The Weather
Foraeut: Pair tonight and
Saturday, bat with fo(; sllthtly
colder tonight.
Temperature
Highest yesterday 4J
Lowest this morning , 29
Costs No More
Medford
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Adr. for the Sunday morning
edition. It coeti no mora than
week -day advertising. Ads for
the classified pace mast be tn
by 3:30 P. M. Saturday.
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Thirty-Second Year (Twenty Pages Two Sections)
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1937
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Capital
Parade
By Joseph Alsop
and
Robert Kinter
Copyright 1037, by Tbe
North American News
, paper Alliance, Inc.
STRATEGIC MOVF. SEEN
IN ROAD FIND MESSAliE
BUDGET-BALANCING
ADVOCATES AT DISADVANTAGE
F. D. R. SEEKS FREE HAND
IN MEETING RECESSION
SWING TO LEFT EXPECTED
IF CONSERVATION FAILS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. The presi
dent's message of Tuesday, demand
ing heavy and Immediate cuts In fed
eral appropriations for state aid
roads. Is the real tip-off on the ad
ministration approach to the depres
sion. In the Inner circle of White
House, advisers, the message Is some
thing of a Joke. As one distinguished
brain truster remarked, it was writ
ten "with the tongue half. In. the
cheek."
That la not to say 'that the presi
dent doesn't consider the present
road appropriations ridiculously high.
He does. But his message also had
a secondary purpose. Senators and
representatives love road money hot
ter than life. A violent revolt against
the proposed cut In road appropria
tions la already in progress. Many of
the ' conservative, budget-balancing
Democrats are equalling against the
cut like so many pigs under a gate,
If the cuts go through, well and
good. If they are defeated, the mes
sage will have performed the useful
tactical function of putting the con
servatlve budget-balancers on record
as opposed to economy. And thus,
If tbe president suddenly decides to
stop economising, he will have a
cruel weapon In his armory for use
against the budget-balancers.
There you have, In miniature, the
complete strategy of the president's
approach to the present depression.
At the moment, some of .his uni
formed left-wing followers are ac
cusing him of having "gone Hoover."
They are quite wrong. He has, ac
cording to close advisers, two very
definite objectives In hl present pol
icy: to aTold being forced further to
the left than he has gone in the
past, and to get a free hand In deal
ing with the depression problem If
the business recession continues.
Tbe president has chosen to try one
stimulant and three sedatives as the
first cures for the .depression The
stimulant Is his proposal for a government-sponsored
housing boom, to
start the mill-wheels of industry
turning once more. The sedatives, all
Intended to soothe the gnawing ter
rors of the business community, are
bis promised tax revision, his pro
mised (and largely sham) concessions
to the utilities, and his promised
economizing.
The message calling for cuts in
road appropriations was Intended as
a sort of proof of the honesty of
the president's intention to econo
mize, a well aa a way of getting
potential trouble-makers behind the
eight ball.
None of the close presidential ad
visers, with the possible exception of
Secretary of the Treasury Henry
Morgenthau, Jr., believes that the
government can avoid heavily In
creased relief appropriations this
Continued on pape fourteen) .
Idnho Takes Opener
WALLA WALLA, nec. a. (AP) The
final gun halted a Whitman rally
as the University of Idaho basketball
quintet defeated the Missionaries 33
to 31 In the season's opener last
night. Belko and Winter starred for
i the winners.
SIDE GLANCES
by
TRIBUNE REPORTERS
Mrs. Carrie Puhl of Gold Hill en
couraging bigger and better egg pro
duction by installing a radio in her
chicken coop.
Cliff Cordy teasing a Wena tehee
horticulturist on the small amount
of spray used for codling moths In
this district.
Howard Mrrriam. here for the Hort
meat, recalling hla turbulent days In
the state legislature.
Ray Refer declaring no one should
mist the free frozen food exhibit and
sampling in the Elks temp: tonight
Sllrab!! Penarrl having reporters
rrfc un ah p-,-y rumors of a
f-tfeed plan landing.
RELIEF OF FARMER
1
Address Before Urban Audi
ence Is Viewed. As Trial
Balloon 'Balance the
Population' His Slogan
By WILLIAM S. WHITE.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3. (AP) Mayor
Florello H. LaGuardla's apparent na
tional political ambitions perhaps
the presidency floated aloft today
on an unmistakable trial balloon,
trailing this slogan : "Balance the
population!"
