ifEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON", TUESDAY. APTtTL 27, 1937.
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LOCAL and PERSONAL
v Back from Klamath Ernel Stearns,
WPA employe, reutrned from a. rou
tine trip to Klamath county this
morning.
-i From Klamath Mr. and Mrs. Kel
vin Carnell and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer
Templeton of Klamath Falls visited
with friends and relatives In Mcd
ford Sunday.
. To Remodel A permit was Issued
from the city Inspector's office yes
terday to Annabelle Smith of 1132
East Main street to remodel a house
at a stated cost of (800.
From Portland Andrew Kerr, for
mer Medford resident now living In
Portland, Is visiting relatives and
transacting business here. He Is reg
istered at the Holland hotel.
Rummage Sale Catholic womea
will hold a rummage sale In the
Hunt building next to the Roxy thea
ter on East Main street Friday ud
Saturday. The sale will begin each
day at 9 a. m.
At Wrestling Matches Among Ash
land persons attending the wrestling
matches at the Medford armory last
night were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lecer.
Art Cooper, P. O. McDougall, P.oy
Parr, Jr., and Jack Bauldlng.
Leaves for North J. C. Humphrey
of Portland, field supervisor of the
Oregon state planning board, left last
night for Roseburg after spending
several days in conference here with
the county court and Karl L. Ja
nouch, chairman of the county plan
ning commission.
General BrtnUig Corporation San Framcix
w AngtUt Portland SeouU
Return Home Mrs. F. A. WatkUu
and baby son returned to their home
in Ashland Sunday from the Stanley
nursing home here.
Business Visitor Out-of-town resi
dents transacting business here Sat
urday Included Glen Prescott of Ash
land. From Gold Hill Mr. and Mrs. Hal
Norrls of Gold Hill were shopping
and tending to business matters here
today.
From Portland Q. I. Funk of Pott
land was visiting In Medford today,
transacting business and calling on
friends while here.
From Central Point Miss Bertha
Myers of Central Point was calling
in Medford today to receive dental
attention and to shop.
Many at Lake Tabulations today
showed that 161 cars and 561 per
sons were registered at Crater LhK
national park Sunday. An inch of
new snow fell in the park last night
but weather this morning was de
scribed as clear.
Eagles to Prill Drill team of tne
Fraternal Order of Eagles will hold
a practice In the Medford armory at
7:30 tomorrow night. William Peck,
manager, requests all members to re
port punctually. The team Is pre
paring for competitive drills to be
held at the state convention at As
toria In June.
Planners to Meet Jackson county
planning commission will meet In the
Jackson County Chamber of Com
merce at 7:30 Thursday evening, it
wai announced today by Karl L.
Janouch, chairman. The meeting will
draw up definite plans for increasing
water storage facilities and providing
greater irrigation for the Rogue val
ley, Mr.. Janouch Indicated.
Forest Folders Rogue River na
tional forest office In the federal
building today took on the Appear
ance of a travel terminal with the
Installation of a cabinet and rack
filled with descriptive folders ana
maps of recreational and other asset!
of the national forests of Oregon.
The cabinet was made by CCC and
ERA labor at the South Fork camp
and the forest warehouse on McAn
drews road.
ELK'S ANNUAL
MAY DAY DANCE
SATURDAY NIGHT r-i
ELK'S TEMPLE MAY
Excellent Music. A good time is assured. For Elks and
their invited guests. Admission $1.00
Mrs. Reed Cs lis Mrs. D. Reed ol
Gold Hill called on friends and bual
new acquaintance here yesterday.
Patient Home Mrs. Leona Ormind
of Ashland returned to her home yes
terday from a local hospital whet
she has been recovering from a major
operation.
Calling Here The Rev. and Mrs
James E. Morgan, Miss Roberta Knott
and Miss Ellen Lewi, all of Ashland. ;
visited friends and shopped here Sat- !
urday.
Shopping Here Out-of-town resi
dents shopping and visiting in Med
ford today Included Mrs. Charles Pat
ton and Mrs. O. L. Moon, both of
Butte Falls.
