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j HIGH QUALITY HUNAN CITIZENS
11 CAR OF TURKS MASSACRED BYi
SHIPPED EAST
Co-op Dispatches 30,000
Pounds Christmas Birds
. Saturday Plan Cleanup
After january 1.
A en r load of Rogue River valley
turkeys, approximately 30,000
pounds, was shipped by the Far
mers Co-Qpemtlvo Exchange last
Saturday, consigned to the eastern
market. It was an exceptionally
large shipment, and the turkeys
we re f o r the most pa r t of high
quality and good size. Pursuant to
the advice of eastern concerns, the
birds were shipped In boxes, in
stead of barrels.
With the Thanksgiving pool, the
Saturday shipment will make the
total poundage of turkeys shipped
from this valley this winter, close
to 100,000 pounds.
The Farmer's Co-Operative Ex
change plans to form another tur
key pool shortly after the first of
the year for eastern consignment.
There are quit a number of tur
keys in the valley, that are not yet
of the proper size, and many of the
growers are holding back then
birds, feeling that they should re
ceive 30 cents per pound for the
No. 1 grades. The price has ranged
from 26c to 29c for the top fowls,
to 2-c for the No. 2's.
As near as can be ascertained,
the vuliey turkey prices have been
as good, or slightly higher, than
those received in other northwest
turkey pools.
The Importance of "the $266,000
school bond1 election tomorrow
afternoon from one to seven at the
junior high school building was
stressed at today's regular lunch
eon of the Kiwanis club, with short
speeches made by K. H. I led rick,
city superintendent of schools, O.
C. Hoggs, Glen Fabrlck and John
C Mann. Adjutant Uen Turner of j
the Kaivation Army was aiso a
speaker during the luncheon.
The necessity of new buildings
w'as pointed out by Mr. Boggs, who
stated ?ptht- conditions point
toward a more economical con
struction and unemployment
would be relieved thru the passage
of bonds. The buildings must be
constructed sooner or later, ho said
there is no opportunity better than
the present to bring nbout the
school improvements.
Messrs. Mann, Fabrlck and Hed
rick urged all voters to cast their
ballots at the polls to assure Med
ford of the needed new buildings.
Property owners who have resided
30 days in the city are eligible to
vote.
The history and work of the Sal
vation Army was reviewed by
Adjutant Turner, who went back
to the establishment of the army
in London over 60 years ago and
its gradual development. Ho cited
several cases of social welfare
work in which the army had taken
pa rt.
Two vocal solos were sung by
William Vawter and well received.
Today's attendance prize w a s
awarded to A. L. Hid,
CARELESS CAUSE
I ; ;
Afi 'jntistrntibn " of how the
mumps, of which disease there are
at least 200 known cases in Med
ford, spread was noticed this fore
noon when a girl she might have
been from 1 5 to 18 entered the
Liberty building elevator, and the
operator remarked to her, "Why
you're late today."
"Yes, replied the girl, who was
unite pale, "I don't feel good to
day nt all. Have been sick. Guess
I have the mumps, nnd the swel
ling on this side (placing her
handkerchief ngainst the side of
her face or neck) bothers me.'
She then got off at one of the
floors and went about her business
or errand.
LITTLE JAPANESE
!. GIRL IN RELAPSE
A telegram was received by M.
Mam today stating that his little!
daughter. Teruko, had suffered
a relapse in the Sun Francis o
hospital, where she is receiving ;
treatment for the gunwoitnd j-us-I
mined in n recent accident In!
thi-. city. I
.Mr. Maru will leave for the bay
city on the ShriMa this evening.
The lelet-nim states thnt the little j
j;irl Is suffering from an in f -"'- j
tlon. Mr. Maru said this nft.$ !
noon he did not think tl was di-i
riM-tly caused by the Imlb-i. which;
iv Imbedded In her spine, but
from complication! which h.i.ej
followed the 'Wound.
RED BESIEGERS
Two Towns Suffer at Hands
of Communist Bands
Thousand Held As Hos
tage by Marauders.
