C
ZANIBONI IS
ARRESTED FOR
MURDER PLOT
Southern
Methodists
Oppose Unity
1 N A S H V IL L E ,
Tenn.,
Nov.
7— Including , the
vote of three conferences
Wednesday, the combined
Vote of 4 0 annual confer
ences in ' the* Methodist
Episcopal church, Sooth,
today stood a t 2,968 fav
oring and '2,171 against
unification w ith the Meth
odist Episcopal church,
making final passage ap
pear improvable.
'Yesterday's votes were:
East Oklahoma, 140 for, .8
18 against; North Mis- 8
slsslppl,
43
fo r,. 168
against; Louisiana, 117
fo r,*74 kgalnst.
Three-fourths of the
total vote in the South
ern churph Is required for
unification to pass. T h ir
teen conferences are yet
to vote, the total vote be
ing expected to reach only
about 8,000.
Confesses to Plan tor Slay-
ing Premier Mussolini
of Italy
IS
TRUSTED
f
ADVISOR
Free Mason Headquarters Closely
Guarded by Troop« to
Prevent Outbreak
A
ROM E, N o r. 7— (U . P . ) — Tito
Zanlbonl, ex-deputy of the U ni
tarian-Socialist
party,
and
a
trusted political adviser o f the
King of Ita ly , has confessed to
participation in the plot to k ill
Premier Mussolini, dictator of
Ita ly , and to thereby dethrone
the Italian monarch, according to
the police announcement made
here this morning.
Under a terrific g rillin g at the
hands of the police, which has
continued constantly since he
was taken, rifle in hand, from
a hotel near the balcony where
Premier Mussolini spoke to A r
mistice Day throngs, Zanlbonl
shouldered the entire reeponsl-
\ bllity for the plot himself, it was
said, when he denied that he
had any accomplices in the plot.
Inform ation given out yes
terday by one of the leading
newspapers of this city, which Hughes Wants University of
is usually in close touch w ith all
'on Men to
political affai-s of the state, in-
Officiate
. dicate that the plot to assassin
ate Mussolini was bnt a p art of
M ED FO R D , Nov. 7— The all-
a huge plot to overthrow the en star football team selected from
tire government.
the grade schools of Medford
According to the article, it w ill play the Junior, high school
was planned not alone to m nr- of Ashland at the H o lly street
* dor the fascist. chief, bnt also grounds this afternoon in their
to overthrow the Savoy fam ily annual game, and for enthusias
and make a republic of Ita ly .
tic fierceness of play the contest
Today, soliders continue to promises Io be the best of the
guard the headquarters of the
socialist party, and the Jnstinian
Weldon McBee, first string
palaces resemble w ar times, w ith ! center of the Medford high
‘the bristling haynots of soldiers school, w ill be out of the game
appearing throughout the build Armistice day w ith Ashland. Mc
ing, In which is housed the head- Bee, seeking entrance to West
• quarters of the Free Masons.
Point, has been called to Port
Other Free Mason headquart land to take entrance examina
ers a n d ’ meeting places were tion next week and w ill study
closed and guarded by fpseist instead of practice.
H is place
troops, and oppositions news w ill be taken by Hughes.
papers were burned, since it is
The selection of the officials
believed that there Is a possi for the game Wednesday la now
bility of a new break.
under way and they w ill prob
ably be from the University of
Oregon. Coach' Hughes of Ash
PHOENIX MAN GROWS
land
objects to Ted Cramer of
AN IMMENSE PUMPKIN
Grants Paas and Scheffel of this
E arl M iller, who lives near city, on the grounds "a slip w ill
The
Phoenix,
brought a pumpkin cost him a year's w ork.”
weighing nearly 100 poun4s to attitude of the Granite City
the chamber of commerce today. mentor came as a surprise.
M iller has specialised in large * The local squad w ill spend to
sixes this season and raised some morrow morning in hard scrim'
of the best and largest w ater mage, perfecting of Interference
and new plays that have been
melons in the valley.
held in reserve all season for
the Ashland game. The Ashland
NEW AIR MAIL LINE
team Is fu ll of hope and “ pepped
CONTRACTS SIGNED up” for victory, in spite o f the
poor showing they have made
W A S H IN G TO N , Nov. 7— (U .
p .) — Postmaster
General New a ll season.
