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A3HLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1918
NUMBER 9
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Arrangements For
Hiyu Hehe
The various July 4th commiteees,
with Mr. Staples as secretary and
manager, are getting things lined up
in a manner that Is very promising
for a successful three-day celebration
and Mr. Thornton, secretary of the
Roundup association Is feeling good
over the outlook for that part of the
annual Hiyu Hehe.
The patriotic parade this year Is
to be a great feature. It will be led by
the Goddess of Liberty and an inter
est'ng new departure in this is the
fact that the ladies of the Medford
Red Cross society will take charge
of the electing and outfitting of tha
Goddess from one of Medford's beau
ties. This Is pleasing , as it shows
a lovely spirit on the part of the
Medford folk and will add much to
stimulating a large attendance from
that city.
Then there is the band from Med
ford, and the principal orator will be
C. L. Reames, of national promin
ence now, and probably as close In
on the secret work of our war labors
as any one of the president's family.
A Joan of Arc will be characteris
ed In the parade, the lady to take this
part to be elected. Ballot boxes are
now at all of the drug stores and
confectionery parlors.
One section of the parade will rep
resent all of the allied nations in
costume and colors, another section
will be the bicycles decorated under
the direction of J. M. Densmore.
There will be pony carts, saddle
hordes, dog carts, fat men, lean men.
men on skates and men on stilts.
White people and black people. Flow
er floats and other floats and there
will be a lot of prizes given to those
who take part in the parade. Then1
Is also to be given a handsome prize
to the couple that get married In
jublic on the float used by the God
dess. This Is to be a real, honest-to-goodness
marriage and the preacher
we have to tie the knot will knot
nake It a bean knot.
Any couple desiring to be married
and capture the housekeeping prize
should apply to Secretary Staples.
Advocates Highways
For Coast Defense
M. B. Gilbert, of Seattle, field rep
resentative of the Pacific Coast De
fense League, waa in Ashland for a
abort time Monday and addressed an
Informal meeting at the Commercial
club room, before a number of busi
ness men. The chief trend of his
talk was on the immediate establish
ment of a complete system of national
military highways for the- Pacific
coast reaching from Canada to the
Mexican border.
The attention of the assemblage
was called by Mr. Gilbert to the un
protected conditions of the Pacific
.coast to which he referred as a na
t'onal menace. A complete system of
; national highways, following so far
;as consistent with military lines of
, jreeent highway development is the
aim of the Pacific Coast Defense
'League, and bills specifically provid
Ing for this are already Introduced
4n It nth hnnaoe A ftTilATI A la Ana rt
the cities named on the route, with
laterals connecting the valley with
Crescent City and Klamath Falls.
A plan of the league involves the
construction of three highways. One
-will be known as the Balboa or coasi
highway, form Port Angeles, Wash.,
to Tia Juana, Mexico. One known as
the Pacific or Valley highway, from
Ulaine, Wash., to Calexlco, Mexico,
while the third will be known as the
Sierra, from Oroville, Wash., to Los
Angeles, Cal.
' These roads are to be made sub
servient to the commercial and do
mestic requirements of the communi
ties through which they pass and con
nected by lateral highways from
every important harbor. These high
ways would be constructed by the
government under the direction of
the war department with a view to
facilitating the movement of military
troops, equipment, munitions, and
supplies In time of peace and in tlmo
of war, and be open to the use of
the general public except when used
for national defense.
Commercial organizations of the
three coast states are being asked to
lend their aid in the effort to Influ
ence congress to Inaugurate measures
for the accomplishmenfr'of this move
ment. The measure appeals to the Ash
land Commercial club and the atten
tion of the club will be called to It at
en early meeting.
Fourth And
Making Progress
The Honor Guards are planning an
attractive section for the parade and
altogether It will be a most Interest
ing one.
The street decorating committee
has begun work and ere long things
will look like good.Sld 4th of July
had not been forgotten.'
The parade committee wants men
to represent Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington. They already
have a President Wilson character.
The street decorating committee
have a lot to do and ask friends who
can do so to bring them evergreen
trees (without the roots) 5 to 10
feet high.
