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3308T7 5 1 4 i LOCAL and Phoenix Health Unit The Phoenix health unit will meet Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Stewart Porter. A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon. Visiting Relative Miss Bettv Vincent of Hillcrest Orchard is visiting her uncle and aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mueller of 905 West Tenth street. Back from Kansas Dr. George S. Jennings returned Friday from WInfield, Kas., whither he and his brother of Portland had been called by the death of their mother. Visit Here Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Hale of Gilchrist were guests here during the holiday period of Mrs. Hale's mother, Mrs. Almeda, Budge. Mr. Hale is principal of the high school at Gilchrist. Arrested Four mnn were ar rested by city police and charg ed with drunkenness over the week-end. They were listed as John Enright, Arthur P. Close, Carl J. Scott and D. Bingham. All were to be arraigned in city court tomorrow. Fishing Poor Steelhead fish ing in the Grants Pass area turned poor Saturday and will probably continue poor until the current storm ends. Glen Wooldridge, river guide, inform ed the Mail Tribune today. Dinner Guests Carl Boswell, former speech instructor at Medford high school and critic for the Toastmasters' club, who has been a New Year's guest at the home of Mrs. Alice V.Trowbridge, 905 West Tenth 1 street, was a guest of honor . during his stay at a dinner at 'the D. D. Davis home. Mrs. Trowbridge also was a dinner guest. Mr. Boswell and his wife now reside in Oakdale, Cal., where Mr. Boswell is em ployed in the schools. Skiing Poor Conditions for skiing in Crater Lake national park were described by rangers today as poor. Rain Saturday spoiled the skiing and no new v snow had fallen to give the ground cover a fresh topping. Weather this morning was cloudy, visibility zero, the ran gers said in their daily short wave radio broadcast. Park roads were mostly clear of snow though in spots there was slush. The snow was wet and had settled to a depth of 30 inches at headquarters. Lowest tem perature during the' night was 32 degrees. Happy New Year a gift 0366 days ALTHOUGH THERE'S a ii popular belief to the con trary, 52 weeks do not make a year. Fifty-two times seven always comes out 364 and that's not enough daysfor an ordinary year let alone a Leap Year like the one just ahead. Even 366 days do not make a complete year unless they're happy days. We wish you a happy New Year one made up of 366 days, complete in their fulfill ment. For most people in these times, that will mean an eve ning spin, many a week-end junket, and at least one annual vacation trip that's really am bitious. To your pleasure In these things we'll continue to con tribute, as in the past, to the best of our ability. Wherever you may go, wherever you al low us to serve you, this Com pany will do all it can to make your travel carefree. Our hope is that in the New Year you will establish new records for miles of happir:ss to the gallon. Once a New Year meant lit tle more than a fresh measure ment of time. Now it means anticipation of new places, new people, new experience be cause gasoline has given to ev ery man a pair of seven-league boots. Such magic is our busi ness and your opportunity to make more of the coming 366 days than of any which hare gone before. Standard Oil Company of California PERSONAL Bus- Cancelled The special bus chartered by the Rogue Snowmen to convey winter sportsmen to Crater Lake na tional park yesterday was can celled. Saturday's rain made skiing conditions in the park unfavorable and the Snowmen decided not to inaugurate their transportation inovation under such an inauspicious situation It was to have been the first time that such transportation hadheen made available, spe cial permission raving been re ceived from the national park service to run the bus into the park. Plane Passengers Mrs. J. A Sloan arrived from Portland by United Mainliner this forenoon and C. L. Hubble of Klamath Falls left on the same plane for Denver via Sacramento. The plane, bucking strong head winds, was a little late. Rich ard Culbertson, who had been home on a holiday