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ATEDFOTID MAIL TRTBTTXE, JIEDFORD. OTfEGOX, TIll'KSTVAY. JANTJATiY 11, 1934. Sea Serpents Mate Is Sighted Near Victoria the water, and the seagulls set up a terrific commotion. "Many of tno birds pecked unmer cifully at the sleek body of the mon ster. 6uddenly we saw her reach oat and devour Jne of her tormentors with a single snap of her camel-like head." COLORADO'S NEW DEATH CHAMBER Heads Commission IMPORTANT BILLS SEEK NEW HOME VICTORIA. B. O., Jsn. 11. (TJT A glistening, brown-black sea serpent which reared out of the water be tween Trial Island and the west end of Shoal bay near here, gulped down a seagull and retired to Its subma rine fastnesses, three reputable Oak Bay citizens were prepared to swear In affidavits today. They reported they saw the sea monster for about four minutes be fore It became Irritated and ducked out of sight. The serpent Is believed to be the wife of -Amy." a larger, more be spangled denizen of the deep which made Its appearance near here last October. For the time being, "Amy's" wife Is being called "Pender," In hon or of Pender Island, where she was first seen a short time ago. "Pender was quite close to shore," Charles Marsh, Earl Marsh and J. W. Chilton, all of Oak Bay, B. C, re ported, "We noticed numerous seagulls fly ing nearby. Suddenly a big, brown black head rose about three feet from IN MEXICO AREA Tribal Chiefs Consider Going On Another 'Trail of Tears' Oil Derricks of Okla homa Put. Crimp in Style r Residents of South Csrollna pur chased 7.614 more new automobiles In 1033 than In 1933. STOP ITCHING Itt amazing how this tormenting trouble wherever it occurs Sales Tax and State Bank Measures Going On Ballot if Enough Signatures Are Placed On Petitions . S yields to soothing P'AGE STX 1 - , 4 r ' I. s- iff u4 yi li 4k, 1 IfiOi BALKM, Ore. (UP) Two revolu tionary measures win come before t'.ie Oregon voters for approval or rejection In 1934 If sufficient signa tures are obtained to place them on the ballot. They are the sales tax, passed by the recent special legislature; and creation of ft state-operated bank, defeated at the session. In general the voters who favor the sales tax will oppose the bank. The state g-rcnge and federation of labor are moving spirits oenma ine referen dum against vw sales tax and ini tlatlve for the state bank. Would Aid Schools The sales tax would support the schools partially on a different basis than previously. It will be voted on May 16, If 16,006 signatures are ob tained on referendum petitions, which is practically assured. A similar levy was defeated In July. Ballot title reads: "To provide for relief of the exist Ing serious financial condition of the public schools, due to unusual tax delinquency, by collecting a tax of ltf per cent of gross receipts from retail sales of tangible personal property and utility services, such tax to be paid by the seller and by him collected from the purchaser exempting gross receipts of each per son up to (so a month: an net reve nues derived from such tax to be apportioned to school districts and the amount thereof deducted from school taxes on property: this levy to be effective until June so, loss." New Banking Element The proposed state bank would create an entirely new element In state financial affairs. Two Initia tive measures will be voted on In Kovember, If 26,666 signatures are obtained. The first would repeal a present Oregon constitutional amend ment prohibiting such a bank, the second create the bank. Ballot title for the bank creation reads: "Creating the state owned and op erated 'Bank of Oregon' with tfie gov. ernor, secretary of state, attorney general and labor, commissioner as board of directors and atate treas urer as manager; to do a general banking business; to be exclusive state fiscal agent and depository for all moneys of the state, counties, districts, political subdivisions (ex cept cities), legal receivers, trustees, administrators, executors and offi cials; fix Its Interest rates paid and received; have county agent banks; all deposits guaranteed; may deposit funds In any Oregon bank which gives the same security as state de positories; officials so depoetlng and their securities exempt from llabli. lty." This It the new lethal gas chamber of the Colorado prison at Canon City, where Walter Reppln of Newark, N. J., wai doomed to die unlets he legal battle to save htm proved successful. Reppfn's attorneys argued that the boy, being a minor, had no right to plead guilty. He won a stay of execution from the Colorado supreme court. (Associated Press Photo) Nude Madwoman Penned In Unheated Dirty Hovel Is Rescued by Policemen TEN PROJECTS IN OREGON COSTLY PORTLAND, Jan. 10. (AP) Ore ion bu had 10 project In the federsl PWA classification totaling $40,173,000 and requiring 0.030,047 man-days and 12 project under non-federal classi fication, costing $7,081,613 and re quiring 002,570 man-days, It was snld here today by C. O. Hockley, Oregon PWA engineer, f It would take one man more than 18,000 years to finish all the PWA Jobs allotted Oregon If he had to do them single-handed, the engineer estimated. Obituary, Died Monday morning, January 8, after a week'a serious Illness at the Granite City hospital, Ashland, Elea nor Genevieve Cuahman, age 4 years. 