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5 M"EDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON". SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 29. 1936 PAGE STX FOLLIES STRIPPER STORY ON LEVEL Gypsy Rose Lee Says $25, OOO Worth Of Jewels Taken By Six Gunmen Police See Publicity Gag. KBW YORK, Not. 28. (UP) Oyp y Roae Lee, former burlesque queen now dairwr a nightly atrip tease act In the "FolUen." often had heard men ihout "take 'em off." Coming from cheering gaff era In the bald headed row, the words meant her act was going over. Today ahe heard the familiar wordi gain, but from Blx gunmen who had followed her home. It wahn't an act and neither ahe nor the men were teaalng. Tafce 'em off, or there may be some ahootlng," the men aald, and they referred to Oypsy'a Jewel $23, 000 worth rnd not her ctothea. The atrip te&Ae artlat reported the holdup to the press and the police. went casually to bed and woke up at noon today vIth more "quote" for the newspaper. "Thank God," she said to reporters, "they didn't take my diamond-stud ded O-strlng." She referred to the sparkling brev lty which keeps her act within the law. Then she waved an arm. "VDrlnkii for the boys and makeup or me," she oommnnded, "Isn't this nil a publicity gag?' i reporter braver than the others ssk ed. "My Ood," she repeated. "The Jew elry's gone, Isn't It? Is this publicity worth 30,000?" she tsked, stepping up the loss by five g's. Her publicity man, Miss Lee satd, "will be furious when he hears of Her press agent, ahe added was "nuts for publicity." "Why, one time my house was on fire and he wanted me to call up all the newspapers," she said. "Can you imagine calling the papers when you're practically on fire?" Drapite her experience, Oypsy feels "there's no sense keeping your Jewel ry tn a vault.'' "I love Jewelry, she said. "Some times I even sleep In It." NORDICS BEST HOPE FOR AVERTING WAR NEW TortK, Nov. 3fi. (APJ Lady Wanry Astor, England's American born peeress, said today "he believes the "Nordlo people of Great UrltaJn the Netherlands, and the Scandinav ian countries, are Europe's beat hopes of averting war. She came here with Lord AsUr, British publishers on the 8. 8, Mon arch of Bermuda from a vacation In Bermuda, They will depart tonight for Toronto, before returning to Kng lsnd. Bald Lady Aator: "It la In these countries that the people have rree dom. for freedom Is mental and un- leaa people think thtnRS out, they are never free. You have to educate people to make them free, explorers have Identified Ur, n elent city tn southern Babylonia, with the modern Mukayyar, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY LOST Silver chromium alpper purae wltn compact (keepsake). Reward Call roR SALE 3 pood work horses. L. Howard. Hons Lana. CHRISTMAS orders for Bernat's and French imported knitting yams still avAltnble. Mis Venlta Dsley, 843 North Grnpo 81. SHKKPMKN Loan's throtmh (log Miall be reported within 48 hours In order to secure compensation. DOO CONTROL BOARD. W ANTE I -All motorists to use eau tlon while driving, Allied Veteran Council. NOTICE Bldrn's Bhoe Service I temporarily located at KUtd'a 8hie Store. 313 E. Main St.. durliiK the remodeling of Its premises at 10 South Central. heater and now rubber. Real vslue Pennlnpton Motor Co. Phone 003 lat N. Uartlett St. MtlftT narrlflca my 0-tuba Stewart- Warner. nart;ain. 711 Cedar. Call Sunday. HAIRY RANCH BARGAIN ?fK acre. tfl arrt-a Irrigated. 4ft arraft fine aland or alfalfa, lfl acnw lartlno elover. balance impure, fine year round running at ream; house, barn. cluck house; fenced and cross frnced. Close tn rheen factorv and hlth school. This farm will rut l.V tons nf alfalta n'it season and rnrry 30 cows, price aooooo, with 00ft 00 cash. THE RFAt. ESTATE EXCHANGE Phone 1496. Even! nns 1330-H VACANCY at the Olorla Pan Apts. S7S Ho. Central, for a adults. 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Harrison, the federa tion's chief peace maker, plans to talk cither with Lewis or with persons close to the rebel leader within the next few days. Ho expects to sound out Lewis' sentiment toward a num ber of definite peace proposals. He also may communicate with other leaders of the rebel committee for Industrial organization. After these conferences Harrison will send Lewis a formal proposal for a meeting with the federation's peace conference. This letter, by the convention's d J re c ton, will be sent reKardlcsa of the outcome of the In formal negotiations. The council suspended Lewis' united mine workers and nine other unions nearly three months sgo for "Insurrection." Revolting against the A P. of L.'s traditional craft union organization policy, these ten unions