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The Weather Forecast: I'luettlcd, with occa ilonal rain tonight and Thursday. Lit tle change In temperature, lllthMt yesterday 43 Lowest this morning .... 33 M EDFORD MA il Tribi m natch th IRintNC'S W R A CLASSIFIED ADS . . Vjf 'jjf Loti of food bargalni I that mean genuine pP I tarings. w 1 Twentv-oiulilli Year MED FOR I), OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1933 No. 237. AWs Rv PAI'l. MAI.LOV. (Copyright, 1089, by Paul Mallon) Spies. WASHINGTON. Dec. 37. Washing ton haa Its quota of foreign spies. It la little different from the rest of the world capitals. But you rarely hear anything on the subject here. The reason Is that we have a dlf lerent technique about handling euch matters. Our agents rarely let the spies know a they are even being suspected. The etate department does not likes the Idea of making charges which only Increase International suspicion and animosity. They know full well that jf they raise an ado about one spy organization and break It up. an other will Immediately take ita place. So they generally let' the spies go on with their work, keeping them . under secret surveilance and tapping their methods of communication. ' They also try to keep such situations from getting out. There is one such case which la Tery warm right now. ' Open Books. There la less for spies to do here than there Is In the European capi tals, where aecret war preparations keep things humming. We have no eecret fortifications, which are par ticularly Important In our defense scheme. For that reason, counter parts to the recent Parla case are ex tremely rare In thla country. What foreign aplea specialize on here are naval and army plans for airplanes, ships, guns and new wea pons of war. But we are unusually open even about those subjects In certain In stance. There la a rule that airplane plant manufacturing for the army and Bavy must take ateps to prevent out sider from peeping. But, recently, when foreign attaches of a certain embassy here requested a pass from 'the state department to go through an airplane factory near here, the pass was Issued, although new gov ernment planes were then being built there. Currently we are supposed to have developed a high speed naval plane about which the world knows little. However, It is an oven bet that most of the aviation experts of for eign powers have a fairly good line on it by now. Those things cannot be kept secret for long, even with stronger precautions than we take. Reality. The Inside figure on the actual deficit for this fiscal year Is four bil lion dollars. ' That figure will never be published officially, but It la the one on which Mr. Roosevelt has been laying his budget plans. The official budget will, of course, show a surplus of perhape a billion. That Is because most of. the relief expenditures were left out of It. Rnnblteenlna. The only crow the expert want to pick with Mr. Roosevelt s ouosei.- ......I I. tht manner In which public works expenditures have been handled. .m... fn i. OTah has-. Anv time they need money for anything they call on Interior secretary It, and he goes down In his sock and produces it from the public works lund. ,tnn th final renort from that agency It In you will find that more than half of it haa gone to govern ment departments, eome for- legiti mate public wonts, out. auso uu-u tlal amounts for national Informa tlon services and what not. cipiHit-nMland. In one peculiar Instance, conp-ess declined to give the coast and geo detic survey money to carry on cer tain work. It cut the appropriation lor that bureau at the last session. Artcr congress went home. Ickea fur nished the money desired by the bureau from the public works fund. The same thing haa been done for the commerce. Interior and agricul ture departments. The Idea behind It Is that the work furnishes em ployment and should be done despite the attitude of congress. There Is nothing particularly wrong about that, except when you start adding up your budget. The public ! works Is outside the regulsr budget, while the departmental activities for which the money was spent are really budgetary Hems. It means that money congress re fused to spend In the. regular budget has been spent outside the budget. Thst Is NOT likely to Increase con. fldcnce In the budget. The administration will surely hear about It from congress shortly. Farm Mortgage". The farm credit administration ap pears to be In a little credit Jam which the authorities are trying to smooth over. The whisper Is that the original $200.000 000 appropriation for mort gage relief haa been entirely ear marked or spent, so thst there Is none remaining free. The farm rrellt crowd n.ia not used the two billions In bonds authorised (Coiiunue,i on Page Six 4o ft ft on lr SALEM, Dec. 27. i APt A program Including musical numbers and pfcch cn "AnirrlcanlAm" will be predated tomorrow night bv the Forty and Ei?ht so-ietv