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PAGE TWELVE MTOFORD MAIL TRIBUTE, afEDFORD, OREGON. THURSDAY, JUNE 16. 1933. BARRED JULY 1 IN YORK STATE Couples Will Have at Least a Week to Thihk It Over Under New Desmond- Breitbart Legislation. By Mary Elizabeth Plummer. NEW YORK, June 16. yp The dawn Gretna Oreen, marriage after t lark In a night club oon will be a thing of the put in New York atate. BeBlnnlnjr July 1, every marrying couple will have at least a weak to think It over before going to the altar. On that day. the new Desmond Breltbart marriage law becomea ef fectlve, barring hafity matrimony. In the Interest of the future health of the race, by at least an addllonal four days. A 72-hour Interval now Is re quired bo t ween license and ceremony. Blood Text Needed. Required by the new law: A pre marital examination and blood teat of both the man nnd woman, showing them to bo free from syhllls In a communicable form. Instead of going to the marriage clerk flrjrt. the prospective bride and groom; mitat go to their doctor, who makes an examination and arranger, for a blood test. The physician of each sends a blood specimen to an approved laboratory, which send a confidential report to the physician after analysis. This ordinarily requires four days. Without the physician's certificate of a clean bill of health nnd the Inn oratory statement that the test waa conducted, no licerwe will be Issued. With their license application, the couple must present to the clerk only one extra paper a form filled la at the top by the laboratory director and below by the physlclsn, to be filed with the license clerk. No Publicity. Acting Health Commissioner Wll 11am H. Beat said no publicity of my kind will be possible under the new law. "Persons undergoing the teat may rest assured that no person other than their physician and the department of health would be sole to learn if either of them was suffer ing from syphilis. " If the examination by the physician Indicates that the lnfec tlon Is not at a stage whereby the disease may become communicab'e. he may properly sign the certificate to be submitted to the marriage He ense clerk, and a marriage license can be issued." T Cherries will not be brined here this year tts was done a year ago, an Amer ican Fruit Growers bulletin said to day. This removes an Important out let for the Rogue valley crop. Last year practically all surplus cherries of the valley were processed by American Fruit Growers hore for canneries and other concerns market ing the fruit as marachlnos and In other forms for home, club nnd hoto'. use. The deal brought aa much as six cents a pound to the growers. This year, however, large crops of cherries In California and northern districts have provided the canncrs and brlners with all their needs, the company bulletin aald. The bounte ous crop has depressed prlcps, th-3 bulletin added. BY WIFE'S LOVER AUTHORITIES TOLD Woman Confesses Spurring Younger Man to Hold Husband's Head Under Water; Children Witness Never Heard Of It BIRMINGHAM, Eng. iff) Summon ed for speeding, a motorist here said ho had been driving five ymrs wltl out a license and didn't know he needed one. He was lined 917.50. "'Pec MM JW0 id.... 'arnr,. at j.. '"17 A cft ill L?"P Or? "'ina . Pen-.., r anrl run- yoi, R-A.' ,1 B A RTLE8 VTLLE, Okla., June lfl. (AP) Murder charges alleging a farm woman directed her lover to drown her husband so they could be free to move to a city together was filed against the pair here today. Neighbors of Benjamin Franklin Matthews, 63, had been told he drowned Sunday while attempting to swim a riooded slough on his farm. County Attorney R. K. Harris said he had oral statements from Essie Matthews, 37, the widow, and Leon ard Overcast, 37, Oklahoma City, ad mitting they plotted the death of the m ldd Ic-aged farmer. "We talked it over Friday," Harris quoted Mrs. Matthews as saying, "and I told Leonard to drown him. We talked It over every day." Sunday, "Leonard was standing In the slough," Harris quoted Mrs. Matthews as relating. "Frank (the husband) was on the other side. Later I went out and saw Leonard on this side and Frank in the slough. "I said: 'Push htm under like we said this morning push him under!' Leonard went back and caught him by the throat, pushed him back and under and held him until he drown ed. I stood and watched." Then, Harris said the widow told him, she turned to find that the children, Gcno, 0 nnd Rose Lee, A. had been witnesses to the drowning. Hho snld she threatened to whip the boy If ho told. Suspicion turned to the couple Harris said, when they came here to sell Matthews' goats. 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