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PGE EIGHT rEDFOTin MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORI). OREGON. SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1935. Medford Mail Tribune Evrryon to touihrn Ores-no Ktl lit Hull Tribune" Dully Kirept Haturdny. published br MKDFORD PRINTINO CO. 28-57-211 N. Fir St. Prions 11. BO 11 Id RT W. RUHU Bdllor. An Independent Newspaper. Entered eond-cl matter t Med ford. Oregon, under Act af March I. 19. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Mall In Advanct: Daily, one year Dailv. ill month! 8.00 17 Dally, ona month V.'W'y AlV By Carrier, In Advance Madford. Aah land. Jacksonville, Central Point, phoenix. Talent, Oo'o Hill and on hi;., way. Dailv. ona year ??? Dally, tlx .tionlhe Dally, ona month All tar ma, cah In advance. Ofrlrltil I'anar of the City of Mrdford. Offlclnl Paper of Jii'hwo Count. UI'MIIKK OF TUB AHHIMJlATBO PHKHS Iterrlvlns run l .on era wir The Aaaiiclaiad Press la excluelvely en titled to the ua for publication of all .u. Hi.n-tnhdB credited to It or other wise credited In thla paper, and alao to the local tie we publlahei nerein. All rtghte for publication of apaclaJ dispatches herein are alao reaarvad. MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS HEM UK R OV AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advert mine; Kopreaentatlvna M. C. 5IOOKNBRN COMPANY Offtcea In New York. Chlcao Detroit San Franclaco. Loa An galea. Seattle, Portland. MEMBER Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry A Journalist was loose upstate laat week. It was reported. They know he waa a Journalist because he said so, and tried to borrow money from fel low Journalist. e Atty. Wm. McAllister has a new girl at his house, necessitating longer and louder talks to Jury. Woodpiles are being robbed, the police hear. The culprit do not care whether the wood is split or not. as their wives will do it. This Is re garded as a aure sign of a long hard winter. e Big Jim Parley, the pm. general, and guiding light of the Administra tion, arrived in Frisco Wed. and so excited the local Democracy they re spectfully cnlled him Largo James Parley. A crescent edition of the moon was shining bravely and brightly back of J'vllle Frl. evng., and has recovered from Its recent eclipse. Pin-hrnd rot has showed up again but not in the pears. Duck hunters were disgusted Thurs. to Irarn that the gov't this fall won't let them lie In a Klamath county puddle with a shotgun and kill more than ten (10) ducks In nine (9) hours of any day. V. Pluto Colvlg of Hollywood visited folks here Inst week. He Is the honest bark of the hound in the Walt Disney pictures. The Lions urged people to save toys for Christmas, the 1st of the wk.. snd seem in a slight rush. a Auto dealers report they have sold more new cars this summer than In the last two years and It looks like It. The Ethiopians have the moral and poetical backing of Del Oetchell the bimker In their embrogllo with Mus solini, e Your corr. was promised the first venison steak of the season Tues. by a mighty hunter who never kills a doer. BUI Allen has returned from a so journ In British Columbia and now wants tea at 4 p. m. a The tomatoes are coming along fine, due to plenty of water and sunshine, and a good word spoken In their be half by Peoria BUI Oates. Another corner ha succumbed to the oil octopus. e Jackson County, supervisor of many hysterical foundation shak ings, had Its rafters slightly trembled the end of the week. Leon Hasklns has a boy learning to be a pllllst. by sweeping off the side walk, and the lad Is still weak around a fire hydrant. a e Several citizens are planning new Igloos. e e The weekly Inhumanity waa held at the Armory Thurs night, without a side rumpus. A victorious gladiator kicked around considerable, while a phonograph played, from causes un determined. e e e Dsnlel and Dubb Watson, both consummated birthdays last week. e There has been no rain for nine weeks, and no agriculturist seems to care. e The watermelons will soon be ready for somebody to get shot for one. a Ben Harder explained the 1935 blinking law Tuesday, at a luncheon, and spoke courteously of same. It has long been regarded by the layman, as flabbergHstlng and befuddling, etc.. etc. Picking, packing, and peddling of pears Impends. Nil gamy 4 barged KINGMAN, AruV, Aug. 3 (API County Attorney Elmo Bollinger said today he has filed criminal charge against eight residents of the Short Creek community In the northern Ariwina strip, immediately south ot the Utah line, for living In a state of polygamy. i SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. (AP) Eufrne Dietrich,, business sgent ot tli Longshore men's Union here, told police he believed he rmd wounded on of six men he said attempted to force their way into hi home early today. Lynch Law It's Cause 1UDGE LYNCH is getting pretty close to home! Down at Snn Jose a few years ago. Now, he has moved north to Vreka just across the Oregon line. Clyde Johnson who, police declare, confessed to the