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PAGE FIVE Lionel Barrymore at Rialto Joe Brown in Craterian Hit How the Sales Tax Would Lower School Costs in Jackson County MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORECOX, SUNDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1933. i iy --jbrnJ- .rj SALEM, Dec. 24. (Special.) The Mies tax bill for school relief passed at the special session of the legisla ture on December 10 will reduce county tax levies approximately one mill and will cut (3.000.000 a year from the school district taxes of the state according to an analysis of the bill by State- Superintendent C. A. Howard based on the state, tax com mission's estimates of the revenues It will produce. Receipt fro mslmllar revenue mea sures In operation In other states In dicate that the Oregon bill will pro duce (4,000.000 annually. Seventy five per cent of this sum, or (3,000, 000. will be apportioned to the school districts In proportion to the number of classroom units, or the number of teachers required. This would amount to $400 per teacher-classroom unit, since there are approximately 7500 such units In the state. On this basis a one-teacher school would receive 1400; a two-teacher school would re celve $800; and a five-teacher school would receive (2000. The bill requires the county assessor to cut from the district property tax levy the amount estimated to be received from this fund. or l,0OO.OOO will go to the county school funds of tht counties on the bftls of the assessed valuations aa equalized by the state tax commission and the county assessor of each coun ty la required to reduce the county property levy by the amount received from this fund. This reduction will average approximately one mill. The amounts that would bo re ceived from the sales tax revenues by some typical school districts based on attendance reports of June. 1033, and the reductions in district taxes that would result are shown In the follow ing tabulation. The valuations that were used In computing mtllage re ductions were those reported by the county assessor in March, 1933. The districts that are marked "Ele mentary" In thla tabulation are In either a union high school district or In the county non-high school dis trict. In addition to the mlllage re ductions set opposite them In ' the tabulation they will participate In the reductions of the union high school districts or the non-high school district to which they belong.' The tuition charge for pupils from the non-high school district will be reduced approximately 615.00 per The remaining twenty-five per cent pupil as a result of the sales tax. Jackson county School District Teacher Classroom Units Ruch, elem. Talent, H. 8. and elem. Applegate, elem. Near Talent, elem. Near Medford. elem. .. 1 7 1 1 3 Jacksonville, H. S. and elem. 7 Rogue River, H. S. and elem..... 8 Central Point, H. S. and elem.. 11 4 Gold Hill, H. S. and elem 10 Eagle Point, H. S. and elem. 0 Annual Reduction Apportion- In ment from District Tax Sales Tax Mills ( 400 4.3 2,600 4.2 Approx. 400 4.8 400 4.6 , 800 3.0 3,800 4 5 Approx. 3.200 5.1 Approx. 4,600 4.8 Approx. 4,000 3.8 Approx. 3,000 8.4 Approx. Lionel Barrymore has the leading role In "Stranger's Return." at the Rialto theatre today and tomorrow for their new double feature program. It la a plcturtzatlon of the currently popular Phil Stong novel of rural life, which follows his recent "State Pair." As the 85 year old patriarch of a farm founded and pioneered by his family, Barrymore has one of the most Interesting characterizations of his career. INSULL GUILTY OF PARI IN COLLAPSE E CHICAGO, Deo. 28. (AP) Federal Judge Evans A. Evans ruled todBy Samuel Insull, Sr., was guilty of collusion In bringing about the re ceiverships of his two billion dollar group of public utility holding and finance companies. The court upheld the contention of Attorney Samuel A. Ettelson that no further allowance of fees should be made to certain receivers and at orneys. Ettelson had charged that Insull, Sr., and certain bankers Interested in .Insull securities they held on loans to the collapsed finance houses had collaborated In seeking the ap pointment of friendly receivers. Calvin Fentress, one of the original co-receivers of Insull Utility Invest ments, Inc., but removed later by federal court order, asked for pay ment . of his fees and the petition brought opposition from Ettelson ao attorney for his wife, a stockholder and heavy loser. The court determined, however, that the appointment of Fentress himself was made unquestionably by federal court order "uninfluenced by any outside recommendation," and that Fentress merited approval In hla conduct of the receivership. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY BY O.O.McIntyre I IN CWA ASSERTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (AP) Hugh S. Johnson protested to the civil works administration today against Its paying higher wages than are being given by many industries under codes. "It Is an absurd situation," he as serted at a press conference, "but It Is up to the CWA. All I can do Is call their attention to the Inconsist ency." He went on to explain that the code-fixed minimum wages In all cases are supposed to represent tho utmost that industries now can af ford to pay. He considered it "ridiculous" that men from bread lines, placed on what he said amounted vlrtuall to a fed eral dole, should have more attract ive pay than those normally employed In Industries, some In competing lines. Told that civil works officials con sidered the situation an "Indict ment" of code wages. Johnson said that was "Just words" and that he could not bo disturbed by It. 4 p?3 NEW YORK, Dec. 23. A leisurely prowl through one of New York's vast department stores Is as exciting as any Jaunt on the Island. Morning or gan recitals, af ternoon fashion shows, best sell ing novelists au tographing books, expert bridge games, aquarr urns, zoos and screen and stage stars. Here are van! ties and follies not surpassed by Zlegfeld and Carroll. The pen ny-pinchers and splurgers mass together for bargain hunting swoops, I commend to sing lers out of rare beauty the array at any glove coxmter. Why gloves, Is a secret of department store psychology. Frequently I submit to the lmpleh Impulse of fingering some counter ar ticle, looking . about furtively and watching the Jumping-Jack appear ance from behind a reredos of der bled fellows, known aa store dicks. They never miss a bet. Prom then on you are trailed. Much comedy has been evolved, too. from those exquisites In garde nlaed cutaways and pearly striped trousers the pat rollers of aisles. Yet no class of workers expresses greater courtesy. Tap them and you find potential doc tors and lawyers via a night school route. Two ex-floor walkers are movie stars. Every department store Is electric with astonishing inside telegraph;. When Marie Dressier, bless her. Is spun inward through a revolving door, the top floor knows It as quick as that, without telephoning or llp-to- Up torn - torn m In g, It has the mystery of a psychic phenomenon. Spooky! Mammoth stores are unreckonable outlets for domestic drudgery and suburban servitude. As much as the theatre, they are escapes from life's monotonies. At no coat, the house wives are pitch-forked to scenes of splendor. Nowhere may the ordinary soul come within touching distance of such brilliant overplus. Notables wander even aa you tnd I through the glittering promenades One may see hard-boiled Bill Hilllgan with unconscious gravity Idling before those pyramids of perfume In Eucll dean dazzle. Or Sinclair Lewis trying to decide between green and purple blazers. The green winning the usual manner of redheads. I've seen Hoover loiter before treas rt tn nnmni. Rati Franaclsco. W. H. Taft often sauntering through Pogut a In Cincinnati. And I once beheld Mar lene, in white-trousered publicity seeking, stroll through Bullock's In Los Aneiea. In New Yorx irs. nsx"?, rirr rworo. Alice Lorurworth. John D. Rockefeller Jr. and one you'd never suspect as a department store prowier Eugene O'Neill. FOR FLOOD HELP SAW rHANCISCO, Dec. 23. f AP) An appeal to all Red Cross chapters In Oresron and Washington to raise 19.000 to assist In the relief of flood ufferera In Cowllta county, Wash., was Issued here today by A. I w.n.n.r nf th PiulflC branch of the American Red Cross. I Schafer said this money would be j In addition to funds ralwd by local I chapters to care for persona made j needy in the northwest by the recent : Inundations. j The Rrd Cross msnacer said he had reports that North Kelio was under water: that dykes In that vicinity were breaking or In dncr from flood waters and that additional Red Cross worker had been ordered to the scene from Portland, Ore. HEAVY DAMAGES You can find t.ie nwslrd items at t Franklin's Orfwry and at the PeacM Street Orfv-7-y flnnmv ami ChrUtm.ts morning 8 30 to 12.30. SALFM, Dec. 23. AP) Dr. J. A. Best of Pendleton, member of the state legislature. Is defendant In two damage sulta filed In circuit cqwrt here yesterday totaling $28,878, grow Ing out of an automobile accident on the Pacific highway near Woodburn rvcember 3. Edna Ball sued for $25, 250 and Letha Alexander for $,1625. A state police report states that Dr. Best, accompanied by Representative Henry Semon of Klamath county, was driving north when their ear collided with another driven by Dr. John H. Alexander of Portland, traveling south. PENDLETON, Ore . t 23 f API Declaring there is no foundation for His gentle philosophies and under standing form a refuge for Miriam Hopkins, in the role of his grand daughter returning to the farm after an unhappy love affair. Franchot Tone, Stuart Erwln and Reulah Bondl are also featured. "Chic" Sale Is the leading player In the other feature on the .same pro gram, . "Dangerous Crossroads," a thrilling story of the men who push tn giant locomotives through all sorts of hazards to keep on time. Now at Holly The thousands of Rogue River val ley people to whom Lewis Carroll's Immortal fantasies, "Alice's Adven tures In Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass," have made an Indelible Impression since childhood ought to be delighted when they see Paramount's screen version of Car roll's classics at the Holly theatre this week. Paramount has spared neither ex pense nor effort to give films fans a realistic and authentlo celluloid ac count of Alice and her adventures In a land where everything Is backward and nonsensical. The producers have taken seven scenes from each of Car roll's stories and titled the result "Alice in Wonderland." In "42nd St.'