visit, left bv Mainliner last evening for Oak land, Cal. He was to continue after a brief stop in Oakland to San Diego, Cal., where he is employed as an aeronautics mechanic supervisor. Miss Eu nice Davis left for Portland by Mainliner yesterday afternoon. A heavy wind from the south today was delaying planes from the north and accelerating planes from the south. The northbound planes, carried along by a 60-mile wind, were arriv ing ahead of schedule. EH. TAKEN BY DEATH George H. Morris, passed away at a local hospital Satur day evening following a brief illness. Mr. Morris was born in Nodway County, Missouri in 1871 and after spending his ear ly manhood there, moved to North Dakota where he was uni ted in marriage to Elvira May Devoe. They came to Medford in 1911 and have made their home here since. Besides his wife he is sur vived by his aged stepmother Mrs. Mary Morris of Gordon, Neb., six sisters, Mrs. Niels Peterson, Mrs. Will Coon. Mrs Joseph Skinner, and Mrs. Ben Skinner all of Gordon, Neb., Mrs. Bert Evans of Stockton Calif., and Mrs. Ben Dal Porto of Oakley, Cal., also three bro thers, Hamilton and Ernest Mor ris, of Gordon, Neb., and James. Yakima, Wash. Also many nieces ana nepnews. funeral services will take place from the Perl Chapel on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. with a Christian Science service. Com mitment services and interment will be in the family plot at the Siskiyou Memorial park. Friends are respectfully invited to attend. FIRST 1940 BABY . STILL TO E The first 1940 Merifnrr! lhv has not been born yet. a check of local hospitals revealed this noon. The holiday season not only failed to bring forth a new baby on New Year's but there were none reported as having been born on Christmas day. Two in-between Christmas and New Year's children were oorn however on December 30. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin George of 227 Cottage street are the parents of a boy weighing six pounds, eleven and a half ounces born on the above date in the Community hospital. A baby girl weighing six pounds, one-half ounce, was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. E Hudson of 402 Boardman ave nue, at home. RILEY D. HENSEN PASSESJED 71 Riley D. Hei.sen. 71. Dassed away at his home Sunday morn ing auer a short illness. The deceased was born in r.run. wue, lenn., and spent his early life there. He was united in marriage to Dora Belle Slotor on March 17, 1879. In 1903 they muveu 10 wana wana. Wash leaving there in 1911 and enm- ing to Medford where they have made their home since. He is survived by his wife and five children, Mrs. Marv Downing of Spokane, Wash Daymond D., Berkelev. Calif- Graham, of San Francisco, and James and Stanley, Klamath Falh, Ore. Fi icral service will take place from the Perl funeral home Wednesday at 2:30 p. m.1 with Rev. Joseph Knotts offic iating. Interment in the Med ford I.O.O.F. cemetery. Friends are respectfully invited to at tend I E RICHEST IN Gold Strike in Georgia Re vive Hope More May Be Found in Oregon's Hills. By Victor Dallalre U. P. Staff Correspondent. Salem, Ore. (U.R) Discovery of rich gold deposits in sup posedly exhausted region? in Georgia revives the hope here in Oregon that rich finds are yet to be made. While most of Oregon's gold is thought to be of the low grade variety, surface findings in past years have nearly equal ed the 560,000 a ton strike that Georgia reports. One of the richest of the early day discoveries in Oregon was made by a man named George Ish, who, while pros pecting on the Rogue river, uncovered a gravel bar that was literally sparkling with gold. The gravel paid Ish about $12 a pound at a price about half the present value of gold. How Town Got Name, Looking for the source of the gold, he found a small hill near by which contained hard white quartz with stringers of pure gold in it accounting for the name of the present town of uold Hill. Ish invested much of his findings in a mill to recover the gold and worked it for sev eral years, but the gold even tually ran out and the mine was abandoned. A cement com pany, quarrying the hill now. is reported to manufacture cement with a small gold content in it Another fabulous gold strike was reported