ASHLAND CLIMATE Without the use of medicine cures nine cases out of ten of asthma. This is a proven fact. A shland D aily T idings The Tidings Has Been Ashland's Leading Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Voiume 43. , CALIFORNIA LEA P Y E A R , CLAIMED A PPLESAU CE BREAK IN COLD - WAVE PROMISED 1 BY FORECASTI ! » a the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure domestic water helps. f 1 nternarlonal News Wir»» servino I VOL. XLVIII MALARIA GERMS Cannot survive three months in ASHLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1924 99 GOTHAM READY FOR WETTEST NEWYEAR’SEVE PIVOTAL POINTS IN DAY’S NEWS BOBBED HAIR MAMAS RECEIVE HAD JOLT SHEPHERDSAYS a INVESTIGATION IS ALL WRONG ----- . o SACRAMENTO, Dec. 27. — A nother tradition has . » DEFIANCE, Ohio. Dec. £ been shot full of holes — •* 27. — Hearken, ye maid- £ another cherished idol £ ens, whose locks are £ shattered. Leap year, ! ♦♦ shorn, to the voice of stu- £ which from time immem- ! 8 dent debaters. The pendu- £ orial has been regarded ! £ lum of fashion Is swing- £ I £ as a staunch ally and the J 8 ing back. Long tresses, £ ~ R fulfillm ent of hope of 1 8 hanging about the knees, £ S ig n s of Rain and General1 8 certain elem ents of the ♦ 8 are now much to be de- £ Poison Booze Fails to Daunt Wanning of State Are « fair sex, seemingly has 1 Based on Flimsy Circum­ 8 sired over those th a t stop £ Revelers in Their Gala Yearly Increase Between 20 in Jight failed California feminity, J 8 short ju st below the ears. stantial Evidence, Words R ii- Preparations and 30 Per Cent Re­ or It may be the other way 1 8 This Is the argum ent of Foster Father port Shows PORTLAND STILL COLD « around, which would mean I 8 by which two male debat- RUM FLEET STOPPED -------—. a th at feminity has failed t HURRYING HOMEWARD 8 era at Defiance College, Ships P repare to L eave as Ice OFFICERS ARE ACTIVE leap year. j Coast Guard C utters Surround .!%« 8 Thomas W hite and Carl H o e s Leave. Colum bia and E xperts Report Typhoid Fever In any event, m arriage t 8 Dille, arguing for long F leet o f L iquor Carriers O ff A ctivities o f Police Total 78,341 W illam ette R ivers statistics for the year 1924 t Cause of Y outh’s Death. 8 hair, won over Misses New York Coast or an A verage of A236 per have ju st about convinced £ A gain W ork on Body 8 Hazel Perry and Lela Im- Man, R afferty Explains PORTLAND. Dec. 27. — Sev­ L. E. Ross, director of the £ 8 oberstag, who defended NEW YORK, Dec. 27— W ith eral unm istakable signs of a gen­ state bureau of vital sta- £ ABOARD THE CALIFORNIA 1 the shingle bob, the “ King th e gloomy spectre of even strict­ SALEM, Ore., Dec. 27. -J-x Thrt eral thaw which have been ob­ tistics, th a t “ leap year is £ 8 T u t,” “the ¡“ sw eetheart,” ! LIMITED, Enroute to Chicago er prohibition enforcem ent for registration of automobiles in served in several of the coldest now a failure and should £ Dec. 27. — W illiam Shepherd’, I ‘ Buster Brown," -“ pine the y e a r'o f 1925 looming up for Oregon has increased approxi­ areas In the state, and which be abolished’’ so far as £ counsel and foster father, and 8 apple,’’ and any other » mately sixty igjr cent every two the modern girls and wo- £ the future, New York city was were backed up by the district one of the chief beneficiaries in » brand of close-cropping today preparing to celebrate a years over the previous two years w eather office report of its fore­ men are concerned. £ the will of the late “ Billy McClin­ 5 th a t may have been devls- ; for the past twelve years, accord­ cast this m orning th a t a break Ross analyzed the mar- £ “dripping w et” New Y ear’s Eve ( tock, dead m illionaire orphan, I ed. ing to the biennial report of T. in the cold snap Is due wifhin a riage records in these £ next W ednesday night. The'je into whose death officials in Chi­ £ £ £ £ £ £ » ö « t j ö t t A. Raffety, chief state traffic in­ preparations are going on in face twenty four hours today brought a words: “ The brides appar- £ cago are conducting an investi­ spector. The annual increase of joy to thousands in the Pacific a ently continued to show £ of the impressive “poison hootch” gation today charged th at the in­ tourist travel fs estim ated at from Northwest communities. the usual discrim ination.” £ toll, and the bottling up of rum vestigation was being conducted 20 to 30 per cent. 2 8 £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ The tem perature registered in row by the coast guard cutters, as a bunch of flimsy, circum stan­ The report shows th at officers Seattle this m orning read 36 de­ and the extensive raiding cruis- tial evidence, furnished by Shep­ of the departm ent from October grees above zero, the highest ade which has been carried on in h erd ’s enemies with a mercenary 1, 1922, to October 1, 1924, pa­ i $ m ark th at has been reached since New Jersey, term ed by prohibi­ •« motive. trolled a total