.' A7 ft AJ hi J "42nd Street," musical comedy spectacle, opens at the Studio theater tomorrow. "Midnight Mary." powerful erook drama, brings a strong cast headed by Loretta Young, Rlcardo Cortes, Fran chot Tone, Andy Devlne and Una Merkel Into one production to be shown at the Studio, today only. damage suits, amounting to $26,870, filed against him by Mrs. Edna Bell and Mrs. Letha Alexander of Salem, Dr. J. A. Best, Umatilla county legis lator .stated today that the Alex ander automobile struck a small truck after colliding with his machlt.e, and then continued 135 feet down the highway, making a complete turn be fore going Into the ditch. Suit for damages against Dr. Best was filed In Salem yesterday. Best said his automobile did not leave the highway and that It was not on the wrong side of the road as the complaint said. Ph. 315, EADrf, for Fuel Oil Delivery Equipment to reach any tank. NRA. - YAi My vi r y!k 7 ! jjf f l tf V if Ail I Tuneful Melodies In Roxy Musical Crammed full of tuneful melodies,: pulchrltudlnous girls, and the bestj talent that Broadway, Hollywood, and the radio airways have to offer "Moon-! light and Pretzels," at the Roxy the ater today and tomorrow. Is a clever fast moving and refreshing musical. It Is a backstage romance with Broadway as the setting, yet contains none of the stereotyped hokum that has characterized and ruined so many celluloid musical comedies. In straightforward fashion It tells the story of an energetic young song and dance man whose ambition It la to become Broadway's leading songwrit er. Composed by four of America's ace songsmlths, the tuneful melodies re flect the spirit of the times In a man ner unique for screen musical comedy. At least three of the numbers In the score may truly be said to be descrip tive of the present American scene. "Moonlight and Pretzels" features a cast of stage, screen, and radio no tables headed by Roger Pryor, Leo Carrlllo. Mary Brian, Alexander Gry, Lillian Miles, Bern Ice Claire, the Prank and Milt Brltton Band, The Four Eton Boys, Herbert Rawllnson, Jack Denny and his orchestra, Doris Carson, and fifty of New York's most beautiful show girls. Joe E. Brown ne or tne wide mouth shows the world what he would do If he were In the navy, as his latest picture "Son of a Sailor" docks at the Craterian theatre for three days starting today. On the same program, the theatre Is offering Lillian Harvey in her second Ameri can screen appearance, "My Lips Be tray", with John Boles aa her leading man. "Son of a Sailor" has Joe as "Hand some" Callahan, telling the world tnat ne is notnerea by nordea of adoring women, but the beautiful damsels of the cast seem to. have other Ideas on the subject. The pic ture, said to be Brown's best In a long series of hilarious successes, comes to Medford for Its Pacific coast 1 premiere showing. I "My Lips Betray" brings Lillian back to Medford In a light, romantlo : story of a maid and a king, filled with Harvey's singing, dancing, and love-making to John Boles, In the i role of a king. IS WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. (AP) Wil liam Oreen, president of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, has filed with the NRA a report on the strike at Henry Ford's Edgewater, New Jer sey plant, accompanied by affidavits alleging code violations by the auto mobile manufacturer. The report haa not yet been ex amined by Hugh S. Johnson, but from his previous utterances It ap peared likely that if any convincing evidence was contained, he would re fer It to the attorney-general for action. For Sale At Franklin's Grocery and Peach Street Grocery Cranberries, bananas, sweet potatoes, etc., which you forgot Saturday. BY DEALS WITH STATE SALEM, Deo. 23. (AP) The state Of Oregon has lost $$1,537.70 tn Interest to date In lta transactions with the Salem Linen mills, Rufus O. Holman, state treasurer, announced today. Hol man stated the state, in assisting the manufacturing firm .charged no In terest on loans nor on overdue ac counts. "This appears to me poor business,1 Holman said, In criticizing the board of control's activities in some phases of lta flax industry, "We pay five and six per cent Interest on loans and we charge farmers who borrowed un der the state laod board activities the same rate. Yet we sponsor a manu facturing firm without charging ine cent." 4 Real estate or Insurance leave It to Jones. Phone 690. T 'IH- S (JlAPPrjifBWEAlv. THE CALIFORNIA OREGON POWER COMPANY OH I BOYS L$uf tTOLwH fsnassjhk. wsmsbh ansasiBH JK Christmas SHOW -FOR J Rogue River ValW . 7 KIDDIES U4 Presented By The AIL RIBUNE Through the Generous Cooperation of Geo. A.Hunt Theatres Inc. MONDAY Dec. 25- Christmas Day 10 A.M. mm AT BOTH THE CRATERIAN AND- RIALTO A Special Holiday Program Comedy 2 Cartoons and the Main Feature "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" With MARION NIXON and RALPH BELLAMY Same Show Both Theatres Everything FREE-Every Kiddie Welcome