Secretary Staples, with headquart
ers at the Commercial club, asks all
who contemplate helping in the pa
lade to kindly report to him.
Merchants are offering parade
prizes, a list of which will be pub
lished next Monday.
Three bands have been employed.
Medford, Grants Pass and our home
band.
The Hitt Fireworks company of
Seattle will put on the best ever pyro
technic display the evening of the
Fourth.
McElroy with his jazz band will
entertain in the armory each after
I'oon and night.
Hum Pracht will have fresh sul
rhur water to swln In and an or
chestra on tap continuously at the
bl 'at.
O. Helraan will have a big lake of
tulphur water at the right tempera
ture for tired, dusty folks to frolic
!n.
Thus far the voting for Joan of
Arc has only begun but votes are in
for Bessie Wilson, Isabelle Barron
and Harriet Trask. Progress of the
contest for Joan of Arc will be an
nounced in each succeeding issue
of the Tidings. Contest will be clos
ed at 10 p. m. June 30.
The parade committee , says all
who want to represent the kaiser
or anything on the 4th to please
call on Secretary Staples.
Europe's Condition
Shown By Speaker
"If any one thinks they are going
to have plenty of nice white bread
after harvest they are much mistak
en," was the emphatic statement
made by Mrs. Jennie Kemp, fieM
representative of the United States
food administration during Iter ad
dress at the Baptist church Tuesday
evening. "You will not eat white
bread until the war is. over, If you
have a spark of patriotism in your
makeup."
This statement was made in con
nection with some of the reasons glv
en for Oregon going on a wteatless
basis, and in recounting some of the
horrible conditions existing among
the people of Belglumand France,
tue sacrifice of merely doing without
wheat seems a trivial matter.
The question is asked many times
v.by Europe cannot eat substitutes
a? well as Americans, Mrs. Kemp
staled, and explained how people of
Belgium and France were scraping
tark from trees and grinding buds
from twigs and mixing with cereals
for bread.
At no time Is Europe eating wheat
bread alone. The only use the wheat
is put to there Is to mix with sub
stitutes to make the bread stick to
gether for transportation In the army.
Even with this, economical use of
wheat the supply Is so scarce that
the French army have only three
days' rations ahead of them. This,
the speaker pointed out, is too close
to starvation to be strictly comfort
able. : ' ..'
A small audience listened atten
tively to Mrs. Kemp's address which
was Immensely Inspiring and help
ful. Music was furnished by Mrs
Esther Ashcraft who sang, "Keep the,
Homefires Burning," and Miss Lola
Smith 6f Pasadena, Cal., who sang,
"John Barleycorn, Goodbye." Dr.
Keeney Ferris presided at the meet
ing.
C. E. Lane was called to Klamath
hot springs late last night by the tid
ings that his sister, Mrs. Wllmer Hilt,
who was taking treatment there, was
very ill, and that the services of a
nurse were required. Mrs. Hilt had
gone to the springs last week to take
treatment for rheumatism.. , Miss
Throne accompanied Mr. Lane.
Phone Job orders to the Tidings.
Fatal Auto Smash
On S. P. Crossing
A shocking accident occurred at
the one-mile crossing south of Med
ford Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 when
wo engines running Into Medford
from Ashland struck an automobile
containing three people. As a result
of the collision Mrs. E. L. Hurd of
Ilcqulam, Wash., was killed and Peter
E. Stream, also of 'Hoquiam, is prob
ably fatally injured. The car was
smashed to atoms and the debris
was carried by the engine 600 feet
U;fore they finally stopped.
Mrs. Harvey Lord, a third member
of the party, was sitting In the back
feat of the car, and received minor
Injuries.
According to Mrs. Lord, who iu
spite of being dragged several hun
dred feet, hanging head downward
from the pilot of the engine, was suf
ficiently self-possessed to scramble to
her feet and vigorously upbraid the
engineer of the locomotive for not
blowing his whistle.
The members of the party were
en route to San Francisco where Mrs.
Hurd was to meet her son who Is
in training in an aviation camp near
tnat city. While In Medford they
lost the road and were returning
through the orchard district to the
IJacific highway when the accident
occurred.
Mr. Stream, according to Mrs.