of 59,760 miles or the cold spell first fastened its tion enforcem ent officers as the Shepherd also advised th a t de­ an average of more than 1000 grip on the northw est. A light w ettest 'state in the union.” spite reports sent out yesterday miles per month per man. Ac­ snow fell in Portland, but the W illiam W alker, assistan t »ch’ef in which it is claimed th a t Mc- tivity covered during the period w eather man predicted th a t this C’intock was violently in love with F ake School and Stock Sellin g of the enforcem ent agencies is numbered 73,341 or 5236 per would turn to rain before night­ Schem es T ake Money from Isabella Pope, th at the dead em phatic in hia statem ent th at man. A total of 3986 arrests fall. A large low pressure area E m ploym ent Seekers youth was not in love with the New Jersey was as “ wide open” were made, an average of 235 off the British Columbia coast has girl, and was not eager to marry as before the advent of the eight­ per man. \\ arning slips for m in­ been given by the forecasters as Suit for A nnulm ent B rought by SALEM, Dec. 27. — Persons complete denial that he was a victim, of a blackmail plot has her. Shepherd stated that one eenth am endm ent. K ip W ill be C ostly if it L asts a certain sign of w arm er tem per­ seeking jobs in Oregon in the last or violations were issued in the time, during the youth's fatal ill­ All cabarets, hotels and restau ­ num ber of 25,271. Very Ijong atu res to come in the very near ness, he turned his back on her two years have paid a total of ran ts in th e w hite light districts A ttention has been giqen," future. picture, never m entioning her $358,706.44 in fees to employ­ had W1 ® “ » hot® 1 l0W and apparently sprained reported early today th a t all their The huge ice floes covering the W HITE PLAINS, N. Y. Dec. 27. ment bureaus, or an average of says the report, “ to 6835 light K ‘UCh* * .t, T k wer* tried on m®—and It wasn’t, I say— name again. violations, while inspection and Columbia and W illam ette rivers, — Mrs. Alice R. R hinelander, the New Years reservations had been It would be a case of millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute - The report of physicians and $1.82 per job. says the biennial which have Impeded shipping in New Rochelle bride of Leonard sold out for days and th a t only McCormack declared. Mika WlUette Kershaw, noted actress savs «he toxicologists, working on the ex report of C. H. Gram, state labor weighing motor trucks total 5804. Rules and regulations of the pub­ ¿^01“ Am#Plcana ** husbands. Her next, she is certain win this section for the past week Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy scion the slightest chance rem ained for ior?lgner- Americans are all gold-diggers; Europeans 'after humbed body of the “ m illinaire commissioner. Placem ents thru ic service commission have been a follower of Baccus to obtain a are expected to break up soon, of one of New Y ork’s most a ris­ jU t?* ° nlT f entl#nien' Bh® delarea. United States Senator Thon Za orphan’’ was received by States the public employment bureaus in given attention, with 1632 such and several ships which have been tocratic families will receive pay­ Place in the front row of the wor­ 2 i ~ 11".- A ttorney Crowe yesterday. It ihe two years have numbered 80,- cases handled; 1094 reckless and held in port by the ice are pre- ments of $300 per m onth as ali- shippers a t his shrine. gave but a m eagre report of (heir 235; and of these 56,922, or 50,- eaieless drivers have been a rre st­ Poison rum today claimed its paring to sail as soon as the floes { mony and $3,000 in counsel fees activities, simply stating th at the 661 men and 6261 women were ed and warned and 1599 opera­ disappear. The ice across the during«her defense of the suit for eighjji victim for th e week when Place­ youth had died following an a t­ from Portland bureaus. tors have been arrested or warn­ Columbia has been le ry thick d u r­ m arriage annulm ent brought John Cleary, 32. died after suf­ tack of typhoid fever. The experts ments at Eugene where 9109, ed for parking or stopping cars on ing the past two days, and yes­ against her by her husband, ac­ fering four days from alcoholic I 86,665 and Marshfield are again at work on the body, Salem the pavement. Speeding cases oh- terday many persons crossed the cording to a rqling made by the poisoning. Cleary was biihd and 1 and within a few days will deliv- 5539. sei ved and taken care of total W illam ette on foot above P ort­ court here this morning. in great pain since he was picked Wage in September, 1924 show­ ed their report as to w hether the 5205. The officers of the depart­ land. R hinelander accuses his wife up and taken to a local hospital fever was contracted naturally or ed a slight decrease as compared ment have personally observed of fraud in m isrepresentating h er­ early this week was introduced into McClintock’s with December, 