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MEDFORD MAIL TRTETTXE. MEDFORD- OREnON, FRIDAY. OCTOBER 14. mas, PAOE SEVEN DEFER DECISION IN A5KAIIIT.RUF- II 1 I IVUI IUL.I UIIUU, Til FIIF MUFFS Decision In the assault caaes against Pearl Rboaclaa and Olen Huber was held under advisement by' Judge Wil liam R. Coleman today pending the filing of briefs. Preliminary hearing and trial of the casea were completed In Justice of the peace court late yesterday alter an all-day session. Miss Rhoades Is charged with an assault wltb a dangeroua weapon upon Ida Huber, divorced wife of Olen Huber. Huber la charged with an assault and battery upon his former wife. m Self-defense was pleaded by the de fendant at Huber's trial on the mis demeanor charge and Miss Rhoades' preliminary hearing on the felony charge. . Both Mlsa Rhoades and Huber took the stand and testified Mrs. Huber started the assault In the yard of Miss Rhoades- home at 131 North Qrape street the evening of Octo ber S.whlther she had gone to ask Huber for money and had encoun tered the couple sitting In a car. Both defendants stated that Mrs. Huber tried to choke Huber by pull lng his necktie, beat him wltb a stick and threw rocks at him and Miss Rhoades. Mlas Rhoades testified that she hit Mrs. Huber over the head with an Iron stove poker only after Mrs. Huber had failed to heed her warning to let go of Huber. Charles W. Reamea of defense coun sel cited authorities In an effort to show that a host haa the lawful right to go to the defense of his guests, contending Huber waa a guest of Miss Rhoades. District Attorney Prank J. Newman, who prosecuted for the state, asked time In which to file a brief covering the law In the ease. Defense counsel asked permission to file an answering brief. Both requests were granted by Judge Coleman. THEFT OF DRUGS SEATTLE, Oct. 1.(AP) Traced bv aerial numbers on narcotics cap sules, Wallace Warren waa being held today at Cooa Bay, Ore., on cnargea oi holding up St. Luke's hospital and a service station here a montn ago, Detective Capt. Marshall O. Scrafford said. The capsules were found when he waa arrested on a charge of aasault with robbery at Coos Bay, Captain Scrafford aald. Approximately 2,500 gralna of narcotics and 135 were taken In the hospital holdup and (41 at the service station. Robbery charges were tiled against him here yesterday. He was linked with the service sU' tlon holdup because the handwriting on threatening notes In both holdups were similar. i ' Crisco Contest Is Announced ; Awards In Cash Says Kiess Procter and Oernble. the makers of Crtsco, well known shortening, are announcing, through . an advertise ment lntoday'a Tribune, a new na- tlon-wlde contest. Every week for six weeks they are giving away a first prize of $100 a month for one year. 3 second prizes of 25 a month for one year and a total of 1300 West- Inghouse Automeal Electric Roasters. Entrants axe required to write only 35 words or less to complete the sen tence "I like today's finer Creamier Crisco because," and mall their en try with an outside wrapper from a can of Crisco. T. W. Kless, the southern Oregon representative for Procter and Gam ble la In Medford this week to co operate with local Crisco dealers by supplying them with official entry blanks. 4 Obituary Mrrna V. Rosembalm Myrna Verlene Infant daughter of William and Vera R. Rosembalm of Medford psssed away at their home Thursday evening, suffering a very short Illness. Besides her father and mother she leaves one sister and one brother, Marlene Arden and William. Jr. Euneral services will be announced n Sunday paper at the Conger funer 1 psrlora. ' , ' Rllraheth Ann Wllhlte Elizabeth Ann Wllhlte. a resident if Eagle Point for the put 18 years psssed away In Central Point Friday morning at the age of 87 years. She was born In Shelby county, Indiana, and In 1879 waa married to Ellas D Wllhlte at Independence, Kansas. In 1891 they came to Oregon and sine that time have made their home' In Jackson county. Pot many years they lived a Beagla, She l survived by one son. Clarence Wll hlte. of Butte Palls. Puneral services will be conducted nt the Conger funeral parlors Mon day at 11 a. m. Rev. J. P. Bray will have charge of services and Inter ment will be made In the Antloch cemetery. I.eclon Head Kees FDR WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. (API Stephen P. Chadwlck of Seattle, new national commander of the American Legion, waa preaented to President Roosevelt today by Secretary Wood ring. Chadwlck Invited Mr. Roosevelt to make an Armistice day address at Arlington national cemetery. ' Rumania War l-nrd Quits BfCHARBST. Rumania. Oct. 14 tt.Pl Gen. Alexander Arfessnu. mm iner of war. and Oen. M Olatt undersecretary of wai, resigned today. . 