Lord, was driving slowly and keep
ing a sharp lookout but an orchar.l
at the right of the road prevented a
clear view of the track. Their first
view of the engine and the crash
vere practically simultaneous, tha
last moving locomotives seeming to
swoop silently upon them.
The car, which was a new Olds
mobile recently purchased by Mr.
Stream, was struck directly in tha
center, scooped up on the pilot and
carried from the crossing to the M
T. Murphy place about 200 yards
d'stant.
Stream and Mrs. Hurd who occu
pied the front seat were caught in
the wreckage of the car and it was
with difficulty the rescuers extri
cated them and pulled the car from
the pilot. The fatally injured coupl
did not lose consciousness at first.
and suffered excruciating agony un
til they reeached Sacred Heart hos
jiital, where anesthetics were admin
istered.
There was po hope of saving Mrs
Ilurd's life from the first. She suf
fered four fractures of one leg, her
head was badly lacerated and there
were internal injuries sufficient in
themselves to cause death.
Mr. Stream, the second victim of
the automobile accident, died at Sa
tred Heart hospital yesterday after
noon at 5 o'clock. Death had heen
Licmentarily expected all day, but
the young man's vitality was such
that in spite of frightful internal In
juries and concussion of the brain he
lived 24 hours after the accident.
The deceased was secretary and
treasurer of the East Hoquiam Shin
gle company, was exalted ruler of the
Hoquiam lodge of Elks, a Mystic
fhrlner and a member of the Knights
of Pythias.
Dr. E. L. Hurd, a dentist of Ho
quiam, whose wife was the first vie
Urn of the accident, arrived in Med
ford late last night and went at
once to Sacred Heart hospital. Mrs.
Harvey Lord, who occupied the rear
seat of the automobile, received but
minor injuries In the smash, but is
an inmate of the hospital recovering
from the shock.
Many Soldiers Pass
Through City South
The tramp of marching feet on the
city Btreets is a sound of everyday
occurrence this week. Troop trains
have been going south everyday thus
far through the week when soldiers
have been transferred from Camp
Lewis to make room for the new
draft contingents for June. The
troops have disembarked frequently
and marched about the city for ex
ercise during their stay in Ashland.
Wednesday a train unloaded at
Billings crossing, north of the city,
and marched through to the station.
While the boys have only been In
camp a few weeks they are all uni
formed and are every Inch Ameri
can soldiers. , The . canteen station
has furnlshnd sandwiches and light
lunches for the soldiers during their
ctop here, and the boys have been
eager to secure the "handout" provided.
New Draft Calls
144 Oregon Men
Oregon must furnish 144 men for
technical training In mechanical
trades for the national army, on July
1 according to a call Issued by Pro
voBt Marshal General Crowder this
week. The men are to be trained
at the California School of Mechani
cal Arts. Until June 21 volunteer?
will be accepted from such counties
as are asked for men to complete
the state's quota. After that date If
the quotas of the local boards are
not filled the men will he called In
their order number to fillVhe quota.
Only men of grammar school edu
cation and with experience and apti
tude in mechanics will be accepted.
The men will undergo a course of
training similar to those at Benson
Polytechnic.
The men are wanted for work as
auto mechanics, blacksmiths, chauf
feurs, gas engine men, carpenters and
plumbers, In army positions at the
front and back of the lines. They
will be assigned after their arrival
to the kind of training for which
there is the greatest need, and at
the end of training will enter the
branch of the army that needs them
most.
Jackson county will be called upon
to furnish five men In this draft. The
quotas for adjoining counties will be:
Josephine, 2; Douglas, 5; Klamath 2.
Proclamation
Make this war a persona!
matter. Do not depend on oth
ers to do flie fighting or to fi
nance the government. Do
your share. It is as much your
war as your neighbor's Prac
tice economy and self-denial,
and thereby eliminate waste.
Invest your savings in war
savings stamps. Tin president
of the 1 nited States has called
on t'r..jfecpie of the nation t
Indicate1 their self denial by
pledging themselves on June
28 to purchase war savings
stamps for the remainder of
the year.
I have written to boys in
France that the people of Ash
land are squarely back of them
and that we are going over the
top with every war demand tha:
is asked of us.
