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Newspaper Page TextPrGE FOTTR ifEDFOTlD "MAIL TRTBUXE. MEDFOKD, OREGON". TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 11. 1936. Medford&Tribune BvcrroB in ttontbet-B OrvgoB RMdi Ul Mail Tribune" Dally Except Hatorday. PubiUhad by UED1TORD fRINTINO CO. ll-ST-ll N. rir 8L Phoaa U. ROBERT W. RUHU Miter. Ao lodapaodaot Nawapapar. KniarMl aa Baronrl -claaa m attar at Had lord, Oregon, nndar Act of March t, lilt. SUBSCRIPTION RATES v Mail In Advance: Dally, ona yar 11.00 Dally, ili tnonthi I.T Dally, ona month ' Cajrlar. Id Advance Msdford. A ah land, Jacksonville, Cintril Pout, Phoanlx. Taiant. Gold BUI tad .o faith wars. Dally, on yaar .,,,.t.0 Dally, all months.. l.li Dally, ona month , All tarma, oaab to advanca. Official Paper of tha City of Mrdford. Official Paper of JackMiD Ononty. MEM It KB Of 1HR AMMKJlATEIJ I'HftBh RfWClvtoi Full LmM Wire service. Tha Aaaoolatod Praaa la xolustvst an tit lad to tba oaa for publication of all biwi dlapatchaa oradltad to it or other vlaa oradltad Id tbta papar, and alao to lha local nii ptibllahad harato. All rlg-his for publication of apodal dlapatohaa h train ara alao raaarrad. HBMBBR 07 UNITED PRBSS MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OK CIRCULATIONS AdTartlalng Rapraaanttttvaa M. 0. MOOEN8KN M COMPANY Officii Id Naw rork. Chicago Datrolt San Frandaco. boa Anaalaa. Seattle, Portland. Ye Smudge Pot By Arthur Perry. ThmnffVinnt. tha atat manlV boa- omi hava atarted to heave mightily m behalf of the Old Folks, via the Townsend plan, and many of the beavers have started thumping same, to aid their candidacies. a George Russell bought the Vrdo Fairchlld home laat week. George a bachelor and we are wondering why. (Joseph (Ore.) Times) Come more of everybody's business. a a a Musicians report a tenor soloist Is developing hereabouts, who should to far. a a a A Los Angeles scientist has dis covered, he clslms, that "onions and garlio will cure tuberculosis." What would It profit a patient to get rid of a cough, and gain halitosis? West Msln stem residents report their boulevard reverberate! fre quently to the roars ot autoa going 76 to P0 miles per hour at 3 o'clock la the morning. The speed of the Juggernaut la ao great, the lace cur Juggernaut 1 so great, the lace cur tains on boudoir windows are sucked out Into the night. There Is no busi ness In Jackson county of sufficient importance to necessitate traveling at 76 miles per k0" ln tns ay' time, let alone at 8 o'clock In the morning. a While Oregonlana are laughing at the California ban on bums, another special session of the legislature la sneaking up on Oregonlan. It would toe Just Oregon's luck to get both the bums, and a special session. a a a FACE It FDD KN I NO ITEM. (Merrill (Ore.) Keoonl) She lived with ye editor In Klamath Palls more than 30 yesra ago while she was attend ing high school ln that city. V . gave us her recipe for successfully holding a husband. Hh essays: "Humor him; defer to him, and- STUFF HIMl" V Is a good cook Is why she In sists on the last Item. But her philosophy is good, even If It Isn't every woman who can make It work. a a a The asp will soon be running in he trees, as well sa driving every where. a a "SAFE WAY TO PICK MUSH ROOMS TOUT (Hdllne Del Norte Triplicate) Pick 'em right off the grocery store shelf. a The first robins of spring have shown upand look It. The first boys with alrguns are late. a a "Mahoney la worth hearing as an eicellent example of demagogic cam palgnlng but he need not be taken seriously." (Coo Bay Times) He seems to be all right, though all wrong. a a a Tomorrow la the anniversary ot the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Rev erence will be paid his memory throughout the nation. Once he asld: "You can fool part of the people part of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." The wisdom of this comment has never been doubted, but Its truth has been subjected to heavy wear ln the nutty notions of the past 1 months, seeking the great divide of the other fellows' wealth. There have been periods in the past five years, when a goodly portion of the peo ple, thoroughly enjoyed being foaled The Lincoln recipe for happiness would be rated as horse and buggy stuff today, though sound and sensible. It holds no promise of a rainbow, and reads as follows: "Po not worry, est three square mesls a day, say your prayers, he courteous to yo u r cred I tors , keep your dlnestion good, eer clae. go slow and go easy. Maybe there are some oth-r things that make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life" A candidate couldn't be elected dog-catcher on that platform this year. a Tracy Boothby of Prospect towned