by two men nam ed Miller and Bellville, who in 1855 brought a quarter of a pound of almost pure gold im bedded in quartz into Jackson ville. They said they had lo cated the ledge about 40 miles southwest of Jacksonville where they could see the ocean. They were never able to find the place again, but in 1904 a boy found the ledge and took $35, 000 worth out of a hole 12 feet long and a foot wide. J'ville Nuggets Big. It was not an uncommon sight in Jacksonville during the gold rush, to see nuggets weigh ing 50 to 70 ounces apiece, old timers have recorded. One mine discovered on the Applegate river produced $23,520 from 10 ions of ore. One hears chiefly of the rich strikes, but the steady workers ana tne patient Chinese in Jack son county alone during the years ot the Civil war were re. ported to have taken out about i.uuu,U00 a month In 1857 gold was discovered on the Santiam river in Marion county and for two diggings paid the miners a fair ly aecent daily wage. One mine uncovered a vein of hard white quartz with pockets of mreaa gold valued at $20,000. Rich gold discoveries were made in eastern Oregon about the same time, but most of them were large bodies of low graae ore. One was made on the Powder river, however, by two Portland men that ran up to $10,000 a ton. Black Sends Rich. ' Potentially the richest gold fields m Oregon at present are the black sands alone the snnt h. em Oregon beaches. Gold and other valuable minerals are present in chemical formation, but the cost of extracting them so far has exceeded their worth. Some day, probably, someone will discover a method of re claiming the precious minerals in these sands and a scientific gold rush will ensue. Gold mining in the state has received impetus the past few yars from the increased price of gold and many a stream and hard rock ledge has again felt the attacks of gold seekers. Oregon production of gold now 3W amounts to over $2,000,000 yea, according to government figures KNOXVILLE REPUBLICAN WINS CONGRESS SEAT Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 1. Up) Victorious By more than 5.000 majority, John Jennings, Jr., of A Three Days' Cough is Your Danger Signal Creomulsion relieves promptly be- i cause it goes right to the seat of the trouble to loosen germ laden phlegm, ; Increase secretion and Bid nature to 1 soothe and heal raw, tender, lnflam- ed bronchial mucous membranes. No matter how many medicines you have tried, tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the understanding that you are to like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Cougrif, Chest Colds, B ronchitis , Knoxville, 59-year-old attorney, prepared today to leave for Washington to fill the vacancy in congress created by the death of Rep. J. Will Taylor. Jennings, a Republican, will take the oath of office Wednes day as representative from Ten nessee's second congressional district. ADA M. ROBERTS PASSES AGED 70 Ada May Roberts, 70, passed away at her home on Spring street Sunday evening alter a brief illness. She was born in Coos county, Oregon, June 16, 1869 and had resided in Med ford for the past 28 years, and was a member of the Roxy Ann and Pomona Grange. She was married to William D. Roberts, November 17, 1891. Besides her husband she is sur vived by five children, four daughters and one son, Mrs. Ray Loosley, Fort Klamath, Ore.; Mrs. Burrell Redpath, Medford; airs. Bert Tolladay. Prineville. Ore.; Mrs. Zanta Hutton, Silver ton, Ore., and son Roscoe Rob erts, Medford, also ten grand cnnarcn. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Perl funeral home. EROF ASHLAND PASSES Ashland, Jan. 1. (Spl.) Funeral services will be held at the Elks temple here at 2 rj. m. Tuesday for Charles Lawrence f orter. Mr. Porter was born August 17, 1903 in Volga, S. D., and came here with his parents in 1909. On June 27, 1936 he mar ried Miss Helen Risce of Med ford. The deceased was a long time member of the Elks lodge and a member of the Kiltie band since its organization. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. J. Porter of this city. Arrangements are in charge of Litwiller Funeral home. EAST, 1ST GOLF Rain and, more particularly, a gusty wind reduced the field in today's annual East-West enlf match for the Shirley Temple trophy at the Rogue Valley Golf club course. By early afternoon only 20 players, ten pairs, had teed off. The West was leading as play went into the afternoon rounds AID HOME BEAUTY Chicago. (U.R) Builrlino , terials have had their faces lift ed ana henceforth will play a more decorative part in con struction of modern homes, the home building exhibit at the Merchandise Mart indicates. The structural usefulness of stone, brick, steel, tile and lum ber is fading into the back- siuuna as tnese materials, im proved by streamlined manu facture, step out in a new role as "home beautificrs." Today's home built for to morrow will be structurally sound and liveable as shown by a series of mnHi designed by some of America's lorcmost architects. Early Training. Toledo. O (UP) Witt, - birth certificate the Toledo Dis trict Nurses' association hands out a copy of a pamphlet, "Your Child, prepared by the library Girls Eager lo Fly Rnctnn mot V really want tn n n e" of HF? -uege siuaents voted in favor of an aviation course in their school and in other wo men's colleges. YickSoHerbCo. Hours 10 l. n. In I . Monday, Tuesday. Wednee day Only Chinese herb rem edies ire very won derful for tumor. drODRT. nllM run. ture. stomach ulcer, V ir ; V lungs, heart, liver stomach, k 1 d n e v tSttk bladder troubles, asthma, eczema. olood, gailitones, yellow fever, epi lepsy, rheumatism rnd female com- I. II. l-eonr Herbalist. S4 Years Experience. rlamta. Call or write. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Central and Main. Medford, Ore. NEW TECHNIQUE IN ITSPROBES Latest Type Investigation Has 'Killing' Effect -Old Inquiries Recalled By Preston Grover Washington The day of the congressional "killer" investiga tion has arrived to displace the long series of whoop-er-up in vestigations designed to put across pet pieces of legislation. Many of the methods adopted by the one are about as fantas tic as those of the other. Two "killer" investigations are underway and a third has already completed its work. The Smith committee investigating tRe national labor relations board has already brought out enough evidence of dissension and peculiar performances to put the board s life in jeopardy at the coming session of con gress. The Dies committee was large ly credited with bringing about the defeat of Frank Murphy last year in his race for re-election as governor of Michigan. It is ad ding to the shelling directed by the Smith committee at the Wagner act. The house Investigation of WPA activities last summer killed the federal theatre pro ject by exposing an over-dosage of Communist Influence. 'The Older Pattern What a contrast are these to the pattern of earlier investiga tions of the type which began with the securities and bank ing investigation in 1933 and 1934. Banking practices, stock market manipulations and phon ey security flotations were par aded before the incredulous eyes of a newly critical congress and a . country at large, both of which were smarting under the scorch of the depression. Out of it came the securities and ex change commission and a vol ume of legislation designed to make good bankers out of bad bankers and to wipe out trick security issues altogether. It has worked so effectively that now the cries arise from the other direction that regulation is stifling enterprise. The Insull debacle brought a demand for drastic utility re form. The holding company bill resulted. At the hour of a cru cial test as to the kind of teeth it would have, the Black anti- lobbying investigation got busy. A utility company had tried to drum up an appearance of pub lic antipathy to the bill by send ing in a volume of protests. unfortunately, most of the protectants had names begin ning with letters C to G. An enterprising utility company agent in Pennsylvania had sim ply picked up a telephone book and began dispatching telegrams signed by directory names as fast as he could copy them. The committee caught him before he reached the Jones, Smiths and Zilches. It had a three day cir cus out of that. Other utility protests, many quite valid, were discredited and the bill was whooped across. Half Successful It took two years of munitions investigation to reveal