✓
MALARIA GERMS
Cannot erarvive three months in
the rich oione at Ashland. Pure
domestic water helps.
The Tidings Has Been Ashland's
ly
T idings
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medieiu ¿«
nine cases out of ten '' s
This is a proven f'
Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
.
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FAIR TAKEN IN
ATTEM PT TO
ROB GARAGE
Farin and Pupil Who Rob
bed Local Store Are
Captured
CAUGHT AT GOLD HILL
Career o f Crime of Youthful
Oaklander "Bad Man** Come«
to an End
Paid fifty cents per day and
nis expenses for his skill in
thievery, Richard Dunn,“ IS, a
runaway, school boy of Oakland,
California, was arrested Monday
afternoon at Gold Hill, where
he and his Vteacher,” ’ H. D.
McElroy, 28, of Los Angeles,
attempted to steal a purse from
the cash register in Kell’s gar
age.
Dunn was brought to this
city yesterday afternoon, aud
<V?raonsirated the <m|ajiiter in
which he gained entrance to
the A. C. Nlninger Sporting
Goods store last Thursday morn*
Ing.
The youngster demonstrated
how be had entered Ihe estab
lishment about eleven o'clock
Wednesday iftght, unlatching one
of the windows in the rear ot
the building, and immediately
leaving.
About on«
a.
m.
Thursday he entered the build
ing, through the window he had
left unlatched and removed two
automatic pistols, a quantity of
cartridges, a * shoulder holster
for an automatic, several hand
kerchiefs and several other ar
ticles.
These articles, he stated, he
left In the car In which he and
McElroy wtere traveling,
he then returned to the Hotel
Ashland, leaving thia
following morning.
Young Dunn declares he left
home two weeks ago. after steal
ing a car at Hayward, a suburb
of Oakland. He drove this car
to San Jose, where he met Mc-_
Elroy, and the latter offered to
take the cm and start for Ore
gon.
At Red Bluff, the first car
was abandoned, and the car in
which they were traveling when
captured, taken.
The license
plates on that car were buried,
end • pair of plates stolen from
an Oregon car to replace them.
Arriving in Yreka, Wednesday
afternoon, the pair stole several
locks from a garage In that
city. They came into Ashland
that night, and remained here
over night, robbing Nlningcr’s
Thursday morning.
Later that
morning they left for Klanjath
Falls, where young Dunn de
clares he filched |8 5 from an
open safe there. The pair re
mained In Klamath Falls Thurs
day and Friday nights, returning
to Ashland Saturday evening.
They remained in Medford Sun
day, and Monday they again
World’s Wheat
Crop Exceeds
That of 1924
ASHLAND, OREGON, WRD
Roods Cost Louisiana $1,000,000
W A SH IN G TO N , Nov.
18— A world wheat crop
or 800,000,000 bushels In
excess of last year’s crop
..'waa. foxacaat .by -the-agri
cultural department Mon
day on the basis of esti
mates received up to No
vember 21.
"Wheat production in
32 countries of ihe north
ern hemisphere,’’ the de
partment’s announcement
saye, "la nearly 300,-
000,000
bushels
more
than last year, being 2.-
953,000,000 bushels as
compared wt&h £,684>-
000,000 bushels In 1924."
The output in the
southern hemisphere. It
added, Is still somewhat
uncertain, with indica
tions for a crop about«
the same as last year.
The
Canadian
crop
was placed at 422,000,-
000 bushels, compared
with a previous psh|(
mate
of
392,000 9 000
bushels and last year's*
harvest of 261,000,000.
The statement estimated
that "there had been
available for export and
carryover from the ' Can-
ad lan crop this year
somewhat
more
than
300,000,000 burfhels.”
Eight and a half inches of rainfall in less than a we
used a disastrous flood that
destroyed $1,000,000 worth of crops, tied up traffic
enioralized oil wells in Louis-
iana. Photo shows how the tracks of the Vicksburg,
;veport and Pacific railroad
were flooded near Gibbsland, la., stopping all traffic or several days.