OFFICIALS FOR
MEDFORD GAME
NOT SELECTED
today signed contracts for five
a ir mall routes which w ill act
as feeders to the government
owned transcontinental lines. In
cluded in these is a lin e to E l
ko, Nevada, from Pasco, Wash
ingtoc. This line was contract
ed to W alter T . Varney of San
Francisco.
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M ary
W addell,
whose
Ups are
Prosecution Rests in Trial of
Dr. B lu er for Killing
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Daughter
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Armistice Day Marks Open*
in< of Annual Drive for
Funds
CAR
NO
DOING
IS
CONFISCATED
Fined glOOO by Justice of Peace
• Glenn O. Taylor of
Medford
cating liquor, yesterday plead
guilty to the charge and was
fined 91,800 by Justice of the
Peace Taylor of Medford.
His
car and the liquor were confis
cated.
When first taken into custody
by Chief of Police McNabb, Spe
cial State Prohibition Officer
Terry Talent and a federal pro
hibition man, Richards declared
that be knew nothing of the 21
cases of liquor which were found
cached near his machine follow
ing the crash.
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A fte r several hours of ques
tioning by D istrict Attorney New
ton Chaney, and when confronted
w ith the overwhelming mass of
evidence which the officers had
lected, connecting him with
the liquor, Richards decided to
plead guilty and throw himself
upon - the mercy of the . court,
hoping to escape a Jail sentence.
Fingerprints found on one of
the bottles in the cache tallied
exactly w ith fingerprints takon
by the officers here when Rich
ards was brought to this city.
In addition bits of paper, exactly
the same as the paper in which
the bottles were wrapped, wpre
-found in his Padkard car.
A fte r confessing, Richards told
'a story coinciding w ith
the
theory the police had been w ork
ing on. A fte r crashing o ff the
slippery mountain road, and ro ll
ing almost 100 feet into the
canyon, Richards worked himself
free from beneath the car, and
then after taking his w ife and
child to the road and obtaining
a »ride for them, started work
of caching the liquor.
H e de
clared that he intended coming
back w ith another car and re
moving the liquor and then re
porting his crash.
Richards had his bed made
near his car, and was preparing
to remain there the remainder
of the night when the car drlv-
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Advertise In The Tiding».
reported to have been the re
cipients of another of Henry’s
best placed smacks, has declared
that H enry is a dismal failure
•end she lodged a charge similar
to th a t of Miss Ince against
Henry,
Y et a Jury of men came to
the rescue of Henry, Friday,
when the charges filed by Miss
Ince were triad and declared by
a unanimous vote that perhaps
Miss Ince waa an "In ju n giver,"
and that if she had really "wig
gled," as «he saljl in giving
her account of the episode on
the 'back . porch of the Ince
Trackless Train
to Visit Ashland
Monday Afternoon
NEW
WITNESSES
R iese two Los Angeles councilmsp aver« convicted ot accepting a 12,000
for their votes oil a tractleal nU««urc and have-been sent to prison
tor ¿ne to ten years. ' Left to rlgt|t< they are "Dig Joe" Fitzpatrick and
\Charlle Downs. ,».The_ pb0t0„MM>ws them in their prison ra rb .<
GAME WARD
OF STATE G
PAY 1NCR
Antlers of Elk
Found Imbedded
in Tree Trunk
YO SEM ITE, Cal., Nov.
7— (U . P .) — The
prize
instance qf the engulfing
tendency of trees has
just been exhibited here.
The massive antlers of
a Roosevelt E lk, found
by an Indian woodshop-
per near Scotia, Hum
boldt county, Cal., im
bedded
in
a
growing
madrona, was the exhibit.
One side of a section
of the tree was split oft.
showing the intact skull
in the tree’s heertwoo'd.
Growth rings proved that
more than a hundred
years had elapsed since
the engulfing began.
Experts - believe
the
sapling madrona shot up
through the skull and
antlers, carrying it up off
the ground and fin ally
growing around it.
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Jackson County Warden is
Not Included in List of
Those Benefited
Members of the Jackson Cdun-
ty Sportsmen's association ayd
wondering why, in the Hat
salary raises granted by
state game commission .recen
‘the name of Roy P arr, Jackibn
county game warden does not ap
pear.
The name of Pat Daily,
the state ranger warden, doee ap
pear as credited to Medford, but
in the llet as given out for pub
lication a mistake is made in
crediting D. T. Godail, the p ik e
county game warden, to Med
ford.
