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Newspaper Page TextPXOE EIGHT MEDFOTID MATL TRTBUNE ftfEDFOTtT), OKEGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1930. SALE OF BONDS NOTED FIGURES CALLED BEYOND BULLET ENDS LIFE OF CALIFORNIA TRAIN HOLDUP SUSPECT Confessed Slayer CITY DIRECTORY NOW OFF PRESS Medford Printing Co, Com pletes Accurate Compila tion of Residents and Cottage Street Bridge Issue Goes to Portland Firm at Premium- Work Starts Soon. " Kenneth H. Day, Friend of Fruit Men, Passes in New York Business Will Con tinue, Word. Business Firms. MEDFORD'SNEW . AV WA FOR if?' WORK SPAN MOURNED EE ',f4 Al let; :-' mm "1 . Tho 103,0-31 , city directory, printed by tho Mad ford Vrinting company, Ih completed and 1h be ing dlHtrihutod. The directory haH BPVPii dlHtinct departments and is tho result of careful preparation. This Information wau gathered by an actual canvaxn and wnn com piled in a way to Intiure maximum accuracy. The books, with 274 pagoH, Hell for 110 each. Printed on tinted paper, a de partment on Med ford and the Rogue River valley contoinfl a brief, condensed reaume of tho city tf Medford and tho valley. Tho Information id particularly inter esting and Instructive In connec tion with the substantial elements of the' city and Uh environs. The Buyers Guide contains advertise mtntH of .Medford business firms, The names -of residents, bus! new finiiH, corporations and prof en Blonal men of Medford are liHted alphabetically. The name of tho wife follows that' of the husband, and number of tho children Is ulso Included, uh well as tho occupa tion. BiiKimHfl Clawdfled The classified business directory lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional inter ests In alphabetical order under appropriate headings. The street and avert u guide lists in numer ical order,, the street addresses, room and apartment numbers With the name of the householder fol lowing1. Btvcot intersections arc listed in proper sequence. Tho book also Includes a numer ical telephone directory with the name of the subscriber. By this you can ascertain the name of subscribers from the telephone numbers, , The resume pf Medford and the .valley, facing an airplane view of the city, tells of tho location of the city and its continued growth dur-, Ing the pnst few years. It is brought out that; Medford holds the center of the stngo from a scenic standpoint and its natural gateway to tho Crater lrfiko Na tional 1'arlc Is stressed. The fact that Med ford's popula tion Increased from 5G0G to 13,000 Irt ten yearn Is pointed out, as well an the Ofi per oont Increase In the growth of the county, Tho resume takes Into consideration all Im provements that havo como to this Bootion within the past few years. . . ING ESCAPE RAM5M. Ore., Dec. 27. (JV) Carl Krumskic 40, received hi the state penitentiary July 21, UUO, to serve u seven year term on a charge of larceny through Imper donnt I ns "not her, escaped from the prison at about 7:30 o'clock this morning and is believed to have been picked up by someone In an automobile and taken north toward Portland. - .Krumslck has been employed ns a barber In the new dormitory building, which stands Juttt outside the prison gate, PULP MILL BUILDER BHKI.TON, Wash., Dee. 37. W) George kuppler, 02, memher of the firm of Chris Kuppler and Hons of l'ort Angeles, prominent pulp mill construction firm, Is in the Hhelton hospital, believed to be suffering from fatal Injuries nuHtiilned In an automobile acci dent north of hero last night. Kupplcr's car crashed Into a log alongside the highway when he was forced to take to the ditch to avoid collision with another ear. 4 DORTMUND, Germany, Dec. 27 ,At Aftor yuiti'H of iHtior at thv bliiHt furnaco of tho DortnmmU'r Hlt'd Vrkn Itoliort (1'jrmnnn Cain to feel n Rtcut uffo'tlon for ilw furniiet', Today ho tvt com panion workers thnt It nvfrnod to b culUng him. Lutr they miw him Jump Into the white hot mol ten Ht ((!. ( fto motive beyond the fat - trai'tton or me rurnnce con nm iitifd to the net. STORY 1 (Cuntlnutd from Pag 