EXECUTIONS IN
DEATH CHAMBER
EQUALS RECORD
Salem, Ore. (U.R) Four exe
cutions have been, or will be
performed by the state of Ore
gon during a five-week period,
a record equalled only once be
fore in the state's history.
On December 8 Richard Harry
Layton, 37-year-old former po
liceman, died in the state peni
tentiary lethal gas chamber.
On January S, 22-year-old
Robert E. Lee Folkes, a former
Negro dining car waiter, is
scheduled to die for the cele
brated "Lower 13" murder in
which Martha Virginia James,
wife of a naval officer, was kill
ed with a butcher knife in the
lower berth of a west coast lim
ited train.
A double execution is set for
January 15, when Henry Wil
liam Merten and Walter Lorne
Wilson will enter the lethal gas
chamber the same day. They
stand convicted of a roadhouse
holdup-murder. ,
But the largest mass legal
slaying ever held in the state
was on December 13, 1912, or
"Bloody Friday" as the old-timers
here call it. Four men were
hanged on that day following a
prison break in which a guard
was killed.
The state has conducted exe
cutions only since 1903, before
which it was a part of the duties
of the county sheriffs. Oregon's
gas chamber has been used
since 1939, when it was installed
a few hours before an execution.
Seven men, including Layton,
have died in it.
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Livestock
Portland, Ore., Jan. S (UP) Live
stock: Cattle, 200; calves, 35. Active,
steady. Good fed steers quotable
$14.25(316.29. Common-medium heif
ers $9 12.50: few $13. Canner-cutter
cows $57. Pat dairy type cows $7.50
0. Common-medium beef cows $8(3
11. Bulls $0.50011. Good vealers
$13.50914: choice quotable to $14.50
Hons, 400. Fully steady. Good-choice
170-270 lbs. $15.75; heavier and light
er weights down to $14.50. Good sows
$13.25914. Feeder pigs strong to 35c
higher at $14.25 14.50.
Sheep. 100. Strong. Good wooled
lambs $13.75. Fed lambs quotable to
$14.50; common 68 lbs. $10.50. Good
ewes up to $6.
South San Francisco, Jan. S (UP)
(USDA) Livestock: Cattle, 170. Ac
tive, fully steady to strong. Good
slaughter steers and heifers absent.
Few packages 1,050-1. 100-lb. range
cows $12.25 with a light sort out at
$1111.50. Weighty dairy bred cows
$9.5011; cutters $7.5008.50; can
ners mostly $5(97. Bulla steady to
strong, range kinds $11.50912, me
dium sausage bulls $10 10.50. Calves,
receipts none. Nominal. Choice veal
ers quoted $14 14.50.
Hogs, 175. Fully steady with Tues
day. Good to choice 200-270-lb. bar
rows and gilts $15.75, medium $14.75.
Good sows $14.
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wooled quoted $14.50. Late Tuesday
14 11 K isw" wo. a pelt
..... . pc. w.uvcyo.ou,
Chicago, Jan. 3 (UP) (WFA)
Livestock: Hogs, 17,000. Bulk good and
choice 190 lbs. and over $14.55 fl 14.65;
tpp $14.75; 150-180 lbs. $14914.50.
Bows mostly $14; celling. Complete
clearance early,
CatUe. 12,000; calves, 1.0O0. Largely
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Newborn Babe Found Outside Hospital
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Really surprised parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zelman of Cleveland,
O., shown above admiring their newest arrival a daughter born In a mad
dash for the hospital and found crying and kicking in the snow In front
of the building. The baby, it seems, was born just as mother stepped
from auto to enter hospital and, in the excitement, was unnoticed until
a startled pedestrian rushed to report that the youngster was lying In
' . the snow.
steer run; bulk fed steers and year
lings $13.751916.73; top $17.60 on year
lings; good beef cows to $14.50 and
better; cutters $6.50 down; heavy
sausage bulls to $13.25 and beef bulls
to $14.50; vealers $15.50 down.
Sheep. 8,000. Bidding steady on good
and choice fed woolea western lambs
at $15.25(813.35.
Portland Produce
Portland, Jan. 3 (UP) Wholesale
market prices:
Live poultry Buying prices from
producers: Broilers up to 2 pounds,
29,bc; fryers, 2 to 3,fe pounds, 29 fie;
roasters, over 3l,fc pounds, 291,5,c; Leg
horns, 29'c; Leghorns, 26c; roosters
and stags, 15 'fee pound.
Live poultry Selling prices to re
tailers: No. 1 grade Leghorn broilers
up to 2W pounds, 30',ic; roasters,
291,dc; stags, 21c; old roosters, 21 &c;
fowl (hens), 26c.
Cucumbers California field stock,
83.17 lug.
Eggplant California $2 BO lug.
Peppers California $4.43 hamper.
Tomatoes California, $6 6.50 re
packed; Mexican, as Is. $5 lug.