In language about as clear as the
diplomatic language of pre-actlon
politics ever Is clear, the mayor pro
jected himself last night Into a lar
blpger theater of operations than
the chief magistracy of New York.
Before a completely urban audi
ence LaGuardla who In the Nov.
2 city election became a local ms-tory-maker
as the first man ever
to beat Tammany and allied Demo
cratic organizations here twice in
a row put farm relief as the biggest
American necessity.
City A.i ii Irs Slighted.
He spoke at the 25th anniversary
dinner of survey associates, a re
search and publishing organisation,
1n an address that scarcely touched
at all on New York City and dwelt
at length on national policy.
The subject of the presidency he
Introduced however Jocularly in
manner near the start. Without
doing It In so many words, he re
called a public expression by Wil
liam Allen White the Kansas tdltor.
who sat on the platform last nlgnt,
that he (LaGuardia) was a presi
dential possibility.
'We have one man of great dis
cernment here," said the mayor
with a smile. "He Is Mr.-William
Allen White of Kansas. He said A
was good."
He turned almost Immediately then
to a denuncjatlon of any budget
balancing now, crying out:
"Wo must balance the population
when you've balanced the popuia-
( Continued on Page Nine.)
PUBLIC ASKED TO TRY
AT GROWERS' EXHIBIT
The annuel meeting of the Oregon
State Horticultural soclt.y will come
to on end with an exhibit of frown
foods In the Elks temple basement
at 7:30 this evening.
The exhibit was planned primarily
for the benefit of the general public
and everyone Is Invited, there being
no chorge of any kind. The display
ts sold to be exceedingly Interesting
and gives an Insight Into the latent
method of preserving foods. Samples
of the frozen foods, all fruits and
vegetables, will be presented to the
visitors.
. The exhibit Is In charge of H.
Campbell of the U. S. f roa n foods
laboratory In Seattle, Wash Mr.
Campbell will lecture .on the food
preservation process and answer
questions regarding use of froeen
foods In the home.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 3. (AP)
The Alnska passenger liner fukon,
which went aground In a henvy
snowstorm early today near .Valdez.
was refloated on a high tide at 10:16
a. m. (13:15 p. m., P. S. T.) and
proceeded under Its own power to
ward Vnldez, a message relayed to
coast guard headquarters here today
said.
Dual Unionism Major Bar
Facing Peace Conferees
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 (AP) Dual
unionism, an outgrowth of organised
labor's civil war, was the big ob
stacle confronting William Oreen
and John L. Lewis today In their
personal negotiations for a labor
peace pact.
They spent four hours yesterday
exploring all the possibilities for re
uniting the American Federation of
Labor and the Committe tor Indus
trial Orsnl7atlon. Then they re
ressod until 8 o'clock tonight with
out reaching sny concluslona on a
pecc psot.
Four men sat In the dramatic con
ference and weighed the chances of
merging the strength and resources
of iome 7.000.000 organlMd workers.
The CIO chlertAln. Lewis, was ac
companied by his principal strategist.
Phillip Murray, while Green was
supported by Oeorge M. Harrison,
ir1rtnt of tve Brotherhood of R11-
Mfthod of merging the labor fac
Western Rail Passenger Fare Boost Approved
Parents Slain,
POSTMEN TO TAKE
OF
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. AP )
Postmen who recently helped take a
census of '.ne unemployed turned to
pig counting today. They will leave
"pig census cards" In the mall boxes
of 750.000 hog raisers the country
over. .
The object la to determine the
number of hogs to be raised for next
year's market. The findings may
indicate whether pork prices will be
higher or lower.
No official notification of a pig
census has been received at Medfoti
postoffice, Postmaster Frank DeSouza
said.
PORTLAND, Dec. 3. (AP) The
Willamette Democratic society elected
William Prendergaat, Portland attor
ney, president yesterday. Tom Wold
was named first vice-president,
George Aiken, second vice -preni dent,
and E. O, Robinson; secretary treas
urer, tions, with the CIO throwing off It
separate Identity to heome an au
tonomous or semi-Independent agen
cy with the AFL, constituted the
first problem before the conferees.