25,000 Women Seek Jobs as Charwomen 1 ! s7Z&VW i m . j r a jmrw - 3 I 1 VL v Police lines were1 broken and a riot was threatened In Washington, I). C, when a crowd of women, esti mated by civil service commission officials at 2.V000. stormed a police station In an t-ffort to oMiitu appli cation blank for jobs as charwomen In federal buildings. Only 1,500 women got application blanks, al though harried officials had Intended distributing 2.000. The Jobs w 111 pay $1080 a year. TEN-YEAR TERMS PORTLAND. Ore.. Oct. 14. (AP) Two blank-yed Chinese who spoke and listened to the court through a pretty Oriental Interpreter were each sentenced to 10 years In a federal prison and fined 110 today for smuggling the largest shipment of narcotics Into this port in SO years. The men. Cheong Shao Hslng. 36. and Sing Kgon Bow. 37, pleaded fcullty when they were arraigned yes terday. Government agents said the cus toms value of the cache found on the freighter Granville In July was $90,000. They estimated the returns on the smugglers' market would have been about $200,000. Hslng took the sentence passively, but Bow asked through the Inter preter, Mary Hong, If he could be deported. "Tell him I'm trying to do some thing he doesn't like," replied Judge James A. Pee. Carl Donaueh, United States at torney, said the men were "tools" and "taking the rap for higher ups." RAIN, NEAR-GALE SWEEP FLORIDA JACKSONVILLE. Pla., Oct. 14. (AP) Rain and near-gales swept the south Florida peninsula today while a tropical storm of moderate Intensity moved slowly across the lower part of the state from the Gulf of Mexico The weather bureau, emphasizing the storm was not a hurricane, said the center of the disturbance was about 180 milea west northwest of Key West at 9 a. m., eastern standard time. "It has spread over a considerable area with local squalls of from 40 to 48 miles an hour reported," the weather bureau advised. "The slow movement will cause squally weather to continue over south Florida and adjacent waters to day and tonight." THAT'S RIGHT, PRICES ARE LOWE! rwrni Ytii: ' ..AiiA TO BUter" Marro'- WhoConcOrape White Sap "oney ..SMS 4 ""M 1 -'It "111 fill I ACT TO PUT END TO MILL STRIKE PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. U.JP) Direct Intercession by the national labor relations board to untangle the year-long jurisdictional dispute at the West Oregon Lumber company appeared likely today. Nathan Witt, a board attorney, was Informed yesterday a trial evamlner's Intermediate report and recommen dations would be waived and the parties granted ten days to file oral arguments or briefs after receiving proposed findings and ordera. A trial examiner recently heard CIO charges the company descrlm lnated In favor of the APT. When the mill employed a CIO crew the AFL boycotted Its products. The company has been operating with AFL labor for several months. Factlonel disputes affecting the sawmill Industry since a year ago last August have toeen quiet since the West Oregon hearing. Labor and em ployer representatives said a decision in the West Oregon case might pro sent a solution to the entire contro versy. INDICT FUGITIVE E COQUILLE. Ore., Oct. 14. (AP) ' Robert Earl Rule, who escaped from a Pocatello, Idaho, Jail, was Indicted here yesterday on two charges of robbery while armed with a dan gerous weapon. Rule, atlas Wallace Crews, was ar rested at Portland recently by the FBI and accused of robbing Otto Shlndler, Bandon druggist, and Cecil Hartley, Myrtle Point rancher. Rule's companion. Robert Bower sox, pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to 30 years In the state prison. Another companion, Jamea Oliver Wayne, pleaded guilty. but has not been sentenced. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m. 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(AP) Prans Backes and Joseph Barna?k were exe cuted on the Plotzensee prison guil lotine today lor "esplcn.-'o over c long period." brlnglnR to 15 the mini ber of decapitations for esptonSfjc this year. . . Pilchard Catch 1.ea ASTORIA. Oct. 14. (AP) Oregon": 1938 Pilchard 1 uncling scaled aboti S3.983.000 pounds, consider ably le.c than tho 1937 haul. M. T. Hoy, mn ter fish warden, 'said today. War ronton operators received more than 85 per cent of the fish. One Imlustrlftl Death SALEM, Oct. 14. (AP) W. L. Small. Seaside siwyer injured Sep- . tember 29 at Worrenton, was th only fatality among 714 accidents reported during the week ended yes terday to the state Industrial accl- , dent commission. o o (ZD IN 1 1 Hffl afMHaaaBBaflH.JfffffffMHHHHHMMBMiaj PAROLEE ADMITS SEX SLAYING OF L. 17 PORT WAYNE. Ind., Oct. 14 (AP) Adrian H. Miller, 31. confessed the sex slaying of Alice May Glrton, 17, pretty brunette business college s:u dent. Detective Capt. John Taylor Id today. Miller lived Just across the hall In a Fort Wayne rooming house from wnere the gin s nuae ana ravisnea body was found early yesterday, her own bloomers stuffed down her threat to strangle her. Taylor said Miller, a native of Racine. Wis., had a criminal -record on the west coast. Captain Taylor aald MUler told him he waited until he heard How ard Zimmerman, 18. of Riga, Mich., leave the girl's room and then went over and knocked on the door. He quoted MUler as saying Miss Oirton objected, but the man forced his way in seized a pillow from the bed, smothered t her with It and then assaulted her. Main and Grape II y ohm D I II a at I J I. ' V CSdD GB 0 QES) Gl3 "After that." the detective said Miller told him, "everything went black and X don't remember.' Miller, who It from Racine. Wis., was arrested early today. He has been taking an engineering cours? at a technical school here. Taylor said he learned the man had received a federal sentence for Mann act violation In San Diego, Calif., in 1031, and served seven months before being paroled. Miller also spent some time in a San Diego psychopathic Institution In 1033, Tay lor said. The detective said Zimmerman told him he was In the girl's room from 8:20 p.m. Wednesday until 3:16 a.m. yesterday, but Insisted she was unharmed when he left. Miss O lrt on came here f rora her farm home near Winchester. Ind.. to prepare for secretarial work. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Qall Girton. Because her arm was crippled, the state rehabilitation de partment had been helping her through school. 4- nl Typewriter Thieves SEATTLE. Oct. 14. (API Robert E. Long and Ralph Stewart Cox were held In the King county Jail today facing a federal charge of stealing a government typewriter from Klam ath Palls, Ore., October 8. They were taken Into custody by Deputy tj, S. Marshal Michael Green, Use Mali Trltfune Want Ada. u.t MUST RAISE MONEY QUICKLY LFEEY ITEM TO GO AT COME EARLY AND STOCK UP FOR WINTER SALE STARTS SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15th URPHY'S MART fF lb, IMPROVED TONES IN I BOSTON. Oct. 14. P) The Com mercial Bulletin will say tomorrow: "The Improved tone noted In the wool market a week ago has been translated Into better prices. The market la definitely stronger and fine wools which were sold with some dif ficulty a few days ago at 09 centa are now difficult to purchase at 70 cents, clean basis. This Improvement has extended to the west, whore prices are quite up to the Boston level. Medium bright fleece wools maintain their position of relative dearneas. "Australian markets are firmer on the basis of keener continental com petition, although the pound sterling shows a disposition to decline again. "There Is better consumption at the mills, due In part, to the better demand from the automobile trade, and, In part, to better mend wear movement. 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