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By ARTHUR PERRY
Wendell Willkie wag noml
nated lor the presidency by the
Republicans last night on the
sixth ballot, He seems to be ine
happy choice of everybody but
the New Deal dreamers, a nana
full of Old Guard die-hards, and
the chairman of the Oregon dele
gation, who, after all hope was
gone, kept right on balking
against the inevitable. However,
early today, he reluctantly saw
the light, and mounted the band
wagon. Nobody wanted Mr.
Willkie but the people with the
last votes and say.
The nominee has everything
a presidential candidate should
have, including a stump and
radio voice, something the last
two GOP. entries for the White
House sadly lacked. He will not
stand and be '"smeared" by the
opposition with Job-like pa
tlence. He will need no commit
tee to think up answers to the
slurs and barbs of Secy. Ickes
He has as nice a set of teeth as
the next one, and can grin and
show them without over-exertion
of the facial muscles. He will
refrain from vaudeville monkcy-
ahines, and pulling jackrabbits
out of plug-hats. When elected,
as he will be, his oldest boy
will not turn nut to be the most
successful Insurance agent with
the largest profits in history for
a year's effort. There will be no
conniving and consorting with
Communism and Communists,
nor any records for gadding
established by any member of
his family not elected to any
thing. Most important of all, the
GOP, leader is Just the boy to
peel the hide off the Third Term
notion and demonstrate that in
a nation of 140.000,000 people,
there Is more than one man,
qualified to be President.
J. Wesley Bates, our favorite
chinwhacker. Is again Jumping
at conclusions. None other can
Jump oftener, or miss a conclu
sion farther.
.
Another bevy of Ashlanders
showed up yes. wearing cowboy
hats, to make the eagle scream
there July 4. The bird would
scream louder had the patriots
essayed to come forth in 1849
whiskers.
All reports from overseas in
dicate II Duce Mussolini, as a
back stabbcr, has lively competi
tion in Europe, when it conies
to easing a dagger into a neigh
bor nation's ribs.
MORE ABOUT FROGS
"A frog has many enemies. It
dors not often die of age. The
yellow-eyed herons, wading the
shallow water, are alert to Mcar
its fat green body with their
great beaks. The slow turtles.
almost invisible in the bottom
mud, are enemies; so are snakes
and sometimes larger fr,ogs, and
of course always man, who ele
vours a quarter-million pounds
of frog-legs every year. A frog
does not die quietly. When it
has been seized by a mottled
water-snake, and is kicking and
wriggling in the grip of the cold
fleshed Jaws, the frog does some
thing that it does at no otliei
. time in Its life. Shrilly and
piercingly, it screams.
Such is the life-story of frogs
It bears no relation, that I can
see. to the international situu
tion or the question of fascism
But frogs will be croaking and
hunting and rio.ing in the sum
mer shade long aftrr the present ;
International situation has been I
succeeded by another and prub
ably a worse one." (Exchange i
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Editorial Correspondence
Philadelphia, June 23. Just took stroll down Broad to
tha 1'enn station and around tlia block to Walnut and thus back
to our hotel, the good old Walton. (Better delete that
"good," James, otherwise it 'a O. K.)
When we lived in the East some 33 years ago Philadelphia
was known as the deadest metropolis in the country. Well, we
don't know about it being ao dead. But it is JJIRTY. We
haven't seen so much mesa over streeta and sidewalks ainca our
last trip to Mexico, as on thia jaunt in the very center of this
great city, for it is a great city and very old one. But we
can't aay much that ia printable concerning its street clean
ing department
And this is the hotel where we stayed just four years ago this
month when Franklin Delano delivered his Economic Koyalist
speech at the University stadium out near the convention hall,
while he smiled and held aloft the gnarled paw of good old
Jack Garner, the VICE-President (with, according to John L.
Lewis, the accent on the first portion of tha hyphenated title.)
