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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDEORD, OREGON, FRIDAY; DECEMBER 16, 1932.
Changes in Cage Rules
Target for Bricks and
Bouquets From Critics
BT FORREST V. ALLEN
(Written lor The Associated Press)
LA WREN CK, KssA Dec. 16 (AP) Recent changes In the buketbsJl
rule have produced violent criticism on the one band and fervent ap
proval on the other.
The game Itself has been under
as
W.J
fir
romtsi cuti"
fire for the last few years, Its critics
charging that basketball was losing
the charm It
once possessed.
The fast break
ing, high scor
ing, non - block
1 n g, rollicking
Joust of yester
year, lovers of
the game com
plained, had giv
en way to the
hyper- slow
"break," the su
per block, the
annoying stall.
The sure-thing
alow passing
game, coupled
with the monot-
enous "plunk, plunk, plunk" of the
rear guard's walking dribble, bring
ing the ball up for a "pick-off" play,
clearly had gotten on the custom-
era' nerves. All except the experts
and coaches, who could appreciate
auch delicate workmanship, charged
the gams had become a funeral
march.
It was with all this In mind that
the Joint basketball rules commit
tee, of which I am a member, met
after the close of last season and
effected three Important changes In
the playing code.
The changes were labelled the
"blocking rule," the "10-second rule"
. and the "three-second" rule.
Outlaw "Legal Block"
To begin with, the committee out
lawed the familiar term "legal
block" by Inserting the following
clause: "Blocking Is personal con
tact which tmpedea the progress of
an opponent who. hss not the ball."
Legally abutting off an opponent
henceforth should be called
"screening."
The 10-second rule, aimed at
speeding up the present palsied
play, reads:
"(a) when a team gains posses
sion of the ball In Its own back
court that team must advance the
ball over the center Una within 10
seconds unless the ball, while out
of control of the team, touohes or
Is touched by an opponent. In the
latter event, a new play results and
the 10-second rule begins again
when the ball Is regained In the
back court. When team has ad
vanced the ball over the center line,
It may not return ths ball to Its
own back court until:
: (1) A try for goal has been made,
or (3) a Jump ball at center or else
where has taken place, or (8) an
out-of-bounds award has been made,
or (4) the ball has been recovered
from the possession of the oppo
nets. "(2) When a team gains posses
sion of the ball In Its own front
court as a result of (1), (9), (3) or
), It may cause ths ball to go back
over ths center line once only."
Blocking Same As Clipping
The "three-second" rule Is aimed
at deliberate, set blocking plays In
the free-throw area by a system of
body checking, whereby a tall, pow
erful center stands with his bsck
to his bssket and waits for the ball
to be fed to him, then holds it until
a Block Is executed and a teammate
comes racing In.
I say without fear of contradiction
that all slow-break teams use the
block as their chief scoring wenpon.
Blocking or "picking off" In basket
ball now are similar In principle to
clipping In football.
Both are against ttw rules!
OUT OF PEN UNTIL
BIRTHS
W. B. Bhelley, former Medford re
ligious worker and Clackamas county
farmer, sentenced to 36 years In state
prison upon conviction of a statu
tory offense Involving his own daugh
ter, won a temporary victory In his
efforts to keep without penitentiary
walls when the Clackamas county
court ruled this week that the con
victed man did not have to enter
Salem prison until after a motion
for a new trial, filed by his counsel,
has been argued and decided. The
motion will be argued next Monday.
It Is likely that Shelley will spend
Christmas in the county Jail at Ore
gon City.
Shelley this week filed an applica
tion with the Clackamas county court,
setting forth that his wife and 16-year-old
son are destitute, ar,d asking
funds for their support. Shelley him
self Is under the care of the Veterans'
Hospital at Portland for ear trouble.
Shelley Is fairly well known in this
city and county, where he lived for
several years and a number of local
people were called as witnesses In the
trial. . '
Shelley In his plea for a new trial
claims errors at law of the court, and
failure to give proper Instructions to
the Jury, and slleges that the daugh
ter and complaining witness, pointed
out to other witnesses crucial points
In the testimony that should not have
been allowed to reach the Jury.
T HEROINE
FULLY RECOVERED
Mn. John Rolmer of Prospect,
whose superhuman efforts In rescu
ing her our-y ear-old son, Jackie,
from the ley waters of Rogue river,
when the auto she was driving
plunged over an embankment, on the
Crater lake highway throe weeks ago,
has recovered from a cold and at
tack of flu. The shock and chill of
the plunge weakened Mrs. Holmef.
