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PAGE FIVE Sentiment Returns in Lacy Garb As Valentines Wax Affectionate nUMLUU IU LIUIL.U arEDFORP MAIL TRIBUNE. fEDFOKi). OREGON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 13. IMG. if fait P The following description of & t mot camp 1 teken from the latest Issue of tht Medford CCO District yews: The most J moisted CCC camp. In the United States I That Is ths claim of ths man of Co. 9538. Camp Agneu. and few who hare made the boat trip to this re mote outpost will dispute the stste t Kent. V There are no roads to Agnes. The ''only way In to this mountainous re gion la by trail from Grants Pass or by motor boat up the Rogue rlrer from Gold Beach, colorful frontier town on the Oregon coast. To the men from Ohio who make up the majority of the CCC enrol lees t Agness. the trip uprlver Is a thrill ing adventure. For the first time since the start of CCC. Agness Is be ing maintained as a, winter camp. It has previously been occupied as a tent camp during the summer months. The camp Itself Is located at the forks of the Rogue and Illinois river, half mile from the ARness postof flce, of which George P. Rllea Is post master. Rllea Is the father of Briga dier General Thomas E. Rllea. com mander of the 82nd Brigade, Oregon national guard and president of the National Guard association of the D. 8. He came to Oregon 34 years ago and has been postmaster since 1907 Business at the postofflce has quad rupled since the arrival of the CCC, he says. Captain James O. Wanzer Is com- and the army staff Includes Ueut. John O. Rosen baum, Lieut. Henry A. Barrls, Dr. Harrison M. Pierce, camp surgeon and George Schmidt, educa tional adviser. The forest service staff Is headed by George A. Davis, project superin tendent, and Includes T. W. Barber, superintendent of truck trail con struction; Fred Gardner, who has charge of the Gold Beach spike camp; Bert Blgelow, road construction fore man; Stephen Mann, blacksmith; and U- R. Shsmpang. mechanic. Agness la In the Siskiyou national forest, with headquarters at Grants Pass. Eleven trucks and four tractors are Included In the mechanical equip ment, sJl but one tractor being taken up the river by small river boats. That tractor last year was the first vehicle ever to reach Agness overland. Two projects are being handled at present, the most Important of which la the Coqullle river road, which will eventually connect with the road be ing built by the men of Co. 1637, China Plats, and which will lead through Powers to Coqullle. The oth er project Is the construction of a new ranger station at Gold Beach, ed. Projects already completed include ft 350 foot low water bridge over the Illinois river, and a bridge over Pos ter Creek at Illahee, north of Agness. NAZIS ROUNDUP - BERLIN, Feb. IS. (AP) Charges f collusion between Roman Catho lics and communists were heard In Germany today as at least 100 Catholics and communists were un der arrest after simultaneous raids by secret police. Catholics were particularly charg ed with conspiracy with commun ists in the Rhtneland, the center of the police roundup. The grip of the secret state polios en public life was tightened today by s law made public through tne official gazette. The law orders district governors to take commands from secret po lice headquarters, which will. In re turn, supply ths local police de partments with such directions may be desirable. PLANE PASSENGER JUMPS 10 DEATH OAKLAND. Calif., Peb. 13 (AP) A nun Identified u Harold A. Bprague, 88, metal worker, com mitted Milelde today by leaping from a commercial plane 3000 feet bote the Oakland municipal air port. Pilot Emanuel Rendereon aaid Spragus hired him for a tail night, then euddenly Jumped overboard. Henderaon waa unable to leave hit control, and prevent the act. The body fell Into the bay t mile from the airport and a navy plane and boata aided Henderaon In at tempt to loeate It. Spraeiie'e employer at an automo bile vrrerktng eompany