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By Arthur ferry
a -vhool election wa held yester
day. Many voter, who would have
been too busy to rote, complained
they did not know It was being
held.
As a feature of Its Fourth of July
celebration, Aahland will present
"Community dramatics," featuring
Shakespearean works on an Elizabeth
an stage. The last community dra
matics, were staged on the court
house steps.
Commencement exercises are un
derway at the UofU. this week.
Chances are good they will bs con
summated without recalling the
Oovernor, "beating up' the orator or
the day, or calling out the militia.
Instead of a CofC. bsnquet, and
a parade In his honor, a Siskiyou
county resident, who successfully
cheated a slot machine, wa ordered
to deport himself, within 34 hours.
Oooaeberry pies are now being In
flicted, In all their vinegary quid
dity, upon young and old diners.
Gooseberries are now so plentiful,
crafty chefs do not have to iae rhu
barb, as an accomplice.
Farmer are now falling off hay
stack, with all the ease and grace,
they usually exhibit In being chased
by an irate bull. In the spring.
The grain crop around Lexington
la reported to be an almost total
lallure. but certainly the grand din
ner served did not Indicate anything
of the kind, nor even that there
has been any depression. (Lexing-,
ton (Ore.) Jottlnga) Appearances
are so deceiving. The best cussing
of, the taxes. Is don behind the
steering wheel of a brand-new auto.
State bankers convened at Salem,
over the week-end. They opposed any
legislation permitting a man to take
out money, out of a bunk, thougn
he had none In It. The "elasticity of
loans' was discussed. It was agreed
that more "elasticity" was needed in
loans, also that the borrower should
how more 'elasticity' in paying it
back.
This Isdy knows how to put of the
T-bones and hash and sllng It too.
iSawyar Bar News) And shoot
the biscuit!
An Oklahoma federal court Jury,
promptly found a Denver lawyer,
guilty of consorting and conniving
with the Urschel kidnaping gang,
whereupon the government prompt
ly arrested his star witness a lady,
lleged to have engaged In some
plain and fancy lying, during the
course of her testimony. Press dis
patches reveal the lsdy was consld
erably put out, by detention on aj
perjury charge. Ie seems the govern
ment intends to be rough with both
criminals, and their liars.
The Prospect ball team, came out
of the little end of the horn again
Sunday, beln squelched by Gild Hill.
10-9. T. Csrleton. the riounce Rock
cowman, umpired the game. In his
Sunday clothes. The spectator who
called him a 'robber' left in the sev
enth inning.
Take ear, of the pennies and the
dollar will take care of themselves.
Don't take care of either and the
Government will take care of you.
(Judge) Great truth of the ween.
Graduation speakers are "busy
challenging youth to stsnd fast." By
way of variety, youth should occai
lonally be challenged to go slow.
The Elk cat Is convalescing from
a broken hind-leg. due to not get
ting out of the road In time. For
a few hours seven of his nine lives
were In the balance.
Clara Phillips, former movie queen,
who pecked out the life of a rival
In love, with a 10c clnw-hitnmior,
has been paroled, after serving U
years of a California prison sentence
She started freedom with a combin
ation saxaphone-banjo. either one or
both, being bad enough.
All the English sparrows are out
In the country eating strawberries
Instead of lingering in town picking
bugs out of radiators.
A chewing tobacco that "aids the
worker, and h e 1 p a the thinker"
adorns the advertising pages. Used
tn conjunction with the cigarette,
that beautifies the skin, and calms
the nerxe. there tn no need of
manna from Heave a.
MEMBEH.
Editorial Correspondence
ROCKB'ORD, Illinois, June
River farm took three hours. Jinks and Hank, two middle-aged
plow horses supplied the motive power, over the old Tressbridge
road, which wound its way over the rolling prairies, in the
ceneral direction of a little country village known as Durand.
Uncle L. was the driver, and was returning after taking a load
of hogs to the slaughter house near Rockford. We sat with him
high up on a spring seat, and were in constant fear of falling off
into the straw and muck below, where the unfortunate porkers
had recently been wallowing. But we didn't. So we arrived
in due time in all our glory, with a splendiferous shoe shine
intact and only about two inches of dust on our Sunday suit.
