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Washington, Dec. 21 U.R)
The war production board said
today that tighter controls may
have to be placed on lumber
distribution to meet essential
war and civilian needs.
Director J. Philip Boyd of
WPB's lumber and lumber pro
ducts division said action is be
ing considered to offset decreas
ed lumber production which,
from now to mid-March, is ex
pected to be "substantially be
low", last winter's.
Officials of various lumber
Industry advisory committees
told the WPB that the most se
vere drop in production this win
ter is anticipated in the Pacific
northwest.
Closing time for Sunday Too late
to Classify B:30 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
ATTENTION
FARMERS and FRUIT GROWERS
We have just received a shipment of necessary mainte
nance equipment
Disslon Pruning Shears
Pole Pruners
Pruning Saws
Axes -Double and Single Bit
Pipe Cullers and Vises
Tools of All Kinds
LEEVER HARDWARE CO.
225 E. 6th
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Los Angeles, Dec. 21 U.R)
Mrs. Louise Peete, middle aged
housekeeper convicted of bury
ing a wealthy mining executive
in a cellar crypt a generation
ago, today was booked in Lin
coln Heights jail on suspicion
of murder in the death of a
woman believed to have been
her benefactress.
The charge was made a few
hours after the decomposed
body of a woman, believed to
have been Mrs. Margaret Lo
gan, 60, was found in an 18
inch grave in a flowerbed in
the backyard of 1 the Logan
home.
Mrs. Logan was last seen by
neighbors on June 1, police re
ported. While the advanced stages of
decomposition made Immediate
identification Impossible, police
indicated they were, convinced
the body was that of .Mrs. Lo
gan, who had given Mrs. Peete
a job and a home since she was
paroled from Tehachapl insti
tution for women.
EX-ACTRESS DIES
Hollywood, Dec. 21 (U.R)
Funeral services will be con:
ducted Friday for Merna Ken
nedy, former actress who was
launched in a film career by
Charles Chaplin in "The Circus."
History Of EvenU
Leading Up to War
Published by House
Washington, Dec. 21 (U.R)
The house foreign affairs com
mittee has just published what
it believes to be the most com
plete chronological history yet
compiled of the march of events
leading up to World War II.
Entitled "Events Leading Up
To World War II." the volume
contains 421 pages and Is avail
able for 50 cents at the govern
ment printing office in Washington.
Beginning with the famous
"Mukden Incident" of Septem
ber 18, 1931, when an explosion
on a railway north of Mukden
touched off a Japanese attack on
Manchuria, the volume carries
through the war ud to bepienv
ber 29, 1944, on which date it
records the beginning of the sec
ond phase of the. Dumbarton
Oaks parley.
THE GRANGE
r!ntritl Point Granoe
Central Point grange met In
regular session Dec. is. L,eciure
hour consisted of group singing
nf PhHctmns rarnl.4 and a skit.
"To All People," presented by
the juveniles assisted by Mrs.
Leo Potter. A Christmas gift ex
change was enjoyed.
Home Economics club will
meet Dec. 27 with Mrs. B. K.
Elliott. Gifts will be exchanged
and secret pals revealed.
- Closing time tot Sunday Too Late
to Classify 5:30 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
AL
VERDICT UPHELD
New York, Dec. 21 U.R
The conviction of six alleged
members of Al Capone's gang
and one union business agent on
charges of extorting more than
$1,000,000 from the motion pic
ture industry was unanimously
upheld today by the United
States circuit court of appeals.
Louis Campagna, Paul De
Lucia, Phil D'Andrea, Frank
Maritote, Charles Gioe, and John
Rosselli were sentenced to 10
years in prison and $10,000 fine
each after their conviction last
December 31. Louis Kaufman,
former business agent of a Ne
wark, N. J., local of the Motion
Picture Operators union was
sentenced to seven years Imprisonment.
Judges Learned Hand, Thomas
W. Swan and Charles Clark
ruled that the men's trial, which
was highlighted hy the testi
mony of previously convicted
William Bioff, was "impartial
. , , and that no honest jury
could have failed to convict
them."
FIVE COMBAT PILOTS
DIE IN NIGHT CRASH
Maiden, Mo., Dec. 21 U.R)
Five combat training pilots, all
second lieutenants, were killed
late last night when a C-47
transport plane crashed and
burned on a thickly wooded
mountain top near Ironton, Mo.
Officials at the Maiden Army
air base said today.
Public Relations officers iden
tified the dead as James E. Gib
son, 21, Seattle; Julian Kauf
man, 22, Brooklyn, N, Y.j Cin
vent R. Olges, 21, Louisville,
Kentucky.; Harold Silverwein,
29, Cincinnati, and Edgar
Lougee, 21, Durham. N. C.
weather"
Northern California Cloudy
with occasional rain today, to
night and Friday with greatest
amount north portion. Cooler
tonay. '
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'KILL CRAZY' BOY
TELLS OF MURDER
Dixon, IU., Dec. 21 (U.R)
A 15-year-old boy, who said he
was "kill crazy", confessed to
police today that he slashed his
five-year-old niece to death and
left a butcher knife sticking in
to her mutilated body.
Norman Burton told authori
ties at Princeton, 111., that he
killed his curly-haired niece,
"but I don't know why."
After the slaying at the girl's
farm home three miles north
of Ohio Village, 111., yesterday,
the boy walked and hitch-hiked
about 13 miles to Princeton,
where his mother and father
live. He spent the night in the
City Park, although tempera
tures were far below freezing.
At 7 a. ra. he went to the home
of his father, Charles, and tojej
him of the tragedy. The lathe
took him to the Princeton she,
iff'i office. .
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In YOUR Home This Yuletide
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will be available to residents of Medford and
surrounding communities this week for only
These are the same beautiful
door-hangers we advertise and
sell nationally for $4.95 de
livered. .
We have had many calls from local people regarding these beau
tiful door and window hangers, and we are making this special
announcement for the benefit of our many Medford friends.
You will want one of these beauties when you see them, for
there are so many ways these Yuletide Clusters can be used.
You can put "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"
on your own front door with this exciting arrangement of fir
boughs, huge sugar-pine cones, a little golden bell that tinkles
merrily every time the door is opened, and scarlet satin bows
with streamers that gleam with holiday greetings and good
wishes to your Christmas guests.
Or, if you prefer, you can decorate your mantel or holiday table
with this touch of our own fresh, green, western forests, and
add just the right finishing touch to your holiday home with
the fragance of spicy, fresh fir-boughs.
Or, it can be hung in the window to tell your friends and
neighbors that your household is keeping Christmas.
Because of this attractive price, $2.00, our supply will not last,
so come in early, or call and we will gladly reserve one for
you. You can pick your Clusters up at our new Fir Street Pack
ing Plant . . but don't delay, we want as many of our Medford
friends as possible to share the joy of giving and receiving
one of our nationally famous Yuletide Clusters.
AMERICAN FRUIT
GROWERS, Inc.
213 S. Fir Street
Telephone 5214
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ONTGOMERY WARD
117 SO. CENTRAL
PHONE 3930