of t'.ir Vv.rr rn Les'nn oer KOAC, it was an fiouniol at;c tocUj, BILLION DEFICIT FAILS 10 WORRY I. Wl House Expects Red Ink Figures to Mount Higher As Result Recovery Program Income Eyed WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. (API The governments deficit today passed the Diinon-aoiiar marie. The figure by which expenditures exceeded receipts in the dally treas ury statement was $1,024,121,667. This compared with the corres ponding deflct Vie same time last year og 1,593,694,753. While this figure was .the latest available. It was already several days old. being, given In the treasury statement of its condition Decem ber 22. Since that day It was considered certain the deficit had grown still higher. i WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (API- President Roosevelt displayed no sur prise today at the latest treasury statement showing a deficit In gov ernment finances of a billion dollars and It was reported at the White House that the figure would mount even higher as a result of the recov ery program. Income Watched The chief executive was said au thoritatively to be 'interested in mak ing certain that income in revenue keeps pace with the normal current expenditures and he understands this Income and outgo Is about on an even basis. The deficit is expected to repre sent only a part of the extraordinary expenditures being made by the gov ernment in behalf of Vie recovery drive. Continuing his preparation of the budget to be submitted to congress next week, President Roosevelt called in Henry Morgenthau, acting secre tary of the treasury, and Lewis Doug, las, budget director. Message Unwritten Mr. Roosevelt told newspaper men at his press conference that he has not started writing his budget nor his message on the state of the un ton to be read to congress on the opening day, January 3. Asked to give his views on past events ,and predictions, of those to come at Vie turn of the year, the president replied that he was willing to let the same old forecasters do the Job and continue to be the goat. T PARIS. Dec. 27. (ip) in a national funeral at a Paris railroad station; Prance made a last farewell to the victims of the Lagny train disaster as the deaths of two women raised fatalities to 202. An enormous crowd gathered in the great, black-draped underground hall of the East station. It was trans formed Into a chapet beside the bag gage room where rows of coffins lay Here it was that the bodies had been placed for Identification after the crash Saturday night at Lagney. near here, when the Strasbourg flier ran into the rear end of a fogbound express. CHINESE WOMAN WINS E PORTLAND, Dec. 27. (AP) Mra. Marie L. John, a Chinese, waa award ed $5,150 damages by a circuit court Jury here last night In her suit against Royden H. Enloe, Blot ma chine owner and distributor, whom she charged with assault and battery. She had asked (15.160. declaring thst Enloe Beat and threatened her after she had ordered him to remove two of hla slot machines from her curio store. FIVE KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS CATTLE CALVERT, Texas, Dec. 27. (AP Three members of the crew and two hoboes were killed when a Missouri Pacific freight train struck some live stock near Calvert early today and was derailed. R. J. Deihomme. 48, engineer; Fred Wallace, 45. fireman, and Otis Oreen, 47, front brnkeman all of Mart were killed when the engine and eight cars left the track. PLANE WINS DEATH RACE TO SAVE LIFE OF BABY BALTIMORE. Dec. 27. or, The ! condition of Sue Trammel flve ! months-old baby flown here from : Houston, Texas, in what was thought to be an air race with death, was i described as "a factory" at Johns Hopkins hospital today. The child had rested so well since .taken from the p!ane. which Jimes : R. Wedeil. upeed flier, landed in the I anew here mtIt t ril momirm, that l Dr. Walter T. Dandy, the brain spec ! U'.iAt. decided to postpone hia exm :n?:on until !atr in the day. Or. Dandy's a.Msnta avusred him : at the child was in no immediate Will Turns Green When Role Calls For Pipe Smoking HOLLYWOOD. Dec. 27. (API Will Rogers, the actor-humorist, today proved the truth In the say ing that It's difficult to teach an old dog new tricks. A sequence In a motion picture he Is appearing In called lor Rogers to smoke a pipe. He smoked. Presently he began to take on a greenish color. "Jim," he yelled to Director Cruze. "I'm sick." Rogers never before smoked Production was held up for ten minutes while a messenger went to a corner drug store to purchase an aromatic herb commonly smok ed to relieve asthma. TO 2 YEARS FOR STEALING AUTOS Gordon T. Johnson, a CCC worker, has been sentenced by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton to two years in state prison for a series of depredtatlons, including the appropriation of a score of automobiles. He hailed from up state, has a reform school record of considerable length, and has been nefariously