Monday, encountering a dentist. ROOD RIVER. Ore.. Feb. II. (API State police and deputy sheriffs raided me resorts st Wveth and Cas cads I-irks. seired six pin -ball games and slot machines snd cited operat ors to appear in Juntire court here. KlCKRHMCK' Ontifigarmente that fit at Et&siwTa B. Hoffmann s. ASM BE The Fess-Borah Comedy TOR those who hove and can retain a sense of humor, this - presidential campaign is going to have iU compensations. Ve said "RETAIN." F'or possessing a sense of humor ia one thing; retaining it during such a rough and tumble "battle royal", as this campaign promises to be. is going to be some thing else again. Before the votes are counted the strain will be terrific The senses of humor that survive, will be of a quality that will deserve the term heroic. Our prediction is there will be precious few of them entitled to such a distinction, when the tumult and the shouting finally dies. HOWever thus early in the game, just an average, common garden variety of the humorous sense, has ample oppor tunity to function. Take this devastating blast from former Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, for example! The redoubtable Simeon last Saturday rose on his hind legs to read the pontifical William E. Borah, out of the Republican party. Apparently encouraged by the reception he received, Simeon proceeded on Monday morning, to read him out the second time with even more vehemence and particularity. NO MAN, declared the former champion of rugged individu alism in Yellow Springs, Ohio, can aspire to the Republican nomination, who did not support more "Republican than Demo cratic measures", during the present lamentable and subversive New Deal administration. JuBt what "Republican measures" the ex-Ohio solon had in mind, he did not stste, but as the record fails to reveal any, at least any of importance it is only reasonable to assume that the self-appoinfed spokesman for the Republican party really meant, "anyone who voted for more provisions of the Rooscvell program, than he opposed." This eliminates the senator from Tdaho, no doubt. But we believe the record will show it also eliminates every other mem ber of the upper house who has been suggested, as a nominee. It certainly puts our own Senator McNary out of the running, as it does Senator Vandenberg of Michigan. And in all likeli hood it eliminates every Republican of presidential calibre in both houses! Thus in one fell swoop, Sapient Simeon, excommunicates all the members of his own party chance at the Cleveland convention is concerned. ' B UT that is not all. The blow ing, alao knocked Governor of loops. For contrary to the impression created by the gover nor's keynote speech at Topeka, he is jnat as favorable to the New Deal and juat as far from being eligible for the Q. 0. P. old and inner guard, as Messrs. of being. In fact, more so. For the record shows, according to an authoritative article in last week's Collier's that if he had been president not only would Mr. Landon have "vetoed the soldiers bonus" as Presi dent Roosevelt did, but "he would atand for quite a number of things F. D. R. standa for." "We quote: He would abolish child labor by federal constitutional amendment. He likes the federal administration's soclsl secur ity legislation. He would not fight Senator Wagner'a labor bill nor take serious exception to Senator Ouffey's coal regulation ideas. He Is for AAA subsidies to farmers and, while decidedly opposed to Inflation, doesn't Join Messrs. Hoover, Mills and Fletcher when they sob broken -hear tedly over the debauched dollar. Banking reformt He' for that, although nobody (In eluding himself) knows whether his heart la with Carter alass or Mr. Msrrlner Boclea of the Federal Reserve System. And so on "And ao on" ia right I Now if even some of our more rabid and tempestuous Re publican friends can't get a laugh out of this, then we maintain there is something seriously wrong either with their souse of humor, or their political metabolism. The spectacle of this ex-lightweight champion of total absti nence and the higher education, bridge, defying Senator Borah to of Republican orthodoxy, and at tically every other available same "cocked hat", atrikes us to come on the political stage, Prohibition and Standpat Republicanism, cheered AL SMITH so hard at the Liberty League dinner, that an SOS bad to be sent out for his vial of digitalis! For a sense of humor comes portion moves out. The former senator from Ohio so completely lost HIS, and as timo goes on so many of the leaders in both parties, are going to lose THEIRS! WHICH is all to the good, the humor we mean. This ia iroinff to he a horritYrous and pestiferous cHmnnivrn. For the first timo in many years