MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939.
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X-Ray Evidence Corrobor
ates Theory Earl of Ox
ford Real Author of Plays,
By Gladwin Hill
New York, Dec. 13.
X-ray evidence that three world
famous paintings supposedly of
William Shakespeare actually
are of the Earl of Oxford in
terpreted as corroborating the
theory that the Earl was the real
author of "Shakespeare's" plays
was reported today by Charles
W. Barrell, photographis expert
and prominent Shakespearean
student.
After three years' research
and investigation with X-ray
and infra-red ray photography,
Barrell said in an article in the
forthcoming issue of Scientific
American magazine that he was
convinced the portraits had
been "doctored" soon after Ox
ford's death to conceal evidences
of nobility and protect the fam
ily name from the contempor
ary stigma of connection with
the theater.
"Doctoring" Revealed
The pictures are the "Ash
bourne portrait, of uncertain
authorship, in the Folger Shake
speare library at Washington,
D. C; the "Janssen" Shake
speare in the same gallery; and
the "Hampton Court" Shake
speare in the British Royal col
lection. X-ray pictures of the "Ash
bourne" portrait which he made
in 1937, Barrell said, revealed
under crude later additions to
the picture:
On a ring, the boar's head
seal of the Oxford family;
Hidden in the background,
the crest of Oxford's wife's
family, the Trenthams;
A large ruffled collar, an
appurtenance of nobility, which
had been reduced to more
bourgeois dimensions;
Forehead and hair strik
ingly similar to Oxford's, which
had been disguised;
In the background, the ini
tials of Cornelius Ketel, a great
Dutch painter, to whom Bar
rell attributes the picture.
Alterations Found
'An age inscription, identify
ing the subject as Shakespeare,
also was analyzed, he said, as
a spurious addition.
Barrell found similar altera
tions in noble dress in the other
two pictures.
The claim of the Oxfordians
was first advanced seriously in
1920 in J. Thomas Looney's
"Shakespeare identified in Ed
ward De Vere, the Seventeenth
Earl of Oxford." Like the Bac
onians and those who argued
in favor of the authorship of the
Earls of Rutland and Derby, the
Oxfordians proceeded upon the
prior belief that the Stratford
actor could not possibly have
written the works attributed to
him.
The Earl of Oxford was a
lyric poet of some merit and
had befriended many men of
letters.
Livestock
Portland
Portland, Ore., Deo. 18. (AP-U.S.
D A.) Hogs: Salable 600, total 1100,
market unevenly 103 26c lower, good
choice 165-215 lb. drlvelns 6.16.
few outstanding lots (6.25 early, 230
270 lb. butchers 65.50 8. 65, light
lights $5,509.76, packing sows 64
9. SO. choice light feeders 66.75,
heavy stags 63.609.76, light weights
84.50.
Cattle: Salable 200, total 300.
calves salable 85. total 60; active,
about steady with Monday, few fairly
good 939 lb. fed steers 88.26, can-
nets 66, strictly good light steers
OF
SEA IFOOUDS
OYSTERS
Eastern
Olympias
Western
FROZEN FISH
King Salmon
Halibut ,
Pawns
Crab Meat
Shrimp Meat
Crab Cocktails
Oyster Cocktails
IMPORTED
8.76. few common-medium heifers
5.25 g 7.25, cutter-common cows
3.259.70. carmen 2.76, fat dairy
type, com 4.75 6.50. odd good beef
cows SO, young cowa eligible S4.50.
aaUaage bulls SJSeS. good beef
bulls 0.259.66, choice Testers SB
9.60, common-medium slow at 65
7.00.
Sheep: 400, market alow, steady,
load good-choice 95 lb. fed shorn
lambs 7,-ughtly sorted, good-choice
truck-In wooled lambs salable (7 60
.75, carload lots fed lambs eligible
S8. good-choice ewes quotable 93.50
4.25.
Chicago
Chicago. Dec. IS. (AP-TJSDA)
Hogs: 23.000: generally strong to 10c
higher than Tuesday's average; bulk
good and choice 160-240 lbs. S5.25
9.60, top S5.50; most 330-500 lb.
sows M.259.65: small lots on butcher
orders up to 64.75; extreme weights
around $4.
Cattle: 11,000; calves 1.000: fully
steady trade on strictly good and
choice yearlings and light steers:
early ton 11.25 on yearlings; sev-
eral loads 10.25all.10: heifers
steadv to 25c lower: vealers 10 down;
practical top weighty sausage bulls
7.25: fed heifers above s.ou, steaay.
