Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 23, 1930, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREOON. TUESDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1930. YULE MAIL AT RECORD INIDFORD Christmas Giving Belies Hard Times Trucks Find T Difficulty Keeping Post office Clear of Parcels : Letter Mail Flood. "Talk nhoul hard times and the people nut sending an many ChrhfO rnRH prcnentft thin year oh usuul," mini-ted iOHtmaHtcr Warner us he stood in the mhlM of the piles of Incoming Chrlntmau parcels In the hit; workroom at the poHtofflce late thin forenoon aidinK the olerka and o thorn In untnnglintf the maHH and urranglng it for de livery. At the name time two big truck loadH of parceU wore already en gaged in delivering parcel thru out the city and the regular car riers at the Ha me time were busy In delivering the letter mall und ' smaller parcels. And much more mull arrived later on the noon train from the north, and still more will arrive nn this evening's and tomorrow's trains. 'Then, too, Med ford and other belated senders, stood in constant ly changing lines all forenoon und much of the afternoon watting to mall out parcels. Mull Keis It coord '"Yos, talk about hard times! Why if the times were good and the people sent correspondingly, the'poHtofflco would bo swamped" continued1 the postmaster. "It looks as though this Christmas will be, record breaking in some ro-gHrds.'- - t Then he related that It was airro record breaking In one re gard, us 20 per cent more letters and cards passed through the local pontoffice cancelling much I n e s yesterday than ever before In one day In Medford's history. ? And according to the stamp sales for. pa reels und letters up until this noon during the present Christinas sending period, JthoHe receipts so far indicate heavier receipts than last year at tho sntne corresponding period.' Tho post master nnd others of tho postofflcc staff are of the opinion that tho incoming and outgoing Christmas mail this year will bo heavier than last year, but will not he definitely known until the sending period Is over and there Is n summing up; Tending to back up this opinion the Southern Pacific railroad at taches report that so far that oarrler has brought more Christ mas mall to Med ford than last year. JZhh Come Tonight, ""Although some Christmas pnr and letter stuff will arrive lonigm ami tomorrow, j mum tHo volume of urrivlng and send Itfg will end with today' said Pftstmanter Warner, who says that every bit of Christmas man ur riving by late tomorrow afternonn Mil bo delivered by early Christ nyiH eve. j CThe clerical staff of the postof fire again worked much of last nittht In sorting and arranging the riiall for delivery, to begin this morning. Tho postofflcc will bo closed all day Christmas day, and there will no deliveries that day. STORY 1 (Continued from Ptg D pendent group In the sennto was preparing for a aorlou tl Input. Hnatr Morris himself Issued a statement last night denouncing bucas. and today Henator Hrook- hart, repubKcan Independent of Iowa, Issued a stutement suylnw Hecretnry Mellon "has no right to set up a republlcun committee with money to "override any republlcun senator who listens to the voice of the people. 'Hubert II. Lucas says thera Is a cancer la the republlcun party and that It must be cut out. Me Is right. Hut he does not recogutxe the cancerous part. The personal bead of this cancerous growth Is Andrew W. Mellon. t Mtohert 'II, I,uchs Is only a little mul'gnant wart under the toenail of this big personality." ' Funrt I'mj Show ii. The senate cnmpulgns fund com mittee, which dUcovred l.uoas had financed some untl-XorrlK campaigning In Nebrnsku, yester day found Lucas had used fund of the republican national commit ter in securing the loans he made from a' bank hers to pny for the sntNXorrls propaganda. Httinncd by the furore of the sudden controversy, the senate re publican lesdemh p Is watchliiK silently. The senat republicans Insist the bsu6 of Norrls' right to party recognition l nut up to t'm and they are watching th attliudr or the president and th national committee toward Lucas. The Kentucktan still has his Job und. therefore, apparently the support of the party.