Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Ashland tidings. (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1918)
OMiOtt Historical SeeUtr, Auditorium ASHLAND: TIDINGS "Ashland Grows While Uthla Flows" City of Sunshine and Flowers Ashland, Oregon, Uthla Springs "Oregon's Famous Spa" VOL. XLIII , ASHLAND. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 NUMBER 37 Voluntary Subscriptions To Fourth Liberty Loan Popular Starting with Monday, the execu tive committee and workers of the Fouith Liberty Loan campaign have been putting In their best licks to In cite the citizens of Ashland district to make their subscriptions promptly and voluntarily In order to make their quota and have everything cleared up by Friday night. If this Is done Ashland will again establish Its reputation as a one hundred por cent patriotic city. This morning the chairman of the executive committee received the au thorized quotas for the Fourth Liber ty Loan, which are as follows: State $33,500,000; Jackson county, $571,' 000, and Ashland district, $181,600 This is a trifle below the amount ex-1 pected by the executive committee, and If the subscriptions continue to come in promptly the city's quota will be raised practically by voluntary registration. The executive committee and the workers met at a fine noonday lunch eon served at the Austin hotel dlninn room yesterday and reviewed the work accomplished and that Immedi ately In front of the big effort to go over tho top on the voluntary regis tration plan. In order to afford every possible asFistance, the registration subscrip tion booths located In the three banks will remain open Thursday and Fri day. On Thursday the bank doors will remain open until 5 o'clock Pi the afternoon for the purpose of reg istration. On Friday the booths In Daring Stunts By Aviator Instructor The Dally Empire, of Juneau, Alaska, of recent date contains a let ter from J. C. Tolman, a man well known In Ashland, who has been for asveral years connected with Interests In Seward, Alaska. Mr. Tolman is at present in San Diego, Cal., with hU two boys, Crlt and diet, who are In the aviation branch of the service. In the letter Mr. Tolman says: "Crlt has been assigned as Instruc tor In stunt flying, and machine gun shooting from the plane all of which does not please him, as he is anxious to get to France, or across the water. "It certainly makes me hold my breath to see Crlt fall end over end, side over side, for a thousand feet, or go down tall first spiralling like a corkscrew until you think he will never stop until he hits the earth, then when he rights up the machine and flies away, somehow or other, 1 want to sit down on the ground and rest. It Is certainly great work and a wonderful experience for those who live through It. "Three of Crlt's closest compan ions In aviation have been killed. Ex Mayor Mltchel was the last one. Crlt has only had one accident and had a horseshoe around his neck or some thing equally as lucky. The machine in which he was flying fell bottom side up and there was not a piece left of the machine worth 25 cents. When Crlt crawled from underneath the wrecked machine all the Injury he re ceived was a small scratch on the leg ' which did not amount to anything He got right Into another machine nd went on flying. "It seemed to be an unlucky day Friday, July 12. There were 11 ma chines smashed up that day, one man killed, and some severely wounded. Each one of those machines cost the government $10,000. "Chet has not started flying ye:, but expects to shortly. He will ha flying in the navy, which Is not con sidered as dangerous as flying In th3 army." Noted Case To Be . Heard In Salem Attorney A. K. Reams has gone to Salem, where he will make final argu ments In the case of Sweeney vs. Jackson County over the construction of the Siskiyou section of the Pacific highway. The case has been before the courts for three years, Sweeney suing for $140,000 against $35,000 allowed by the state engineer, and se curing an award of $70,000 by Circuit Judge Davis In Portland, from which decision the county appealed. Seven hundred and sixty pageB of brief have been filed with the court. the banks will remain open continu ously until 9 o'clock. Every effort will be made to get to the top Friday night. On Friday evening at 8 o'clock, up Btalrs at City Hall, there will be a meeting of the executive committee and all other citizens Interested b) making good Ashland's quota. All those Invited to last Saturday even