1) htiHhptii of corn ycurly. Under uch .clrr.umHtnnoeH, a rlno of nearly ' rrntu from record breaking bottom ruotiitionH reached today for corn wnn witiicHNcd, Wheat hIko milled from fri'tth low record prSren. - f- , KUimulh Kalln, New addition to I'ettcnn nchool to bo tnrted poont . Vu Iks s i2taaK-i-i feJL til I . i m.hm . it -juiiBinut iiiiLrn-irT"fif"Tii"iHirti wvrmmtrnrmmwtaVH(fVtM .iiyrnwuMmanwuM GATE CRASHERS FAIL TO ENTER T ; , . i i n . Thousand Guests at Brilliant Affair in Capital oOCiai (Register Is Well Repre sented. WAHIIINdTON, Uce. 27. (IP)- X thoiiHund gwoHtH bruvud incle ment weather hint night to t (imd tho Initial how to Kocli'ty of Ml Helen Lee IOaines Dohorty dauglttcr of MtT4. Henry 1. herly of New York. Uo- They filled the drawing rooms t and hallrooms of ,lhe .Mayflower; hotel,, nil of them taken over forj the nffalr, while oiuhUIo their: llmousliies jammed traffic oi one! of the city's Imindes't avenues, Vice-President Curtis, his fis-. tor, Mrs. Dolly Claim, secretary and Mm Hurley." numerous diplo-j mats, senators and others whose names dot the pages of the social I registers of Washington and New, York were there. J ltut gate crashere did not get in. I A special detail of police guarded . the entrances and unusual cure was given' to compnre the Invita tions presented with the names on the long goo! list. ..',... 4 !TE LA UNION PACIFIC DEPOT I.A fiHANIli:. Dec, 27 id') I'nlon Pacific officials, headed by .1. V. O'Hrlen. general mnnnijcr, arrived here today to dedicate the new $1 Tilt, (Hie Iwn-sto'.y union sta tion in I,a tlrnnde. The ceremony will be held at il o'clock this afternoon, when Mr. O'ltrlen re moves drapes fr.nu the doors. The chuinhor of commerce will be hoet to the ofllcloln at a baneuet to night. CTi 0 HOLLYWOOD, Cul., 27.--(IV-'I hooi- it'n tt lioy." llnroW Lloyit, lHportat'lod film com dliui fiilil In nnuotinrlnK tht lpot-d tirrlval of tho trk t" Mitrrh. Mr. I.lnyil Ik tho formcp AllhliiMl Davis or tho m-rocn. Tho? hnve two dttiiMhtot'H, .Mlhlrptt Olo rln, fl. nntl hrr: ftdopitMl , lMer Mnrjortc Kllxrthvth. 5. , SALEM DOCTORS BAND 10 BATTLE SALtM. Ore., Dec. 27. (tV) To reduce the volume of InduMirlitl lio.HiHal hiMtneHH that In taken away from Hulem by I'nrlland an Hoelatlunn I'H Halem dm-ton hint iUkIU organfred the phynlctan and HtirgrOMH hospital UHKOclntln. The nbjrH of tho orRanlratlon In to provide service for employ en of local Industrial concernH at n fixed monthly rate. DOHERTY 0 Former Jacksonville Pair Add Own Reminiscence to Narrative of Early Days Ml wnn with htafiRiirn Hml. mv- self nnil wlfo road the nlane'nr jaitli'le in the Oingoiilnn, 'The Kirnt ' Oiisgon flold Cnmi,'" wrote Horace .v. cimbiie or wuitsimrg. wuii., to ! aH foIlowH. "My wife grow up there and I lived Ihore for a Hhnrt time. It wns almost a letter from home. Mr. lliirruMKh has written a very graphic 1 ilOHcriptlon of IIioho old timed. As a child 1 spent the win-j ter of ISriS-lSM there at Uol. J. N. i en. I see (ho early miner with pick T. Mlllpr'n. I roniemhor tho excite-1 und shovel In hard pack on his mont ol the Hogua River Indian i hack or leading his hurro, loaded war. And ns my wife lived Ihore! with his equipment, going out into from early childhood sho recog-1 the gulches, In some places stop n I .cd the pictures of several men I ping to sink down a prospect hole, given. Clem I. In and others. We I Others working thsir primitive lemomher the old Kranco-Amerlcnn i rocker or washes or washing the 1(ltui, -rm, ,y Mndlim Jennie UeUo i)fmm. low I rememher that ahout tho middle of April, 1S5, I, with other recruit metuhers of Company A, first Oregon cnvalary, then station ed ut old t'ltmp llulior, wont to old Jacksonville with tho hoys of Com pany I, first Oregon Infantry, to u reception given them hy the mad am, at which time sho presented them with a large sill; flag, the einhlem of her adopted country, How well, with what regal grace m queenly hearing, Rho marched down the street with Captain Hprugue, commander of the coin puny, that glorious flag floating over them. Reaching tho stand, sho, with ft few words, presented It to the hoys In blue. Kindly pardon ATTENDS ARMY F,'- s. .lt, f A'i.Vk h,,- . F . 