SHANGHAI, Dee. ir. tfP Oe
t.ills uf the reported massacre of
the inhabitantM of 1 Xiehow and
Tsingshih. Hunan ' province cities,
by communist bands, and of the
alleged capture of 1000 citizens
of Xingtu. Kiangsi province, wen
sought by Chinese authorities to
day. The Hunan massacres were re
ported yesterday by foreign t-hips
plying the YuUKtse river near the
city Shasi. The advices indicated
the Reds planned to attack .Shasi
a iso.
Iloth Tsingshih and Uchow hart
boon beseiged for several days.
Citizens of IJchow were reported
to have manned the walls of their
city, resisting the communists un
til the latter vowed they would
annihilate the population once
they entered the town.
Communists were, declared to
have routed government troops at
Xingtu and then escaped to the
mountains along .the Kiungsi-Ku-klon
border with lOOfl Citizens as
hostages. ' " '
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IN RACE FOR TWO
ON CITY STREETS
For driving his car at an un
reasonable rate of speed Sunday
evening on West Main street, said
by li. M. ilaucom, the arresting
officer, to be from 40 to 50 miles
an hour, Kdwin Anderson, aged
20, was not only fined $l.r and
costs of $4. but had hi license
suspended for 30 days in Judge
Taylor's court this forenoon.
The testimony was that he eut
in off of Oakdnle or South New
town into West Main, and at
tained his greatest speed between
Orange and l'each streets, and
still proceeded so fast that Offir
cer ltaucom did not apprehend
him until a point a mile west oi
the city limits was reached.,
---It also developed thnt another
car was speeding so fast over
West Main street at that time
that the officer thought thnt the
two enry might be racing, but
this is denied by Kdwin Ander
son, whose case is separate from
the other speeding car.
Baucom's efforts to capture the
other speeder ngainst whom he
intended to prefer a charge of
reckless driving, or driving whil"
intoxicated, were ineffective, and
he wan only able to learn the li
cense number of the tar. I p t
early this afternoon he had not
located the alleged intoxicated
driver.
Ui(tior had nothing to do with
Anderson's arrest. In fact, it Is
said he was just coming from
church attendance when his speed
ing attracted notice.
UUi
MAT
PC
nana
WILLI STO-N, N. D., Dec. 13.
tJPi A father and son today stood
formnlly chained with first degree
murder for the slaying of a family
of six persons.
The ton. Charles Bannon. 22-year-old
farmer, wa In the county
Jail here, confessed killer of Mr.
and Mrs. Albert K. Haven and their
four children at the Haven farm
near Hchafer last February.
The father, James F. Itannon, re
tired 'farmer, was held at Toledo,
Ore., awaiting arrival of North Da
kota authorities to return him
here. He was arrested Saturday
at a tourist camp at Waldport,
Ore.
FUND ADDED 10 BILL
WASHINGTON. Dec IS.
A $7.10.000 fund' for establishment
of an air mail line from St. Paul,
Minn., to Seattle. Wash., operat
ing through Fargo, N. D.. was
added to the ireasury-posiofflce
bill today by fchc senate. - - ,.,
IHE DALLES BAKERS
CUT PRICE. OF BREAD
THE DALLAS. Ore., Dec. 15.
4, or the first time In four
years the prico of bread dropped
here today. Pound loaves which
formerly sold for nine cent, are
now retailing nt two for 15 rents.
The pound and h;ilf loaves. 0 i h
formerly sobl for I cents, now
retail at two for 25 cent.
HrEDFORD MATb
Why Santa's0
Tr
fW CHI t
It's open season for letters to old Saint Nick, and these youngsters
are doing their share to boost his always heavy Christmas mail.
Christmas Jumping Jacks
Come From Quiet Village
EAST WEAKE. X. 11. (.) An
army of Oau.efin jumping jacks has
Kwainted out oi this quiet little vil
lage during the l:ist year to glad
den hearts oi American youngsters
this Christinas. .
For half a century lliese dancing;
toys have been produced at a little
plant on the banks of the 1'iscata
quog river here.
