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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNPAY, JULY 28, 1940. TOWNSEND PLAN HELD NEEDED AS DEFENSE PHASE Son of Pension Advocate Ad dresses Large Meeting- Contentment Seen Bui wark. Contented people, content be cause they have work, plenty to eat and wear and assurance of security in old age, do not em brace ideologies foreign to the democratic conception of gov ernment, Robert Townsend secretary-treasurer of the Town send National association, and son of the founder of the plan told an audience of approxi mately 1000 Townsendites at the high school Friday evening. Declaring that while America needs military defense, it also needs the defense of content ment as a bulwark against sub versive forces which would bore from within, capitalizing on poverty and discontent, the speaker cited the Townsend plan as the best means of bring ing about such universal well- being. Open to Propaganda "Democracy," he said, "has done little for over a third of the population which lives in poverty and uncertainty. If these people are told a change in governmental form will bring them more, it is only natural for them to listen to such propa ganda. "In this country we have the best form of government in ex istence. We produce more than enough food for all, we have an abundance of everything that makes life worth while, but our distribution system is faulty; we do not keep money in circula tion so that all can buy the things they need. The Townsend plan would put money in circu lation, make work for young people and do away with pover ty and with uncertainty for the aged." Before formal opening of the meeting by William Perry, con gressional district president, mu sic was provided by Alexander's stringed band, and by Rev. and Mrs. D. E. Millard. Invocation was given by Rev. R. W. Cole man of the Christian church. Officials Introduced President Perry Introduced Sheriff Syd I. Brown. Countv Treasurer R. E. Sweeney, Coun ty Judge J. B. Coleman and Mayor C. C. Furnas, who were seated on the platform with of ficials of Townsend clubs of this vicinity. Judge Coleman welcomed the visiting Townsend officials and members in behalf of the county and city. W. A. Sumner, state manager for Southern Oregon, acting as master of ceremonies, intro duced Charles W. Wetterman, state Townsend representative, who following a short address, introduced Robert Townsend, speaker of the evening. Large delegations were pres ent from many clubs in South ern Oregon and Northern California. BUSINESS OFFICE Business office of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany is being moved over the week-end from its present loca tion at 218 West Sixth to re cently completed quarters in the telephone building at Fifth and Bartlett streets. It will be open for service Monday, according to R. B, Hammond, local manager. Business office hours will be from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. except Saturday, when the office will close at noon. The new business office quar ters, which will carry the ad dress of 145 N. Bartlett street, are of the latest design and will have every convenience for serv ing telephone users. The business office move is a part of the telephone com pany's $200,000 improvement program for Medford, which will be culminated with con version of the Medford ex change to dial Saturday, Au gust a. me Jacksonville ex change also will be converted to dial the same day. New telephone directories for Medford and Jacksonville, con taining the new telephone num bers for customers of both exchanges as well as complete instructions on how to use the dial telephones will be off the presses early this week, and distribution is scheduled for completion by next Thursday or Friday. E ON JOBLESS LAW I GEO. HUNT GIVEN 'JOURNAL' PRAISE Under the heading, "George Hunt, Movie Blessing of Med ford," the Orrgonian Saturday aid. editorially: "George Hunt, operator of a theatre in Medford, is a bird singing in the wilderness, an oasis in the desert, a still small voice in the roar of Armaged don and, as such, he deserves credit, without further mixing of metaphors. He said: "The theatre la primarily a medium of entertainment, and I believe the current Influx of war pictures is not in that cate gory." So he eliminates war scenes from the news reels and tries to book comedies and cartoons in thetr place. "People attend the theatre to relax and enjoy themselves." lie says, "and with the present flood of nerve-Jangling war re leases it is quite difficult to do this." George Hunt's theatre in Medford must be a nice place of release from a world In which the eye and ear are under In cessant barrage of war and ru mor of war. George Hunt and a few more Mickey Mouse comedies help restore sanity in the mid.it of war hysteria." Eleven arrests were made by state police Friday night as they carried on a four-hour traffic check of 806 vehicles. Besides the 11 citations, warning were given 185 motorists for minor violations. Most of the 11 arrests were for no operator's licenses and for improper lights, and the majority of the warnings were for improper lights and to non resident motorists for failure to obtain registration stickers. Fifty-five non-residents were in structed to register. JUDGE SWEEK 10 HEAR FEHL III Salem, July 27. UPiCAtcuH Judge Calvin L. Sweek of Pen dleton was assigned to the Marion county bench by the supreme court today to hear three cases, first of which is the second petition of Earl Fehl, former Jackson county Judge, for a writ of habeas corpus for his release from the Oreeon state hospital. Fchl's first such petition here