1923. Z A light rainfall which started self to be “ w hite” . The order The coast guard forces report More than 1000 wage claims and investigated 715 wrecked au­ body crim inally, either through tomobiles.” in Ashland late last night, freez­ for the annulm ent suit was sign­ that they have the rum fleet hypodermic injections or by in­ were adjusted by the state labor Seventeen persons have been ing alm ost as soon as it struck ed by Court Justice Thompson blocked off the coast, and th at troducing the typhus germs into departm ent during the two years. arrested for automobile theft. th e ground, this m orning covered when counsel for Rhinelander al­ there fs little p o ssib ility 'o f any T rekan Unable to E scape from By the Portland office 734 claims Fred D uke to be H eld for A llow ­ his food. Twenty-two jail sentences have the streets of the city with a leged th at George Jones, father involving $26,- B u ild in g Is Found Dead by of the score or more of ships com­ Shepherd, although he was not were adjusted in g B u s to be O perated in been imposed on charges filed by glaze of ice but this morning, with of Mrs. Rhinelander signed him­ F orm er Com panions sent for, as soon as he heard the 638.18, and by the Salem office officers of the departm ent for vio­ prising this fleet landing th eir il­ UareleSH M anner a rising tem perature, the ice was self as “ colored” when he made investigation had been started, 382 claims involving $2778.65. lations of the motor vehicle act. melted by the warm rain, and application for his naturalization licit cargoes. The rum laden ves­ Violation of the eight hour law sels are reported lying ju st out- YREKA, Dec. 27. — One man A w arrant, sworn to by J. J. cancelled an extended vacation A classification of arrests show soon all but disappeared, leaving papers. trip through New Mexico • and on public works, defective mach­ 512 arrests for reckless and care­ side the twelve mile lim it, with ' Was burned to death near Horn- McMahon, state traffic officer, has only a little slush to remind early Rhinelander and his wife were brook, and the John Pashburg been issued by Justice of the boarded the train for Chicago inery and boilers, bad sanitary less driving; speeding by cars and m orning autom obile drivers of the m arried several m onths ago, and nineteen coast guard cullers pa­ house here, the H ilt hospital at Peace Gowdy for Fred Duke, op­ States A ttorney Crowe announc­ conditions in camps arid factories, trucks 1930; licenses m atters 788; ice which had covered the streets lived together in a fashionable trolling the w aters between the H ilt and P ra th e r’s garage' a't Mon­ ed th at as soon as the foster compulsory boarding in public during the night. apartm ent in W hite Plains for a ships and the coast. There is little tague were damaged in a séries of erato r of the K lam ath Falls-Ash­ father arrives in Chicago he will boarding houses, lack of proper light violations 366; inadequate land stage line, charging him with and improper equipment 92; in- It Ms believed th a t the warm num ber of weeks before th eir possibility of any of these ships Tecent fires in which the control allowing a mrftor bus to be oper­ be subjected to an examination, compensation for injuries received toxicated drivers and possession escaping, for on the two accasions rain will continue for some time, m arriage was discovered by Rhine­ and no establishm ent pay day are was seriously handicapped by ice ated in a dangerous m anner. in which it is hoped to uncover of liquor 117; miscellaneous 200. thus breaking the cold spell which lan d er’s relatives. They immedi­ " h e n they have attem pted to and snow. ‘ listed as the most common law Duke was cited to appear be­ several facts in connection with violations. As a result of the 3986 arrests has held the State for the past ately put detectives to work in move, coast guard cu tters were Henry Crojr, aged 36 years, fell the death of the youth. by traff,c force fines have two weeks. Southern Oregon has uncovering the past life of Mrs. following in th eir wake, and the 'v ictim to an oil lamp in his lone­ fore Gowdy yesterday m orning at In a ,^..L»e purchasing of stock in ' county jail in Jacksonville. PORTLAND, Dec. 27. __ The was announced th a t he would the W illam ette Valley and W est­ a concern was one of the require- j On th eir way home about 3:30 bring suit for the annulm ent of coroner and. officials of the P o rt­ Sunday morning Charles Hawkins ern Oregon and W estern W ash­ ments to ijold a job. In no case his m arriage. land Gas and Coke Company and F ran k Frain saw the smould^ LADIES GO ON VISIT ington pohits today, but did little have we been able to find such O. H. Johnson, local jew eler, Both Jones and his daughter which furnishes the city with its ering ruins of Croy’s cabin, and damage. an arrangem ent has worked out 8 £ £ £ Friday afternoon let a contract deny the charges th at they are 8aa supply today opened th e ir going to the scene, they fqunc ARE SOON CALLED TO EARTH beneficially to the worker. He for the excavation for his new ‘colored.” investigation into the deaths of his body burned beyond recogni 8 £ £ £ has generally lost not only the j building on the lo t next to The Charles Adams, 58, Mrs. Mary tion on what had once .been am ount he put in as an in v est-' SWANS TAKE TO AIR Adams, his m other, 84, and m 8 bed. ,____.