murder of Police Chief Daw of Dunsmuir, was taken for a ride early yesterday morning by an armed mob, and hung from a tree until he was dead. So there is another knot in the hemp for old Judge Lynch, and throughout this fair land, the time-honored debate regard ing lynch law will again be carried on. THIS debate will have one curious feature. As far as opinions for PT'RTjTnATIOM are concerned, thev will be overwhelm ingly against such lawlessness, lynch law will be universally and scathingly condemned. But expressions of opinion NOT for publication will be of a very different tenor. Let anyone canvas opinion today in Dunsmuir, or Yreka, or the small hamlets and ranch homes between, and what will one findl Here will be the popular, word of mouth, sub-rosa verdict : "It served the blanket? blank o and so right. If we had a few more of ihe.e lynchlngs there would be fewer murders and kidnap pings and such like crimes. That bird got Just what was coming to him." Shocking t Granted. But we might as well face the facts. That IS the honest opinion of the man in the street, when an atrocious crime is committed, and there is no doubt at least in the public mind of the guilt of the victim. It is rough justice, but the rank and file justify it, because they are convinced it IS justice. And that's what they want JUSTICE. WHAT does that meant Docs it mean that. this section of California is less civilized than other sections, that they have as a people advanced a very short distance from barbarism ; that psychologically speaking they are still in the frontier stage? We think not. That part of the country compares favorably with any other part of the country, in education, enlightenment and respect for law and order. Northern California is sparsely settled, and Dunsmuir is not exactly a Y. JI. C. A. town, but how about San Jose, California, where a few years ago two kidnaping murder ers were lynched, and not only was this mob action endorsed by the rank and file of that prosperous metropolis, including its chamber of commerce, but the then governor of the great state of California publicly and officially UPHELD itl What is behind this sort of As we sec it the answer isn't hard to find. LAWLESS METHODS OF SECURING JUSTICE ARE BEING UPHELD BY PUBLIC OPINION, BECAUSE LAWFUL METHODS HAVE BROKEN DOWN! . If legal justice were quick and sure in this country as (uick and sure for example as in England, there would be no revival of lynch law at least not north of the Mason and Dixon line. It wouldn't be heard of, because in tho minds ot the rank and file, it wouldn't bo needed. BUT with crimes of violence on all sides, with the war of organized crime against a peaceful and law-abiding society gaining day by day on all fronts; with arrest of the guilty par ties, leading to conviction only about three out of ten times; with conviction leading to prompt and proper punishment, not one time in twenty; with parolo boards letting out confirmed crimi nals to resume their careers of violence and crime on one hand ; and soft hearted or venal governors, pardoning killers to kill again, on the other, what are a long suffering and an outraged people to do about it but as a last resort when some particu larly heinous crime breaks down normal restraints, take the law into their own hands. NOT that we would condone lynch law. Nor sympathize with it, no matter WHAT tho provocation. It can't be condoned by any self respecting newspaper, nor by any right thinking citizen. It is MORALLY AND LEGALLY WRONG, and once officially sanctioned, would lead to far more deplorable condi tions, than the conditions which have produced it. But we arc trying to understand it. And We believe the time has come for the people of the coun try as a whole to try to understand it, . The plain truth is lynch law is coming back, because tho conditions which first invoked it on the early frontier arc threatening to come back. The early pioneers were not inherently lawless, in fact quite the reverse. It was because they cared so MUCH for law and order, the security of life and property, that when the constituted authorities failed to do the job for them, they formed their vigilante committees to do it for themselves. And it worked. And the people of this country are going back to vigilante methods, more and more, UNLESS some way is found, whereby this country can again be made reasonably SAFE, for honest, peace-loving and law-abiding citizens. EVERY parole board that releases a convicted crook, every governor who commutes the sentence or condones a guilty criminal; every shyster lawyer that resorts to this subterfuge and that, this delay and some other, with solely one end in view, to obstruct justice and get money for himself these are the agencies in this country equally if not MORE responsible for the revival of Judge Lynch, than the various and sundry citi zens, who under the excitement of the moment and yielding to aggressive and misguided leadership, try to correct one crime, by committing another. QUI! AUGUST 20 BILLS WASHINGTON. Au. 3 