Sheep: 8.500; late Tueslay, rat
lambs weak to 15o lower, mostly
1015c off. top 9.10: bulk 8.750:
natives 8.25e9; yearlings 7.50.75;
sheep steady; native ewes 3.75a4.25.
Portland Produce
Portland. Ore., Dec. 13. 9 But
ter, butterfat, eggs, cheese, steady,
unchanged.
Country meats: Selling price to re
tailers: country-killed hogs. Dest
butchers. 125 to 150 lbs., 8e8Hc:
vealers, fancy. iaie13c lb.; llght
thln. 9llo lb.; heavy910c lb.:
spring lambs, 14 8 15o lb.; ewes, 4 a Ic
lb.: good cutter cows. 7c lb.: can-.
ner cows, 6o lb.; bulls, 89'4c lb.
Live poultry: Nominal, buying
prices, Leghorn broilers, 1-13 lbs.,
12 lie lb.; do 2 lbs., 12y3c lb.; fryers
under 3 lbs., 13c; do 3 to 4 lbs.,
13c; roasters, over 4 lbs., 13c; colored
hens to 4 lbs., lb.; do over 4
lbs., 12iAc lb.; Leghorn hens, under
3'A lbs., 8'4c lb.; over 3 lbs., 9',4c
lb.; No. 2 grade, 6c less.
Onions, potatoes, hay, wool, steady,
unchanged.
Portland Wheat
Portland, Ore., Dec. 13. (API
Grain: (wheat) Open High Low Close
May 83 .85 .83 .86
Dec 8214 -82H -8414
Cash grain :
Oats, No. 2, 38 lb. white S25.75.
Barley, No. 2, 46 lb. bearded white
26.75.
Corn, No. 2, eastern yellow ship
ment $27.
No. 1 flax S2.02..
Cash wheat (bid):
Soft white 84c, western white 84c,
western red 83c.
Hard red winter, ordinary 83c, 11
percent 83c, 12 percent 87c, 18 per
cent 90c, 14 percent 96c.
Hard white, Baart ordinary 86c,
12 percent - 90c,- 13 percent--93c,- 14
percent 96c.
Today's car receipts: wheat 12, bar
ley 2, flour 10, corn 3.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, Dec. 13. (AP) Wheat
prices soared five cents a bushel
here today, December delivery selling
at 61.02, highest for any future
since October, 1937.
All deliveries of wheat, rye and
soy beans and December oats were
swept Into new highs for the season
or longer as a broad buying move
ment developed In the grain mar
ket. Dollar wheat was reached at the
outset, and the market later develop
ed greater strength as rye forged
ahead to score gains of as much as
6 cents, with December at 69
cents a bushel.
Wheat closed 34 higher, De
cember 1.021.02. May 99c;
corn 154 8 2 higher, December
56, May 67; oats 1
1 higher.
(wheat) Open High Low Close
Dec. 1.00 1.02 .98 1.02
May .97 1.00 .96 .99
July St .97 .94 .97
Wall St. Report
New York, Dec. 13. VP)
Rallying power came back to
the stock market with a rush
today and favored issues went
ahead fractions to around 3
points.
Volume Increased on the boost
and transfers approximated 1,-
FRESH FISH
9ilverside Salmon
Rock Cod Red Snapper
Fillet Cod Flounder
Frog Legs Crabs
PREPARED Fish
Salt Herring Mackerel '
Spiced fc Smoked Herring
Spiced Pawns
Fillet Haddie
Clams Clam Chowder
Clam Nectar
STOCK FISH
B EAUTY American girls
might look enviously at the
oriental charm of Miss Chlnr
Tsin Kuo, Chinese newspaper
correspondent who Is visiting
U. S. She expects to see Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt. She called
Jap bombing "worst in history."
000,000 shares compared with
612,150 in yesterday s listless
dealings.
The broad strength ac
companied another" wide ad
vance in the speculative com
modities, and was overdue, some
analysts said, in view of the
usual rule that stocks follow
staples fairly closely.
Brokers said the stimulus for
the move was probably largely
in the booming commodity mar
kets. Tax adjustment selling was
noticed but was easily absorbed.
