Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 01, 1937, Image 5

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FIVE TEN LOSE LIVES IN STATE DURING UNCLE SAM MOVES WEALTH TRIPLETS WED AT TRIPLE CEREMONY Thursday. The action was started (AP) Fred WUKams. 28. wa? dead DHiiy Invest I Rated. WASHINGTON, June 1. (AP) Senator Frederick Steiwer received word today from E. J. Griffith, Ore gon WPA administrator, that he ti Investigating a complaint about delay in modernizing the Long Creek, Ore-, water system. Form Apricot Pool. THE DALLES. June 1 (AP) Was co county apricot growers met to day to form a pool to handle the season's tonnage. The growers sold at a profit cooperatively in 1935. but the method was dlsconslnued last year because f a poor crop. by W. E. Savage and Bruce Fx who , today, victim of o:i unusual logging are seeking an injunction against accident. A Urge oak tree fell and crushed him to death as he was driving a tractor to the Casper Lum ber company camp. Woodsmen said expansion caused by a sudden rising of mo made the tree topple. the basic quota order Issued by the tat milk control board. . Strange Accident. FORT BRAGG. Calif . June 1 TO M"EDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD OREGON1". TUESDAY. JUXE 1. 1937. Wide Variety of Accidents Take Toll Over Week End Traffic Cliams Four (By the Associated Press) i Oregon looked back today on double holiday of play and counted ; a toll ot ten lives lost In accident. The score: Traffic, 4; drownings. 3; fall from cliff, 1: falling tree. 1; struck by train. 1: gun accident, 1. Catapulting 1000 feet from the Crater lake rim to the water's edge. Erma Thaley, daughter of a Medford minister, plunged to her death Mon- i day while snowballing with her brother and sister. i Sanders Charles Thompson. 45. i service station and beer parJor ope- i rator at Bright wood on the Mount Hood loop highway, waa killed Mon day when he fell nine feet Into a creek from a water wheel he waa in stalling. The accident was believed to have 1 occurred about 7:30 a.m., but the body, wedged between the wheel and Its foundation, was not found until late afternoon. Thompson, who ia single, came to Brlghtwood from Seaside about five months ago. Harold Austin. 29. Curry, died al most Instantly Sunday when struck on the back by a falling tree during a wind storm at Baker. He was on a picnic with friends. Margaret Almond. 17. Portland, drowned Monday while swimming In the Pudding river at Colvin park, two miles west of Barlow. Her companion, Louise Babcock, Portland, was rescued by Everett Churchill, Milwaukle. All were on a picnicl Deaths reported earlier over the week-end included Miss Erene Mc Knlght. Hebo. fatally Injured when a car in which she was riding struck a logging train at Sheridan; Clyde Ben field. 24. Portland, killed by the accidental discharge of a rifle while fishing on the Nestucca river; Ver non Wright, 5. Camae, Wash., killed In a traffic accident in Portland; Donald Butcher, 30, La Grande, struck by a freight truck, and Gor don Jorgenson, 13. who succumbed In a Salem hospital from injuries received In a motorcycle accident. Barely missing Jagged rocks, Lil lian DuNaan, Portland, escaped un injured when swept over Lucia Palis on the South Fork of the Lewis river north of Battle Ground, Wash., Mon day. The falls plunge over a 20-foot drop. Miss DuNaan ras swimming above the falls with Betty Donneberg. Portland, who was rescued when on lookers threw her a rope before, she reached the brink of the falls when caught In the swift current!"7 ".' COLLEGE DEGREE SALEM, June 1. (AiP) Governor Martin left here erly today for Cor vallis where the state college will confer upon him the degree of doc tor of awa. During the few minutes he was In his office the chief executive lauded the reception the governor's , caravan received in all California cities through which It passed. He stnttd that school children and busi ness people lined the streets, pre sented gifts, and generally applauded the 70-car group through their com munities. The governor returned from San Francisco Sunday night. Tonight Governor Martin will be the feature speaker at the Indian pageant at Chemawa, Indian school. More than 3000 persons attended the first day's program there yesterday at which time B. P. Irvine. Port land editor, gave an address paying tribute to tribal organizations. Find Pot of Gold. PRINCE ALBERT, Sask (UP) Two young girls went on an Imagi nary treasure hunt here and found one. The girls, Mazel Holm an. 14, and Margaret Myers. 