vP- A re publican lender who know congress looked over the 17 mjor bills await ing final action today and predl;ed at least seven would be scrapped lo thing how can it be explained" permit an adjustment In two weeks or August 20 at the latent. Hers are the bills Senator McNary placed in the "scrap of doubtful" column: Utility holding company abolition; ship subsidy; Guf fey -Snyder coal reg ulation; bus and truck regulation: food, drugs, and comae tics control: NRA wane, hour and ohlld labor re quirement for government contract ors and tiie limitation on war prof Its. Democratic leaders would not agree In advance which bill would be per mitted to go by the boards until next session they still felt there wm a c ha nee for w or k 1 n out a com p ro -miae on the utility measure and pos sibly ship subsidy. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M.D. signed letter, pertaining to personal health and bygtene not to disease diagnosis or treatment will be answered bj Dr. Ursdj II a stamped self-addressed envelope Is enclosed Letters should be brief and written In ink Uwlng to the large number of letters received only a rew can he answered No reply can be made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Or William Brady, 265 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal. WHEN OLD Right after I had finished a series of article telling all and maybe more than 1 had a right to tell about keep ' Ing young or postponing senil ity, darned if a letter didn't ar rive from a Kan sas farmer who said he had been giving a good deal of time lately to thinking, while they were digging out his farm, on the subject of growing old. He observed that at 60 or so there Is generally some evidence of falling sight, falling memory, stiffening Joints, sluggish digestion, and worst of all, the much dreaded prostatic enlargement which makes miserable the existence of so many elderly men. And so he thought a few articles in this column on the care of the hu man body at this time In life should be Interesting and instructive. Any day now I expect to get a let ter from some one asking why I don't write something on how to keep well. Frankly, I've been turning that very Idea over in my mind for 20 years or more, and some day I'll da It When you least expect it. The Kansas philosopher whose farm Is burled In dust does not believe the partly worn out human machine can be rejuvenated to any great ex tent, but he cherishes a fond fancy that the bearings can be oiled up. the battery recharged, and the old fellow kept on his feet and out of the soldiers' home for a few more years. In reply to the dry farmer's re quest, beg to state that I have noth ing new to add to what I said In the series of articles which he probably dismissed as trivia or tripe. What little additional wisdom I was able to collect I Included in the booklet "Building Vitality." which Is now available at ten cents a copy If you write for it and inclose a stamped envelope bearing your address. It would be trite to say, and oo I did not say that proper treatment or prevention of senility begins be fore you are born. Bnt the condi tion of one's teeth has a good deal to do with . and certainly we know that the diet of the mother before the child Is born largely determines the condition of the child's teeth. So If any of you younger readers contemplate having a baby, you had better file your order now and as eta' fl isYMlhSa VlVn.l Valley Pioneer Remembers Yreka Lynching of 1895 Royal E. Brown, pioneer merchant, of Eagle Point, recalled today, that "in the fall of 1806," four prisoners in the county Jail at Yreka, Calif., were taken by a night mob, from their cells and hanged in the courthouse yard. Singularly. Brown recalls, that one ot the 1808 victims of mob vengeance, waa also named Johnson. Brown re members that one was named "Null", one was a Mexican, and does not recollect the other. Brown was a spectator of the (Continued from Page One) Is Chairman Dough ton of the power ful wavs and means committee. The triumvirate decided recently to teach Mr. Doughton a lesson. Dough ton had, promised the repub licans eight hours of debate on his tax bill without consulting the tri umvirate. Byrns. O'Connor and Bo- land that that was too much time and decided to show Mr. Doughton who waa leader. When Doughton tried to arrange for eight hours, the tri umvirate had Boland object, some thing unheard of. in the end they had to agree to six hours, but Dough ton now knows whom to consult when he wants to arrange debating time. One-third of the members of con gress have sent their families home or to resorts. That may delay ad journment. When Secretary Morgenthau left the senate finance committee witness chair, he leaned over to Treasury - Critlc Harry Ryrd and said: "We two apple growers should not be so far apart." Congressman Wilcox of riortda Is offering $1000 to anyone who will tell htm how a democrat can get a Job with this administration. At least he nude the offer in replying to a constituent who asked blm the ques tion. ffl GOING