Yesterday we motored out to the same Sugar River farm
in twenty minutes and could have made it in 15 if speed had
been desired. Instead of a dusty dirt road, rickety wooden
bridges, and a constant vertical vibration, which made one's
teeth chatter, the Ford purred over a smooth pavement, across
solid concrete culverts, and in an atmosphere as clear as a bell
and as dustless as an air conditioned subway. So from the horse
and wagon days to the age of the V-8 motor!
Everything had changed except the old red brick farmhouse,
the sandstone "spring house", the meandering creek under the
willows and the Sugar river. New barn with double-barrelled
silo, new fences, a new shed with concrete floors for a tractor
and five passenger car, and pew owners. We didn't stop but
just continued on to the Sugar river, which was a great catfish
stream in the old days, and may be now, but we doubt it.
Modern service stations, concrete highways, summer cottages
and summer homes, one of them the property of Sydney Smith,
the originator of the Gumps, and according to local gossip the
scene of considerable whoopee, somehow don't suggest it. Fish
ing for "cats" was an old fashioned, pedestrian bare-foot-anrl-cane-pole
sport. The catfish may still be there, but we doubt if
anyone has sufficient leisure nowadays to sit on the tree shaded
banks and wait for them to bite.
A familiar name on a weather beaten mail box attracted our
attention so we drove in, to find
tance of our youth, weighing about 200 pounds, and seated m a
swinging settee on the front porch, seemingly suspended by sn
electric wire extending from his waist to a lamp socket above.
The dav was warm but he was covered with blanket, and an
expression of suffering affliction upon his heavily lined face.
We purchased some spring chickens, which in a remarkably
short time were supplied.
During the wait, we learned
ably made an able-bodied, middle-aged farmer an invalid for
life.
During the past winter, two
one cold night, and ransacked it apparently in search of several
thousand dqllsrs they believed had been secreted there. Finding
no such treasure they woke up the grandmother, and threatened
torture unless she revealed the hiding place. ' Her son, though
sleeping upstairs and in another part of the house, was awak
ened by the commotion, a husky, fearless and impulsive type
he rushed down stairs and into the old lHdy's room, to be met
by a blow from a blackjack which laid him out unconscious.
The two yeggs, apparently enraged at the frustration of their
hopes, for good measure fired a couple of shots into the room as
they departed. One of them buried itself in the wall harmlessly
but the second, fired low, hit the prostrate form, as it. lay face
down on the floor, and lodged near the spinal cord from which
it enn't be or at least hasn't been extracted. From the waist
down he is paralyzed, and at the time was taking treatment via
an electric pad around his waist!
Again from horse and buggy days to the days of the T8
motor! This section of Illinois can be reached in two or three
hours from the Chicago loop. In the 80's it would have taken
as many weeks.
It would be fun to motor a native Oregonian about this
Sugar River country. No mountains, no forests of fir and pine,
no hills higher than a man's hat, no waterfalls or sparkling
streams, nothing but a sleepy, meandering river, about
the color of a chocolate milkshake, between banks of solid black
loam, and shaded by towering trees, not a rock, a stone, or
even a digger squirrel in sight. We venture ths N. 0. would
wonder what anyone could see in this sort of country, o,i rhnime
to live here if he could live anywhere else.- Yet ask the man
who was born here as he stages "The Native's Return!" To
him nothing could be more restful, more peaceful, more satisfy
ing than this particular section of northern Illinois. The rolling
fields of grain, the fluffy groves, the corn just reachini ankle
hich. the deep dark soil, between and everything GRF.EX,
GRKEN, GREEN I It isn't sentimentality it is something in
the blood.
Something phoney about that Baer-Braddock fight as we
heard it over the radio "Graham MaeNamee speaking." Nothing
about it carried conviction, and no one can persuade us, it was
on the "up and up." Max claimed his hands were broken which
wasn't true, and then announced he would never fight again,
which will also prove untrue. A shady mess however you may
look at it, and the most uninteresting title match we can recall.
