Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 04, 1935, Image 9

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Newspaper Page TextilEDFORD MXIL TRTBTJXE, IfEDFOTlD, OREGON, THUKSD'AY. APRIL' . 1935 CCC BOYS SPEED FIRE PROTECTION Forest Trails and Phone Lines Being Built for Sys tem Centering in Medford Miners Are Also Aided CAMP WMBR, April 4 (Spl) Medford will be the nerva center of It mile long system of forest trail and telephone lines connecting sei ton mountain. King mountain, uid Bottle mountain lookout stattom when the Oregon boya who compose thie Medford district CCO compan7. get through carrying out the plana of Lynn T. Cronemlller, etato forester. It la expected that the wort will be flnlahed by the fall of 1038. Intensive summer work will proceed full blast as aoon as replacements bring Cap tain Ouy W. Saundera' all-Oregon company to full strength about April 10th. Work on the Evans creek-Medford telephone line which has been pushed through the winter li now within two weeks of completion. Two bulldozers. taking advantage of the better weath er of the past week, are working seven ten-hour ahlfts a week slashing road up the gulchea toward the still soowclad ridges where the control roads will run. When the work la flnlahed. lookouts will be able at the flrat tiny wisp of amoks to set In motion flying squadrons of trucka and men out of Medford. Rogue River or Orants Pass to bring the fire un der Immediate control. By this pro tect four whole townships of fir and pine covered elopes and gold bearing creeks will be brought under the fire protection of the state forester. Prospectors are thronging Into Srane creek. Pleasant creek and Graves creek this year because of the deep snow on the mountains whlcn promises ample water supply until probably July. Tor them and others who will follow next year the CCC Is tulldlng roads which will make the formerly inaccessible creeks easy of entrance with supplies. Thus fire con trol will make more accessible one of trw natural resources of this coun try. Jackson county's summer popu lation will be Increased by many a oieek miner who will push the gold frontier farther back Into the Cas cades. One of the loop trails will go round the head of Graves creek mak ing every point on that stream easily approachable. t- BY DUD TORPEDO flAN PEDHO, CnUf., April 4. (AP) Struck; by a dud torpedo, the 17. 8. S. Northampton ploughed through fleet maneuvers today as though nothing had happened. The 10,000. ton cruiser carried a liveable but unimportant dent In her steel plates as a memento ot ths sccldent which might have re sulted disastrously If the torpedo had carried Its warhead load of TNT. The 45 -knot torpedo crashed Into he Northampton last week during target practice on the navy's drill grounds off San Clemente Island. It was fired from a distance of sbout 600 yards. Accidents of this sort, navy men pointed out, are not unknown In torpedo practice. Navy men, pointing out that the head of a torpedo Is usually knocked o!T In an Impact of this type and sinks, regarded the loss of the tor pedo with more concern than the mishap and attendant Inconvenience to the Northampton. The cost of tuple torpedo runs Into thousand of dollars. THRILL SLAYER JOMET, ni., Aprtl 4 (API One of the two "thrills" slayers of little Bobby Franks of Chicago Nathan Leopold may be back in the library of the state penltrntiary In a short time, attending to his duties as a clerk after undergoing s major sur gical operation. Prison official said todsy that report from the" prison hospital were that Leopold was recovering rapidly from the operation, performed several days ago for the removal ot an abscess. With Richard Loeb the prisoner has spent a little more than a decade In a prison under a 00-year sen tnre. imposed for the killing of the Frank boy. COULD NOT DO HER HOUSEWORK WHEN every thing you at tempt is a burden when you are nervous and irrt- Cable at your wit a end cry chis medicine. Ii msy be ju what Touneed forettra energy. Mrs. Charles L. Cadmus of Trenton, New Jersey, ssvs, "After doing jut s little work I had to lie down. My mother-in-lsw recom mended tbe Vegetable Compound. 