Iff ZENITH Y III There's A Reason III AGE SETS IN sure the baby a ripe old age. There Is not a word in the book let about prostatic hypertrophy. I don't know a thing about the causes of that. Recently some doctor an nounced that a hormone called In hlbin seemed to be the much de sired prophylactic against .prostatic enlargement, but I fear the discov ery was heralded prematurely, for an impressive silence has followed the newspaper blurb. However, prostatic obstruction no longer appals the old man. It Is now amenable to trans urethral rescentlon, which is much leas formidable than the per lineal or suprapubllc operation was. Old age responds well to treat ment if taken In time. , QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Is the Family Defective? Toung man I contemplate marry ing has one brother and one sister who I am told are "queer." His mother, and another brother and sis ter I know are normal. An uncle and a cousin of his were Insane. Please give me your opinion. (M. P. H.) Answer Insufficient data. Consult the family physician, who knows bet ter than anyone else whether there is any heritable taint or defect. For hi own Interest as well a yours the young man should help you to get this essentlsl information. Excretion. Smallpox is simply an effort of the body to throw out poisonous waste matter nature's house-cleaning A Freak Healer.) Customer had gathering in ear, and had a profuse sweat every night until the pain ceased. The sweat was foul It was nature's way of robbing the body of poisons. (Druggist). Ans. Absurd. The skin Is not an excretory organ In health or in dis ease. Expectant Mother I am expecting a baby In October. Whenever I get hungry I fnint. Would it make me too fat to take bread and butter r cracker and milk mtd-after-noon? (Mrs. R. J.) Ans. No. Send stamped envelope bearing your address for monograph "The Prospective Mother.' Inclose 10 cents coin If you want a copy of the Brady Baby Book. Be sure you get your vitamins. (Copyright. 1035, John F. Dille Co.) Ed Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should tend letter direct to Dr. William Mrarty. M. D. 265 El Camlno, Keverly Mills. Cut If quadruple lynching, from the fringe of the crowd, around the Yreka coxirt house. "The boys put a railroad rail be tween two locust trees, and hanged the four of them", Brown said today. The lynching forty years ago. Brown states was the climax of a series of murders and crimes in Sis kiyou county that aroused public opinion. A photograph of the lynching Is among the historic pictures in the pioneer museum at Jacksonville. AREA FIRE SWEPT WASCO. Ore.. Aug. 3. (AP Flanys raged through a business block here today, sweeping the en tire srea with the exception of a brick building in which telephone operators remained on duty despite the intense heat. Two houses and several shops were razed. Fire department from Moro ana The Dalles aided in quelling the blaze. Origin of the fire had not been determined tonight. No estimate of loss was obtain able. Pharmacists Meet PORTLAND. Ore., Aug. 3. (AP) The first session of the American Pharmaceutical association conven tion Is scheduled to begin st 8:OU p. m. tomorrow. Druggists from throughout the United States are expected to attend. Meetings are to continue all next week. (Continued from Page "ne.) Ity, but no compassion was to be seen on any face. Knots of excited men were on every street corner throughout the day. some arguing as to whether death came by strangulation or by a broken neck. No one seemed to know. One doctor said he saw no signs of a 1 break another that the neck had I most certainly been broken. ! View Lynching Tree Hundreds of cars, each loaded with curious, passengers, drove out on the Fort Jones road to view the tree where the man had been hanged. A perfectly common looking pine tree, the crowds nevertheless continued to stare at It all day, and many mothers pointed out to the children where the body had swung. "Dutch" Martin, brother of Fleming Martin, and the man who first found the body swing ing from the tree, was busy showing people Just where the body hung, the exact limb from which it hung, where the rope was tied, and every ounce of Information that he knew. All listened Intently, and all were grim-faced about It and certainly all felt that "they can't kill our po lice officers and get away with it." Said "Dutch" Martin: "My brother came In and woke me up about 2 o'clock. He was so excited I didn't know what he was talking about for ten minutes! Then, as soon as I could tell, we Jumped in my car and started out to look for the lynchers. A serv ice station man told us he had seen some cars on the Fort Jones road, so we went out that way. When I saw the body swinging there I told my brother, "There's Johnson now." but all I could see was his white shirt. That was about 20 minutes after he'd been hung." Asked if he would have cut the body down had he seen any signs of life, he refused to comment. "You know how YOU would feel under those circumstances." he said. He volunteered to escort