R. W. R.
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
Ry O. O. Mclntyre
NEW YORK. June 18 Probably
no other offices in Manhattan give
aut'h an aura of simplicity an the
ground floor quarters of Vincent
Astor and those
next door of the
original John
Jacob Astor es
tate. They oc
cupy a three,
atoned brick
building In West
2Jth street, off
beaten paths.
Small and
shining brass
plates at the
side of the doora
announce the
occupant Fa-
trance Is up a brier flight of white
tone steps, scoured daily like those
in Baltimore. The windows are bar
red with s t u rd y wrmi g h t Iron a nd
inside the lighting fixtures cast the
Rlnw of an older day.
There are high stand-up desks,
piles of ancient ledgers and furni
ture that suggests the middle 80s.
Vlnrent Astor. head of the a70.000,
ooo real estate fortune, la st his of
fices regularly when In the city
Many employees are those grown
venerable In service. The skull cap
ped sort.
Astor la 'he real boss of the prop
erties. And has shown such executive
skill that, dr-pite a depression where
real estate fortunes were the worst 1
bit. Lc baa kept out of Uic red. me 1
15. Our first trip to the Sugar
the spindle-shanked acquain
of the tragedy which has prob
men broke into this farm home.
English brsnch of the Astor for
tune has not been so fortunate.
Frank Buck will come back to
America with one more wild cargo
hut that will likely bt his last. He
has purchased controlling interest
In the famous Raffles hotel In Sing
apore and expects to retire to the
leisurely post of Mine Host. He will
make occasional safari Into the Jun
gle for espeelal animal orders, but
mostly he will be ready to meet his
American tourlat friends on the ver
anda In the cool of the evening for
the em ternary gln-sltng. He also has
orders for many magar-tne articles
he haa never been able to supply.
So he'll do some writing, too.
Authors from small towns, espe
cially fiction wTiteri. are usually
unpopular with home folk. The be
loved, such ss Irvln Cohb for whom
Psducsh named It leading hotel,
are a minority. Often the natives
imagine they see themselves in the
book chsricters. Or maybe It la their
friends or relatives. Edgar Lee Mas
ters, whose Spoon River Anthology
made him famous years ago. Is free
ly disliked In his home district.
9auk Center. Minn . bristled a bit
over the "Main Street' of their na
tive son. Sinclair Lewis. So did
MarysvlUs. Mo., at some of Homer
Croy's tines.
Pout Item: The scientific exploita
tion of those twins to demonstrate
the difference between cultivation
and non-cultivation of the brain
strike this guemlou fuddy-duddy
as about the cruelest gesture of mod.
ern times. One of the boys Is shown
In the newsreets as a marvel and
the other as stupid and dull, a stig
ma the child will carry to the end
of his days It's a sort of painless
wkaioo that sbouid ur socie-
Personal Health Service
By William'
Hlgned letter pertaining to personal health and hygiene not to disease
diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Dr. Brady tf a stamped self-addressed
envelope la enclosed- Letters should be brief and written lo Ink.
Owing to the large number of letters received only a few can be answered.
No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr.
William Brady. 265 El Cam I no. Boverly Hills. CaJ.
THE LAST OF
The isjrt, let us hope, of the vita
mins to be recognized are E and O.
But already there are threat In cer
tain quarters to
postulate a vita
min J and a vi
tamin H, so I
suppose we must
expect the worst.
Tn a casual or
Idle way I have
been messing
round with the
v 1 1 amlns rather
I n t e n slvely for
quite a while
now, and speak
ing as a lowbrow
and just a door-
to-door doctor, 1 don't think vitamin
S or vitamin O Is so hot. Anyway,
themore I study them the less I
know or even surmise about them.