separated by real and important issues. These issues will be taken seriously (and for that matter should be) but unless there s coriiic relief now and then, and approaching a perspective, they TOO seriously. So seriously that friendships tered, families split up and estranged, even a few riots in the market place and a knock down and drag out fight, in your neighbor's back yard. Which would be all to the bad and entirely needless. For it's only a political campaign. And whichever side wins this country isn't going to the deinnition bow wows, it never lias, it never will. More than that. whichever side wins, the desirable reforms of the Roosevelt administration are going to remain, a change in administration would prohahly delay this process but not prevent it. So lot's have more Fess-Borah skits, more Liberty League walkatlions, more things to relieve the political tension, and above all a preater chpacity to We shall need all the lanu'hs Lady On Lookout For Eighth Mate SKA m.K, Feb. 11 (API Mra Caroline M. Owen, SS. was looking for her eighth husband today, al though she said she whs doubtful the right men's been born yet. 5he charged rough treatment n ob taining a divorce from tester Wal lace Owen, marine engineer, Citody of her 9-year-old daughter alao ai given her. She said she divorced six of "her ae.en himnsnds snd the other ws annulled. Dse UaU Tribune vanl ads. in the congress, as far as any that knocked Bill Borah kick Landon of Kansas for a aeries Borah and McNary ever thought standing like Horatio at the cross to the sacred precincts the same time knocking prac candidate in his party, into the as the finest bit of high comedy since that certain champion of in when a proper sense of pro the two major parties will be the ability to gain something will almost certainly be taken of long standing may be shat appreciate them. we can eet. before the war ends. Snake Hotel Found By Dynamite Blast COt.VIU.I, Wash.. IVb. II. ( API Blssters on a rocky hillside near here discovered something new in ftnake hibernations In dynamiting sn area where a stream ws emerg ing from a crevice. They found a writhing miM et several hundred reptiles, hibernat ing for the winter. Ftattleenskes. hulls, blue r seers and llrards had holed up for the winter on a fm IW hM. Miwi of them were killed Dse UaU Tribune want ads. Personal Health Service By William Brady, M D. Hlgned letter pertaining to personal health and b.vgien not to dlaeaae dlagnoila or treatment will be answered bj Dr. Brady If a atamped telNad dressed envelope la ent-luaed. Letter, ehould be brief and written In Ink Untng to the large number of lettera received onlj a few can be answered. No reply can im made to queries not conforming to Instructions. Address Dr. William Bradj. 265 F.I Camlno, Beverly Hills. CaL BREAD AND MILK Doctors have harped so much on the Injuries done by overeating that few offenders hear them and none heed until their Infirmities cramp their style In eat ing. Most persons eat three meals a. day as a matter of custom, habit and example. The custom or habit has become Used through genera tions, or at least through the life time of the Indi vidual. Tet quite frequently It Is an Illogical habit, for the energy requirement of the indi vidual may be far from the energy requirements of his ancestors who established the custom, or his own output of energy now may be lower than It waa when he developed the habtt. His an oca tors long ago, per haps he himself in his more active career or vigorous youth, earned three square meals by honest work or play; In his sedentary, white collar, para sitic mode &t life, perhsps living by his wits or, as he flatteringly calls it, 'doing head work" or "brain work," actually has a much lowered output of energy and a correspondingly slow and ladylike metabolism. So If force of example keeps him on the three menls - a - day schedule, when his most lifelike activity- screaming or "rooting" In the grandstand or bleachers Is Itself vlcsrlous activity. It Is not strange that so msny things hsppen to htm, to wit and for ex ample: Now, children, this la going to hurt me more than It will hurt you. But I've let myself In for It. Some of you will wonder when and where I wrote this. Haven't I told you repeatedly, I am ln heaven. Here In heaven they bowl the yenr around. In fact the greens are more nearly perfect in winter than ln summer. That Is prob ably due to the higher hulmdlty. more moisture In the air here, as well as the warmth of radiant heat from sunlight. Back there where you have to have steam heat or a furnace or stove of some sort going all winter to keep you warm, the air la excess ively dried out, and not healthful for plants or for human animals. It would