had set out to bring all the workers In each big Industry Into one big union. NAVY OFFICER'S WIFE VALLKJO, Cal., Nov. 28, (AP) While funeral services were held to day for Mrs. Jean Pomeroy, wife of a navy officer, police continued search for a hit-run automobile driver believed responsible for her death. Mrs. Pomeroy, as, died shortly after she waa found Injured on a highway nesr a night club early Thursday. Sheriff Jack Thornton said he was convinced ahe was struck by an auto mobile. The sheriff said a Vallejo boy, whose name was Withheld, claimed to have seen a black sedan strike her and speed sway, Mrs. Pomeroy, wife of Lieutenant Commander R. K. A. Pomeroy, medi cal -corps. U. 8. N., had left the night club, companions said, to get an article she had left In an auto mobile outside. Her husband Is ser iously 111 In the Mare bland navy hospital. She was a native of Eugene. Or.. and, besides her widower, leaves a 10-year old daughter, Jean Louise; her parent. Mrs. Eugenia Cook of Portland, Ore., and Drew Griffin of Burfalo, N. Y- end a sister and brother, Mrs. J. L. Harrison of Ban don, Ore., and O. W. Griffin of San Francisco. 4 The sun's rays have been found to I be hotter In winter than In summer. 1 Your Bank Account IS INSURED Why Not Insure YOUR SAVINGS? THE 1W0 PROBLEMS nr difforont. ' In your bank aocount you want safety nnd liquidity . . and th Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation assures Doth. But for your long-term savings, put away to earn a higher income, you want assuranco of maximum safety, not only of principal invested but of dividends which have been credited. The sr.foty of your account with us is fully insured up to $5,000 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. We will be glad to give you complete details. 4 Per Annum Current Dividend Rate INDUSTRY. F LEADERS TO FACE SENATEPROBERSj List Of Witnesses Ranges From Professional Strike, Breakers To J. P. Morgan New Tax Set-up Aim.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 38. (AP) Sen at Investigators announced today they planned to have three major In quiries Involving scores of indus trial and financial leaders under full steam within the next few weeks. A list of witnesses ranging from professional strike breakers to J. P. Morgan may be summoned, as the committees press their studies of civil liberties violations, campaign ex penditures and railway financing. Plan New Tax Set-Tp Two other concessional fact-harvesters the nous appropriation committee and the Joint committee on Intemsl revenue taxation are scheduled to get down to work weeks before congress convenes January fl. The Joint committee's task Is to draft a thorough-going revision of the nation's tax structure to eliminate possible Inequalities. Committee experts have Indicated their recommendations probably will Include abandonment of some of the less lucrative "nuisance" tsxea and minor changes In the levy on undis tributed corporation profits. "First of the big senate investiga tions to get under way will be a study of railway financing, scheduled to start December 7. Headed by Chairman Wheeler (D.-Mont.) of the Interstate commerce committee, this Inquiry hna been gathering data for more than a year. j Kail Inquiry Slated Wheeler's committee will begin j open hearings with an Inquiry Into the Missouri Pacific system, control led by the late Van Swerlngcn broth ers with the aid of Morgan funds. Chairman Lonergan (D.-Conn.) of the senate committee Investigating campaign spending called en execu- ' tlve saslon for the second week In '. December. j After scanning reports of election eering methods In Pennsylvania, and j other states, the committee will de cide whether to hold public hear ings, or to continue to work through Ite own staff. An investigation of strike break ing, labor espionage, and other In frlngetnnte of elvll liberties is being preseed by the La Folic tte committee which will resume hearings In late December or early January. MOLLISON HOPS TODAY ON CAPETOWN FLIGHT LONDON. Nov. 3B. (P) Capt. James a. Mollleon announced tonight he and Co-pllot Edouard Cornlgllon Mollnler would take off tomorrow morning on an attempted one-stop flight to Capetown, South Africa, If weather perm lie. Mollleon said they hoped to rrach Cairo, Egypt, before nightfall for their only halt. , 4 j Black pepper Is a native of south western India. 