aaid Sprague ted peculiarly after eendlng a tele tram to Chicago and falling to re ceire an anewer. A wife and child are believed to be In Chicago. Harper Airport ' Grant Approved WASHINOTOM. b. -S. (AP) The bureau of sir commerce of the com merce department approved today 18 additional airport projects and three air marking programs. ApprrtTsl designated In projects ss technically Mtiafsctory. so they way be developed with state WPA funds Approved projects Included: Harper. Ore , 57. "K1CKERMCK" Cndergarraent snst fit st Etoeiwyn B Bufrmannt- Pnone M2. We 11 haul ay your refuse, city Ssaltaxj Berries, By CHARLES NORMAN HEW YORK. (AP) An arrow marks the spot for St. Valentine's day greetings this year, and It's right through the heart. Sentiment la back, adorned with wings, frills snd curlicues. Even a bit of lace flutters here snd there, to make somebody's heart respond In kind. That Is the story of the latest Val entine greetings, chapter one. Chap ter two, of course, recognizes that this la Leap Year, and some of the cards make the most of it. Friendship gets slmost as much at tention as love, snd children are pro vided with cards to send to Mama and Paps. In the first category. It should not be hard to guess the sender, if the card sent bears the following V6rse: Do you know how very ofen My thoughts turn to you alone And X think of happy hours That together we have known. Another pretty sentiment also Is a "give-away." You are so very thoughtful In sll you ssy snd do, You are so understanding So dear and kind and true That It isn't any wonder I think so much of you. One card, shaped tike a heart. Is for a young woman a blonde to send to some young man who likes his sentiment straight possibly as follows, which Is the legend on the card: A rag, a bone and a hank of hair Salutes s guy who's on the square 1 (We know it's s, blonde because the pert young woman pictured on the card Is adorned with a tuft of blond hair attached to the paper). "Hello Wlfey" Is the greeting on another card; inside the sentiment Is expended to (with illustrations): Here's to the girl who saves the cash And keeps the home and cooks ths hash And tells me all the news each day And mates me think I have my way She put up with every whim She's clever snd she's neat and trim She's just ss dear as she -can be And gosht she means the world to met . Punctuation Is sn unnecessary frill in the world of valentines. OLD WELL LAUDED AS AID 10 COOKS MACKINAW, 1U (UP) A hundred-year-old well Is still functioning here. Housewives in the vicinity say "good old well wster beats other wat er any time for making tea or coffee.' The well la 65 feet deep snd owned by H. B. Huff. Huff said the well's water supply has been unbroken since be took It over shortly after the Civil war. Con noisseurs ssy wster from the well Is excellent for making coffee and boil ing vegetables. Families come from nearby towns to tap Its supply. - One housewife living st Miner, near here. Insists on well water for cooking or making coffee. She srgues vegetables cook quicker In it snd re tain s better color. One woman bases her reputation as s coffee maker on use of well water. Early In the history of this village it was customary for two or three families to Join in digging s well for their common use, with the result that st one time the community boasted about 40 old-fashioned buck et welts. Now only seven remain, some hav Ing been curbed over and pumps tn stalled or converted to other uses. Others were filled snd the well houses allowed to stand for artistic effect, or are used for coolers, taking the place of ice-boxes. Death In Klamath Not From Plague PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 13. (AP) The death of Jerry Lee Motschen baeher, 5 years old, of Dorr Is, Csl. was said today by ft state board of health specialist to have been caused by pneumococcl laryngitis. Ths boy died st ft Klamath Falls hospital Saturday and a tentative di agnosis Indicated the death might have