MALARIA germs Cannot survive three months in the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure domestic water helps. VOL. XLVIII The Tidings Has Been Ashland's Leading Newspaper For Nearly Fifty (International News Wire Service) Successor to the Semi-Week]y Tidings, Volume 43 MANY B O D I E f c i X ARE TAKEN OUT Wi‘" 01(1 E r¿' OF MINE CAVE Years ASHLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1925 DOWNPOUR OF RAIN FLOODS j » ASHLAND CLIMATE M itbout the use of medicine cures nine cases out of ten of asthma. This is a proven fact. ' NO. 147 Chief Figures in News of the Day 2 ARRESTED IN PROHI RAID ATWi" "‘™" KLAMATH FALLS AMERICA MUST .¡SHOW WAY FOR OTHER NATIONS WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — President Coolidge felt I0 8 » the effect of his own econ CHICAGO, Feb. 23. __ 8 ! » omy campaign in the ex Seeds that fell from the 8 ! 8 8 ecutive offices today when, lotus in the Gobi desert 8 » 8 growing weary of wrestl before Columbus, discover 8 Rescue Crews W orking Hard n ing with an ancient and » s “ Francisco Bay Whipped 8 ed America will bloom in 8 to Reach Remaining a dull edged eraser, he made s . into W hite Froth by lísr- '.Leslie Congo, Formerly Held 8 Chicago in a few months, 8 Miners 8 8 a request for a new one. 8 I : according to Dr. C. Shull, 8 U. S. Should Lead in Disarm rific Wind S to m m Jackson County, Is a 8 Instead of receiving the 8 University of Chicago bot 8 BELIEVE ALL ARE DEAD a ament Plans Says Pres Arrested 8 shiny and keen edger 8 SHIPPING IS DAMAGED anist. Aided by science, 8 ident Coolidge 8 W ork Stopped by Late Cavewln n eraser of other days, he 8 lie hopes to effect the con 8 HAD MUCH MOONSHINE a had the old one returned 8 Sacram ento D eluged U nder Two 8 But Debrix W ill Soon be tinuation of a life process 8 SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS Inches o f W ater. Storm A bates n 8 to him with the word that Sh riff and Police C hief at K lam that began in the Orient 8 8 C leared Aw ay 8 8 and Sk ies Now C loudless no new ones were left and 8 centuries ago. ath Co-operate in C onducting 8 Senator Ships lead D eclares F eder 8 8 no authority had been 8 al Governm ent Should Con The seeds were dug up 8 o f R aid Upon Residence SULLIVAN, Ind., Feb. 23. __ 8 8 given to purchase a furth SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 23. — in Asia and are believed to trol all Foreign Loans 8 8 Mine rescue workers, weary after 8 er supply. 8 Clearing weather, with skies be the oldest In the world. 8 8 more than 24 hours of labor, toil KLAMATH FALLS. Feb. 23. — 8 The President received 8 bright and cloudless, were today WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. __ it Leslie Congo, 820 Donald street, I I 8 They are wrapped in a 8 ed tonight to complete the task 8 the news and his old 8 in prospect for the Central Cali of removing from the mine of and Tom ‘Wilson were arrested 8 hard membrane substance 8 Is the duty of America to set a 8 8 eraser without comment 8 fornia section, after one of the that permits entrance of 8 «rood example for the remainder the City Coal company, the bod- Saturday night by Sl^riff Burt E ' w 8 and returned to his work. heaviest storms of the past five only enough air and water 8 of the world to follow, in reduc 8 Hawkins and Police Chief Harry 2 lee of 51 men who were killed by years. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 to keep plant life .surviv 8 ing armament and to invite the 8 an explosion Friday morning. M. Loucks, assisted by deputy doputy „ Winds reaching the velocity of ing and were found in a 8 other nations to follow that ex sheriffs and eitv iwtrnlmon «« i ! * Thirty bodies had been recov nd city patrolmen, on more than seventy five miles per ered today before a slate fall im charges of possession of liquor, I I M bed of peat, beneath thick 8 ample. President Coolidge declar hour wreaked havoc with prop peded progress and made it like fnd a considerable quantity of ( « layers of wind drifted 8 ed her© today in an address be erty and shipping off Point Reyes, 8 fore a large delegation of women ly that several hours more would moonshine confiscated. The raid 8 soil. 