ing's committee meeting are request ed to attend as well as any one offer ing to volunteer their services. The purpose of this meeting Is to mop up the remains of this voluntary sub scription registration campaign. The details of the last clean up will be ready for this meeting and everything will be ready for action and the meth od to be pursued will be finally pass ed upon. There will be no soliciting for funds at this meeting, the work being confined to the business In hand. L'p to last night 361 subscribers had voluntarily purchased bonds amounting to $7.1,000. While this Is very commendable and shows the proper spirit of those who have given their allotment In this compalgn, there are many whose subscriptions are necessary to fill out the quota. In view of the fact that only two more days remain In which the volunteer subscriptions will be taken, every one Is most earnestly urged to buy their bonds within the two days. In order to leave a little as possible to the clean-up committee to gather In at the last minute. Time Changes Last Sunday In October At 2 a. ra. Sunday, October 2", the standard time will be retarded one hour, readjusting the nation's time for the winter period, In accordanc with the daylight-saving law. This statement, for which United States Meteorologist Edward L. Wells Is authority, brings to an end an anl mated series of contradictory state ments Issued by the newspapers of Portland, the sum total of which so Tar has been to get the general public hopelessly tangled chronologically.' The question was opened by a statement in one paper that time would be brought back to standard by setting the clocks ahead one hour at midnight on September 30. An other paper Immediately advised Its adherents that its contemporary was slightly Jammed on the time question as the clocks were to be set back one hour on September 20. The United States weather bureau thereupon Im partially Informed them that they were both wrong. Here Is the Impar tial verdict: "At 2 a. m. ante-meridian time of the last Sunday of March of each year the standard time shall be ad vanced one hour. On the last Sunday of October the standard time of each zone shall, by the retarding of one hour, be returned to the mean as tronomical time of the degree of longitude governing said zone, so that between the last Sunday of March, at 2 a. m., and the last Sun day in October at 2 a. m. In each year the standard time In each zone shall be one hour In advance of the mean astronomical time of the"degreo ot longitude governing each zone respec tively" Three Soldiers Out Without Leave Three young men were picked up on the Slskiyous Saturday by the state police for having failed to pro duce registration cards. They also were unable to give a reasonable ac count of their presence there. The young men were brought to the city Jail, and an hour later, when visited by the officer, they were found' In ar my uniform, having discarded their outer civilian garments. According to their story, the boys were from Camp Fremont, Cal., without leave of ab sence, and claimed they were trying to reach a northern camp, where they fancied the conditions were bet ter. The soldiers were taken to the Jail In Jacksonville to await Instruc tions from their commanding officer. Their names were not learned here. Santa Claus In America Is looking longingly over in France. But h's passports have been denied him this year. Jackson County Boy . Fallen In Battle The casualty list of Monday con tained the name of Russell Simon Hawk, of Derby, Ore., who mado the supreme sacrifice In the battle of Chateau Thierry July 19, where he was at the battle front with the Unit ed States Marines. This young hero enlisted In the marine corps November 26, 1918, at Medford. He was trained at Mare Island, California, and Quantlco, Vir ginia. Later he was assigned to the Savage Arms company machine gun factory as a machine gun assembler. He was supposed to have been a ma chine gunner In the aerial service. Five days previous to the receipt of the news of his death a letter was received from him by Mrs. E. C. James, an old friend of the family. In It the lad wrote: "If you fall to hear from mo within a month after the receipt of this letter, you may kntyv that a German shell has come over the line with my number on It. Almost to a day the shell came over. He was 26 years of age. Registrants Called To Meet In Medford An order has been Issued from Pro vost General Crowdcr for the draft men of JackBon county of all