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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, BEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY. AUGUST 31. 1936. T E 300 Captives Will Be posed to Insurgent Ex Air Bombs Is Announcement; Believe New Attack Near (Copyright, 1839, by the Associated Presa) IRUN, Spain, Aug. 31. The gov eminent defender! of Iran brought 300 rebel prisoners Into the bom barded city tonight and announced they would be exposed at the moat dangeroua points to Insurgent ' air bombs. The prisoners were brought by truck from Fort Guadalupe after a dozen projectiles had burat In the city, evacuated except for govern ment fighters and their hostages. Two women were blown to blta. "All old women, old men and children" of republican families were sent across the French frontier. government leaders announced, but families of suspected rightist eym pathlea were forced to remain. A combined land, sea and air bom bardment was believed imminent, however. - The air raldera appeared over the city shortly after 9 a. m as mass evacuation of the war-scared area was being hastened by government commanders. Circling low, the planes rained bombs Into the streets. The deadly mlssllea tore great holes In the pavements and shattered windows and buildings throughout Irun. TEACHER'S FINGER SEVERED BY GLASS , (OKtlnueo trom Page One.) flson's sister) about the back and head, and also Injuring three In the Tan IX Wegle machine. Tan De Wegle, and two passengers, Ouno Anderson and John Santos, all oi Hilt, received bruises and head uts. Santos' head was so badly cut that seversl stitches had to be taken to close the wound, Yesterday afternoon a car driven by Roy L. Chapln, D10 Stevens street, Medford, got out of control five mllea out on the Uitlway rood, and left tho right of way, crashing through a wlro fence and Into a telegraph pole. Win- uapelle James, 1134 Court street, Ed Parnell, 1139 Court street, and Chapln received brulsbs and cuts, Orval shores, 844 Dakota street, re ported to police that he had hit a bicycle ridden by ' Jack Canfleld at tht corner of West Main and Laurel streets, near the county court house, banfleld was not Injured, the report aid. , Although details were meager, It was reported to police that a Cana dian car coming south on the Pacific highway had turned over this after soon whan the driver became dla tracted by a bee In the car. A little girl received a chipped or broken knee cap, was treated at the Community boepltal, but left after only a few minutes, city police said that the names of the occupants had not yet been learned. It waa understood the car was not seriously damaged. Berrang Making Good Recovery J. O. Berrang, 70-year-old proprie tor of the Covered Wnon lunch room at Phoenix who waa brutally beaten by two men Friday night when he ro fused to give them money, was to day reported as resting well after spending a comlorUble night at the Sacred Heart hospital. Hospital at taches did not know how long the aged man would remain confined, but stated that hla condition waa no longer considered dangerous. GandysWill Hold Nazarene Service Her. Klmer Oandy and wife will conduct a special service In the local Church of the Nararene, Central Ave. at Jackson, Tuesday evening at 7:43. Kvangellst Oandy, who Is widely known as the art evangelist, con ducted a special series of meetings In the local church a year ago last March, which met with much suc cess. Rev. Oandy la taking a day off to drive some nalla In the new Church of the Nasarene that la going up op posite the Junior high school. Mrs. Oandy Is musically gitted and will Interest all who hear her. Stewart Resigns As Forest Agent Resignation of Logan 0. Stewart as purchasing agent of the ftogue river national forest service was announced today. The resignation became ef fective this morning. Mr. Stewart was employed by the forest service as purchasing agent In February. 1938. Previously he hart been employed In a similar capacity by the Owen-Oregon Lumber com pany. His position with the forest wfrvioe will not be rilled, it wsa stated. Idaho Candidate PEEK " V 1 Mayor Barzllla W. Clark, of Idaho Falls, an engineer, la Democratic nominee to succeed C. Ben Rosa, alio a Democrat, as governor of Idaho. He will oppoae Frank L. Stephan of Twin Falls, Republican. (Associated Press. Photo) ICKES' FOSTER SON TAKES OWN LIFE T (Continued from Page One) adopted Wllmnrth after hla marriage 10 Mrs. ickes. Wllmarth's father. Prof. James Westphal Thomson, then In the department of English at the University of Chicago, was divorced In 1009. ' . Msgnuson ssld Ickes, clad In na- Jamas, waa stretched serosa a bed. powder-burned bullet-hole through the right temple. Ickes" mother wss an outstanding Republican and had served several terms In the Illinois house of rep resentatives. PARDON