Salary increases amounting to
93570 a year have been giant
ed officers, deputy wardens and.
office assistants of the 'state
game commission under a revis
ion made by E. F. A verill, state
game warden, and indorsed by a
m ajo rity o f the commission.
Under this revision the eal-
iary of the state game warden
was increased from 9300 to 9350
a month and 19 other Increases
were lndersed. A verill stfld that
it had not been necessary to lay
o ff any regular wardens to pro
vide for these increases and
that there was an estimated sur
plus o f funds amoujntlng to
912,368 in the department fund
as of November 1.
Fresh from causing a sensa
tion in New Y ork and Seattle
that, It is said, has never been
surpassed, the firs t Trackless
Train in America Is due to' ar
rive here on Monday, en route
from New York to Los Angeles
on the last lap of the interna
tional trip that w ill take It later
to Europe i n . the interests of
better motion pictures.
The Trackless Train, which is
sponsored by the Metro-Goldwyn
film company, is also working
for improved national roads, and
in doing so has the cooperation
o f a u t o m o b i l e associations
throughout the country.
The Trackless Train arrived in
New York from Indianapolis af-
of ovations, w ith schools In the
smaller towns holding special
recesses that the pupils m ight
see the passing.of probably the
most unusual sight that tw en ti
eth century ingenuity has pro
duced.
In every city visited,
police motorcycle escorts were
necessary to prevent the dis
ruption of traffic by the great
crowds
that
surrounded
the
train. A t Dayton, Ohio, the en
tire plant of the N ational Cash
Register
Company
suspended
work for twenty minutes no that
the 8500 employees ,o f the plant
m ight see the Trackless Train
the firs t time that the plant sus
pended for such a purpose,
POLIOS LOOK FOR
RUNAWAY YOUTHS
Local police have been notified
to be on the lookout for three
Redding boys, W illia m Blaser.
Charles Gettings and Glenn Sev-
erton* all 16 year» of age, who
ran away from th e ir home In the
C alifornia city last night.
The boys are believed to be
headed this Way, for Blaser has
an uncle residing in Eugene.
W hen they le ft Redding, they
were driving a Chevrolet touring
car, 1919 model, bearing the
California license 482-259.
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A U S T IN , Tax., Nov. 7— (U.
P .) — Unprecedented
r a in s
throughout the state during the
last three days have caused the
deaths of fire parsons, having
Isolated many towns and vil
lages throughout the state, vir
tually halted traffic along the
highways, snd h are oaused Ines
tim able damage to erops.
The five persons who ere dead
are all’ negroes, who have as y«t
not been identified. They were
drowned when an automobile
track was washed from a oause-
way Into the swollen waters of
the
Ban
Gabriel river
near
Vleodgetown.
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A M D MEN
ON JURY FOR
MURDER TRIAL
L IT T L E T O N , Colo., Nov. 7—
(U . P .) — The state completed its
case a t eleven 'o’clock today
against D r. Harold E. Blaser for
the murder of hie Imbecile
daughter, the "child woman.**
D istrict
A ttorney
Joel
E.
8tone rested the state's case a f
ter having recalled several of
he witnesses whom he had ou
the stand during the session
yesterday afternoon.
No new prosecution witnesses
were brought on the stand to
day, although it was generally
believed that Mrs. Frances Bis
hop, for years the nurse in the
Blaser home, would be called
upon to testify for the proSeeu-
tlon this morning.
Stone said he would resist
any attempts that may be mads
by defense counsel to prove the
victim had no soul.
"Hazel Blazer may not have
been able to talk or walk, but
who Is there to say that she
could not feel?" he asked.
Prosecutor 8tone announced
that the state had "shown that
this woman was fully developed
above the torso."
"Below the waist she was an
Infant but a few months old,"
he said. "H er affliction was the
result of spinal meningitis. Med
ical authorities w ill show that
thia disease often destroya and
distorts the human frame bnt it
does not destroy the brain nor
the soul.
'The killing of Hasel Bister
was a deliberate, well planned
murder.’’
A sharp skirmish followed the
attempt of the state to chal
lenge A. A. Hensel, a prospective
Juror yesterday for cause.
Hensel ssld in reply to a ques
tion by the prosecuting attorney
that "taking human life under
certain circumstances was all
right.”
The State challenged Hensel
three times for cause but was
overruled each time by the
judge, Samuel Johnson.
The state's ninth preemptory
challenge was employed to re
move Hensel.