__„ __ , ® builds 1 MAUSOLEUM WILL BE The. armp and legs were The Men’s Glee Club of the ment but alsd his wages earn-i ing contract went to Clarry and jorie Adams, 17, a grand-daugh­ completely burned awgy ed. ’ Bible Institute of Los Angeles OPEN TO PUBLIC FOR Sally and Mary decided to W inters and work on the struc­ The attention of the bureau also now on their 1924-1925' tour, will FEW HOURS -SUNDAY ter of the dead woman, whose . Croy’s car was fo'bnd near the go visiting this morning. But tu re was started this morning. lives were snuffed out in th eir house and it ^s supposed that is frequently called to -the ab u ses’ 8t° l ^ in Ashland for a concert on instead of going like human 1 The excavation will be completed The announcem ent was made home yesterday from carbon when he reached the house, he practiced on men and women of ’ next ^Wednesday. Having appear- beings, they decided to fly to w ithin 30 days, according to the here today th a t the memorial monoxide gas which was gener­ lit an oil lamp th a t he kept on a their neighbors’’ for a friendly this state by fake trade schools, j ed in ei8,lt California cities on ■contractors. mausoleum in Odd Fellow ’s ated, it is alleged, by defective shelf beside hig bed and th a t he chat. For Sally and Mary are Through advertising, g litterin g ' their way north the Club passed Mr. Johnson expects to have Mountain View cem etery will be gas floor heaters. fainted and fell across the bed the two big swans who are YREKA, Dec. 27 To 1 I¡Promises are made which attra ct through hare in an immense his new business house which will open for the inspection of th e Two* of the women were found knocking the lamp onto him ­ perm anently located in the Yreka on a standard plane ^v lu ? the unw ary- Representatives are touring coach the early part of be 20x60 feet, completed by May public between the hours of one dead in bed, with all indications self as* he fell and created his pond in Lithia Park. That is, first class California cities 1. The building will have a glass and four P. M. Sunday afternoon. pointing tow ard the fact th a t they cities in in madC th&t a ft®r a short course I this week’ The>' * nl «ive their own funeral pyre -perhaps they are perm anently point of municipal w ater supply of instruction students fan ta k e , concert of sacred song at Eugene, front, cem ent floor and concrete Because of the inclem ent wea- were asphyxiated while asleep, located. and sanitation, the California up and follow vocations requiring ‘ twice in Portland, in Roseburg walls. A steam heating plant will th e r. many were unab,e tQ attend while Adams was found stretched * Mary, like many of her State Board of Health throughJ llighIy skilled mechanics and re-1 and ’n, four other Oregon cities be in the basem ent. »Mr. Johnson the dedication ceremonies a t the in the hallway, indicating th a t he FIRE VICTIMS CARED O. G. Gillespie, director of (|ip ceive the highest wages of train- before appearing here in the hum an sisters, changed her FOR BY NEIGHBORS expects to make this one of the new stru ctu re last Sunday, and dikl while trying to gain his Presbyterian church on New mind about £oing visiting board’s bureau of sanitary e n -( ed artisans. most attractive jew elry stores in for th a t reason, G. D. Mason, way tq th e 'b p e n air. Y ear’s Eve. soon after startin g , and not gineering, has appealed to HOBARD, Okla., Dec. 27. — th e ' the state. Two;'gas floor heaters, used in W ith five moré victims unlikely wishing to retu rn to her home builder of the mausoleum believ­ Being accompanied by three voters of Yreka to pass each of ’ BOYS ESCAPE FROM ed it best to have it open another warming the home, were found alive, and sixty six injured, mak violinists, a Cellist and pianist, so eariy j n / t h e day, decided to STATE INSTITUTION the club presents an interesting day for the public. Hundre'ds who burning when the coroner arrived ing th irty five dead, H obart to­ go shopping, and landed in the three propositions to be bal- loted on a t the special election PORTLAND CAR THIEF visitetf the memorial last Sunday to take charge of the bodies. day turned its attention*4o care- fro n t'o f the Hotel Ashland, and here Jan u ary 6. and inspiring program of vocal 27. —— - Four HANDED LONG TERM pronounced it one of the most These heaters will be thoroughly ing for the injured, and th e stritk then paddled around, viewing Thp sn«eiai t . . SALEM, Dec. -------- - - . ^ boy a