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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, MEDFORD, OREGON. 'FRIDAY, ATJGTJST 23, 1935. MEDFORDWrRIBUNE "Everyone la Southern Oregon Read the UsU Tribune" Dally Except tlaiurdar Published by MEDFORD PRINTING CO. 9l3T-39 N. Fir St. phone II. ROBERT W. RUHU Editor. Ad iDdepandent Newspaper. Eotered as MCondclasa matter at Med ford. Oregon, under Act of March 1. ! SUBSCRIPTION RATES Br Mail In Advaucei Dally, one year " ri.iw ) month l-7 Yt.lt. in month 0 m Carrier, In Advance Medford, Aih land, JaokiOLvllle. Central Point, Pboeolx, TalenU Oold Bill and on highway. Dally, one year Dally, six .n on the Dally, one month All term, eaeb In advance. ..16.00 Official Paiwr of lite City of Urdford. Official Paper of lmkoo County. MKMHKH OF THIS ASSOCIATE! I'ltEbg Receiving Pull l.taud Wire Hervlc. titled to the uae for publication of all oewe dlapatcne creanen io wlae credited In tills paper, and also in local newe puoiiiiio-i '" All right for publication of apeelal MEMBER OF UNITED PRESS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Advertising Representatives M. fi. MOOENAEN COMPANY Office In New Vork. Chicago DetrolL San Franclaco. L.os Angeiea. oeaiue. Portland. MEMBER ON Ye Smudge Pot Uf Arthur Perry TWm ri n.urn was received the first of the week, that another local boy haa made bad. In the wicaoa olty, and will not bother hla home town polloe, before the aprlng ol 1B43. A atranger'a auto drove oti with him. ... The "Prosperity Ball" la now the social order of the night, In many rural areaa. The gueeta wear the am clothea they wore to the 1930. 83 Hard Times balls. ... The Democratic administration haa taken the necessary steps to "keep us out of war." This slogan baa not been employed since 1916, when It was an outstanding vote-getter among the womenfolks with boya of mili tary age. Congreaa voted neutrality between Italy and Ethiopia. America will sell no munltlona to either aide, while hoping Ethiopia wins. ... The price of hoge continues high. At the present rate, swine will wear red halt during the deer season, and hired men will be put under bonda for faithful performance of their duty during the hog-kllllng season. F. Colvlg, Republican warhorse. reports 13 candidates for sherlti already in the offing. There will be no election of a sheriff until 1938. so Time haa been seized by the forelock, somewhat prematurely. Three years will enable each candl1 data ample time to promise every voter an appointment aa hla chlel deputy. . i The Medford and Salem high school football teams will clash October 26 It la too early to guess which squad will be defeated but unconquered ... Mra. Cochran Robin waa found tarvlng In her nest late yesterday, with three of her last hatch shiver ing with fright nearby. "Them bombing planee scared her so she h'alnt been In a backyard since last Sunday," Carol Lark, a neighbor told State Trooper Roscoe Dluejay. Loving beaka were soon pouring fresh flshworma down the gullets of the frightened brood. "That wo man of mine feels the same way." stated President J. John Woodpecker of the Safety First League. "They don't look or sound so good to me. They fly like a bunch of ducka going outh." ... Judge Tar N. reathera presided In Sonoma county. Calif., and meted out more severe punishment than being sent home, to a coterie o: domestic snd foreign agitators. The action waa "illegal," and "the con stitutional rights were trampled upon by the mob spirit." The defendants were "persecuted." No doubt So noma county residents underwent ome persecution thenuelvea. ere they administered rough and ready, but effective Justice. There will be no legal quibbling and no appeal. The "martyrs" are too busy peeling tar off their heels, snd feathera out of their ears to think up new mean ness. Only a community once plagued by organized hellralscrs can under atand why Sonoma county "resorted to violence." ... Sec. Banwell of the Commercial club held a committee meeting with his new boy yeaterday. He will start keeping our wide-awake secretary awake nights in about three weeks. The secretary has not felt so much like wearing a cowboy hat since the pageant, but didn't. ... A life sentence for killers la all right If it la shortened by hanging to fool the parole board. iNewark (N. J.) Ledger) Cruel and unusual ... The political altuatlon in Portland aeems to be too diabolical for words. The Democratic county chairman charges that Republlcana have Jobs that Democrats want. Widespread agony reaulte. The Republicans hold fast, white the Democrats fast. ... New York City was amazed by visiting Boy 8couu from the Weal who aald "Yea Sir." "Thank You," and "Please." New York waa Just aa aurprlsed as the father of a local Boy Scout, when he did hla good deed for the day by mowlrrg Ma own