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MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1933. PAGE FIVh; STATE PREPARES FOR COLLECTION OF TAX ON SALES Machinery Will Be Set Up Ready Should Efforts of Foes Prove Unavailing Vote Probably May 18 SALEM, Ore. (UP) The state tax commission today prepared machin ery lor putting the highly contro versial . sales tax into operation, shoulti it finally become effective. Receipts from the tax, per cent on all retail sales of tangible prop erty and utilities services, will go to aid Oregon schools. A vote on the the proposal Is probable May 18, as preliminary referendum petitions were filed against it by the Oregon state grange, federation of labor and 12 other organizations. Falls on Consumer The tax is to be borne exclusively by the consumer, in order not to cre ate Inequalities among retailers. A merchant violates the law if he ad vertlses that he absorbs the tax, or If he refunds It to his customers. Retailers are to pay the tax each month, on or before the 10th, to the tax commission. If the seller chooses he may make cash and credit sales reports separately and be granted an extension of time for payment on the credit sales. Persons failing to make payments when due will be subject to a lien on any property owned. Violation of terms of the law constitutes a mis demeanor. Professions Untaxed Professional persons, such as phy sicians, lawyers, barbers, are not taxed on their services. Utility serv ices include services sold by "tele graph( telephone, .heat, light, power, water, gas and electric companies for consumption or use and not for resale. Exempt from taxes are products when sold fby farmers lor resale; goods sold for resale by manufac turers, wholesalers. Jobbers and oth ers. All gross receipts of less than $50 monthly; gasoline, already heav ily taxed; goods or utilities services used on public works projects; occa sional sales of personal property by persons not in the regular retail business. Remittance Monthly Administrative expenses are to be paid from the sales tax receipts, the remainder turned In to the state treasury as a common school fund. Twenty-five per cent will be remit ted Vie first of each month to the state for county school funds, ap portionment to be on a basis of as sessed valuations. -, Seventy-five per cent will be ap portioned to the counties on a basis of classroom units. Elementary class room units consist of an average of 27 pupils; high schood units of 21 pupils. No district shall be entitled to 'classroom units in excess of the number of teachers employed. The county treasurers will appor tion the funds to the districts. A 2 per cent sales tax was defeated by a 4-to-l vote at a special elec tion last July. SECOND OLDEST BIBLE BY BRITISH MUSEUM LONDON, Dec. 22. (UP) The f British Museum is buying the second oldest Bible in the world from the soviet government, Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald announced In the house of commons. He said that the Bible, known as the "Codex Slnaltlous," formerly was the property of the law Czar Nicho las. The price is 100,000 pounds sterling- (about 8509.000). The gov ernment will provide one pound for every pound raised by the public. The "Codex Slnaltlous" and the 'Codex Vatlcanus" both date from the fourth century. The latter now Is In Rome. The London Daily Express reveals that the "Codex Slnaltlous," contain ing the complete text of the new testament and much of the old testa ment, was compiled by four men In the fourth century, A. D. This bible was found 1500 years later, when a scholar discovered a few old sheets among rubbish in a monastery at Mount Sinai. The volume shortly thereafter was presented to the for mer czar of Russia. GET CORDIAL GREETING IN MOSCOW L I'm 'hIv ft v H I Jf In a ceremony accompanied by more than ordinary cordiality, Wl. Ilam C. Bullitt presented his ambassadorial credentials to official In Moscow, thereby breaking 16 years of official Isolation between the United States and Soviet Russia. Mr, Bullitt Is pictured with his daugh ter Anne when they arrived at Plymouth, England. Anne will be the "first lady" at the American embassy In the Russian capital. (Associ ated Press Photo) W.C.I.U. SAD RESULTS OF FIRS! WET DAYS EVANSTON. HI., Dec. 22. Na tional headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union today said the repeal of prohibition had for the first time in 14 years made ap proximately 56 million American citi zens and neary 15 million young