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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON", SUNDAY, MAT 14, 1933.
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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.
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See page 9, class, ad section
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