lawn. Instead of the neighbor's. ... "MUSSOLINI TO WRESTLE WITH "ETHIOPIA." (Klamath Fnlle Her ald) The first time Musa.llnl grunts ft, cash custom's vfar'.,f vtacles should tbrc. flrUP D The Social Lobby YESTERDAY Bernard B. Robinson, handsome, dapper, typi ical man-about-town, stopped smoking eigarcta just long enough to tell the senate lobby investigation committee, he had entertained a number of high government officials including President Roosevelt's secretary, Marvin Mclntyre at cocktail and dinner parties and H. N. Hopson, Associated Gas and Elec tric kingpin had paid the bill. ' "But" cried Mr. Robinson with perhaps a trifle more heat than the situation at the moment seemed to justify, "I did not say a word about the utilities bill the subject was never even mentioned!" UNDOUBTEDLY! On such festive occasions the real pur poses of such gatherings are NOT mentioned. Nothing as crude as that. The social lobby doesn't work that way. Mr. Robinson was not engaged to buy votes against the death sentence measure. He was merely engaged to develop good will, particularly in certain influential quarters, give the boys a good time, and there might accrue, as an entirely incidental by product, a certain spirit of friendliness toward himself and .the interests he represented. That's all. Perfectly innocent of course I ..... THERE is no law against the Associated Gas and Electric company or any other company throwing a cocktail party, a dinner party, or any other form of legal entertainment. Nor is there any law against Mr. Mclntyre j Senator Tydings of Maryland ; Emil Hurja, right hand man of Postmaster General Farley; Morris Clark, justice department attorney or anyone else, high in governmental circles accepting such invitations, as these distinguished gentlemen did. But some things entirely legal are not entirely proper. And other things perfectly harmless 'WITHOUT publicity, are not so harmless "WITH it. UNFORTUNATELY for Messrs. Hopson and Robinson, and the distinguished gentlemen who accepted their hospital ity, the searchlight of senatorial inquiry, was turned on their convivial gatherings, and consequently the popular reaction is far from a favorable fine. ' For to a man up a tree, such goings-on, don't LOOK well ! , With legislation pending against the power and light utili ties, he doesn't like to see influential men in government circles, wining and dining at the EXPENSE of those utilities. Even more emphatically he most opulent, insolent and corpulent, major domos of the hold ing company racket, throwing such parties and dinners, and charging them up to his stockholders. For in the final analysis, tbo consumers as well as the stockholders must pay the bill, NOT Mr. Hopson. IN all likelihood no laws WERE broken. If EVERY fact and incident involved in these occasions were known, it is very doubtful if a single indictment could be returned. But it doesn't LOOK good. And the net result of such efforts ou the part of the holding company lobby to gain good will, is to lose what little they have left; to increase hatred and hostility against them in govern mental circles instead of lessening same, and to make what was already a bad mess into a worse one. MOREOVER this social lobby business, free as it probably is, from any-criminal involvements, is bad business, and entirely out of date. It is really a survival of an age in Ameri can business and politics which has passed, though the gentle men in control of the holding company business dn t realize it. The plain truth is it does no good, and may, as in this par ticular instance do great harm, as far ns its purported bene ficiaries are concerned. It does no good, for REAL political influence is no longer secured, by the meal ticket route. The boys eat and perhaps drink, but they don't vote as they do cither. The power chiefs who throw such parties merely have their augmented expense accounts for their pains. Equally important, all that is needed to turn such efforts into disaster, is publicity just, a little leak, to the newspapers and it's all over; for let the Mr. Robinsons try as they will to maintain their innocence, and deny all evil, as far as public opinion is concerned, the guilt thumbs down. That is why enlightened business representatives big or little, have pretty generally abandoned the "eat, drink and be merry" legislative attack, as far as Washington, D. C, is con cerned. The benefits are too doubtful and remote; the risks too great. But one is not surprised to find those in control of the hold ing company industry, pulling this old and discredited stuff. It's right up their alley. If anything HASN'T been done to destroy what good will their industry deserves, they an be depended upon to DO it ! f Haf Si (Continued from Page One) be doing business at the old stand for a long, long