pep ple the legal target or high pressufr liquor .salesmanship. Other results of the first fortnight of liquor's legal return, the statement said, were: "In thousands of American homes there is suffering today from the di ect results of the return of legalized liquor. "Thousands of young people In these opening days of ratified repeal have taken the first serious step to ward dissipation amid the flashing lure of the modernized barroom ap peal. "Thousands of men and women have returned to their business with Judgment impaired, efficiency dimin ished, liability to accidents intensi fied, pockets depleted and nothing to show for it except a bad taste in the mouth and a memory of scared ideals. "Millions of dollars have already since repeal been diverted from le gitimate business and from the Im mediate tragic needs of charity and relief, to the till of the liquor seller and the cash drawer of brewer and distiller." SENTENCE NEXT WEEK OREGON CITY, Ore., Dec. 22. ffl Sentence will be passed Friday, Dec. 20, on Donald J. Ryan, state repre sentative from Clackamas county, and former county clerk, convicted aever.nl weeks ago of misuse of funds placed In his care as trustee. An order for sentencing was filed yesterday by the court. Ryan's motion for a new trial will be heard following passing of sen tence. His attorney has cited 21 alleg ed errors In law during the trial and irregularities of court procedure. SATURDAY HOLIDAY FOR GOVERNMENT WORKERS WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Presi dent Roosevelt today extended the full Saturday holiday before Christmas and New Years to all government work ers, Including those outside Washing ton. Exception was made where con tinuous service of certain government agencies is necessary. Dance at the Rogue Elk Saturday nlht, December 23. E TAX TOTALS $44 WASHINGTON (UP) The rer eae motorist paid a. total of $44.34 In assorted special atat and federal Uxm durlni 1932. aa compared with 139.74 In 1031. according to fieiirea compl'ed ny the American Automobile associa tion ' The total motor tax bill In the United states reached a new hlali last year. 1. 053.625.078. the AA points out. despite a decline of 1. 677.324 In the number of motor ve hicles realstered. Based on a valua tion (or all registered motor vehicles of M 543.767.471. this tax figure means that molorlsta paid 33 per cent of the value of their property In taiea. "The total tax bill consisted of 873. 152.919 In state registration and license fees, gasoline and property tsxev" said Thomas P. Henry. AAA president, "and 179.472.159 In epeeial federal motor excise levies." Tne highest average In any one gM'e was S91.05 in Nevada. Arkansas. Fiorirla. oeoriia. lulsiana. Missis sippi arm Tennessee all had averxg.' Uses per ve&icie in exceu ol 60. Autographed Dhotoa of Jack nemn- sey at the Shangle Studio, only 502 IE ACT WILL BRING SALEM, Ore. (UP) Designed as a companion act to the Knox liquor control bill, the Oregon liquor rev enue measure passed by the recent legislature Is expected to net he state $700,000 a year In taxes. The measure places a tax on all "alcoholic beverages, meaning wine or similar fermented vinous liquor and fruit Juice, or other fermented bev erage containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol and not more than 14 per cent." Beer of less than 4 per cent alcohol Is taxed 63 cents a barrel, or two cents a gallon, by the act. Beer of higner content pays ftl a barrel. Malt syrup, except when used for baking or me dicinal purposes, is taxed 10 cenU per three-pound container! and all forms of wine below 14 per cent alco hol, 25 cents per gallon. Collection of taxes, paid by manu facturers and Importers, is placed un der the Oregon liquor commission Each manufacturer or importer must make monthly reports, detailing his sales during the previous month. Vio lations draw penalties ranging up to $1,000 fine or one year in Jail. Oregon manufacturers of wine and beer are not required to pay taxes to the state on beverages exported to other states or to foreign countries. Funds raised will be handled same as receipts from dealings of the com mission In hard liquors. After $3, 000.000 is paid for unemployment re lief, 25 per cent .will ro to the state general fund, 75 per cent to the coun ties to be used for mothers' pensions, old age pensions, indigent relief. MARSH PI ELD, Ore., Dec. 21. (AP) All Oregon road projects embraced In the proposed federal loan of $25, 000,000 now pending before the pub lic works