recently was held insufficient. Judge Sweek will hear the Fehl matter Tuesday. Manufacturing Of Ermine Coat Shown In Arista Window The historv nf an ,rmi,. nDt showing the skins in the vari ous manufacturing stages, forms an unusual window display at the Arista Fur store. The coat is being made from fine Lasky ermine skins from the Laskv nrnvlnr in u,.,.;. The window display shows the vast amount of time and pa tience necessary tn mnlr Dn .... mine coat. There will be approx imately 175 skins and two miles of thread in the finished cont. There are also an uncounted number of pins necessary to hold uie ooay oi we coat on the board to straighten the seams. The Arista display offers the people of the Rogue river val ley the rare opportunity to see an interesting manufacturing process that is seldom shown to the public. Destroyers Dtpart Portland, July 27. i.-Ti Two destroyers, the Crane and Ken nison. carrying 148 naval re servists for two-week training cruises off the west coast, left today. Tf nrffan I ?H lahnr'a nrntvitMl changes to the unemployment compensation act were enacted Intn lfcri1nt inn that mniirm mtafm of Oregon would be unionized, inaries i. Haas, Portland attor ney and a director of the Port land Chamber of Commerce, tntH A ffrmin nt Minlnvm a , a ennfprenp in th Hntol .lurk. son Frlriav nioht Th .nnf.p. ence was sponsored by the Asso ciated employers of Oregon and was the fifth held throughout the state. Only 35 oersons attended the conference, including Dan Hay, executive manager of the Asm. elated Employers, his program speakers and a number of busi ness men from Grants Pass. Mr. Hay chided Medford on the poor attendance, declaring that em ployers turned out In large numbers for the conferences in the other four cities. At the end of the conference Mr. Hay said the organization of em ployers would have to be built up to a stronger unit here. Mr. Haas also expressed dis appointment over the attend ance, calling it "pitiful." He said, humorously, that he had often heard it said Medford was in California and added that the "poor attendance makes it look as though it is." Mr. Haas analyzed the com pensation act resolutions arinnt. ed by the State Federation nf Labor at its convention in Klam ath Falls some weeks ago and gave his interpretation of what would happen if they were put into effect. Mr. Haas gave it as his nnln. ion that social semritv i-h.n. proposed in Washington, D. C, were even worse and he urged all employers to remain alort and tell their legislators what mey want in the way of legislation. Virgil Sexton, chief taii.n. cian and supervisor of research tor me state unemployment compensation commission. cnv a review of the methods em ployed under the "merit r.ilina" system, told of the statistical technique used and described a siuoy now being made in search of a possibly more equitable method of imnoslni! eninlnvpr payments. Ralph H. Camnhrll n sistant attorney-general assign.! as counsel to the unemployment compensation commission, told of the complexities of social security legislation and admin istration and emphasized that employe cooperation is a re quisite in attaining the aims of the law. He said that the inten tion of social security legislation is to "demobilize the relief" and to stabilize employ- .iiii. me uregon law, he de clared, "is as good a law as we can have under our limited experience." Mr. Campbell indicated Inci dentally that he planned to r. sign soon as commission counsel. uer me formal talks a ques tion hour was held inH . ber of questions were threshed Ulll. Edward Heydcnburk of Grants Pass, a director of the Associ ated Employers, presided. Red Leader Beaten Princeton, W. Va., July 27. tfrt Louis Fleischer, attorney for the national campaign com mittee of the Communist party was waylaid and beaten by a group of men as he left the courtroom yesterday after de fending the signer of a Com munist petition. Sheriff II. H. Criunpcckcr reported. Dun Upheld Portland, July 27 (,P( ray ment of dues to the Association of Oregon Counties out nf Multnomah county treasury was sanctioned by Circuit Judge Al fred P. Dobson yesterday Obituary Silas Obenchain Klamath Falls, July 27. (f, Silas Obcnchain, 76, resident of Klamath county for 54 years died here last night after a short illness. He served two terms as sheriff and one term as county commissioner. Hold Rumanian Ships London, July 27. .4) ln. lormeo circles confirmed today Rumanian reports that three Rumanian ships have been seized by British authorities at Port Said. Egypt. Refreshing Invigorating DRINK Could Henry VIII Have Had Stomach Ulcer Paias? 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This morning, they said, the senior Pruitt resumed a quar rel with his wife and was about to hit her with the pipe when his 15-year-old son grabbed the shotgun and fatally wounded him. The United States has a larger number of high-speed passenger trains that any other country in the world. FEDERAL WORKERS ASK BACK WAGES Portland, July 27. (JP) Ore gon federal employes, in state convention today, adopted a resolution asking federal work ers be given payment for ac cumulated leave in case they were called to military service. The U. S. workers of the state elected L. J. Canfield. Portland, president; Clarence K. 1 Rand, Roseburg, vice-president; C. E. Mounsey, Portland, secretary-treasurer. Biofi's Plea Denied Chicago, July 27. Wil liam Bioff's third petition for a writ of habeas corpus was re jected today, leaving the Holly wood labor leader still confined in the Cook county jail. Izaak Walton convention yesterday. POISON OAK? 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