The suspicion grows on me that what
the big shots In research call vitamin
E la only A In disguise, and what they
call O Is really plain old B's double
or dummy. But don't let this stop
you If you're hunting for E or O,
for. as I say, I'm a stranger here my
self. Vitamin E. the scientists tell us, Is
essential for fertility In the animal
economy. The best source of It la
wheat germ oil, but It la found m
many grains, vegetables, meat, milk
and butter. These foods promote re
production In animal economy. I
leave It to you to decide whether you
are animal or vegetable.
Vitamin O, the scientists tell us. Is
essential to prevent pellagra. The
beet sources of It are yeast and wheat
germ, but It la found in practically
all foods which contain vitamin B.
Now here are some suggestions for
folk who want to Increase their vita
min Intake.
Breakfast.
Citrus fruit or citrus fruit Juice.
Tomato Juice, fresh or (factory) can
ned. Fresh milk, raw, certified or
meta.bollr.ed vitamin D milk. One or
two eggs, cooked as you prefer. Plain
wheat bran, or wheat krlnkled at
home and cooked as you prefer.
Prunes, melon or other fresh fruit.
Luncheon.
Salad containing the outer green
leaves of lettuce, raw carrots, raw
cabbage, raw onion tips and bulbs,
cheese, escarole (chicory greens, en
dives), peppers, tomato, bits of chop
ped liver or kidney. Two fresh vege.
tables. Milk, buttermilk or any milk
beverage. Bread with plenty of but
ter. Fresh fruit dessert.
ties for the prevention of cruelty to
children.
Burton Holmes, the lecturer, is
one of the most Indefatigable of the
caviar addtcta. He haa a blob al
most every night for dinner and
often snafflea a smidgin for lunch.
Rudy Vallee, too. Is a cavlartst, gulp
ing hefty portions for his midnight
repast. At Jolson is such a lover of
the dlah that he often carries a
large imported can of It on cross
country trips. When Paul Whi tenia n
breaks diet, he always goes for cav
iar. Strangely enough, exiled Rus
sians show little taste for the most
famous edible of their land. Inci
dentally, a five and ten cent store
version of caviar, shad roe salted
and dyed, appeara in many cafe
terias.' Word cornea back to Broadway
that Fred Nlblo. the actor and one
time movie director, has deserted
the studios permanently for a life of
farming. His wife. Enid Bennett, has
shown slmllsr enthusiasm for the
soil. They purchased an old estate
of many acres near Lekeport Cali
fornia, and dally Nlblo In denims
cuts hay, prunes the ochard and fod
ders the dairy stock. He has de
clared It the happiest period of his
career and that his tenure a an
agriculturist la permanent. And then
there'a Watterson Rothacker'a back-to-the-land
movement near Trlunfo.
which ao far includes Wfnne Shee
han, Wilt Hays and others.
Someone sends this souse story
from Rob Wagner's Script: The stew
rang the bell then sat on the top
step ever so long. "Why don't you
ring again?" asked a kindly passer
by. Perhaps they didn't hear you."
Mumbled the Jag: 'Then with m.
I-et 'em wait!"
(Copyright. 1935. McNaught Syndi
cate) Communications
To the Editor:
The Medford Osrden club wishes to
thank Mr. Ruhl for his courtesy thru
the columns of the Mall Tribune
especially during the state convention
and the annual flower show.
MRS. H. N, BUTLER. Secy.
June 18, IP, 15.
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CLAUDETTE'S
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THE VITAMINS
Dinner.
Crab, shrimp, lobster or oyster ooek
tall or chowder or eoup. Fresh fish
with greens in salad or sauce. Roast
meat or fowl or steak. Baked potato.
Including the skin. Two other freeh
vegetables. Home ground whole wheat
cakes, rolls or biscuit, with butter,
honey or syrup. Cheese, Parmesan,
cream. American, etc. Fresh fruit des
sert with cream or evaporated milk.
Nut.
These suggestions are not menus,
but merely lists of items which con
tain vltamtna. Purposely omitted are
Items which contain practically no
vitamins, such as prepared breakfast
cereals, pancakes, muffins, rolls,
tout, sugar, coffee, white bread, sy-1
rup, honey, preserves. If you are In
ordinately fond of these devitalised
Items, you will find that a more lib
eral Intake of vitamins tends to di
minish your capacity for such thing.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A Boy's Vacation.