When the first jumping jack was
turned out at that factory by Dea
con John Paige 51 years ago. East
Wen re citizens called it a "fool no
tion." It was many years before
the Industry gained prominence.
During a tour of Europe tUt years
ago- Paige conceived thn idea of
making jumping jacks at East
Weare. With German toys as a
model he entered business.
GALA C H R! ST SV1 A S
PARTY FOR ELKS
Thursday will be a red-letter day
on the Elks calendar us Mod ford
lodge No. litis. 11. P. O. E., will hold
Its usual Christmas celebration at
the Elks temple in this city. Big
ger and better than ever before, is
the promise the committee mem-1
hers are making and indications J
point to a holiday pambnree that !
will eclipse any previous affair off
its kind in the history of Medford
Elkdom.
Since the need for assistance, to
the needy is greater this year than
over before, the wearers of tlie Elk
tooth are planning to spread Christ
mas cheer on u more 'ambitious
scale than ever. To assure the sill:
cess of the Elks program of char
ity. Exalted Ruler Olo Alenderferf
has issued an earnest pleu to all j
members to attend the Thursday!
night celebration and do their part.
A program which will be well worth I
while has been prepared, according I
ta A lender! or, and all visiting Elks
will also be welcomed. j
The Thursday evening Elks' an-j
nual 'Christmas celehration will he-1
gin promptly at S o'clock and will
lust until alter midnight. ,
Romance Wrecked
Aincnrd Pre f'hof
Vlvienne Seng ter, film actress
fded a $50,000 damage auit in Lot
Angelei agamtt four person atieg
ing their gossip wrecked hp r ro
mance with Maurice Coitello
former screen idol.
4
Clarified sdvcrtlfflng gets rcHUlta.
TRIBUNE, MEDFORD,
Mail Is Heavy
wrU
After the death of Paige. John
A. White of Voncord, N. 11., took
over the factory and introduced
high-speed machinery to increase
the omput. Aaftnr White's death
George S. Daniels of East Weare
bought the plant.
This year the factory has deliv
ered more than tioo.ooo jumping
jacks to toy jobbers. Twenty-two
men work full time at the plant,
while the tasks of assembling the
jacks, pasting on their paper faces
and costumes, and riveting their
funny limbs to their bodies, are
"farmed out" to citizens of the vil
lage. Despite the passing of five de
cades the underlying principle of
the jumping jack's construction re
mains virtually unchanged;
Meieor'gcaJReport
Dtx-emhcr 15, I:t0.
Medfurd and vicinity: Tonight'
and Tuesday unsettled, probably
rain; warmer tonight.
Oregon; Cnsett led tonight and
Tuesday, probably rain west por
tion anil snow in mountains; warm
er went portion tonight.
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Local Data 5 S 2
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Temperature ( degrees).
IBuhest I last 12 bis.) ....
Lowest at 12 hrs.
Bel. humidity (pet.)
4 0
45
100
.(Ml
Precipitation (inches) ..
Stale of weather Cloudy Foggy
Lowest temperature thix morn
ing. 2li degrees.
Total precipitation since Septem
ber I, 1 i3, 4.70 inches.
Temperature n year ago today
Highest, r2; lowest, 4C.
Sunset today, 4:41 p. m.
Sunrise Tuesday. 7:33 a. m.
Sunset Tuesday. 4:4 1 p. m.
Observations Taken at 5 A. M.
120th Meridian Tim
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tu -. Bi o
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CITY
Baker City 22 P. Cdy.
Blwmarek .'Hi t Snow
Boise 3(i 20 Clear
Denver :tn is Clear
Des Moines 32 24 Clear
Fresno CO 40 Clear
Helena 3S 30 Cloudy
Los Angeles SO 52 Clear
Marshfiehl :S 32 Clear
Phoenix (is 44 Clear
Portland - 32 Cloudy
Bed Itluff f.r, 40 Clear
BoscMirg 44 32 Foggy
Salt Lake 32 20 Clear
San Francisco 5H r(o (lnr
Santa Fc 32 1 Clear
Seattle i'J 42 Cloudy
Spokane 3S 2K Foggy
Unlla Walla 40 30 Foggy
Winiifp-g 2 -to Clear
W. .1. Hutchison, Meteorologist.
L JUiTitiltl lo'la more.