classes from 18 to 43 years to report to the .Natatorlum in Medford promptly at 8 o'clock Saturday, September 28. to receive preliminary instructions. Cap tain Richard Russell, of the medical department of Camp Lewis, Captalu J. Frederick Thorne of the American Red Cross, and Captain C. A. Steele. of the state department of the army Y. M. C. A., are the men detailed by the war department to give this In structlon. This call is issued to all men liable to service, and reaches those who were in the previous registration and who have not been called, as well as those In the last registration. Cap talrt E. M. Burke, representing the Oregon Social Hygiene society, has been In the county this week making arrangements for this meeting, and was an Ashland visitor yesterday. This society was formed to uplift the morale of the Oregon troops and sustain the moral and social welfare of the state, and the results have been so pronounced that the war depart ment has taken notice of this society, as the Oregon boys stand highest In hygienic lines of any in the Union. "To Hell With The Kaiser" At Vining "To Hell with the Kaiser," which comes to tho Vining theatre tonight, is a wonderful picture. At the death of Frederick III of Prussia his son, Wilhelm II ( succeeds him. The decay of the Hohenzollorn family Is exemplified In the mon arch's withered arm, as well as In the weak degeneracy of the Crown Prince. Bismarck, an adviser of Frederick, shows the kaiser some secret plans for subjugating the different coun tries of the world. In the spring of 1914 the kaiser and his war council decide to put these plans Into exocution. Zeppelin submits his plan for air supremacy, von Tlrpitz makes known his scheme for submarine warfare, and von Hln denburg discloses his military pro jects. A thrilling romance Is woven around these scenes, which ends In the Justifiable killing of the Crown Prince and the capture of the kaiser, who is banished to a barren island. Arriving In hell Wilhelm Is greeted by satan, who abdicates In his favor, saying that the kaiser's tortures are more fiendish than any he has ever been able to devise. Doing Business : At Former Stand Merle Robison, who recently re turned from San Francisco, where hi had been employed as head electri cian for the Hudson corporation, has settled again in Ashland, as the cli mate of San Francisco did not agree with his wife's health.' Since coming to Ashland Mr. Robison has repur chased the Ashland garage on Second street which he formerly owned and had sold to Roy Crouch and Roy Iles senger previous to going away. Grants Pass Gets Repeating Station According to the Grants Pass Courier, a building Is being prepared for the repeating station which will he moved to that city from Ashland, at which time a repeating station will also be established at Redding. Considerable money has been spent recently In Improving the Western Union system, $52,000 having beea spent on Improvements between Grants Pass and Glendale alone, ac cording to reports. Delay In securing equipment for the new building Is being encountered but when complete the now quartern for the Western Union will be up to dato In every respect. They have se cured a five-year lease on tho build ing and will Install their own elec tric generating plant to be used In cases of cmorgency, and will furnish that city with a day and night tele graphic service. It has been reported that the Unit ed States government wll eventually conHolilatB tho Postal Telegraph with the Western Union. Addresses Tonight In Vining Theatre The speaking billed for tonight In the interests of the Fourth Liberty Loan will take placo In the Vining theatre Immediately after the first show, and will bo given ny Major Jack Hamilton, a returned soldier, and Louis J. Simpson, of Shore Acres This will be the wind-up of tn'.ay'p program In which the "Yellow De mon" automobile, arriving here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon, was th? opening feature. Major Hamilton has recently re turned from France, where he served three years with the allied armies, and he will present to Ashland the true needs of supporting our boys In their great sacrifice. Mr. Simpson Is A .well known orator, and has al ways met a warm reception In Ash land, where ho has many friends who will not fail to give him a rousing welcome. The doors of the Vining theatre or the show tonight will be open at 6:45, and the pictures will be fin ished ?.t 8:4r(, after which the Vining floors will be thrown