Its solution, however, was said to
binge on the amaJgamstlon of dual,
or rival, unions In the same Indus
tries. Involved were such problems as
finances and Jurisdiction, and the co
terie of young and militant Lewis
follower leading the CIO affiliates
In the masi production Industries,
the mrttme trades, and tmnnporta
tion. Bitter Invective and crltlciim af
ter two years of strong language
were laid aside in the Lew'j.Green
meeting. It was learned they ad
dressed each other as 'Mr. Oreen"
and "Mr. Lewis, occasl'nally lapsing
Into Just "Bill 'and 'John lth the
eay fitmiMarUy of other o- -when
the labor movement had no family
feu.1,
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Boy Beaten
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Ma. V x
Five-year-oil! tarry Kuntz of Wheat
Basin, Mont., Khonn In a Columbia,
Mont., hospltul. was henteit Into un
consciousness by an assailant who
killed lits parent, Mr. and Mrs. Mike
Kuntz, and left thrlr bodies In an
automobile tn a grain elevator. The
boy awakened the next morning and
made lili way to town to . tell of the
tragedy. County Attorney p. R. llelly
said Fnink Itohtilemi, 38-ymr-ulrt far
mer (below) admitted the killings In
a quarrel over the title to 18(1 bushels
of wheat. (A. P. Photos.)
FRIENDS TESTIFY
EARL FEHL SANE,
IN THEIR OPINION
A score of witnesses testified today
In behalf of Earl H. Fehl, former
county Judge, In the trial to deter
mine his. sanity or insanity. The
courtroom was packed at the morn
ing session.
Most of the witnesses were ac
quaintances of Fehl over a period of
years, ranging from 13 to 35 years,
and most of these lay-witnesses test
ified In their opinion Fehl was sane,
but admitted they were not qualified
to Judge some held It was a matter
for alienists.
The Black Political Plot." a
pamphlet purportedly written - by
Fehl while he was a state prison In
mate, as well aa complaints, state
ments and articles written by Fehl,
figured In the cross-examination.
Several of the witnesses testified they
did not regard the pamphlet con
tents as "rational." Others testified
they hd never read the pamphlet
nor any of the recent complaints
which contain accusations against
state and county officials.
. A number nf the witnesses also
testified they had never discussed
with Fehl any of his "troubles," but
their conversations were casual or on
business mMtters., Attorney E. E.
Kelly, in cross-examination queries
(Continued on Page Four.)
KLAMATH VOTING ON
IMPROVEMENT BONDS
KLAMATH PALLS, Dec. 8. (AP)
Klamath palls voters went to the
polls today to decide the fata of
10 city Improvement bond Issue pro
posals and a npeclal 3-mlll levy meas
ure for flush coating streeta.
The 10 proposed bond latuea total
1187 000, ranging In aire from 63.
000 for new bridges over the govern
ment Irrigation canal to 16200 for
new snow-clearing equipment and an
addition to the city garage.
A light rote appears likely.
SMEDLEY BUTLER TO
SPEAK IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND, Dec. $. ( AP)-med-ley
Butler, retired major general of
the United States marines who or
ganized the state police in the late
Governor Julius L. Meier's admlnla-traM-m.
"rill pak here Mnrday on
the vrie-i'n of foreign war rampaln
egilnrt war.
JAPANESE YIELD
TO U S. MARINE
CHIEF'S PROTEST
Nippon Troops Withdrawn
From American -Guarded
Shanghai Sections After
Victory Parade Bombed
By James A. Mills .
SHANGHAI, Dec. 3. ( AP) Japan
ese troops bowed to the United States
marine command today and with
drew from American -guarded sections
of the international settlement after
a grenade explosion had Interrupted I
a victory march celebrating Japan- i
ese domination of Shanghai.
A Chinese student hurled tho hand j
grenade and momentarily broke 1
ranks of the 6.000 marching Japan-
ebe as they ncared the Wing On de
partment store In Nanking road, out
the parade was reformed and the
troops completed transfer from Jess
fteld park on the west to Hongkew.
Japanese sector east of the settle
ment. Clean Up Area
Immediately after the explosion
Japanese troop6, with gleaming bayo
nets, surrounded and cleared an area
of some 30 blocks around the scene.
Because a portion of the American
marines' sector was included a vig
orous American protest came immed
iately. The Japanese yielded and
withdrew from that section.