Incidentally, when we wandered through the cloakroom of
the U. 8. Senate the other day in search of Senator McXary,
there was Mr. Vice-President asleep on one divan, and Mri. Sen
ator Caraway asleep on another. If we had only had a candid
camera we could have made some money.)
.
But to return to the Walton. This hotel ia even older than
your correspondent, which is going some. It was built only a
few years after the death of General Grant and we don't be
lieve there has been a good house-cleaning since. We (the edi
torial "we" thia time is plural ag we have the baby of the
family with us) were given what is called a suite with bath, hut
it really looks like a Hollywood set for a shot in the "Dead End''
tenement district. There is a green mantle piece in each room,
green tile covered grate, the combination rather resembling a
pile of Palm Olive soap, and a galvanized iron cover over the
grate, while in another corner is a dark mottled marble wash
stand, with open plumbing and a couple of taps so tenuous
that when turned on full speed, the streams are about as com
fortable on the hands as a fire hose.
The bath tub is made of iron, and so narrow that we know
a certain golfing attorney in Mcdford who could never get in
it without a shoe horn. There are no deep holes in the carpet,
only a few shallow ones, which are pretty easy to negotiate in
the daylight, hut not so easy at night, and the dressing tables
are fitted with ancient brass fixtures, which are not kept in
good repair, so it's rather difficult to get what one may need
without a pair of pliers and a screwdriver.
This may be regarded as irrelevant, immaterial and incom
petent, but one of the leading columnists in the Iedger claimed
today there had been nary a complaint about hotel accommo
dations from the convention visitors, so we hasten to supply
him with one. And for this the going price for convention
visitors is ten smackers per diem, without meals!
.
Well, why not!
These party conventions, from a local business standpoint,
are reallv designed for suckers, the small-town easy mark,
coming to the big city for a week of unaccustomed limelight
and whoopee, with the wife and without the kiddies, and
sometimes without the wife! One expects to pay for it in more
ways than one, which makes the spirit of tlio thing, as far as the
lintels are concerned, unanimous. It's only once in four years,
like a blizzard in Ashland, or grasshoppers in Klamath. One
shouldn't complain if one returns not PERMANENTLY im
paired in health or credit.
Came buck in the bus from the convention last night with
Congressman Mott of the first Oregon district. The bus was
packed and the inevitable delegate full of corn liquor from
the foothills of Kentucky was carrying on a monologue in a
rich, Southern accent, much to everyone's amusement. Con
gressman Mott was enthusing over the keynote speech hy Gov
ernor Stassen of Minnesota and looking forward with great
expectancy to the speech by ex-President Hoover tonight. Well,
we never could see eye-to-eye with Congressman Mott since he
took the stump for the Townsend plan, and anyone who could
look forward to a speech by Mr. Hoover with pleasure just
doesn't talk our language politically, so we didn't make much
progress with James.
En passant James saw the press badge on our coat and
mistook it for a dcleguto's badge, so assuming we were a mem
ber of the Oregon delegation asked us w ho we would switch to
if McNary failed to get it.
We promptly cried "Willkie I"
Much to our surprise that section of the bus broke into loud
applause, with only the corn liipior gentleman dissenting.
Saul he: Hut that boy, Willkie, he a a Democrat, we don
vote for Democrats where I come from in Kaintuckyl"
That didn't sound particularly comic to your corrjspoudent
but everyone laughed.
Before we leave the subject of this hotel might we give an
idea of the exuberant hospitality of "our host" in this City of
Brotherly Love. I'pnn our arrival as we registered the stern
faced clerk inquired if we had reservations, with that urbanity
and charm so characteristic of
asks for your driver's license,
blocks! A few minutes later when we complained regarding the
rooms and asked for better ones, the same individual informed
us we were lucky at such a time not to have to sleep in the
parkl There was nothing available in this hotel or any other!
Returning to our "suite," the connecting door stuck, we
gave a yank, and the entire doorknob came off, trying to
open a small bathroom window, the connecting rod broke, try.
ing to use the phone it took 6 minutes by the clock to get hotel
central, the next time we are going to trv the park!