Inspector Here Olenn Neai. air
craft Inspector for the bureau of air
commerce, arrived late yesterday at
Medford municipal alroprt In a Mono
coupe. Ht remained overnight and
waa to take off this afternoon for
Klamath Falls.
Melrholr Here M. J. Melchoir.
field Inspector of the World war vet
erans state aid commission, arrived
here this morning to transact official
business. He expected to remain in
Medford for several days. While here
he will make his headquarters at the
real estate office of Carl T. Tengwald,
the commission's representative lor
Jackson county.
D. A. V. Meeting Disabled Ameri
can Veterans will hold a regular meet
ing at 8 o'clock tonight In the Eagles
hall on West Main street. The new
commander, A. H. Ban well, will ap
point committees and a program of
activities for the year will be planned.
Because of the Importance of the
meeting, officers requested all mem
bers to make a special effort to be
present.
Driver Tests Ward McReynolds.
state examiner of operators and
chauffeurs, will be at Medford city
hall from 8 a. m. to 5 p, m. Satur
day to conduct written examinations
and road tests. Persons wanting
.ermits or licenses to drive cars or
trucks are requested to consult Mr.
McReynolds In the examination room
on the top floor of city hall. Before
nttemptlng the written quiz, appli
cants are advised by the examiner to
study the state book of rules and
regulations, copies of which may be
secured at city and state police head
quarters. In Hospital Again Mrs. Ruth
Holmes of 801 North Central avenue
Is to undergo another operation a
St. Luke's hospital In Spokane, Wash.,
tomorrow, according to word received
here today. Mrs. Holmes suffered a
broken back In a motor accident
white she was on vacation In Wash
ington last fall. She was confined
for some time to St. Luke's hospital
where she underwent surgical treat
ment. She returned to her home
here about January 1, but went back
to the hospital 13 days ago. It was
expected that she would be confined
to the hospital this time a month to
six weeks and that after her dis
charge she would be confined to her
home here for some time, it being
necessary that she wear a cast tor
about six months, according to In-
iormaiion receivea oj iweaiora irienas.
From Eagle Point Out-of-town
residents calling In Medford this
week Included Ray Harnlsh of Eagle
Point who visited here this morning.
Car Accident Dr. H. E. Miller of
Medford and Lewis Marshall of route
1, Talent, were drft-ers of cars In
volved in an accident on South Cen
tral avenue In front of the General
Petroleum corporation yesterday noon.
according to a city police report.
The machine driven by Miller skid
ded across the street and hit the
Marshall car. the report stated, dam
aging the latter considerably. Mo
body was hurt.
Centra Promoted Lou Centra of
Portland, special agent for the at.
Paul group of lnsurs-,e companies,
has been promoted to assistant man
ager of the fire department at Sin
Francisco. His Oregon successor is
Ronald M. Hubbs. who has repre
sented the companies In Washington
and northern Idaho. Mr. Centra has
been a frequent visitor here and has
spent much time In fishing and hunt
ing In the Rogue valley.
Ike Still Blocked Road to Fish
lake was still blocked by snow to
day although motorists may drive
five miles closer to the lake as a
result of clearing work done by a
Rogue River national forest bulldozer
crew. The crew has cleared the rond
for five miles beyond the Mosquito
guard station but the snow was be
coming Increasingly deeper and thora
was no telling when the job would
be completed, the forest office hero
stated.
On Committee J. H. Fletcher,
secretary -manager of the Medford
Federal Savings & Loan association,
has been appointed to the United
States Building & Loan league's com
mittee on FHA. an announcement
from league headquarters today said.
The committee was formed In 1036
to study effects of the federal hous
ing administration's activities on the
savings and loan business and to chart
possible uses the Institutions might
make of the plan.
To I,ava Beds David H. Canfleld,
superintendent of Crater Lake na
tional park, and Francis O. Lange.
landscape architect, left this morn
ing for the Lava Beds national monu
ment in northern California where
they were to go over plans for sum
mer developments. They were to be
Joined at the monument by George
W. Fry, Crater lake ranger on special
assignment, who left here yesterday.