8 months, twenty-seven days. Born at Ashland September 19, 1039. Left to mourn her loss are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Cushman of Trail, two brothers, Paul and Blllte and one sister, Rowena, besides two grand, mothers, Mrs. Cushman of Trail and Mrs. Freeman of Ashland and several uncles and aunts. Everything possible was done for the little sufferer, whom nurses and doctors pronounced one of the most patient sufferers they had attended. Little Eleanor, loved by all who knew her, will be sadly mtsned by her many relatives and friends. Seeks Movie Fame lKtes. -;r i Mrs. Virginia Peine Lehmann. socially prominent Chicago beauty, and "Virginia Pine," ahow girl In a motion picture being produced In Hollywood are one and the tame person. She started a career In the films recently and remarked "It beats social functions. (Assoclat ad Press Photol . RIDCIEWOOD PARK, N. J., Jan. 11 ( AP ) Detectives strove today to piece together the strange story sur rounding the Imprisonment of ft naked madwoman in a dirty, un heated, closet-like room over a stable on the old barnea estate. The woman, Mrs. Sophie Cerardl, 43, pronounced Insane by a county phy sician, meanwhile was receiving medi cal attention at the county hospital Bergen pines. Two Held. The two other characters of the strange tale were the two alleged Jailers, Joseph . Cerardl, 34, the woman's husband, and his house keeper, Miss Mary Griffin, 30, were held under arrest In county Jail on charges of false Imprisonment, and authorities said there was a possibility of a second charge of abusing an In sane person. Much police Interest centered on the husband, a former middleweight pugilist, who they said was questioned In the Lindbergh kidnaping case after the body of the murdered Lindbergh baby was found near a shack where Cerardl stayed occasionally at Hone-well. Long Prisoned, Cerardl, also known as Geradl, rented the four-room apartment above the stable almost two years ago. Neighbors told police they saw his wife arrive with him and she was then apparently In good health. When police found her last night she bad wasted away to 00 pounds. When Cerardl was arrested last night, police said he acknowledged keeping his wife locked up, but de nied mistreating her. He aald he had taken her from a state Institution, where she bad been committed as mentally unbalanced and was keep ing her with him "for her own bene fit." Sinter Calls Police. Police entered the case late yester day at the request of Mrs. Cerardl's sister, Mrs. Loretta Regenstruf of the Bronx, who complained that Cerardl had repeatedly refused to allow her to see her sister, and allegedly threat ened "to bump her off" If she told anyone he kept her sister locked up. Prosecutor Lieutenant Nathan Allyn said Mrs. Regenstruf had also in formed him that Cerardl had Insured his wife's life for 810.000. Allyn said this Information would be Investi gated today to determine It It had any bearing on the case. Refused Admittance. When police went to the barn, which Is at the end of a winding lane behind a tall hedgerow, the house keeper first refused them admission, relenting when they threatened to break down the door. They then pre vailed upon her to surrender the key to the 6x8 room In which Mrs, Cerardl was locked. The door was opened, officers later reported, and they found Mrs. Cerardi huddled naked on the bed, gibbering wildly. Both windows tn the cubicle had been boarded up, and the bed was the only article of furniture in the room. A soiled blanket was thrown across the bare, dtrty mat tress. The woman was taken to a hospital and police waited several hours be fore Cerardl entered the apartment and was arrested, together with the housekeeper. They were questioned and committed to county Jail. There Cererdl, who Is known generally as Joseph, said his real first name was Carmelll, and gave his occupation as a bootblack. The housekeeper told police she did not know her em ployer's occupation and said as far as she knew he had no way of earning a living. Son On Premises. Cerardl was Mrs. Cerardl's second husband, police said. She was di vorced from a New York lawyer named Joseph Maran, by whom she had one son, Charles, now 23. Charles lived with Cerardl In the flat