk, A. I', l.uiHluain, t'ortIint, wii retinneii to Josephine eolinlv j tiirbiy from Tik-imimi, Vah, Me j wai nrreteil lii "iihlnton fol lowlntf lufoi niHlion furnished ) the Mherlff here. GRANTS PASS SUSPECT IS RETURNED TO CELL C It A NTH I'AHM. (lie.. Nov. 12. tA' Klee on I, Sr.OWt (i, TiXetl hy H Jumiee of ief.i;e, ll.irry Chit, ill hiieil roilliltlil Ktife Mower. v;i liuek Jn the .JoHfphlne eon nt y Jrill today hy oi ie fl nf JiHe 11. , Norton, who i-hIk.-iI the hall to $ 1 -Vi" i. MOTOR TROUBLE HOLDS INGALLS AT PENDLETON I'KNUI.KTON. Ore., Nov 12. il'l Knglno trouble today prevent ed David H. lugalls, assistant secre tary or the navy, and Ills parly from leavlnx I'endlcton. The parly flew to Pendleton late yesterday. NO 1 f ! 1' ix.vocintnl I'rf.vs I'liotO Thomas .Miami. STOCKHOLM.-Nov. U'. t') Thomas .Maun, widely known Gei-I nu n novelist, whose best known I work is "The .Magic .Mountain." has been awarded ths year's Nolnd prize for literature. Among those whose names pave been mentioned hh possible candi dates for the prize were Sinclair Lewis mid Thornton Wilder. Amer ican writers; Gilbert K. Chest er ton and John Galsworthy of Great Itritain: .Maxim Gorky, the Rus sian; Guplictmo Kerrero. the Ital ian, and Krieh Remarque, Germ m writer. SEEN AS CLUE IN S. PJjOLDUP. Garment Discarded in Flight Found Near Scene Laundry Mark and Label Traced Engineer Re covering. From Burns.-,- I.OH A.VUJjl.KH, Nov. 12. UP) tfriirrh, biiNeil on t'luea unearthed yi'Hterduy, ceiiunvd huru today for olio of the ioI)mm'h who wrecked 'i mlhern Pacific paxMctiKcr train in Xoledi-.tl canyon, 40 milcx north of here, Sunday nlltt. A coat, evidently diecarded hi flhrht by the rohher, invefttlKators tatd, had fitrnlnlied them with his name. Identity of the HUKpect w 14 not revealed, hut officer said he wuh believed to he hldlllK In l.o AllKelea. One of the robberB wore a Kt'ity cunt with a trlanuular tear In the hack. The coat, (Uncovered near the Hcene, which inemherH of ti quickly organized pomhv mild thoy kuw on(f the robbera dlHcard, wuh identified by the tear. A laundry mark and ft Cincinnati, Ohio, label were the only eluea found in tile coat. Tho mark wuh traced.. Within a Hhort time, lifter the wreck, a coatlCHH man wan observ ed driving an automobile toward I.OM AtiKelc.i from tfaiiKUft. near the scene. Officers said they believed lie was the robber who plotted tnc "wild west holdup." KiiKlneer It. C. Hall, the only person Injured, -was recovering In a hospital from burns Inflicted hy escaping steam In hjs cub. Attend ants said he still was unable to mat(e a stalemcnt. I WIFE OF ACTOR l,lH ANfiKhKS. Nov. I L'.- (fP) I ml lent Ion thai Sholhy Worm 11 i Homerwet, wife nf Pat Hnmermt, ' former KnwIiMh net or. may nut i havir illeil i in in n heart ntluek iih i he lie veil, wero K'ven toihiy after the county Hiiitenii had performed nil imtopyy. Me ordered a eh em leal 'iiiiulynis of the vital uiuhtin of tlie i former Tex ax heiiuty. wlio tiled hi ht-r fch-ep hi4-! niclil. t 'oruMcr Frank Nmiee unld (lie j autopsy revenh-d rdiKlit heart I telniiH, hut that t he enmity ur ';;eon h;il not heen atinfled that I I hee ratiseil dent h. I r. Uerherl W. Willi, phyh lun for Mim. Som ei fi-t had exretMe(t t he opinion Mho had tiled of heart dUeape. Mo refiiHi'd to Iki a death eertlfieate heeiiUHo he wiih not preeU tit tho time nf death. Ih Wall wuh called to the home hy Hntnerxet, who