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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON1. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1937. BAPTIST SPEAKER VOICES PLEA FOR PRACTICAL STAND Christians Must Face Reali ties of Modern Day, Says Reverend Britten in An nual Convention Sermon A plea for Christiana to meet the great human needs of the modern world waa voiced last night by Rev. Rodney M. Britten of Monmouth aa he delivered the annual aermon to delegates of the three-day atate Bap tist convention being held here. entitling hie address "More Than Conquerors," Rev. Britten said: "Christians must be practical: we must face the realities of modern-day life. We must stop being mediocre It la for ua to learn of and meet the great human need. Until the Chris tlan becomes vitally conscious of divine power within, he can never hope to meet the need of the world without. It la he who has conquered In the spiritual realm who Is the real conqueror." Rev. Britten la a former resident of Grants Pass and well known In the valley. He Is one of the youngest ministers In the state. Lt. Anderson Speaks -- Also addressing convention sessions yesterday was Lieut. H. W. Anderson, resident chaplain of OCO camps in the Medford district, who talked to the group on the Bible In the CCC camps.. Lieut. Anderson reviewed the success of religious services In the camps and discussed their relation to other camp activities. Outstanding event on today's pro gram will be this evenlng'a banquet which Is to be followed by mission ary address by Rev. O. L. Swanson, missionary to Assam. Mew officers named by the minis ter's conference yesterday are headed LADIES' HAVS REMODELED Clraned or Worked In Millinery Factory by ex pert, write for detslled price llt to TRI-8TYLE SERVICE 1939 N. Portland Blvd. Portland, Oregon, and up 75c by Edgar B. Luther of The Dalles aa praldent. Others are: Ruwel Thomas of Portland, vioe-presldent, and Har old J. Ludwlck of Prtnevllle. re-elect-c4 secretary-treasurer. Rev, Wolford A Dawes of the local eJhurob presided. B. P. Neff of Medford conducted the laymen's meeting, also held yes terday, at whloh Rev, E. B. Pratt of Portland presented a coast-wids plan ijt evangelism. Dr. Pratt Is coast director of vangellsm. Women In Session Women's sessions yesterday Includ ed reports from all departments and an exposition of work at ths Japanese Women's home by Miss Bather McCol .ough, who was also to speak again this afternoon. About ISO women attended a banquet held last evening Men's and women's sections held Joint meetings today with several guest speakers appearing on various parts of the program. Forty -nine churches are represented and 35 pas tors are Included among delegates. The public Is Invited to attend all meetings. i Program for tonight and. tomorrow follows: Wednesday Evening 6 :80 Convention banquet, Toaatmas ter, Dr. a. J. Maul be tech. Introduc tion of new pastors. 7:46 Aong service. Rev. R. N. Howe, leader. 8 :0O- Missionary address Rev. O. t. Swanson, Assam. Thursday Morning 000 Pratse service. 9:15 Bible Exposition Rev. John L. Losh. 9:45 Business session. 11:30 Report of committee on even gel Ism Rev. W. E. Henry. 11:46 Quiet half-hour The Church Member Rev. W. W. Catherwood. 12 :io Adjournment. FATAL INJURIES Livestock BY OF KNIFE HANDLE (Continued from Pag One ) JIMMY'S GOT A NICKEL! 2. K Yea air I And you oan just bet that little Jimmy will buy a big ice cream cone for Mary Jane . . . And you can be aure that even little Jimmy knows that Snider 'a Ice Cream is tops! The girls' trio and the boys' octet of Medford high school, under the direction of Miss Floy Toung, music Instructor, entertained laat nlgnt'a weekly dinner-meeting of the Active club In the Hotel Medford. The girls' trio sang one number and the boys' octet rendered two In commemora tion of natlonsl music week. William McAllister, president of Active International, reported that he would attend the chartering of the new club In Los Angeles, May 14. It wlU be the first organized south of Oakland, he aald. Chet Llndley, Texaco employe, was