TVe grenade thrower was shot dead
on tbe apl by a Chinese policeman,
member of the settlement's force.
Three Japanese soldiers, one Jap
anese consular policeman and a
British police Inspector were wounded.-
Amid a flurry of panic, a Chlneso
threw himself from a tall building
Into the street in patriotic martyr
dom.
The Japanese withdrew from the
American section or the- BriUsn
Araerlcan guarded International city
at the insistence of Col. Charles F
B. Price, commander of the United
States fourth marines.
TenMon In Bettlentent
His action possibly prevented .dis
aster, for the parade had been held
(Continued on Pa Nine.)
TWO PILOTS DIE
IN MIAMI RACE
MIAMI, Fla.. Dec. 8. AP) -Two
airplanes crashed rounding a pylon
todAy in a feature iv.ee of Miami's
annual winter air ahow, the aiOOO
Silva trophy race for alrplnues of
649 cubic Inch displacement. First
reports to the control tower snld
the pilots, Rudy Kllng of Lemont. III.,
and Frank Haines of Detroit, Mich.,
were killed.
Carl Fromhagen, vice-chairman of
the contest committee, reported . the
two planes were demolished. '
He said apparently the two ships
struck the same down air current In
rounding the pylon and catapulted
to earth at almost the same moment.
Kllng was the big money winner
at the national air races in Cleve
land last September, placing first in
both tho Grove and Thompson tro
phy races.
OF
f. r:s trip
MIAMI. Fl.. Dec. (IT) Prenlilent
Roomvelt notified tompomrjr White
Houtt headquarterji hero t today thet
becaUM of elow healing of his In
fected irum he was cutting hit south
ern trip short by three days and
would return to Washington late
Monday, In order to jet proper treat
ment. Officials said the president's gen
era) health was eirellent but Mr.
Roosevelt evidently felt he should re
turn to Wsshlngton to get the dental
treatment he was obtaining before he
lett the White House November VI.
The president's message said the
yacht Potomac would leave th Dry
Tortus s Islands, some 300 mllm
southwest of here. ;-morrow after
noon and arrive In Mlsml around J
p. m. Sunday.
,
Plnre-Nex Intenfor IMea
ALBANY, N. Y.. Dec. S ,'APl-Dr.
Leo rrank Adt. 71. eye sperullit In
ternationally known for his Inven
tion of the pinco-ni-s type of eye
glass, died today of pneurr.orii. Dr.
Adt also was credited with the In
vention of the rapid pute emulsi
fied, devlr for coating photo
crspMc pletes, tri a prlntlr., frsm':
ix pbcwrepheia. .
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OF
Succeeds Col. Gordon Voor-
heis Eugene Is Picked
for 1938 Meeting Six
Resolutions Are Adopted
Truman Chase of Eugene was elect
ed president of tho Oregon State Hor
ticultural society at Its annual busi
ness session In the Elks temple late
yesterday afternoon. He succeeds
Col. Gordon Voorhels. Medford or-1
chanltst, and will serve for the 1338
term. i
Eugene was selected for next year's
meeting which will be th? society's i
53rd annual conclave.
Other officers elected wero Dan j
plorson of Hood River, first vlcer ;
president; Chester Fitch of Medford,
second vice-president, and E. A. Mc- j
Cormack of Eugene, third vlce-presl- i
dent. I
MeWhorter Ke-Elected. I
O. T. MeWhorter of Cor vail Is, ex- !
tension horticulturist of Oregon State
Agricultural college, was re-elected i
secretary - treasurer. Raymond R. !
Reter of Medford was re-elected a
trustee for three years.
Six resolutions were adopted and
the treasurer and auditor's reports
were approved. All votes were unan
imous. In an afternoon talk on the Ore-gon-Washtngton-Csllfornta
Fear Bu
reau, E. R. Pooley, associated with
American Fruit Growers, Inc., at Hood
River, predicted that tho time Is not
far distant when the four northwest
pear districts will be producing 8,
000,000 boxes of winter pears annu
ally lis against 3.300.000 for this year.
The four districts are Medford, Hood
River. Yakima and Wenatchee. His
predicted production, he pointed out.
did not Include that of California
which thla year became affiliate with
the pear bureau.
Itiirenu Held Need.
Such an organization aa the pear
bureau, supported by a per-box levy.