8, dug up an old pall in which $200 worth of old coins and currency had been burled. This was the start ot spring moving lor the San Francisco United States mint, and shows employes starting to move eold. silver and olher nTetals from the historic Fifth and Mission stree mint to the new hurelar-nronf structure on unoer Market Street. FOR WORLD TITLE TULSA. Okla., June 1. UP) Ralph (Wild Red) Berry of Pittsburg. Kaa.. claimed the 175-pound wrestling championship of the world here last night by defeating Hugh Nichols of Hollywood, Cal., in straight falls Berry weighed 173, Nichols 174. Berry gained the first fall after 35 minutes when he slipped from a cradle spilt to. grab an Indian death- lock, and he employed the same lever age to take the second fall in 26 minutes. He pounded Nichols under the heart with elbow punches throughout the match. Berry, a product of the Kansas coal mines, has been wrestling 11 years and was a boxer before the turned to the mat game. Prolie Stevedore's Death. PORTLAND, June 1. (AP) Detec tives Investigated today a coroner's report that John P. Spauldlng, 46, longshoreman, died Sunday of a fractured skull and hemorrhage, re ceived May 20 during a scuffle at the International Longshoremen's as sociation hiring hall. Normal Building Dedicated. MONMOUTH, June 1. (AP) Campbell hall. Oregon Normal's ad ministration building, was dedicated yesterday at ceremonies in honor of two of the school's former presidents, the late Dr." Thomas F. Campbell and his son. Dr. P. L. Campbell. ACHESON STARTS BASEBALL DRILL A baseball school for all youngsters under 21 years of age will be started by Russ Acheson today at the new turf high school field. All boys of Medford and Jackson county intet ested are asked to report any time from 2 to 6 p. m. Acheson said he especially desired high school and Junior high players to report. Sessions will be held dally with the players furnishing only glove and tennis shoes. Bats, balls and other equipment will be avail able. Games will be arranged with teams in the same age-clnss from other cities, Acheson stated. Any playei showing exceptional promise will be turned over to the Medford Craters of the Southern Oregon league, he said . IMinrmmy Itourri Aide Dead PORTLAND. June l. (AP) Frank Ward, 60. secretary of the Oregon Pharmaceutical association for thir teen years, died at his home here yesterday after a brier Illness. His first drug store was in Salem, and he was graduated In 1901 in Oregon State college's first pharmaceutical class, LAWN MOWERSsharpened We 5M1 and del Sims Bros lei 261 23 N Mr CARTHAGE. N. Y., June 1. (AP) Wedding bells rang thrice in the Zehr family today as triplets Doris. Dora and Dorothy marched to the altar with three stalwart north country bridegrooms, two of them brothers. Prim in white satin gowns, the 24-year old sisters came to the small Methodist Episcopal church here from their home In nearby Croghan for the second time In 24 hours. Last night, the triplets, daughters of Mrs. Flora Zehr, a widowed farm mother, rehearsed the triple ctre mony as curious village folk watch ed. v Three times they marched up the aisle with their three sisters. Delia. Pearl and Florence, as attendants and grotiped themselves before the Rev. William K. Bradshaw. House dresses sufficed for the rehearsal and their black hair, freshly waived, was held in place by curlers. It was Dorothy and Dora who con ceived the idea of a triple wedding when they became engaged to Sher man Kloster and his brother, Fran cis, respectively, young Belfort farm ers. Then Doris completed the plan by accepting the proposal of Dewey Hill of Lyons Falls, also a farmer. The Kloster brothers and the trip lets grew up together In the same school district In northern Lewis county. After e reception, the triplets, plus new husbands, planned a honeymoon trip to Belolt. Ohio, to visit relatives. JUNE VALUES LIKE THESE DON'T COME OFTEN . . America's EJuammlbeip II A NO i AT A SAVI NGS OF Uc Salem Milk Test Cm. SALEM, June 1. (AP) Following 11 months of legal Jockeying the grade A milk law as It applies to Salem producers, will be tested in '? circuit coxiTt of Marlon county Phone S42 We'll nam awa; youi retuse City danitar? 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