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PAGE SIT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", SUNDAY, MAT 14, 1933. Medford Mail Tribune "Eviryoni In Southern Origan Audi ths Hail TrlbUM" Dally txccpt t&tanUy , . . . Published br MEDFORD PRIMING CO. ss-ar-at n. rif au pi fs BUB CUT W. RUHL, Bdltor As Independent Nmpspar Entered u second due mt Orecoa, uoder Act of Uu-eb I, ;tcr it Uedford. 1879. BURSCRIPTION BATES Br Mall In AdraoM Daily, on Jtu .B.OO Daflr. Ill Bonthf 1.T5 ' Daily, one nontb 00 Bi Carrier. In Adranee Medford1. Ashland. Jickwnrllle, Central Point, Pboenii, Went, Gold HU1 and on HJjhwajrt, Dally, one jreer. .90.00 Dally, su BontAf S.io - Dally, on month .80 Au terms, cub In amine. Official parer of tbe City of Medford. Official paper of Jaclnon Count. MEMBER OP TnB ASSOCIATED PRESS Reedrlni Full Leased Wire BerrlM Tbt Associated Press Is exelutlrely anUtled to tin use tar publication or su news oupatcnet credited to n or otnervis credited In uui p and also to the local news published herein. All rifbt for publication of ipedal dlspatebes serein are also reserved. MEMBER OF ONITED PRESS MEMBER 0? AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives at C. M0GEN8EN COMPANY Offices Id Ne Tori, CWea, Detroit, Ban Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre rT- v. O. O. Mclntjrre NEW YORK NEW YORK. May 13 The Seal' ham haa bla aay: I'm supposed to b a down doff Just because I haven't ihe dignity or the Beaton. My I hair won't lay ' straight. But no- I body's auppoaad to cava dignity when they're uat two. fining on t f three. What do V -1 . 'It they x p e e tf VT 1 tJ Anyway, I'm not I over my fright I yet. . i I wa oorn might aa well be autobiographical, i aU tha writer. ' are In Beverly Hllla. Out on the Ben Ray Myera place. One time in New York, whUe dining with my present master, Mr. Meyer aald: "How'd you like to have a Bealy ham?" not knowing that bird would take anything offered. Bo Mr. Meyera returned and I waa taken from two brothere. a. sister and an adoring mother. I never saw my father. I've heard he la now a re tired Don Juan on the Will Rogers place. Also I understand be deserted many other ladles .In bis day, the old Casanova. They nailed me In a box and put me on a train. That trip la why I'm aucb a fraldy at audden noises. For five days It waa a nightmare of lurches, quick stops, strange whistles and clanging bells. Just the other day they took me down to a railroad etatlon and I tossed a conniption fit right before all those people. Crossing the continent they gave me food, but I didn't want to eat. O, well, not more than four or five tlmea day. I thought I would never get to wherever I waa going. It looked like dirty work at the cross-roads. was only an ltty-bltty shaver, who had never been out of the yard. Financing the Pear Crop A RECENT statement in thig paper that the financing of the 1933 fruit crop had been arranged, has met with considerable criticism on the part of certain growers. This criticism is based upon a misinterpretation of that statement. We did not mean that the securing of B. F. C. funds meant that EVERT fruit grower could be given, either all the money he wants, or all the money he needs. The statement should have been taken with ita context. Th context involved the securing of federal financial aid, on the basis, which the local representative on the regional commit tee, and a majority of the pear growers, insisted upon. This was a great victory for Medford, and wag almost en tirely due to the efforts made, by local individuals and organ. izations. It marked the successful termination of a long battle, and did mean that the major financial problem here had been solved. CTRINGENT rules, however, cover the granting of govern ment loans to any one. Ranch records, the financial standing and credit resources of the individual, form an im portant part of these federal regulations. Obviously these regulations must be lived up to. Those who can't live up to them are, aa the phrase goes, "out of luck." This is extremely unfortunate, but as far as federal aid is concerned, can't be helped, at this late date. . ""NE of these growers has made a suggestion to this news paper, which we regard as a good one. It' is that these growers, unable to secure federal financial aid, and there appear to be many of them, form an association, pool their resources, and thus by united action try to secure financial aid, in the local field. These growers, as a whole, have brought their crops along successfully thus far, the frost danger is practically over, they only need credit for spray dope and a few months operation The originator of the idea maintains