time. What happened was that the New Dealers hart to concoct a resolution hurriedly to avoid a filibuster. They put together one which is sufficiently Indefinite snd permissive to be vir tually Innocuous. For Instance, the first resolve la "that upon the out break or during the progress of war . . the president shall proclam such fact, etc.". Under that order, the president might wait until the war had progressed to a conclusion before acting. One senator. In debate, covered the neutrality legation situation fully by describing It as ''a series of New Year's resolutions." Touchy rar Easterner! will prob ably explode when they hear about It. but the preMde nt is us m 8 a Shanghai dollar as a tv' ttood luck piece. It 1 one of the coins im- doesn't like to see one of the has been established and it's drawn by the Chinese. On It Is a Chinese junk with three gulls flying over It and a sun In one corner. The Chinese Interpreted the sun as mean Ing Japan, the gulls aa Japanese air play and the Junk aa China Itself. That la why It was withdrawn. Qtobe-clrcllng Honeymooner James Moffett presented It to the president. Highest -priced vote-buying in the closing daye of congress Involved passage of the Minnesota fire claim bill involving nine million dollars. It was based on claims from forest fires dating back to war-time government control of railroads. Irrespective of the merits of the bill. Republican Representative Plttenger persuaded Republicans to support It because he thinks there la a chance of Minnesota going Republican. Democratic Rep resentative Ryan sold It to the house Democrats, saying the party could not take responsibility for killing tt. Both will certainly be surprised If the state goes Farmer-Labor. The biggest vote-trading compact j of this congress was on the potato and coal bills. The only way the : Democratic leaders could get the coal bill through the house was to prom- ; iM the potato bill . to congressmen from potato districts. The trade fur nished the narrow margin of victory ; on both bills. (The AAA crowd was nui strong for potatoes!. 1'hc reason President Roreelt c.:nulalns so much about calling tt 0 "aaust" program of legisjajion Personal Health Service By William Brady, M. D. Signed letters pertaining to personal health and hjglene not to disease diagnosis or treatment will be answered by Ur. Brady If a stamped self-addressed envelope la enclosed. Letters should be brief and written In Ink. Owlitg to the (urge number of letters received only a few can be answered. No reply can he marie to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Brady, 2(13 El Cam I no, Beverly Hills, Cal. THIS IS STILL A Not quite a hundred million guinea pigs and a lot of people- who do not think more than skin deep have urged me to read books with some such titles. There waa a time when It re quired a good deal of courage to admit that one had not read the popular nov elist's outlines of history or some such opus. From what they tell me about the multltuae of guinea pigs and the exposure of the beauty busi ness or the beauty of the exposure businesa I am reasonably convinced that I shall never read either ot these great works. So you well versed laymen are wasting your time and ink trying to get me Interested in the books. Here la a lady who wrltea an in telligent letter. She says her hus band and herself have been taking an lodin ration for several years and feeling Just great, but upon con ducting researches with several mil lion guinea pigs they are worried, for It seems the guinea pigs main tain that chemicals may possibly cause cancer. Then when they came to apply this concept In practice, sure enough they know a . woman Who has cancer and she took large doses of lodin every day for several years. This Is BtlU a free country, In some ways, and you folks are no more bound to take an lodin ration than I am to read the funny books. 1 want you to feel entirely at liberty to do Just as you blame please about it. You can take an lodin ra tion or you can leave It alone. I can read the guinea pigs or I can leave em alone. I've been taking a regular nip ot lodin since long before Tony the Wtrish Terror passed to his reward Tony used to be my drinking com panion. He's gone, but I don't be lieve the lodin ration had anything to do with It. And as for myself, I haven't developed a sign of cancer yet. If any of you readers elect to be prematurely old. crabld, depressed. sour on the world, stale, chronically tired, dopy, dull and gray and let . your arteries start hardening, it is all right with me. I have done my duty when I mention my belief that lodin ration helps to stave off all this early senility. You can't ex pect me to chase after you with the medicine on a spoon and coax probably Is that he looked up the meaning of the adjective "must" In a big