What should one do with boys In
their "teens during summer vacation?
Last summer we hed the older boy
(16 In a box factory and later at
road work, but It seemed to make
him weaker rather than stronger . . .
Mrs. S. J. W.
Answer up to the age of lfl a boy's
vacation should be all play time, aside
from reasonable chore. A month In
a summer camp or camp school Is
fine. Open air work Is better for
hoys over 16. ,
1 nbtdflrn finest.
Please tell us how to get rid of
cockroaches. H. O. S.
Answer Send ten cents and stamp
ed envelope bearing your address, for
booklet "Unbidden Guests."
Astigmatism.
Our daughter, aged nine years, was
reported by the school doctor to have
poro eyesight. We took her an an ocu
list, who said she has astigmatism
and will always have to wear glasses.
Please tell us whether theTe Is any
cure for this. Mrs. J. H.
Answer Astigmatism Is Irregular.
Ity in the curve of the surface of the
cornea. Few eyes are without slight
Irregularities of this character. By
wearing carefully fitted glasses now
your daughter will conserve her eye
sight and have a better chance to
dispense with glasses later.
(Copyright, 1935, John F. DiUc Co.)
Ed. Note: Persons wishing to
communicate with Dr. Brady
should send tetter direct to Dr.
William Brady, M. D 265 El
Camlno, Beverly Hills, Calif.
(Continued from Page One.)
dent thought on the subject. It fol
lows :
"It Is generally screed among world
statesmen, scholars and business men
that action should be taken to bring
the currencies of the leading coun
tries Into some definite form of
equilibrium. Until the relationship
of International currenclea has been
established upon a basis inspiring
more confidence than the present Im
provised system of clearing transac
tions between nations It is reas
onable to assume that the total vol
ume of world trade will not expand
appreciably In the coming month.
Moreover, If the gold bloc should be
forced to give ground, except in ac
cordance with International agree
ment, world trade would undoubtedly
receive another setback."
Unofficial feelers sent out by the
new deal have developed the fact that
Britain does not want to stabilize. She
considers the doller undervalued, We
consider the pound overvalued. Also,
money ha become more deeply In
volved with the tariff and debt ques
tions. Trying to settle all those
things involves a stupendous task,
for which the world Is not yet ready.
If the financial authorities among
the new dealers understand the situ
ation correctly. These things will bs
settled some dny. but tjot Just yet.
Here's an amusing one on the
Russo-Japanese tension along the Si
berian border. A few days ago. the
Soviets lodged a protest at Toklo
against the killing of a Soviet soldier
by Japanese troop along the border.
The Japanese asserted the Soviet
trooper was shot on Manchukuo's aoil.
They pointed to the fact he Is buried
there. The Soviets have retorted that
the Japanese crossed the border, shot
the trooper on Soviet territory and
then carried his body back and burled
It on Manchukuo soil to escape the
charge of crossing the border.
unuual Mr.im OH
Perm anent. Shampoo,
finger wflve.
$2.50
mart and correct
ly styled. Close
wave, ringlet end.
Require no tin
ge rwsTtng.
Abo Special Permanent
Comment
on the
Day's News
By nUHK JENKINS
EIOHTT yean ago thl week, Oua
Utu Franklin Swift started
Into business for himself.
Re waa then aged 16, and he bad
a total cash capital of 120, acquired
by hard work and careful penny
pinching. He paid $19 for a neigh
bor's heifer, killed It, dressed tt and
cut up the carcass himself, and sold
the meat In his little home town on
Cape Cod.
He realised a modest profit.
OUT of thla enterprise on the part
of it founder grew the great
mast packing firm of Swift Co.,
which haa been cussed liberally by
demagogues from coast to coast dur
ing the greater part of Its Incor
porated existence, but which never
theless ha performed a service of
Inestimable value to the livestock
Industry,
IN 1876, twenty year after his first
business venture baok In his
home town, Oustavus F. Swift ar
rived In Chicago. By that time, he
had become a successful meat deal
er and cattle buyer and was look
ing around for t larger field of op
eration. He found It In Chicago.