they need no cash, merely extension of credit. It seems to this paper, that such assistance, is of sufficient importance not only to them( but to this community as a whole to justify the most active local support. AS we pointed out a few days ago, local labor haB shown a TV ill in rrn pan in fro m Vil wifi Vi o 1. AfAn .. n , v s " -. u uuv, jigTTL. un vuu wuj,, elvo their services for practically nothing, in the hope that .the returns will allow them wages.. In our opinion, local supply bouses, should be willing to do AS MUCH, not only to help the growers, but to benefit the community, for the larger the looal fruit crop we said local), the larger the gross returns, and the better for all concerned. Personal Health Service By William Brady, MD. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hygiene, not to disease. diagnosis pr treatment, wiu be answered oy ur. orouj u a suuupcu, addressed envelope Is enclosed. Letters shoold be brief and written to Ink. Owing to the large number of Utters received only a few can be answereo here. No reply can be made to queries not conforming to instructions. Address Dr. William Brady to care of The aiau xnonnaw Finally, when I'd lost hope we went through a dark tunnel and mopped a long while. Some men came around, lifted me Into an express wagon ana the next thing I knew I waa In my new home. They took me In the back way when, as a matter of faot, I have a pedigree longer than any one around this house. I go back to the Hueguenote, but from the start they never appreciated me In this house. Everybody crowded around while they unorated me, peeping and mak ing cracka. Finally they lifted me to the floor and there I waa In the kitchen. I shook myself of a few doo-dads, picked up along the way, auch aa nails, bolts, pieces of twine and a smear or so of axle grease. Then Harry, the colored man, gave me a bath and would you believe it I waa aa clean, fluffy and may I add pure? as tha driven enow. Then he rolled me In a blanket and I had ihe awelleat anooae elnoe I left mamma. X certainly bit It off, great una. Some time later after theater, I think I waa awakened and saw my new mistress and master bending over me. They were dressed up like Mrs. As tor's plush horse, I have some of my father's flattery so I wagged my tall, snuffled their shoe tips and licked their outstretched bands. Then I deolded to cute them. So I raced around the house In dlaay whirls, winding up before them on on haunch with my pink tongue clear down to here. I knew I hed them emack In the palm of my paw. They were mine for the asking. The master Is skinny and some thing of a comto valentine. The mis tress la my choice and the Boston's, too, In the master always speaks or is as "My Dogst" He thinks he's quite a person, but you ought to see him In long underwear. They gave me the slaslest name Rainbow. Isn't that ' darling? Sounds like mother's little beam of light when as a matter of truth I'm a hard mutt. You ought to see me whan nobody's looking. Pop In some time and get an eyeful of the piano lega. Isgave every one of them the business after I had been spanked plenty for gnaw ing the seat out of a chair. I began gnawing on a kitchen stool and work ed up to piano lega In leea than ten days. F. D. Should Stay Home A CRUCIAL test for President Roosevelt's sound political economic conference in London, approaches. Foreign governments will bring strong pressure upon the President to attend this important gathering. They will claim no one can properly represent him, that he alone can give the conference proper authority and prestige, that if he remains away the meeting will be a failure. Such appeals, directly to a man's sense of public duty, and indireotly to his vanity, are terribly potent. It will take not only great strength of character but penetrating shrewdness, to resist them. But unless Roosevelt does resist them we fear he will be making a serious perhaps a fatal mistake. . POR the United States can't win any victory in London, that will satisfy the American people. . Such a viotory simply isn't in the cards. The cards are stacked against Uncle Sam before he starts. Not only can this country present no delegation, headed by the President or anyone else that can cope successfully with the diplomatic skill and resourcefulness of the European dele gations, but the temper of this meeting will inevitably be "any thing to beat the Yankees." In spite of the recent preliminary conferences in Wash ington, and the sweet and soothing things said by all and sundry, the plain truth it America is more unpopular in Eur ope today than ever before. The war debts were bad enough, Unole Sam going off the gold standard, only