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MEDFOTtD JriOL TRIBUNE, !MEDFOKD, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1933. PAGE THREE COINING OF SILVER IS COMMANDED BY PRESUOOSEVELT (Continued from Pag One) the paragraph of the presidential proclamation ; "The present ratio In weight and .fineness of the silver dollar to the gold dollar shall, for the purpose of this proclamation, be maintained un tile changed by further order or proclamation." The president's order, Intended to boost stiver's market worth to half the legal value of 91.29 an ounce, was Issued by authority of the Inflation ary powers congress voted him tn the agricultural adjustment act. It Im mediately was hailed by Senator pittman (D., Kev.), author of the silver agreement written at the Lon don economic conference. 66 Countries Agreed This understanding between 1 68 countries against further silver de basement and depreciation was con tingent upon an agreement between major silver producing countries. Australia, Canada, Mexico, Peru and the United States agreed to ab sorb 35,000,000 ounces of silver an nually for four years. China agreed to prohibit sales of silver derived from melting up or debasing coins, India to limit such sales to 35,000,000 annually and Spain to 6,000,000. ine president eaia xnaia lureaay has put the agreement into affect and "I understand other nations concerned are about to act." Mr. Roosevelt said he took the Joint step of ratification and coin age, "finding It proper to co-operate with other governments and neces sary to assist In Increasing and sta bilizing domestic prices, to augment the purchasing power of peoples in silver-using countries, to protect our foreign commerce against the ad verse effect of depreciated foreign currencies and to carry out the un derstanding between the 68 govern ments that adopted the resolution hereinbefore referred to." Stabilize Price Pittman held the president's ac tion ''undoubtedly will stabilize the price of silver throughout the world at 64 cents an ounce until some other action is taken to raise It to a .higher price." "It will enormously increase our export trade to these (sliver using) countries," Pittman said. "This of course will aid in raising commodity prices and tend greatly to our re covery and hasten return of normal conditions." President Roosevelt ordered that the treasury's fiO per cent of the silver turned tn to mints be held as bullion and not be disposed of prior to December 31, 1937, 'except for coining Into United States coins.". The plan was applied to "sliver here ' after produced In the United States or Its possessions." In proclaiming that he found It necessary that the price of silver "be enhanced and stabilized' Mr. Roose velt emphasized International co-operation in the effort. Referring to the London agreement, he said: Eliminate Over-Supply "This resolution was contingent upon an agreement between the gov ernments of those countries produc ing large quantities of silver and the governments of those countries holding or using large quantities, looking to the elimination of an unnatural over-supply of silver on markets of the world. "This agreement, of course, ' was for the purpose of allowing demand and supply to govern the price of silver by the limitation and neutrall zatlon of this over-supply derived from the melting up of silver coins. "India had the power to dispose of, on the markets of the world, at any time, and at any price, hun dreds of millions of ounces of silver derived from the melting up of In dian coins In an amount equal to the worlds' production from the mines for a period of two years. "This power and the uncertainty attending Its execution was destruc tive of the value and stability of sil ver throughout the world." like or 8 mills on our total tax levy. Now as to the burden of the aales tax on the Individual: I do not sup post the average family will spend over (500 per year: that makes 760 per family for the assurance that your children will got their school ing. I can see where the man who has never paid a cent of taxes, and never Intends to pay any, will have a squawk coming; but that class of people had better realize that it la about time for them to pungle up; Just remember that the goose that .has laid the golden egg Is mighty sick right now and Is going to need a lot of doctoring. GEO. IVERSON. yjedford, December 31. 