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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939. ECONOMIST AYRES BY BUSINESSOUTLOOK More Building, Heavier Ex ports, Department Store Gains, Among Predictions Cleveland, Dec. 13. (IP) Col. Leonard P. Ayres Is cheer ful about 1940 business pros pects. Industrial production will be indexed around 110, against about 105 this year, he said to day, and national income will attain some 71 billions against 1939's 69 billions. The Cleveland economist, who calculates he has batted .850 In the 17 years he has made such annual predictions, said "the war and the coming polit ical campaign make confident forecasting impossible." Nevertheless he predicted Building contracts probably larger than those of any pre vious recovery year, and the largest since 1930. Merchandise imports lower than '39, exports probably high er. Department stole sales high er than '39 but lower than '37. Railroad freight loadings prob ably exceeding 1939's, but by less than 10 per cent. Outputs of iron and steel probably not varying by more than 12 per cent from 1939's. Automobile production likely within 10 per cent of this year's. Commodity price inflation im probable New all-time high records likely- for petroleum refining, electric power output, tobaco products, airplane production. Wage payments within four per cent of 1937, when they reached peak levels since de pression's bottom. "In 1940," Col. Ayers declar ed, "we shall make rapid prog ress In our economic education. We shall choose a president not only over our politics, but also over our economics. "Unless we receive large war orders we shall know the re sult of our second great ex periment In pump-priming. By I year from now we shall prob ably know fairly well whether in the future the flow of new funds that is required to keep! Jobless Receive Tenth of Savings of Augusta Judge Augusta, Ga Dec. 13. (IP) Nearly 1,000 unemployed here received unexpected Christmas gifts today, a share in a "political tithe" distrib uted by 43 year - old City Judge Gordon W. Chambers. Judge Chambers, World war veteran serving his tenth year on the bench, said he mailed out approximately 1,000 checks averaging $1 each, a "dividend to the peo ple who have been so good to me." The money represented a tenth of his savings. Several checks were re turned, he said, by persons who had obtained jobs and were no longer In need. our economy from stagnation is to come in the years ahead from government subsidies or from private investments." EH IN STATE'S COLLEGES Portland, Dec. 13. (IP) The state board of higher education Tuesday approved a plan for extending temperance educa tion on the higher education campuses, subject to final in vestigation by Chancellor F. M. Hunter. " The plan is sponsored by the "Oregon Fellowship for Educa tion on 'Alcohol and Narcotics," and involves the use of William D. Bailey as lecturer and insti tute leader. Chancellor Hunter explained this is in line with a joint resolution of the last legislature requiring temperance Instruction, a mandate already put Into effect. Chancellor Hunter reported more than a 6 per cent increase In registration for the system this fall, but predicted that the period of rapid expansion is past and that enrollments will tend to level out. I Personnel items passed upon Uy the board Included: Southern Oregon College of Education Leave of absence without pay for Miss Lucie Lan don, assistant professor of music, from January" 1 to September 20, 1940. VESPER SERVICE BY GLEE CLUBS Annual Christmas Program Of Carols and Hymns to Be Presented For Public Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland, Dec. 13. (Spl.) The eleventh annual Christmas Vesper Service to be presented to the general public by the combined glee clubs of the Southern Oregon College of Education urftler the direction of Miss Louise Woodruff of the Music Department, will be held at 4 p.m., Sunday, December 17, In the college auditorium. The Vespers include familiar carols and hymns. The women's glee club In cludes: First Sopranos: Flora Stokoe. Lois White, and Mar garet Harrison of Ashland; Cher okee Seller and Joanne Guyer of Medford; Doris Robison, Bend; Martha Hassett, Brook ings; Norma Jean Wertz, Cli max; Muriel Samuelson, Marsh field; Marie McLaren, Rogue River; Second Sopranos: Grace Ren zema, Helen Wcstfall, Betty Danford of Ashland; Barbara Austin, Agnes Dunford, Cor rinne Harwood of Medford; Rosemary Dolan, Mildred ThomDSon. Grants Puss- Marl McLaren, Rogue River; Betty Liano, iwarshfield; Louise Harr, Jacksonville; Borgny Romtvcdt, Bonanza: and Ruth Dnuehnrtv Bend; Altos: Lois Firestone, Margar et Lininger, Francis Aikens and Kay Berastrom of Aahlnnri- T.. ola Lee, Rosemary Dolan of urams i-ass; ijynn tieals, Nan Goeller of Klamath Falls; Thel ma Messenger, Gold Hill; Marie Kerns, Summer Lake; Louise Logan, Bly; In the men's olp rlnh First . Tenors: KunnMh ThJ son of Portland; Kent Barber, brants fass; Chester. Robertson, Eagle Point; Warren Foster, Keno; . Second Tenors: rhimlr si gill; Ashland; Ralph Lamb, Eagle Point; Robert