busy the past six months In this county. Johnson pleaded guilty, and is the second CCC worker to receive a state prison sentence in the past two weeks. William C. Poole, 19, of the Butte Falls district, was the other. Poole admitted the theft of five autos and a number of petty thefts, over a six months period. Albert Nichols and Robert Goyke entered pleas of guilty to burglary not In a dwelling and the court de ferred sentence, pending disposition of the case of John Weedman, charged with the same offense, also the fed eral count of manufacturing syn thletic liquor. The two will appear as witnesses in the federal action against Weedman, who formerly resided In Coos county. The burglary not In a dwelling in volved the theft of a steer belonging to C. W. Ashpole and attempt to dis pose of the - carcass. Weedman Is alleged to have attempted to outwit Uncle Sam In the enforcement of the liquor revenue laws. Fred Orlando Gamble of Rogue River also faces a federal count and the possibility of a state ' charge. Gamble is alleged to have operated an unlicensed still arfd to have set a trap-gun in the trail near his plant. The federal grand Jury meeting next month at Portland Is expected to taxe action In both the Gamble and Weed man cases. SPEED! JUSTICE GIVEN MURDERER SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. (AP) Less than nine days after his arrest, Edward Anderson, 25, confessed killer of Hewlett Tarr in a theater holdup here November 29, was convicted of first degree murder early today by a Jury of seven men and five women. Returned without recommendation after seven hours and ten minutes deliberation by the Jury, the verdict automatically carried the death pen aly. Anderson was convicted of robbing the Branch of the Bank of America where he was captured December IB after shooting an officer. The murder verdict came after nine ballots, all on the degree of punish ment. Foreman Thomas R. Hamilton said two women Jurors held out for life Imprisonment until the final ballot. NBW YORK, Dec. 17. (VP) The first 52 railroads to report for No vember had net operating Income to taling 127,546.000, an Increase of 21.0 per cent over November, 1032, and a rise of 13. 1 per cent over the same month of 1931. In October of this year their net operating income amounted to M0 130,000. which waa 11.1 per cent un der 1932 figures. Oross revenues of 1174.864.000 were 3 7 per cent above last year, whereas October showed a drop of 1.4 per cent. Asked If hydro-cepha.ua, or water on the brain, from which the baby was reported to be suffering, was sus ceptible to successful surgical treat ment. Dr. Dandy said it was. He added, however, that it was a dan gerous malady. Wedell set the big red monop'ane on the snow crust which covered Loon field here, at 1:57 o'clock this morning after making more than 1400 mites in slightly more than 11 hours. A.'tr receiving reports from the Associated Press of the spectacular flight. Mayor Howard Jtckon pla-d fi fanlit.en of the city to aid the Pilot and the family of the stricken DESOLATE SCENE LEFT AS FL000 1TERSJTREAT 2800 Driven From Homes i Million and Half Damage Counted in Cowlitz County Survey by Red Cross KELSO, Wash., Dec. 37. (API Twenty -eight hundred persons were compelled to leave their .homes, 795 homes were flooded nd damage esti mated at a million and a half dollars was done in Cowlitz county by the floods which started two weeks ago. a Red Cross survey disclosed today. A breathing spell after sleepless ni&hts and days of worry gave resi dents time to take stock of the lews to public and private property. The water was well out of tho area. Relief Organized At Woodland a preliminary organi zation for Immediate relief work was set up yesterday, to bring aid to the flood-stclken people of North and South Kelso, Castle Rock, Lexington, . Woodland and a number of rural j vuiiiiuiui.h. wiiiiiiu.ihj asked to take a "census" of its lndl dlvual loss at once. The findings will be compiled by the Cowl Its County CWA and will be placed before the county commission ers, to be sent to state and federal officials with requests for aid. Dele gations from the stricken areas, as well aa from Longvlew and other communities, attended the meeting. Homes Wrecked Returning to their homes, many families at Woodland, Castle Rock, Kelso and Lexington were finding only angled wreckage. A few fami lies will b able to find living quar ters in their homes again, but in many Instances they have been washed away or are totally wrecked. CWA workers were busy today burying dead livestock. At Lexing ton, the lowlands were strewn with dead bodies, with about 100 dairy cows having been drowned. Three hundred were lost at Woodland, while about 2000 were saved by emergency measures in driving them to higher ground. Today the weather broke colder though with partly overcast skies. The Cowlitz river Is down to 19.1 and the Columbia Is also lower at 15.0 feet. The Cowlitz