3 IN BATTLE F The county court to date .has dis tributed approximately 300 old age pension application blanks. Of this number less than a dozen have been returned. One received was from a resident of Lane county and will have to be filed there. The county court previously esti mated there were 1600 people In this county over the age of 70 years and that half that number would apply. No date has been set for consider ation of the applications by the county court which, under the law, constitutes the pension board. The first session will probably be held within the next week or ten days. Under the provisions of the law, ap proval Is given only after a thorough investigation. The pensions are pay able in the order of their approval. Study of the old age pension law shows It la closely woven, providing among other things for reimburse ment by transfer of property and the ability ox sons, unmarried daugh ters and other kin to contribute to the support of the applicant. Communications I .E. A Christmas santate, "The Lost Carol," by Francis Simpson and Ruth Dale, will be presented at the M. E. church, South, Sunday night at 7:45. The libretto deals with an Inci dent In the life of the composer, Franz Oruber. The characters are: Franz Oruber..... Carroll Powell Frau Gruber..... .Donna B. Taylor Karl Muller...... .. Dolph Blue Gruber'a son .Ray Arthur Members of the quartet are: Mrs. Oubler, soprano; Mrs. Chase, alto; Dwlght Albright, tenor; Arthur E Powell, bass. The quartet will be assisted by the choir and a group of carolers. COUNTY NURSE TALKS ON RADIO SATURDAY Miss Blanche Rune la, county nurse, will speak tomorrow at 11:55 o'clock over radio station KMED concerning the Christmas seal sale. The short talks being given over the station have been made possible through the co-operation of the radio station. It was reported this morning that the seal money Is being turned In satis factorily this year, tn small quantl ties, but by many folk. (Continued from page one) of the Oregon National Ouard has sent orders to various officers In the state informing them that the orders of the National Guard pertaining to liquors have not been changed. According to the letter forwarded by Lieutenant Colonel Raymond F. Olson at Salem, assistant chief of staff, the training place of National Guard units must be viewed as having the same status as a campus of a university or high school, wherein the introduction of liquors would not be countenanced any more than it will be permitted in the Nntlonal Guard. down on the place, posting men with sub-machine guns at the rear to cut off escape In that direction. Surrender Demanded. Captain Stege, Sergeants Frank Reynolds, Harry Newman and Harry Bingham remained tn front with group of their men. After one po liceman had forced open the door to a stairs leading to the apartment. Sergeant Reynolds. Detective Jack Dawe and Captain Stege, with several others, crept up. The bell of the apartment was rung and when the door was opened Sergeant Reynolds leaped, forward, shouting, "were po lice officers, surrender." Instead of doing so the men at the door fired three times, but hit no one. Forcing his way In Reynolds dropped his foe with two shots In the head. The second of the trio of gunmen also fell before Reynolds' deadly aim, as he stood In the liv ing room, with two pistols in his hands. He had blazed away blindly at Reynolds, and Captain Stege and the other policemen, who by this time, were storming into the place. The third gunman, firing at the po licemen, as he backed Into the kit chenette, fell wounded before the police bullets and was finally killed by Sergeant John Daly. Women Gives Tip. Captain Stege said his information that the men In the apartment were connected with the Dlllinger gang, came from a woman. Daniel Gilbert, chief investigator for the state's at torney's office said he had been in formed that the trio knew the Dil linger crowd, but were not allied 'With them In their activities. The police said they learned that the apartment raided was that of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Manner, who occu pied it for about a year. Mrs. Mar iner, and her brother, Leonard Priza- ment, found In the same building, were arrested . Manner was being sought. The Investigators, however, were unable to establish what con nection. If any. there was between the Manners and the slain