be more hygienic of you could heat the rooni with an open fire, or a radiant heater (gas or electric), for NEW YORK DAY BY DAY By O. O. Mclntyre NEW YORK, Peb. 11. They were talking of amusing true stories. This revival of one ft few years ago which came In the mall today Is my no tion of the all time high; J. P. Morgan, the elder, was coming 'to tea at the Dwlght Mor rows when the present Ann Lindbergh waa ft little girl In pig tails. Fearing the frankness ot childhood, Mrs. Morrow had the governess bring little Ann to her for a talk. Very gently, the mother erplatned; "Now, dear. I think I should tell you that when Mr. Morgan calla and you are presented you will no tice he Is a great big man with a very large nose. I need not tell you It Is rude to comment on any per-' sonal things about people you meet anything peculiar. "So, of course, If you notice Mr. Morgans nose is different you won't say anything about It. Just stay for a few moments and make your curtsey because Nurse will be wait ing for you to take your nap." Upon meeting the famous guest Ann fixed her eyes relentlessly on the cele brated none. Her mother noted this with trepi dation, but It seemed nothing em bnrraAelng would be said. Mr. Morgan uttered the usual kindly little com monplaces. Mrs. Morrow's fingers hov ered a hit nervously over her tea ae coutermrnt. as she tried not too ob viously to speed Ann's departure. At ist the child was gone, safely gone. Mrs. Morrow breathed an In ner sigh of relief and drawing some tea Into a cup she asked her visitor with a new complacence: "And now Mr. Morgan, will you have cream or lemon In your nose?" Firot radio pi Ire for the week: "For diver reasons" pronounced dlwers by one of the Mg stations. Josephine Armstrong Owynne Is popping over from London and Paris In a few weeks to occupy ft swanky elaborate suite at Pierre's only few block from the dressmaking estab lishment which she left 6 years aso to be an mannlkln In the salon of Pa ton In Paris. She left Patou's to marry the socially prominent Krsktnc Ownne. whom she divorced. Today "Fmie." a nickname tribute to her red hair. Is the reputed fiancee of the rich loid Pud'.er. a pal of the King, a lady for whom the door of Msvfalr and the pink marble pslsree of the Rots de Bolounge npen jra elously Much of her time Is spent on luuriou yachts crutsins the Medtterrsnesn snd at shooting lodges in Scotland. Nrsl O'Hnra. one of my rivals In adolescent admtratmn for I'hrisiir MarDonald. recalls her Mmc-us petti coat song In "Miss Hook of Holland' he sane she daintily pulled up one petticoat after another to these lyrics; Ml I -I UM CLIO RFDIVIVl'g radiant heat warms you more and the air leu. The cooler the air the more water vapor It retains. In heaven here the air temperature, out of the direct sun, is usually around 60 to 66 Je greea F. Long years ago when I waa not so squemlsh about mentioning symp toms we organized the Bread and Milk Club, and frankly announced that It was Just a scheme to inveigle overfed people Into resting their over worked metabolism a bit. That was a happy compromise, that phrase over worked metabolism. After all the lazy so-and-so's have some pride. (Con tinued next week) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS The Stomach Flu For ten days had continuous cramps, sometimes severe. Physician suspected appendicitis. Sent me to surgeon. He gave me bismuth meal took X-rays and found everything o.k. He gave me a pain killer and said I had a cold. Seems every one 1 know has had a similar attack, and they alt Insist It Is stomach flue. (A. J. B.) Answer Which means as much as the good old dodge the so-called sur geon worked on you. Epilepsy Please Inform me If epilepsy Is In heritable. Will children Inherit it from a mother who has had It, If the father Is normal? (J. H.) Answer It Is not directly heritable, but offspring of an epileptic parent aro more Ilkoly to be feeble-minded than are offspring from normal par ents. Galvanic Sore Mouth I have a burning sensation and slight soreness on the side of my tongue for several months. Could this be caused by a large silver filing I had put ln seven months ago? The sore spot rents against the filling. I also have ft wledom tooth filled with copper cement. (Miss C. M.) Answer Two such metals as sliver and copper In the mouth may make a miniature electric battery and cause not only constant metallic taste but also burning and someimes sores which persist until the one or other metal Is removed. Gold and porcelain are the preferable materials for fill ings. Inlays or other dentures. (Copyright 1936, John F. Dllle Co.) Ed. Note: Persons wishing to communicate with Dr. Brad should send letter direct to llr William nrady, M. 0., 265 