'
It was then we noticed prices listed for Scotch and Rve
were prominently displayed under the glass top on the
"bureau" $u$5 for Johnny Walker for example and these
admonitions to guests:
" Don 't match coins, play cards or gamble with strangers.
'Dont leave your room unlocked (Shades of the Hotel
Clark !)
"He on the alert if approached by an apparently half-drunk,
jovial fellow who attempts to stick a cmar in"vour mouth
(while such a man is giving you a cigar he is removing v0ur
w allet !) "
That phf, pretty clear i.Ioa of the (lenr-ra! lintel attitu.la in
tliis City of Urotherly Uv, toward the visiting delegate,!
.Never give a sucker a hreak '."
V. S. : And this is the hotel
' f" l"r his headquarters I U.W.K.
Hills Bros. Unique
Theatre Attracting
Exposition Crowds
The middle of June saw the
one millionth visitor raw
inrouiiri the turnstiles of the
Golden Gate International Expo
sition on San Francisco a Treas
ure Island n-here Mills Bros. Im
position Theatre is auam nlnv-
ing to capacity houses. The cof
fee company reports that their
attendance this year Is running
considerably ahead of a corres
ponding period In 13H9.
Hills Bros. Exposition Tliea
Irt, located In tha tixxta and
a big city speed cop when he
after a stern chase of 50 or 00
selected K
y Mr. Pewev of New
Beverages Building. Is reallv a
building within a building. ' Its
architecture is Saracenic, an ad I
aptation of Persian and Moorish. I
its air conditioned auditorium
seats 160. Special seats with ear
phones are provided for the
hard of hearing Feature attrac
tion of the theatre Is ' Behind
the Cup." a 40-ininute. Cinecolor
sound picture which tells the
story of coffee from tree to cup.
North Abington. Mass. .UR'
A barnyard biology freak still
... . . I G.&,i.,.H I 1 1 ' -. I- i
I'u.ir w'l i.aiiiipii ll c. " 1 la1' j
I He placed 13 eggs under a set
ting hen at his poultry farm, and !
14 baby chicks v.-er hatched. '
Personal Health Service
Br WUIlajn
I
eigne) letter pertaining Co personal health ana hygiene, not to dlirtM
fiMOo.lt or Irnlonil, Bill ka arwaerrf bf Or. Brad; If a Mara pad arU
ad'lreeeef) entelope If tawloeed. Letters ahouM be brief and written In Ink
Oaring to tba largo oombfrs of letters receded only o few can bf answered
No reply can bf made to quertee not conforming to instructions Address
Dr. ftlULan Brady, 263 CI Cantlno. Beverly Hllle. Calif.
OLD-FASHION
Last year 34 cities in the
United States had no deaths
from typhoid fever among
these cities on
the honor roll
were Akron,
Bridge port,
Duluth, Eliza
beth, Evans
ville, Flint.
Fort Wayne,
Hartford, Jer
sey City, Mil
wauk e e, St.
Paul, Spring
field. Utica.
Worcester. Ev
eryday health
resorts!
About fifty of the largest
cities in the country, while not
on tha honor roll, nevertheless
managed to achieve first rank
In the typhoid poll, by having
less than two deaths per thou
sand population in the course
of the year. In the first rank
In this respect were Indianap
olis, Peoria, Houston, Miami,
Des Moines. New Haven, Bir
mingham, Newark, Louisville,
Rochester. Buffalo, In. An.
geles, Portland, Chicago, Bos-
ion, rnuaaeipnia, New York.
Grand Rapids, Buffalo, Pitts
burgh, Baltimore, Washington,
Seattle, Jacksonville, Omaha,
Minneapolis, St. Louis. Dallas,
Tulsa, Kansas City, Scranton,
Cincinnati. Cleveland, Provi
dence, Richmond.
Some, cities, whose names
need not be mentioned, had
more than two deaths per hun
dred thousand population in
1939.