DANVILLE. Va , Dec. 1 5.1 fP.
A terrlfie blast early today
v(..-ici-, the front porch of the
home of .Magi' t rate , S. Flits,
ibout two miles from S hootfi-'ld
Tlie niiigWlrate. his wife and two
"mall grandchildren, Philip and
I "atrif-ia, wrn sleepini; tn the
hi'tse. So i inn was inlnred.
Tliri -plo.' ion was believed by
ttie magistrate to have been mused
by n dvnantite bomb.
Kl:
, ,,.
Site, l-lni,
rmwtructi'n
HitKlil' ri ! h'T for
of m-w flu- ntiitlon.
OREOOX. MONDAY, 1)F,
mo
DIM
At a public bfiiiinjt held 1:1 st
Thursday, the lit SI budget as com
piled by the county budget com
mittee. V. O. N. Smith. Ashland,
ehairma n, was read, without any
major changes in its pro visions.
The binlgft will be adopted as it
imw stands, but there will tie some
minor changes in Hh provisions to
conform to the financial balances
of the county at the end of the
yt-a r.
The budget, adopted, will be
turned over to the assessor's office
shortly after the first of the year
for the compiling of the various
leVirs.
According to the county asses
sor's office, ihe county levy will he
about the same as Inst year lti.it
mills, outside high school districts,
and 1 3.5 mills inside high school
districts. The county levy Will be
two mills or more less In Ashland,
where they have no general road
or county library levy.
The levy will be higher also in
road districts that voted special
levies. All the road districts of Hie
county, but Oak drove, voted a
special levy.
No forecasts are being made on
the state levy, which is problemat
ical, owing to the tangle in .state
finances arising from the intagible
tax court decision.
WHOLESALE SUGAR CUT
BY PORTLAND DEALERS
. I'OIITI.AND. Ore., 1 ..-. ir.-Hi
Portland ' wholes.ile : grocer - today
antiiuinced a lit per cent r 'ducibm
in simar notations, to be in line
with a like price cut made by
.sugar refiners. Quote: Cane su
gar $4.!)i( cwt. Meet sugar $4.7 ii.
IHE MARKETS
Livestock
PORTLAND. Ore:, Dec. -15. fP)
CATTLE. 2050, calves 110;- looks
Mteady. Steers (!00-!HlO lbs. good
$K.Z5 - 9.00. medium $7.r.O - X.25,
common $. 25-7.50; ftoo-1100 lbs.
good $K.-jri-!l.im. medium 7,50
K.25: common $fi.25-7.fiO; 11 00
l.loo lbs. good $K.OO-K.75, medium
$.7ri-.0. Heifers 00-850 lbs.
good $7.25-7.50. medium $fi.00-7.25
common $5.0 ()(!. 00. Cows, good
$i;.0U-t;.50, common and .cutter
$2.50-4.51). Bulls (yearlings ex
cluded) $5.00-5.75, cutter, common
and medium $3.50-5.00. Venters,
milk feu $10.00-1 1.00, medium fu
ll). 00. cull and common $5.00-S.0D.
Calves 250-500 lbs. $S.I)0-1 0.00,
common and medium $4.50-H.oi).
IIOCS 2725, including 1!6 on
contract or billed through; active,
killing classes 50c lower, feeders
steady. (Soft or oily hogs and
roasting pigs excluded) light lights
$7. 75-!. oo. Light weight loO-IKO
lbs. $S.75-!).00; 1SO-200 lbs. $H.75
fi.00. Medium weight 200-220 lbs.
V. 75-9. 00: 220-250 lbs. 750-S.75.
Heavy Weight 250-2')0 11m. $7.00
K.25: 2!)0-350 lbs. $li.fiO-7.75. Pack
ing sows 275-500 lbs. medium nnd
good $;. oo-7. 25. Feeder and stock
er pigs 70-130 lbs. good and choice
$S.50-!I.50.