Chicago Wheat
Chicago, Jan. 3 (UP) Wheat:
Open High Low . Close
Ma; ..1.663,i $1.66 $1.66", $1.664
July 1.58",4 1.59',b 1.58!'. 1.59V,
Sept. .1.57?, 1.58 1.57i 1.583,
S. F. DAIRY PRICES
San Francisco, Jan. 3 U.R)
Dairy market:
Butter 83 score 43c, 92 score
42Mc, 90 score 4214c, 89 score
41c.
Cheese Wholesale prices,
loafs, 27.9c; triplets 27.2c,
' Eggs Large grade A SSV&c,
large'' grade B 42V4e, medium
grade A 48 Vic, small grade A
42V2C.
Wall Street
New York, Jan. 3 (U.R)
Highest grade industrial shares
led the stock market to new
highs since September 4, 1937,
today on the heaviest trading
since last July 5.
Higher priced railroad Issues
made gains of a point or more
while the others firmed fraction
ally. As the rails rested after
their recent1 sharp rise; the- in
dustrial stocks assumed leader
ship. Their average crossed over
to a new high since October 29,
1939, and was within touching
distance of the high since 1937
attained by the railroad average.
A large amount of the buying
represented reinvestment of
funds realized in last year's
market and from year-end divi
dends. Today's closing prices on se
lected stocks:
American Tel. & Tel..16S'4
Anaconda ; . 30
Chrysler . BSVi
Curtiss Wright U- 6
General Electric 40
General Motors . 64
Montgomery Ward 51
Penn. R. R ; 34
Phillips Petroleum 45V4
J. C. Penney U...109
Radio '.. ...... 10
Southern Pacific .. 43
Standard Oil of Cal. 39
Texas Gulf Sulphur . 37 -
Transamerica .... 11
United Aircrafts .. 31
U. S. Rubber ;.. 83
U. S. Steel 62
LUMBER BARON ILL
Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3 (U.R)
Eueene Bvron Bell. .17
the last survivors of a family
tnat pioneered in the nation's
lumbering industry, was In a
critical condition here today.
Bell, the son of Victor B. Bell,
co-founder of the Long-Bell com
pany whose timber holdings in
cluded vast expanses In the Pa
cific northwest, was suffering
from a cerebral hemorrhage,
physicians at General hospital
reported.
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PARKED IN ALLEY
An Oldsmobile car owned by
Catherine Tison which was
stolen late Monday night from
the driveway of her residence at
207 South Ivy street, was found
this morning by the police in an
alley behind Safeway store num
ber 1, 130 North Bartlett street,
a police report stated.
A wrecked Ford- car bearing
Oregon ' license 385-847 was
found near Court and McAn
drews road Tuesday night, ac
cording to a police report. A
witness told police that the car
had struck a parked trailer caus
ing little damage to that vehicle
but smashing the front end of
the Ford. Driver of the vehicle
was not known, according to the
police, but they asserted no in
juries were suffered apparently.
Gold Hill
Gold Hill, Jan. 8. First Sgt.
Joseph L. Shoemaker and wife
visited recently for two days
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed Shoemaker of Gold Hill. Sgt.
Shoemaker is now stationed at
Camp Jackson, S. C, and ex
nects to go overseas soon.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Large of
Burney, Calif., and Mr. and Mrs.
Laurence Dye and sons were
week-end visitors at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. George Large,
Mr. and Mrs. Large also enter
tained at Christmas dinner,
guests being Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Shoemaker and Loyie, Mr. and
Mrs. William Large, Mr. and
Mrs. Dye and sons, and Mr. and
Mrs. George Large and sons.
Mrs. Robert Plummer of
Grants Pass and Clinton Shoe
maker called on relatives and
friends in Gold Hill Sunday.
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"Rummy Girl," a 10-year-old Boston
bulldog, ordered killed in will of hei
mistress, Mrs. Mayme K. Haines, got
a stay of execution when Sacra
mento, Calif., court questioned legal.
Ity of imposing death on the animal
Brownsboro
Brownsboro, Dec. 3. Mr. and
Mrs. Lester Messal of Lake
Creek had as Christmas dinner
guests Mrs. Messal's three sis
ters. Clara Bergman ana son
Donald, of Medford; Bertha
Hoist of Sams Valley and Corda
Haddock of Spokane, Wash.,
whom Mrs. Messal had not seen
for twenty years.
Roy Renfro, son of Mr. and
Mrs. John Renfro, has enlisted
in the navy and is stationed in
San Diego, Calif.
Guests at the J. E. Trammell
home for Christmas were Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis of Central
Point, friends from California.
.' The Glass families enjoyed
Christmas at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jess Glass' daughter
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
Paul Jones of Medford.
. Miss Lois Wright of Portland
spent Christmas With her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wright.
The family were dinner guests of
Mr. . Wright's brother, Mr. and
Mrs. Orval Wright of Medford.
Mr. and Mrs. Al Renfro of
Stockton, Calif., have been
spending the holiday season at
the John Renfro home. Mrs.