1 can see a wonderful chsnge now." Grilled About Bandit V ' 4 t lK- d milm Mrs, Vlrgls Johnson, painter and wood carver and former wife of a prominent Hattlesburg. Miss., citi zen, was questioned by police In connection with the robbery of a Prentiss. Miss., bank '. which Ray mond Hamilton, notorious fugitive, wis believed Involved. (Associated Press Photo) APPLEGATE STOCK E Bra APPLEGATE, April 4. (Spl.) An organization which may become county-wide, and which will function for the general betterment of Apple gate stockmen, was formed at a cat tle owners' meeting at Ruch Sunday, and la known as the App legate Pro tective Association, The possibility of quicker action In ce of cattle steal ing was the primary purpose of or ganizing, although leaders of the group say they will be benefitted In pooling the cattle for sale, In pur chasing of salt, and other phases of the Industry. Officers elected are as follows: Fred W tche n, president; Clarence Buck. vice president; Claua Klelnhammer, secretary-treasurer; and Edward Kub U, Leon Offenbacher and Albert Col lings, board of directors. The Pro tective association will cover the en tire Applcgate district. Including all tributaries, and at another meeting scheduled for April 14, leaders hope to concentrate on membership In the Williams creek district. STATE WILL CUT SALEM, Ore., April 4. (AP) Par tlal boycott on meat because of the advancing prices was Implied by the stt board of control here todHy when it recommended that state in stitutions substitute more vegetables and fish to reduce the consumption of meat. The Issue was brought to a, head by Oovernor Martin when Secretary Dan Fry reported that prices of beef had advanced an average of 4'i cents a pound during the past three months on contracts for the various Institu tions. "Why not discourage the use of such meat and feed our Inmates and patients more vegetables?" he asked. Vegetables and fish are better for them anyway and, besides. I believe they have been getting too much meat. Let them adjust the diet ac cordingly." The recommendation was concurred in by Treasurer Holmnn and Secre tary of State Sncll, and the order will be Issued Immediately. STANFORD U. VICINITY TO BE SLIGHTLY DRIER SACRAMENTO, April 4. ( AP) The state board of equalization today cancelled the liquor licenKca of 20 establishments operating within a mile and a haff of Stanford univer sity campus. ADVANCED FIRST AID COURSE IS PLANNED Miss Marjory Kelly, who hss recent ly compleled th Standard First Aid training course, will orgs nine an ad. ra need course In (lrt aid. This cla.ss will mwt nut Monday evening In the Red Cross office In the court house Membership will be limited to those who hsve completed the standard course. Get the jump on "COLDS" WW Poes winter find you "run-down" a victim of the first cold that comes alonp? If so. there's an easy way to conihat this treacherous ail ment. Build up your resistance now with iMcKf.sson's Vitamin Con- frSTRATE TAHl.KTS OF COP LIVER On.. These tcmptinp chocolate-coated tablets brinR you an abundance of vitamins A and P. A helps you resist infection. P furnishes the extra "sunshine" your body craves in winter. Kach tablet brings you all the vitamins in one teaspoonful of U. S. I'. X. (revised U;i4) Cod Liver Oil. In addition it provides the needed minerals, calcium and phos phorus. Take six tablets daily and Ijot th Jump on colds this year. At all poo. drug stores. One dollar per bottle of 10(1 tablets. Pecin fiuhtin colds the vitamin way today with McKwson'h Vitamin Concfn TitATE Tai fts. F BY IN MEDFORD AREA Monthly meteorological notes for March a compiled by W. J. Hutchi son, local mtoro!ogift. show unsea sonably cool weather prevailed during the month. Dally mean temperatures averaged exceptionally low, especially i day-time temperatures. Unsettled conditions with light rains, showers and snow flurries were of frequent occurrence. Wind velocities averaged I somewhat higher than usual with . moderate to heavy gusts at times. m In contract to March. 1934, when a new high mean temperature record i of 55 0 degrees was established, the i mean for this month, 43.4 degrees. I was next to the lowest record. (Ab solute low tnean for March alnce 1013 was 39.9 degrees In 1017). Dally maximum temperatures averaged con siderably below normal and mlnl mums slightly lower. Monthly ex tremes of temperatures were 71 de gree for the highest on the 28th and 24 degrees on the 24th the lowest. Precipitation was quite general dur ing the first 35 days, mostly In the form of light rains and snow flurries. Measurable amounts fell on 10 days and traces were recorded on nine days. A total of 1.23 Inches occurred and as compared to the monthly nor mal la deficient 0.44 Inches Light snows, aften mixed with rnln, fell on nine days, all of which molted as It fell; however, water 'content from melted snow was measurable on six days. On the 22nd and 23rd 0.33 Inches of precipitation was measured for the greatest 24-hour fall. At the close of March seasonal precipitation totaled 13.76 Inches, showing a defi ciency of 0.66 of an Inch for the pe riod. Overcast or partly cloudy skies per sisted for the greater portion of the month. Clear skies were recorded on four days. The absence of drying weather and sunshine was particu larly unfavorable for farming and orchard field actvitlcs, especially de laying fruit tree spraying and soil preparations. Winds averaged 6.1 miles per hour for the month with an unusually high percentage of gustlness. On the 6th during one of the heavier gwAiy pe riods a mux! mum velocity of 36 miles per hour from the southeast was reg istered. Wind movement totaled 4.