over the stable, police learned, but they were not able to locate him for question ing. The Oerardls married about eight years ago. Police said they had learned Mrs. Cerardl had been mentally unbal anced before she came to the old stable and had received hospital treat ment. One detective expressed the opinion that her mental condition might be traceable to the squalid conditions under which she had been living. Mrs. Cerardl was described to police as a woman of Intellectual attainments, who could speak seven languages. When officers opened the door of her prison, she used four languages In her Incoherent replies to their questioning. AT OF MUSIC, READINGS An entertaining program was given by the Derby Community club at the Derby gymnasium Saturday evening. The first number Included several musical selections played by Ben and Bert Whaley, Mr. Wftaley Sr., and Lor in Smith, with string Instruments. Miss Fnnny Long and Morle Dean sang a duet; Lor in Smith sang, "Meet Me In San Antonio," accompanying with his guitar. Miss Zella Dunlap gave a reading, Percy O'Ncll played the violin and Mrs. K. Eldred the piano, "My Wild Irish Rose" and encore. "The Pour Hay Shakers," Prank, Ernest and Earl Dean, and Martin Klley. sang "Night Time In Nevada" and ''When the Bloom Is on the Sage." Mr. Vestal and Lorln Smith gave two numbers on the violin and guitar. Misses I ma Dean and Helen Kantor sang "When the Moon Came Over the Mountain." They were ac companied by Bert Whaley with banjo. Zora Dunlap gave a reading. A dance followed the program, with music furnlahed by Mr. Vestal, Mr. O'Nell. Mrs. Fldred, Lorln and P. Smith, Mr. Whaley and sons, Bert and Ben. The Whaley boys were members of "The Roeue River Cow boys." Refreshments were served at midnight. Pears Yesterday NEW VOHK, Jan. U. - UBIW Prsr auction market: S cars arrived; I Oration, 9 Washington cars un loaded; a cars on track. Oregon D'AnJoua: 7J0 boxes, extra fane j, 3 50-9 i. arerafw 13 95; 730 boxes fancy. 3 SS-2 OS, average 3 "5. Washington D'AnJoua; 720 boxes extra Jancjr, I3l , average S3 47; 75A boxes fancy, S3. 18-3 35, avenge 3.39. LEGION CONFERENCE NEEDS CO-OPERATION The American Legion district con fore nee for southern Oregon will be held at Med ford this year on Febru arys. Carl Moser, department ad jutant, made a hurried trip to Med- ford and met with officers of the post and also of the civic organlMitlon and the Chamber of Commerce, to make arrangements for the visitors to be taken care of. The conferences this year are to be on a much larger scale, well-known business men Le gionnaires of Oregon and Washington will be among those making the tr'.p. All members of Med ford post should help bring up our membership and show the Legionnaires from the north that we In southern Oregon continue to "Serve In peace as In war." Bring In all the old members. We want every LeRlonnalre In this community to do their part In entertaining the visitors who are coming from Grants Pass, Kerby, Ashland, Klamath Palls, Lskevlew, Merrill and Malln posts, besides our vlstore from the northern posts. Details have not been completed, but as soon aa the program la ready It will appear in this paper, and at that time let every legionnaire be reedv to take part. The day of the conference starts at 8:30 a. m. when the delegation arrives from Portland on the Southern Pacific train and finishes up sometime next morning. Steamer Ashore, LONDON, Jan. 11. (API A mes sase to Lloyds from Yokohama today said the American s tea me r Texas, bound for Dalren. was reported ashore on Qado Island, Japan. In a snowstorm. Assistance was sent to the grounded vessel, the report said. WEWOKA, Okla. (UP)-The Sem inole Indian tribe's council .house hoe been moved from Wewoka, old tribal capital. Into the country to become a farmer's dwelling. The move was made while the tri bal chieftains considered going on another "Trail of Tears' similar to the long trek that brought them here from Florida in 1631. Three hundred Seminole braves, disheartened by seeing their once "Happy Hunting Orounds" of central Oklahoma sprout oil derricks and turn to industry, have practically determined to move to old Mexico- far from oil, riches, and the rush of an Industrial civilization. They want to get back to the open spaces, and have begun negotiations for another hunting ground In So nora. The old brown council house, which once stood In the center of Wewoka. had been partly dismantled. Recently the last of It was moved to Vie Lawrence Youngblood farm. Within the past 30 years, the 14 bands of chieftains, each with a first and second band chief and a law maker, sat In the old council house to dispense tribal Justice among their people. Governor John P. Brown, first chief of the Semlnoles, dispensed a strict Justice from