Mrs. Holmer, when thrown Into the
water, swam back to the auto and
rescued her boy. The swift current
tore him from her grasp, and then
she swam down stream and again
seized him, and finally reached shore,
In a weakened condition.
Jackie suffered no 111 effects, but
according to his father has developed
a decided aversion to water In large
quantities.
The auto has been pulled from Its
watery bed, and sustained no heavy
damage.
Nagging Wives
Bad For Pilots ,
Says Examiner
ALBANY, K. Y., Dec. 1G(AP)
Nagging wives and bill collectors
lower the efficiency of airplane
pilots, says Dr. Wade H. Miller of
Kansas City, one of the pilot ex
aminers for American Airways, Inc.
Dr. Miller, stopping In Albany to
examine passenger plane pilots,
said that recent research had dis
closed the tremendous Importance
of mental hazards caused by wor
ries. "Bill collectors, debts or garnish
ments can make a man less fit,"
he said, "and so can a scolding
wife or one who wants to call up
every hour to check up on her hus
band's movements."
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ahl
faorn a son, weighing 6 pounds, at
Purucker's maternity home this
morning.
Portland. Oregonlan Wool Grow
ers' association convention held here.
Riggs Infant Dies
Aged Only 4 Days
Roy Leon Rlggs, Infant son of Mr,
and Mrs. Roy Rlggs of Phoenix,
passed away at the Community hos
pital early Friday morning aged four
days. He was a grandson of Mr. and
Mrs. Samuel Hendrlckson and Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Rlggs. Burial serv
ice will be held at the grave In Phoe
nix cemetery today.
Ashland. New casement enclosed
show windows Installed, at Uthta
bakery.
Olatskanle New Masonic temple
formally dedicated.
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2000 lbs. FREE
FEED
is a lot of feed to Rive
away to the readers of
this paper in a TEST
to help Improve the
flocks and profit of
every poultryma
Attention
-H Club
Members
this territory,
NOPCO XX and
mixers and dealers
cooperating
feed J
rs are
So Why Wait ?
Sign Up
Your dealer's
"all sef'tu-
feed and forms
Every Poultrvman
this territory should get
in ins test now started.
.na, Feb. 28, 1933
IMPORTANT i'O POULTRY MEN AND TURKBY GROWERS
This is a FEED TEST NOT a Letter Writing Contest THE PUR.
53l?JMT Voun,l,i m vur way, on your ranch, regarding
NOPCO XX results. Then lut your results on wrapping psper, if you
like. Form is of no consequence. Sign up with your dealer for the FEED
TEST whether you write a letter or not You cen do as you plsaie about
that
GUNNERS READY
FOR BIG SHOOT
Gun club members and other local
sportsmen are anxiously awaiting ar
rival of the big shoot to be held at
the airport grounds.
It will be conducted under the
Lewis system, which Is considered the
fairest for all shooters, both low and
high average men. There will be
three prizes for each five men shoot
ing and 10 ten-target events.
The only handicap event of the
day will be for the silver cup trophy
on which several have already won
two of the three legs necessary for
permanent ownership.
a warm club house will be opened
to the shooters and luncheon will be
served at noon. There will be tur
keys, hams and bacon offered as
prizes and shooting will begin at 11
a. m. and continue until 3 p. m.
FEAR FILIBUSTERS
'Lame Duck' Congress Often
Scene of Turmoil As Bills
Talked to Death by Dis
gruntled Partisans.
BY
WASHINGTON, Dee. IS CAP)
Most golfing senators pray for fine
weather on Saturday afternoons when
the senate usually takes time out.
senator McNary, of Oregon, the as
sistant Republican leader, was In that
frame of mind when a page boy en
tered saying the weather man had
predicted 14 above zero for last night
with prospects the cold would con
tinue.
Do tell him I sm displeased with
that forecast," the senator directed
the boy without a smile.
The boy took him at his word and
was sbout to call Mr. Forecaster when,
as McNary put It later, VI caught him
just in the nick of time."
BILTCOOS Planting of steel-heads
and cutthroata made during recent
week in Stltcoos laks.
Roseburg. style Shop, ladles'
ready-to-wear and millinery business.
opened In Bell building.
By HERBERT PLUMMER.
WASHINGTON A question upper.
most In the minds of most political
observers In the capital at present Is
whether this. In all probability, last
"lams duck ' session of congress will
wind up on March 4 a success or fail
ure.
That period Just before the change
of party control in government Is an
uncertain one. Because It must ena
by law on March 4. a "lame duck"
session offers rsre opportunities to
the flllbusterer and obstructionist.
woodrow Wilson became so dis
gusted with this sort of thing that
at the eloee of the session in lain ne
charged: '
A groun of men In the senate nave
deliberately chosen to embarrass the
administration of government . . . "
This particular "lame duck" session
had wound up In a grand filibuster
one that left a mass of "unfinished"
legislation In Its wake.