Is at the lowest level since December 19. The tempera tude dropped last night to 37 de grees here. OS BORN. Idaho, Dec. 37. (AP) Russell Owen, former airmail pilot and a veteran flier, and a passenger, Ed Murphy of Kellogg, Idaho, were critically injured when thel r plane fell 200 feet and was demolished at the airport here today. Owen was circling the field pre paratory to landing when the ship stde-sllpped, landing on its nose In stumps on the east end of the field. The men, both unconscious, were ex tricated from the wreckage and taken to a hospital. Owen, flying a private plane In the emergency operations set up by N. B. Namer, of Northwest Airways, to aid residents of this region after floods Isolated them from the outside world had been making several trips dally from Spokane to this point. STROKE VICTIMS ARE IMPROVING E. O. Trowbridge of 344 North Cen tral waa reported in a much improved condition thla afternoon, having suf fered a light stroke on Christmas morning. E. F. Alexander of the Alexander Grocery, who suffered a stroke Sat urday, was reported lfi a slightly Im proved condition at his home on South Newtown this afternoon. He had not regained use of his right side, which was paralyzed. Dunning Takes Post Wtih NRA WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP) C. W. Dunning of Portland, Oregon, as sistant chief of the processing and marketing section of the farm ad ministration, resigned today to be come a deputy administrator of the NRA. Major Dunning will assist in handl ing codes transferred from the farm administration to the NRA by Presi dent Roosevelt. northwest'railroad pioneer succumbs PORTLAND, Ore . Dec. 27. (,V Edward Lyons. 83. one of the pioneer railroad men of the Pacific northwest, died at his home here today. In Rochester, Minn., where nil ram llv moved from hi birthplace in Ham ilton, Canada, when he was three years old, he began a lifelong Identi fication with railroading. Judge Aligned. 8ALEM, Dec. 27 (AP Chief Jus tice John L. Rand today aulgned Judge J. W. Xnowles to hear Uma tilla county circuit court canes for which Judge Calvin L. Sweek ht been UquahIld CRUISER ASTORIA LAUNCHED II JILDING DOCK o w lis sisSIS The sea came up to meet the navy's newest cruiser, Astoria, Instead of the vessel sliding down greased ways to the water. The cruiser waa constructed In a building dock, similar to dry dock, In the Bremerton, Wash., navy yard and when It was 85 per cent complete valves were opened and the craft floated. The Astoria Is a 10.000-ton ship built under the terms of the London Naval treaty. A bottle of champagne was broken across its bow by Leila C. McKay, great-granddaughter of on of Astoria's foun ders. (Associated Press Photo PEAR INDUSTRY I E BAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27. (AP) Alex Jahnson," secretary of the Cali fornia Pear Federation, announced today he had asked Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins to finance a survey of the pear indus try of California, Oregon and Wash ington in behalf of growers, ship pers, canners and packers who are now developing a marketing agree ment. Johnson said an effective market ing agreement would depend upon accurate information regarding acre age and variety of trees In order to estimate the total lonnngc, allot tonnage among growers, allot salable tonnage for canning, fresh shipment, shipment and drying between vari ous districts and to supply Informa tion required by a control commit tee for tree removal. The farm bureau secretary said the survey could be orgRnl7.ed around lo cal communities, selecting from the unemployed men of the necessary ex perlence. LIQUOR LAW TEST SET FOR HEARING EARLY THURSDAY SALEM, Ore., Dec. 27. (AP) The liquor law test suit brought against the state by the city of Klamath Falls will be up for hearing In the Marlon county circuit court tomor row morning at 10 o'clock before Judge L. G. Le welling, tho court clerk announced today. Judge Lewelllng was holding court in Albany today. At noon today the state's answer to the Kiamat,h Falls complaint had not been filed. The complaint stated the new liq urr law was unconstitutional and thr.t the slate liquor com mission and police officers be en Joined from enforcing it. District Attorney W. H. Trindle said Judge Lewelllng was willing to set the date ahead to this afternoon if the representing atotrneys so de sired. Elton Watklns of Portland la at torney for Klamath Falls and Jay Bowerman of Portland is attorney representing the state. 