a degree of corruption in the Interna tional munitions trade and to raise some real questions about what got us into the last war. But the result of that investi gation was the neutrality act which has troubled the admin istration ever since. Senator Wheeler of Montana conducted a virtually one-man- investigation of railroads to helD him jam across some regulatorv rail legislation. Much of it, how ever, is still on the calendar and in these days of increasing pres tige for the once-spurned banker and big business man, it hasn't such a good chance of passing. a nouse tax invest gat on oil. loried several dozen greater and' lesser tax dodgers to help whip across the corporate surplus tax na tne tax against Dersonal holding companies. It took a re- mm Iht HOTEL SOMERTON 40 6Uin 1TMET OOWDTOin (TWCCN SUS0" AND TtfLOS conpumt mmtm Splendid oarage fac ilities . and, courteous service await the tired motorist. COCKTAIL LOUNGE Service Unsurpassed ItCI ILMI, SMUt' a. surgence of the depression to shake oft some of that. But now, temporarily at anv rate, the shoe is on the other foot. The left winger is no long er the potential savior of his country and the bringer of great er liberties. The Dies committee has made him merely a mem ber of a "transmission belt" to ward Communism. ! OREGON INCOME TAX THIS YEAR IS BELIEF Salem, Ore. (U.R) Oregon will collect approximately $500,. 000 more this year on 1939 in comes than it did on 1938 earn ings, the state tax commission estimates. The total income tax collec tion for 1939 will be about $4. 600,000 and 1940 receipts should reach $5,100,000, the commis sion believes. The commission attributes part of the expected gain to the addition of between 4.000 and 8,000 federal employes to tne tax list for the first time. and a decided improvement in economic conditions in 1939 over 1938. The inclusion of the federal workers on the state lists will bring the total number of state income taxpayers to around 94, 000 the commission said. This figure does not include corpor ations, partnerships or other business coalitions. The state income tax is used to offset property taxes and the increase in receipts will be felt on the 1941 property levy pro viding expenses are kept equal. FIRST FOR YEAR Portland, Ore., Jan. 1. W) A hit-run driver killed Port land's first traffic victim of 1940 early today, lifting the holiday toll of the state to five. Another man died in a eravnl slide. Joseph Van Gilder, about 60. died a few minutes after being struck by a hit-run driver at 1:15 a. m. His companion, Stuart Wells, 49, suffered a broken leg. The driver and a young woman companion es caped. Near Klamath Vails Henry D. Turchardt, 38, of West Fir was killed when a slide occurred at the city gravel pit. A boulder struck him on the head. His brother, Charles, West Fir, and R. L. Freeman, Klamath Falls, were covered by the slide but managed to dig themselves out. SANTA BARBARA FLOAT IS BEST Pajadena, Cal., Jan. 1. W) A float depicting three modern racing sloops rounding a wea ther marker, done in flowers by Santa Barbara, won the sweepstakes prize of the 51st Tournament of Roses. A special prize went to Port land, Ore., for a Portland Rose Festival entry. Pasadena, Cal., Jan. 1.: (VP) A million persons gathered from far corners of the earth today to watch the 51st renewal of Pasadena's famed Tournament of Roses. Sixty elaborate floats, cover ed with millions of flowers,.! were rushed to completion dur ing the night by weary workers. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m. 1 1 rr T vre i II I J I & v. Y rm is, I MV J 11 I V CM4ka I I WSKVaJV ... A TOMORROW St WED1 NELSON EDDY 1 EXTEND 3,472 MILES RGE Snlcm. Ore., (U.R) There arc 3,472 miles of railroads in Ore gon according to information received here from the national Association of American RaiU roads. The report shows that rail way payrolls in the stnte amounted to $17,418,002 for the 10,566 employes in 1937, the latest year for which these com plete figures arc available. Rail way purchases of fuel, materials, equipment and supplies for the year amounted to $10,772,635. in 1938 the railways paid taxes amounting to $2,785,658 and in the period from 1900 to iimb inclusive, the state, countv and