E' Cnm I no. Heverly Hills. Calif. I've a pretty pink petty from Petei And ft pretty blue petty from John A red and a yellow From some other fellow And one that I haven't got on. And another glossophlle a made up word for word beaglers and hark backers sends me what he thinks la top In smart rhymes from one of those old Wodehouse, Bolton and Kern shows: I have often t In a Seat at a matinee. The dress-upper's only chance for variation In evening array Is in his choice of a Ispel flower, And even this Is limited to the white carna tion, red rose or gardenia. So the now calico carnation, ft white one with tints of brilliant red Is a welcome in novation of the horticulturists. It floriated the same evening on three of the most conspicuous men abcut town William Rhinelander Stewart. Dwlght Flako and Maury Paul and thus a vogue was launched. The most consistent of the carnation wearers Is Ouernsy Curran. He has had a fresh one for morning, afternoon and eve ning dally for 24 years, other flownr fanatics Include Paul Whlteman. A. C. Blumenthal and Eddie Duchln. O. yes, Blumenthal Is the town's heaviest orchid buyer. And P. S. Irene Hayes introduced the calico carnation. I care for the Lucius Beebe yarn about tV smugness of the Boston tan motoring to Hollywood. Asked ln cln cmaland. what route he had taken, he replied: "Oh, the one that goes through Dedham." (Dedham in case one is rusty on topography Is about as far from Boston as Pelham la from New York I. (Copyright. 1036. MeNaught Syndicate) SALEM. Feb. 10. ( AP) The sec retary or state's office reported 24. 311 Oregon automobile licenses sold this year, as compared to 319 99 at the corresponding time in 1935 Of these permits 114.43S were dis tributed through the mail, 33.98tt over the counter at the Ssiem main office, S3939 from the West Port land of rice. 34. IBS from the East Portland orrire. S017 rrom the Pa cific Automotive club. 11. 4M from the AAA. .-.frices In Portland. 80S3 frcm Bugene and M5S from Oregon City. The last two distributing points named were opened (or the first lime this year. Road Commission Will Meet Feb. 19 Ml.FM. Feb It ,4. A speclsl meeting of the state hicha-av com- miwion hss been called for February 1 19. It as announced today. The neU rrvular se,eon has reen set f v Merch I'J. Both will he held In Portland. The meeting Feh-usry 10 ru ached ' ulcd In order to clear the comnil j a! on a docket of regulsr business mat ' te-s up to thai date. B;ds on hUh f wv work will .e opened st th Much session, the prcific projec. I d.H yet haunt been determined. Comment on the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS FROM ft reader of thts column (who Is apparently ft critical readei) comes this letter: "In one of your Editorials on the Day'a News, ln which the speech of Governor Landon la re viewed, you make this statement concerning the constitution: lt ought to be flexible enough to permit us to take other TRULY PROGRESSIVE steps. "Just what do you mean by other truly progressive steps? In following your editorials, I have failed to find just what your Idea of progress Is. Every Issue you have reviewed so far you seem to be against. "Many of your readers would probably like to know Just what you believe would be steps for progress. As we are all Interested In progress, something definite along this line should be enlight ening to a great many people." THESE seem to be honest, straight forward questions, and as such they deserve honest, straightforward answers. This writer will try to ans wer them ln that spirit. WHAT la progress? That 1b hard to answer for everybody, because different people have different Ideas. What Is progress to the radical thinker, for example ISN'T progress to the conservative thinker. But we can say truthfully that progress la whatever brings the great est comfort, happiness and freedom to the greatest number of people. Theo dore Roosevelt was thinking along that line when he said: "This can't be a good country for ANY of us un less It Is ft good country for ALL of us." WHAT progressive step should be taken NOW? This one: The government of the United States should stop spending more than It Is taking ln. - WE all know (most of us by hard and bitter experience) that U we go on spending more than we earn our credit Is destroyed. We must then do one of two things beat our bills or work and slave and deny our selves for months or years while we're paying up our debts. In that respect, governments and Individuals ars exactly alike. IF the credit of the government of the United States should be even WEAKENED, as a result of persist ently spending more than Is taken, the consequences to all of us would be terrible. HOW shall wegoabout checking the persistent