dictionary. NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Aug. 23. Eugene O' Nell is not the only recluse in his household. His wife, the former Car lotta Monterey, has also acquired the O'Neill "shrink from the mis es." In fact her evanescence since her marriage to the playwright has been more pronounced than his. O'Neill h been an Isola tionist since ear ly boyhood. But Miss Monterey wmwl designee for the decora tive beauty of calwt, teas and first nights. Of Danish descent, she was a California stunner who turned heads everywhere she appeared In full sail. It' waa for Miss Monterey that the tragic and love-lorn Ralph Barton pistoled himself In the studio pent house. The last line of his despairing note read: "I kiss Cflrtotta " In the first flush of their love they were seen wherever celebretles gather here and In Europe. Miss Monterey met O'Neill In the law Elisabeth Marbury's camp In Maine. It waa love at first eight. And soon they were married and the new Mrs. O'Neill vanished as completely as though the world swallowed hr. Not even her intimates ever see her. The colored entertainer who re ceives the highest pay and next v Bill Robinson the greatest applause from whit folk is the J3..)00-a-wcek Ethel Waters. Yet her own. race is cold to her artistry when she appears in Harlem. At a recent benefit there she exited to faint and sattery ap plause. They consider her a bit arty. No magazine editor ever flashed more spectacularly across the readlr.;? horizon than Norman Hsptfoed. Yet his reign vms the briefest of the il lustrious guild. It lasted about seven years! In his ascendency he Inaugu rated as many literary innovations as anyone brfore or after. Yet the edi tors whose tenures are longest are D A H IP YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD TIME YOU CAN'T COME Oriental Gardens 2 Orch. Till 2 o'clock. 2 Halls BUD DYNGE AND HIS BAND IN THE LARGE HALL PLAYING THE LATEST DANCE HITS IN T1IK !il 1.L HM.I. Rube and His Old Timer ALWAYS A CROWD E FREE COUNTRY. you to take it. I wouldn't do that for less than a dollar a coax, in any case. $ The best Z can do for a dime and I don't mean postage stamps Is to send on request the booklet, "The Regeneration Regimen," which gives detailed Instructions for the lodin ration and outlines the dietary program you should follow if you feel or look a bit too old. For the special benefit of Vermonters, Scotch men and Physicians, I beg to in form you that you must Inclose a stamped envelope bearing your ad dress, and If you omit either of the two essentials you can yell your head off but never get a response from me. Meanwhile, let me suggest that you strive to get yourself In the mood for rejuvenation by rolling yourself a couple dozen somersaults every day. I am quite serious about this. Drop In any time you happen this way and I II show you that i roll my own. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. The Dumb Doctor. A doctor I consulted about the ambulant treatment of my small her nia told me he could use that method but he believed the operation would be best, as they Inject petrolatum or paralfln in the ambulant method and that la too dangerous . . . (B. A.) Answer Your doctor deceived you. Obviously he knows nothing about the ambulant treatment of hernia. Too many ' of his stripe cluttering up the medical profession. Quackery In the regular ranks. O Ben Is Back. I have been told that If a person does certain exercises every day they can add an inch or two to their height In six or eight months. Miss E. H. C. Answer No, daughter. If there were such exercises I'd do 'em my self for 12 to 16 months. No way la known to Increase stature. . All Washed lp. Editor of country paper in Iowa remarks that bath tubs are not as necessary as showers, and still Old Doc Brady says bathing has little to do with cleanllneaa and less with health. Editor says he is like the Negro who said: "I understand what you say. but I don't know what you mean." Answer I'd suspect the editor was trying to make a dirty crack, if l had not met so many editors. (Copyright. 1935, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brady should send letter direct to Dr. H Ullii in llnidy. M. D.. 2G5 El Camlno. Beverly Hills. Cal. those who strike a policy in which they believe and to which they cliryr despite the surrounding changes. Oeorge Horace Lorimer is an example. There's a pier end, cliffed In by glowering warehouses, near a Salva tion Army barrack on the lower East Side that reveals a sorry fray of hu manity's tag ends at sundown. They seem bruised and inarticulate from the day's Joust with a world that has so little place for them. Shoes re moved, they merely sit and stave. A stray mongrel exhibits the only wisp of life. It frisks and sniffs anions them as though to say: "Beys, you have one friend