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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD. OREGON. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1S35 PAGE FIVK CCG VIOLINIST, CHEST AID PLEA Raymond H. Samson entertained tha Klwania club with three violin selections at the weekly luncheon meeting yesterday at the Hotel Med ford. Ho waa accompanied by Se baatlan Apollo. The violinist played Oems from Countess Marltza, Sweet Mystery of Life and Waters of Mlnnetonka, and was enthusiastically applauded for the excellence of hia musicianship. Mr. Samson waa formerly mualcal director at the Ttvoll theater in San Francisco, and la now attached to the CCC welfare office here .under Cspt. William C. Ryan. Gain Robinson, Community Chest general In charge or field forces, urg ed the Klwanis club to furnish vol unteers for the fund campaign soon to be-launched. The campaign this year, ho said, will be similar to those previously conducted, thoxigh he em phasized that the sum to be raised wilt be larger than that of a year ago. because of Increased burdens due to the withdrawal of government relief T. Prey, Med ford Red Cross chairman, told the club of the work being done by the Red Crcvs In es tablishing 15.000 first 'aid actions throughout the country. At these stations, he explained, first aid la administered in any kind of accident. There are now four stations in Jack son county, one each In Plnehurst. Trail. Klamath Junction and Pros pect, he stated. Signs are placed on the highway to designate the stations, end classes to train the personnel in first aid work are being conducted, with the state police cooperating and furnishing in structors, Mr. Prey related. Dr. Geonce Massey. Kl wanton of Klamath Falls, was a guest of the local club. PRESIDENT HEADS WESTWARD ON VACATION TRIP max. i net? " -: .7e" "3 - HkS ... WAiMIHOTCN ft. V . . -wei PJEiT.tOUll - l .1 NU V-v; The map at the right ihowe the route President Roosevelt is expected to follow on his holiday trip aerose the country and baek by way ef the Panama Canal. He'll speak at Fremont, Neb., Boulder Dam, Los Angeles and San Diego and also get In some deep sea fishing. Ths President Is pictured In a recent Dhotooraoh at the left. (Associated Press Photos 24 TAKING COURSES AT -PROMOTION IN S. P. William Sutherland, office manager of the passenger traffic department. Southern Pacific company. In Port land, for the past four years, has been promoted to district passenger agent for the northern district, ef fective October 1, according to an-, nouncement by J. A. Ormandy, gen ernl passenger agent. News of the promotion has par ticular interest here as Sutherland waa traveling freight and passenger agent for southern Oregon, with headquarters in Medford from 1927 to 1028 and made many friends in this city during that time, Sutherland has been employed In the S. P. passenger department since October 15. 1915. with the exception of a period during the war when he waa overseas with the 66th company. C. A. C. He has also served' as city passenger agent In both Portland and Seattle and district passenger agent at Seattle. In his new position Sutherland will serve In a supervisory capacity over passenger traffic solicitation ac tivities In the northern district, Or mandy said. Through the cooperation of Prin cipal Olenn Smith, 24 CCC youtha arc now enrolled in regular classes at the Medford hUh school, Eugene C. Golden, CCC educational adviser, announced today. The boys are allowed time off from their CCC duties to attend classes, on the understanding that they will give at least one hour daily of their own time to the preparation of the lessons, Mr. Golden said. Some of the boys, he stated, are high school graduates who are making up defici encies for college entrance, while others are working for hlh school diplomas, all of therri receiving full school credit for their work. The studies are designed also. Mr. Golden explained, to increase their efficiency in CCC office routine. The boys are taking courses In shorthand, physics and commercial art. , In addition, nine CCC youths are studying shorthand at n Is lit at' the Medford Business college, Mr. Golden said. HEIR KILLS 2 AND SELF 'CANNERY AT EUGENE IN QUARREL OVER ESTATE IDA ELIZA KATHAN OF EVANS PASSES EVANS VALLHy, Oct. J. (Spl.) Word has been received here that Ida Eliza. Kathan. a much loved olo lady, parsed away at the Willis Shortreed camp at Chiloquin, Ore.. September 31. She was born In Preeport. HI., Oct. 34. 