a party, of which the reporter was one, through the ii.orgue. But the coroner was working on the body, and no one was being admitted, although crowds were standing on the sidewalk out side talking about the affair. Men, women and children were milling about the doorway, and many were holding their faces close to the glass of the back windows trying to see in. Some were back for their sec ond look. Said one: "I saw him twice when he was alive. I might as well see him twice now that he's dead." Photographer Popular One of the most popular men in Yreka yesterday was "Snap" Good rich, the photographer, who had rushed to the scene as soon as the report had come in that Johnson had been lynched. He got four good "poses" of the corpse, one from each angle, by use of a flashlight bulb, It being dark. Asked if ho were Interested in sell ing the photographs, he stated that tho Oakland Tribune had sent an airplane for them, and that copies would be in Saturday's paper in Oak land. But hundreds were trooping into his place to look at them first hand. The pictures showed that the body swung from a small limb only a few Inches through, and that the toes cleared a barbed wire fence by only a few Inches. Goodrich pointed out that the man, barefooted, could not possibly have knocked bark off the pine tree, as was first reported. The bark, he said, had been carrted away by souvenir hunters. Socks as Souvenirs Another man, who refused to de vutge his name, was proudly exhibit ing the dead man's socks, taken from his empty cell at the Jail. Martin Lange, the Jailer, who was spirited away by the throng, and forced to walk home the 10 miles from Grenada, was willing to exhibit the rope burns on his wrists, his lac erated feet from the crushed rock along the road, and the piece of rope with which his wrists had been bound. He said he Intends to keep the rope as a mom en to. He was shot at by Hall, the man now awaiting execution for the Qulgley-Kent mur ders at Yreka. He told his story to the by-standers while leaning his tender foot on the shattered door through which the raiders had gained entrance. Written large upon the Jailer's door was a placard: "Visiting Hours 2 to 4 on Wednesday. Friday and Sunday, ONLY." Lange ruefully admitted that It was too dark for his visitors to read this Friday night. Luke Lange stated that It was common knowledge In Yreka that Johnson would have been lynched several days ago. had the authorities not maintained that he would be In strumental in the capture of Miller, (his partner In the slaying of Daw), who is still at large. Elevator to the Clouds Our grandfather hitched hi n.ignn to a star" little dreaming that men would one day soar above the clouds In winged plane Today more speed and greater effort must be ex pended to reach our higher goals; mlntls mu-t be keen, nerves sound and bodies healthy. Your phjslclan, with his powerful safe guards aeolmt rtleae. can Site uiu a perfect take-off toward hlrlter aspiration! A prescript lonM Ellis Rs Carefully at Heath Drug Store Medford Building Phone 8S4 NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Aug. 3. To sit top gallant and sway with the elephan tine lumberings of a Fifth avenue bus, watching the staccato of life on the side walk and street below, Is about as much fun as the metropolis of fers. Every block a microcosm as shifting as the kaleidoscope. Across from my perch this sun down waa a grace f u 1 smokerette lost in the style sweeps in the pages ot Harper's Ba zaar. In front a harried Casper Milquetoast with an umbrella and a dent in his derby. And across the aisle a brlpkln with a neverworn pair of gloves in his breast pocket. Remindful of Bill Nye's simile: "His gloves stuck upon out of the pocket of his coat like the fingers of a drowning man calling for four more beers." We halted a moment In front of a feminine type restaurant with window tables and there came this reflection: I never saw a skinny girl eating one of those gooey double luxuro chocolates. And I never saw a fat woman who wasn't. A lurch and an elderly gentleman drops his glasses. They were run over, the glass pow dered fine enough to put into an enemy's oatmeal. Too. a girl silhouetted at Hick's fountain, churning her drink with a spoon and swinging the glass In cir cles to get the last mixed drop. Dart ing thought: Soda jerkers have stud led 50 years and the Confectioner's Journal has given recipes of millions of drinks with palate pleasing names, but no one has beaten the good old chocolate Ice cream soda at Rumple mayer's for 22 years. A sheen of Bowery brass in the avenue's pomp. A flight-up "Dress Suit for Hire" parlor. A statistician should strike the average of dress suits men wear at class reunions and the vintage of Irvin Cobb's. The one with frog buttons! Menjou and Jack Whiting gum up full evening attire for most of us. Maybe, to. it's the end of the Dress Suit Era. Slacks for a slack period! A Claire Luce type swings daintily out of Dunhlll's with one of those Bedllngtons on a leash. The dog that looks and acts like a