1 ! -Is- i- VVA v- . Ji4 $ 1 X- . L, f "CJ 1 Preitdent Paul von Hlndenburo (rlflht toreqreun! wth W Mtnltter Withetm Groener ut the autumn manoeuvcti at tbt Ormar army near Berlin. my poi'Honal renilnlscenco,' hut as I marched that tiny I had little thought that thero wan a little flax an haired girl standing on tho eurh who ten years later I would lead to the altar as my wife, she who has walked with me for 65 years hs companion, hut her eyeu wore then on her fathor as o memher of Com pany I. ' -a "In reading over tho Itnrrouglis article the picture Is renewed. Many scenes, many Incidents nro recnll- soil with the old lashionod gold pun, sometimes being well paid hy obtaining possession of bright gol den nuggets. "Then this primitive method was later displaced hy the hydraulic method hy mining comiftiuies. That I have seen in my later years where I have observed tho work done at the Ankony and Ktmis mine at Sterling. Now 1 renllzo that, after all the hardshliis and privations of the pioneers of the old mining dnys old Jacksonville nud tho Rogue River valley are coining tq' the fore. "Though my wife and I nro now far trom the scenes of our child hood and former days, yet we like to read of thorn aa pictured by Mr. Ilurrougs and given us hy the Ore. gonliin." " ' -. MANOEUVERS jfJi . -rT Tf iUTvfSTlS r-Nf '7 k t W t i ;H. 3St i Frank E. Smith (lower left) was shot and killed by Police In spector Walter Garrett (right In set) attempting to escape when arrested with his wife, Ellen, in Oakland. He was the- alleged leader in tho $56,000 Southern Pacific robbery at Nobel, Cal. The woman, pictured above is accused of having driven the rjetaway cars in the Pinole bank and McAvoy tr:un holdups, pre v. tous "jobs." Ab 9ie, at right, is an .ircenal found by police in the Smtth cottage. MANY RECRUITS IN CATERPILLAR CLUB FOR YEAR Pilots Making Leap for Life Now Number 326 Army and Navy Lead List Mail Pilots Second. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (JP) . The moat excltiKlve club in the air the CaterplllaiH which ban neither officers nor dues, has Rain ed ji 141 new members In the 13 man Mia since November, J 19'2!l. ; Records compiled by the ew York Sun from armv data, list 326 fliers who when danger threatened took to their enliven parachutes and floated wifely to earth from un manageable oi fuellews nirplnnes. The army and navy lead the Hut. followed closely by the air mail pilots, the men who take tho mall thruUKh or try to when other pilots would stay safely on the ground. John Hottner Is listed ns Cater pillar No. 1 and Henry Waeker as No, 2. Itoth teaptf were made in Chicago In July, 1919. Charles A. Lindbergh, is il pioneer memner, too, tile jumped to safety from an unmanageable mail plane months before he flew to Paris. BILLY THE SCOUP ON LAST LONG JOURNEY HOLLYWOOD, CaL, Doe. 27. (A) William H. Taylor, known In sereendom as 'Hilly the Scout," 103-year-old Civil War veteran nnd hero nf count Umh Indian fijshts has embarked on the Ions trail on which there Is no backtrack ing. The former pcout for Oeneral Custer and veteran of 20 years of Indian warfare, who for years had been n eo'orful member of Hol lywood's film colony, died yester day of old nge. OCCASIONAL RAIN TO FEATURE NEXT WEEK HAN KHANClSCO.'Dec. 27. &) -The weather outlook for the week hcutnnlntr December 2ft. was announced heiv today by the Unit ed States weather buronu ' fal lows; . s ' Kar western staten: Generally ralr In l-alltornia ami ."Ncwina nno occasional rains or .now. In Wash. fair In California and Nevada and inmon. Ort'Kon and Idaho. Tun- peniture- will be below normal in .abt...li!:. nud the plateau region. nnd about normal elsewhere. Old lUMHent 1 !' LA (IHANDK. tre.. Dee. 27. (V Jt.n S. Darr. 9rt, a resident of AlRln for 45 years, who died ChtOtmnit d;iy. was buried this afternoon at his home city. H wai one of tho oldest residents Q thOsiate. O"4 Mise 1 lodson, Ul sur f vlving filter of Lewis C.irroll. the nuihor of "Alice in wonderland." died recently at CiititUford, Kng-lnd. With Mayor-elect E. M. Wilson prebldlng as vice mayor of tire council In the alisonee from ttiel city of Mayor Pipes, and Allan Curry, dupnty city recorder-treasurer, acting ns recorder In the ab sence of M. L. Alford, the city council last niKht. with only five members present Messsr. Wilson, Grey, Wing, Thorndyke and Hum mond awarded the Cottage street bridge $25,000 bond issue to the brokerage firm of Smith, Camp & Company of Portland, the highest bidder, at 102. 