administration will be withdrawn. This proposed loan has no bearing on the Independent loan being ar ranged for financing construction of the five Oregon Coast highway bridges. The announcement was made by Leslie M. Scott, chairman of the state highway commission, 'who last night conferred by telephone with Govern or Meier, vacationing in Ban Fran cisco. The action was in line with re fusal of the legislature to pass an act guaranteeing highway revenues to repay the loan, and In accord with the fixed policy of the com mission to incur no additional high way debt. FOR LEAD ROLE IN REPUBLICAN PARTI WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (P Poli ticians trying to look behind the scenes In the Republican conferences here today predicted a scramble for leadership of that party, especially since some friends of former Presi dent Hoover have said they feel "he will not be available" in 1036, No concrete developments are ex pected for some months, however. Word has been passed out of Re publican gatherings that Hoover would not be considered among the availables three years hence, but thsro has been no evidence Hoover himself has given the word nor that It Is to be considered of consequential sig nificance. The Hoover angle developed 'afar yesterday's conferences attended by Senator McNary of Oregon, senate Re publican leader; Ogden Mills, former secretary of the treasury; Walter E Edge, former New Jersey senator and ambassador to France; Senators Reed of Pennsylvania and Walcott of Con necticut and Frederic M. Sackttt, former Kentucky senator and ambas sador to Berlin. The con ferenoes had to do with rehabilitation of the party and a pos sible legislative program for the com ing congress, but nothing definite came out except predictions thtre would be no change In the national committee chairmanship, now held by Everett Sanders for at least a year. FOOLS WIFE WITH E PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 22. (P) Charges with having forged the name of a police Judge to a series of check, in order that his wife might not know he had lost his Job, Harvey Jensen, 33, was arrested here today. Having little else to do after he found himself Jobless, Jensen visited the police court. He saw Judge H. M. Tomllnson's name signed to a list of court rules on the wall. "1 studied the name," police asld he told them, "and saw It would be easy to copy." When the canceled checks were ex amined Judge Tomllnson and the bank clerks had difficulty separating the spurious checks from the genuine. "I knew It would break my wife's heart if she knew I wasn't working," police said Jensen declared, "so I forged checks about once a week and took the money home to her. I left home every morning about 7 o'clock so she thought I was going to work." AT CRESCENT, ORE. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 21. (AP) Audrea Mardelle and Doris Sparks, young Hollywood beauty culturlsts who disappeared November 11, were seen at Crescent, Ore., Sheriff O. G. Miles was advised today. The girls left here in their auto mobile intending to go to Klamath Falls, Ore. They never reached that city, and highway officers and oth ers in Washington, Oregon and Cali fornia .have been searching for them. A truck driver reported to Oregon authorities the girls followed his truck as far as Arlington, Ore. Picture frames made to order. K. D. Ross Co., 22 S. Grape. KMED Broadcast Schedule Saturday, 8:00 Breakfast News, Mall Tribune. 8:05 Musical Clock. 8 jl 5 Peerless Parade; 8:30 Shopping Guide. 8:00 Friendship Circle Hour. 8:30 Morning Melody. 0:43 Schubert's Love Songs. 10:15 Weather Forecast. 10:15 Hollywood Impressions. 10:30 Radio Christmas Show. 11:00 Grant pass Hour. 11:15 The Song Parade. 11 :45 Tone Pictures. 12:00 Mldiay Revue. 12 AO Chamber of Commerce News. 12:15 Esther Merritt Sanderson. 12:30 News Flashes, Mail Tribune. 12:30 Martial Melody. 1 :00 Varieties. 1 :30 Whipple's Children's Orches tra. 2:00 Classified Edition of Air. 3:00 Radio Christmas Show. 3:30 KMED Program Review. 3:35 Songs for Everyday. 4:00 Musical Cocktail. 4:30 Masterworks Program. 6:00 Cecil and Sally. 5:15 Hilo Serenaders. 5:30 Popular Parade. 5:45 News Digest, Mail Tribune. 6:00 Medford Theater Guide. 8:15 Dinner-Dance Program. 8:45 Holly-Time. 7:00 Anson Weeks' Orchestra. . 