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MEDFORD MATE TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. JULY 9. 1940. PACT SEVEN LOCAL and fUtort Owner Hara Mrs., Peggy Gibson, owner and mana-1 ger of We-Ask-U Inn, Rogue river resort, transacted buiiness her today. To Mt Thursday Griffin Creek H. E. club will meet Thursday at 10 a.m. at the home of Winnie Brown. A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon. Members are urged to attend early to assist with Red Cross sewing. . Brush Fire An acre and a half of brush and grass burned last night on Crater Lake high way above McLeod. The fire, near the Grange hall and op posite the Nion Tucker summer home, was put out by a crew from the state forest patrol. It was caused by a smoker, patrol headquarters said. The state pa trol sent a crew Sunday night to the Age residence in the Oak Grove district when the garage caught fire. The garage was too far gone to be saved but other buildings were protected. . - - Plane Pusengeri L. E. Mar tin and A. B. Bryan arrived from San Francisco by United Mainllner this noon and F. I. Bristol left on the same plane for Portland. Arpivals this fore noon were R. G. Lippman, from Portland. Leaving on the same plane were Miss Charity Hart, to Fresno, and J. Hough, to Los Angeles. A guest of We-Ask-U Inn, Mr. Hough had spent ten days fishing on the Rogue river. Miss F. Haight and Miss E. Kill green arrived from Portland last midnight and Nion Tucker departed on the same plane for San Francisco. Jack Foster and G. Friede arrived from San Francisco last night and C. W. Hughes and C. L. Shorno left on the same plane for Portland. Miss W. Wilkinson left on the early evening plane for Port land. Leaving on the mid-afternoon plane were T. M. Medford and Russell Olsen, to Portland, and Gordon R. Green and R. W. Crutchfield. to Boise. Ida, via Portland. Big Double Load Green Pine Slabs $3.75 Valley Fuel Co. us.i.) ,-y?jr--t JPZ.tsfc P&J&L HELP lV f 4 T-ca - " -S DUSY people besieged with p'roblem - about . . . how to raiie cash . . . how to sell property . . . where to get efficient employees . . . how to dispose of posses sions out-of-uie. USE THE WANT ADS If you have an investment that is idling in a car you no longer use, or in talent someone else can profitably employ PERSONAL Gunts Guests this week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Kubli of Applegate include Attorney James Watson of Roseburg and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Drought of Portland. Mrs. Drought is Mr. Kubli's cousin. The Portland couple had spent the week-end with friends in Klamath Falls. Art Exhibit The public was reminded of the Leisure Arts exhibit to be held in the Junior high school art shop behind the school Wednesday front JO auu. to 5 p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Many articles of inter est will be displayed by stu dents from the fourth and ninth grades who have been attend ing the Leisure arts classes. The public is invited to attend. Ex-Residtni Hare Mr. and Mrs. Maury Waitman of Bever ly Hills, Cal., are spending sev eral days at Rogue River lodge vacationing. Mr. Waitman for merly lived in this city. He gra duated from Medford high school in 1917 and later at tended the University of Ore gon in Eugene. He is now as sociated with Metro-Goldwyn Mayer studios in Hollywood. Dies In Seattle Dr. Susie V. Standard of 1103 West Main street received a telegram to day telling of the death of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Amanda V. Standard of Seattle. Many friends of the woman in the Rogue valley will be sorry to learn of her death. She visited here occasionally and was known as "Mother Standard" Dr. Standard spent a week vis iting her In Seattle during the Easter season. Visitors Mr. and Mrs. Wal ter Ballantyne and children, Joyce and Bruce, of Dallas, were week-end guests at the V. R. Ballantyne home, 522 West Tenth street. The visitors were on their way home after spending a month's vacation in a number of cities of Montana. Salt Lake City, Utah, and Yel lowstone national park. They TEL. 78 arrived here Friday and left Sunday. Walter and V. R. Bal lantyne are brotnera. Patricia Ballantyne accompanied her uncle and aunt to their home in Dallas for a visit. She will also visit in Portland, HUlsboro j and St. Helens before returning home the middle of August. ... . Back Trom North Fred W. Scheffel, city superintendent, returned by motorcar