- Should Back I On reaching tho cap tnl. Heprc s nt:itlve Wood who a ten htad the appropriations committee sold he hnd told President Hoover ''It was the duty nf every repub lican to stand behind Mr. Lucas. Although we all might not agree with the wsy Mr. Luon did thing'1. I am sure every real republican agrefit with his Ideas." 1. II.... h Hmil.lli.nni to spenk out 'n meetinf and rid' tb'-mselves .of (veople like NrrU.' j Woil dried. "He Is nothing but a wolf In sheep's clothing. Why, l' trould a Jot rather huve to deal THEY ARE PERSONALITY WINNERS 1T-.h.VLW. These girl are winners of recent personality contest sponsored by Gloria Swanton. motion picture actress They sailed from New Vuik for France Hh other winners Lett to right: Loreia Larson ol Onjh Neb.; Gertrude Ases ot Kansas City and Patricia Parker of Hollywood Toggery Bill and Son Rise In Haste When Bed Fired By Electric Foot Warmer William F. (Toggery Will Isaacs and his on, Dick, had a thrilling encounter with an elec tric bed-warmer Monday morning, between midnight and dawn which resulted lq the loss of consider able sleep, and a ft 0 -pound inat- trewH. u'hlMi u-nu rniTiiilntvlt. i!i- stroyed by fire, water, and rough J handling on the lawn. Toggery Hill u!m hud one leg toasted to an autumn brown. Dad and lad repaired to the buy, per u Kin I Mondny night, on the sleeping porch, of their homo at lift North Oukdale Micet. As the fog and (Yost wcro active, and rolled in unhindered upon 1htnt, the Isaacs thought they would reinforce several layers of Oregon City Woolen blankets, Pendleton Indian blankclH. V. H, army blan-1 kets and u couple of pieces of canvas with an electric bed warm-j er. The contrivance was expected; to take the dumpnetw out ot the sheets and , besides, Itlchard hud I u bad cold. They lustullc'd the rig; at the foot of the bed, and re-, laxed for n good, old-fashioned country sleep.. In about lit) minutes, Illchard. who Is a University of Oregon law student, alleged that he studied something, und In 20 minutes more further alleged that he hud wtuck a foot Into what he iillcKed to be fire.' Tho father attributed' the allegations to the youthful Imnglnutlnn of his offspring and Instructed him to go to sleep, nHj they both needed It. with a democrat, ur have, n demo crat In the senate, than a psoudo republican llko the NVhntkun." STORY 2 (Contlnutd from Pag 1) ought to he the first to occupy the "hoowgow." ' 1 ijitft kept still." ho adds. "For the first time In my life I couldn't think of a comobnek.'' . Marshal Clyde Smith gently cn resses his wrist where the sheriff slapped him. w in. "Tomfoolery of arresting boys for throwing light-, ed mateb.es on the street under l I'.utomohtlfH, when be could havej g rn bbed a real live drunk.' j "Wonder which 1h the greater j crime." muses Clyde, "dt -unkenncss or arson?" "It's good advertising," ventures! one member of the commercial j club. "Of course we don't ftp-1 prove of the method but, neverthe less, It Ih advertising, and we ought to thank the vivid Imaginutlon that conceived the ridiculoun rumors.'' And Deputy Hcynolds seems to a g rcc. " 1 h e r e 1 1 I e some feller come over here flgurln' nn makln hot whoopee," says he. "und won't thry net disappointed! And how!" The Old-Timer seemed to be asleep ns iIh-m vnrlous opinUms were expr sed. but suddenly he reared up. expertly administered a bnth to n beetle half wny aeros the street, took a fresh chew, and blurted out: "If the sheriff knew them there "Jacksonville