4 W. M. Clemenson. proprietor of the Jackson hotel and a member of the city council, was reported critically ill at the hotel this afternoon, fol lowing a cerebral hemorrhage, auffer ed about 11:30 this morning. A slight improvement in hla con dition was noted this afternoon by the attending physician, but he was still critically ill when the Mall Tribune went to press. Mr. Clemenson was in his room i when the hemorrhage occurred. H'.s1 health had been causing him consid erable discomfort dvirlng the puit several days, his physician stated. MRS. CLARKINJURED BY FALL IN ROOM Mrs. L. B. Clark, mho makes her home st the Hotel Medford, sustained painful Injuries this morning when she slipped and fell In her room. The ambulance waa called and she was rushed to the Community hospital, where x-rays were being taken this afternoon to determine the extent of lAjjiuy to uez W. M. GLEMENSON CRITICALLY ILL L' INANCE BY CITY LEAGUE An ordinance, providing for liquor control by cities until the state ma chinery swings into action has been received by Med ford from the League of Oregon Cities, Mayor E. M. Wilson announced today, stating that no ac tion, however, has been taken here regarding the proposed ordinance, drawn up by the league. The ordinance proposes that the cltlca set up temporary machinery to handle the sltpatlon preceding the Installation of the state liquor stores. It Is In other respects in keeping with the Knox bill. It will be from four to eight weeks before tho state act can be placed in operation, tho letter from the league points out, asking that the city coun cil act as agent of the liquor control commission during that Interim. Issuance of licenses to various agencies Is provided in the ordinance with the following submitted list of proponed rates: Brewery 500, winery 25Q, farmer's winery 25, distillery 100, wholesaler i250, restaurant S100, hotel 9100, club 50, package atore, class A, 910, pack age store, class B, 50, druggist $10, railroad S50. retail beer, S16. Under packages store any place per mitted to sell liquor In sealed pack ages Is Indicated. Class A applies to sale of beverages not exceeding five per cent alcohol by weight and class B to the sale of those of 14 per cent alcoholic content by volume. The local committee appointed by the mayor and city council to draw up some form of legislation for Med- ford had not yet met today, C. C. Darby, chairman, stated. PORTLAND, Dec. 27. (AP) Ap proval of a $31,000 expenditure Tor construction of a land and seaplane port for Astoria, was given here late yesterday by the department of com merce aeronautlca branch in co-operation with the civil works adminis tration. SILVERTON, Dec. 27. (AP) Ram paging Sliver creek In its latest out burst tore the 76-foot Fischer Flour ing mill dam from its rock founda tions. The loss was estimated at $3000. Pear Markets CHICAGO, Dec. 27. (AP) U8DA Pear auction No cars arrived, none on track, one sold, Oregon Bosc, 620 boxes, fancy, $2.26 A 2.30; average, $2.28. NEW YORK, Dec. 27. ( AP) USDA Pear auction Six cars arrived, one California, 1 Oregon, 0 Washington unloaded; 6 cars on track. Oregon Bote, 689 boxes extra fancy. $2403.10; average, $2.40; 136 boxes fancy and better, $2.60ff300; average $2.76. Washington D'AnJous, 684 boxes, $2.1flrtt2 60; average, $2.38, FATHER SHOT ON ORDER MOTHER'S OUIJA BOARD ST. JOHNS, Aril!., Dec. 27, (AP J. Smith Oibhons, county attorney, I Informed of the desth In Ban Diego last nlft'it of Rrnest J. Turley, re tired naval officer, said today he would prepare a murder complaint airatnst Mrs. Turley and possibly apninst her daughter. Mattle. "I will file a charge of first de gree murder charge against Mrs. Turley and possibly her daughter some time tomorrow," Gibbons de clared. The daughter admitted shooting ,her father so her mother "could marry a young cowboy." She attrib uted her art to her mother'a oui)a board, which, she said, "wrote out that. I was to kin my father." Tui.cy. abov in the big iUd E ARE BOOSTED BY ;t SAN FRANCISCO Dec. 27. (AP) Gasoline Jumped 2 cents a gallon throughout California today, and in creases also went Into effect In Ore gon, Washington and Nevada. The new price here is 22 cents for premium grade, 20 cents for regular grade and 17.5 cents for third grade motor fuel. Prices In Los Angelea were a half cent lower than here. In Portland the rise waa a half cent on all grades, the range being 24.S cents, 22.0 cents and 20 cents. The same rice and same prices went into effect at Seattle. Tneonm and Med ford also boosted prices a half cent. At Spokano the two top grades rose a cent i and third grade a half rent. Standard Oil company was the first to announce the boost, with As sociated and Union quickly follow ing. IS NOMINATED HERE Medford'a meanest man, according to Chief of Police Clatous McCredle, waa apprehended yesterday, after he had stolen a large basketful of gro ceries Christmas night from a deaf widow, at whose home he had an apartment. A local grocery store hsd prepared a basket of foodstuffs for the elderly lady and left them at her door. Police were notified, and the man was found to have made some hotcakes from the flour, and had cooked most of the meat. When questioned by the chief, the roomer said he thought the Salvation Army had left the basket at the door for him. CHICAGO, Dec. 27. (AP) It was S below eero last night, too cold for two 16 months