Mr. Lange arrived here lost week
from his San Francisco office.
2000 TO GATHER
IN ASHLAND FOR
MUaCjBM
1500 Grade and 400 High
School Students Will Take
Part in 8th Annual Pro
grams Thursday, Friday
Miracle Man
MONEY SAVHNG
Ml
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
PRICES THAT WILL BRING
YOU TO THE BAND BOX
sura
HATS SHOES
SALE PRICES grey' Values ?6-00- "
SALE PRICES
$1.00 $1.95 S2.00 $3.00
"P to $6.95 and $4.00
COATS & SUITS DRESSES
We are determined to sell EVERY All silk street dresses and light weight
SPRING COAT and SUIT on our racks. wools- Pr,ces 'educed several dollarf on
We have cut prices to make them move. evei7 garmegALE prices
$4.95 and up $2.95 and up
YOUR COTTON FROCK
The famous Patsy Jane styled in Hollywood real buys at
$1.95 $2.95 and $3.95 '
Sun-Ray Wash Frocks, Regular $1.49 values .... $1.00 each
the JBAKHD IB2
"THE STORE THAT SAVES VOU MONEY"
223 East 6th St.
Phone 089
FASTING FANATIC
ASKS FOR PRAYER
STOOPING OAK. Tenn., April 3'
(UP) Jackson Whitlow. 47-year-old
religious zealot completing his 40th
day of fasting, today appealed to hie
wife and other believers to "pray for
me so I'll be able to hold out against
the devil."
With physicians telling the emaol
a ted mountaineer that his fast would
provte fatal "in a day or two." Whit
low still was determined to "wait for
the Lord's word if It takes my life
"The devil hopes I'll weaken now
that the end of the fast la near,"
Whitlow said. "Jehovah commanded
me to fast and I'm fasting. He'll
tell me when to eat."
THIEF RUNS OFF WITH
L(
SOUTH SAN PBANCISCO, April 27.
(UP) Chief of Police LouLs Belloni of
South San Francisco today requested
law enforcement officers throughout
California to be on the lookout for a
Ford coupe loaded with 60 pounds of
stolen dynamite.
The box of high explosive was
stolen from a WPA project here and
a coupe was seen In the vicinity
shortly before ' It disappeared. Of
flclals knew the license number of
the car.
Close to 3000 students and visitors
are expected to take part in the
eighth annual school music festival
to be held Thursday and Friday of
this week at the Southern Oregon
Normal school In Ashland.
Thursday will see 1500 grade school
students from Klamath Palls, Med
ford, Ashland, Orsnts Pass and Treka
and Weed, Cal schools appearing In
the grade school program. Chorus and
vocal group numbers and Instrumen
tal and band numbers will be feat
ured on the program. High schools
of the same districts will present
Friday's program, about 400 being
expected to participate.
Programs for the two days follow:
(Inide School Program Thursday
1:00 Address of welcome. Mayor T.
8. Wiley.
Address of welcome. Dr. Walter
Redford.
1:15 Chorus of unchanged voices.
directed by Louise Woodruff,
S.O.NS.
3:00 Special numbers:
1. Rlversldo school, Grants Pass:
Ellen Franco, director, assisted
by Caroline Cutting.
3. Dance clog, prospect; Beverly
Young, director,
3. Lincoln school, Grants Pass:
Edythe Andrews, director.
4. Klamath Falls junior high: LUlle
Darby, director.
3:30 Folk dancing, directed by D.
Virginia Hales, S.O.NJ.
3:00 Special numbers:
1. Medford Junior high band: Wil
son Walt, director.
3. Swedish folk-dances, Lamm's
Mill, Modoc Point; Viola Hopper,
director.
3. Creative dancing. Washington
Junior high, Orants Pass; Marie
Sacomano, director.
4. Tap dance with violin. Harlalee
Wilson, Washington school, Ash
land; Eleanor Coombe, director.
