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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, M"EDFORD CVREGQy. TUESDAY, APRIL 27. 1937. PAGE SEVEif BY WAKEFUL GIRL EUGENT5, April 27.(AP) Only the wakefulnwa of Uttl Betty Torrence of HMTlsburg saved the MethodlJt church from going up in flames there early thU morning. It is believed In cendiarUita attempted to fire the tructure. Btty, who had got out of bed to get drink of water about 3 a. m., noticed the glare of fire near the basement door of the church, iltu ated across the street from the Tor re nee home, She awakened her older brother and told him of the fire, The boy turned In the alarm and the Har riaburg fire department answered the call and extinguished the blase. An Inspection revealed that oll sosked papers had been placed against the basement door. Some 80,000 American tourists via lted Mexico City last year, remaining an average of 10 days in the re public and spending about $200 apiece. FILL IT J I WITH OOP! ( You'ix like OOP (short for Old Oscar Pepper). For this rich, full-bodied whiskey commands the respect of any man who knows whiskey! Every drop of OOP is whiskey smooth, mellow whiskey dis tilled by the slow old-fashioned method. OOP was first made down in old Kentucky 'way back in 1838. Try it and you'll know why it's been so famous ever since! OLD OSCAR PEPPER BRAND A blend of straight whiskies -90 proof Frankfort 'Distilleries, Incorporated Louisville Baltimore 95 I FULL PINT CODEN0.249C FULL QUART CODEN0.249-A ALSO AVAILABLE IN RYE Here Comes MICKEY FINN Here's an arm of the law you'll like! MICKEY FINN is a strong factor in the comic world and a fine man too! MICKEY FINN will meet yoa in Lank Leonard's new comic page NEXT SUNDAY Sunday Mail Tribune AN ADDED COMIC FEATURE! MEDFQRD PEARS PORTLAND. April 37. (AP) A firm tone ruled th pple market to day with the demand for fancy grade exceeding the call for extra fancy. The price aprrad narrowed and a number of holder sought 1.5 for fancy stock. With bulk Wlnesaps popular In tha mldwestern and southern mar ket at around 70 per ton, some packers reported a shortage In the lower grades. Northwest car movements reached 934 last week compared with 631 the week previously. Oregon has shipped 2905 cars this season. Rogue river valley pears dominated the week shipment of 18 cars. Un sold holdings consist chiefly of Win ter Nells but there are a few remain ing cars of D'AnJous. More than 30,000 different kinds of rubber articles are In general use In the United States, the manufacture of which gives direct employment to 150.000 workers. IN THE- Livestock PORTLAND, April 37. ( AP-USOA) Hogs: 900, market fairly active, mostly steady; good-cholc 165-210 lb. mostly (10.35. load lot absent, ejuotabl 110.50, 390-85 lb. butcher O.aS-lO.OO. light lights mostly S9.50 76. slaughter pigs down ao.OO: pack ing sows, s.7.76-6.00; feeder pigs quot able $9.75-9.00. CATTLE: 100 calves 10, market rather slow but mostly steady, steers scarce, nominally stesdy: medium good steers salable around Sfl 00-10 35; common-medium heifers s6.50-6.60, good fed heifer eligible S9.50 or above: low cutter and cutter cows largely 14.60-5 50, shelly kinds down 3.36, common-medium 15.76-7.00: outstanding dairy type cows eligible S7.50, good beef cows nominally 68.00 50; bulls mostly 66.35-7.00: good choice vealers 610.00-50, medium 67 00-8 00. SHEEP: 1750, Including 1573 direct, lambs scarce, nominally stesdy; good trucked In springers salable around 611.60, choice load lot quotable 613.50 or above, choice fed wooled lambs eligible up 613.00 and above, shorn quotable 610.50 down; part deck choice 137 lb. wooled ewes 66.50, shorn ewes 66.35 down, common 63.00. Chiraco CHICAGO. April 37 . (AP-U. S. Dept. Agr.) Hogs 14.000; early mar ket steady to 10 higher; later mostly steady to strong; bulk good and choice 200-300 lb. 