open to the pub lic to attend the addresses. No ad mission will be charged to the speak ing. Mrs. Julia Ilockvtt will sing a solo. Clothing Solicited For Needy Belgians A call has been issued by H. P. Davidson, national chairman ot the Red Cross war council, requesting the local chapters of the Red Cross to start a drive for clothing for Belgi ans. According to Dr. Davidson, the need is greater than ever for these stricken people. Every kind of cloth ing Is needed for men, women and children of both sexes and scrap leather Is needed to repair footwear. Stocks of clothing and raw mate rial are not to be had, and these ton mllMon human beings must be cloth ed. Harken to the following letter from a well-to-do lady of Brussels: "Perhaps you will laugh when you hear that I wear a cloak mado from my husband's overcoat, a walr.t mado from his, football shirt, and a skirt made from a dyed bed sheet. Moth er has a suit mado from a tablecloth, and S. has a dress made from bur lap." This doesn't sound very warm, to us who are well clothod and shod, coming as It does from people living in a cold, damp cllmato with winter coming on. Irrigation Debts Paid By Klamath Reports from Washington are to the effect that contracts under which the newly-organized Klamath Irriga tion district assumes liability to the government for payment of operation and maintenance of the project for years subsequent to 1918 have been approved by Secretary Lane. An an nouncement of the contract says the maximum amount for which the dis trict becomes liable Is approximately $1,300,000. Allies Gain On St. Quentin; British Take Over 40,000 Turks London, Sept. 25. The process of closing In on St. Quentin was contin ued by the British, who made pro gress In tho Grlcourt neighborhood and also in -the Selcucy region west of St. Quentin. One thousand prison ers were captured In yesterday's op eration, particularly around St. Quentin. Heavy losses were Inflicted on the Germans In their attacks above Grl court. British posts In tho regions east of Arras, near Sacnry Cauchy, also were attacked, and here, likewise, tho en emy was driven off. In the encircling of St. Quentin and In driving the Germans and Bulgari ans northward In Macedonia, tho al lied armies are making further pro gress against Increased enemy resist ance. . Northwest of St. Quentin tho Brit ish have followed up the allied suc cesses of yesterday, In which the British and French mado further gains toward the town from the west and are pushing forward In the direc tion of the northwestern suburbs. Heavy fighting Is taking place in the region of Grlcourt, less than three miles northwest, and Seleney, two and ono-hnlf miles northwest, tho British are advancing despite counter attacks by the Germans, who were re pulsed with severe losses. On the French sector to tho south, only the artillery has been active. Be tween the Allette and the Alsne the French have repulsed German attacks In the Important territory about the Molsy farm at the western end of the Cchmln Des Dames. Apparently the allies In Macedonia have completed the splitting apart of tne lierman-Bulgarlan forces east and west or the Vardar. Tho Serbians are pressing northwestward along the river toward Veles, which the enemy apparently will not be able to hold, as other allied forces are marchlni northwest In thnt direction from Prl- lep. . . .t . .. . .. Standing on the heights along the Bulgarian frontier east of the Wrdar south of Demlrkapu pass, the Bulga rians are offering stiff resistance to allied attempts to advance. North of the pass, the enemy Is retiring on King George Sends Letter To Soldiers A number of letters arrived In Ashland this week from members of the 09th Battalion, presumably from England, which contained tho follow ing letter from King George: "Windsor Castle. "Soldiers of the United StateB. the people of the Dritlsh Isles welcomo you on your way to take your stand beside the armies of many nations now fighting In the old world the great battle for human freedom. "The Allies will gain new heart and spirit In your company. I wish that I could Bhako tho hand of each one of you and wish you Godspeed on your mission. "GEORGE R. I." The above lotter Is presented to ev ery American soldier on his leaving England for France. It Is a fac-sl-mlle of an autograph letter written by tho king and Is a highly prized souve nir from that monarch. Doing His Bit To Down The Kaiser Professor H. G. Gllmore has com posed for campaign purposes a bril liant