admitted to the club as a new member. START JURY SELECTION IN CRASH DAMAGE CASE Selection of a Jury in the 176,000 personal Injury suit of Oertrude M Moffett against J. J. Hendricks ol Marshfleld, truck line operator, start ed this morning In circuit court. The court previously denied ft de fense motion for a continuance on the grounds further time waa needed to procure a witness. The plaintiff appeared In court, seated In an arm chair, with a foot rest. The suit Is based upon a three way auto accident last September at Voorhlea Crossing on the Pacific highway, when the sedan In which the plaintiff was a passenger was hurled. Into a ditch, causing alleged permanent Injuries and impairment of earning power. the head, but claimed she did not realize the blows were of sufficient violence to cause injury, Com p ton reported. Three of the blows were delivered Thursday preceding the child's death Saturday evening, while others of the nine bruises reported on the scalp were caused by blows earlier In the week, Mrs. Hopkins is said by her attorney to have declared In ber statement. Compton said that the statement from Mrs. Hopkins was secured by htm after a long talk with her In her Jail cell. On his advice she later repeated her story before Dis trict Attorney J. V. Long. Steno graphic notes are being transcribed and it la expected she will sign the written confession, the attorney said. The district attorney reported no further legal action would be taken In the case until after the state ment la signed and studied. Husband Absolved. The confession, according to Comp ton. absolves the husband and father of the child of any knowledge or complicity In the crime. 'Mrs. Hopkins confessed to a grow ing dislike of her step-daughter and had urged that she be sent away," Attorney Compton reported. "She said she found she was going Into Increasing fits of rage over the child's habit of prevarication and realized that she waa treating the girl with Increasing severity. ' The father, how ever, wss quoted by her as saying that he was financially unable to send the child away and Insisted sho ; should remain, believing that all j could live happily together." Utter Will Remain With Parole Board SALEM, May o. (AP) Dr. Floyd lh Utter, who resigned several months ago as a member of the state parole board, withdrew his resignation yes terday and will remain a member of the board. Governor Martin approved the move. Utter resigned after the legisla ture failed to enact the board's new parole system. Commenting upon the action Utter said: "I have withdrawn my resignation because I feel that enactment of modern parole legislation Is vital to the state and that X can do more to accomplish this purpose by continu ing on the board." Portland PORTLAND, May 6. (AP-USDA) Hogs: 600, Including 140 through; market fairly active, mostly steady; good-choice 165 310 lb. drlvelns most ly SI 0.28; load 'lots quotable 10.60; 220-60 lb., S9.50-75; heavier down S9.00: 126-60 lb. mostly $9.60-76: choice 154 lb. lot ilO.10 packing; sows 97.75(38; feeder pigs $8.75 $9. CATTLE: 160. Including 58 direct; calves 85. Including 33 direct; market active, steady-strong; odd head me dium steers, $8.50 9.25; good fed steers eligible $10.36 and above; com mon medium heifers, $7.50(98.36. SHEEP 350; market slow, but about steady. paid producer: butterfat basis, 55.35 lb.: milk, 6S.7c lb.: surplus, 464c j Pries pa.'4 milk box4. fc lb. BOGSBuylng price by wholesal- ers: Extras, 30c: standard 17e; ma j dlum firsts, 15c; undergrades 16c oozen. OHEESE, country meats and live poultry, steady and unchanged. NEW POTATOES -California Whites $1.50-1.75. WOOL 1937 nominal; Willamette valley, medium, 38c lb.; coarse and braids, 86c lb.: esstern Oregon, fine 30c lb.; medium 33-34c lb.; crossbred 3b -36c lb. Potatoes, onions, hay, unchanged. South Fan Francisco. SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, May 5 (AP-USDA) Hogs 400, direct 165. Fully 10c higher, top $10.75 on load 175-300 lb. butchers practically straight. CATTLE 336: direct 88: holdovers 85. Steers steady, two loads medium 820-825 lb. Utahs $9.00; lightly sort ed; good fed steers absent, quoted up to $10 or slightly above; two loads light Nevada holdovers placed m local feed lot. SHEEP 1300; direct 286; holdovers 400. Salable supply Includes nine decks Imperial lambs and ewes In addition to 400 head California spring lambs; lambs very alow; - few sales around $1.00 lower for two days, bulk unsold. Chicago Wheat CHICAGO. May 6. (AP) Wheat: Open High Low Close May 1.39 1.30 IM 1M July 1.18ft 1.19 1.11, Sept. 1.17H 1.18 1.18 J.16 Chicago CHICAGO, May 8. (AP-U. 8. Dept. Agr.) HOOa 18.000: early market fully steady with Tuesday's average: few choice hogs 6 higher; early top 10 40; market now slow; bidding weak to 10 lower. CATTLE 9,000, calves, 15,00; largely steer run; killing quality unproved; bulk of crop grading good and better; cowa very scarce; fat steers and year lings very flow. Prime weighty bul locks at 18.78; few loads 11.80-13 80; comparatively little below 9.78. Bulls and vealers steady at 7.00 down and 18.80 down, mostly 18.00 down, re spectively. SHEEP 3,000; fat lambs opening slow; early undertone strong; strictly choice woolrd lambs scarce; beer available held above 19.28. Portland Wheat ROOSEVELT DEMOCRAT WINS IN CALIFORNIA LEGION MAY SPONSOR JUNIOR RIFLE CLUB Possibility of the Medford post of the American Legion sponsoring a Junior rifle club was discussed at the regular semi-monthly meeting of the oigsnlzatlon In the Armory last night. Definite word regarding the project would be forthcoming after the next meeting. It waa aald. A plan waa also discussed whereby the triangular plot of ground directly east of the Armory would be turned Into a small park after grsss and shrubs were planted. Closing time for Too Late to du ally Ads Is 1 :S0 p. m. there's no place like home S-t- , eak The day Payne wrote this immorlal song, women were churning butler, baking bread, drawing water, spin ning, weaving and washing the far clothes. mny Women today create a home atmosphere more pleasing to themselves and their families. Our moder ately priced laundry services bring eco nomical relief from washdav toil. American Laundry IJIWUIH CENTRAL AVINUl .MEDFORD, ORE. PHONE 873 m3 SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 8. APIA "ItaOAAVAlt TVmorrnt." Al fred J. Elriott, appeared the winner today In an election contest to choose a successor to the late Rep. Henry Stubbs (Dem.) of the 10th California congressional district. A tabulation of approximately 03 per cent of the vote cast yesterday gave Elliott 10.164. His Republican opponent, Harry Hopkins, former state highway commission chairman, had 19.078. Al Sessions, Democrat and Bakersfleld labor editor, polled 4479 In a wrlte-tn campaign. PORTLAND, May 5 (AP) Wheat; Open High Low Close May 1.18 1.17 1.16 1.17!4 July 1.0814 1.09 1.0814 109 Sept. l.OS',4 1 08 1.0814 1 08 Cash whest: Big Bend bluestem, n.w., 13 pet., 81.1814: dark hard win ter, 13 pet., 81.3814; 19 pet., $1.3014 11 pet., 11.9114; soft white, western white, hard winter and western red, 81.1714. Oats, No. 9 white, 833.80: gray, 839.60. Barley. No. 9 48 lb., b.w., 840. Corn, Argentine. $49. Today's car receipts: Wheat, 90; flour, 97; hay 1. Portland Produce PORTLAND, Ore., May 8. (AP) BUTTER Prints, A grade, 8414c lb. in parchment wrappers, 3614c lb In cartons; B grade, parchment wrappers 34c lb.; cartons 35c lb. BUTTERFAT (Portland delivery. buying price) A grade, 38'4-3614c lb.; B grade, 3314-34140 lb.; C grade at market. B grsde cream for market Price Heads U. S. Chamber I I i a ffii Wall St. Report tonus members already have flags, but Josephine's closest approach Is the furs of the Oregon Cavemen. Hospital Day BALEM, May fi. (P) Oregon will participate officially In observance of the national hospital day, Wednes day, May 13, Governor Martin de creed today. 