made things worse. A LIGHT AT NIGHT 18 A XECKOIICISM. My email son who 1- five years of ege awaken during the night and says he la afraid and. I must put on the light. He haa a nap every af ternoon of one hour and haa very nourish ing food. I wrote you a few weeks ago and I am aorfy I neglected to aend & stamp ed addressed envelope. I can't under- atand why thia should be. I would greatly appreciate your help. Thanking you In advanoe, I am . (Mr. 8. J. O.) Come, come, my dear Watson, the letter present; aflVeral ieatures of in terest. Twice in the brief message the lady seems to apologize for her son First because he la small, and again because ahe can't understand bla ex traordinary behavior. Then ahe acknowledge that he is personage of Imperious character and when he commands there la naught to do but obey. lit la quite likely the young man, when compos- lng the household for his rest at night leaves a memorandum with the subconscious to wake him at 1 and. again around 4 without fall so that he may have the pleasure or commanding that there be light. There's a lot of satisfaction for spoiled child seeing everybody Jump when he calls. This child has very nourishing food, whatever that may mean. It means nothing to us. but perhaps It implies some kind of insipid proprietary atuff In the mind of the unfortunate child's parents. The training and en vlronment that cultivate the habit of raising an alarm and demanding light and activity from ail hands In the night would scarcely fall to cultivate queer whims and abnormal tastes as to food. One of the characteristic traits of our national neurotlclsm Is our childlike delight In pretty packages. Every child Is entitled to a clean, comfortable, airy -and reasonably quiet place to sleep, and a bedtime schedule as unchangeable as dinner time. Babies under six months of age should sleep from sixteen to eighteen hours a day, the waking periods be ing only an hour or so long'. At the age of a year fourteen to sixteen hours of sleep will be enough, eleven or Jwelve at night, and two or three hours in the day, In morning and aft ernoon naps. At the age of two years, the baby still needs the eleven or twelve hours sleep at night and shorter naps of perhaps an hour each forenoon and afternoon. At four years, the child needs the same eleven or twelve hours sleep at, night and a nap of one-half hour once or twice dally. The afternoon nap should be kept up until the child is six or seven yeara old, and even In older children it la an excellent health habit not to be discouraged. Prom six to ten yeara a child can get along with eleven hours sleep every night. Prom twelve to sixteen years, ten hours sleep the right ration. The nursing or bottle fed infant should be put to bed Immediately after the late afternoon feeding. Old er children who have dinner or sup per at six or six-thirty may be allow ed to pass the time between dinner and bedtime at any quiet amusement or play, but should not be allowed to have any exciting diversions at this time. When the child's natural inclina tions and habits are not broken by bad teaching or training, the child will go to bed and aleep nights like any healthy young animal. The spoil' ed oh lid acquires his fondness for lights and alarums In the night from demonstrations by hia parents guardians. Just as the twig Is bent the tree Inclined. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Fnvus of Nails. I have what is called a fungus growth of the fingernails, favus. Many kinds of treatment have proved of no avail ... (J. P. B.) Answer X-ray treatment Is effec tive. What, Iodln for Coryza? Correspondent writes to a London newspaper from pomeranta to say that he has found that one drop of or dinary iodine taken In a glassful of cold water "prevents most colds If It is taken as soon as the symptoms appear." He adds that the same dose repeated after several hours does no harm, tho In his experience it has seldom proved necessary. I never have these so-called "colds ' any more. wonder If the reason is that I take a drop of Iodine once a week. (D. C Answer I don't know whether it Is an instance of si mil la slmlllbus curantur, but I do know that in some persons Iodine or any iodide will quickly produce a coryza, with red dened eyelids, running nose, etc., i state which physicians call lodlam We'd like to hear from our homeo pathic frlenda, tf any, about It, and also from readers who take an Iodln Ration, Canners Should Can the Uncanny I believe it la safe to leave canned, food In the can after opening, and that you are right about this, but I inclose labels which show some can- neers do not agree. (Mrs. L. P. D.) Answer Yes, some canners are fond