Clerk, Cor vallis; Leo Moulton, Wirt, Min nesota; uonam Vaughn, Trail; Baritones: Bennett Loftsgaard, Algoma; Roy Huson, Jim Taylor, Medford; Darrell Davis, Myrtle Creek; Eicoa Fuller, Ashland; Harold Grow, Eagle Point; Basses: Woody Mason, Med ford; Lelund Ammerman, Rogue River; Byer Putman, Ashland; Merrill Martin,' Beagle; Austin Haddock, Sprague River. The program follows: Familiar Carols Joy To The World O Little Town of Bethlehem Kolyada It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Silent Night Angela We Have Heard on High (violins) Lola Firestone and Francea Alkena Saint Joseph and Mary Slovenian, Ait. Salama S.O.C.E. Choir O Holy Night ......Adolph Adam Woody Mason Alsatian Noel Arr. Mlrande Treble Clef Club Adoration of the Shepherds Mediaeval Catalonlan, arr. Schlndler S.O.C.E. Choir Sing Joyously, Adore Him. .01d French, Arr. Damrosch Men'a Glee Club With: Marie McLaren. Muriel Samuelson, Barbara Austin Waan't That a Mighty Day? Traditional Negro Melody, Arr. Dett S.O.C.E. Choir Pat-a-pan..Burgundlan, Arr. K. Davis Lo, How a Rose o'er Blooming lflth century melody, Arr. Praetorlus Treble Clef Club Wake, Ta Shepherds .. Moravian, Arr. Salama Hallelujah Chorua from the "Mes- alah" Handel S.O.C.E. Cbolr E Ashland, Dec. 13. (Spl.) Mrs. Elizabeth Wulf, native Ore gonian and a resident of Jack son county for almost 80 years, died in her home here late last night after an illness of only four days. She was 83 years old. She was the widow of August Wulf. Mrs. Wulf resided most of her life In Jacksonville. She was born in Linn county and moved to Jacksonville with her parents when she was only five years old. A complete obituary was be ing prepared today and arrange ments were being made for fu neral services which probably will be held Saturday. Card of Thanks To those who so kindly assisted and to those who offered their as sistance and to the many whose ex pressions of sympathy were so com forting In the loss of our wife and mother we wish to offer our sln cercst thanks. C. W. Davis and family. TAKEN BY MOUTH PROVESEPEECTIVE Latest Discovery Eliminates The Bismuth Injections Tested For Four Years. Chicago, Dec. 13. (IP) A new drug for syphilis which Is the first of Its kind to be effec tive when taken by mouth has been released to doctors gen erally. The drug, a powder that can be swallowed in capsule form, was discovered at Stanford U.'s medical school and has been tested for almost four years in some of the nation's leading clinics. Formal acceptance of the medicine was given today in the Journal of the American Medical association by its coun cil on pharmacy and chemistry. It can be obtained only by pre scription. Injections Old Method. Heretofore the standard treat ment for syphilis has been alter nate injections of arsenic com pounds Into the vein and bis muth compounds into the hip muscles. The new drug, also a com pound of the metal bismuth and called sobisminol mass, permits clmination of bismuth injections but it must be taken in con junction with injections of one of the arsenical compounds. : Its discoverer, Dr. Paul J. Hanzlik, head of Stanford's pharmacology department, and his assoiates, found it would do what other bismuth com. pounds apparently were unable to do when taken orally resist digestion and penetrate the stomach and intestinal walls to be absorbed into the blood stream. $1000 FOR RELIEF Palo Alto, Cal., Dec. 13. (IP) Sonja Henie sent former Presi dent Hoover $1,000 for the Finnish relief fund yesterday, along with a telegram saying she prayed Americans would respond "unanimously to the cries for mercy and succor" of the. Finnish people. Hoover received the donation as he made ready to board a night plane to New York to take up his duties as national chairman of the fund. The Norwegian-born ice skat er and film actress, in Houston, Tex., on a tour, said Hoover's appeal for aid to Finland "made my heart cry out." TAFT WOULD BALANCE BUDGET IN TWO YEARS Boston, Dec. 13. (IP) On record for a balanced national budget "in about two years," Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio pressed the campaign for New England support of his Repub lican presidential nomination aspirations today with a "plat form" advocating assistance for business through elimination of the "evils of regulation." Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m. HD1RY BLOCKS Factory - Planer - Rough (Small) (Medium) (Large) A LOAD Valley Fuel Co. TEL. 76 26 W. MAIN RITES HELD FOR Funeral services were held December 11 at Arlington, Ore., for Robert Leonard Ferguson. Mr. Ferguson died at the age of 75 years. He was born at Willow Springs near Central Point, his parents being pioneers of that section. He spent all his life in Oregon, living at Oregon City, Condon, and later years at Arlington. In 1894, he married Marie Schirmer of Portland. Surviv ing are his wife, four sons and a daughter, and three sisters, Mary A. Abbott of Ashland, Clara C. Barkdull of Medford and Hannah E. Fisher of Ore gon City. BELGIANS NAB THREE ON SPYING CHARGES Brussels, Dec. 13. 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