men. Women Seized. Miss Jeanette Le Noble who Identi fied herself as a sister of Mrs. Mar iner and Lucille Scher McHanlgan, a friend, were also seized for question ing by the police when they at tempted to enter the apartment after the shooting. They were ordered held pending the coroner's Inquest. A veritable arsenal of guns and am munition was found In the place. Captain 8tge said he had estab lished a connection the slain men had with a $100,000 robbery of an ex press messenger In 8t. Paul recently and with the hitherto unsolved slay ing of two policemen In Chicago who were killed when they stopped to question a number of men riding In an automobile on West Washington Boulevard several months ago. A re volver found at the scene of the St. Paul robbery, the police said, was once carried by Katewltz. ROLL ANNOUNCED Ehe following pupils of the Roose velt school were on the honor roll for the second six weeks' period: lawivreB nay, micoii iuuu(g, Madeline Heath. 2B Jean Elliott, Joan Humphrey, Betty Johnson, Joan Cox, Harry Nord wick. 2A Lois Ann Hubbard, Richard Stuart, Barbara Xnskeep. 3B Sh lrley Weisenberger. June Jarmln, Betty Frye, Louis Powell. Richard McElhose. 3 A Elsie Saunders. 5B Barton Clemens, Alfred Dod son. 5A Reece O'Neill. 6B Mary Beth Bradflsh. 6 B Gloria Williams. Oregon Weather Unsettled with local rain tonight and Saturday; little change In tem perature; strong southerly winds offshore. NAMED FOR PWA REGION PORTiiAND, Ore., Dec. 32. (AP) Appointment of member, of the planning board for the fifth region of the PWA organization, comprising Oregon, Wa&hlngton, Idaho and Mon tana, haa been completed by the gov ernor of the respective state. It was aid today by Marshall N. Dana, reg ional advisor and chairman of the regional board. Members of the planning board are Charles M. Thomas. Oregon public utilities commissioner; E. T. Banker of Olympla, chairman of the Wash ington Columbia basin commlsalon; Eugene A. Cox, Lewlston, Idaho, at torney, and J. 8. James, Montana state engineer. Selection of other board members will be announced later. Each atate board Is to consist of three cltlEens at large and four state department heads. The function of the state boards Is to prepare a program whereby each state will receive the greatest and best use of PWA money allocated to the state, with special attention de voted to the future sound economic development of the area as well as to immediate ends desired. Each state board will have a plan consultant, a technical advisor and clerical help provided under the civil works program. Although liquor lawa have been changed, Major General George White lie's strong for Sales Tax To the Editor: The only thing about the col lapse of the tax situation that haa eistressed me Is the fact that a lot of our sohools might have to be closed, causing an Irreparable loss among our children. Then along comes a ray of hope In the shape of the recently passed ales tax for the relief of the school situation. And now, along cornea a self-seeking blatherakate, whose only personal interest In the whole mat ter Is that he might gain a w,hole lot of votes for himself, and throws a monkey wrench Into that machin ery, and oh, how we are all going . to be stampeded. The public does ' dearly love to be atampeded: w need some guy with a lantern run ning around looking for aomeone with brains. I secured a copy of the sale tax bill and have studied it as well as made some Inquiries among school authorities as to tw working. The situation as we face It without the sales tsx Is that our larger school systems, like Medtord or Ashlsnd. could pull through because there Is a chsnre to do a lot of trimming: but the smaller districts fsce the almost certainty of being unable to open again next September, and It Is going to be the farmer's children that will not get the schooling. Now with the sales tax, we can see this: Our general levy of 10 per pupil, and our district levies amount t about 13.000,000 and about half of this Is being paid, and the sales tax la estimated to bring In 44.0OO. 000: so you see the school situation will r.ot be In bad shape " Now the other side of the question Is the relief to the property tax: fie above figures show that one tblrd of our school tax will be paid, and. a I Interpret the bill, will pay a great deal more than a third in the small rtlstrlrta where the per pupil cost