guy splr Its" that stole the panther juice from the old county jail, why the heck didn't he oue them In the hoone-ltow The onl ptople of Jacksonville don't take the matter very seri ously, for while they deplore the occasional lapses whlrh are bound tot ooetir. thy know that the old town compare favorably with the rent of the valley, at h'Ht morally. and a they Just go atom: try Ins to be good, decent, sociable folks, and hoping that some d.iy the km'kers will remember the old Klf jilllMlt gln"S hour's. submit ltiil. PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 33. (AM Ten contractors, mostly from! eastern oio(on. tmlonittcil bbN fr the r I ear I mi of 2 .1 mile on the! IVnd leton-John Day hlghv.'iy '' J tween Cklah and D.ile when pro-i powil were opened here by W. II. j Lynch, dlstrbt engineer of the, bureau of public roads. I About three oVIock In the niorn inif, tho father thought thut he detected an unseemly odor, akin to a horse burning up, and thought that his left shank was getting a trifle sultry, so he hopped out of bed, to discover a young confla gration raging in hlu midst. The mattress end the blankets wore smouldering In a businesslike man ner and there was a great huutllng around after wnter. a valuable Turkish rug In the path of, thi' threatening flames was rescued, It was tho original Intention 1" fVubdne the Incipient blaze on tho spot but finally the mattress wuh yanked out on the lawn, where It had water minified on It, and fully demonstrated that nothing Is! so hard to extinguish s a mat tress, as it was Htlll burping in a hum old manner at three o'clock the following afternoon. As near as enn be figured out, the semi -disaster was duo In the first place to the cord attached to the bed warmer burning off and in tho second place to Tog gery Hill turning tho warmer Into high, when ho thought he was turning It off. and In the third place to the well-known indif ference of sleeping people, to take anything wriously, via: Oct up and look around and see what i causing the current discomfort. Dicks cold is better and his father is none the worse for bat tling the smudge In his pajamas. Instead of his pant-i. which the weathor most certainly warranted him wearing. mm U urn r M "tfwi;' TAMI'lOO. Mox., Deo. 23. (VP) Plvc ppi'HtniH were drowned in hlRh K.'iis it ml Htnrmn acoonipnnyiiiK n Bevi-re. nin'thcr Ihul Htruck here yoHlonluy. Threo American Hea mon were lost when they were washed from the ileck of a Hrnnll tanker natnect "nmiKanon'' whieh waH heinK tiMveil lutck to port. ItANdOON, llurnin, Dec. 23. ttVi Two nmall vIltaKe headmen anil a forem rahKer were reported killed today when 200 natlven at tacked two village n few mlleH eaHt of Tharrawaddy, hut the cauno of the' dlHturhance wan not aaccrtalned. HAhKM. Ore., Dec. 23 (T) Old people who are homele-w will be given a dinner Christmas day by the Ashoctuted Charities. The or gan i.at Ion has listed about 30 eligible. fllANI-'nlil), N. J., Dec 23. (A'i l-'our members of a section gnng were killed today when a New Jersey Central express bound for New York ploughed into the men dining a snowstorm. ' FOR SEN. GREENE MOXTI'KMKH. Vermont. Dec. 2 3. A Km nk Partridge, of Proctor, today was appointed by CiWcvnur John VI. Wekrj as Pniteil Stales senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Krank L. (Ireene last Wednesday. Partridge, a staunch republican, Is 71 years old. From 1KSK to !'.( be served as secretary to the secre tary of war. In MM be wasvap pointed solicitor In the department of state and In 1K9.1 was named as spcvlol envoy to Veneiuela. Know In DallcM. 