Fourteen cities have had no
deaths from typhoid in two
years. Bridseoort lonrl. th.
country, having had no deaths
irora ivpnom fever In six years.
Fort Wayne has had none In
five years. Utica nH c...i.
Bend none In four years. New
oeaiorc. rail River, Lynn and
Milwaukee have hurl i.
three yearj. Lowell, Cambridge,
cnzaoein, Kansas City, Kansas
and Salt Lake City have had
none In two years.
What a hannv cnnti-ac 4k,-.
record is with the conditions
that prevailed nn nr1 in
ago. In my early years of prac
tice eacn or the dozen doctors
in tne community of some 5.000
Population exnrrtftrl . lA.
half a dozen cases of typhoid
every autumn.
Typhoid is nn fh. ...
It Is an old-fashioned disease.
tne credit for this great gain
In public health belongs mainly
to better sanitation, improved
THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP and
ROBERT KINTNEP
Released by tha North
American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc.
Philadelphia. June 28. Long
before the balloting began or a
candidate could be chosen, the
most important fact about the
Republican convention was
already very plain. The only
question really at Issue among
the Republicans was what atti
tude their party should adopt
towards the international situa
tion. And despite the deter
mined effort to hang the "war
monger" label on Wendell Will
kie, the question did not present
itself in terms of what to do or
what not to do about the present
tragic state of the world. It was
much simpler than that.
What the Republicans were
really asking themselves was,
"How seriously ought we to
take this business? Ought we
to regard It as direly inimical
to the America we have known,
no matter how well and how
efficiently we may prepare our
military defenses? Or should we
decide that, as long as our
America Is capable of defending
its physical territories, every
thing ia going to be all right?"
Thf average run of delegates, of
course, were far too buey either
amusing themselves or searching for
a pandwatron to )oln In tne gr-rat
debate. The debate aaa carried on
amou- tha party leadera. old and
new. mho wrote the platform and
Influenced the nomination.
Very roushlv speaking, the party
leaders were divided both sefttonally
end chronoLifla'.ly. Tie older lead
ers, moet of whom f looked to the
itandsrd of Senator Robert A Tart,
and westerners lae Senator Charles
L. VrNsry of Orecon. Who dldn t
want Tsft but were bitterly opposed
to Wills., held out for a "business
sa usual" approach.
They were willing that the con
vention should say a few rather
meemng'esa words about the disa.fer
overtaking t'lrope. Nsturslly they
endorsed a strong defense ptxkiram.
i
Brady. M. O.
ED TYPHOID
water supply, chlorination of
water supply and more efficient
control of outbreaks and car
riers by the vigilance of the
public health authorities and
the intelligent cooperation of
practicing physicians every
where. Anti-typhoid vaccination prob
ably contributes considerably
toward the prevention of ty
phoid outbreaks or epidemics,
although routine vaccination of
the population Is practiced only
when some calamity such as
flood, cyclone or earthquake
deranges the sanitary control
of water supplies, sewerage,
garbage disposal, etc. Then,
too, the great increase in fly
consciousness or popular knowl
edge of the danger of flies as
carriers of typhoid, dysentery
and other disease germs, no
doubt have something to do
with It.
Vaccination against typhoid Is
still essential for anyone who
may be in contact with cases
of the disease and for any one
planning to travel In countries
where sanitation may not be
of the best.
QIESTION AND ANSWERS
Ac-no
Pleaaa glva a good diet for acna.
T. r. L I
Ana. Brand and butter, meat and
potato, milk, egga, wheat, beans, fish,
freeh fruit, greeiu. raw vegetables,
candy, cake, pla. etc. Hope I have
not omitted any eaaentlal food. Bend
stamped envelope bearing your ad
drese and aak for monograph on
"Acne."
Pohon liy
Pleaaa give the dlrec'lons for the
uae of Iron chloride for poison ivy.
(Mrs. D. o.)