found hix wifi-H llfelfMN body in hod yeMerday. Nu nee mIko reporM'il that n "pinkish" condition wiih found fin iind the ahdoiiiintil i r k n n whh h he explained Mnmotlme ln dlcatcd I hi pi exelii'n of polMon. AmityHlKh Hrhon, Kymnawliim UedUntod recontly. BANDIT'S GOAT N IN MYSTERY DEATH SIOCK LIST 10 DEPTHS Brief Rally Fails in Early Session Heavy Trading Ticker Again Swamped Bank Stocks Also Feel Downward Tendency Distress Liquidation Be lieved Cause. MOW YORK, Nov. 12. (P) Prices of leading stuckH brokn sharply to new low levels for the year on .the New York stock ex change today when tho hiief rally which followed an opening decline quickly petered out. Scores of is sues were carried down $1 to t'M a share while American Express, making first appearance since Jan nary 1, dropped $106 a shnre below the previous quotation to $205. Total sales In the first two hours wero 4.234.000 shares as contrasted with 1.644,000 in tho same period yesterday, with the ticker running nearly an hour behind the market.. New-ilow records for the year wero Established , by nearly 100 stocks. The list included U. S. Steol common, American C'nii, Cien oral Electric, International Harves ter, National Hlscult, Scars Hoe buck, International nuslnoss Ma chines, Western Union, May Depart ment Stores, Clllotto Safety Razor, Commercial Solvents. Air Reduc tion, Warren Bros., First National Stores, American Power Light. Northern Pacific, Central Railroad of New Jersey, New York Central and Missouri Pacific preferred Partial " recoveries took piaca from the low levels In the last hour. ' Bank Stock Hit Bank stocks, traded on the over tho counter market, declined pre cipitately in sympathy with the break on the stock .market. Na tionality closed nt $21(1 bid. $2lS' asked, off $76; First National clos ed at $4300-$4400,,off $100. Guar anty Trust final quotations Worn $r!)0$800. off $20, and Chase Na tional $150-$162, off $10. - ' - Today's break, like most of those which have preceded It, wna not as sociated with any development in the day's business or financial news. Wall Street brokers generally- accepted the selling as evi dence that distress liquidation, which hasv been overhanging the market, has not yet been complet ed. BUTTE FALLS LOGGER Knocked down by a log being drawn tlirouah the woods on i cable, Krncst Albert, an employe of the Owen-Oregon Lumber com pany sustained a compound frac ture ot the right leg below the knee at 9 o'clock yesterday morn ing in the Butte Falls district. The Perl ambulance was called to the locality and the man re moved to the Sacred Heart hos pital in the afternoon. City Phy sician Dr. L. D Inskeop attended the puttent and ills condition today Is reported satisfactory. Will Rogers Says: HOLLYWOOD, Ctil., Xuv. 12, This day tlmt I urn writ UiX nliout whs no doubt the prcHtest day in till tlio world history, Armistice Diiy. wht'ii yon think that n half dozen in c n p o ti 1 (1 ' sit down ti it (1 (usually sign a piiot to stop men fro in killinc onch other. ,. lint' if they don't slop these, -(fUJfs from imikiiiy .speecltes over the radio on Arinistioo Diiy, why we are linblo tohnvti the same war over iijrniu only worse. If Armistit'o Day hud slopped , spt't'thi'-s it would have dono more (food than to lnive stopped war, for Nperehcs is wluit starts the next war. It's 'not nrnin nit'iit, it's oratory that's wrontf with this country. Yours. WILL UOtiKHS.