He brought with him to Chicago
two things of the utmost Import
ance ambition and an IDEA. Hi
Idea waa that the meat business, as
then conducted, was sinfully waste
ful. So he set about eliminating the
waste.
MEAT animal were then shipped
to the point of ultimate con
sumption on the hoof and there
slaughtered. That Involved a lot of
cost. It aeemed to Swift that there
was a better way of doing It, and
he staked his fortune on the belief
that refrigeration provided thU bet
ter way.
His Idea waa to assemble meat
animals at strategic points, slaugh
ter them there by factory methods.
Instead of In the old hand way. and
distribute the meat In refrigerated
cars, saving all the by-products at
the same time.
The Idea WORKED, a everybody
now know, and out of It grew the
whole modern business of meat pack
ing. SWT FT started small la Chicago,
a he had started small tn his
home town back on Cape Cld, but
his business, based on hi nw Idea,
grew. By 1888, It had grown to the
point where large new capital was
needed, so Swift it Co. was Incorpor
ated so that stock could be sold in
order to obtain the needed capital.
That was a half century ago, and
Swift & Co. Is this week celebrating
the 60th anniversary of It exis
tence aa a corporation.
GREAT fortune have been bunt
out of Oustavua F Swiff orig
inal idea, and these great fortunes
have been the target for Innumer
able demagogue, large and small.
But remember that this Idea,
which originated with a boy' who
started In business for himself at
the sge of 16 with 630 of capital
which he had savad out of hi own
earnings, CHEAPENED ENORMOUS
LY the cost of handling meat, de
livering It to the consumer for less
and making It poaeibla to pay the
producer more.
Thus everybody benefited, and
Gustavu F. Swift KONESTLT
California-Western States
Life Insurance Company
Announces the Appointment of
HOWARD V. SCHEFFEL
As Manager for Southern Oregon
It ii Tritb cortiiderable tifction that we announce to our southern Oreg-ou
friendj and policy holders this appointment of Mr. Scheffel as our Agency
Organizer in this section of Oregon. Mr. Ed Schockley will continue to repre
sent our company in Medford as local manager.
OALTTORNIA -
EARNttD the fortune which he
made.
THIS great country ha grown
from a wlldemeea In lea than
two oenturle. and the greater part
of thl growth has come about be
cause of the effort of men with
new Idea and the courage and the
nergy to back them.
If we ever reach the point where
we DISCOURAGE such men. lnatesd
of encouraging them to go ahead,
we shall begin to slip backward as
a nation Instead of going forward
aa w have In the past.
IN COMPETITION
IE
(Continued from Page One.)
the same time. While it Is true that
a direct benefit la obtained by ho
tels, garages, restaurants and those
businesses dealing directly with trav
el. It la also atressed that everyone
benefits indirectly. The money spent
In the hotels Is distributed in wages
snd through purchase of those ne
eesssry things to conduct the hotel.
This money In turn get Into the
cash register of all type of busi
nesses. Many large cities employ a man
ager for their convention department
whose duty it is to do nothing else
but encourage conventions to come
to their particular cities. Chamber
official state, after looking over
the convention being held In other
cltle In Oregon, that Medford Is ob
talnlng more than Ita share, due. it
la believed to having an energetic
convention commtttee.
The Chamber of Commerce does
not put up any money towards se
curing a convention, the directors
having definitely determined such
policy 1 not good because If con
vention have to be bought they
naturally would only go to the larg
er center where the most money 1
available. However, the Jackson
County Chamber of Commerce, ren
der many services to conventions
when they meet In Medford. An In
formation booth ia always establish
ed with a competent girl In charge
and she assist In the registration
of delegate and by virtue of her
experience carries out many duties
for the organization sponsoring the
convention which otherwise may be
neglected. Many services are rendered
by the Chamber at the time of con
ventions In order that the delegates
and visitors In the city may enjoy
their atay to the utmost.