old babies to sleep In their crib. So Blanche and Barbara Marshall, twins, were snuggled into bed with their mother and father and four-year-old brother, When the mother awoke at 8 a. ro ller babies were dead. They had smothered. Warrants Called. SALEM. Dec. 27. (AP) The state treasury department announced that $103,000 general fund warrants will he called tomorrow, bringing warrant redemption up to November 20. back as he stood near a corral on his ranch, 86 miles from St. Johns. He was taken to San Diego In a TranAport plane by Lieut. S. 8. Jark. Attending physicians here had ex pressed belief his wounds were not serious. Yesterday, Judge Levi 8. Udall, In superior court, took under advisement a petition of Mrs. Turley that a charge against her as an accessory be dlsmuased on grounds there was "In sufficient Independent testimony cor roborating the accomplice, Mattle, and there is absence of probable cause to hold the defendant to answer." At Mrs. Turley'a preliminary hear ing the 15-year-old daughter testi fied her mother told her the "OulJa i board could hft dulled T. mm case 'Had No Use for Jim,' Says Ex-Step Father Name Not Mentioned for Years Spite Fence Is Related LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27. (AP) The name of Albert C. Allen, Jr., Central Point, Ore., farmer, wno was left the bulk of the estate of Miss Mar garet Keith, millionaire Los Angelea recluse, was not mentioned b the eccentric spinster for six years, her brother-in-law, P. M. Woods, told a Jury trying the contest of her will today. "She had no use for 'Jim' Allen, as we called ,h!m." Woods testified. "Thla was because his father di vorced his mother, she sided with her sister, of course. She never men tion the Aliens' name again had no use for them.' Allen's mother married Woods four years later, In 1919. She died in 1031. Built Spite Fence Woods related to the Jury the in cident of .her building an eight-foot ooara rence around her home in Venioe. "I told her the neighbors would complain, but she Insisted on the fence," Woods said. "She said she didn't want to be on exhibition liks a stuffed bird. Well, the neighbor did complain and the police came and told her to take the fence down. She told them she'd move out of their town. She moved to Santa Monica, Just to spite Venice." Woods said his sister-in-law built a house In Hollywood In 1018. On the day she was to occupy It she smelled ga as she entered door. " 'Someone is trying to poison me ' Woods said she shouted. " 'I'l never live In a house they can fill with poison gas.' She never occupied the resldenoe. The witness said Miss Keith never allowed mall to be delivered to her home because she was afraid to have a postman on the grounds. She rented a post office box and sent her Japanese servants for the null. Miss Keith's brother and sister, Da vid Keith and Mrs '4 Etta Keith Esk ridge, and Allen's sister Mary Allen Towle, are contesting the will, con tending Vie woman, who committed suicide last spring, was mentally in competent. The estate la valued t about $600,000, "A fair face Is fairer viewed be neath a veil" such was the late Miss Margaret Keith's reason for wearing the heavy veil, much mentioned of late in the California trial contest ing her will is the belief of a num ber of Med ford folk, who remember her appearances In this city. "Pull face veils were being worn at that time," one merchant recalled Vila morning. "Her's was always a little thick, but you could sea through It without difficulty and It always revealed an exceptionally beautiful face." Miss Keith came to Med ford to visit her sister, who wsa then Mrs. A. C. Allen, residing at Hollywood orchard, neighboring Med ford. Her appearances here caused no small flutter on Main street, because of her beauty and attractive apparel as well as the knowledge that she had been born wit, a silver spoon in her mouth. No one thought of her aa 'Insane" but as fastidious and a bit "uppish," one local person ex pressed the sentiment today. The belief waa prevalent, several old timer added, that the Keiths (Continued on Page Seven) Will ROGERS SANTA MONIOA, Cal., Dee. 26. Between looking at our Christmas nccktio and now sox it don't givo us much clianco to read the Christmas day papers. There is something about a terrible accident or calamity that draws even nations closer together. Now France, we cuss 'cm (for looking out for France better than wo look out for our selves) but when wc read of this terriblo train wreck all debts are forgotten, all over charges to us when we were tourists there arc bygones. We just think of 'em as folks like us, who have about tho same problems to face, wooden coaches on railroads. Yours, WILL ROGERS. I. S.: This P. S. is put in here to save all R. R. presidents from sending good-natured in dignant wires. We know that you aro all doing away with th wooden ones as fast ns you can How's that, Mr. Stotcsburyf due . ttlU HlMlMiilMaltflffi '".