of mystery. (Copyright 1033, John P. Dllle Co.) TO EAR OF BANKS IMPLICATES FEHL (Continued from Page One.) IN London it will b the field against the United States. The tariff truce arrived at yesterday so optimistically played up by the London correspondents, means nothing at all. The tariff situation today is about as bad as it could be. Main taining the Btatua quo merely means, that during this confer ence it will not be worse. More than that. Unless all signs fail in fact unless an actual miracle happens. national self interest will rule this meeting. Call it patriotism, nationalism, what you will, each world power will be trying to get as much as it oan and give aa little. In such an atmosphere, there will be strong effort to lower tariffs, but always for the otjier fellow. With the United States, no longer a debtor but a creditor nation, this will mean a united European drive, to tear down the 'American tariff wall, and retain the tariff walls of Europe. Europe will also be united against paying the war debt, and again unless a miracle happens, Europe will never pay another cent. "What does this meant It means that to acoomplish any thing worth while, the United States must make the chief iboncessions. This may he necessary, it may be right, it might even in the long run by benefitting ALL world trade, BENE FIT more than injure America. But the American people as a whole will never be able to see that. And any government that will caneel war debt, or lower tariffs to the extent of closing American factories and throwing more men out of work will be politically crushed at the first opportunity. So by going to London, and thus becoming identified per sonally with the American cause, President Roosevelt would have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Staying at home keeping out of the mess, will not only be j best for him, but best for the cause of world reconstruction and i .world peace. see me. The next morning, I toia my folks, I would marry a girl from the enst east to us meant New Eng land. Sure enough! In later years married a girl from Connecticut The second "vision was described by Banks, as follows: "In 1 dreamed I saw warships on Lake Erie (In battle array), saw Spaniards arching out of Cuba I could see them plain enough to know they were Spaniards. A short time after wards the battle of Santiago occur red, and the United States took cosesRlon of Cuba." "Gang" Seen In Dream "Two or three years ago, X had vision, that Z saw the Medford .gang all dressed In black, marching down the street, with Bert Anderson riding on a white horse In the lead. Bert was a good friend of mine, and leader of the 'gang.' I predicted sor row. These visions are entirely dif ferent from a dream. I have had thera at various times In my life, and so far they hate all come true. Just before court adjourned for the day. Banks was asked by defense counsel, "about your fight against the Mediterranean fly. "It was a hoax they launched fly In an effort to regulate fruit sales by quarantine. I went before the state horticultural board, and exposed the plot. As a result the Corvallla gang lost control of the orchards of the Rogue River valley. Limelight Pleases It was Banks day In court and he gloried In the limelight. He frown ed displeasure as Attorney Lonergran Informed the court, his testimony was for the benefit of alienists, and at the close of the day Banks was. plainly wearied. At the start, he spoke with vehement frensy, pound ing the side of his chair. After he screamed his words, and denounced Assistant Attorney General Moody. aa "an attorney for the power trust," and flayed District Attorney George A. Codding and Deputy Nellson. as they eat at a table before htm. Banks wore a light colored spring suit, cleaned and pressed for the occasion. Dr. 8. K. Joseph I of Portland and Dr. L. R. Scalffe of Kugene were In court as defense alienist. Dr. R. I. Stetntr of the Oregon State hospital was named as one of the state alienists present. The others were Dr. C. I. Drummond, Jackson county physician, and Dr. B. L. Hart ley of Eugene. Banks traced his life from an Ohio boyhood, to the recent events In the Jackson county turmoil, lust preced- ILK toe muiciex of Constable Pre i cott. The witness characterized the murder as "the tragedy." Boasts Ancestry He described himself "as a direct descendant of John and, Phlscllla Alden, who came to America on the Mayflower." His father was an Ohio fruit grower on Cawtawba Island, Justice of the peace, and Civil War veteran, he said, "Aa a boy I would go and get the mall, and bring It to my father," the witness said. "Many times I bav seen father open the mall. He would expect a check