. Irish lilt, Howard school; Lollta
Plerson, director.
3:45 Junior high chorus ensemble,
directed by Llllle Darby. Klamath
Falls.
4:00 Junior band ensemble, directed
by Wilson Walt, Medford.
High School Program Friday
1:00 Address of welcome, Mayor T.
S. Wiley.
Address of welcome, Dr. Walter
Redford.
1:45 Massed orchestras; directed by
Harry Bore), Klamath Falls.
3 "oo Special numbers:
Ashland high school orchestra: di
rected by Ward Croft.
Medford high school, vocal groups;
directed by Floy Young.
Qranta Pass high school. Instru
mental; directed by Martin
Trepte.
Yreka. Calif., high schol band; di
rected by A. F. Oalgano.
Klamath Falls union high, choral
groups; directed by Beulah Gore.
Weed, Calif., band; directed by Don
Colvlg.
3:00 Girls' chorus; ensemble direct
ed by Floy Young, Medford high
school.
Men's chorus, IT.BJ.); ensemble
directed by Beulah Gore, Klam
ath union high.
Mixed chorus, (S.A.B.); ensemble
directed by Paul Nutting, Orants
Pass high.
4:00 Special numbers:
Medford high school band; directed
by Wilson Walt.
4:15 Massed bands; directed by Don
Colvlg, Weed. Calif.
'
lue Man Who Could Work Mira
cles." H. O. Wells' hilarious screen
comedy, which plays at the New Cra
ter lan theater Wednesday only, stars
Roland Young In the title role as a
mouselike little clerk who suddenly
acquires the power to work miracles.
Starting with such modest mira
cles as producing rabbits out of thin
air. raising tables, etc.. Young pro
gresses to such drastic matters as to
try to make the girl of his dreams
fall In love with him. All the mar
vels he accomplishes with eaae ex
cept the latter, which gives him con
siderable difficulty, as U shown in
the thrilling climax, to the unusual
film. An all-star cast surrounds
Young.
"The Man Who Could Work Mira
cles" will also play tomorrow night
only at the Holly theater.
ISLAND LEPER GROUPS
FIND CHEER IN RADIO
PAPETTE. Tahiti (AP) Pinal
greetings in the twlce-a-week broad
cast from the little radio station
here always are addressed to lepers.
Two colonies, one on Tahiti and the
other on the remote Island of Reao,
recently have obtained battery sets
to the great delight of the Inmates.
Radio now forms a link with many
remote South Sea Islands which for
merly heard from the outside world
only on the rare visits of trading
vessels.
WRITESJW BOOK
Publication Recalls Army
Officer and Wife Were
in Local High School's
First Graduating Class
The changing of industrial markets
In the United States is Illustrated by
the fact that In 1880 Massachusetts
produced 47.2 per cent of the nation's
shoe output as compared with 30.5
per cent In 1034.
Corn acreage Is Increasing tn the
northwest part of the United Statea
but is decreasing In the southern and
eastern portions.
An article concerning publication
of a new book by Major-Gen. Amos
A. Pries, U. 8- A-, retired, appeared
in a recent edition of The Nation's
Forum, Washington, D. C-. news sheet,
with a picture and btographlcnl
sketch of the author. The book is
titled "Communism Unmasked."
Both Major-Oen. and Mrs. Pries
are former residents of Medford. Mrs.
Fries was Elizabeth Walt before ner
marrlRfio and Is an aunt of Mrs. V c ti
ll ey Dixon and P. Wilson Wait. Major
Oen. Pries is a brother of Mrs. Katie
Grieve of Prospect and of Mrs. Etta
Purkeyplle of Central Point.
Major-Gen. Priea and his wife were
both members of the first class to
graduate from a Medford high school,
receiving their diplomas in 18S3, Fal
lowing graduation, the major taught
for a while before receiving an ap
pointment to West Point, entering
the military school In 1804. He grad
uated in April, 1898, on 34 hours
notice and six weeks ahead of sched
ule to bo sent Into the Spanish war,
For 19 years before the World war.