10.10-30; top 10.35; com parable 140-190 lb. 9.50-10.15; most packing sows 9.60-85. Cattle 8000, calves 3000: fed steers and yearlings fully steady following fairly actlvs close late Monday; sev eral loads strictly good choice and prime light and medlumwelght steers held around-17.00; best early 14.36; most sales 9.75-11.50; several loads Canadians Monday 10.00-13.25. these cattle sealing 1000-1300 lbs.; all she stock largely steady: best heifers early 11.00; bulls strong to 10 higher; weighty sausage offerings up to 7.15; choice vealers Bteady; others tending lower; select 10.50. Sheep 6000; fat lambs opening slow: Indication around steady; load merely good lambs sold early 12 00: others held upward to 13.50 and above; nothing done on clipped Iambs; spring lambs and sheep about steady; few wooled ewes 6.O0-50; spring lambs 13.00-50. South San Francisco SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO. April 37. (AP-USDAl HOGS: 1.000. direct 785; steady, top and bulk 185-320 lb. butchers 610.76, lighter weights prac tically absent, odd lots 340-355 lb. weight 810.25; good packing sow 68.75. CATTLE 350, direct 40; steers rather slow, Monday' upturn on medium-good fed steers lost, two load medium-good 900-1060 lb. Utah fed steers around week to 15c lower than last week's close at 69.80. strict ly good fed steers absent, package 817 lb. grassers 67.85, common light steers 87; good cows and heifers ab sent, lower games steady to strong, fleshy dairy cows up to 66. common grass cows 66.60. Iow-cutters-cuttrs 64&5.3S; bulls active, strong, saus age bulla 669.75. Late Monday: grass steers very slow, weaker, load desir able 1019 lb. weight 69, lightly sort ed, others 68.26(.50, load 755 lb. Mexicans 67.35. Calves: 136, direct 20. Load mixed cows and vealera on sale; othlng done, undertone weak; good-choice vealers quoted around 69 10.60. SHEEP 150, all direct; nothing on sale: late Monday, part deck good 78 lb. California spring lambs 610.50, small lot 70 lb. averages 610.35. San Frnnclsro Butter. SAN FRANCISCO, April 27. (AP USDA) Butter, score, 93-33; 91-3214; 90-82V5: 89-82. Portland Produce PORTLAND, April 37 (API But ter prints, a grade. 34 lb. In parch ment wrappers. 35c lb. In cartons; B grade, parchment wrapper. 33ttc lb.; carton 3Vjc lb. Butterfat (Portland delivery, buy ing price) A grade. 35c-36iie lb.: B grade, 33i,-3VjC lb.; c grade at mar ket. B grade cream for market prlco pa:d producer: butterfat basis. 55.3c lb.; milk, 63.7c lb.: surplus. 45.9c. Price paid milk board, 67c lb. eVgs buying price by wholesalers: extras, 31c; stsndard 19c; medium 17c; medium firsts, 16c; undergrade. 16c doaen. Cheese, country mest and live , poultry unchanged. New Potatoes Texas. 62 at 2 25 per 50-lb. bag; California whites 61 3 35. Onions New crop, Texas Bermuda type, 82.50!? 2.60 per 50 lb. crate. Potatoes, wool, hay, steady and un changed. Portland Wheat PORTLAND. April 27. (API With the speculative options but fraction ally higher, the cash wheat position was bettered. On the Portland futures market, without trading, May was unchanged, July and September each cent higher. On the sample cash market locsl wheat gained 3 cents and Montana S'aC. (wheat) Open High Low Close May 1.15 1.15'S 1.15 1.15 July - 1 06 1.064 1.06 1.06 1 J Sept. 1.03 1.03'i 1.03 1.03! J Cash wheat: Big Bend biutstem. hardwheat, 13 percent, 61.16; dark hard winter. 13 percent. 61.38: 13 percent, 61.28; 11 percent. 