shy lamb. That such a noble animal as the dog should be subjected to changing styles! Where Is the Spitz. Pug. Newfound land and the Canlche? They vanish like the buffalo and Indian. I hear there's not a French poodle In all Paris. Not even In the Pare Mon ceau. A half dozen women smoking In a single block. Not one self-conscious. I remember my father returning from New ork to tell the old Nestors on his hotel verandah of Roslna Vokes smaklng a cigar, lighting the wrong end so the wrapper unfolded. It was supposed to be the funniest thing on the stage. Rosina Vokes was a cult. Like Cornell, B. Lillle and Tallulah. One must be In advance of 50 to remember. Beatrice Herford once open ed a Rosina Vokes theater. There were Rosina Vokes cigars, hats. etc. The five-and-ten building that cov ers the Wendell acreage Is undergo ing the finishing touches. More than London Tower, the venerable mansion was cloaked In gloom. There was a knothole In the high spiked fence where the pedestrian could see the asthmatic dog Toby in Its several mil lion dollar playground. Shutters flapped In the wind, dim lights flick ered mysteriously at windows and now and then late at night a shawled Wendell sister would peep furtively out the door and scurry to drop a letter In the corner box. A sephul- chral haunt made for mystery mak ers. Poe would have loved It. A lady splraled up to our conning tower at the public library. She opened a book I've wanted to read- Lowell's Blgelow Papers. This was a George Ade sum-up of things in the generation before Ade. The most in teresting of all biographies should be one that Ade turns out. The only real modern of his generation. WHEN When the garage door drags And the pergola tags, And the back steps are aflop; The down spout leaks And the floors all creak And the sweet peas need a prop; When a little paper and paint Would make a room look new, And you wonder how in the world You can stt it all attended to; JUST PHONE US BIG PINES PHONE t nntirMi a chambermaid with whit- an mri aoron peeking down from a hotel window near Madison Square. Tired, faded, gray. It s a joo many ladles or oiner aays see, a wav to hide. People only glance at a chambermaid. Oddly the old Flatron, skyscraper, Is better tenanted than a half score modern and higher spires. Frank Munsey's offices were there with the throne. Herbert Corey's. Jimmy Alli son's. The avenue tapers from 23d to the arch Into a soft mellow glow, a benlson that slows pedestrians into a saunter. One thinks of Mark Twain, O. Henry and many more whose gifts make life more endurable. (Copyright. 1935. McNaught Syndicate) Flight 'o Time (Medford and Jackson County History from the files ot the Mall Tribune af 141 and Hi Year Ago). TEN YEARS AGO TODAY August 4, 1925 (It was Tuesday) Traffic officers arrested autolsta for auto law violations. Two small forest fires rage in Cra. ter Lake and Prospect districts. Seven cars of pears shipped from this city so far this season. B. H. Conkle Is named principal of Medford high school. 13.902 visitors to Crater Lake so far this season. City council nearly completes prep araatlon of a new city ordinance coll ing for a bond election for a new water system. TWENTY YEARS AC.O TODAY August 4, 1913 (It was Wednesday) Warsaw falls to German Invaders, as Russian arms under Grand Duke Nicholas retreat. Riga's fall matter of days. The police Issued warnings Wed nesday to three or four farmers who Insist on stopping their teams where ever they please on business streets without regard to the traffic ordi nances. Wednesday afternoon a farmer stopped his team on a street crossing necessitating pedestrians go ing around while he argued with a friend anent irrigation. It Is also reported that farmers using the Pa cific highway have their "dander" up and are slow about giving autolsts the right of way. driving so that it is necessary for the machine to slow up or take to the ditch. The deer season opens August IS, and A number of local hunters have already gone to the hills to prepare camps. , New prices on Ford cars show re ductions on all models. IS SELF SLAYER PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.(AP) John Pershing Heiner. a cousin of General John J. Pershing, hanged himself today In a closet In his mid city apartment. An opened letter from his wife, urging him to bear up under his poverty, was found on the floor un der his door. It had been delivered a few hours after he took his life. Heiner was a native of Butler. Pa., and was formerly a well-to-do In vestment broker. A note from his landlady requesting last week's rent, which was past due. Indicated he was penniless. No money was found In his apartment. Mrs. Gladys Heiner. his wife. Is In Los Angeles with their son. John R. Heiner. who was taken there because of falling health. Heiner. a World war veteran, was the son of Harry P. and Mary Persh ing Heiner. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh In 1915. KEYS and expert lock repairing. Medford Cyclery. 23 N- Fir. Ph 261. LBR. CO. ONE KIN OF PERSHING, POVERTY NAGGED,