General Pries served In various ranks
from second lieutenant to lieutenant
colonel in the corps of engineers.
Among his principal engineering
accomplishments was laying out and
starting the eight-mile, 4.000,000
Dallea-Celllo canal along the Colum
bia river. Prom that work in the
early spring of 1906, General Pries
went to Los Angeles to design an
artificial harbor for a great- city,
harbor that was to rise out of fl.000
acres of swampland in 25 years to
be one of the greatest harbors in the
world. To this day, the Loa Angeles
harbor has grown with no changes
whatever In those plans.
During the World war, he became
chief of the "gas service," a hereto
fore non-existent branch of the
army, remaining In charge when the
new service became a permanent part
of the army and holding that posl
tlon until his retirement after 31
years of service.
He has received numerous military
honors from the United States and
foreign countries and attained a high
place In the military service of his
country.
Mentioned for
New Judgeship
DEAF GIRL 'TRAVELS'
BY POSTCARD ROUIE
LOS ANGELES (AP) Thirteen-year-old
Joan Geyer, a deaf girl ol
St. Louis, Mo., la "taking a trip
around the United States by post
card." she wrote Mayor Prank Shaw.
The girl wrote she was unable to
travel and was requesting mayors of
cities throughout the United States
to send her their photographs and
autographed postcards. Mayor Shaw
complied and sent her a pictorial
magazine showing scenes in and
around Los Angeles.
Oldest CJrad Dies.
WALLA WALLA, April 27. (ff
MBinr nviwin Yates Lanalniz. 96-year-
old Civil war officer, died today at
the home of his daugnter, Mrs. rnu.p
ur Aiiliinn. He was the oldest living
graduate of Rutgera university.
NEW YORK, April 37. (AP) Re
election of Charles R. Gay May 10
as president of the New York Stock
Exchange appeared assured today
when It was learned no opposition
ticket or candidates had been nomi
nated In the two-week period t
aside for such nominations.
MODERN WOMEN
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Step Lively
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Jeeves, so sad-eyed, so gentle, so
utterly, utterly proper, thought gang
land to be a bit of all right. They
could swindle him. bamboozle him
and buffet him about, but he in
sists on proper manners, and so the
underworld Is tn a deuce of a dither
when P. G. Wodehouse's famed "gen
tlemans gentleman" goes berserk for
a delightful period of gleeful buf
foonery in the second saga of the
silly blighter's misadventures, "Step
Lively, Jeeves."
The picture, starring the Incom
parable Arthur Treacher in the title
role, plays at the Rlalto theater to
morrow and Thursday only, with
"Everybody Dance," featuring Cicely
Courtneldge and Ernest Truer, as
the companion laugh hit.
Reckless Driving
Charge Is Lodged
Joseph Lester Zamrzla of Medford
was arrested by city police early this
morning charged with recklene driv
ing. He was released to appear later.
Police state Zamrzla drove his car
at excessive speeds In the downtown
section and drove through atop
streets without stopping. He was ap
prehended at the corner of Main
street and Central avenue.
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William Healjr (above), general
counsel for the Spokane district
farm credit administration, wan
proposed by Sen. J. P. Pope (D.
Idaho) for one of the two newly
created positions on the V. S. cir
cuit court of appeals, ninth dis
trict, at Ban b rancisco.
ft Today & Wed.
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ROMANCE . .
Burning with
the Zest of the
Uncos quered
West I .
Harold Bell Wright's
"THE MINE WITH
THE IRON DOOR"
fftarrinf
RICHARD ARLEN
Henry B.
Walthall
Cecilia
Parker
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Tomorrow & Thurs!
In Trouble Up M
To His Neck!
With no end
to laughs . . JTJ
and hilarity! JJ v
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HITS!
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JEEVES
ARTHUR
TREACHER
PATRICIA ELLIS
ROBERT KENT
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The funniest danc
ing star of stage
or screen 1
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CICELY
COURTNEIDGE
Everybody Dance
With Ernest Truex
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MICKEY MOUSE
DONALD DUCK
Moose Hunters'
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