US, folks, but, if you'll hold a DouMc-Jlfctou) Old Gold to your ear and roll it between your fingers, you can actually LISTEN to its factory-freshness. You'll hear no crackle of stale tobacco." Just the silken swish of prize crop leaf, in the very pink of smoking condition. Thanks to that double Cellophane wrapping, pro tecting every Old Gold package. But don't stop with the "Listen Test"! JOHN BUTLER DIES OF HEART ATTACK E Co-Founder of Medford Fur niture and Hardware Co Succumbs While Talking to Friend Rites Tuesday John H. Butler,. one of the found ers of the Medford Furniture ic Hardware company, dropped dead of a heart attack whllo he was talking to a neighbor In the front yard of his home, 918 East Main atreet, about 8 o'clock Saturday evening. He had been In 111 health tor some time He waa In his 88th year, Funeral services will be held In the Perl chapel at 3:30 tomorrow after noon. Dr. Sherman L. Divine, pastor or the First Prcsbyterlsn church, will officiate. Interment will be In the Siskiyou Memorial park. Active pall bearers will be Charles Oray of Gold Hill, Ancll O. Hubbard, Charles C. Furnas, Elmer E. Wilson, Orant Mathews of Grants Pass and Elmer I. Elwood. Honorary pall Dearera will be L. F. Pickett, Hal F. Piatt, John Lawrence, C. D. Thompson, Roy Elliott and Harry Ling of Yreka, Cal. Mr, Butler la survived by his wife. end three children, Warren Butler of Grants Pass, Arncl Butler of Medford and Mrs. Claud Thompson of Los Angeles, He Is survived also by three slstors, Mrs. Elizabeth Browne of Portland, Mrs. Oliver Norton of Port land and Miss Jeunesse Butler of Medford. Four grand children also survive. Mr. Butler was born In Ma pie ton Iowa, on October 11, 1888, the son of Basil N, and Susannah Butler, enrly Medford residents now decessed. The family left Iowa for Oregon and settled In Harrlsburg. There on November 1, 1803, John H. -Btitler married Florence Bussey. Three chll dien were born of tho union, all of whom survive. Mr. Butler came here In 1893 and engaged In the paint and wall paper business which became the founda tion for the Medford Furniture ic Hardwaro company, one of the lead ing flrma in southern Oregon. Mr.' Butler helped to organize the """asesssiassiisMaamCTsasaaMwssMBBBay- ! ' 'xzrr ? P I Cl ,h rN 7hS 6vjf Aww if ' 'ii " MIpi Light a "Doube-AfciIouj" and get the thrill of that wonderful double-mellow flavor. If you don't say, after trying half a pack, it's the finest cigarette you ever tasted, mail us the remaining ten smokes and get double your money back . . . plus postage. P. S. . . . Yes, Indordl you're not pleated. Ofler Hill Outer locket of Cellophane epent frem the bortom flrat firs squad In this city. He be. come fire chief when the late Dr. J. F. Reddy was elected mayor. He resigned during Mayor Reddy's ad ministration when the city bought ito first fire engine. He was elected to the city council in November, 1023, but resigned a year later. When a young man In Iowa, Mr Butler was a member of the Congre- gotlonal church. He was long a member of the Knights of Pythias, Medford lodge of Elks and Woodmen of the World. During his long business career here, Mr. Butler was highly respected and esteemed. He made many lasting friendships because of his rugged honesty and sympathetic understand ing and his death Is generally mourn ed throughout southern Oiegon. TO FACE CHARGES T, (Continued from Page One.) sault and robbery while armed, and grand larceny. J. O. Berrang, 80, proprietor of the "Covered Wagon" at Phoenix was beaten and slugged when he resisted robbery, Max Burran . of Phoenix. operator of a highway store, and J. C. Reynolds, a customer, were robbed, end Reynolds' pickup truck stolen, well as an auto from the streets of this city. Both autos were wrocked In the flight of the youths. They evaded capture, by calling a tnxlcab, travelling to Ashland, where they boarded a atage, to be arrested at Redding, Calif.. Saturday morning. The youths were returned from California by Sheriff Syd I. Brown and Captain Leo M. Bown of the stste police. i . , Sheriff Brown said the pair were sullen and uncommunicative, and 'hove admitted nothing." The offl clai described tho pair as "reform school graduates." Both served terms Washington state reformatories. the sheriff aald. ' The youths will bo questioned this afternoon by the outhoritlcs. District Attorney Geo. N. Codding Id the pair would probably be ar raigned In Justice court this after noon. Rail Agent Here Robert H. Holmes, general agent og tho Southern Pa- o,flc company in Spokane, wash., ranaacted business here today. (Established 1760) DouMa Your Monty Bach II open, lor 30 day, Irom today. 