for his fruit for $150 and get one for S1.50. I noted the keen disappointment, and vowed one day I would establish a business based upon 'cash to the growers'." Banks testified that after a few years as a traveling salesman, he did establish a fruit buying business, "that developed Into the largest in Ohio with a clientele all over the United States." At another stage of his testimony Banks said, "I was the largest holder of orchard prop erty In America, at one time." Banks then 'told of his moving to California In 1908, securing citrus groves. "In 1910, I paid a visit to the Rogue River valley, and was lm pressed." The witness then descrlb ed his activities In California fruits, and I published a pamphlet, advo cating cash payments." In 1931, he said, through a deal with a "Mr. Thornley, 1 purchased 37 acres of apples In Jackson county," assuming all the orchard obligations. The wltneaa then related his views of the spray residue controversy in 1926, wherein "four cars of my fruit was seized upon the word of young chemists, causing a loss of $70,000." He told of the Injunction to restrain the government regulations, and the formation of an emergency commit' tee In Medford to handle the situa tion. After the harvest, I paid my grow ers $11,000 more than I had to. They met at my house, and passing a resolution of gratitude, presented me with a pocket piece, upon which is engraved, "In Memory of a Battle Against Bureaucracy." Banks extract- ed the pocket piece from his pocket. and exhibited It to the Jury. The witness pictured himself In two roles first? as a philanthropist, then as crusader. Murders Rehashed Banks recounted the "Bates cftse," repeating the old charges, so often printed, In detail. He told of the Dahack case." "the Zlmmerlee case." the Long case" enumerating three murders in which officers partici pated." He reviewed them in vivid detail, and declared, with fervor, none of them ever faced a Jury as I am doing today, but are still wearing badges of authority." At times Banks voice rose to a frantic pitch. Banks charged, that he had been told many times, that "Joe Cave will get you, because of the Dahack articles." "that George Preecott will kill you. and further alleged: 'One day my daughter Rut hie May. came home from school, and - told me that the little son of a state policeman by the name o Walker, , had told her his father "win shoot Mr. Banks on eight."' Banks testified be "feared he would be killed by officers," and told of his newspaper purchase and editor ials. He described himself as "bit ter" and "violent." The chief defendant to the mur der charge testified to the Parr libel suit, as he saw It, and "my fight against the power trust, to prevent them procuring an ever-lasting fran chise." He also told on the "sewage dis posal bond Issue," and other local controversial issues, all embellished with characteristic extravagant charges. "I was Indicted by a grand Jury," Banks said. "My enemies came forward with enough charges for 20 Indictments. But It was a friendly grand Jury- by that I mean an honorable grand Jury. The foreman held the Indictments down to two. County Judge Fhel was In touch with the foreman every night, and Judge Fehl reported to me." Banks declared. "On two each of these Indictments, I voluntarily sur rendered to Sheriff Schermerhorn once I went to the Jail, and bad myself locked up. I wanted to see the Inside of the Jail I had helped pay for It. When the sheriff csme on another matter, he found me locked up and watting for him." The two fiery editorials, upon which the two Indictments one for crim inal libel, and one criminal syndi calism were read to the Jury by At torney Lonergran. In one editorial, the slain constable waa referred to, "bandit armed with authority." the other advocated seizure of the county government. As the long court day grew to a close, Attorney Lonergran skillfully questioned Banks, about foreclosures on property, and suits that have come to pass since his incarceration. and It was of these things that the defendant was testifying when ad journment came. f T AFTER TESTIMONY (Corjunued from Page One) lleved Mrs. Banks and I were In dan ger." "I saw him (Prescott) a. the door after he knocked." Banks said, "and I asked Mrs. Banks to hand the let ters out to him. I went and got my rifle. When I returned, Mrs. Banks was pushing against the door but It waa gradually being forced In. could see It bulge. -'I thought I could see the point of a pistol through the door. I had been hiding, trying to escape from them. I could see a very little strip through the door and could see man's body. I couldn't hear what Prescott was saying but I could hear his voice. ' I felt that In an Instant there would be a tragedy, r thought shot might frighten them away. In Frequent Rages The elderly defendant showed fre quent bursts of rage as he told about his troubles at Medford. He alleged It had been necessary for him to have a guard for months. He eaid he was planning to go to the moun tains for a rest when the offlcera got to his house. "What was your mental condition l the morning of the shooting?" defense Attorney Frank Lonergan asked. 