An Example.
A good example of Just how destruc
tive such sessions ss this one can be
occurred back In 1910-11, In the ad
ministration of President Taft. For
turmoil and filibustering It perhaps
equals any.
The celebrated Payne-Aldrlch tar
iff bill had been repudiated by the
voters the preceding November. Presi
dent Taft's re-election In 1613 was
doomed.
The "lams ducks" met, passed the
necessary appropriation bills and
then proceeded to go on a rampage.
First of all they killed the tariff
board. Approval of the constitutions
of New Mexico was blocked. One sens
tor, Bsllsv of Texas, angrily resigned
his seat because of this action and
then reconsidered. ,
In the last hours of ths session
Senator Ellhu Root smothered a re
apportionment bill, and Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts talked to
death a $80,000,000 pension bill.
Issues Vital Now.
Whether the last session of ths
72nd will meet a similar fate remains
to be seen.
There are , several things which
would seem to prevent It. In the
first place the Issues before this con
gress for disposition are so vital that
It might take a bravs man to start
anything like a filibuster whether be
he a "lame duck" or an "In."
Then, too, there are many republi
cans who firmly believe that their
defeat last November was because It
was a democratic year. When things
return to their normal state, they
reason, they'll come back. For that
reason these men may be careful of
their steps In the coming months.
WHO SAID' 'NO SANTA CLAUS'?
fern'
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. Laundry Soap
Large Bars fassf
O. K. Soap, 'jk
Special
DRIP COFFEE MAKER
Large enamel drip process coffee percolator, OA
One pound Schillings' Coffee packed with J) 1 Zj
20 filter papers. Both for ,
WHITE KING SPECIAL
Large Pkg. granulated soap; 3 ban White f f
King toilet loap; red and blue toy express
car . 9J
Meat Department Specials
Choice Steaks,
lb 12Jc
Hamburger and
Sausage, lb. . . 5c
Beef Roast, lb. . .8c
Pork Roast, pic
nic cuts, lb. . . 8c
Beef Pot Roast .7c
Hams, lb. . ... 12c
Bacon, lb. .12c
Xmas Necessities: Candy, Fresh Fruits, NuU, Canned
Fruits for Salad, Cocktail Fruits, Karo for Candy, Bak
ery Goods, eto.
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Did somebody say there wasn't any 8anta ClautT Susan Fleming,
screen player. Is shown here rehearsing for the old fellow's scheduled
appearance on December 25. (Associated Press Photo)
PORTLAND, Dec. 16. (AP) Sher
iff John W. Connell of Washington
county will head the Oregon State
Association pt Sheriffs for the com
ing year, succeeding Sheriff Martin
T. Pratt of Multnomah county. Of
ficers were elected at the conclusion
of the annual meeting here yester
day. - .
Other officers are Harold Sexton,
Wasco, vice -president; Oscar Weed,
Columbia, re-elected secretary-treasurer;
A. B. Miller, Wallowa, Lloyd
I. Lowe, Klamath, and Martin Pratt,
Multnomah, members of executive
committee.
It takes a Christmas Seal to make
it a Christmas gift.
DRIES
while ,
you .
WAITI
ROGERS BRUSHING LACQUER
"Rogers" dries before your eyes, dries before dusi can settle on it,
dries free of brush marks to a colorful porcelain-like film that wears
and wears. "Rogers" comes in twenty-six shades, including black
and white, and Rogers Clear Brushing Lacquer for linoleum.
Rogers Brushing Lacquer, per pint jC
Rogers Enameloid Of?,
LaCqUei Suitable for 'finishing toys.
SATURDAY, 4 P. M.
fe'J Mr.-X
Do His Stuff
In Our Store
Window
Mr. X will paint a landscape picture
Using SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
PAINTS. DONT MISS THIS!
Tomorrow 4 o'clock
at
Hubbard Bros. inc.
E. Main and Riverside Phone 231
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SEATTLE, Dec, 16. (AP) Current
new business of 316 mills, which pro
duced 10.7 per cent of their weekly
capacity during the week ending De
cember 10, was 7.64 per cent over
production while shipments were 12.7
per cent under production, the West
Coast Lumbermen's association said
today.
Unfilled orders Increased 8.478.000
feet from the previous week; new ex
port business was 4,085.000 feet less;
new domestic cargo orders decreased
8,662,000 feet; new rail business de
creased 1,630,000 feet and the local
trade dropped 2,630,000 feet.