1 Inner lacker of Cellophane opens from tht top LIGHTNING DEALS NOVEL HAVOC IN EUROPEAN AREAS VIENNA (UP) Lightning strokes have their caprices as shown by the following recent events In southeast Europe: In Lyslnloff, near Karthsus, Upper Austria, during a thunderstorm. bolt entered the house of a farmer through the chimney, passed between the legs of a 12-year old daughter, without hurting the child, and then destroyed a linden tree in the yard. wnen lightning struck an oak tree under which the wife of farmer had sought shelter near Semendla, Jugoslavia, a terrible explosion en sued. The woman was seriously In jured, investigation showed that the bolt had exploded a shell, burled un der the tree since the World war. The gun of a Hungarian hunter who waa caught by a sudden thun derstorm while walking across sn open field was melted by lightning and the man's clothes burned, but the hunter himself, who had, with sn admirable presence of mind, thrown himself into a ditch full of water, was unhurt. When a farm woman near Sals berg, Austria, stuck her arm out of the window to ascertain vhether it wss raining, a lightning bolt detach ed and destroyed her wrist watch; the woman herself fainted, but wss not otherwise hurt. A thunderbolt falling on the broad OUT OF SIGHT way down under the floor boards your battery needs regular testing and refilling. Let the Standard Service Man look after it, just as he will gladly watch your tires, clean your windshield and lamps, check your oil, and serve you a dozen other ways. Standard Oil Service and Products cut motoring costs and you're happier besides! That's why Standard's percentage of steady customers on the Pacific Coast la '1AX? ahni'A ttia nvnKnrtn AT STANDARD STATIONS, INC.-AUTHORIZED casting station of Erlyan. Turkey, killed a vlnllntKt anil a nlnntat, vhn were preparing to give a concert, nuua wtcu ouicr persona la wtc same room escaped without Injuries. ThA BHfA art rthllM - manna.. banker, to all appearances killed by a stroke ol ugntnlng near Kalsersteln- brUCh. Austria. were tnWn a morgue. Although breath and heart nou wmm, a Viennese pnysicjan wno hanoened fcn h ed to restore them to life when he noticed that, two hours after their apparent death, th ntom.r iivm spots had failed to appear on the L'oaies. his long efforts were success. ful. Both mother and child recov ered. STATE PATROL MOPS UP FIRE NEAR BUTTE FALLS A small state patrol today mopped up the forest firs that burned be tween 25 and 30 acres of fallen tlm ber, snags and underbrush on Ginger creek aoout three miles southeast of Butte Falls.' The fire started laat Thursday in an old burn. Difficulty was encountered In fighting the blaze Lecause of the fallen trees and other oarrlers. ; . JUSTICE UNDERGOES OPERATION ON EYE SALEM, Aug. 31. CAP1 Chief Justice J. U. Campbell of the state supreme court was resting easy to day after a serious operation upon his eye, hospital attendants reported. ine cniei justice entered the hos pital Friday and will remain for sev eral days longer. . - Katharine Hepbunr's golf score Is in the low eighties. Marian Anderson. American nearo contralto. Is one of thn most success. ful concert artists In Europe. T USE WIRY DOGS IN COYOTE WAR SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UP) Pompt ed by a story of a Montana coyote trapper, Texas hunters of predatory animals are preparing to use wire haired terriers In their ouslneas. R. E. Bateman, a Montana district agent for the United States depart ment of agriculture's predatory ani mal survey, described how the tiny dogs were used In den-huntlng. He sent a dog into a female coyote's den and to his surprise the terrier re turned without its prey. Bateman then tied a light chain to the dog's collar and . sent, tt back again. There was a great commo tion In the hole betow. The hunter gave a tug on the chain and out came the dog with a coyote almost twice as large. The dogs are used for their ability to follow a scent as well aa their retrieving ability. Professional hunters in Texas de stroyed 014 predatory animals In April. The animals coyotes, bobcats, wolves, and mountain Hons annual ly take a heavy toll from domestic animals on farms and ranches In , West Texas. The April catch includ ed 702 coyotes, 144 bobcats, 66 wolves I and two mountain Hons. In April 101 men worked a total of 2037 days with dogs, traps and rifles killing predatory pests. The best catches were bv Alvtn Strey and I DISTRIBUTORS STANDARD OIL DEALERS Mike Williams. Strey took 49 coyotes and 14 bobcats in Culberson county and Williams killed 13 coyotes, eight bobcats and one mountain lion. A four-legged bantam chicken, ac tive and otherwise normal, is owned by Herbert Starkey of West Plains, Mo. Use Mall Tribune want ads. Indigestion "doesn't live here any more I lake t Carter', Little Live! Pill I belerj and 1 slier meal and get relief. tpC.M.Co. SCREEN DOORS WINDOW SCREENS Made Right-Priced Right Trowbridge Cabinet Wks. Lost River BUTT2R Insist On Delicious ,. . ,wiWi,vm, w