-! AA2 miles and prevailing winds were ; from the northwest. On the morning of the 27th clear- ! lng skies brought lower minimum temperatures In the valley with 35 degrees na the lowest for the station; other points reported ft few degrees lower. Some light frost damage re sulted In a few of the more advanced orchards. , Temperature Pre- Char Date Max. Min. M'n clp. of Day 1 53 38 45 .... Cloudy 2 58 35 46 T. P. Cdy. 3 50 32 41 .12 Cloudy o 4 4T 31 !9 .1$ Cloudy t SO 40 .... P. Cdy. a 60 SO 44 .04 cloudy 7 48 32 40 .08 Cloudy 8 44 38 38 T. Cloudy 5 40 81 40 T. P. Cdy. ! 10 M 34 40 .. P. Cdy. 11 - . 81 38 44 .... Cloudy 13 84 48 84 T. Cloudy 18 88 81 so .... cl,ar 14 48 34 40 .17 Cloudy ' 18 83 85 44 T. P Cdy. 18 5B 30 44 ... P. Cdy. 17 49 38 43 08 Cloudy 1 18 85 33 44 T. P. Cdy. 19 L .. 52 35 38 T. P. Cdy. J30 44 33 38 .31 Cloudy 1 21 48 32 39 T. P. Cdy. 32 47 31 39 .30 Cloudy 23 58 33 43 03 P. Cdy. 24 . 63 37 40 T. Cloudy 25 58 39 48 .05 Cloudy 28 60 30 40 . P. Cdy. 37 81 35 43 P. Cdy. 28 71 30 60 Clear 39 71 37 54 . P. Cdy. 30 85 39 53 . Clear 31 84 39 48 .... Clear - Mean 64.5; 33 3; 43.4; 1.38. APPLElTElICH SUIT DISMISSED The Irrigation suit of Fred Lichens and others against W. N. ( Parmer Bill) Carl and affecting s number of lower Applegate district water users Is dismissed In sji opinion handed down by Circuit Judge H. D. Norton. The opinion holds In effect, accord ing to reports, that all the share hold ers of the ditch are "co-tenants," en titled to full rights of the entire ditch, and that the amount of water each la entitled to Is fixed by the state water board allotments. It Is also held that the "distribution of profits or cost of upkeep is not At Is sue In the case." Tne New-Berryman ditch was Involved In the controversy. The opinion also holds that "par ties Interested must t Hem selves es tablish some basis on the adjudicated quotas of water as the court can only enforce legal rights as created by lew." The suit Is dismissed without prej udice or cost to either party. Lichens and others were repre sented by Attorney W. M. Brlggs of Ashland and Carl and others by At torney M. O. Wllklns. The case was heard February 21 Trainmen Killed In Freight Wreck OTTAWA, 111.. April 4. (AP) The engineer and fireman of a Bock Island freight train were killed and three others Injured early today when the truck of a west bound tank car broke, hurling the tank Into the path of another freight train bound east. The dead were: Richard Wolf. 65. engineer, and William House, 50, fire man, both of Blue Island 111. Be correctly corseted in an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B Hoffmann. not irrifate- 'lv -t fx st2T ' l:W VifV AvW t y a: , i WILLIAM A. AITKEN SUCCUMBS AFTER SHORT SICKNESS Will ism Alexander Alt en. a resi dent of Medford and southern Ore gon slnoe 1900. p&Md sway at his home. 7M Dakota street early Thurs day morning, suffering but a very short lllneas. Mr. A It ken was bom at Cutis Douglas, Scotland, April 3, 1877. At th age of 33 years he came to ths United States, and made his home In Ashland, where In 1902 he was united In marriage to Clara Min gus. To this union, two children were born, Wm. Mlngus Altken, who re side In Berkeley, Calif., and Ruth Agnes Cantrell of Los Banos, Calif. Besides the two children he is sur vived by his wife Clare, of Medford. two sisters and one brother, Mr. David Kerr Preston, England: Mrs. Lloyd Culver, Phoenix, Ore., and Jack Altken of Palo Alto. Calif.; also a very wide circle of friends. Mr. Altken was a member of the Masonic lodge In Scotland. Funeral services by ths Christian Science) church will be held at the Conger funeral parlors Saturday, April 6, at 2 p. m., and Interment will be made In the Ashland ceme tery. E E In the damage suit of Mrs. Minnie White against Verne Van Dyke and Inez Van Dyke for $10,000 alleged damftgea as a result of an auto acci dent on the Crater Lake highway more than a year ago. Van Dyke, orig inally named as one of the defend ants, was yesterday eliminated as such. He