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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFOKD, OREGON. "WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22. 1936 T Dancer Astaire today. A son was born to hla wife, I tha former Phvltta Livingston. Potter. WILLAMETTE VAULT LOOTED BY AMATEURS night and obtained about aiso In cash, officlala of the oldest Inetltu Uon west of the Rockies reported to city police today. Iveatlgatlon revealed numerous fin gerprints, adding an unprofessional touch, the city police reports showed. The loss was discovered by I. A. Beech, superintendent of buildings, early today. i GRANTS PASS. Jan. 33. (API Motor bus tours of the Redwood Em pire, discontinued for aeveral years by the Southern Pacific railway, will resume about May 16, It waa an nounced here. Southbound tourists will detrain at Grants Paaa for the trip over the Redwood highway. Dae Mall Trtbur.e want tda. Jg Protid F Other ' New Tork CM' mora- I Ing. HOLLYWOOD, Cal.. Jan. 33. (AP) . . . , ' ,"r' ' The boy weighed 854 pounds. Fred Astaire, nlmble-footed dancer. Dr, Jonn Vruwlnk aald mother and had something to kick hla heels over) child ware progressing aatlsfactorlly. PROFLIGATE VET IN By SALEM, Ore., Jan. 33. (AP) Un identified robbera looted the valuta of the Willamette university here laat BIG TIBER DEAL w3E PAGE SIXTEEN Relations Of Man With Mother And Daughter . Told In Trial Rat Poison Given Wife Is Accusation n nir U'llHon. Bhsraa (United Pk Staff Correspondent) MINEOLA. N. Y., Jan. 21, (UP) Mv-wt n. Annlec-ato. former Amer Iran Legion official who allegedly i-nnnrtd with two women and girl, all In the eame house but .-..it Innnrant nf his largeSSO. SHU In court today and heard a con fission which dumned him aa co nmrHprKr of his wife. Ada. The confession, aesertedly made by buxom Mary Prances Crelghton. with whose family the Applegate lived, related that Applegate oecamo so enmeshed with Mra. Crelghton and her precocious, IB-year old daughter. Ruth, that to aave him self from his wire wno nnany learned of his Indiscretions, he de termined to dispose of her. "Buy Hat Poison" It recounted that Applegate who aiih Mra. Crelghton la on trial ' ,r,m with murder, save Mra. Crelghton, 23 cents and said: "Buy rat poison-" Mr"- Crelghton bought It because, the confession contin ued, aha was enraged when Mra. Applegate and her daughter, Agnes, told nelghbora atorles which Im pugned Ruth's morality. The state, which rested Its case today, charges the poison was ad ministered to Mrs. Applegate In three doses, the last and fatal one In eggnog which Mrs. Applegate. already bedfast, readily drank. The confession was a blow to the sold Applegate who early had heard read a statement from Mrs. Crelghton absolving him of btlttne for hla wire's death. The confes sion. No. 8. obtained from Mrs. Crelghton, was played by the state as Its ace in the hole. In her first confession Mra. Crelghton accused Applegate of pro during the poison and forcing her under threat of exposing her to her husband, to put It In hl In valid wlfe'a food. The second con fession, which exonerated Applegate. aald: Arttnns Angered Her "I waa pretty sore about the way Applegate was carrying .on with my daughter. Iluth. I decided to do an Injustice to Mrs. Applegate. Too. Mrs. Applegate had learned of my relatione with her husband and she waa very angry. She and her daugh ter. Apnea, were talking to the neighbors." This confession also purported to relate that Applegate began forcing hla attentions on Mra. Crelghton a year ago. "I tried to resist." she aald. "but the relations continued until last June aa." On that date, aha aald, Applegate revealed he had committed Indis cretions with her pretty young dsughter. "I asked him." she aald. "If he dtdn't think It waa bad enough carrying on with me without hav ing relations with the child." The defense begins presentation of evidence tomorrow. It la expected to call Applegate who haa repudi ated Mrs. Crelghton's stories as "bunk." California And Oregon Lum ber Co., Oregon Fir Hold ings Sold For Million Export is Planned. UARaSHPTZLiD, Ol., Jan. 22JP j J. R. Thompson, Coo Bay region log. glnlng operator, announced today that he and hi associate purchased all the Oregon fir holdings of the California and Oregon .Lumber com pany. Lumbermen here aald It was the .largest timber deal In the state in recent years. Approximately a 1,000,- 000 was lnvosvel in the sale. The purchase Included a billion feet of fir. enough for 30 years of operation, and an incidental several million feet of choice Port Orford cedar In southwestern Oregon. Projected operations In the timber- lands acquired will open a practically new territory to foreign trade. The timber product company, now being organized to care for the develop ment, will deal with the Orient, Aus tralia and perhaps South America, under present plans. Brookings, In southern Curry coun ty, la to be the center of activities, which operators hope may bring about considerable improvement to shipping facilities in that district. Last year the J. A. Thompson Log ging company cut logs from Call- ! forma and Oregon holdings and ship- j pod the timber on six foreign ships. the first offshore vessels ever to load I at Brooking. All the ships were load- ! ed to capacity, and eight more are scheduled to call there this summer. 1 Operations In southern Curry ooun- ty last summer were carried on to demonstrate the marketability of tlm- ' her of that section and to prove the shipping possibilities of Brookings, 1 Thompson said. ; Should the federal government pro- ! vide the 2,000-foot breakwater sought j there, year-around loading of offshore vessela would be possible, be con tinued. 4 SEWAGE PROJECT IN TANGLE OF RED TAPE BAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 32. AP WflAAR, Los Anvil's, and Miss W6DIX, San Frnnrliico. will be mar rled February 37, as the result of an amateur radio Introduction In which W7AOX of Pendleton. Ore., acted aa 'Cupid." W6AAR Is John Hnwkli.t, 87. rHdto engineer, and wtiDDO Is Miss Itheta Oompertz, UJ. Mlas Ooinperia was "brHkitiR In" as an amateur niello phone operator iRAt April on a net ope rut ed hy her brother, Walbert. She was tNlklng to the Pendleton am Hon when Haw kins, then In San Francisco, heard and liked her voice. Thry were Introduced on the air and Hawkins akM if he mlRht call. They took a look at each other and went out on a date." Walbert Dumper ts related today. "He didn't even look ct any trnnnmltter until after thoy pot home." Mlt Oomperm Is the daughter of Mrs. Blanche Oomperta and her late husband, Albert, a newepnprr man. HOSEBUno, Ore., Jan. 33. (AP) Roseburg's three years work to launch construction of a trunk line sewer and sewage dlspoanl plant In South Umpqua river bisecting the city came to naught last night, when the city council abandoned all effort to get financial help from the pWA and dropped the project. The city's application for a loan and grant of 76.000, originally ap proved, became linked with a Joint project Involving the local veterans' administration facility, creating com pllcatlona from which the city was forced to divorce Itself. After re sultsnt long delays, the project came up on bids . and the lowest bid submitted was 120,000 above the es timated cost. The city then applied .for an In creased loan. In Its response the PWA demanded much additional data and requested further neROtla tlons. Tills brought decision by the council to discard the project rather than continue In a maee of technical procedure, with no assurance of sat isfactory consummation of plans. Charity Of Ford On Business Basis DETROIT. Mich., Jim. 32. (AP) Bdael Ford's gifts to charity will be handled hereafter by a corporation known as the Ford foundation. Clif ford B. Long ley, attorney for the Ford Motor Co.. aald today, Edael Ford la president of the Ford Motor Co., and one of the nation's wealthiest men. He haa been for years extremely reticent about his gifts which Include a contribution of 100, ooo or more annually to the Detroit community cheat fund, but they are known to be large. OLD-TIME STAGE DRIVER BURIED AT GRANTS PASS GRANTS PARS, Jan. 33. (Spl.) Arthur Benjamin chamberlain waa hurled at the Hillerest Memorial park Sunday afternoon. Chamberlain wna an old-time stag driver from this valley to Eureka. He was found dead st his cabin near Tnkllma last week . ATTAINS SUCCESS William M. Purdln, formrr Mrdfnnt resident, Is now head of the arrount Ing department of Upman-Wnlfe'a lain. atnr. in Portland. It la revealed In an advertisement In the OreRonlan Mr. Ptmlln la the son of Mra. O. 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