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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE. MEDFOKD. OKECOX. FRTDAY. FEBRUARY 21. 1936. PAGE FIVE 1228 LEAP YEAR LAW IS CALLED )E ABOVE We Cannot Tell a Lie! . Burelson's LAST YEAR'S RECORD GLASGOW (UP) With th ar rival of another Leap Year, with lta legendary privilege of allowing wo men to propose marriage to bashful awsina, an old discussion has been revived among Scottish historians. For nearly a century a supposed statute signed by Queen Margaret of Scotland In the year 1228 has been offered as proof of. the origin of Leap Year. In that year the Scottish parlia ment Is supposed to have passed the following law: "It la statut and ordalnt that during the rein of hlr ma 1st bllsslt Mageste Margaret, for ilk .yeare knowne as lepe yeare. Ilk mayden layde of bothe hlghe and lowe es tate snail have liberie to blspoke ye man she likes. Glf he refuses v to tak hlr to bee his wyf he shale be mulct in ye sum of ane hundrlty pundes, or less, as his estatlt may be, except and alwals glf he can make it appeare that he Is betrothlt to a n 1 th er worn an , t h en he schal be free." A large group of modern historians point out that, although 1228 was a Leap Year, there was no "malst bllsslt Mageste Margaret" on the throne or Scotland. From 1214 to 1249 the country was ruled by Alex ander II. they point out. Moreover, they argue, the first mention of the statute was found in "The Illustrated Almanac" for 1866 and the "conscientiously antique wording" suggests an imaginative writer, rather than a genuine docu ment of the 13th centurv. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 31. (AP Reports of 107 mills showed 43,739, 000 feet of new business for the week ending February 15, the Western Pine association announced today. This was above the corresponding week & year ago, but 11 per cent be low the preceding week this year. Shipments were 43.639.000 feet and production 38,840,000 feet. The same mills for the corresponding week a year ago showed orders 40 .063 .000 feet and production 31,378,000 feet. For the period January 1 to date orders were 10 percent above the same period a year ago. NAME HENRY FORD IN, CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT: COLUMBUS. O., .Feb. 21. (JP) Four new names, including that of Henry Ford, entered today a poll of Re publicans to determine sentiment to ward possible candidates for the pres idential nomination. Organization leaders who polled 15. 000 Republicans said 6.800 answers had been received. They refused to disclose the trend of vltlng, but it was reported reliably that Gov. A!f M. Landon of Kansas held a strong lead'. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 21. (AP) Harry Mosher, Jr., received severe but not dangerous burns about the eyes when sulphuric acid spouted from a battle he dropped in the Willamette uni versity chemistry laboratory. 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