PORTLAND, Dec. 16. (AP) With
production continuing at seasonal
low levels and orders decreasing
sharply as compared with the previous
week, the Western Pine association re
ported today that new business to
uted 19,003.000 feet for the week end
ing December 10. This was about 55
per cent under the three-veear aver
age for December and 24 per cent
under the total for the previous week.
Only 84 of the 114 reporting mills
were operating.
Oregon Weather.
Occasional light rain or sleet west,
and snow flurries In the east tonight
and Saturday: slowly rising tempera
ture: moderate southerly winds off
shore. Health can be bought Christmas
Seals are the currency.
SECRETARY HYDE.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 16- (A?) A
resolution asking congress to order
Secretary Hyde to maintain lowered:
grazing fees In 1933 was decided on
today by Senators Stelwer (R., Ore.)
and Carey (R.. wyo.). as the first
outgrowth of the secretary's failure
yesterday to see them at an appointed
hour to take up the matter.
Hyde, Stelwer and Carey said today,
had made no effort to apologize to
them or explain his failure to keep
the appointment with thera' yester
day, which was made by Carey.
The agriculture secretary eiplalned
to newspapermen last night that he
was late reaching his office and had
another appointment.
It Is socially correct to use Christ
mas seals. Buy lots of them.
AT THE FIRST SNEEZE
use
Misfol
NIOHT AND V V J
PUT
f Essence of Mlst&l
ON YOUR HANDKERCHIEF
AND PILLOW
IT'S HEW
SWEM'S
GIFT SHOP
"The store of a thousand
thoughtful little gifts"
HERE AEE A FEW RANDOM SUGGESTIONS.
ARE MANY MORE IK THE STORE
THERE
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Fostorla Glassware
FlTe-Tear Diaries
Writing Portfolios
Picture Frames
Fancy Playing Cards
Book Mnrks and Plates
Book Ends
Pewter Salt and Peppers
Candlesticks
Candles All Colors
Pancake Compacts
Boudoir Lamps
Cigarette Seiradors
Bill Folds
Military Brushes '
Keytnlners
Coin Purses
Brief Cases
Pocket Sewing Kits
Tooled Steerhlde Parses
Eastman Kodaks
Photo Albums
Boxed Stationery
RoseTllle Pottery
Liquor and Wine Sets
Candy Jars
Bud Tases
Door Knockers
Framed Silhouettes
Bed Lamps
Persian Print Scarfs
Weller Pottery
Modem Library Books
Fruit Bowls
Star Dollar Books
Mixing Bowls
Bibles Special Price
Stsmp Albums
Garden Books
Serving Trays
Casseroles Metal Framei
9ets of Dishes
Tea Sets
Cocktail Trays
Table tamps
Dek Sets
Poker Chips and Racks
Rand MrNally Globes
World Atlas
Consols Mirrors
Metal Radio Ornaments
Popular Copyright Fiction
Chess Sets
Crlbbage Boards
Pinochle Counters
Plaque Silhouettes
Incense and Burners
Fairy Fuels
Brass Trays
Colonial Lamps
Deml-Tasse Sets
Decanters and Glasses
Sewing Baskets
Boys and Girls' Books
Costume Jewelry
Perfume Atomizers
Crater tyike Pictures
Enchanted Lake Book
Mahogany Nut Bowls
Hobnail Glass Lamps
Ping Pong Sets
Child's Wardrobe Trunks
Gay Soldier Ten Pins
Reproduction Oregon Cradles
Lacquer Cabtnels
Rummy, Rook, Llndy, Games
Roulette Wheels
nandkerchlefs
Luncheon Clotb and Napkins
First Aid Kits
Boy Scout Scrap Books N
Clothes Rrmfics In Cases
Hnmley Toilet Kits
Jollification Sets
Leather Book Covers
Rock Crystal Necklace
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Musical Powder Boxes
Vonlty Mirrors
, F.denr Guest Rooks
Elbert tlnbbard Scrap Books
Florentine Pictures and Frames
Felt-o-Gram Games
Velvet Plush Dolls
Novelty Animals
Handmade Russian Things
Kitchen 1'tlllty Boxes
Pitchers and Jugs
Cocktail Shakers
Refrigerator Sets
Fostoria Ice Tubs
Pipe In Tobacco Pouch
Dictionaries
Csctus Bowls
Dog Fsmllles, China snd Metal
Hearth Brooms
Cedar Chests with Stationery
Foot SJools .
Copper Bowls snd Vsses
Kodak F.nlargements
Circulating Library Memberships $1.00 a Year
Make enjoyable Xmas presents. An entire yeors supply of books
resd one a day. Gift Folder supplied with each Membership.