been caused by a type of bu bonie plague. PAN-AMERICAN CONCLAVE PROPOSED BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, reb. 13. (AP) Preeldent Rooeevelt haa aent a let ter to the heala of orernmenu of all Latin American nationa concern ing a proponed Pan-American con- The preeldent declined at hie preat conference to rereel the conienu a hi. communication nendln Ita receipt by thoee to whom It wee addreaeed. Nor would he indicate the eubject of the propneed con ference. TRANS ATLANTIC PLANE MISSING OFF BRAZIL Bin r JANEIRO. Feb. 13. (flV- Two alrplanee and three cutter, atert- ed out today to eearch the area off the northeent coert of Brertl ror the ininer "Vine de Buenoa Aire.," mle- Ing ulnce yetterday on a transatlantic flieht. On board the Vllle De Buenoe Alrea were the crew of fire and one pea- eenter. Imlle Bamere Buenoa Al.-ee director of the rrancn amine. Air Prance, operator of the miMIni ea plane. CM Mall irlfiune ul aOa. m -5 l - i VY4 Here are a few examples of the busy Frldar. St. Valentine's day. VAGABOND SPECIAL QUITS CALIFORNIA WITH 50 ON BOARD YUMA. Ariz., Feb. 18. (ft Fifty vagabonds. "deported" from Los An geles, rolled eastward In Arizona to day In ft railway box car. They constituted the first shipment of Indigent transients out of Cali fornia, in the campaign by Los An geles police to rid their city of "un welcome guests." Forty-two convicted vagrants, of fered the alternative of the box car or Jail, left Los Angeles yesterday ac companied by volunteer police officers who purchased food for them along the way. Others Joined the exodus en route here. KLAMATH FALLS, Feb. 13. (P) A denial that he had been told by Sheriff John Sharp of Modoc county to "get out and stay out" was made today by Sergeant Robert Bergman of the Los Angeles police patrol sta tioned and Tulelake. Bergman, who said he had seen re ports In various newspapers that he had received such an ultimatum from Sheriff Sharp said: "He made no such statement to me and he didn't give that Impression at all." Bergman said that his operations are partly in Modoo county and part ly in Siskiyou county. COIN HARVEY. FATHER OF FREE SILVER IDEA OF MONTE NE. Ark., Feb. IS. (AP) William Hope (Coin) Harvey, 85. economist and politician who draft ed the Democratic party's famous "16 to 1" free silver platform plan before the turn of the century, is dead. Stricken with peritonitis follow ing intestinal influenza, the veteran champion of bi-metallsm, foe of modern finance and one-time presi dential candidate of the Liberty Party auccumed late last night st his Ozark mountain homt here. Harvey achieved nsttonwlde at tention on several occasions, but reached his peak during the decades Just before snd after the turn of the twentieth century. A book, "Coin's Financial School," published In 1894, was widely rcsd. About the same time he drafted the "16 to 1" plank ss chairman of the ways snd means committee of the Democratic party snd he later campaigned with William Jen nings Bryan against McKlnley. Hurt In Plane f rah ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. Feb. 18. f APf Miss Vivien Skinner, 23. Dune din. Fie , was critically Injured snd three others, including her fsther. B. C. Skinner, were shaken up and bruis ed when their private plan crashed iu an emergency landing at A com it M mile wef of here. tvmv. If rim prefer not. (trope, or throAt epnry, rail for the MIW MEMTH0LATUM LIQUID In hendr bottle 1th nasal 1 IRRITATION Relieve the dry"" " IrriMtlnn by appMnfl MenlhoUlum nlfjhl III and morning. BCAfE AND A HANK OF HAIR OALUTES A CUV KHOS ON THE ,' 'I 5 QUA RE ,W TO M V VALENTINE greetings which will keep the postmen TELEGRAM SALE BARDE FAMILY SAN FRAJJCISCO. Feb. 13. (API Sale of the Portland Telegram to the Portland News In 1831 was assailed as "farudlent" In ft new suit filed here in federal court today by the Barde family of Portland. Suit was brought by Rose. Ewith. Soph ye and Hirsch Barde against Her bert Flelschhackcr, San Francisco