spending of more than the government takes in? In this way: The Republican party (which Is the party of opposition, and therefore the logically effective vehicle for pro test) should adopt the Democratic platform of 1932 the sound, sane Platform that Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigned for, pledged himself to uphold and then THREW OVER BOARD and forgot and arter that it should nominate a sound, liberal minded, progressive candidate who. I: elected, will KEEP his platform pledges. Then let the people decide for In this country we accept what the ma jority votes for. THESE suggestions, of course, are only the opinions of this Indi vidual writer, set down here for whst they may be worth. In answer to what It Is not expected that all will agree with them. SENTENCE LOVERS TO DEATH IN CHAIR SALEM, N, J., Feb. 11. (API Mrs. Marguerite Fox Doblow, 30-year-old rcrmer school tescher. con victed with her boyhood sweetheart or murdering her husbsnd, faced to day the prospect or being the first woman to die In the electric chair In New Jersey. The attractive, chestnut - haired widow snd her reputed lover, Nor man Drtscoll, h u a k y. 3.-year-old farmer, win be taken to New Jersey's death house In Trenton tomorrow, to swit execution, set for the week of March IS. for the axle slaying of Harry T. Dolbow, A Jury convicted Mrs. Doblow snd Drlscoli last night snd Judge Frsnk F. N rut re Immediately pronounced the mandatory death sentence. The trial began Jan. 27. The state introduced testimony to show Mra. Dolbow and rtrlscoll csrrled on a clandestine love affair for month, during which they plotted Dolbow "s death. Clipper Postpones ! Hop For Honolulu SAN FRNCIi5CO. Feb 11 ; Another 34 hours' postponement of the chiita Clippr'B tt:ght from A;-J meda to Honolul;: - announced to. day by Pan American Airways offic- 1 isls. 5torm conditions still prersiled be-t-tcen here and the Islands. I Cm alail Tribune want ftdft. LATE INVENTIONS E! F SPOKANE, Waah., rVb. 11. UP) Science la m,ln the lot o! the tot eeter an easier one. and la cutting down the coat of flrea. group ol workers learned here today. Forest service attaches from region No. 1 In western Montans. northern Idaho and eastern Washington, are meeting to study new gadgets design ed to help them In their work, learn how to use them, and to atudy latest methoda In caring for the forests. The conference will laat two weeks. The foresters were shown tiny mo tors, with one to four cylinders, used to drive portable pumps for fire fight ers. From one to four men can carry them. Theae help to extinguish flroa before they spread Into heavy timber The airplane also la being studied. It la used for "spotting" new blszes, for speeding crews of fighters to in accessible regions, and for ferrying ln auppllea and equipment. Formerly lookouts, stationed on high strategic peaks, discovered most of the fires. The tlghWrs went by truck or other means to the end of the trail, hiked the rest of the way, often spending days on the march. The airplane cuts the time to hours. Varloua other mechanical gadgets, auch u "chain" sawa. operated by motors, and amazingly compact radio seta, were explained. The sawa re place the old type cross-cut, and en able foreatera to cut a tree ln a com paratively few minute with a mini mum of effort. The radio la doing away with tedloua construction of telephone lines. RB BATTLE FOR LIFE W LAKE MICHIGAN'S ICE CHARLEVOIX, Mich., Feb. 11. (AP) Clayton Brown. 26-year-old fisherman given up for lost with two companions swept Into lake Michigan Saturday before a 0 mlle sub-zero gale, csme back to day to tell how he refused to die. Brown crawled on frozen hands and legs seven miles across rough shore lee after Claude Beardsley. 61. his father-in-law, and Earl Cun ningham, coast guard surfman. froze to death In the small boat before H Jammed Into a floe and stuck. BVown's life was saved, physicians said, by the ministrations of an Indian family Into whose cabin he stumbled early last night. In a hospital here today Brown told hla family of the 48-hour strug gle to keep his companions from freezing and how he stumbled shoreward after the boat grounded "because I figured I'd Just as soon die on my feet." Brown and Beardsley were In a party of fishermen caught In drift ing Ice. Cunningham saved three of the five ln the party, but waa swept out Into the lake after he got Brown and Beardsley Into his row boat. L PROGRAM STARTS WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. py The army's five-year program for modern izing Pacific coast harbor defenses, particularly in California, was starts ed on ita way Monday with introduc tion ln the house of the war depart ment appropriation bill. long-range