Today's closing prices for 32 se
lected stocks follow:
Al. Chem. 4c Dye . 175VJ
Am. Can 113
Am. As Fgn. Pow 2
A. T. It T 17034
Anaconda .. 31
Atch. T. & 8. P 24i
Bendlx Avla 30
Beth. Steel 83
Caterpillar Tract , 67
Chrysler 88?,
Com, Solv - M 13
Curtlss-Wrlght 10
DuPont 18014
Gen. Elec 39 '4
Gen. Poods 46
Gen. Mot 54'i
Int. Harvest 62
I. T. & T 414
Johns-Man 75
Monty Ward 64
North Amer ,. . 22
Penney (J. 0.) 9174
Phillips Pet 39
Radio 6
Sou. Pac - 15
Std. Brands - 5
St. Oil Cal 24
St. Oil N. J. . 42
Trans. Amer. 6
Union Carb. 86
Unit. Aircraft
U. S. Steel
6B
Pear Markets
Yesterday
New York, Dec. 12. (AP-USDA)
Pears: 0 arrived, 6 Oregon, 3 Wash
ington, 1 California unloaded, 31 on
track, Medford Bosc 27B extra fancy
$1.702.10, average $1.93; 773 fancy
1.4O.90, average (1.75; 720 No. 1.
$1.80(2.40, average $2.12; Anjous
185 extra fancy $1.852.30, average
$2.04; 220 fancy $1.703.10, average
(1.88.
Chicago, Doc. 12. (AP-USDA)
Pears: 2 Oregon, 3 Washington, 8 on
track, Oregon Anjous, 440 extra fancy
$1.65(3 2,10, average (1.98; 300 fancy
$1.552, average (1.85.
San Francisco Butter
San Francisco, Dec. 13. (P)
(USDA) Butter unchanged.
Sacramento, Dec. 13. (fP)
Churning cream butterfat: first
grade 33V4c; second grade 31V4c.
'Be Home at 9'
Atchison, Kas. (P) Glancing
over the city ordinances. Police
Chief W. C. Linville came across
the old, almost forgotten, cur
fcv law. He revived it for the
Hallowe'en period because
there s been too much devil
try." The curfew ordinance says
all children shall be at home
by 9 p. m.
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HELO BY SCOUTS
OP TROOP EIGHT
Boy Scout Troop 8 of Mcdford
held its sixth court of honor in
Eagles hall last night, with first
class merit badges being award
ed to Marshall Williams for
handicraft and James Hoey for
dog care.
Don Knips received second
class ranking and Mrs. O. Knips
was given a second class moth
er's pin. Tenderfoot investitures
included: Aubrey Davis, James,,
Gilliam, Bill Hedrick, Darrelt
James, Gene Neff and Barton
Thomas.
Sea Scout Ship Rogue of
Grants Pass visited the court
of honor, the members includ
ing Skipper Ralph Thompson,
First Mate Bob Manchel, Sec
ond Mate Jiggs Grimm, Bugler
Ed Anderson, Yeoman Ken Wil
liams, bos'n-mate Doren Taylor,
Coxwain Jim Taylor and Sea
men Francis Bormuth, Bill Mag
nus. Don Samune, James Shav
er, Roy Simpson and Candidate
Forest Frost.
Also visiting the court of hon
or were the following members
of Medford Troop 7; J. K. Hoey
nnrl T-T 1 in n c rrnr nnmmif.
tecmcn; Dick Smilh, Bill Hall, I
Rodney Witham, Elmer Bashaw .
and Bob Holmes.
Other visitors included Mrs. '
I. L. Gay, Miss A. Andrews
and A. A. Neff; Jack Thomp-
son, scoutmaster of Medford
Troop 3; and Don Welch, skip
per of S. S.. S. 8. Irving P.
Beesley, scout executive, was al
so present.
Troop 8 committeemen at
tending were Ivan L. Gay, O.
Myers and Stanley Jones. Mem
bers of Troop 8 were Clyde C.
Fichtner, scoutmaster; Austin
Murray, assistant scoutmaster
and Chester Cole, Don Barrow,
James Gylmn, Francis Dooley,
Norman Vance and Warren Wil
liams, IN GALICE DISTRICT
Grants Pass, Dec. 13. W)
County Health Officer Dr. S. B.
Osgood said yesterday he be
lieved John Sappe, 76, of the
Galice mining district, died Sun
day after a frantic search for
medicine to relieve an attack of
Asthma.
His cabin furniture was over
turned and contents of shelves
spilled.
The body was discovered out
side 100 feet from the doorway,
Dr. Osgood concluded that
the man, known to have been
an asthma sufferer, failed to
find the medicine and ran into
the open air and collapsed.'
Wild West
Portland, Dec. 1 1 (P) A. H
Carpenter decided the west was
still reasonably wild Sunday
morning. He found a deer graz-'
ing on his lawn. It turned out
to be the pet of Thomas Nichos,
Scholls Ferry road, which had
escaped its pen.
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