fin ancier, snd C. H. Brock he (ten, pub lisher, described as controlling own ers of the Telegram at the time of sale. The Bardes ask an accounting of cash and bonds received by the San Franciscans In the sale, a court ruling that the transaction was Invalid, and recovery of 844,615 they claim Is due them ss Telegram creditors. The Bardes were owners of the building which housed the Telegram, and charge that with the sale and moving Into the News building the lease was left unpaid. They brought suit In state courts snd obtained some Judgments. The suit chsrges the newspaper was sold for 865,000 In cash. 84RA.0OO In bonds, and an agreement that the News would pay 8200,000 of the Tele gram obligations. They say the lease was never paid, snd charge that Flelschhacker and Brockhsgen "con spired to strip the Telegram of Its assets" In the sale. Oysters Freezing On Oregon Coast PORTLAND, Ore.. Peb. IS. (AP) The protracted cold weather la caua- Ing much damage to shallow water oyster beds slong Oregon's coast, city oyster company offctala said today. Firms here opening the shellfish found the gallonage per sack was considerably reduced because some of the stock was frozen. Oysters In some of the shsllow beds sre left out of water between tides and consequently exposed to the freezing temperature. No Jury Required In Douglas Court ROSPTBURO, Ore., Feb. 18 (AP) For the third time within a yesr s term of circuit court is to be opened here without a Jury. Circuit Judge Carl E. Wlmberly last night Issued or ders to County Clerk Roy S. Agee that Ju rors d ra wn for the re gu 1 ar February term of court, called for the 17th, will not be required to report as no cases are ready for trial. LITTLE MISS MUFFET tm ON A TUHfT . . . AND lArl "I WANT NO WHIrl" I'VI OOT MY TUMI W tOUe STOMACH COMII . . . . I'LL I AT MY FlU, TODAY I" "YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN" SO... CARRY.. .TUMS pEOPLE every Here'ere eorprlvlng their frond by eaung lood they have lone avoid ed hy cauryinf roll of Turns rtfht to thur pvkpL Mil lions have irarnrd thN quick, ml ar to eliminate heartburn, anur rtomath. fas, aciil InrlireftKW, in thn piannt wty. TuMS rpre"nt a real snnnfie Srlvancemf-rrt. They contain no harth alkali. Instead a remarkable antacid that never dot imri than rmitaliaa ttnnwh aoo No dangf of over- kalut nf the stomach or blood. The cmtora of carryiaf S rnll of TUNIS in your pocket will aave tnaoy s day VJ- TN-y r econonfcal--olr tOt until sik any druggist. TUMS roe tmi tuv TVU l ANUCID.. HOTAUUATTVt, fwHAT? NO WHEY) I VOU HEARD Mt I REDUCED j jjr3 x1f5 I "UCED 1 SEAGRAM'S "V.O." &otthd '.in $9fid UNOea CANADIAN GOVT SUVSVISKy WAS $235 NOW 'V 75 A Statement of Policy from the House of Seagram Every penny of tariff saving is passed on to you. And in addition, substantial further reductions in price have been made to place these finer whiskies within the reach of aJL Similar Redactions on: SEAGRAM'S "S3" SEAGRAM'S PEDIGREE BOURBON Whittled in tmVadet Canadian Gov't Supervision "I know it's good I bought it from Honest Abe Lincoln" HOUSEWIVES in a little backwoods section of Illinois a century ago knew they could buy with complete confi dence from the storekeeper at New Salem. His name was Lincoln; and he was known personally to nearly every man, woman and child in Sangamon county. Life is more complicated today. You could not possibly meet all the men and women who make and sell the things you buy. But there is a way you can know them . , . and that is through the columns of this newspaper. Every day these manufacturers and retailers place important messages here for you. There are announce ments of interesting new products, and of improve ments in old ones. News about unusual values. Sug gestions for ways to make your home more comfort able, and your work less tiring. It will pay you to read these messages . . . and get acquainted. SEAGRAM'S STRAIGHT BODRBON WHISKEY ftott&d in Bond imott outaeuN oovr eueeivwow WAS $23 75 NOW IK PINT