guns and anti-aircraft Insulation are among the major project the army plans to undertake on the west coast, the sub-committee was told by Major-General Psul B. Malone. commander of the ninth corps area. General Malone said with existing facllTties the army could fulfill "only a part" of Its accepted mission of denying the important harbors of San Francisco. Los Angeles and San Diego to an enemy. Malone said the "next Important need" of the west coast was anti aircraft guns. Approved plana of the war depart ment, ho said, "contemplate assign ing additional mobile anti-aircraft regimen te for the Pacific coast In time of war, and Installing In the harbor defenses In time of peace cer tain fixed .anti-aircraft gun.' DOCTOR LOSES FIGHT OVER RUPERT ESTATE SALEM. FfS. tl. (API The state supreme court today upheld the will of V. C. Rupert, former owner ol the Orster Loaf of Portland, in which the estate, estimated at W0. ooo, waa left to his nephew, Arthur A. Rupert. In an opinion handed do-n by Justice George Rresman. The opinion Invalidated a will executed eisht days prior to Rupert's death in July. 1934. in which the bulk of the estate was bequesthea to Dr. E, D. Schmidt, a naturo path w!io treated the deceased for some thne bfnre his death. The nephew, who had Joined the uncle earlier In business, was excluded from the latter will. CURTIS BARNES ELECTED TO DRAMATIC HONORARY WrWFORD I'NTVER.MTY, CU Feo. 11. ipl.i Curtl Barnes, Stanford student, artlM. snd actor from Med ford. elected last wre to Sword and 5-:id;. mn s honors -y dramatic ocety. It ws announced yesterday Flight 'o Time Medford and Jackson Count history from the files ol the MaU Tribune 10 and 20 jean ago. TEN YEARS AOO TODAY February ll, 1D26. ( It waa Thursday.) The Owen-Oregon Lumber company announces It will erect a new sawmill and plant here. Stripes to be vogue for all convicts at state prison who fail to behave, Werden Lillle rules. Snowfall t Crater lake now eight feet. More fire sirens to be Installed on Main street. Heavy increase in car licenses In state noted, despite fact many Ore gonlana hve not yet purchased their 1926 license plates. In honor of Lincoln's birthday to-, morrow, streets of city are decorated with flags. TWENTY YEARS AOO TODAY February 11, Jfllfl. (It was Friday.) Lindley M. Garrison, secretary of war, resigns ln pique - ver bill pro viding for reorganization of United States army. Berlin claims two British warships sunk by torpedoes. President Wilson pledges nation "to; keep out of war." Russians renew offensive on tha Galtrlsn front; all quiet on the, west ern front. s Cooler weather checks flood danger upstate. Mrs. H. E. Conger returns from trip to San Francisco. Miss Helen Dahl entertained a num ber of friends et her home at a pre Valentlne party. E SALEM, Ore., Feb. 11. (AP) Crime In Snlem, usually considered & quiet city, has become a real problem dur ing the past six months, a checkup of police records since August 1, 1935, revealed. During the six "months period Sa lem police discovered or received no tice of 73 burglaries, nine robberies, six cases of larceny Involving losses of more than $50, 73 automobile thefts and 73 cases of petty larceny. Loot ln cash totaled more than $500 plus 2000 In personal and busi ness good I. Five persons were arrested for bur glaries, clearing only seven of the cases. One of the robberies was solv ed by the capture of an ex-convlct from Los Angeles. Five cases of petty larceny were cleared. All but one of the stolen automo biles were recovered. FIRE PREVENTION SALEM. Ore.. Feb. 11. (AP) State Fire Marshal Hugh H. Earle announc ed today the launching of a state wide home fire prevention campaign through the rural schools. By counties, rural schools will be visited by a deputy fire marshal who will conduct rigid inspection , fire drills and illustrated lectures cover ing common fire hazards. The activity was launched as a re sult of the successful campslgn con ducted during fire prevention week in the cities, which brought about the removal of 84,000 fire hazards, Earle stated. The state-wide campaign will start In Josephine county and cover thor oughly in order all counties In the state. CHICAGO. Feb. 11 ( AP) Friends and members of the newspaper world mourned today the death of Henry Justin Smith. 80. msnsging editor of the Chicago Dally News, author and historian. Suffering from pneumonia, he collapsed under an oxygen tent in the suburban Evanston hospital last night and died shortly afterward. 8mlth, whose proteges Included Ben Hecht. Carl Sandburg. Lloyd Lewis, Vincent Starrett and the late Keith Preston, became ill last Mon day with a cold. Apparently im proved, he went to his office on Thurxdtw, but suffered s rrlapse.