mnrch under tho tltlo of "Undo Sam's Fourth Liberty Loan March." Tho march consists of four move ments representative of the music of France, Great Britain, tho Stars and Stripes and the "Three Nations in Fraternal Acclaim," and will soon ha given to the public. Professor Gli more's daughter, Mrs. M. B. Stevens, of Detroit, Mich., has, In tho lntorest of her country, as on artist, charge of tho music at Camp Custer and Sol- fridge field, and there Is little doubt. ! hut that nt those and other military headquarters, the Ashland creation may receive many a welcomo and ap preciative hearing. Having repurchased tho Ashland Gnrage, I will not be responsible for bills contracted by Roy Crouch or Roy Hesslnger on or before Septem ber 23. MERLE B. ROBISON, 37-1 Prop. Veles, and It would appear that this column has been cut off from ts com rades further south, thus cutting th(j enemy forces In two. The Bulgarians fighting on the frontier west of tho Vardar probably; are those who fled before the French, Greek and British arcund Lake Ooi ran. It Is believed In Paris the allle will press up the Vardar to Usku! and swing eastward and outflank tho Bulgarians west of Strumltza rather, than attempt to get over the hills on the southern frontier. In tho region of Prllep, the enemy la being forced toward tho Albanian frontier. Aorlal and artillery activity his In creased markedly on the American sector southwest of Metz, but no In fantry engagement has resulted. Both tho German and American airmen and gunners are busy, artillery paylnu special attention to cross roads an l troop formations within range. Few details of tho situation In Pal estine, as it has developed in tho last couple of days, hnvo been reported. Only brief, formal i.tatrments tell of the capture of Acre and Hafla and the further advance of Gnner.it Allon- by's victorious troopti. It appears". however, that the Turkish forces which succeeded In reaching the east ern bank of tho Jordan nro virtually Isolated and In Imminent danger of capture. Allied forces advancing south oC Archangel again havo been attacked by Lettish forces fighting with the Bolshevlkl and Austro-Gernian pris oners. London, Sept. 2.1. More than 40,- 000 prisoners and 203 guns have been takon by the British In their succe" ful offensive In Palestine It Is offi cially announced this afternoon. The British forces operating east of the Jordan apparently are In a fa vorable position to cut off the Turks retreating north along the Hedjas railway. The British are now ap proaching Amman on that railway. Arab forces are pressing the retir ing enemy northward from Ma'en. Ma'en Is on the Iledjes railway, southeast of the Dead Sea. Ammaa Is 120 miles to the north. Prize Winners At Jackson Co. Fair At the Jackson county school fair held In Medford Last Friday ami Saturday, tho following were the win ners of the different projects: Winners of Grand Prizes Verne) Owens, Medford; Uosc.e Roberts, Eagle Point; Leola Hesselsravo, Cen tral Point, and Beth Ager, Jackson ville. Winning Canning Team Jackson ville school team, consisting ot Ber nlce Reter, captain; Beth Ager, and Ruth Fleming. ' In school contests, Jacksonville won first plnce among the town schools, Oak Grove first In two room schools, and Willow Springs first among the rural schools. The four winning the grand prizes are given a free trip to the statu ral r, and left Tuesday morning for tho entire week. They will probably roturn, Sunday evening. Tho Jack sonville canning team will go to th fair today (Thursday) and demon strate at the state fair Friday, Super visor R. E. Morris went with th Jackson county exhibit and .had chargo of the county booth. Ashland prize winners were: Ale tha Gray, potato growing, $l; Elea nor Moore, baking, $1; Mildred Gy ger, Bewing, $1; Robert Miller, Bel gian hare raising, 50 cents. Wagner Boys Gain Commissions In Army Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wagner receiv ed news this weok from' their sons, Carroll and Robert, who have been attending tho officers' training school nt Fortress Monroe, Va that they both had completed their courses and received thoir commissions In tha branches of the service for which they have been aspiring. The former gained tho hank of second lieutenant In tho heavy artillery, and the latter electrical sergeant. Carroll expect! to remain for eight weeks more In tha school of orientation, after which ha will be classed as an orlenteur, an of fice connected with the big guns of the heavy artillery.