In order that the citizens of
Ashland may be fully advised
and ready to respond to tho
call, I hereby proclaim Friday,
June 28, as war savings day
for the city of Ashland, Ore
gon, upon which day all per
sons shall give their pledges
far var savings stamps at sucii
time and place and in such
manner as may be appointed
by C. S. JackBon, the war di- I
rector for Oregon, acting un
der authority of the secretary
of the treasury, and pursuant
to the proclamation of the
president of the United States.
C. B. LAMKLV, Mayor.
New Form Of Draft
Slacker Run Down
Federal authorities are getting
ready to institute a merciless cam
paign to run down and punish a new
form of draft slacker.
This new slacker Is the draft regis
trant who was granted deferred class
ification at the time of his registra
tion, but whose status since has so
changed that he no longer is entltl
ed to exemption, yet who remains
silent about this change in the hope
it will be overlooked.
The draft regulations are very
plain and blunt in prescribing the
penalty for failure on the part of a
man granted deferred classification
to notify his local board at once If
his status is changed:
. "Every registrant shall, within five
days after the happening thereof, re
port to his local board any fact which
might change or affect his classifica
tion," says sebtion 16 of the regula
tions.
"Failure to report change of status
us herein required or making a false
report thereof, is a misdemeanor pun
ishable by one year's imprisonment."
The campaign to run down these
draft slackers will be started very
coon and it will be a rigorous cam
paign. Men guilty of evading mili
tary aervice by failure to report when
they should be reclassified, need look
for no mercy.
Americans Cross
Bring Back
With the American Army In France J
June, 19. Two American patrols
crossed the Marne east Of Chateau
Thierry early this morning. They es
tablished contact with the hostile
forces, killed a considerable number
of the enemy and brought back pri
soners. These were from Landwehr units,
which is taken as an Indication that
no hostile attacks are Intended at
this point in the Immediate future.
The Americans in the Woevre sent
their first gas against the German
lines from projectors today. A Ger
man raid at Remires wood was re
pulsed. Five bombing planes dropped
38 bombs on the station and tracks
bt Conflans (east of Verdun).
Several enemy machines were en
countered on the way, but all the
American planes returned.
The Teutonic allies apparently
have lost their spirit of do-or-dle,
their attacks every where of late
have lacked the tenaciousness of days
gone by.
Instead of ploughing through al
lied lines with stubborn Indifference
to casualties so long as an objective
was gained, they now waver and halt
In the face of artillery and rifle fire
with the points they were trying to
gain still far beyond their reach.
Ambitious attempts by the troops
of the central powers in the pat few
weeks have proved this. The opening
of a gateway to Paris through the
vestern front, running from Montdld-
.'er to the Marne, failed completely;
the offensive on the Italian battle
front, launched by the Austrlans,
seemingly has failed miserably in the
mountain regions, and apparently ha3
almost been stopped along the river
l'iave, while a stroke started by the
Germans against Rheims broke down.
!n its inception without the enemy
taking a yard of territory.
And In these various attempted en
terprises, the high commands of the
German and Austro- Hungarian arm
ies have seen their men literally
mown down in battle fields that have
been clogged with dead or wounded
as recompense to the allies troops
for the small bits of tarrain they
yielded.
The Austrian offensive in the Ital
ian theatre is still in progress along
ihe Piave river, but in the mountain
region after the sharp reaction by
the Italian, French and British
troops, who counter attacked, pushed
W. S. S. Campaign
Conference Held
Field Commissioner J. L. Ethridge
and Thomas Ryan, a silver-tongued
orator of Portland, and Dr. Henry
Hart, chairman for Jackson county,
held a conference with the thrift
stamp campaign workers of Ashland
and the adjoining school districts at
the city hall Wednesday evening.
Valleyview, Soda Springs and Belle
view school districts were represent
ed.
Dr. Hart presided. J. W. McCoy
took part in the discussion of the re
organization of the districts, and
Messrs. Ryan and Ethridge delivered
spirited talks that received the ap
plause of the audience. '
The form of the natioal thrift
stamp campaign has been changed,
the first stage of the effort being to
Interest children and the appeal was
along the lines of educational and
voluntary effort, and a direct appeal
for small savings. The new itngo
of the campaign does not arrest the
work of the past, but supplements it
with the effort to get the larger sums
of money from adults and Is accom
panied by the stern appeal of cold
business with the urge of determin
ation and coercion if necessary.