7:15 The Arkansas Kid. 7 :30-8 :00 Eventide. . FOR WATERWAYS WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. OP Sec retary Dern, In a summary of army engineer corps work under the pub lic works program, said today Its wat erways development would Involve the expenditures of $314,000,000 and pro vide employment for 314,000 men for one year. To date, he said, $141,200,000 has been obligated and 44,697 men have been placed at work. Pointing, out that river and harbor improvements and flood control on the Mississippi and Sacramento riv ers have been alotted $220,123,808, he said that within a week after receiv ing the fist allotment of $7,000,000. approximately 3,000 men had been put to work. Phoenix Church Christmas Party . . 2:30 Tomorrow On Saturday afternoon at 2:30, at the Phoenix Presbyterian church, there will be a Christma party for the boys and girls of the cradle roll, primary and Junior departments. Santa Claus has been Invited to be present at this party. The Christmas worship service of the Phoenix Presbyterian church will be at 11 o'clock Sunday morning At the opening worship hour of the church school at 10 o'clock, Mrs Ralph Peterson will tell Tolstoy's Christmas story, "Where Love Is, God Is Also." A vesper service of the Chrlst'.an Endeavor societies will be led by Misi Marjorle Poling of the high school C. E. society, at 4 o'clock. Represen tatives from the four societies will have a part in this vesper service. Tha public is Invited. There will be no evening church service. LINDBERGHS PRESENT AIRPLANE TO MUSEUM NEW YORK, Dec. 33. Pi The American muaeum of natural history announced today that Colonel and Mrs. Charles. A. Llndbe-j-h had pre sented to the muaeum the monoplane In which they completed a 38,000-mtle aerial aurvey Tuesday. ! ...4......M-!"H- Season's Greetings to I Our Rogue River Valley Friends Jacobs, Malcolm & Burtt, Inc. I SAN FRANCISCO The STRIKING QUESTION i asked by a great Jesuit Priest in Rome that was not answered This is Mr. VENDEN'S SUBJECT for Friday glit, Becemlbei? 22 SMsIMSLl Sixth and Main Streets, Medford Every Man, Woman and Child in the Rogue River Valley should hear this intensely interesting lecture GOOD MUSIC! COME! W 1 M SET FOR TEST OF OLD AGE PENSION SALBM, Dec. 22. (p) The Marlon county court haa levied a 460,000 tax to cover old-age pensions for 1034. The announcement wrr, made today, Immediately following dismissal In circuit court here of mandamus pro ceedings to enforce a levy to cover the pensions. The mandamus action was brought by Hufeh Smith, 77, agalnat the Ma rlon county court. Judge L. H. Mc Mahan declared mandamus was rot the correct form of procedure. Under the levy of a tax any tax payer, he stated, may bring injunc tion proceedings against the county court and have all the legal questions invovled ironed out, Mandamus action In the case dis missed should be whether or not the oounty court will issue a pension to the plaintiff, Judge MoMahan said County court members estimated $150,000 would be required to pro vide maximum pensions to all eligible In the county. However, they wished to levy only 60.ouo to make a twal of pension administration for a yoar. The levy will provide a 5 pension for every eligible man and woman, court members estimated. 'TELEPHONE FIZZ' IS NEW ORLEANS TREAT NEW ORLEANS (UP) "Step right up, air, a telephone nzz. New Orleans' lateat. "How to make It? Take a large glaaa, ml It hair full of fine Ice, add one teaapoonful of sugar, one pony of French brandy, one pony of Maraa chlno, one raw egg, shake well, strain In a stem glass and fill with seltzer. "Excellent, eh? Telephone' your friends about It." Freshens the mouth V1 ..Soothes the throst Suggestions from Beck's for your ASK QUOTA HOIST PORTLAND, Dec. M. An ap peal asking for a 28 per cent increase in ah ingle production for the fl-st quarter of 1934 over the correspond ing period In 1033, was made to the national control committee of the lumber industry code today by single manufacturers of the Pacific nortn west. The plea was presented by George Bergstrom of Everett, Wash., presi dent of the C. B. Lumber & Shingle company. He asked an allotment of DD5.000 squares for the first thre months. A shingle square equals 100 square feet. By agreement with Canadian shingle mills It has been arranged that 20 per cent of the quota be supplied by import, leaving 80 per cent for pro duction In the United States north west. It was explained that - while Canadian producers, of course, are not under the NRA, a keen need la sean for cooperation between Canadian manufacturers and those In this country. Voted 71 Consecutive Times. MACHIAS, N. 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