SHFKP 1435; no early market.
Lambs HO lbs. down $1. 50-7.00,
medium $5.00ti.50, nil weights,
common $4.00 - 5.00. Yearling
yetherH 00-1 1 0 lbs., medium to
choice $3.50-5.00. Ewes iio-120
lbs. medium to choice $2,25-3.00;
120-150 lbs. $2.00-2.50, all weights,
cull and common $1.00-2.00.
Portland Produce
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 15. (VP)
BUTTER Steady. Cubes; Extras
:tlo; standards, 33c; prime firsts
JtUo; firsts, 3c. Creamery prices:
Prints lie over cube standards.
EdCH: Steadier. Prices to re-
tailors: Fresh extras, 30c; stand
ards, 18c; fresh medium, Die; pul
lets, 14c. Prices to wholesalers 2c
under price to retailors.
MILK Steady. Raw milk (4 per
cent), $2.25 per cwt. Delivered
Portlund less 1 per cent; grade C
milk, $1.70. Bulterfat delivered In
Portland, '.i'.ic.
POULTRY Steady. Buying
prices: Alive heavy hens over 4Vfc
lbs., 21c; medium liens. :tj to 4'i.
lbs., 17c; light liens. Lie; springs,
2tle. Pekln ducks, 4 lbs. and over.
ISc. Turkeys, 2Kc.
COUNTRY MEATS Steady. Buy
ing prices: Choice, veal, 14c; pork,
IH'-c; choice lambs,, ; Ylb WW
heavy eal, !tc; million fic.
ONIONS Steady. Oregon. $1 'it
POTATOES Steady. No 1 grad
cd. S1.7rr2; No. 2. I.L1fij 1.50.
WOOL Steady. Eastern Oregon
nominal; valley, 14 61 ISc; lamb, 1"
(f 14c. Mohulr. nominal.
II AY Steady. Wholesale buy
ing prices, delivered Portland:
Eastern Oregon timothy, $22.5061
2H; do valley, JI!Kr Ill.r.O; alfalfa,
$lXJnW clover $B; nal hay $H;
Portland Wheat
I'OIITI.AM), Ore, Pit. l.V
Whiat fulnrPH:
0im 1 1 lull Ixiw
Poo t;r .;'ii .',
Muy Ki .tisij .iix'i i
Cah whont:
llli! flonil blui'Htem j ...
Soft whilo
Woitirn whltn
Mnril wintor
Nor! horn KirliiR
Wostorii roil
OuU No. 2 3h Hi. whllv, 11.;
'Inwo
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'EM BKK 15. una
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the ncN
A non-bi'i'akubU1,
solf -fillhiK Fim
tain I', that
will tfivo peiTt'rt
writing si'rvii'..
IlritiK This
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NO STKINCS
Tuesday
Wednesday
Only
Tot day's car receipts:
flour I-, enru f, oats 1,
Wheat i'ii.
hay 7.
San IVancisco Under fat
SAN FUA.WISCO. Dec. 15. (A)
Hut let fut f, o. b. San l'la llclsco
37 fee.
Wall Street Report
,NEW YORK. Dec. 15. (A)
Unable to hold net advances of
one to three points that had fol
lowed brisk early selling, tin
stock market closed heavy today.
Liu u Illation of lailn ami coppers
was a late feature. S. Steel,
American Telephone. American
Can, .lohns-Manvillc ami Kastmau
Kodak lost gains of a point or
two.
Salr
shares.
approximated 3.5O0.000
Today's closing prices for
led ed stock s follow:
Am. Can
Am. Tel. and Tel
Anaconda
Cot. Can
Cnittss Wright
ins
171)
2U
3 2
2
43 7h
V.l
22 T
1 7 Vi
C.eneial Electric
ieneral Motors.-.
tnew)..
Keiiniot Cupper
Mont. Ward
Radio CorpiM'ation
Beading
Sears Roehuoly ..
ES
"The Gift "of Gifts"
An Electric Range
Means Happiness
for Years to Come ,
See tho
Electrical Girts
on display
at your dealers.