1IIK DAI.I.KS, Ore., 1M 2S -t.lV-A heavy snowfall continued to blanket the luld -Columbia te uton icday, anil many wctloim have been roeied.to a d-'pth of two inches. LONDONERS GROPING N HEAVY FOG Soot and Smoke Add to Evil of Opaque Mist Traffic at Standstill Postal Workers Unable to De liver Christmas Mail. LONDON, Kng., Dec. 23. (TP) At least four men walked blindly Into canals or streams and were drowned during the great log. one ! of the worst in the history of the city, under which London und Its! environs were burled lust night and euily today. The total deutlin fro.n various accidents duo to t ho heavy mist today numbered well over a dozen. Threo of tho drowning victims w.ere more than 70 years old. Today the fog had lifted in many of tho affocted sections. IX)NI)ON, Hiik.. Dec. 23. P) ' Opaqun fnK. thickiitied hy Konl und I Kinoko frnni lyondon'H Hnft-coul i miming fuctoricH, pre.HHeil down un the city und HOiilhern' KiiKlund nKUln today, liumperinK cnniiniinl cutliniH und HlnwiiiK HhippinK in ad jacent walera to alinoHt complete Htuppugn. , VeteruDH reculled the fog of 30 yeara uko. hefore the uort-coal nul sunce hud hecome ho iironounced, uh heinK the only condition) of re ceat time which niiRht he compar ed with cnnrilliona in mmtliern Kne, lund diiriiiK the past few dayH. Transportation Tied Up The Kreutoat tieup of -rail, high way, air and water transportation In the memory of the yountter (fen eration haa resulted from the heavy, evil smelling mists, and the postal service as a consequence hus been totally unable to cope with the Christmas parcel rush. Feople leaving their business late yesterday evening found no meuns of reaching their suburban homes, with trnliiB and omnibus lines sus pended or the services greatly curtailed. Railroad terminals and statloiiH were crowded with people with places to go but no way to get there. Flare. Useless Hydo Park corner presented ono of the worst traffic scenes. A bril liant flare failed to penetrate the mist more than a few feet. Hun dreds of vehicles of ull kinds were Jammed In long lines which were able to move only a few Inches at a time. In less congested districts . chauffeurs and oxtru bus drivers walked ahead with flares to light tho wav for their vehicles. One of the worst accidents occurred off I Gravenend, when a ferry boat fouled a buoy In the inky darknesB and 4(10 passengers were transfer red to tugs for tho trip ashore. Eight Loso Lives Eight persons have been killed altogether within the last day in I accidents directly nscrilialilo to the fog, but under Hie circumstances a much greater total might have been expected. This morning the fog lifted In sections of London hut It was still thick In the suburban dhttrlcts and for 40 milec around the city. At Croydon no planes left on the morning schedule. The list of deaths, which Inst night stood ut seven, was Increas ed by one today when a young man walked Into tho (inind Surrey ca nnl, hidden by the fosand was drowned. APOPLEXY WIS E ltCCMtAUKtfT. IK-c. 23. JP All! Hutuunta was stirred today by the sudden death of VlntUa llratlnau.j who with hi father and brother: established the present Human lan dynasty, only to havo it finally complete bis Call from power. j The former premier, n bitter en emy of King Cnr'l since hU ado lescn c e . was stricken with a p o i -1 lexy In his gn.'ilen at his estate, i M I host I, yesterday afternoon. He was found helplew and taken In doors where a second attack later proved fatal. i SLAYER ESCAPES ON EVE OF DEATH SAI.KM. N. J.. Dec. 23. (P Chot ies Kithian, who escaped from the Salem county Jail lens than 8 hours after he had been sentenced to death for the murder of a pay master, was sought todny. Flthtan. who Is 22. escaped last night by filing the bars of his cell and situeetlng through two venti lator shafts after threatening other prisoners with a pistol. Police expressed the belief that the file and pistol had been smiiKKled into the jail und th it friends of Kithian were waiting for him In a motor car outside the prison. HciIimv Prinv. 