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eaths Continue To Mount in Europe As Snow, Cold Wave Plague Nations London - OJPU - Holiday deaths in icy Europe soared today into the hundreds. At least 250 persons were known dead since last week end and reports from many nations were Incomplete and unofficial. The toll jumped Wednesday night when at least 18 per-. since the turn of the century sons were killed in a collision j For London, with tempera between a speeding express tures down to 29 degrees, it and a standing train near i was the coldest Yule since Liverpool, England. The acci-1 1944. dent happened during a snow , The unusual wintry condi- storm. tions in Europe extended even Some parts of England re ported their coldest Christinas Two weeks of things to do and sights to see when you, visit San Francisco the eventful city. THEATRE Helen Hayes and Maurice Evans present "Shakespeare Re visited" at the Masonic Memorial Temple, Jan. 10, 11 and 12. "The Music Man" with Forrest Tucker is at the Garden Court Dinner Theatre, Sheraton Palace Hotel. "Galileo", by Bert hold iiredit, is at the Marines' Memorial through Jan. S. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS Golden Gate Kennel Club All-Breed Dog Show will be held Jan. 5 St 6, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Cow Palace. Miriam Makeba, South African singer, and Ronnie bchell, comedian, are the featured entertainers at the hungry i. Rnwan & Martin, comedians, are at the Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel through Jan. 9; Louis Armstrong opens on the 10th. MUSIC Eileen Karrell, soprano, gives a concert at the Opera House, 8:110 p.m., Jan. 12. Howard Mitchell is the guest conductor when the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra performs Jan. 9, 10 & 11 at the Opera House. SPORTS lee Hockey San Francisco Seals vs Los Angeles Jan. 3; vs Portland Jan. 12 & 13, at the Cow Palace. Pro-Basketball San Francisco Warriors vs Boston Jan. 2 & 8, vs Los Angeles Jan. 11, vs New York Jan 14, at the Cow Palace. College Basketball USF vs University of the Pacific at the USF Gym 8.00 p.m., Jan. 12. Horse Racing opens Jan. 5 at Bay Mead ows in San Mateo. ART The 12th Exhibition of the Association of San Francisco Pot ters, is featured at the De Young Museum, The Fourth Winter Invitational Exhibition featuring works of Northern Califor nia painters is at the Legion of Honor. 100 Great Prints from the Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation at UCLA can be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Art from Jan, 4, Rifilit now it the beat time 0 year In San Francisco. IWnmm visitors bureau 3? as of Wednesday night totaled 40. The snow and ice froze Hol land's canals, lakes and diuhns, bringing out crowds of skaters. Thirteen skaters to the normally balmy areas : drowned when ice broke, of Italy, France and Spain i . , ,..,, i ,u m j-. Two persons froze to death along the Mediterranean. . ... u . , . ,. . , n L sbon, wh ch had its cold Some ski resorts in the Alps , r-u.i.. r .i. ... . , .. ... i est Christmas of the century, were cut off from the outside ' for extended periods. Britain led the traffic toll, with 97 persons killed in auto crashed during the four-day period ending with Christmas Day. London's heaviest snow of the winter blanketed the city Wednesday night. Freezing temperatures hit most of Spain, causing severe damage to the country's vital citrus crops. Barcelona's worst storm in 50 years covered the city with about three feet of snow. Rain, cold and snow plagued Rome. Six-foot snow drifts piled up at ski resort3 near the Italian capital. Storms were reported all over Italy, and on Sicily and Sar dinia. Forty traffic deaths were reported In Italy by Wednes day night. Holiday deaths in France Grange News Phoenix Grange Newly elected officers of Phoenix Grange, who have not yet been installed, are re minded that an inr'.allation service will be held at Con tral Point Grange at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 30. Overseer Lloyd Whiteside presided over the evening ac tivities during the Christmas party recently. Mrs. Lester Carr was in charge of the en tertainment. Members had a potluck din ner followed with music by "The Meadowlarks," Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meadows. A Christ mas recitation was given by Allan Swingle and everyone joined in the carol singing led by Mrs. Robert Meadows. oreign Briefs FIRE IN JAPAN LEAVES 80 HOMELESS Sapporo, Japan-'IIPIuOfficiali said a fire that started in a candy shop in the town of Urahoro early today destroyed 13 dwellings and made homeless a total of 80 persons. They said there were no casualties. YUGOSLAVIA CONVICTS FOREIGNERS OF ESPIONAGE Belgrade - Ul'li - Interior Minister Svetislav Slefanovic I told the National Assembly Wednesday that a total of 316 I foreigners were arrested in Yugoslavia and convicted of espionage this year. PERUVIAN JUNTA EXTENDS SUSPENSION Lima, Peru-Wli-The military Junta government Wednes day night extended to Cusco province the 30-day suspension of civil rights - state of emergency - imposed on Junin and Pasco provinces. Vice Adm. Luis E. Llosa, the junta's foreign minister, said the government will do everything necessary to put a slop to Communist-organiied violence in the three provinces. TRANSPORTATION STRUCK IN BUENOS AIRES Buenos Aires - IITI - Transportation workers here walked out at midnight, starting a 24-hour "general strike" designed to slop everything that moves by land, sea or air. The strike was expected to paralyse the nationalized railway lines, but its effectiveness in other fiolds was ex pected to be spotty. r 1 " ? i. . . ' ' :-. $ V :- ;,1 i u k sir i It ; - h ' a a k v r- ? . i ; m T' 4 , 1 is : i l i T iiii m i miWi Wl I II still tVTfi Market Moves Slightly To End Narrowly Mixed New York - fl.'P! - Stocks closed narrowly mixed today. The popular averages moved slightly in both