61.19: aoft white, wpstem white, hard winter and western red. 61,15. Oat. No. 2 white, 633.50; gray 833.50. Barley, No. 3 45-lb. B. W. 640. Corn. Argentine 642. Millrun standard 631. Today's car receipt: . wheat 12; flour 3. Chicago Wheat CHICACiO. Anrll 97 t!t qD.n. tlonal Jumps of corn prices late to day took the cereal up four cents a uuouc,, mo waireme immeoiato per missible limit. Wheat: Open High Low Close May ......1.36-27',; 1.381, 1.26.4 1.28'; July 1.15-16 1.17B 1.161J 1.17!, Sept 1.13'; 1.145; 1.12',; 1.US4 Wall St. Report NEW YORK, April 37, (Jp) Stock regained balance in today's market and numerous Issues retrieved frac tions to around 3 points of severe louses suffered In the previous ses sion . Brokers attributed tne comeback mainly to the belief the list had been oversold. Considerable short covering was noted In most board rooms and buying for a quick turn aided the recovery. A break In Vienna and Budapest markets tended to keep some traders on the sidelines, but stocks Improved in London and other centers. Steels pointed the way to the re covery route In the early proceedings. Motors soon climbed abonrd, along with selected rails, rubbers, oils, fa.m Implements and specialties. Transfers were In the neighbor hood of 1,400,000 shares, Today's closing prices for 32 select ed stocks follow: Al. Chem. & Dye 233 Am. Can 100 Am. & Fgn. Pow Q't A. T. &T 104 Anaconda 59.V1 Atch. T. & 8. P 83 Bendlx Avla 21 Beth, Steel 87 Caterpillar Tract , 88 Chrysler . , iu Coml. Solv lfl Curtlss-Wrlght ....... e DuPont 163 Oen. Elec 623i Gen. Foods 40'b Oen. Mot 57!i Int. Harvest lOfl'i .-Co Be rash buyer for your next car. Tbii new, towed coil financing plan ii available to any one having a satisfactory credit record and a steady income. You select any new automobile or t used car lesa than three yeara old, and supply one-third the purchase pric either in cash or by the trade-in value of another automobile. This bank then supplies the balance needed to make csh deal. Before buying a new car or refinancing your present one, in-.csti, gat what this elan will uv you! MEDFORD BRANCH The FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND I. T. 61 T Johns-Man. Monty Ward North Amer Penney (J. C.).. Phillips Pet Radio Sou, Pac Std. Brsnds St. OH Cal, St. Oil N. J Trans. Amer Union Carb Unit. Aircraft .... U. S. Steel in; 129 651, 351; 9Ui 54 ji, 5P.-'t ia, 4.H4 6c 'i 141, 96'j 26'J 108 SACRAMENTO. April 27. (API Churning cream butterfat: First grade 37; second grade 36'. BIRTHS Born, to Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Bel lows of Eagle Point, a flirt weighing seven pounds, in the Stanley nursing home, at midnight Inst night. Mother and baby were reported as progress ing splendidly today. STEPIN FETCHIT STILL IN SERIOUS CONDITION NEW YORK, April 27. (AP) The "Lazybones" stne and screen comic Stepln Petchlt was reported "still on the serious list" at Harlem hospital today where he was tsken Sunday after his axi to-mobile crashed Into an elevated railway pillar when a tire blew out. The Negro actor whose real name is Lincoln Perry was said to be resting comfortably, however. TRUCK DRIVER BURNS WHEN MACHINE UPSETS SPOKANE. April 37. (AP, The Cater Transfer company was advised driver burned to death when a huge freight truck and trailer over- s tured on the Columbia basin high way four miles east of Rltzvlllo this , morning. ! The name of the diver, who took ; over the truck at Umatilla. Ore., was ; not available here. He was a now i man In the service, the transfer com- pany said. SPACIOUS K. F. OFFICES FOR SOCIAL SECURITY KLAMATH FALLS, Aplrl 27. (AP) Sooclal security board officials, here during the past week end, rented the entire front of the Blxth floor or Klamath Palls lnrgest office build ing for southern Oregon district headquarters. Headquarters will open about June 1, the oriel a Is said. RALPH MOODY SUFFERS ATTACK OF PLEURISY SALEM. April 26. ( AP) Ralph E. Moody, assistant attorney general who has been confined to his home the past three weeks with an attack of pleurisy, left for a week for the Oregon coast to recuperate. CCC Musician. SUBLIMITY,, Ore., April 27. (AP) Joe Flrgelefjcl of company 2100. CCC has the distinction of having driven an army truck 43 months for a distance of over 800,000 miles with out an accident. He