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 thirty miles north of the Golden 8 who are attending the womens’ be required to bring all of the took place about 9:30 Saturday! Gate. Wind whipped the San night. bodies to the surface. conference on National Defense Francisco bay into a froth, tear as a Peace Insurance. It is understood that when the! Government /nine experts and ing yachts and other small ves- The President also declared state mine officials declared that officers arrived at the house i sels from their moorings, dashing that the zeal for such a movement beyond a doubi the 21 men still Congo • and Wil.-on were in the them ashore, and seriously threat cannot be permitted to reach such • woodshed, hut Congo made his J unaccounted for had met death. ening all ferry traffic. The ferry a point where aggression will be After damp had certainly snuf escape while the officers entered ■ schedule from Saucilito to San invRed upon a defenseless Amer the house. Mrs. Congo was told fed out their lives, officials eaid. ica and the security of this nation that if they could not find h e r' Cor a time this afternoon rapid Dr. W. W. P. Holt and Miss Francisco to Oakland was so bad ly hampered by the'slow move imperilled. .husband she would be held. She! progress was made In bringing Devereaux. Nurse Wish ment of the boats, that hundreds The plan for the abolition of out the bodies. The rescue work telephoned to a taxi driver, tell to be Relieved -uaV /IA M - M . EFUTLRSStg» K1JTG GKORGJC of commuters were unable to both the army and the navy de- ing him where Congo would like-; ers had succeeded in improving CLELCEVAKrO { U X J D G K ^ sJDJfM kEEAaTDISvS» dismissed as' unworthy of any The many persons familiar with reach their offices in San Fran the ventilation system and in by be found, and he was return clearing away debris but the crum the great amount of good work cisco in time for work today. John Emory Andrus, “richest straphanger," of fonkers w v «-hn ed to his home and arrested. Men and Boys, Convicted of seriouti thought, holding that a Three pleasure crafts, and wetdth nation can no more leave Itself bling walls and sagging roof to done by the Jackson county Tom Wilson was at the Congo “ “ S ’ tha° “ y °ther man to 016 world- and *hcse Crimes in County, Are rid S ? to v celebr*ted his eighty-fourth birthday by eighteen yachts, caught out when health unit, since that body began open to be menaced by disorder night again put obstacle* in their on Way t°, Ws N«w York Cfty office in a subway jam. He didn't get a homo at the time of the arrest, path. to function October 1, are great the storm struck the bay, battled eonwfflMt that a city could in dismissing its G®or«e- of England, baa been compelled to cancel all his but tried to make hi- escape. He Bodies brought out during the ly interested as to whom will be for their llveei as they struggled took with him a gallon of moon JACKSONVILLE. Feb. 23. — police force. day were so badly burned that appointed as head of the unit to to their moorings through the shine, but realizing that escape The gates of Oregon penal insti WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. __ terrible storm. All shipping, Identification was cfitficult and succeed Dr. • W. W. P. Holt. was impossible threw it to the tutionj opened Saturday for eight Asserting that the foreign gov The latter accepted the posi docked at the Oakland. Almeda several were identified erroneous ground. The officers, however, men and boys, sentenced from ernments of the world have tap ly. Relatives through scrutiny of tion at the start under an agree and San Francisco docks, made were quick enough to secure some Jackson county, and while their ped the American investment mar bits of clothing or trinkets were ment to give his full time to the for the center of the bay. afraid of the “evidence”, and Wilson misdeeds ranged wide in fields ,o posiai ket during 1924, for $1.600,000,- able to make positive recognition work until January 1, in order that the buffeting by the wind was detained. ot crime, tlie automobile was the OOO, much of which was spent or 30. and waves would crash them to aid in launching the unit Suc Iu the Congo house the officers heavy contributing factor in their in war and not in peace activities. Thus far all officials have di cessfully, and, fully expected to through the docks, and afraid to i found one gallon of liquor, six fall. Senator Shipstead, Farmer-La.1»- rected their efforts toward rescue be relieved on, that date -o that make for open water'through the i five-gallon empty barrels, If. one- The prisoners run from Elmer orlte cf Minnesota, in a peech " work and have refrained from tak he could return to his private Golden Gate. i gallon jugs, two one-pint fla ks Howell, a bashful boy of 11 years practice. A heavy downpour hit Sacra- ing any action toward investiga , and a small trunk containing to Roland Eastwood, a metallur before the senate urged that the 'V federal government assume ail rroi points, tion of the causes of the disas j corks. The appointing power lies with mento and surrtunding gist, 35, who graduated from the contrôl and direction in this for ter, Albert Dally, state mine in the state board of health and the drenching that section under a In a woodshed behind the University of Edinburg, Edin eign financing. spector, explored the wrecked por Jackson county court in' cooper flood of two inches of water. For j house the officers found three burg, Scotland, and held respon Shipstead referred directly tion of the shaft as far as possible ation, and so far the state board a time early today, the streets of 10-galion barrels'* " confainin.g slble positions with British mining to the overtures France is now today but declared he had no had been unable to act in the mat Sacramento ran water inches moonshine, one-five-gallon barrel concerns in many lands. Locals Unable to Check Powerful Medford Offense Which full of moonshine and 10 one-gal The youths ordered committed making for an additional loan of thought of inquiring into the ex ter because of the illness of the deep. $135,000,000, and congratulated plosion, until the bodies are on head of one of its prominent de The downpour continued into lon jugs , filled with wine. to the reform school are Julian President Coolidge and the mem Piles Up Points Rapidly. Medford Girls top of the ground. Norval K. partments, and stress of other the San Joaquin valley, but not The two men were taken toXhe Daily, 12, Elmer Howell. 11, and Win F irst Game, 43-21 bers of the administration forces Harris, Sullivan county prosecu business. It is understood that as heavily a« in the northern sec sheriff’s office and questioned i Fred Reavis, 14, all of this city for frowning upon this applica tor, has indicated that a grand Dr. Holt served notice recently tion of the state. At Lodi an inch briefly by William Ganong, dis-¡’accused of stealing a Ford car! BY TUT JACKSON little forward fought like a trict attorney, and then placed in i February 14, and starting on a tion. Jury investigation is an improb that his good nature had been tax- of rain was reported, while furth- ability. All other county offi ed to the limit and that he would ern 8OUtb the precipation varied be- Before a howling mob rtf 2500 | f°01 the entire ^m p , and it was the county jail. They will be for- ! world tour, reaching _ Ashland ________ cials, through long experience in positively have to return to his f froJn three quarters to a tenth of red hot basketball fans, tHe Med-1 lafgely beCause of his great play mally charged with possession of j fore captured; James Mobley, 17, ‘SCIENCE BANDITS” an Inch. the coal fields, are inclined to private practice on March 1. LATEST IN CALIF. ford High basketball • squad tbat tbe seore was not more over- Bquor. No evidence was obtain-j and Charles Simpson, 15, of Se- accept the disaster as one that The rain assures abundant trounced the Ashland five, 39-24 * whe,mlng- Toin Miss Margaret Devereaux, one Bryant at center ed that either Congo or Wilson J attle, Wash., who ran away from LOS ANGELES, Feb. «3. — A may come at any time in connec of the two nurses connected with water to be used during the com at the Medford Armory Saturday' pIayed his usual steady game, i were manufacturing moonshine. their homes, three months, and gang of “science bandits” seek tion with such a hazardous indus the Jackson county health unit, ing summer, and the heaviest night, and strengthened their lead ' cbecking nicely, and it was not I Con?