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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
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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.
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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. (IP) An
Italian citizen of German or
igin and three other persons
were arrested at Liege today
on espionage charges.
Police said the Italian oper
ated a small cafe frequented
by soldiers, and that in his
room there was a general staff
map of the Cheratte region, as
well as a machine-gun and
pistol.
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