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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1942. GIVEN $100 FINE, LICENSE One Captured After Nearly Running Policeman Down In Wild Main Street Drive Thomu W. Mosely, a canton ment worker, charged with driv ing an auto while under the in fluence of intoxicating liquor, entered a plea o Igullty In jua- tice court yesterday. He wai sen tenced to 30 day in the county ail, and fined flOO and cost!. Upon payment of the fine and costs of $104.50, the all sentence was suspended. His liquor and auto licenses were suspended for year. Mosely In a wild drive down Main street early Sunday, was chased by a sheriff patrol car. He nearly ran over Night Police man Cearhart, while crossing a street The officer leaped In time. At Main and Central ave nue Mosely went through a red light, and was halted a short time later. Marvin E. Colvln, also charged with driving while drunk, was sentenced to 40 days in the county all, fined $100 and costs, and his liquor and auto licenses were suspended for a year. He Is held in the county jail. He Is camp worker. Richard R. Garrett of Jackson ville, charged with being drunk on a public highway was fined f 10 and cosU, and sentenced to 38 hours In the county Jail. Gar rett was a passenger In the auto wrecked near Bybee Corner Sat urda ynight in which Archie I. Hall, 22, of Trail was killed. The Jail sentence was imposed so the authorities could Investigate phases of the accident Two in Ashland In Ashland Justice court yes terday Jerome J. Rablndeau, charged with intoxication on the public highway was fined $25 and costs. Rablndeau reportedly wrecKed his auto on Billings hill Bear Ashland. Luis R. Garcia. 22, charged with the attempted larceny of an auto in Ashland last Saturday night, appeared In court yester day, Dut was given until today to decide whether he would plead guilty or waive prelimi nary hearing. Authorities said uarcla had attempted to steal three parked cars, but only suc- ceeaea in starting one of them. Waldo W. Melkla. rant, t Medford, charged with having no auio license plates, was fined $1 and costs. L. E. Hughes charged with overwidth load on a truck was fined $1.50 and costs. Fugitive From France iiT",',1"!?a' (aisajBaeB. wear. Anthonv Hadan Cuait. 414. U-rlVat ih of war known to hare eicapad from the Germans, clutches toys he brought with him to London from France. His mother told inter viewers how they managed to cross the French border to safety, but aaid she had to drug the child ta loan him h. .ii,i j betraying the fact they were English. This picture was cabled from London to New York. BOND CHAIRMEN PUNGAMPJUGN Portland. April 28 (JP)A state-wide meeting of county chairmen of the war savings bond staff will lay plans Friday and Saturday for meeting Ore gon's quota of $100,000,000 In the next year. Ray Conway, state adminis trator, said Immediate plans would be for raising the May quota of $5,600,000. The month ly quota Is to be stabilized In July at $10,000,000, he said. In addition to all county chairmen, other committee members, civic officials, bank heads and newspaper men will attend. They will be guests at a banquet Friday and on Sat urday will be Introduced at the Victory Center and at the Para mount theater. They will visit the Oregon Shipbuilding Cor poration yards and the Portland air base. V PORTLAND l5 HOURS SALEM 1 HOURS SACRAMENTO IV HOURS SEATTLE 2 HOURS Washington, April 28 (JP) Final congressional action was expected in the near future on a bill (HR 6604) by Represen tative O'Connor (D-Mont.) to suspend annual assessment work on mining claims In the United States and Alaska until July i, ltfij. The house bill was passed yes terday by the senate after Sena tor Johnson (D-Colo.) offered an amendment to strike out a pro vision limiting the number of claims to which the suspension would apply, and it was return ed to the house. Under existing law $100 worth of labor must be per formed or $100 worth of im provements must be made an nually during each year pre ceding July 1. Failure to comply would per mit others to file on the claim in the United States, and in Alaska the claim would revert to the federal government. Klamath Second in Pedestrian Safety Washington. April 28 (TV Oregon won first place in the third national pedestrian protec tion contest the sponsoring American Automobile Associa tlon announced last night. Among cities named as win ners were: 10.000 to 25.000 population Aberdeen, S. D., first; Klamath Falls, Ore., second. SEARS ROEBUCK HIT BY SALES LOSS DUE TO WAR New York, April 28 MV Robert E. Wood, chairman of Sears Roebuck St Co., told stock holders today the huge mall or der concern had lost about $100,000,000 in sales as a result of the war. Six lines of business which formerly accounted for a large part of total volume have been about wiped out refrigerators, tires, stoves, washing machines, electrical appliances and radios COASTAL STATES LEAD NATION IN Lowest Proportion of Per sons Who Had Completed Less Than 5 Years School SLAYS CHILDREN Los Angeles. Aoril 28 fTl An enraged auto court owner trailed his former wife to her male friend's house last night, wounded the friend, then went home and killed his three small daughters and himself. Harry A. Fletcher. 52. a .38 caiiDer Duiiet in his brain, was found dead across the dying bodies of his children. Arlene. 5, Caroline, 4, and Rose Marie. 