The selection of
the 12 men to try the aged phy
sician came with startling sud
denness yesterday.
"W e
are
satisfied
w ith
Hypuui Huntley on Trial for
Stabbing Affray at
Medford
the
Jury," Joel Stone, state’s pro
secutor, said.
" I t is acceptable to us,” D.
E. R. Mowery, defense chief
A Jury to hear the testimony counsel
said,
"although,
of
in the tria l of Hym an Huntley course, we would have preferred
charged w ith firs t degree mur to have had more time and
der as the result of a stabbing money to Investigate some of the
affray in Medford last Septem panel lists."
her 2, in which Jesse James
Gibbs was killed , was secured
yesterday morning in the cir
cuit court as follows:
John Mast, Medford; Alfred
J. Hensler, Medford; Fred W
Pinkerton,
Ashland;
D.
E.
Phipps, Medford; W illia m Barn
hart. C entral Point; John Cox,
YR EKA , Nov. 7— When Henry
Medford; C. W . McDonald, Med
Hess, legal Investigator for Col
ford; A. R. Brown, Ashland
onel Ned Green of San Fran
J. E. Weaver, Central Point
cisco, was sent northward by his
John Kasstlom, Phoenix; C. H
chief to Investigate the damage
Merrim an, Medford, and M. M.
caused by two federal prohibi
Kendall, c en tral Point.
tion agents and a mob of 30
The jn ry was secured^ sooner
v o l unt eer » ai ders in r sps st sd soft
than expected. Counsel for each
drink parlors at Shastlna, suburb
side asked each Juror his po
of Weed, he expected to In
sltlon on capital punishment.
vestigate the damage.
About II were examined before
But Hess's coming pas not
12 men ware selected.
The
heralded by blare of trumpet or
Jury and court recessed until
roll of drum, and, when he ar
Monday,
when
the
opening
rived Thursday at the scene of
statements and testimony w ill
the trouble, in compliance with
begin.
an agreement between Green and
Sheriff A. 8. Calkins, who w ith
held the services of warrants
for the federal men, charged
with participating In the mob
Oregon «ad Washington
raid, he walked Into the BI
Federal Man Gets
Weed Bootlegger
By Accident
THE WEATHER
( — Probably rain in the
I west
portion.
Fresh
I strong southeast winds,
I
t
shifting
to
southwest
galea along tha coast.
GREAT
WORK
Half of Money Raised Here to be
Used for Relief o f Xeedy
Families
Attempt * W ill be Made to Prove
Girl “Soulesa.” W ill be
Fought by Proeecntlon
Ed Richards, arrested here
Thursday night, following an ac
cident on the 8isklyou mountain
road, and charged w ith posses
sion and transportation of intoxi
Business Visitor—
Dallas J. Sidwell o f Portland,
general agent fo r the Provident
M utual L ife Insurance company
wttH > business visitor in Ashland
yesterday.
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ROLL CALE OF
RED CROSS TO
START SOON
Admits
mita Char
Charge of Trana-
porting L jiquor Over
Highway
U S S E S , CURSES IF NOT
PROPERLY ADMINISTERED
•j__Kisses are
Y R E K A , Nov
curses on the K lam ath river
If not properly administered.
There la. Pearl Ince, conlely
maid of Happy Camp, who de
clared
before
Judge
H.
C.
Boorae, Justice of the peace at
Happy Camp, as complaining w it
ness against W . P. Henry, that
w hile she "wiggled’’ when the
lusty rancher o f Classle k ill
presented the osculatory saluta
tion to h e r, ruby lipa, she still
signed the complaint against him
for assault and battery.
H e n ry ,' aa a kisser, has not
given satisfaction as a Rudolph
Valentino, it is said, for Wrs.
STA TES CASE
IS' CLOSED IN
MURDO! TRIAL
RICHARDS SAYS
HE OWNED ALL
LIQUOR FOUND
SEES HIS THRONE
R ets Khan, premier of Persia,
has seized the throne; taken the
name of King Pahsvia/ and de
posed the Shah Ahmed Mirza,
who haa been living In Paris.
His freeing of political prisoners
and lowering of the Drlce of
foodstuffs has caused great re
joicing In Persia.