Is kept to a minimum, and In Medtord or Ashlsud will amount to a reduction of something HIE The Christmas Jewelry Store Gifts of Lasting Beauty 1 6 FREE Heath's Drug Store Medford Bldff. Phone 884 To the first hundred! custom ers to make a 50c purchase in our store tomorrow (Satur day) we will give a baby doll absolutely free. We were only able to get one hundred of these dolls this year so come early. DRUG STORE WITH THE VALLEY TRADE 18 THE VALLEY MADE Be Wise Buy Wise And Economize at the CASH GROCERY W. A, HOLLOW AY, Owner. Phone 20 Greetings To Our Friends and Customers 1933 1934 We wish you one and all a Merry Ghristnias and a Happy New Year, and take this opportunity to thank you for your patronage throughout 1933 and we shall strive by courteous, efficient service and quality merchandise, to merit continued good-will, throughout the New Year. Sincerely yours, W. A. H0LL0WAY, Prop. Kindly Phone Orders Early for Best Service Phone 20 for Free Delivery Pineapple, large No. 2V2 can Dole No. 1 full slices 19c Peaches, large No. 2lli can . . . 1 5C Oysters, 2 cans 25c Best Foods Mayonnaise, pt jar 24c Corn, No. 2 can 10c Milk, Morning or Libby's 4 cans 25c case $285 Salmon, red, tall can 5C SUGAR, 10-lb. cloth sack . . . 55c POP CORN "That fancy yellow," pops so big, 3 lbs. 25c WALNUTS, pound 19c Fancy Broken Mixed Candy, 2 pounds for 25 Ginger Ale Clicquot, full pint bottle, 2 for .... 25 Ripe Olives, per can 10? Dry Corn, very fancy, 1 lb. ........ 23 0. and 8. Coffee, 1 lb 27t l ib. Package Coffee 17? Laundry Soap, 10 bars for . 25? Flour, hardwheat, 49 lbs. '. $1.73 Fancy Grapefruit, 6 for Sweet Potatoes, 4 lbs. Celery, large size, per bunch ..... Brussel Sprouts, 2 baskets . Lettuce, head - - NAVEL ORANGES Special prices on all sizes, a very good buy at D0Z. 29c ROOSEVELT PUPILS IN YOLE PROGRAM At 9:16 on Thursday morning the puplli of Roosevelt school sang Christmas carols. The children from the various rooms were grouped on stairs and In the upper and lower halls and their voices were very lovely as first one group and then another would sing. At 1:16 a Christmas program was given In the auditorium by the school attended by a large audience of appreciative parents. The children then repaired to their various rooms, where they en joyed their Christmas trees. (Continued from page one) One of the main reasons for the recent higher gold price was the fact that wheat prices were slipping. The White House has been signifi cantly avoiding any comment on bet tor business pr-jepecta, but may J ln the optimistic parade next week. The strategy on that seems to be that the White House keeps quiet when thlnge' look fairly good, and start talking optimistically when that kind of talk Is needed. Chester Davis, the new AAA ohief, Is no more radical than Peek was, but he geta along well with the staff, from Secretary Wallace down. H and Wsllace both hall from Iowa and are good friends. ' British firms have contracted for approximately 2000 bales of Paclflo coast hops. Phone 252 for Good Food Personal Attention1 Prompt Service " .IS --.( ...a ...a o -e o o The Christmas Dinner We have everything for the Christmas Dinner . . Buy for two days as the stores will be closed Monday. CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS Heinz Mince Meat . . . Candied Cherries . . . Heinz Fig Pudding , . . None Such Mince Meat . Home Made Cakes . , . Home Made Sweet Cider . . . Crosse & Blackwell Mince Meat . . . Heinz Plum Pudding . . . Marmalade . . . Preserves. Christmas Candies, Christmas Oranges, Christmas Nuts Dates . . . Figs . . . Cluster Raisins . . . Fresh Limes Fancy Cheese, Olives and Pickles, Fancy Canned Goods A fine Line of FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES SATURDAY SPECIALS Heinz's Mince Meat, 1-lb. jars ... ....... ....... .............. 29c Sunkist Oranges, good size, doz. 26c No. 1 Oregon Walnuts, lb. ...,.,.,., w.,.. 23c Ovaltine, regular $1.00 size ,.- 85c Campbell's Soup, vegetable or vegetable beef, 3 for 25c BEST FOODS MAYONNAISE or RELISH SPREAD, Pt, 24c We wish you a Merry Christmas 1 ' " CeirailfiaH Market We Have a Fine Selection of Poultry and Meat for Christmas 4 o SPECIALS Veal Beef Pork Roasts 10 per lb. AH Choice Steaks-. . . .15c per lb. Home Rendered Lard . 3 lbs. for 25c I 25 19 10 ....5 If You Are Looking for REAL BARGAINS Check Carefully . . the Ads In . . Today's MAIL TRIBUNE