° was under indictment in also stole a Ford. ing the secret formulas of Import try: resigned some time ago, the resig crops in ten years will be the re in the four game series with tw'd Until be made a desperate effort Jackson county about a year ago No specific time is named in ant new inventions and chemical nation taking effect February 21, sult. according to N. Taylor, head games won and none lost. The f t0 break up the Medford stalling wiVi H. S. Wilson, formerly chief tbe commitment, for the lads to ............" so as to enable her to take up a of the federal weather hureau of I Medford outfit won from Ashland sy9tam tbat Allen- his opponent, of police of Klamath Falls, for stay in the reform school. They discoveries, kidnapped Dr. Paul Hildebrandt, Chicago chemical re WASHINGTON’S BIRTH postgraduate course at a promin fice. at Sacramento. possession* of liquor, but after were taken to Salem Saturday search expert, and brought him to Friday night, 29-20, on the local W&S able tO get away to score- IS QUIETLY OBSERVED ent educational institution. Her i -------- —---- --------- Ramsey and* Katzer checked Wilson had been acquitted the morning. armory floor. Los Angeles, where they robbed , » IN NATION’S CAPITAL place, so far as can be learned,! _ _ nicely,, they were powerless cb!’r Se against Congo was drop- Friday Sheriff Jernings left him of valuable blue prints and The local came fast in tlye first ( against but the long shots looped ped- has not yet been filled, and her CITY BAND HOLDS for the state prison with Roland i other priceless papers, according Quarter, the lead soon “‘,ul8 ,oopea, WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — departure will leave the other PRACTICE TONIGHT after the taking opening whistle and ' 2 ’r° Ugh tbe ring by Chastain and • Ea-twood. sentenced to 15 years, to the theory formed by Southern Quietly, and with the dignity as nurse. Miss Mann, alone. Steve Elek, sentenced to 10 years, California police who have start- ft until the end of the ¡fn,ps- Stratton, who went in for i ■ » < A ll II) Carl Loveland, director of the holding is befitting the character of the The unit, which has been doin first quarter. Soon after th f Ramsey’ shewed nice basketball, 1 MHI1V A sllluiK .1 I ) c and Robert Duff, sentenced to five j ed a search for the criminaK tlie i ! cîty band’ ann<Minced this morn- first President of the United such a splendid w’ork among me they wilted, and the machine like L ^ e " bea|Utif“,,y durI" g tbe ' y^ars, for the hold-uT of the fetory of the amazing crimes States, the national capital today needy sick and crippled o f1 the j ing that regular band practice Molays Plan to I nion Oil station in Ashland. | was The related yesterday at New Or team work of the Medford outfit T , ® " therG‘ celebrated the birthday of George county, and health corrective * ould be resumed this evening, ‘ j Duff is 18 years old. The car in ‘ 1 A'3 was the case Friday night, leans, according to word received Washington. work generally since last October,! Members of the organization are broke into action. At the half the Chastain, Knips and Allen formed ■ Attend Banquet hich the trio were traveling was here today. Dr. Hildebrandt es Medford five had piled up a 22-13 All departments of the govern draws its financial support from ' re<lue8ted to meet in the City the scoring combination for Med stolen in Los Angeles. caped from his captors and appeal lead, and during the third quar ment are closed. Senator Ashurst, the itate and county in combine-’ Hal1 at 8:00 ° ’c,ock- With the Nearly seventy-five Ashland ford, with “Red’’ White showing According to Deputy Sheriff ed to the New Orleans mayor for Democrat of Arizona, had the tion w’ith the Rockefeller founda Lithian show out of the way, ter they went still further into Some sensational floor work early boys, members of the order of aid. honor of reading Washington’s tion, and enjoys the hearty back Loveiand states that he can now the lead. Toward the end of the In the tussle. Chastain was high De Mclay will journey to Med (Continued on page four) devote more time to the band, and game they again resorted to their point man of the tussle with 14 ford tomorrow night to attend the farewell address, before the sen ing of the county court. MILITARY SCHtXlL BURNS tactics which drove the ate. The appointment of the new that practices can be held more stalling — players and lttH8 W11Q markers- Marske w?