1854. She was active and alert until almost her last days. . Baptised at the age of 16 In the Baptist church, she married Eugene Kathan July 2, 1873. To the union six children were born, of which three are living to mourn their mother's loss. Mrs. Willis Shortreed. John R.. and Guy E. Kathan 'of Rogue River, sixteen grand children and eleven great grandchildren. She had been visiting at the home of her daughter. Mra. Willis Short reed at Chiloquin and was feeling much better when she suddenly passed away without suffering Her friends and dear onea will greatly mlsa her. IR SERVICE I Word ha Just been received at the army recruiting station in the city hall that there will be a few vacan cies in the army air service In the Hawaiian Islands. To be eligible, young men between the acea of 18 to 35 years, tingle, good physical condition, must have me chanical experience or knowledge of aviation and must have at least an etzhth grade education. These vacancies are very rare and In order to be among the first. Inter ested young men should act at onoc. mvs the recruiting officer. Men enlisted for this quote, will call on the transport "Grant" from Sn rrancisco for the Islands, October 8. In ca?e some of the men for thla quota ere not enlisted In litre i-yr the above transport, anoT iU from the same place October 17. t-r the Hawaiian Islands. FRATERNITIES TAP 5 After en-Joying a week ' of intense" rushing, five Medford students at the University of Oregon were pledged by Greek letter fraternities. Following CURLEW, Wash., Oct. 1. (AP)) A coroner's inquest today laid three vio lent deaths by shooting near hero to & resentful heir to a small farming estate, himself the third victim. Deputy Coroner L. W. Strassbure reported after the inqueat the finding that Tom Lagrud. 40, & bachelor, yes terday killed Mr. and Mrs. James J. Landy, about 55 and 50. at (heir farm home, and then turned a high-powered rifle on himself, after walking a mile to his own farm. Lagrud. StrV-sburg said, was heir to a one-third parcel of the estate of an uncle who died two years ago. Landy was the administrator. Ill feeling between them was genV emlly recognized In this villas. Strasbourg explained, and it reached a climax Saturday night when Lsndy refused Lagrud 'a demand for money. An 11-year-old boy. Piny Bush, who was playing near Lagrud 'a place yes terday, was the key witness at the Inquest. He told how Lsgnid practiced shoot ing with his .22 rifle, cleaned it and remarked. T might as well get them now." Then, the boy said, he headed toward Landy's home. A half hour later he returned. He went toward the creek with the 22 and a high caliber rifle. Both were in hla clutch when he was found after a shot a moment later. the usual period of trial, during which they will be required to Indulge in various chores designed to take the edge off their dignity and deflate their egotism, the youtha. will be duly Initiated into the secret orders. Bill Cummlngs. former Mall Tribune reporter, who registered at the Uni versity of Oregon for a course in Jour nalism, was pledged by Phi Delta Theta. . Dick Sleight was pledged by Phi Kappa. Psl, Frank Thomas by Delta Tau Delta, and Robert Htnman and Oliver Hughes by Kappa SigmaA Phi Sigma Kappa pledged Donald Bailey of Grants Pass and Harvey Jones of Ashland, wnlle Al Wilson of Ashland waa signed by Sigma Chi and LeRoy Lindner of Ashland by Sigma Phi Epallon. A.E.F. BOXING CHAMPION KILLED IN AUTO CRASH SUNBURY. Pa.. Oct. 1. ( AP) Fred Faux, 37, of Bloomaburg, ban tamweight boxing champion of the A. E. F. In the world war, died today of a broken neck received in an auto- mobile accident. The boxer served overseas with company M. 28th division. After the war, he fought professionally In the middleweight class. For Hose that Wear buy NOLDE Si HORST Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. GUNSMITH. Repairs for all makes of guns. Sims Bros.. 23 N. Fir. JOAN UPSET BY HINT . SHE MAY MARRY TONE NEW YORK, Oct. 1. (API Joan Crawford today said she was "quite upset" over Insistent report that she and Franchot Tone, her leading man who escorted her al most across the continent, are plan ning to be married. ,She indignantly denied she had any Intention of entering matrimony again. EUGENE. Oct. t. (JP) The Eugene Fruit Growers' association, Engene' only cannery, is expecting to finish the canning and packing season with the greatest amount of tonnne ever handled by the plant In Its 27 years' history. Some of the crops handled, and the tonnage for each, follow: Green beans, between 2000 and 2500 tons; prunes, one and one-quarter million pounds received In green weight for the drying department and 150 tons for the cannery; beet. IflOO tons; cherries, 524 tons for the red sour varieties and 500 ton for all sweet varieties; pears, 800 tons. The cannery has yet to can the carrot crop, but It Is expected to go to 1600 tons. The plant also Is Just starting on a good walnut and a good filbert crop. PUYALLUP, Wash., Oct. 1. (p) The Hunt Brother Packing com pany la employing 700 persona In canning eastern Washington rcars. Officials of the company said 25.000 cases of fancy canned fruit from the plant were being loaded on the Dam sterdyk at Tacoma for Liverpool, Eng. PASS ON ALIEN PAPERS OCT. 15 Along with all other business to be conducted at the October session of the federal