within the council. Law breakers were whipped at a tree now standing near the Seminole county court house. No Jails were found within the Seminole nation, only the whipping-tree. A hard lashing was usually suf ficient for malefactors. A third con viction resulted In death under the Seminole unwritten laws. i Seminole Justice waa swift, strict and unflinching, but malefactors were not taken away from their fam ilies and the dependents left In want. If the wrongdoer reformed, as us ually was the case, he was accepted In trhe tribe again. If he was Incor rigible, he was put to death. In the old council house, many a brave went on trial, and death sen tences were meted out to the worst, The house was moved a number of times, first making the long, tortu ous Journey along the Trail of Tears. William E. Lee, Idaho republican. Is the newly-elected chairman of the Interstate commerce commission. The chairmanship la rotated an nually. (Assoclat. d Press Photo) TELEPHONE PLANT VALUE BE STATED E ON LUMBER HELD PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 11. (AP) A demand of the Oregon public utilities commissioner that the Pacific Tele phone & Telegraph company provide him with a valuation figure on the Oregon plants and properties of the utility, based on "present value." was agreed to by the company at a rate hearing today. Commissioner Charles M. Thomas and his attorney, Ame. Clark, In sisted that the telephone company base Its valuation, not on "reproduc tion cost now," but upon "present values," which will be the base valua tion upon which the rates and charges of the company to Its patrons win do I calculated by the commissioner. I It was explained that by "repro duction cost now" waa meant the I amount of money necessary to start from the bottom ana build the entire telephone structure In Oregon at the present time. The "present value" was taken to mean the amount the company would receive from Its prop erties, at present, If a prudent In vestor wished to purchase It. Before adjournment yesterday, C. R. Lester, engineer for the utilities com mission, put figures Into the record fixing the value of the company's properties and plants In Oregon at $37,679,888. He estimated the value of Portland properties at $21,368,000. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Up) Charges that the lumber code author ity la violating a provision of the lumber code and skyrocketing prices with a basing point selling system were made today by Worth E. Shoults, an economist with the consumers' ad visory board of the NRA. Shoults. in a report of the board read at a hearing on the code, said le provides for f.o.b. mill prices, but subsequent rulings of the code au thorities require mills to quote de livered prices which are composed of toe originally Intended f.o.b. mill prices plus freight on specified basing points. As an example, the economist said a maple wood producer, regardless of where located, must charge delivered prices as though he shipped from Cadillac, Mich., the base point. Sim ilarly, he added, Wausau, wis., is the basing point for northern hemlock and Duluth, Minn., for northern pine. Declaring the email producers are suffering from the high lumber prices in the authority schedule, he added they are also discouraging the publtc on buying, and putting mills under temptation to cut code prices to ob tain sales. "If these prices stand," he quoted one complainant as saying, "the small mills of Virginia will not be able to carry out the code, but I think they will cut the lumber as heretofore. sell for what they can get and run the risk of detection.' Similar complaints and statements were received by the consumers' board from all sections of the country, he said. Advice given In August against rapid lumber price Increas by the United 3 Lutes timber conservation board has been disregarded by the industry, Shoults declared. Statistics showing the decrease In lumber sales over the past four months, and let ters citing the distress of mills and retailers, were offered In substanti ation of the claim that price shed ules are set above the public's power to purchase in sufficient volume to support the Industry, Oregon Weather. Increasing cloudiness followed by rain tonight and Friday west portion and snow or rain Prlday northeast ern portion; slightly warmer tonight: wind Increasing to southeast gale offshore. Cotton Cargo Afire LONDON, Jti n . It. (AP) Lloyds reported fmm Land's Knd today that the American steamer Tripp, en route from Hsu ton to Liverpool, re ported a fire In her cotton cargo be tween decks at 7 p. m. yesterday. If f" - " if r r x 1 ). m . fiKcb -iw a r"S v 1 i r Mi Standard Quality Western Giants According to size antf make of tire bought. 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