1 , I 1? rnt M.iln St. GAS AND GUNS READY TO OUST PICKETS IN CELERY STRIKE ZONE STOCKTON, Cal.. Nov. 28. (&, Armed with tear gas guns, riot guns and rifles, and aided by an airplane. sheriff's deputies patrolled the high ways of the terminus celery district today, under Instructions of Sheriff Harvey Odell to "keep those picket" out of here. The sheriff ordered 300 special deputies Into the barricaded area and ranchers arm with pick handler helped the deputies guard the high ways Into the hundred square miles of the celery district. An airplane droned through foggy skies, on the lookout for possible picket highway caravans. The only untoward Incident re ported was the arrest of two men charged with picketing near the ter minus. The deputies reported turning back two truck loads of men they alleged were striking workers. Orowers said celery movement-was "about normal." They said 56 cam had ' been shipped from the strike affected area In the past 34 hours. Union workers seek Increased wages, shorter hours and recognition of their union. TRANSIENT HELD FOR James Morgan, 43. a transient, waa arrested last night and placed In city Jail on a charge of passing a worth less check. He waa accused of buying a hat at Re In hart & Barker and pay lng for It with a $6 worthless check on the First National bank. He re- received 11.05 In change, police raid. Another fraudulent check made ou to cash was found on his person po lice records stated. The case will probably come up In circuit court the early part of the week, police 1 said. i Phoenix Presbyterian B. F. McFarland, Minister Bible school opens promptly at ten o'clock, Lester Newbry, superinten dent. Morning worship at 11:00. Subject of sermon: "In Everything Olve Thanks." There will be special choir music. Evening worship at 7:00, when the Ladles' Missionary society will ho!d their annual "Praise Service,' at which time Mrs. B. F. MoFarland will speak on the work In Chosen. The Junior society meeta on Mon day afternoon at four o'clock. All Juniors welcome to attend. Bible study and prayer on Wednes day evening at seven-thirty. Ore ana BwlHor Purchased WILDBBRG BROS. SMELTING St R8FININO CO. CXW 741 Muk Sl-iSo PrudM -'PUntl Sou A Su Fr.ndKtt crops EDERAL SAVINGS i. AN A S t C C I AT ION Minne 1S WHIPPING POST IS SEATTLE. Not. 28. The whipplni-post. with luhei (or wom en u well u men, became an t&sue In Washington ttate today. The State Bar aaaoclatlon's I emu lative committee prepared to poll all attorneys of the state aa to their attitude toward legalizing this form of punishment for crime. The committee recommends the whlpplng-post for men convicted of two felonies, and for men commit ting any crime of force and violence or with deadly weapons. The lash would be restricted to msle offend ers over 31 who are physically able to be whipped. Opposition to . the whlpplng-post sprang, somewhat surprisingly, from women believing in "equal rights and equal responsibilities." Miss Reah Whitehead, a Seattle Justice of the peace, made the point that "worn en's skins are no tenderer than men's." "Let's have women citizens lash women crlmlnsls snd n. i lashers for men." she said. Mist Whitehead, however, Is opposed to . -eollzstlon of the whlpplng-post, hei attitude being that If It be legalized, women as well aa men should be punished 1 The Portuguese man-of-war la not a single animal but a colony of sev eral so Integrated that they act as one creature. J GREEN SLABS Fir or Pine - To Mix with Your Dry Wood or Pres-io-logs at Season's Lowest Prices MEDFORD FUEL CO. Tel. 631 1122 N. Central Ave. A NEW TRIBUNE SERIAL! Tomorrow Monday IN THE MAIL TRIBUNE SEATTLE, Nov. 38. (AP) Presld lng Judge Clay Allen set December IS for the trial on charges of first degree murder of Lester A. Rorl.:L. who turned state's evidence and caused conviction of his brother-in- law. John J. O'Donnell, In the mur-dera- of patrolmen Trent A. sickles and Theodore A. Stevens a year ago Thanksgiving day. The Jury also convicted O'Don- nelrs brother. Joseph, who sdmltted complicity In the killings, when he took the witness stand and sought to absolve John O'Donnell. The officers were shot to death while Investigating a slot machine hijacking In a north side beer tavern. Rorlck waa shot In the knee. Re said he shot himself accidentally while fleeing. FULL PACIFISM T LONDON. Nov. 28. The Arch bishop of Canterbury, primate of all England, today rejected the doctrine of full pacifism "from the point of view of practical realties. IN the garden of the old Page house, Sally found dreams and . romance. Closing her eyes, she drifted back to the days when she had pretended on this very bench that she was captive prin cess shut in a walled garden. Awaking, she saw a young . man standing in the shadowy moonlight. 'Are you a ghost?' he asked pleasantly . . . And thus began a charming romance. Don't Miss By BAILEY WOLFE BEGINS The hesd of the Church of Eng Isnd was Joined by the Archbishop of York In the formal statement. 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