'I don't know," eatd Banks. "1 was confused. If I thought at all, thought Mrs. Banks was In dan ger." Wore Gun In nouse The elderly defendant began his story by saying he had bought his rifle and the .44 revolver In Cali fornia In 1918 and had brought them to Medford In 1938. They have been In the house since. On the morn ing of the shooting he had taken the rifle out of the window eeat where It had been kept and layed It on a cot In the hall. He had atrapped the revolver and holster around his waist. At the breakfast table, the gun bothered him so he took It off and layed It on a telephone stand. It was never moved after that he said and he denied having left it with the rifle on the card table where state officers claim both weapons were found. Planned Camping Trip "On the morning of the tragedy I waa planning to go to a mining camp In the mountains and get away from tha turmoil.' eald Baks. "I kissed my little daughter good bye aa she started for school and said 'Bsbe, I don't know where I'll be tonight but wherever It Is, 111 be all right.' "I then asked Mrs. Banks to write letters to Chief McCredle and Cap tain Bown. Mrs. Banks took the dictation on a typewriter. I read and signed the letters and told her I wanted them delivered after I left for the mountains. LaDleu Arrested Just aa we finished the letters, the telephone rang. It was Mrs. Art La Dleu. She said her husband had been arrested and bla car con fiscated and she couldn't deliver our milk. Mrs. Banks drove over to pick her up. Just then Janet (Mrs. Ouches, my secretary) came In. I executed a quit claim deed and wrote letter saying I might need Rev. Belknap for bonds. I sent Jsnet ! out to give Mr. Belknap the deed and the letters. Just aa Jaret waa leaving Mrs. ! Banks returned. There were a lot of people from the Good Govern ment congress there that morning. "The nlgbt before Mrs. Msy Powell had called on me and aald she had heard George Prescott say he waa going to "shoot L. A. Banks on sight." told her I'd heard It so many times It didn't mesn much any more. She said. .Mr. Banks. I'm warning you. you're In danger.' Friends Guarded Him "I had been In danger for weeks and whenever I wanred to n to i meeting at the Good Goveranjeat ' congress, my friends would alwaye provide a guard. The guard would call for me, put me In the rear seat of a car between two men, drive me to the meeting and accompany me Into the halL "I would talk. Sometimes there were 30O0 people there and aa I'd leave the platform the applause would be deafening because they knew I'd come at the risk of my life. "But to get back to the morning of the sixteenth. Just as Janet waa leaving Mr. E. A. Fleming came in. He took a chair and we talked about raising bonds for our friends who were In Jail or might be In Jail. They had disappeared and we ajont know where they were. Officers at Door A knock came on the door. Mra. Banks was In the kitchen. I couldn't see who was at the door so I got up and looked through the window. I aaw It was George Prescott and a plain clothes msn. This plain clothes men hsd been making most of the arrests. I had written articles about him but had never met him. "I said to Fleming, "The officers are here. You'd better leave." It was very tense In there and I .didn't see what he did. I went to the kitchen and asked Mrs. Banks If she would pass two letters through the door. I said. "Put the chain on the door and under no circumstances let them enter the house.' "She hsd been washing dishes and she quickly dried her hands and went back through the house to warns tne door. I went from the kitchen to the hall near the bed room and picked up the rifle. Saw Prescott's Foot When I arrived In the front room Mrs. Banks had her hand through the door. She was passing out the letters. I saw Prescott's foot on the jam' of the door and Mrs. Banks was pushing on the door with all her weight and saying, 'you ahall not come In. You shall not come in.' "I was at an angle from the door ana tne opening could hardly be seen. But the opening was widening I saw Prescotfs foot and I saw what appeared to be a pistol. I believed at that Instant the door would break upon. Mrs. Banks was strug gling. I called out in a loud