The CcJifornia Oregon PQWcrlCmiDany.
A GIFT WITH A LIFETIME
FOR
It Looks and Writes
Like a $10.00 Pen '
This ccrlif irate and 99c entitles the Nearer to oni
of our genuine $1.50 Self-filling: Fountain Pen and
Automatic Pencil sets
, ...i
SKT COMPLETE IN BOX
intf atlat'iiod, Cent's with clip as above. Pets are in beautiful shades,
Hlaek, Hi"l, .lade, (ireen, Blue ami Mauve.
ATTACHED TO THIS Ol'I'KK. JCST BIUNC THIS CKKTIFICATR
(ill AKANi'KE. IN WUli'lNti. CIVKN WITH EACH SET
Jarmin & Woods
Drug Store
01
20 '.j
137 'i
full,
f. S
d Air Craft
Steel
Press Comment
Railroad Light Brigade I
Railroads to the right of us. rail- !
roads to the left of us. railroads
borore us. volleyed and thundered.1
Klamath Falls und Medford.
Cieseent City and (Jold Beach,
Marchl'ield and Portland newspa
pers have suddenly become awnre
of railroad possibilities for south
ern Oregon nnd reacted to the
.knowledge In various und sundry
ways.
Something must he stirring, all
right, to provoke this barrage of
rumor and speculation, but what
that something is has become con
cealed in the sinnku screen and the
idea can't be located for tho su
pertulity of words.
What we considered tlie sanest
ami best advised discussion of this
unknown railroad activity was con
tained Thursday in . the Medford
Matl-Tribunc, and is reproduced In
tho news columns of this edition.
Practically everything it says und
all tlin,othr newspapers say, has
been discussed at length here dur
ing months past, hut the things
which Kivu entiHO In tho latest out
pouring did not' li rise In Josephine
ff you could read
'lieir mind
you would realize that instead of some ;short- y
lived novelty your wife would actually prefer ' '
this year-round servant-gift for Christmas. What
could be more appropriate than a modem
electric range with the added hours of leisure,
easier-to-get, perfectly cooked meals it affords
every homemaker?
An Automatic Electric Range in the
home will lie a gift which will prove
of real benefit to the entire family.
No more wood or coal to carry in
no more fires to build no dirtv,
.'7
sooty pans to clean. Just a turn of
the switch and your meal will be on
its way. What would make tlie wife
or mother more happy than this gift
of cleanliness efficiency conven
ience and the joy Electric Cookery
assures.
See the new models on display today!
IXVI'ISTKIATK the Special Christmas
Offers on Automatic Klectrii: Ranges.
Small down payment. Easy monthly
terms.
V'AOF, FIVE
GUARANTEE
TI1K PENCIL
MuU-hea the pen.
I'ropelH, ropels
and expels the
li'ml automatio
ully. T'itti'd with
a maKa.iine ot
spare leails.
Brinfc This
C'ertifii'ate
-.r tww
Tuesday
Wednesday
Only
county. It is something different
and new in the situation, und we
have high hopes for it, whatever
it muy turn out to he.
Privately we don't think that the
Cheteo survey crew is the North
ern linos gelling into the Crescent
City lutrhor country, as others
seem to believe. Wo think it Is
something else. But whatever it
Is. the coming of two couiHtiug
railroad groups into southern Ore
gon seems to be the basis of it,
aud that means that sootier or later
the fur will fly, and the dirt, aud
ties and rails,
ThntR' just tho diRh for southern
Oregon industry and payrolls.
Grants Pnss Courier.
CAUSE CROSS EYES
OMAHA. Neb... Dec. 15.
Attempts of parents to change
their children .from left to right
handers, or vice versa, are liahlq
to cause their offspring to become
cross-eyed. Dr. (leorge Oertal ot
Syracuse, N. Y., told the Amer
ican College of Optometry. Dr.
Oertal expressed this belief In a
paper read by Dr. William Fein
bloom of Brooklyn, N. Y., being
unable to attend.
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