<c ¡„ second annual banquet of the order, to TO GROUND; PI PIUS SAFE Ashland fans wild. The principal event of the day head of the unit, who must be a regularly in order that the band be held in the Hotel Medford. It LEWISBURG, W. Va., Feb. 23. x x ei : l,k : : d' ord ootn< x r - c X u » * : was staged in the new auditorium competent practicing physician may be brought up to its former is believed that nearly 500 boy’s — The picturesque Green Briar under the auspices of the nation standard. — -he X K „ X X X M X . A ,,enl from the Ashland, Medford and Military academy here early, to (Continued on Page Four) al committee that is planning for Grants Pass "Chapters J ill be J day was reduced to a mass of high point man for the Ashland a world wide observance of the present. The score follows: smouldering ruins by fire that five since the opening of the sea two hundredth anniversary of The banquet will take the form ' caused damage approximating a Washington’s birthday. In 1932. son, appeared clear out of con ASHLAND (24) (8ft) MEDFORD of a Washington’s birthday cele-l quarter million dollars. dition. During the first qa'arter Butterfield (6) F (14) Chastain bration. The program will be fea-! F (8) Kulps San O Sebastian1 h e p la y ed th e f,oor u p t« m » Mar ke (10) tured by several numbers in : U U d b U a n early season standard, but after/ Bryant(4) Campaign Started C (8) Allen keeping with the patrotic holi-j Chamber Lunch that period he was through. Ramsey ( 3 ) G (9) White day. There will be an hour’s pro YREKA, Cal.. Feb. 23. — Ron SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Feb. to Get a Federal After getting off to a running Katzer (1 ) Tomorrow Will be G (0) Williams ald C. Erno, convicted last pring gram consisting of an explana 23. — The mystery of the strange start, scoring their first basket Substitutions: Stratton (0) for "disappearance’’ of Lieutenant less than a minute after the open- Ramsey; Demmer (0) for Wil tion of the history of the order, for the murder of Fred Skeen, Bldg, at K. Fall s Open Forum Meet its aims and purposes, muse by; Butte Valley rancher, will be Osborne Wood, son of Major Ge-n.- liams. Hng of the game, the locals finish these same cities, and short''hanged at San Qulnte“ . May 8. ■ oral Wood, Governor Genetal of KLAMATH FALLS, Feb.’ 23.- - Acting upon the request of ed the fir?t quarter, leading 10-8. In a preliminary game the Med speeches by members of the order, i bctween tbe bours a- ni. the Phillipine Islands, was ex- Definite steps to launch h cam ford girls trounced the Ashland A field goal by Chastain, coming numerous members of the cham Part of the proceeds of the and p' m' Superior Judge C. J. paign for a federal building in Southern Oregon has not here- Plained here today when Wood sextet, 43-21. The greater experi- soon after the opening of the ber of commerce, officials of that tofore bestirred herself greatly 4 Luttrell pronounced sentence late located at a luxurious hotel of the Medford outfit was 7 “ ’ S° ‘° the De M° ’ay Friday afternoon, the second time Klamath Fails were taken Frida v second period, knotted the score, ence booster organization have decided' over labor supply and its adjust-1 in tbis city. mnr. ____ ™ ! fund, to be used in financing the when committees from the cham more than the locals could get to make the Forum luncheon, tojments. However, Jackson county, Wood said that his Wall street and soon after the flashy little over. The affair was a rough and state convention to be held in he has passed judgment upon ber of commerce and the Kiwanis be held at the Plaza, an open with her fruit crops, besides can-j ^uck bad deserted him, and that Knips scored from the center of tumble battle with tw^ gIrld ! Southern Oregon this year. One Erno. Forum. An appeal was taken to the club met at the chamber of com nenes and saw mills, is develop lie had danced and knew he must the floor, putting the home boys being removed on personal fouls., 1 a 3 act’vities during the con merce rooms to consider the ad out in the lead. From that time Members of the organization ing more of the shifting labor now “pay the fiddler.” vention will be held in-Ashland, state supreme court and the sen visability of some concrete movo The score follows: ! on they were never headed. Dur may present any topic for discus problem. Families' roll in from bringing to this city nearly 500 tence of the lower court was af in that direction. He came here after a desperate sion they so desire. It Is prob California or from the Willam but unsuccessful attempt to re ing the third quarter, and early MEDFORD (43) (21) ASHLAND boys. The Ancient Order of the firmed. Judge Luttrell acted on Information will be gather? I able that a time limit will be ette valley, camp along Bear cover his fortunes at the biarritz In the final period, the Medford Newman (32) F (11) Stratton Mystic Shrine is backing this con the remittitur sent from Sacra relative to the saving that wou'.l mento this week. William A. placed upon discussions, in order creek, in orchards or at mills. . rambling tables. Wood declared boys chalked up points with mono Griffin(8) F (10) Nelson vention, and has contributed $25 be effected in having a buildlrg Hard, Eino’s companion in the to make it possible for the great work through the thinning or thei that he was ,raak ly puziled at tonous regularity, while the lo Kelly JC Tinker towards the financing of it. here which would house the post- est number who so desire, to picking season, or until mills! tb® next 8tep be muat take. He cals, fighting as hard as th ey 1 Darneille SC Pollard Boys who desire to attend the; murder, was a lo sentenced to office, reclamation service, fed knew how, seemed unable to speak. Ball GV close down, then bowl along to said be is ab8°l»»tely broke. Hitchcock banquet tomorrow n'ght, but who 1 be hanged but his sentence was eral court and other government check the powerful Medford of Champie It is known that several mem other fields of labor. It is dis G-JC The Paris police have a warrant fense. Sackett. have not yet made arrangements, commuted to like imprisonment offices. It was also decided to by Governor Richardson when it bers of the organization, who are covered that families of children for his arrest for non-payment of Goff(3) S . can do so by calling William Day Brilliant even in defeat, A1 Singler was found that he was a minor. aek Lynn Nesmith, who has been regular attendants at the Forum reared on this schedule are non- bills. s I at the Masonic Temple, or by Marske looked like the best _____ _ The murder of Skeen was com ardently in favor of a federal luncheons, have subjects which atteudants at school and are grow 4 Medford grade team defeated calling 6-F-3. basketball player on mitted in October, 1923 and was building, to get in touch with the floor. Roseburg, 27-5; they desire to present to the body ing up Illiterate. PARIS, Feb. 23. — The direct an exceptionally bruta] one. Skeen Oregon congressmen relative to for discussion. These topics are DYNAM ITE USED TO DES- Labor Commissioner Gram is ors of the biarritz casino here U. S.-TURK EY PACT KING’S BRONCHIAL AILMENT had befriended the men in his the best methods to pursue in go of vital interest to the commun making a study of the situation in have sworn out a warrant for the IS R EPO RTED OUT REPO RTED WORSE AT NIGHT ing after a building. ™ Ni ? ETK STn-L i ^ b i n ’ai'B'u'ue"V^ieyTnd ity, and the members desire to counties affected as Jackson arrest of Wood, charging Qiat SEATTLE, Feb. 23. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The It was brought out that the pre Federal, advantage of the opportunity they LONDON, Feb. 23—The bron have them threshed out before county is, and desires to have an he wrote a check for 35,000 francs Lausanne treaty, restoring diplo prohibition agents brought dyna sent postoffice quarters are Inade any further action Is taken upon employers and educators confer on the Lloyds bank without suffi matic and trade relations between chial ailment from which King mite into play today to destroy shot him to death and then drove quate and will be more so as the them. cient funds, police commissioners the United States and Turkey wals George is suffering was worse the biggest illicit distillery dis in their bug to Los Angeles where city grows, and that the rent ence in Medford, early In March. said. they were caught with the mur during the night, although his ’ ’ - I covered in the Northwest since der weapons and Skeen’s cloth Paid, $2,256 a year, would be reported favorably by the senate. condition was satisfactory. the dawn of prohibition. saved by having the postoffice ia ing in their possession. a federal building. COUNTYHEALTH BOARD H EADS RESIGN POSTS LONG TREK TO PEN IS STARTED BY PRISONERS ASHLAND DROPS SECOND GAME TO MEDFORD TOSSERS,39-24 STUDY WILL BE MADE OF LABOR SHIFTING HERE Lieutenant Wood Found Broke in YREKA SLAYER TO BE HANGED EARLY IN MAY