29th Traffic Fatality PORTLAND, May 5. JP) Port land's 29th traffic fatality of the year, beginning De member 1, occur red last night with the death of Aug ust c. amlth, 76, run down by an automobile. . Co-eds Far Outnumbered. BERKELEY, Cal. (UP) Matri monial possibilities, at least from the male standpoint, are at a low ebb on the campus of the University of California this year. Men out number girl students, almost two to one. there being 9575 male students and 6859 women. I were caused by cloud reflections, sd entlsta said. Each of the suns had halo -like rainbow over It, with fourth rainbow visible over the trio. Fortune Left In Tinea ns MENDON, Mich.' (UP) Mrs. Ann Von Loffer pushed a trunk-laden wheelbarrow from her farm home to a town-residence here some years ago. When ahe died recently, 819.000 was found In the trunk, mostly la tin cans. Card Readings Madame A. Mueller. Honest and Reliable with best of references. 793 Sherman Rtreet. Phone 96S-J-2 Readings 81.00. NEW YORK, May 8. (P Apathy of buyers let the stock market sag today, with losses ranging from frac tions to 8 or more points. Business news continued reaesur rtng, but offerings met only half hearted support. Tickers were silent for minutes at a, time aa the session dragged on. Transfers were around '800,000 shares. Today's closing prices for 89 select ed stocks follow: Al. Chem. 4c Dye 74 Am. Can 99 H Am. & Fan. Fow 8 A. T. & T. ' ... 169 Anaconda , 8914 Atch. T. 8c B. F. 8914 Bendlx Avla. , , 3114 Beth. Steel,. .,.. 89 Caterpillar. Tract, 9914 Chrysler : 114.! Coml. Sol-. -. 18 Curtlss-Wrlght I DuPont .18314 Oen. Elec. - n Oen. Foods 40 S Oen. Mot. 89H Int. Harvest. . 107 I. T. 4s T. . 11V4 Johns-Man ...130!4 Monty Ward ....,- .- 8954 Worth Amer. ; 9814 Penney (J. C.) .. 9914 Phillips Pet. , , H Radio . 914 Sou, Pac. 37 atd. Brands 19H St. Oil Cal. 4414 St. Oil NS.J. .. , 87 Trans. Amer. 14 Union Carb. .- 99 Unit. Aircraft. .... 98 U, 8. Steel .. ,109 San Francisco Butter. SAN FRANCISCO. May 8. (P) Butter, score, 90-33; 89-3114. George B. Davis (above), of Kan sas City, is the new president ol the United States Chamber ol Commerce, chosen at the annual meeting in Washington. Be sue eeoded Barper Sibley, of R Chester, N. Su ing the past week Idaho shipped 894 cars, and Oregon 109. Tonng Women Thrifty NEW ORLEANS (UP) Orandmotb ' er could take some lessons In shop : ping from the bride of today, ac cording to Mrs. Iris Walker, admin . Istratlve asslstsnt in the consumers division of the agricultural adjust ment administration In Washington. wno toured the south. - See "Three' Suns DOVER (UP) Citizens In this town still are talking about the three suns they saw recently. The extra two Strike In Waldport WALDPORT, May 8. (IP) A strike occurred here Monday when 98 work men on the 837,000 high school build ing, a WPA project, walked out In protest against Hubert Olet, Port land, architect's Inspector, for his at titude toward carpenters, R. E. Brown ell, chairman of a protest committee. ssld. Next Sunday Is Mother's Day Sends cards to make all mothers happier. SWEM'S GIFTS Plan Josephine Flag GRANTS PASS, May. 8. P Jose phine oounty will have a flag of Its own If some artist will provide the design for the county court. The Redwood Empire association la pun ning a flag display at the Oolden Gate bridge fiesta. The eight Call-1 SALESMEN WANTED QUICK $50 to $100 per week, for live wire go getter's. Fast money, New Deal, Commis sions daily. Give Phone. State age and ex perience. Address Bos 1465, Mail Tribune. by'Silver DolIar"Brady SACRAMENTO, May fi. (AP) Churning cream butterfat: First grade 37; second grade 30. Cleanup Of Spuds Visioned On Coast PORTLAND, May 0. (JP) C. J. Hansen of the federal marketing bu reau, said today northwest potato stocks are moving rapidly and neither dealera nor growers are afraid old supplies will remain unsold before new shipments reach any consider able volume. Prices In the Klamath and Yakima districts held firm, he reported. Dur- I 17 $fe (---.-Ii E ArlliliaO V A NTAG E IN 0Urv 10-MINUTE DEMONSTRATION 'tV'jjJrry Ons rids on the U. S. Korsl Master will ps-emenn tnd feel how sharp, clean V jlX1 prove to you s new driving control rut rihi bite down, uke bold-fo-mii .w " . TO -7 beor. sv.il.ble. iU. .aUi. . ;.ro ' You slop Dri,, down strep. ilipr-ry hills .nd We will gUdly arrange to hs you I ... 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