court here, naturalization proceedings have been postponed to October 15. It waa announced today by Glenn O. Taylor, deputy clerk. Aa a matter of legal formaJity the court will b opened today by either Mr. Taylor or Leo McLaln. deputy marshal, but an adjournment will be taken immediately to October 15 to which date the court session was postponed following the death Sep tember 20 of Judge James Alger Fee's wife. Thomas G. Gritting of Portland. acting divisional director of naturali zation and immigration, will come to Medford at the opening of court Oc tober 15 to take care of applications for citizenship. Mr. Taylor said. Thus far eight persons have applied for first citizenship papers and these will be acted upon when court convenes. It is expected that the session of court will be comparatively short aa there are only seven criminal ca?ea on the docket. 000 allotted by Aubrey Williams, acting relief administrator, for direct relief in October. The action brought to six the total of states where federal payments on the dole have been eliminated. GANGSTERS KILL BROOKLYN. N. Y Oct. 1. (UP) Two gangsters were executed against a garage wall today by three gunmen in an underworld killing which du plicated on a smaller scalo the fa mous St. Valentine's day massacre of seven hoodlums in Chicago during the heyday of the bootlegging racket. The murders preceded by a few hours Governor Herbert Lehman's conference at Albany on crime sup pression. The killers, dressed as attendants, waited In the garage for their vlc tlme, Joe Amberg. 35. and Morris Kessler, 30. Amberg had a long po lice record and his current racket forced Brooklyn bara and restauants to patronize an apron supply concern he controlled. Kessler was his chauf feur and bodyguard. 'S OFFICE ! Kenneth G. Denhan. Medford at torney, who has maintained his office for some time in the Medford Center building, today announced that he has rented space In the offices of Attorney T. W. Miles In the Jackson County Bank building. The move has been made to that he will be nearer his work in continuing the liquida tion actions for the Jackson County bank. The work was begun by Wil son Kennedy, young Medford attorney drawned a few weeks ago while fish ing In Rogue river. Denman will continue with his per sonal law practice, he announced. Troop 8 Will Map Activities Tonight Troop 8, Boy Scouts of America. will hold an Important meeting to night at 7 o'clock at the Washing ton school. It was announced today by Scoutmaster Jack Hcyland. In urging all members to attend. Mr. Hcyland pointed out that this is the first meeting of the new sea son at which the program of activi ties for the year will be. mapped out. NAME LIUEQV1ST iBLi SALEM. Oct. 1 pylj. A. LilJe qvlst. Marshfield attorney, will rep resent Attorney-General I. H. Ven Wlnkle in conducting the grand Jury investigation Into gambling condi tions in Multnomah county. Llljeqvist was aelected by VenWln kle late yesterday, following a request by District Attorney Bain and an or der by Governor Martin that the attorney-gene mi's office take charge of the Investigation. Llljeqvist at one time served aa assistant attorney -general and ha acted a VanWlnkle'a representative In previous litigation. He was also formerly district attorney of Coo county. It waa expected the Investigation In Multnomah county would be re sumed Wednesday. A similar probe waa being conducted in Marlon coun ty by Ralph Moody, deputy attorney-general. Salmon Cannery Near Bankrupt PORTLAND, Ore., Oct 1 (AP) The Columbia River Packers' associa tion, ona of the largest fishing cor porations In the United States, today filed In federal court a petition for permission to reorganize financially under the amended federal bank ruptcy laws. The company declared that whlia it Is not Insolvent, It la in finan cial difficulty. Auto Crash Kills One STAYTON, Ore.. Oct. 1. (AP) Stayton hospital attendants re ported .this morning that Mrs. Ru dolph Haman and her daughter Ruth, 11, were In a critical condi tion from injuries received in an automobile accident two miles cast cf hero last night, which cost the life of G. B. Branson, 49, Albany real estate man. Use Mall Trlbuno want ads. Kisses Wife Over Canadian Border NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y., Oct. 1. (AP) When John Blasuccl wants to kiss his wife and their two daugh ters, he ha to lean across the in ternational line to do It He la separated from his family by the Immigration lawa some Ir regularity In his entrance papers Almost dally Mrs. Blasuccl takes Catherine and Jonn and they walk to the middle of the International bridge here. The husband and father meets them. Cut Three States Off Federal Dole WASHINGTON. Oct. U (AT) Three additional states were cut off the dole today as the adminis tration pressed Its drive to have the work relief program going on No vember 1. 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