The two speakers put up a strong j
talk that meant business and the
new form of the appeal will not be
mistaken by anybody.
There will be a meeting of all In
terested In the coming campaign at
the city hall Friday evening, June
21 at 8 o'clock for the purpose of
perfecting the details of the drive
week June 24 to June 28. The
plans contemplate that this drive will
complete the pledges for the entire
amount of two billion dollars to be
raised.
You can buy vots at 10 cents per
hundred for Joan of Arc at the vot
ing places and several of the merch
ants are giving 10 votes with each
dollar purchase.
Maine And
German Prisoners
lack the Invader from the points
lie had reached in his first ruBh, the-
enemy evidently, is fearful of again
trying out the mettle of the defend
ers. On the Plave numerous attempts '
have been made by the Austrlans to
gain further bridgeheads on the west
bank of the stream, but the Italians
everywhere are holding them with
tbeir gunfire and also doing sanguin- '
ary execution within the ranks of
the enemy across the river with their
bomb and machine gun fire.
The Austrian war office asserts
that the Austro-Hungarlan troops
have crossed the Fossetta canal at
some points where Tuesday it was
claimed they had made advances and
plso that several 'tallan lines at tha
southern foot of the Montello plateau
the key to the Venetian plains have
been pierced.
Rome, on the other hand, declared
that all the weak attempts made In
the Montello region were completely
repulsed.
More than 900 men have been
taken by the Italians since the of
fensive began and many guns and
several hundred machine guns have
been captured. That intensive air
fighting also has taken place Is shown
by the fact that 50 enemy planes
have been shot down. Only two of
the allied machines have failed to
let urn to their bases.
The attacks of the Germans near
Pheims resulted disastrously to them.
Hardly had they left their trenches
tfter one of the most terrific bom
lnrdment with sholls of all calibre,
including gas projectiles, ever ex
perienced on the western front, when
nearly 40,000 men were faced by the
reinforced French armies and Uter
cily cut to pieces and forced to fall
back precipitately. Only at one po'Ji(r.
to the east of Itheims, did the enwiy ,
succeed in penetrating the FwncU
line. Here he was almost immediate-?
y ejected.
Little activity has prevailed on tha.
remainder of the western front.
The success of the recent naval at
tack hy the British on the German
submarine base at Zeebrugge seem--ingly
was more successful that an
ticipated. Twenty-one destroyers, a
large number of submarines and nu
merous auxiliary craft are blocked In
the canal by the ships suuk across
the waterway.
Quantity Of Whisky
Discovered On Train
A quantity of whisky was found
cached in one of the passenger
coaches on train No. 54 arriving lu
Ashland at 4:40 Tuesday evening.
The booze had been snugly tucked
up In the top of the coach, presum
ably while It was stationed in San
Francisco. The contraband liquor
would have undoubtedly reached Its
destination had not a bottle been
broken, and the liquor percolating
through the ceiling of the coach at
tracted the attention of an S. P. spe
cial officer who was aboard. ,
When the train stopped at the lo
cal station the plate over the open
ing In the celling was removed and
12 dozen and four pint bottles and
two dozen quart bottles of whisky
were discovered.-
The bottles wore taken down and
placed In the baggage car to be sent
on to Portland where they wilL ba
turned over to the government.
A NOTE OF THANKS
The executive board of the patri
otic fund recently raised In Ashland
and vicinity wish to extend their
hearty thanks for the generous re
sponse from the public. This will
enable the board to meet the various
appeals from time to time during the
year without making additional
drives. Too much praise cannot be
given to the Bplendld service render
ed by the various teams, and the
executive board wishes to publicly
thnnk all who made possible this
splendid drive. ,
E. V. CARTER,
O. A. BRI8COE.
MRS. F. S. ENGLE,
MRS. C. B. LAMKLV.
F. J. SHINN.
L. F. FERGUSON,
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.
Phone Job orders to the Tiding.
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