directions all day as they apparently flirt ed with the Dec. 5 recovery high of 653.99. Any move through this level, brokers say, would be interpreted as extremely bullish and would probably signal the beginning of another full-fledged rally. In their favor, the bulls had rising steel production, an op timistic appraisal of 1063 bus iness prospects by a symposi um of top executives, and word that tax reduction pro posals have been put into final form by the administration. Pakistan Begins Talks With India; . Agreement Reached With Red Chinese Rawalpindi, Pakistan - IDPD India and Pakistan began an attempt to settle their Kash mir dispute today in talks sud denly complicated by Pakis tan s surprise border agree- Iment with Red China. An Indian delegate to the Kashmir conference said the i agreement "in principle" be tween Pakistan and Commu ! nist China left India "no place to stand" as the talks opened today. Government spokesmen DOW JONES AVERAGES New York - Wl) - Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 650.56, off 1.08: 20 railroads 133.93, off 0.67; 15 utilities 128.38, up 0.04, and 65 stocks 228.37, off 0.43. Sales today were about 3.67 million shares compared with 3.37 million shares Wednesday. elected 44 54 'i 18'-, London - lUPU - The Civil Service Clerical Union urged today that ashtrays in the Na tional Assistant (welfare) Board offices be anchored se curely to desks. It said that every year about 70 angry welfare applicants hurl ash trays at assistance clerks. here said that disclosure of the border agreement with Red China on the eve of the Kashmir discussions was "pure coincidence." But Western official sources expressed surprise and puz zlement at the timing of the statement. Indian sources here said the New Delhi delegation was baf fled by the move, but said the border arrangement with Red China did not necessarily wreck the lndo-Pakistan talks Pakistan President Moham mad Ayub Khan conferred with Western diplomats and the heads of the Indian and Pakistan delegations on the Kashmir talks this morning over the agreement with Red China. Political observers said the border announcement puts , lem and Pakistan teels a pieu Pakistan in a stronger position Iscite would go in its favor. for the Kashmir talks, which I are aimed at settling the ad- ministration of the state, about the size of Kansas, which lies between northern India and Pakistan. Kashmir became an issue soon after the 1948 partition of the Indian subcontinent into predominently Hindu In dia and predominently Mos lem Pakistan. India controls about two-thirds of Kashmir; Pakistan the rest. But the pop ulation is 77 per cent Mos- 'J i for ft, EHicltnl Service iV cu: it Lfl.5lSt nr .to or horn Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Other California Points Call Jack Fitzqerald 773-7761 Rogue Valley Edition Medford Page 2A Tribune NATURAL GAS EQUIPMENT COMPANY On Display tne largest selection of gas heating equip ment in So. Ore. COLEMAN Space Floor Unit Forced Air Uoflow Down Flow Horizontal Wall Furnaces Hot Water Heaters. Phone 772-2322 MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1902 111 West Main Today's prices on stocks; Allied Chemical Alum Co. Am American Air Liner. 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Advertising helped it happen By stimulating mass demand, advertising helped create 1 mass market for electric light bulbs. As demand grew, more and more were made. The more of them made, the less each one cost. Result: new and better electric light bulbs mass produced for more people at lower prices by America's remarkable and competitive economic system. Is this worthwhile? Then, so is advertising worthwhile. f fppired by th( Adertiin Federtion of Americi ind the .dfiiisinj Awocinion ol the Wl PuMishrd throusK the tourirs) el this puMKinon. i g id Arctic Air Moves Into Northern Plains By United Press International A new onslaUKlit of frigid arctic air moved into the northern plains today on the heels of a cold wave that sent temperatures to more than 30 denrces below zero. Temperatures were cold but skies generally clear across the nation today. The mercury was well below the freezing mark from coast to coast in the northern states. Low For Nation The new cold air mass was not expected to bring read ings a.s low as Wednesday when the official low reading for the nation was 31 below at Craig, Colo., and zero tt'iii pcratviri's swepi us far south as Oklahoma. It wiis 118 below at Viroqua, Wis , 1!H below at Dubuque. Iowa, and 20 below at Mm-neapulis-SI. Paul, Minn , and Duhilh. Minn. San Francisco received one of ils rare freezing temper atures. The mercury slumped to HI 111 the Golden Gate area. Six indies of snow fell 111 Arizona's mountains. Light snow fell elsewhere through the riockics and over the northern plains. Two Inches in Bulfalo The "snow belt" extending from the Great Lakes to the Appalachians received mostly flurries Wednesday. Ituffalo. N Y., reported two inches of new miow. While most of the nation chattered and shook in the cold, the mercury in Florida tupped at fU above at Fort Mcvci's and 8t at West Palm Heach and Orlando, driving thousands (if tourists to tile beaches Light rain or drizzle was forecast for the Gulf states to day, except in Florida. Medford Mail Tribune i riungcness. England - 1TP -I The men of this village were I defeated Wednesday in their annual tugofwar by the womenfolk 0 0 6 SUPER MM O -LIMIT RIGHTS RESERVED - FREE DELIVERY- WoETABlf ALL VARIETIES CAMPBELL'S SOUPS FOR NALLEY DIPS 8 OZ. NABISCO HONEY GRAHAMS WISH BONE DRESSINGS 8-oz. CANADA DRY MIXERS j CANADA V Mil DEPOSIT " lll MIXED NUTS lb. 39c C&H POWDERED and BROWN SUGAR JELL-0 3.oz. Mi Pkg. PIUSBURY CAKE MIXES All Except Angel Food ST1 CO FOR Florida Red GRAPEFRUIT 10-$100 PINEAPPLE -39' DRY ONIONS - 5' CABBAGE 5C CARROTS 2 Lb. Cello Bag r TASTY BRAND WIENERS 12 OZ. PKG. AT LOWEST PRICES !! 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