Is vitally needed to mark-'t such a
large tonnage, Mr. Pooley emphasized.
He traced the development of the
bureau, explained Its work and de
scribed Its methods of advertising,
sales promotion and education of the
trade to present the winter varieties
In proper condition for the retail
markets. He told of tho expansion
of markets and the Increase tn con
sumption through the efforts of the
bureau, emphasizing that on a rela
tively small bifdget the bureau had
widened distribution and stepped up
sales to a point never reached before.
At the resumption of lecture ses
sions after lunch. R. A. Work, em-
(Continued on Page rnrm.)
t
MET THIS EVENING
A meeting of turkey growers will
be held at the Jackson county court
house auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock.
County Agent R. O. Fowler called the
meeting to discuss matters relating
to the asserted turkey boycott In San
Francisco, AH turkey growers were re
quested by Mr. Fowler to attend.
Duces Mouthpiece Aims
Bitter Editorial at U. S.
. MILAN Dec, 8. (AP) Premier
MuMcllnt's newspaper Popolo D'lUlla
today accused the United States,
Britain and France of planning "eco
nomic strangulation" of the "have
not ' nations.
II Duoe'j frequent mouthpiece, In
cne of the bitterest editorials It has
published In recent years, said:
"To believe the history of the world
can be crystallzed by defining as
active or potential aggressors the poor
peoples who hare the sacred right
not to resign themselves perpetually
to the too sharp Inequality in the
distribution of tho earth's goods Is
an effrontery In rcrltably nitradem-ocr.-itio
style."
(Presumably the editorials' refer
ence t.) the "poor peoples" Included
raa 1st Italy, Nasi Germany and
Japan).
The article, generally axcrlbed to
Mussolini's pen, declared that the
only answer to what It termed the
program of "economic strangulation"
was ft ' t!mfly and whole hartcd
j separation of spirit and arms.''
Despairing Mother"
Ilrr only child flcnrilhly beheaded
and tier hiistmnJ In Jail, Mrs. James
lllller. 23, of Samluxky, O., stares
hlanKly Into a seemingly futile future
at she contemplates the tragedy that
rnvi'lnped her. Police said Miller con
fessed lie hawed off the head of his
seven-mont hs-old son, Charles. The
fiit her awaits sanity hearing. -
DOWN TOWN SALE
OF HEALTH SEALS
TO BEGIN MONDAY
The down town sale of the 1037
Christmas Seals will begin Monday,
Miss- Helen Bullls, chairman of
booths, announced yesterday. Booths
will be maintained In the post office.
Groceteria, No. 1, and Montgomery
Ward's.
Medford health workers wilt pre
side In the booths until December 14,
when Jacksonville and Talent will
send workers to play hosts In the
Oroccterla and the Montgomery
Ward booths. Jacksonville taking
the first place and Talent the second.
On December 30 Central point
health workers -will preside at the
Groceteria and at Montgomery
Ward'a and on the following day,
December 31, workers from Phoenix
will maintain the three, booths.
Residents of these towns are asked
to remember .the days on which their
committees will be In the booths
and to buy more than their usual
number of seals on those particular
days, for the proceeds will be re
turned to the communities to be
added to their an tl -tuberculosis
funds.
Tills Is the first year that adjacent
communities have .operated the
booths In Medford during the drive
for funds to combat ' tuferculoets
and Mrs. Robert Hart, tho 1937 coun
ty chairman, la anxious to see the
communities gain an Important sum
from this source.
All persons, who can. are urged
to buy seals from the booths. They
are Just a penny each and each
penny goes to swell the 14,500,000
brought in by seals annually to kill
the tuberculosis germ, which still
wreaks havoc In human lives.
Fall to Find oy's Body.
BEND. Dec. 3. (AP) Deschutes
authorities drained Mirror pond to
day, but failed to find the body ot
Larry Crowell 3, whose tricycle was
found In the water at the foot of
an embankment, Scores of searchers
waded over the muddy bottom. A
net was placed below the power dam.
The editorial obvlouaty reflected U
Duce's Irrlatlon over the political im
plications attributed by some quer
tere to pending negotiations of a
British-American reciprocal trade
agreement.
'To believe that these needy and
dynamic peoples (the "hare note")
can be Intimidated by the threat of
eccnomlo strangulation Is to give evi
dence of a colossal ignorance ertn of
a spiritual nature," II Popolo DTtalla
declared.