Ana. Apply a mixture of one part
of tlnctxire of Iron chloride with two
parta of water. One or two dally
hypodermic Injections of a prepara
tion of Ivy toxin available for the
purpoae will usually brln quick
relief. These remedies and othera are
described In the chapter on Poison
Ivy In bookln "Save Your Skin" for
copy aend as cents coin and stamped
envelope bearing your address.
Checking Kweat
Is there anything safe one .can nee
to check excessive perspiration In the
armpits? (Mrs. R. H. M.
Ana. Yes. waeh, dry carefully,
paint with solution of one-half ounoe
aluminum chloride in three ounces
distilled or rain water. It dry before
dressing. Such an application every
second or third day should control
the trotible.
(Protected by John P. Dllle Co.)
Cd. Note rersons wishing to
communicate with Or. Brady
should aend letter direct to Ur.
William Brady, M l) 2GS El
Camlno. Beverly Hills, Calif.
I But they refused to acknowledge that
I the eventa abroad might change the
whole ahape of Amrrlcan Hie. what
ever the rotvrrese did, and whoever
j was president.
The easterners and the newer men
; who composed the original Willkie
strength In delegations all over the
I country took qulta the opposite tack.
There waa only ona Important reason
for their Intense pro-Wlllkle feeling.
Like everyone else they admitted that
tha situation abroad offered no op-
; portunlty for useful American Inter-
ventlon. But they wanted a man
who agreed with tliem In considering
the events In Europe aa of earth
shaking significance, and would not
J follow what they bitterly described
aa an "appeasement" policy.
In short they considered thst the
stsnd of Senator Taft and hla adher.
enta, for "business aa usual," either
with Hitler and anyone else, repre
sented a total bllndneaa to the I
dreadful lesson of Franoe and Eng
land. There waa some row over the plat- j
lorm, wnicn ended in a moral but
quite mesnlnless victory for the
"business aa usual" aide. The real
storm center of the debate waa the
struggle between the Tsftltes and
the Wlllklcltes. The struggle waa
extraordinarily violent: feelings were
Inconceivably bitter on both aldea.
for all the chief contenders felt the
future of their country and thenr
party were bound up In the outcome.
The "buslnesa aa usual" men cried
"war-monger" at their opponent,
while the feelings of the other side
were summed up by the Influential
editor of one of the greatest and
oldest Republican papers, who said
bltuprly, "I f,el aa though "I were
on another planet. The world Is
tsllin to pieces before our eyes, and
theee people Just pretend It Isn't so
Nor waa the contenders' sense of
the tmpcrtark-e of the outcome In
the les.t exaggerated. It wss clesr
from the start that Senator Talt.
a candidate for president, could only
attack tha administration from the
"buslnesa aa ususl" angle.
Taft could not rebuke the presi
dents failure In the matter of na
tional defense, for only a couple of
montha before the rtnsl destruction
of the Europesn democracies he had
publicly stated thst VX ooo 0O0
might safely be cut from the presi
dent's drfrnae estimates.
He could not eftectlvely tell the
voters te rrevdem hsd nu ben
frank with them, for even af'.er the
destruction of rrsnce a .a p:sln:v
under way. he hsd co-rpisined be
caujo the p-rns gave more space to
foreign affairs than to a speech of
hla own on the WPA. Furthermore
the whole line of ssles tslk he used
with the dle-etes wss "business as
ususl." and he comrrltted h-.me:f
to It ao completely tlist he coia.ned
the support of trie most violent and
extreme uolauoniste m tha country.
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KINDNESS MAY NOT PAY 'Don't pick up yonf
wild animals; the mother will care for them' ia warning of N. T.
Game Protector Georre J. Murphy as he feeds a fawn, separated
from its mother by a well-meaning angler near Troy. N. Y.
Much more hinged on the RepuiH
llcan convention's cholot than on the 1
decision In an ordinary political
debate. The "to u tries as usual" men ;
did not talk about it publicly, but
one of their strongest selling points j
with the delegates was the argument, j
"the democracies have lost. Hitler '
has won. We've got to have someone 1
who can trade with Hitler."