The travel Industry is one of the
largest In America today. The United
States Department of Commerce uses
3.000.000.000 as the estimate of the
money, paving the wake of traveler
In America annually. On this basis.
report the commerce department.
the travel Industry becomes the
equal of the great steel and Iron
Industry: 11 per cent greater than
the clothing or packing trade: 45
per cent greater than the combined
printing and publishing business:
51 percent greater than oil produc
tion: the huge lumber Industry can
muster only business enough to fall
60 per cent below It; It Is 185 per
pent greater thsn the baking Indus
try and 222 per cent greater than
the shoe trade.
In view of the foregoing figures
It can easily be seen the encour
agement of conventions is a logical
proper, and a business-like thing to
do because it brings travelers to a
community In such large numbers.
Tn obtaining a convention the
Chamber, to a great extent. Is de
pendent upon assistance given It by
cltlrens who belong to various or
ganisations. They attend a conven
tion held elsewhere and use their
Influence, backed by the Chamber.
to place Medford'a claims before the
delegates. The chamber of commerce
urges that anyone belonging to an
organisation which could hold It
meeting In Medford. get In touch
with Chamber of Commerce officials
so that the necessary machinery may
be set In motion to bring additional
annual meetings to the city.
WXSTERN STATES LIFE INSURANCE CO.
Sacramento . - California
Flight 'o Time
(Medford ud Jacluon Count;
History from tlia (U ol tht
MU Tribune of 10 ind 10 Xn
lfo).
TEN YEARS AOO TODAY
June 18. 1925
(It Thursday)
National guardsmen stage sham
battle at Camp Jarkeon before large
crowd, and a theoretical enemy la
chdsed off the north flank of Foxy
Ann.
Bobby Strang. Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Strang, narrowly escaped
death yesterday when atruck by his
father's automobile while backing out
of the family garage. The little lad
had attempted to ride on the car un
beknown to hla parent, and had In
some way slipped, thus allowing the
front wheel to run psrtly orer his
body. He waa Injured In no othar
way than being bruised and In a few
hours was again at play.
A lawyer-preacher from Los Ange
les starts a revival meeting on Hay
market Square.
Explorer Amundsen, safe after M
dava In the Arctic, determined to try
another air flight to North Pole.
First forest fire of season rsgea neai
Bend. Ore.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
June 18. 191S
(It waa Friday)
Kansas cyclone blows a baby a mile
without Injuring It.
Police report three auto accidents,
all trivial, this morning In the busi
ness district between Fords and wag
ons. Court and Seeley Hall return from
Portland, where they purchased a
Cadillac for use on the Crater Lake
run.
Farmers of the valley are using
every available man In the rush to
handle the hay crop before the com
ing of rain, and have enlisted the
services of the police In securing help.
The hay raisers' fear of rain seems to
be largely founded upon tradition, aa
the sky Is practically cloudless and
the sun Is shining brightly.
10 SPEED UP FOR
WALEY'SSENIENCE
(Continued from Page One.)
John Doe Undisclosed.
The Identity of the "John Doe"
charged, with Mahan and the Waley.
in last week' "holding charge" of
conspiring to use the mall to de
fraud by demanding $200,000 ransom,
still was a closely guarded mystery
here, and federal agent refuse even
to acknowledge that such a person
was charged, although It waa known
that they repeatedly sought a "John
Doc" warrant for his arrest.
In addition to the conspiracy
charge and the Lindbergh law kid
nap charge. Mahan also ha been
charged with depositing In the Ta
eoma postofflce the letter demanding
$200,000 ransom.
Woman May Weaken.
As federal authorities have prepar
ed today to lay the Weyerhaeuser case
before the grand Jury, speculation
became stronger that Mrs. Waley msy
plead guilty to the conspiracy charge
and face a maximum of 20 years Im
prisonment and a $5,000 fine. Fed
eral law presumes a wife take part
In a crime through her husband's
coercion. Also It waa pointed out,
federal agents contend It wa through
her confession in Salt Lake City that
they caught her husband, recovered
much of the ransom money and im
plicated Mahan.
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