Is also known as an entertainer with the accordion and cowboy songs, and It Is rumored he will soon connect Tip with dude ranch as a wrangler and entertainer Clone Schools May 28. PORTLAND, April 27. (AP) The school board lopped a week off the school year today, ordering classes discontinued for the summer holi day on May 28 Instead of June 4 Counting the week lost during the heavy January and February snow atorma. the year has been cut to 8'j months, the shortest on record. Weather Northern California: Unsettled to night, Wednesday partly cloudy, showers over mountains; slightly warmer In Interior Wednesday; mod erate changcoble wind off coast, be coming northwest and Increasing. Oregon: Probably showers tonight and Wednesday; little change In temperature; moderate changeable wind off coast. Half of the nation's farm lands and a lare majority of Its farmers are partly or wholly occupied In sup plying the nation's meat. MOURNS PASSING eW A.f;s 1 1 . 4 . - 'NO H 11 V. 1 I I II s 1 - i Mir - 'X &r H Wt ' ,t X O President Roosevelt was among the mourners at funeral services in Washington, D. C, for W. Forbes Morgan, 57, former treasurer of the Democratic National Committee. Shown with Mr. Roosevelt Is Mrs. David Cray, Mrs. Roosevelt's aunt. Morgan was a distant relative of President and Mrs. Roosevelt. Central point Grunge Home Economics club of Central Point grange will meet tomorrow aft ernoon at the home of Mrs. O. V. Myers at 2 o'clock. As the meeting Is a particularly important one, nil WHILLOCK'S GOLDEN RULE MEDFORD 'S DAYLIGHT STORE PHONE 318 RED LETTER STAMP T A V 10 S-&H. Green Stamps U FREE for Each Book ru are rH'nS if presented in person in the prem- DOUBLE TWELPAKS Sanitary Napkins, 7 packages for $1. Boys' Dress Shirts Special, 2 for $1. Men's Work Shirts 2 for $1.00 Men's Dress Socks Reg. 35c value. 4 pairs $1.00 Men's Madras Cloth Dress Shirts Reg. $1.05 Values $1.00 7 pairs 14 ounce weight Canvas Gloves $1.00 Knee High Silk Hose, Saturday only, 3 pair $1.00 Shoes DOUBLE STAMPS ON ALL PURCHASES WEDNESDAY OF A FRIEND 4 f members are requested to be present, those in charge state. One of the first products from Den ver's first iron foundry was a two Inch cannon, used to fight Indiana, V'V y , " - i A TOMORROW WEDNESDAY ONE DAY ONLY THE GREAT APRIL lum display room ON STAMPS LADIES' DRESSES One Lot of Ladies' New Spring Silk Dresses. Val. (A JQ 54.06 to $5.05. Speo.4aC.43 One Lot SILK DRESSES Just arrived Values to $6.05. Wednesday Only. J ft "7 On Sale DC5J I GRADUATION DRESSES See this special lot. Regular $5.05 to $7.05 Mf values Special yt,T I LADIES COATS Just Stole One lot of Feather Flpcced Jigger Coats in all the new shades. Regular special Frice $3.47 Other Coats Priced $7.45 to $9.45 Fancy Pillows. Reg. $1.00 values. Special, 79c Men's Dress Oxfords $1.6&, $2.07, to $5.95 Ladies Sandals, $1.87 to $2.95 Ladies' White Street Oxfords, $1.97 to $1.45 Children's White Pumps and Oxfords, $1.87 and up Men's AH Leather Work Shoes, Priced ;$1.87, $2.47, $2.97 to $4.27. Whillock's Golden Rule 113-116 NO. CENTRAL AVE. TED GREER GETS The lone Chinook salmon to b taken from Savage Rapids Sunday, so far as can be learned, was hooked by Ted Oreer, employe of Predettet billiard parlor. Oreer could not be located today, but friends stated that he was "a proud as a father with a newly-toora baby boy." And well he might, because th flsn weighed 24 V4 pounds, one of the largest taken from the river this year. Prom a point on the Trail Rldg road tn Rocky Mountain national park tn Colorado more than 100 miles of the mountain ranqe can tie seen. PARTY FUDGE in 4 minutes Balcony ALL PURCHASES WEDNESDAY $5.05. Men s Shorts Full Out Balloon Seat. Special 4 for $1 WE BUY FOR CASH AND SELL FOR CASH THE REASON WE SELL FOR LESS i .... far - mm "nst nanonai iank WMI 01 'HI 0l" Hlultl M0IIA1 N1UANCI tOUOtlllON 1 I i oi ; !