During the summer. If the worst J
happens, the nation will be repeat- .
edly ealltd upon, certainly In South !
America and perhaps elsewhere, to
decide whether or not to stand fast
against Hitler's onward march to an
evergreater world dominion. The
"business as usual" men of course
endorsed the Monroe doctrine, but
their endorsement will not mean
much if trading with Hitler la their
ultimate objective.
Thus It was vldent from the
start that because the Republicans
In congress will have to follow their
candidate, the outcome of the de
bate would affect national policy
long before election time.
In The
Day's
News
By Frank Jenkins
yHE Republican platform des-
ignatcs the GOP as the party
of "Americanism, preparedness
and peace," which has a good
ring.
THE Philadelphia platform Is
one of the shortest on record,
which is a point in its favor.
People today, however, are in
stinctively suspicious of political
party platforms, because it has
been generations since one has
meant anything.
IATEST on the French fleet:
Spanish sources say the
French western squadron sailed
past Gibraltar today (Thursday)
headed for Casablanca, French
Morrocan base on the Atlantic
(in Africa). The eastern squad
ron still seems to be with the
British at Alexandria.
So far no French warship has
3ailcd home to say to Hitler:
"Here we are, mister; take us
and use us."
D USSIA presents an ultimatum
to Rumania, demanding ces
sion of the province of Bessa
rabia and the northern part of
Bucovina along with Russian
control of the mouth of the
Danube and the Rumanian port
of Constanta on the Black sea.
Today's dispatches indicate
that after considering the ulti
matum briefly Carol of Rumania
submitted.
"Authoritative reports" assert
that Germany and Italy consent
ed to this squeeze play as pay
ment to Russia for putting the
bee on Turkey a few days ago.
IT is "reliably" reported in
Budapest that Hitler has as
sured Hungary that she will get
Transylvania back. Bulgaria is
hoping for another slice of Ru
manian territory the province
of Dobrudja.
Rumania's bones, you sec, are
being picked.
THAT'S the way they play the
game in Europe. It s the way
we'll have to play it if we let
ourselves get rushed into Eu
rope's wars.
CTALIN. by his latest snatch
(he has already picked up
half of Poland, the little Baltic
states and a part of Finland),
gains not only added territory
but control of the important
Danube river traffic which
reaches clear into Germany.
He is doing right well bv him
self.
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AT THE
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WITH
John W. Kelly
CONTINUED PROM PAGE ONE
material assistance from the
United States; that by the time
mass production and delivery of
material can be had, England
will be reduced to ruins and
shambles. In brief, England is
about as short of equipment
with which to defend itself as
is the United States today.
Intimated In the rumor from
Spain is that if Hitler consents
to a peace pact he will Insist
on England having a govern
ment friendly to the nazl gov
ernment, as is the case In
France, and that he will insist
that David Windsor and not
King George, head this govern
ment. Duke of Windsor, now In
Spain with Wallie, has been
quite friendly with top-ranking
nazi leaders since his abdica
tion. As explained, this report may
be screwy, but the earlier one
regarding France was also con
sidered a pipe-dream.
INASMUCH as national defense Is
the outstanding Issue, a few side
lights may be of Interest. In tha
past 16 years congress haa appro
priated S. 180.000.000 for tha army
Of this only SSS4.SM.000 went for
preparedness and of the preparedness
sum asoa.WJO.000 waa for tha army
air corps and 344. 026.000 for ground
forcee. While congress Imagined
America waa prepared. 8fl centa of
every dollar appropriated waa for
maintenance (clothing, housing, food)
and 14 centa for defense. j
In 1933 there were 3f5 antiaircraft
iguns; now 482. with 1.237 "on order."
which means they have to be manu- '
factured and that takes time. Thera '
are 218 antitank guns and 1.5S6 are
'needed: "on order" aro 528 with
deliveries to be completed next Jan
uary. There are 100 light tanks on
hand and "on order" 724: on hand
are 18 medium tanka and 178 "on I
order." At the current rate of pro- '
ductlon It will be years befora :
enough Oarand rifles will bf avail- 1
able to arm tha 1.000,000 men for
M-Day. There are not enough gas
masks to equip the regular army of
present personnel.