"We will never be Intimidated by
these Insulting threats but we take
note of and duly record these deli
cate proposals of strangulation, this
dpmcratlc noose which is supposed
to choke us."
"The United States leaves to the
two Xuropeaj. democracies the task
of confronting tbe totalitarian states
on the field of arms, the editorial
said. "Britain never demonstrated
outstanding wsrltke tendencies.
""Recently It haa expressed reasons
fur whlrh the Kugllsh now have de
rided, as It once was said, to fight
to the last Frenchman'
EDICT FROM I.C.C.
TO TRAVEL COSTS
Principal Increase in Basio
Pullman Fares New
Rates Mean Additional
Transcontinental Costs
WASHINGTON, - Deo. ft. (AP)
The Interstate commerce eommtasloa
approved today a 13,500,000 passenger
fare Increase for western railroads.
The Increase will become effective
In ten days.
The principal boost la In baste)
Pullman car fares which will be
rlased from 3 cents per mile to 34
cents per mile.
S. P. Benefitted
Principal among the railroads af
fected by the increase are Union Pa
clflc: Northern Pacific; Minneapolis,
St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Paul A Pacific; Chi
cago St Northwestern; Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railway; the Atchi
son, Topeka te Santa Fe; the Mis
souri .-Kansas-Texas lines; the St.
Louts-San Francisco; Missouri Pa
cific; Southern Paclflo and Rio
Grande and the Great Northern.
Railway officials were authority fot
the estimate that the proposed in
reases would produce 13,000,000 year
ly In new revenue. The rates remain
below, maximums set by the commis
sion about two year ago. The maud
mums, are 8 cents a mile for Pullman
travel and 3 cents for coach fares,, ,.,
Pullman Fares Go Up
The new schedules Include a boost
In 30-day round-trip Pullman farts
180 per cent on the one-way 9-oant
per mile fares to 100 per cent of
the new 3 '4 -cents care.
A similar percentage Inorease wai
made In -30-day round-trip coach
fares although the basic 3-oent fare
per mile remained unchanged.
The schedule also provided an In
crease in first class elx-months
roundjtrlp fares from basis of 1 3-S
of the one-way first olass fares of 8
cents per mile to a basis of 1 3-6.
Likewise Included was 10 per
cent Increase In 12-month excursion
fares.
The Increase In special one-way
transcontinental coach fares now
based on Mi cents per mile will
amount to 14.5 per cent and the In
crease In round-trip transcontinental
six-month coach excursion fares will
be approximately 13.34 per cent.
Freight Rates Walt
The commission's action today had
no direct connection with the cur
rent hearing on a requested general
15 per cent Increase In freight rates
plus a half cent Increase in passen
ger fares on eastern lines. It may
be some months before that oase is
settled.
, Hearings In that case started Mon
day with testimony of railroad exec
utives who today were undergoing
cross examination by attorneys for
shipping Interests and various state
public service commissions.
In connection with this case the
Interstate commerce commission had
before It a motion by shippers op
posed to a flat 15 per cent rate
Increase for suspension of Increases
on various selected commodities
granted several weeks ago and are
to become effective December 90. '
The railroads refused to agree to
a voluntary suspension.
HIKES RETAIL TRADE
NFW TOnit, Deo. S. (AP) PIOM
bv expanding demand tor winter
merchandise and Christmas gift buy
lng. retail trade tilted upward thle
week and ran 8 to 13 per oant a bora
last year for the country as a whole.
Dun & Bradstreet reported today.
Wholesale buying Jogged along ua.
evenly, with replacement ordere gen
erally disappointing, but Tolume heat
t to 10 per cent abore a year ago
at this time.
Daring Gang Cet$
Refinery Payroll
LOCKPOHT, 111.. Dee. S-PV FIT'
men carrying m wed-off shotguna and
machine guns executed a daring pos
tal robbery today to escape with a
24.800 payroll aftor shooting a pos
tal clerk and abducting the chief of
police.
The robbery occurred outside the
IXKkport postoffloe as employes were
transferring cash mailed to the Pint
National bank ot Lockport to meat
the payroll of one of the Texaa com.
pany'a largest oil refineries. The
money was stolen aa It was belnf
carried Into the postotllce.
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