last night from Portland where he spent several days transacting busi ness. He was accompanied by Mrs. Scheffel. ... Villi Haia Mrs. Lillian Jes ter and Mrs. P. B. Herman of Grants rasa were visitors titsi today. Mrs. Jester calls here frequently, having many friends in the city. Mrs. Herman also! is well known here and is the I mother of Mrs. George Gates of 830 Minnesota avenue. ... Improving Improvement was noted today in the condition of Sheldon Muir, 17, of Route 1 who is under treatment in Community hospital for a back injury suffered June 23 when he fell from a ladder while do ing orchard work. The youth may now receive visitors. ... Join Army Announcement was made today of the army enlistment of Kenneth R. Wil liams and Clyde W. Lees of Central Point. The two youths enlisted for. service with the signal corps at Fort Lewis. Wash Applications for enlist ment are being received daily by Sgt. Willis S. Estep at the recruiting station in Medford city hall. On Business V. R. Burton, superintendent of the northern California, Nevada and Oregon division, L. R. Burke, traveling commercial agent, and W. J Kelly of the Railway Express Agency, Inc., arrived here this morning by motorcar from Sac ramento, Cal., to spend several days transacting business. They are registered at the Hotel Hol land. ... Job Tests United States civil service commission today an nounced examinations for a number of positions. The posi tions included engineer, $3800 a year, senior, $4600, associate, $3200, and assistant, $2600; sen- ; ior artistic lithographer, $2000 I a year, artistic lithographer, $1800, assistant $1620, junior ; assistant, $1440, negative cutter. $1800, and junior copper plate I map engraver, $1440. Full in I formation regarding these and j all other pending examinations , may be procured at Medford postoffice from Stanley G. Sher j wood, acting secretary of the civil service board of examin 1 ers. RATES Per word first Insertion .xc (Minimum tsc) Each additional Insertion, per word If (Minimum loci Per lint per month wlthoat copy chan( JUS CASH or money order matt Ktom pnj all mall order rtaMlfled On Business Trip Gordon R. Green, division manager here of American Fruit Growers. Inc.. and R. W. Crutchfield. travel ing salesman, lift by plane on a business trip to Boise, Idano, yesterday. Mr. Crutchfield Join ed the company's division headquarters hero about three weeks ago after being employed In Wenntchee. Wash., division for three years. He is the son of J. S. Crutchfield. the com pany's chairman of the board. ... Picnls Tomorrow Lady Li ons will hold a picnic and swimming party at Jackson Hot Springs tomorrow afternoon. Lunch will be served at 1 o'clock. After iunch a snort business meeting will be held at which reports on the -recent state convention in Marshtield will be given by Mrs. Leland Knox and Mrs. C. L. Perkins. Swimming will be enjoyed la ter in the afternoon. All Lady Lions were asked to be at the resort by I p.m. ... Friede Here G e 0 r g e W. Friede, Portland attorney, spent a few hours here on business today and was shown about the city by Fred Kelly. Mr. Friede is well known in southern Ore gon having been a member of the house of representatives from Multnomah county in 1937. former president of the young democrats of the same county and former secretary of the Multnomah county bar as sociation. ... New Residents Newcomers to Medford in the week ended July 6 were listed by the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce today as follows: The Rev. Harold M. Roberts. 735 West Palm street: J. Vernon Marshall, 716 West Second street; S. C. Inkley, 305 South Oakdale avenue; A. R. Beard, 639 West Palm street; D. T. Barlow, 212 South Orange street; and A. H. Smith, 602 West 11th street. ... Travel North Mrs. Maude Kubli of ADnleeate and hpr nn. in-law and danohlpr Mr anri Mrs. L. M. Scott of Madera, Cal., left yesterday for Gear hart on the northern Orpenn coast where they will be guests tor the week of Mrs. Kubli's sister-in-law, Mrs. Ella Watson, at the summer home of Senator Rufus Holman. On the trip north Mrs. Kubli and her guests exrjected tn visit Mr nnH Mr. Chester Kubli at Junction City. On their return journey they will visit relatives in Portland. . Inspection Starts O. F. Eric son of Portland, assistant U. S. regional forester in charge of timber management, and F. W. Furst, division of wild life and range management on the reg ional forester's staff, this morn ing