I
ORDERS have been ao small that ;
one power company wanted to
elose Its plant- because It waa losing
8100.000 a year. At the urging of
army offlcera the plant baa continued
at a loss. Of the army'a 2.752 planes
only 32 are fit for modern warfare,
testified Major Oeneral Arnold, and
of the remaining 2,700 perhaps half
a doaen can be rendered fit. Some
2.000 of the army'a planes are train
ing ahlps. A combat plana requlrea
self-sealing fuel tanks, heavy armor
and iruns of light artillery caliber
and thera la not one In either army
or navy today. Under present orders,
the nary will have on hand 1.802
combat planea In July, l4t
All told there are S 837 planea
"on order" for national defenee. but t
none of these will be available If
tha allies (reduced to England, now)
want them, under the plan of giving
all aid "short of war."
ONE reason given for disposing of
23 motor torpedo boats to Eng
land (transfer atoppod when a con
gress discovered there waa a law
against It I waa that these boats were I
Pre-Holiday Sale
Children's Play Clothes
$1.95 Girls Denim Slacksuits. .$1.69
Siset 2-12
$1.95 Boys and Girls Denim
Slacksuits $1.29
Sixes 2 11
$1.95 Boys Seersucker Suits . .$1.59
Sites 4 S
$1.95 Girls Sun Suits, size 15$1.39
S9c Boys & Girls Sun Suits, 1-6. .79c
Needle Art Shop
120 North Central
In Ctocfteria Building
built to fire lt-lncb torpedoes which
aro "obeolfU." When tha 18-Inch
torpedo became obsolete baa not been
explained, for these boats were da
signed and built within tba last
fht months under plana of tha
navy.
In tha Army e Navy Club army
officers say that the commander In
chief called tba cblef of etaff several
yeara ago and told htm to reduce
the number of officers in the army
by 9.000. Chief of staff protested
It would disorganise tha army. Later
thia chief reelgned.
Flight (T Time
Mad ford and Jackson Coonty
Blstory front tha ftlea at the
MaU Tflbono 10 and 20 years
ago.
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY
June it. 1930
(It was Saturday)
The first band concert of tha
season will be held next Wed
nesday night in the city park.
Miss Elenora Hulander la
named winner of Lions beauty
contest.
Flight from Tacoma to Tokyo
via Alaska planned.
Electric smelter on Rogue
river near Gold Hill planned.
Methodists in Astoria meet
deplore use of women's pictures
in cigarette ads.
Two thousand, three hundred
eighty quarts of home brew
seized in Klamath Falls.
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
Juno 28. 1920
Cabinet officers to prepare
democratic platform. McAdoo
out in open now for nomination.
Bryan loses first fight for dry
plank.
Tourists who have living at
free city auto camp for three
weeks told to find another
place.
Ashland all ready for threa
day Fourth of July celebration.
Forest patrol planes
trucks reach Medford.
and
Albanian insurgents recapture
Aolona from Italy.
Republican campaign to at
tack "personal rule of Woodrow
Wilson and restore party gov
ernment." Rochester. N. H. (U.R) When
a group of spectators kidded
him about his bowling, John
Ferrigan threw a bowling ball
into the crowd. He later plead
ed guilty to assault and paid $32
costs and damages to the man
he hit.
Hi Hi""11,
Prof. Colt Says:
"Let's talk hortf sense".
Humphrey's
"Useable" Cars
Are tn the best condition and
ara the lowest priced In the
tallejl
HERE'S A SAMPLE
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Deluxe. 4-door Cruising be
dan. with Independent front
wheel suspension, overdrive
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tires. Mechanically PIQC
perfect. Only y4J J
Total price. Ilss down pay
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