41. The only other bid was that of George H. Iturr, Conrad & Brown, also of Portland, whose bid was $101.78. The Bale of the bonds at 102.41 Is regarded by the city officials as an excelleut price. Preliminary work for the con struction of the new bridge at Cot tage street over Bear creek was be gun : yesterday . by the contractor, in the way of preparing for the abuttments. It is understood that the construction work will begin in a big way the last of this month or the first of next, the work to be rushed from then on until the structure Is completed inside of 90 days, barring possible delay caused by Hoods In the creek. The only other business trans acted at last night's short special session of the cliy council was the passage of a number of ordinances declaring assessments for various street and sewer Improvements. Be tween now and the night of Janu ary 6, on which the new and old councils meet Jointly, the former to finish all its business before the swearing in of the new council, and the latter and the mayor tak ing over the reins of city govern ment, a half dozen more improve ment assessment ordinances will be ready for passage. ., 4 I! IS FATAL FOR STUDENT ' DENVER, Dec. 27. (IP) Rob-)' eit it. Hunter, 37, University of Colorudo law student and a grad uate of the University of Pennsyl vania, was shot to denth yeaterday by Thomas Bowman, his compan ion on a hunting trip near Dillon, Colo. , , Hunter was crawling through the bruh when Uownmn, attract ed by n. moving form, which he thought to be that of an nnlmal, fired. RAM II fire PrttUent tit charge of-tilrrriliint General Food, Corporation "I cannot believe that the present enormous budgets' would have been voted by responsible business men without such a measuring stick as the A. B. C. pro vides. Its foundation marks the turning point in adver tising." , . ' I. PHI DlreeUr at Pnbltt Helmttni Western Electric lettipaay "Business would never have spent millions to buy circu lation, by the pile. Accus tomed to purchase copper, lumber or lead by an accepted unit ol' measure, we asked the same type of yardstick for space. The A. B. C. gave it to us." O O Asxnnl'itCft 'rcsa Photo Raymond Gunn, 30, ex-convlct, held In St. Joseph, Mo., as the al leged confessed slayer of Velma Colter, 19, school teacher, who was beaten to death in a rural school near Maryvllle, Mo. COAST LUMBER FOR THIS YEAR "BAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 27. P) Materially raising slatistics hithcito published, the J ;:!0 lumber output of the Pacific coast region, including five states, is estimated at 11,315,0110,0(10 board feet by J. II. Fitzgerald of the West Const Lum bermen's association. He prepared a !;tuteineut for the Associated Press. Estimates given by FiUgerald for 1930 by states follow: Idaho. 700.000,000 board feet. ' Washington, 6,500,000,000 to 5, 730,00,0,000. uregon, o,iuz,uuu,uuu ipc-ssiuiy too low). California and Nevada, 1,953,000, 000. Total, 11,315,000,000. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 27. (IP) The practice of allowing foreign lumber to eiUer this country un marked is to continue unchanged. This was the word received here yesterday by the collector' of cus toms, who was informed that a meeting: to have been called by the bureau of customs in Washington, D. C, had been cancelled. ... No reason was advanced for tho change in program. , , , SAN KK13ASTIAN, Spain; Dec. 27. WP) The French steamer Bou gnnvllle lay oh the rocks in the channel at the entrance to Port Pasajes harbor today in imminent danger of breaking up after grounding last night in a storm. Several ships have gone to her aid. 4 Mnrshfield -Going 1-loteJ opened at Anderson and Broadway. OUTPUT SHOWN But STARR L . Til O !tl S O If Is iff &s Bj" - -vi-msf-Mi I JTpi nil iii niiiiw in fib ."0'W V I Mk-Ai f L.i.i"i.wii';iytii'i?iri'''in.'M, ttrlUfmrnl by A I 1 I T It I II i: A I OP Chct Two men, nationally known in their respective lines of endeavor and know In this city and valley, passed yesterday. One was Frank McKluney (Kin) Hubbard of Indianapolis, lnd cre ator of the quaint and lovable "Abe Martin" of humorous fame, and the other was Kenueth 11. Day, vice president of Sgobel & Day, fruit ditsrlbutors of New York City, lo cally represented by C. C. Lem mon. Hubbard wafc a personal friend of Ed M. White of this city, and the local resident was one of his most ardent admirers. White knew Hubbard before he rose to fame, and saw the start of his cartoons and philosophy when both were res idents of Indianapolis. White was manager of a restaurant and mem ber of a symphony orchestra in In dianapolis when Hubbard was a re porter on the Indianapolis Star. They met daily and the friendship formed t'len survived the years. , Inspired Quips Many of Hubbard's Quips and jests about the trombone were in spired by White, and the sudden passing of an old friend was a se vere blow to the local man. Kenneth H, Day was well known among fruit growers and shippers of thin city and valley as his firm was among the first to establish plunlH here. He was an annual visitor and a member of the New York committee of the local ship pers and growers. He was a steadfast friend of the fruit Industry of this section and advised often in decisions affect ing local conditions in the eastern marts. On his visits here he inva riably addressed the traffic asso ciation. According to word received by Mr. - Lemmon, the organization started by Horace Day,- father of Kenneth, 62 years ago, was left in excellent condition and the entire personnel will continue to carry on the Sgobel & Day service and poli cies. ' ... ' .... KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS LEADER SERIOUSLY ILL GRAND RAPIDS. Mich.. Dec. 27. OF) Martin. H. Ctvrmody, 08, supremo Knight of Columbus,. 1m in a serious condition In a hos pital here with pneumonia. Mr. Cnrmody is a member of th French lesion of honor and is a knlftht of the order of St. Gregory the Great. ' In 36 years tho late Augustus Gordin wrote 84,013.920 words for the Logan, Utah, Journal, of which hf was editor. LER Advertisers, men who. direct the budgets of great companies ..... Men who spend money for space in order to promote more profitable business ... ''. Looking back over the active dec ades, they search out the turning point in American Advertising, the period when the confidence of busi ness was won, Independently, they agree on time and place. . It was the discovery of the Yard stick . . . The finding of a unit of measure for the value of advertising space. A onit as positive, as reliable, as the measure for coal or wheat, r Sixteen years ago a group of adver tisers met with publishers and agen cies in Chicago. To bring order out 1 V of chaos in circulation claims, they S" founded, on May 20, 1914, the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In 1914, publication advertising totalled about $250,000,000. In 1927, year of the latest government report, it had reached over a billion dollars. That this growth could not have come without the A. B. C. is the judgment of advertisers themselves. founded at the instance of adver tisers, having advertisers in the majority on its Board of Directors, the A. B. C. exists to safeguard the interests f advertisers. For them, it forms the bulwark against the chaos that once was ad vertising. It has enabled tham ti buy advertising with confidence. In recognition of this service, an increasing number of leading adver tisers hold membership today in tlic Audit Bureau of Circulations. o G CIRCULATIONS