vol that could have been heard for four oiocxs. -act away from that door!" Twice I called out. Raised Rifle and Fired "I raised my rifle and shot through the crack. You could scarcely see it but could make out a strip of a man's body. "My .mental condition wss Just this. I had been hiding away from these officers. I was about to leave and would have been to the moun tains then If I had not been de layed. Now they were breaking down my door, they were threatening my home. I believed 'my life and Mra. Banks was In danger. I knew those men had threatened my life. I could see the door bulging! I could hear Prescott's voice. "I couldn't hear what he waa say ing but I could hear hla vol., rt seemed to me he was threatening me m0 un, aoor. i reit in an In stant there would be tragedy. I thought a shot might frlcht.t, t'hm away. I didn't shoot at anybody. I didn't see snvhnriv Tf . . man t see anvbodv. Tf k. been where they belonged outalde the door, Prescott been shot." Denies State's Evidence At this point the court .m and when Banks returned to the stand he began a serin nf rf.rH.i. of te,timony bich tatrt wltnessM uav introduced. He says he did not talk to Thomas, state accident Insurance auditor, who ouotrt n.n. as threatening to shoot any officers with subpoenas. He denied telling Lee Bown a "third man" had done the shooting, and denied talking with Bown except to say "I'm ready" when Bown called to arrest him. me state began its croaa examin ation of Banks early Saturday aft- Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County History from the Plies of The Mail Tribune of 20 and 10 Years Ago.) TEX YEARS AGO TODAY May 14, 1923. (It was Sunday) Cyclone sweeps Texas and Kansas. Elks to hold a shirtwaist dance. Salvation Army drrve quota i listed at $3000. May 17 to be Shale-Kale Day In Ashland. Speeder hits the lamppost In front of the Hotel Holland, and escapes In the darkness. . . Dog poisoners and flower thieves busy on the East Side. Fruitgrowers rush to take out hall Insurance. Herb Alford haa mastered the mu sical saw, and will give several Inno vations at the Wednesday night fair ground pavilion dance. f TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY May 14, 1913. (It was Tuesday) Local sports lease a special wire to Vernon, to get the blow by blow re turns of the Bud Anderson-Joe Man- dot fight. Hiram Johnson to sign the antl- Jap alien land bill of California. Nevada murderer on way to gal- Iowa battlea seven guards and the warden, but Is overpowered. Charles B. Gay takes the agency for puncture-proof auto tire. Mall-Tribune loses a carload of paper somewhere on the Espee tracks between here and Portland. f EX-WORDIIN HOME FROM CHINA WITH WAR TALES Jenkins'. Comment (Continued from Page One) After having been wounded by a atray Japanese machine gun bullet, and having been held prisoner for nve days by the Jape, p. c. Jewett. former Medford boxer, was muster ed out of the navy In March and re turned to Medford by way of the southern states yesterday. jewett was In cblnwlna, on duty with his buddy, Chuck Hlgginbotham, when the Jap bullets entered a cafe window and struck both Jewett and Hlgginbotham. The latter was killed, with three bullets through his body. Jewett said, and Jewett spent nine weeks In the hospital and still car ries the scar in his leg where the bul let lodged. Jewett said he believed the war be-" tween Japan and China was due to continue until It broke into open and formally declared warfare. Jewett hopes to break Into the fight game here, as he held the bantam weight belt of the coast division of the navy and has only suffered one defeat In the ring. He fought several fights on his way back across th. United states after being mustered out in New York, he said. Baccalaureate service for the grad uatlng class of the Jacksonville high school will be given by Rev. Hugh Mltchelmore of Ashland at the Pres. byterlan church Mny 14. TPKE other proverb, "It's a long lane that hae no turning." means that things dont go on forever In one direction. They CHANGE after a while. Business hsa been going stesdllv from bad to worse now for more than three years. It has been a long lane. But it cant go on forever without a turn. The spirit of confidence that Is growing in the country Indicates the public's belief that the turn In the lane la near. USED CAR SALE Prices are going up BUY NOW! See page 9, class, ad section for list of cars. Armstrong Motors Inc. 38 N. Riverside OLD PEOPLE LIVE LONGER at the CONVALESCENT HOME 1S3 Granite St., Ashland Meet Me at the MANX, Where . . . New rates now In effect at Hotel Manx ar, th. lowest In years. 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