began a general inspection of the Rogue River national forest. They began the inspec tion in the Union Creek dis trict. They expected to be en gaged in the forest inspection until July 17. They are being accompanied by Karl L. Jan ouch, Rogue River national for est supervisor. E Benjamin L. Basye, 18, a CCC enrollee from Jackson, Miss., died of a broken neck in a local hospital lost night. Basye. an enrollee at Camp I Shoos ;:0o-:l& kies-soc, Inctaa Kiddies a Dim Antllme THEY END TONIGHTI Plus "Smashing Monty Ring" I 1 TOMORHOW V 1H1 KM TWO "SWELL" HITSI ROXY 57 mm MU6jrcn MM "Brother Orchid" r One of the many riotous scenes in "Brother Orchid", coming to the Cratcrlan Thea tre tomorrow, is the one in which Edward G. Robinson gives Allen Jenkins (one of his "boys") a severe calling down. Why? Because Jenkins forgot to send his boss a memorandum of a rubbing-out party and the boss is a stick'er for the nice ties. Missionaries To Speak Wednesday Nazarene Church The Reverends Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mischke, missionary repre sentatives for the Church of the Nazarene from South Africa, will speak in the Medford Church of the Nazarene, Holly at First St., Wednesday, July 10, at 7:45 p. m. Both are graduates of North west Nazarene college and are home on their first furlough after spending a number of years on the field. They are not only missionaries adapted to the work of foreign missions, but are both interesting personali ties eagerly heard wherever they appear in the homeland. Mr. and Mrs. Mischke were speakers on the missionary pro-l gram during the world general assembly held recently In Okla homa City. The public is cor dially invited to hear them. Steamboat, was Injured tn a shallow dive into a creek near the camp Sunday evening. He was brought to the hospital here in a CCC ambulance early yesterday morning. Late yesterday afternoon a large army plane came here from Hamilton field, Cal., to remove Basye to the Letterman General hospital in San Fran cisco but the youth had weak ened and was not in condition to be moved. The plane, carry ing a full crew, including a doc tor, returned -to its station. The body was to be taken by train tonight to the youth's home in Jackson. Today & Wed! 1 ,1 I .1.1.. .1...! l,pl.! .1 ,1 A.u ,,,'. 1 " - -. - ' .. .4, ( k v"" 1 3"Sl Alien "5th Columnists" Into Oblivion! W? iSi) MvMd Carter A dventure I i J 4 rSammmmV aw eseltlng mystery i 'SL TI jl X "X at""" ih'pa that sink SiEh KrT ",,h,, XJ f WALTER PIDCEON UW I TVJ'AI.slsk' UlkV a .a i av, . sr i .n ir.ii in r t w inn afc.aAatW g' - , a hows 14J-7-S 13; Mats Soc-lJc Inc. Here Wednesday As a gangster who goes gun ning for culture, Robinson's role Is reminiscent of the laughable "Slight Case of Mur der" of a few years back. And when he winds up in a monas tery taking care of the flow ers, of all things it's almost too much to believe. Ann So'.hern, Ralph Bellamy. Humphrey Bogsrt and Donald Crisp are featured. ASHLAND MAIN GATE FOR TOURIST TIDE; Fl Salem, July 9. W Despite predictions that 1940 would be a record tourist year for Ore gon, tourist trad" is 10.7 per cent below that of last year. Secretary of State Earl Snell said today. There were 47,292 out-of-during the first six months of 1940, compared with 53.014 in the first half of 1939. The June registration of 1R.788 cars was 14.3 per cent under the June, 1939, registration. A total of 25.164 California cars were registered In Oregon during- the first half of 1940, compared with 8.745 from Washington, 1,938 from Idaho and 1.088 from Canada. Ashland was the leading port of entry, registering 12,057 cars. Others included Cave City 5 425, Brookings 3,145, Grants Pass 2,719, Klamath Falls 2,- 137, Umatilla 2,043, Portland 1 791, Arlington 1,712, Medford 1.703. Bend 2.137, Eugene 1.251 Baker 773, Pendleton 743, Rose burg 1,006, Salem 490. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. (UP) A report to President F. D. Patterson of Tuskegee Insti tute shows that of 185 gradu ates In the class of 1939, five are taking post graduate work and 169 were placed In prof itable employment." Eleven failed to return questionnaires. Jack Holt Blasts Unmasking lh master mind of America's sabotaging "false passport" rlngl . ltb Joseph Schildkraut Ui; rves toe-JOc Ire. tat: Klddles-loe mi Thrilling Role m Jack Holt's efforts to smash an enemy "5th Column" sabo- tage ring in "Passport to Al- catraz. wnirn heads tne dou ble bill playing for today and tomorrow only at the New Ri- alto Theatre, leads to severe trouble for the two-fisted action star. Holt, as a detective as signed to smash the new men ace, discovers that passports are being given under false colors to enemy saboteurs who. are intent upon destroying one of America's largest munitions works. Others with Holt are Noah Pcery, Jr., Cccitia Cal lejo, C. Henry Gordon and Maxie Rosenbloom. The newest of the Nick Car ter detective pictures, 'Phan tom Raiders", plays as the added adventure feature. Wal ter Pidgeon ploys the title role and others in support are Flor ence Rice, John Carroll and Jo seph Schildkraut. Famous Stars Will Be Featured Novel Chesterfield Copy New July Chesterfield cigar ette advertisements featuring Gary Cooper, Brenda Joyce and other famous personalities were released this week to national newspapers by Liggett & Myers Tobacco company. The campaign features a new theme line "Do You Smoke the Cigarette that Satisfies." In addition to Insertions in thousands of newspapers, Ches terfield advertising continues In magazines, billboards, dealer aids, and the coast-to-coast Fred Waring and Glenn Miller radio programs. Closing time for Too Late to Claw sire Ada la 130 p. m. Too Late to Classify BOAT. IS; 0-ft. alectrlo refrigerator; electric Monarch combination range. 703 Weat 4th. FOR RENT Furnlihed apartment, 1 block from courthouse. 18 Mlitw- toa. Call IBB Central Point, eoUeet, BABY CHICKS July, August and September. Barred Rocka only. Readr July 18 and 37: order In advance; aleo iter ted chlcka and Fryera aa available. CENTRAL POINT HATCHERY SLABS Select Fine. ilnls load 93.00. Medford Fuel. Tel. 831. WAITRESS, wanted. Berrydale Ree- us,uraiiiv. FOR RENT Small partly furnlfched houee. Adults. Near oajcaaia siore. Inquire 417 J St. ..ltn-rnw. mil Imaglnal . . . "Xlttla Caaaar" tending posies In a monee lerr gardenl . . It's Hrstarlcal KUarliyl L-cfT Isotherm v HUMPHREY j, Ss, BOGART; VA- V BELLAMY V' CRISP v 5 ALLEN p r-EX6" jenkihs j rredrl, March V A WARNER IROS. . '1 PICTURE J Susan k Ooa I Shows 1:IVT:00-S:IS Malt-Ma Kea-.'wc Inf. tail Klddlea-lta row SALS or TRADB SM of Black, mlth and Carpenter tool. Inquire ftcott Darla summer horn, on Rogua Rlv-er. POW 8AI.F Wanrr ptc. ArMo.n!nf Uaca Market, North Paelfla Hwr. BOVSEVBFRriFS 7c. our eon talner. B. V. Ooodroad. Weu Stew art Ave. FOR RETrt Pleaaant front room. 803 Eaat Jackaon. WANTED Labor tn etohan&a for dentistry. Box 3016. Tribune. WANTED Mlrtdle-aged chore man Mutt be milker. J. P. Sawyer, t miles up Wnsner Creek from Tal ent. Phone 14BS. APT. awl aleeptnf room. 1S1T Wees wain el. FOR TRADE 1940 Sparton 5-tubo NBthaivr. corner 8rd and Cherry, Central Point. WANTED Let model pickup. Will pay eah. Bos aoiT Tribune. FOR ft ALE Oladtola blooma. Dr ler'e. 1107 E Main. FOR SALE Two young horeee. one a-year-ou! stamon about looo idl. one 6-vear-nld dappled frrey about 1400 lb. Price alOO each. Phone Jacksonville, 9-F-4. Inquire Sunny ln Service Station, Ruch. Ivan McDonough. WfLL party who found packaga con- talnlne. ahoee and ankleta tn ear br mistake, please return to MM 8tore. FOR PENT S-room houw. 1 acre pest lire a 12 50. water bald. Inqutra house West of Mac's Market, North Pacific Highway. FOR RENT New st tract ire furnish ed apartment. 518 Bo. Oakdale. FOR SALE B-room plastered houao with bath, cement foundation, ecreened-tn service porch, ahada and fruit, on paved street. Well located. 8.300. easv terms. ALSO 19 Acrea. all irrigated and In Ladtno clover, fair house and barn electric water pressure eystem, ce ment block cellar, nice shade, near State Hwy. Price 83HOO including ft milk cows and 9 calvea. ALSO 10 or 30 Acrea. Irrigated, good aoll. level land, near Medford; 8100 per acre. P O. PICKET ,t 18 So. Bartlett FOR RENT Weil rum l shed aleeplnaj room: garage If desired. 838 South Riverside. FOR RJCNT Nicely furnl5hed duplex. Electric refrlfrerator, Maytag, elec tric range and oil neater. Adults. 704 Plna. HIGHEST CASH PKfCES PAID for SCRAP IRON AND METAL c. all klnda. bettertee, radiatora, alurol- - num. copper, brass: also bldea, peiu and wool. Medford Ban at n Housa. 37 N. Grape. Phone 1083. FOR RENT Spacious and attractive) four-room downstairs suit In the) Holly Apartments. Completely fur n I shed except dlahea and linen. Garage? Second door north of postoffice. Adult only. 940. Avail able now. See manager In rear, or pbons 1SD7-B. 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