anyway" I have passed them several times in a turn out of traffic. A straaser is out of the ordinary. But no one looks up. Most of Cecil Lean's life was spent in the theatre. He narrowly escaped birth in a dressing room by a gallop Irwt ambulance ride. When he fell mortally stricken on a New York street he was carried Into a nearby theatre lobby and breathed his last. The cycle was complete! The problem of exercise for those in the middle years Is always mooted. I was listing today the recent loss of personal friends and their modes of living. Ray Rohn preached the doc trine of sedentalrness. He abhorred exerci. in all , form, even the urt nmblandl. So did Ray Long. Clare Brlggs and Dr. George A. Dorsey were as violently antl-exerclse. They pre ferred to relax In the game of draw. Rohn passed at 47 and Brlgss, Dorsey and Long in early 50's. Arthur Som ers Roche played 18 holes of golf dally for years and died at 91. Carl Settas was an indefatigable walker, having once crossed Borneo afoot. He died at 54. Karl Kitchen visited the athletic club daily for work-outa and died at 50. So the problem hangs. Thingumabobs: The Will Hayses have built a ranch house In Hidden Valley near Los Angeles . . . Ewlng Galloway spent three and a half years dogging city editors for a Job before he landed . . . Buff Cobb Brody and Clare Booth Brokaw. once scnool mates, have returned from Jaunt to Europe . . . Ksthertne Brush and Elsa Maxwell were also on board . . . The breakfast menu on Max Fleisch mann's yacht la exactly two feet lon Monta Bell, all seaAhored white flannels, waited a up In traffic change on Madison avenue corner. A taxi whirled by In eye-lash close nesa and the driver leaned out to Jeer: "That's heatln' up your ice cream pants, baby!" (Copyright. 1835. MoNaught Syndi cate) s A T N I T E Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS AS fou have rea4 In this newspa per, the tax bill over which con gress haa fought, bled and died (or weeks, which laya heavy added bur dena on productive business that must be passed on to all of us in the form of higher prices of what we buy, la expected to raise about 250 million dollara. It la a little disconcerting to real ize that In these days ot extravagant government spending 250 million dol lars is hardly a drop in the bucket. AH Interesting dispatch from Washington: "Alvln Karpis, ranked aa public enemy No. 1, haa threatened the life of J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the G men long hunting him." That ta to say. Karpis, who has gone unhanged much longer than he should, defies the government of the United States. IP government would spend a little more on crime prevention, which is one of Ita primary responsibilities, and less on a lot of things govern-' ment haa no business doing. Karpis and the rest of hi kind might be caught and hanged. THESE are the big headlines of the days these words are written: "Economic Action Threatened. Big Powers Take Lead In Crisis. Prance Expected to Give Support to England in Stern Action." To all of this, the common, ordin ary citizen who hss been watching the progress of events In Europe will respond, if he la inclined to be mild mannered: Ratal" If he Is Inclined to be a little profane, he wilt eay dis gustedly: "Oh hell!" EVERYBODY knows that If Prance and England were Interested SOLELY in keeping the peace In Eu rope, they could atop thla war be tween Italy and Ethiopia overnight. Instead, they are concerned only with advancing their own Interests. Such Is diplomacy, ANYWAY, we have thla much to be thankful for: We had the good sense to stay out of the league of na tions. If we were in it, we wou'.d be In plenty of hot water right now. o NE of these common, ordinary citizens who. by the way, are keenly Interested In this Impending war In Europe said to this writer yesterday: "If I were England. I'd let Musso lini get down Into Ethiopia and then I'd shut the Suez canal behind htm and let him stew in the African heat." Diplomats, of course, would never think of that. It's too practical. THIS same citizen added: 'IMusaollnl thinks he has an easy Job whipping the Ethiopians, but don't be too sure. It will cost him a lot to carry on a war. whereas the Ethiopians will FIGHT FOR NOTHING." There might be something to that. Mussolini la out for conquest, while all the Ethiopians will be fighting for is their country, their homes and their Independence. Phone 542. We'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. Guasti Sherry is the King of appetizers ...tawny in the glass, tangy on the tongue and the secret of quick invigora tion...the smart vogue among people who want a pick-me-up instead of a mere formality at cocktail time... but see that it's Guasti, for that is the sherry of sherries for giving a lift to your guests and yourself. Frltt