2. All three little girls died within a few minutes. John W. Carder, 28, North American 'Aviation employe was shot twice in the left shoul der. E Spokane, April 28. (AP) Horse racing is "out" In Spokane for the duration under a city council edict. The council cancelled the lease of John J. Jerome of San Fran cisco on Playfalr track after Mayor F. C. Sutherlcn, who pre vlously favored renewing the lease, announced he had chanxed his mind because in his opinion the "people of Spokane need their money for something be sides betting on horse races." The council decided to call for bids for a new lease after de clining to continue the lease un til after the war as "too uncertain." AMERICAN OFFICER NOW HEADS ICELAND FORCES Washington, April 28 (JP) Major General Charles It. Bone- steel of the United States army has taken over from British Ma jor General Henry Osborne Cur tis as commander of all United Nations' forces in Iceland. The war department announc ed the change late yesterday but gave no Indication of whether British troops were being with drawn. HIGHER EDUCATION MAY FACE ENROLLMENT DROP Eugene, April 28 (iP) Fac ed by a possible 25 per cent en rollment drop next year. Ore gon Institutions of higher learn ing may have radically readjust ed budgets, Chancellor Freder ick M. Hunter said today. The education board will meet at Portland tomorrow, and action in anticipation of loss of as much as $230,000 in fees is likely, he said. Cm UaU memo mat eda. Washington, April 28 (JP) The census bureau, in the first complete inventory of the edu cational status of , the entire population today announced that the three Pacific coast states had the highest median number of school years com pleted of any of the geographic divisions of the nation. It was based on persons 25 or older. The three states had a medi an of 9.7 years, meaning that one half their population 25 years old or older had more than that number of years of schooling and half had less. The national median was 8.4 years. The District of Columbia had the highest median (10.3) close ly pressed by Utah's 10.2. Low est was Louisiana's 6.6 years. California led the coast with 9.9; Washington, Oregon each had 9.1 years. College Average High The three west coast states also had the lowest proportion of persons who had completed less than five years of school ing (6.4 per cent) and the high est proportion of college grad uates of any geographic division of the country. Reciting that Utahs popula tion is 92.8 per cent native white and that most other inter- mountain states (New Mexico excepted) also ranked high, the bureau said the race nativity composition of the west is un doubtedly an important factor in the high educational devel opment of its population. Native whites comprised 85.9 per cent of the total population there, as compared with 83.9 per cent for the north and 74.5 per cent for the south." Many to High School Dividing the nation into the north, the south and the west, the study showed that but 8.3 per cent of the population 25 or older In the west had com pleted less than five years' schooling, top 10.1 per cent in the north, and 22.9 per cent in the south. Of Oregon's 675,519 In the survey, 28,404 had 1 to 4 years schooling; 42,418 had complet ed the 5th and 6th grades; 252, 466 had completed the 8 grades; 116,758 stopped after two years high school; 128,247 had com pleted high school; 57,709 had one to three years of college, and 36.757 had four or more years of college work. Unreport ed were 8,057. Seattle Japanese Start Evacuation Seattle, April 28 (JP) The army started evacuation of Se attle Japanese today when an advance cadre of 500, alien and American-born, mostly skilled workers, moved by automobile to the big new assembly center at the Western Washington fair grounds, Puyallup. About 2,500 more will be moved within the next three days, to be followed by others from Seattle and other areas of northwestern Washington and about 200 from Alaska. Closing tlm for Cluatrird Adi m Too UM to ClMtlli 13 30 p. m. aft UNITED j AIR LINES ! MUNKISAl AISPOiT TREFHONt 3141 Births Complete Millvork SERVICE PADGHAM PLANING MILL 1303 1309 Court St Phone 4750 MORGAN To Mr. and Mrs L. C, Rt. 1, Medford, April 27, a boy, 8 lbs., at Stanley Mater nity home. WHITE To Mr. and Mrs Jack, 516 Franquette St., April 24, a girl, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart hospital. CHANCE LABOR MEET Portland, April 28 (.4-) The Oregon State Federation of La bor convention will be transfer red from La Grande, possibly to Eutiene or Marshflcld, Secretary D. . Nickcrson said today. "j, - -1 ' 2 Killed, 2 Wounded in Healed Argument Over "Fighting Japs" Wallace, Idaho, April 28 (JP) A beer hall argument over "fighting the Japs," which brought death tu two men and possibly fatal wounds to two mora was written off the sher iffs books today as finished. The end came late yesterday with the finding by Sheriff Archie McPhail and a posse of the body of Andrew Maki, 27-year-old miner, a principal In the argument who had been hunted a nleht and a riv far the slaying of Wesley Barker, 37, Enaville logger, and the cri tical wounding of Sulo Makt, no relation of Andrew's and Henry Davenport. 65. Maki shot himself through the head with the same revolver he used to shoot the others, the sheriff said, as the posse sur rounded the barn where be lived about a mile from Ena ville and began to close In after hunting In vain through the sur rounding forests all day long. ROAD MEETING SET Salem, April 28 (P) The state highway commission will meet In Portland Thursday to open bids on nearly $1,000,000 worth of road projects, Includ ing a contract for improvement of the Pacific highway west in the Camp Adair area. San Francisco, April 28 (JP) In Its first big series of raids In northern California this month, FBI agents today moved concert edly against potentially dangerous Japanese aliens in 24 cities and towns in 16 counties. More than 100 officers, in eluding police and sheriff's dep uties from 21 different law en forcement agencies Joined in the raids. Nat J. L. Pieper, special agent In charge of the San Frandaea FBI office said the raids wer directed p r Im a r 1 1 jr against known members of Japanese na tionalistic organizations, those who had military training in Japan, Buddhist priests, mem bers of the military virtua so ciety. Instructors in Japanese language schools, and collectors of Hemusha Kai which has ga thered money In this country for the Japanese war chest. Albany, Ore.. April 28 Ervln D. Berllncourt hammered away at the home he Is building here. His revolver was dislodg ed from a rafter, fell to the floor and discharged. Berlincourt was hospitalized with a serious wound. 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