Ruth Renfro Shaw plans to re
turn to Stockton with her uncle
and family for a short vacation.
Mr. Pettis and Mr. Lunchford
of Elko, Nev have been guests
at the Beeney home, also Mr.
and Mrs. Beeney's daughter,
Mrs. Charlotte Boddy of San
Francisco, who plans to make
her home in Oregon.
Holiday guests at the Marshal)
home were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Strand and daughter, Margaret,
of Fort Klamath.
Mr. and Mrs. Lou Blass and
daughter, Lorraine, of Medford,
Mr. and Mrs. Don Biebersteadt
and Ralph Biebersteadt were
guests for Christmas dinner at
the Nygren home. '
Miss Ilean Buck has gone to
California, where she will be em
ployed. - Harold Meyer of Treasure
Island, was home for Christmas
day.
- The Leland Charlies entertain
ed for Christmas, Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Gardner of the Crater Lake
highway.'
, Guests at the A. R. Rutledge
home for the Christmas season
were Mr. and Mrs. Glenn McCay
and daughter, Vinetta, of Klam
ath Falls.
Miss Fannie Belle Sullivan of
Medford was a dinner guest of
Ruth Rutledge, Dec. 31.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wilson re
cently visited their daughter,
Mrs. Annie Stonehocker and
baby daughter of Klamath Falls,
whom they had not seen for
some time. Baby Anna May is
now a guest at the home of her
fond grandmother, Mrs. John
Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Armin Young
and son Billy of Tulelake, Calif.,
were recent overnight guests at
the Marshall home.
YUBA PROTESTS JAPS
Marysville, Calif., Jan. 3 (U.R)
The Yuba county board of super
visors has passed a "strongly
worded" resolution protesting
return of persons of Japanese
ancestry to California, William
T. Ellis, chairman, announced today.
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BRITISH NAVY REVEALS
65,500 AS CASUALTIES
London, Jan. 3 (U.R) The
Royal navy has lost 47,000 men
killed or missing, 13,000 wound
ed, and 9,500 taken prisoner
since the start of the war, Lord
Bruyisfield, the admiralty's par
liamentary secretary, disclosed
in a speech at Wembley last
night.
FIVE BURN TO DEATH
Coldwater, Mich., Jan. 3 (U.R)
A 26-year-old mother and four
of her small children died at the
Coldwater hospital today of
burns received when a gas lamp
exploded, setting fire to their
farm homo near Union City last
night.
Dead were Mrs. Irene Crystal
Kehoe; Tony, 6; Patricia, 8;
Morris, Jr., 3, and Douglas, three
months.
Bobbett Graduates
In'Naval Training
Great Lakes, 111. Among
those graduating from an inten
sive course of machinist mate
training at recent service schools
exercises here was James R.
Bobbett, 24, husband of Mrs.
Olive L. Bobbett, 713 W. 13th
street, Medford, Ore.
Bobbett was selected for spec
ialized training on the basis of
his recruit training aptitude test
scores. Graduates from the 20
specialized courses taught here
at the service schools are sent to
sea, to shore stations, or to ad
vanced schools for further duty.
PERSONAL ASSESSMENT
FORMS BEING RETURNED
The first of 38S0 personal as
sessment blanks sent out last
week by the county assessor's
office, have been returned by
mail.. The blanks are filled out
by the taxpayers, and must be
returned to the assessor before
March 1.
Sheriff Syd I. Brown reports
the tax collections this year
have been the best in years,
with many citizens paying up
back taxes and taxes in full for
the current year.
MEDFORD IS SECOND
IN TRAFFIC SAFETY
Medford stood second in the
state on the least number of
traffic accidents in 1944 up
through the month of Novem
ber, according to a report by
the secretary of state's office in
Salem.
Astoria was top on the list.
The report included all cities in
the state with populations of
iu.uuo or more.
Wednesday, Jan. 9. 1S48 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
today. San Pedro is credited with
a catch of 150,000,000 pounds,
the largest single species being
pilchards, the west coast's varie
ty of sardine.
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BANK CALL
Washington Jan. 3 U.B
Comptroller of the Currency
Preston Delano issued call tor
the condition of all national
banks as of December 30, 1044.
L. A. LIVING HIGHER
Los Angeles, Jan. 3 U.R)
Yes, Mr. America, it does cost
more to live in Los Angeles.
OPA officials - today disclosed
that living costs here jumped 2.2
per cent in the past six months
compared to the national aver
age of .4 of 1 per cent.
DEANNA DIVORCED
Hollywood, Jan. 3 (U.R)
Singing. Film Star Deanna Dur-
bin, who complained that her
husband criticized her film and
radio portrayals, today won a
final decree of divorce from
Vaughn Paul. ' ' . '
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SAN PEDRO RECORD
Washington, Jan. 3 (U.R)
The fishermen of San Pedro.
Calif., hauled in more fish in
1944 than those of any . other
fishing port in the nation, the
department of interior's office of
coordinator of fisheries reported
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