Industries, Dd. lot Afljteles Sio Fnacuco ChicafO Nrv York Leads Church' Fight The entire German Catholic hlep archy was called together to dis cuss the Nazi attack on German churches, with the view of prepar ing a counter attack. - Heading the move waa Senior Cardinal Ber tram 6f Breslau. (Associated Press Photo) HONOLULU. Aug. 23. (API The Pan American Airways' clipper plane was here today for Its third flight to Alameda, Cal. after arriving at 5:02 p. m., (7:32 p. m.. Pacific Stand ard time), yesterday from Midway Island. Captain ft. o. D. Sullivan said the big flying boat, which la returning to Alameda from a pioneering cruise beyond Midway to tiny Wake Island, will probably take off for the Cali fornia port Monday. The plane made the 1.323-mtle flight from Midway in 10 hours and five minutes. This was the same time it made on a previous Incoming trip from Midway. Captain Sullivan said the plane, which carried a crew of eight, flew at an altitude of 8,600 feet all the way from Wake fc and encountered headwinds most of the way. SECURE OREGON JAGS The state police have started their annual fruit season campaign against transient fruit workers without Oregon auto licenses. The Oregon law provides that any autolst eng&zed In a gainful occupation shall purchase' an Oregon auto license. The first case of this nature. Is scheduled to be called before Justice of the Peace William R. Colemnn this afternoon. Chester Boyd of RFD. 4. and Arthur M. Backes of this city, were each fined $5 and costs in Justice court yesterday for operating an auto with out an operator's license. The fine was remitted, upon payment of the COStS; Nature's Cocktail. Appetizing! Invigorating! S m s Ik f:T- urn , .Mr flight To Time Medford and Jackson County hlstorv from the files of the Mail Tribune 10 and 20 Years Afto). TEX YEARS AGO TODAY August 24. 1935 Informer who gave tip as to wrhrMhmits of Tom Murry. escaped state prison convict, stops here and vior mpn nn wav south. Ellsworth Kelly and James Wlllos who escaped with Murray and Oregon jones, siaia in the break, captured near Van couver, Wash. AI Piche, local fisherman, has nar row escape, when car in which ha was returning from Squaw lake near ly plunges off bank In Applegata section. A sapling on the bank saved, the Piche car from a deep plunge. Dorothy EJlingsen. San Francisco "Jazz mad girl." sentenced to one to 10 years In San Quentin for slaying mother. Mrs. James Stevens will leave to morrow for St. Louis to Join Mr. Stevens who has a singing engage ment In that city. Announcement by a "newcomer that he Is a victim of plots to keep him from raising pears," causes con siderable amusement. TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY August 24, 1915 Fletcher Fish, well known locally as a singer. Is appearing this week at the Page theater, as an added at traction. Mr. Fish appears In black face, i Hall, wind and rain last evening in the Big Sticky area does consld eiable damage to fruit. Wig Ashpole. while cranking his) new auto, sustains a sprained thumb, and a badly lacerated palm. . Warehouse to be erected at Horn brook, Cal., to supply the liquor needs of Oregonlans when the stato goes "dry" next January. William Howard Taft, former pres ident, passed through city en rout to San Francisco where he will de liver a speech at the fair. Heavy showers settle the dust and the auto trip to Prospect Is no longer a desperate hazard. Communications Gratitude Is Expressed To the Editor: The World War Veterans' State Aid Commission has asked me to express its sincere gratitude for the cooper ation shown this department through the attention given in the columns of the Mail-Tribune to our efforts to place state-owned property back on the tax roll. We have had num erous inquiries for literature as the direct result of the article In your ; paper and feel confident that you have been of great assistance to us. I am fully cognizant of the many demands made upon your space for "propaganda" of one sort or another and do not want you to feel that the commission is trying to impose upon your generosity in tMs regard. Aside from the fact that there is a benefit to the local community in getting property back on the tax roil, losses suffered through failure of thla department to do so must be met by the general taxpayer. Again assuring you of our apprec iation for your unselfish assistance) in this civic undertaking, X am JERROLD OWEN, Executive secretary World War Veter ans' State Aid Commission. Salem, August 22. SEATTLE. Aug. 23. p) A heart attack caused the death of the Rev, Dr. Francis A. La.Vlolette.68, leader in the Methodist Episcopal church In the Pacific northwest -for 40 years, aa he talked with his wife in their hom here lost night. He hod occupied pul pits in Seattle. Everett, Tacoma, l Bremerton, and Vancouver, Wash.