1 XKW YoliK. rc. 53. t.Vi Korlher irduettonf. tn price sched ule of mail order houses came to lb:ht to.iB, nn,i such ivpoi t a tire avaibtl-lf Indicate that the cheaper notations are sttimilut iti business. i Store Open Until 8:30 Tonight r -1 Ready... The last day before Christmas finds this store readv to serve your every Gift Want . . . Gift Handkerchief s t . . Bags . . . Gloves , . . Scarfs Toiletries . . . Stationery . . . Neckwear ... Art Qoods . . Jewelry and Umbrellas Crepe de Chine Gowns For her personal gift! Why not one of these adorable crepe de chine gowns. They are in all the good shades and In lace trimmed or tailored styles. A mar melous gift at this very low price. . $6.95 ' Furs for Gifts Beniof f Bros. Coats & Scarfs Judging from the interest shown in tho exhibition of fine furs now being shown on our 2nd floor, many women of Med ford are going to have a new fur coat or ocarf for Christmas. This display Is from Benioff Brothers, the oldest wholesale fur house on the coast and is In charge of Mr. John Everett and expert furrier. FUR $1Q50 O J . FUR COATS $895V4985.0 Last Minute Gifts for Him A Sleeveless Sweater Men's and young men's wool sleeveless sweat, crs. These good-looking gifts for men come in either crew or V-neck in such good colors as blue, tan, green, and black. The sixes range from 34 to 40. $2.95 A Shirtcraft Airman SHIRT I $195 What man would not like one or two of these super fine broadcloth hirts. They are the fa mous shirtcraft airman guaranteed to be full cut, correct In size and perfectly tailored in every way. The colors ae guaranteed fast. They are in blue, white, tan, green, peach and gray. Store Closes .at 6 Wed. C "THE, STORE FOB EVEPVBOOV J SCARFS SIQCOO to lOJ fill m Mm AUTO ROBES A beautiful Scotch plaid pure wool auto robe. They come full robe size and are deeply fringed yet the price is very, low. Rubber Base Bath Mats At last a bath mat you can not slip on and what a mar velous gift. They are made with a rubber base and soft wool top and come in oblong or oval shape. All colors. They are guaranteed to give entire satisfaction. $495ai$595 Bath Room Ensembles A splendid gift are these new bath room ensembles. These popular sets consist of one large bath mat, stool cover and lid cover. They are made from heavy terry material in. such good colors. as green, gold or rose. Sheerest Chiffon Silk Hose Women's sheerest of chiffon silk hose In the wanted dull finish. This glorious full-fash, ioned stocking comes in se lected shades only every pair individually boxed. Truly the smartest of all hosiery gifts. $2.95 ROBES Wcmen's and misses' quilted satin and silk robes. A group of gift robes as beautiful as one could wish to see and on ly $9.95. Marvelous new col ors and combinations: just the robe for wife, mother, sister or sweetheart. (2nd Floor). $9.95 $2 $3.45 Hundreds of Gifts for S1.00 on Wednesday at Mann's Boxed Gift $1 Stationery Fiance and Blue jj 1 Rose Bath Powder.... Houbigant's, Coty $1 and other Perfumes.... Wide choice of $1 Framed Mottoes Colgate's Shaving $1 Sets for His Gift A Bath Salts in $1 Novel Packages Large Size Chiffon $ Handkerchiefs , Linen Handk ,f's $1 3 in a box - Novelty Costume j 1 Jewelry for Card Table Covers $ 1 asserted styles . Women's Nainsook $1 Emb. Gowns Women's Kayon ' Sj1 Bloomers & Shorts.... Women's Service . $1 Weight Silk Hose ...... A Women's chiffon silk $ 1 Full-fashioned hose Martex Fast Color $ 1 Bath Towels at Pure Linen Pastel $ "1 Hand Towels at Linen Kitchen Towals Your choioe, $ 1 3 for -1 Decorative Wall Pes. $ I of 20x40 Tapestry Rayon Dresser & $ Table Scarfs Toys for$l Boys' Scooters Mack Tractors Red Chairs . Big Dolls Baby Dolls Large Iron Toys Teddy Bears Toy Tables T Men's Gifts for $1 Non-ravel Rayon ShirU and Shorts Men's Boxed Initial Linen Handkerchiefs Men's Silk Neckwear Broadcloth Shirts 2 Pair of Wool Hose Silk and Wool Scarfs Fine Gift Belts MANN'S