local governments collected (u.ho in taxes from the rail roads of the state, not Including some ot tne minor lines which have not reported since 1917 and many of the switching and terminal companies, the report snows. Charlie McCarthy In Detective Role At New Craterian Charlie McCarthy attains the status of a star in "Charlie Mc Carthy, Detective," seen yester day at the Craterian theatre. And as a stellar performer, he's great in every splinter of his being. Of course, Edgar Bergen shares the starring positien with Charlie, edging in on every one of Charlie's scenes but not attempting to steal anything from McCarthy. Mortimer Sqerd, another of Bergen's fam ily, is also starred. "Charlie McCarthy, Detec tive" is a murder mystery story, with Charlie (with Bergen's aid) ultimately unravelling the maze of twisted clues and pinning the crime on the guilty party. The story is unusually sound, and with Bergen's inimitable com edy, the' combination produces one of the top entertainment of ferings of the season. Robert Cummings, Constance Moore and John Sutton furnish the romantic element of the story, with Cummings as a magazine columnist, Miss Moore as Bergen's partner in his night club act, and Sutton as Miss Moore's sweetheart. In other im portant roles are Louis Calhern, Edgar. Kennedy, Harold Huber, Samuel S. Hinds and Warren Hymer. Miss Moore sings two songs one more than does McCarthy, who bursts into song for the first time on the screen Char lie's number is "I'm Charlie Mc Carthy, Detective." Hens Got Shellshock. Los Gatos, Cal. (U.R) Mrs. George Bailey, proprietor of a poultry farm, protested strongly to county authorities against the continued blasting to destroy trees in construction of a new road. She represented 300 egg producers who declared that not an egg had been laid by a sin gle hen since the blasting began. Just Smoking. ' Boston (U.R) Search for an apartment house prowler ended when a squad of police found a resident smoking on the roof. He said his wife had banned smoking in the house and he had to go to the roof to enjoy a cigarette. WEDNESDAYI 16 cnMo'loot wIIm BOTHork (it tlow...bt ok! low ike could lie ltd ! A nasd? sail lb at (ill teip toi ii - Ililcbsilll Hlln I Mfl-n-l,i..,o . , ,,. fSnl RIOT! Tomorrow i I I "Honeymooners" Ja tv V 1 I Just married (two months) are Stuart Erwin and Marjorie Weaver in the new comedy, "The Honeymoon's Over," which comes to the New Rialto theatre for tomorrow and Wednesday as the companion feature with "Fugitive at Large," starring Jack Holt. "The Honeymoon's Over" is gay hilarity of domestic life with a swell comedy cast In cluding Patric Knowlcs, Russell Hicks, June Gale and E. E. Clive. MORiVlONS" SHIFT RELIEF LEADERS Salt Lake City, Utah (U.R) A new slate of officers now super vises activities of the 100,000 member National Woman's Re lief Society, women's organiza tion of the Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) church. New president is Mrs. Amy Brown Lyman, nationally known social worker and wife of Dr. Richard R. Lyman, mem ber of the ruling council of 12 apostles of the L.D.S. church. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1:30 p. m. Too Late to Classify LOST White embroidered evening ba bearing Initial "R." Valued as keepsake. Reward. 19 North Peach or Phone 1283-Y. CABIN for rent. Call 174-Y. FOR RENT Small modern house. Necessary furniture. 20. water paid. Dressler's, 1107 B. Main. &ARQAIN Beauty students kit and text book, like new. Phone 1424-R. WE HAVE several good seta of light ana neo,vy aiscs on the lot nov;. Also late model 25 HP. cletrao tractor at bargain price. Rogue Valley Tractor and Implement Co., 5th at Rlversldo. RAW FUK8 WANTED I Eastern Cash Prices paid for your fura at home. A Lao htdea. pelts and wool. MEDFORD BARGAIN HOUSE J7 N. Grape St. Medford. Ore. FOR SALE Newtowna. Nice quality, good alzea. By the lug or truck load. Bring containers. Myron Root It Co., Ino. Warehouse 47 South Fir St. Less Tear, More Wear with Wes Coleman's LAUNDRY SERVICE " 111S E. lllh. Phone 97 Mn(s-:;nn Kftr Ifte KveN-Hfte 4llc IfX HI IUIY! TI1KY END TONIOIIT! '.ssrTUu Nli J iiacima uii lairflDOB.Min O Plus "Two Thoroughbred!" 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