waa not In the auto at the time of the mishap, it Is ex pected that the case will be in the hands of the Jury late today. The complaint allec.es that Mrs. White was driving the Van Dyke auto on the return from the , Van Dyke cabin on Rogue river, with Mrs. Van Dyke as a passenger. In attempting to pass another vehicle, the suto went Into the ditch and was over turned. Both plaintiff and defend ant sustained injuries. The plaintiff is represented by At torney Gus Newbury and the defend ant by Attorney Charles W. Reama. is Fletcher Pish, for many years with the Andrews Opera company, will play n, ths part of th English character. Lord All-Cash, in the opera, pra DU volo. which is to be presented at the Craterlan theatre during music week. Mr. Fish needs no introduction to ths theatre-goers of southern Oregon and lacapabl of a perfect interpre tation of the role, in which be la a rich and aristocratic lord newly mar ried. He and hla young bride are making a tour of Italy on their hon eymoon and th numerous sd venture they go through bring out the fear, anger. Jeaulousy and pompous lordli ness so typical of the Englishman of that period. SPEAKSAT MEET Tha Lions club of Medford held their regular Wednesday noon lunch eon yesterday, with District Governor Verne Hahn of Eugene as the main speaker. Date for the state conven tion at The Dalles was announced as June 2. 3 and 4. A quintet of local Lions rendered several numbers. The members were Lions Knox, Williamson. Poy, Prltch ett and Ross. Verne Shangla showed pictures taken at the recent Lions party, and It was announced that Shangle's attendance team was lead ing that of Geo. Newberry by & per cent. A motion was presented and carried unanimously to support Judge Tou Velle lor the position as stste high way commissioner. Notice Notice Is hereby given that after April I, 1935 I will not be responsible for any debts Incurred by anyone other than myself. , MILES STUART. Medford National Bank Announces A New Low Cost Automobile Finance Service For Your Use In Purchasing a New Car WE OFFER AN ADVANTAGEOUS SIMPLE LOCAL PLAN which costs less than most other services and puts you in the position of a cash buyer for your new car You can deal with a friendly "home bank" and you know exactly the entire cost. Our insurance requirements are the minimum practi cal for your protection and our own. You have from twelve to eighteen months in which to complete your purchase. Call and Ask Us About Our New Medford National Bank am aowt o m made SUII AGAINST RADIO IS Judge McNsry of the federsl court at Portland, before whom arguments on the demurrer In the 35.000 dam age suit of Henrietta B. Martin against Blanche E. Virgin, operator of radio ststlon KMED, were hesrd last Monday, has talten a decision under advisement. Mrs. Martin allges thst the can cellation of radio time by Mrs. Virgin last December caused her "embsrrass ment and humiliation." It la al leged that after arrangements were made for the talk Mrs. Virgin can celled It. The suit Is filed under the "com munications act of 1934."' and the defense holds that ths local radio station does not. under the clause defining "common carriers." engsged in interstate communications. Though no definite dste has been set. It Is assumed by Attorney Her bert K. Hanna, defense counsel, that a decision will be handed down next Monday by Judge McNary. Mrs. Martin la represented by At torney Mrs. V. A. C. Ahlf of Grants Pass. The rsdlo station is represent ed by Attorneys A. E Reames and Herbert K Hannah of this city Because of legal points involved, the case has sttracted considerable attention in Portland and coast radio stations 1 Archaeological excavations lndlcste prehistoric Loulslsna was populated densely by Indians who lived in wall ed towns. 5 MEDFORD, OREGON A I am always the same. . . always mild, fine-tasting and fragrant. I am made of center leaves, only. The top leaves are undeveloped, acrid and biting. The bottom leaves are grimy, tasteless and harsh. s of only the fragrant, expensive center es. I giveyou the mildest, best - not irritate your throat. Tmyourbestfriend. -r LUCKIESNiY CENTER lEAYEfc GIVE vbtl I L , Building Permits A permit granted Wednesday to . R. Fuller, 1803 West Main street, to make an addition to the stora at thst sddress. at an approximate coat of 400. Permit granted today to Earl Shir, ley. 1108 East Mam street, to build a rear porch on hia residence, at an approximate cost of $160. Burns sheets Is a member of the fire department In Nashville, Tenn. Auto Finance Plan tastingsmoke. tENTER LEAVES - THE MILDEST SMOKE , tomtit 1W, TV IMn, TfH, ctuu.