AIRWAYS ARE
TO BE MARKED
BY STANDARD
Aid to be Given Aviation by
Standard Oil Company
of California
To assist In the development
of aviation, and to Increase
safety and certainty of a ir travel,
the Standard Oil Company (C ali
fornia), following a suggestion
from the office of the Chief of
A ir Service, W a r Department,
w ill establish a wide-spread sys
tem of guide-signs for aviators
along the airways of the Pacific
Coast states, giving the Pacific
Coast its only marked airways
and the first of the kind in the
country, according to Earl Crowe,
Ashland manager.
These signs
will take the form of names of
towns painted on the roofs of
the Company's buildings.
The
Army A ir 8ervlce w ill designate
points which should be marked.
The Comppny w ill also offer co
operation to the Naval A ir Ser
vice, the A ir Mall Service and
commercial fliers.
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A t first the effort w ill be
clearly to mark the present a ir
ways and towns adjacent to fly
ing and landing fields.
There
are now established airways from
San Diego to Seattle and from
San Francisco to Reno.
Along
these routes the Company has
distributing plants at frequent in
tervals.
The towns on these
airways which should be marked
are now being selected and the
signs will be painted at once.
As other airways are developed
and necessity requires, addition
al signs w ill be set up.
The Company has stations at
most ports on the Pacific Coast
and at these w ill establish signs
for the guidance and assistance
of seaplanes.
The Standard Oil Company
(C alifo rn ia) has more than 650
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Opening Wednesday of next
week
and
continuing
until
Thanksgiving Day, the annual
Red Cross Roll Call will be
carried on throughout the United
States.
Ashland's Red Cross organisa
tion w ill open It ’s campaign on
Armistice Day, and carry it
along with the national cam
paign, in an effort to obtain
sufficient funds to maintain the
relief worlc for the coming year.
Rev. P. K. Hammond, one of
the most active members of the
local Red Cross unit spoke yes
terday for a short time before
the members of the Kiwanis
club, urging them to support
the Red Cross during its cam
paign.
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F ifty cents of each dollar col
lected by the local Red Cross or
ganization is kept for local re
lief work, while the remaining
fifty rants Is turned over to the
national headquarters for relief
work in national and internation
al circles.
President Coolidge, president
of the Red Cross, said recently.
"The American Red Cross has
one outstanding purpose— service
to humanity In accordance with
the International Treaty of Gen
eva and its own charter from
the congress of the United
States."
The
Red
Cross
operates
through its national organisa
tion and more than 3,980 chap
ters
in
cities
and
towns
throughout the country. I t con
tinues is obligation to assist
men disabled in the World W a r,*
and their families, and to help
men of the regular army and
navy with their family and in
dividual problem.
Since the Armistice, the Red
Cross has expended 958,00(^0JD0
In this work. It aids more than
100,000 disabled veterans and
their families each month. ; I t
Is serving 249,000 soliders, sail
ors and marines in active servira.
For great emergencies, 41,000
nurses are enrolled in the or
ganization. It has on duty 1000
public health nurses demonstrat
ing the tremendous importance
of safe-guarding the health of
the community.
OARS ARE DAMAGED
IN SMASHUP HERE
Crashing Into the rear end
of the ear in front of him, G.
M. Denton of Medford, driving a
Jewett touring car slightly dam
aged his own car and the Jewett
sedan driven by W. J. Stapleton,
of San Diego, in an accident
which occurred in fro nt of the
McOee building on Main street
early today.
MAIL ORDER HOUSE LOSES A
SALE THROUGH TIDINGS AD
ö n i ö f The
advertisement
waa
tha
scribers from Talent, while at this
this office yesterday, recited su same < slse-and quality tarpaulin
incident which proved that all at more than 95.99 lean than
that g litte r^ is not gold— as far what the m ail order catalogue
Thia * price, pine t i e
aa the mall order catalogues srs price.
freight
to
Ashland, would have
concerned.
She stated that a few days been a loes of approximately
age Just before coming to Ash 99.00 if she bed ordered from
land to shop, she looked at the the Chicago house, which she
prloee on tarpaulins as listed In did not.
Mr. Jordan of The Arasy
a m all order catalogue, finding
a certain sise and grade tarpau Goods S to re. mated today 1
lln listed at 119.60.
She said tha tarpeuMn
she remembered reading a t t r - The Tidings was
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Monte Hotel.
paulfa
advertisement la
The
A ll was quiet there, but, when Dally Tidings the night before sponsible
he went to the rear of the
i
and looking over The ^Tidings
again
she
found
the
Army
Goods!
Tidings
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