STANDARD OIL
PLANT ROBBED,
OIL IS STOLEN
88
88
88
88
88
MONTAGUE TO
BOND TO RAISE
IMMENSE DAM
Heavy Oil Proves Undoing
of Thief Who is Forced
to Leave Oar
A burglar's ignorance of the
workings o f/in internal combust
ion motor, made the work of the
local police force easy last night,
pfter word was received that the
main plant of the Standard Oil
company had been robbed.
In some manner, the thief gain
ed entrance to the plant of the
company and removed four five
gallon cans of gasoline, three now
tiros and a five-gallon can of
heavy lubricating ol|.
/
About seven o’vtbck last atgkt,
a tourist noticed ’an automobile
standing on the highway a few
miles south of Ashland, with the
lights burning. He reported this
fact to the police, and.a tow car
was sent out after the machine,
when it waa returned to Ashland
it was discovered that the miss
ing articles, with the exception
of the oil, were In the car.
It waa later shown that the
thief had poured the heavy lub
ricating oil Into the crank case
of the macMne, but the oil wah
so heavy that It finally stopped
the motor.
The machine, a 1924 Hupmobile
roadster waa registered to R.
Aqulstapsce of Weed. So far, the
police here have not been able
to learn when the car waa stolen
In Wped.
™ -¿»“ saxftjss B|
(Contlnued
On
Page
8ix)
MONTAGUE, Calif., Nov. 18.—
(Special)— By an overwhelming
vote, the people of the Montague
Irrigation District, of Which this
city la a center, Monday voted to
bond the district to the extent of
11,395,000, in order to furnish
money .to Install a project for stor
ing the winter water of the
Shasta River and Parkes Creek.
This water will be used to ir
rigate 19,500 acres of land around
Montague.
The dam which Is to be con*
structed will contain about 700,-
000 cubic yardf of material. Moat
of this will be hydrauliced from
the steep hillsides at the ends of
the dam.
More than 2,000 yards of con
crete will be used.In the dam.
The main canal for carrying the
water to the land will be twenty
one mi lets long, and there will be
more thaii 60 miles of laterals for
the distribution of the water from
the main canal.
Specifications for the construct
ion of the project will be adver-
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On
Page
Six)
THREE MILE HOUSE ON ROAD
NEAR KLAMATH FALLS RAIDED
"The Joint’s pinched.”
This laconic statement from the
lips of a federal prohibition agent
and a 'deputy special state agent
at the "Three Mile Hoike” mid
night Saturday, froze about 40
chattering merry-makers Into sil
ence. Ted Lewis, the proprietor,
looking Into th« mouth of a re
volver held by an officer, gladly
assented to a "behind the bar"
search which netted two gallons
and a half of alleged moonshine
Whiskey.'
The door was opened by the of
ficers to let Special State Agent
William Cole, leader of the raid*
Inside. Patrons of the road house
were told to sit still, during a fur
ther (search of the premises. They
were all allowed to leave the
house unmolested a. few minutes
later.
.
Lewis waa taken In custody by
the officers, Monday morning he
was released under 8226 bond.
Ho entered a tentative plea of not
guilty but asked the court for per
mission to change the plea to
gutflty If he so desired before his
trlaj.
Lewis formerly operated the
"Two Mile" hoWse, located just
two nilles west of Klamath Falls
on the Ashland - Klamath Falls
highway.
The* foad house was
raided' several times and finally
Lewis moved one mile down the
Ashland highway and established
what Is generally known as the
"Three Mile” house located on
the crest of a knoll and facing
the state highway.
Lewis was formerly charged
wlith sale and possession of In
toxicating liquor. Prior to the
announcement that the house was
under arrest, the two officers had
purchased several drinks o f alleg
ed moonshine.
* ..
-
Wireless Operator
is Hero When
Vessel Bum s
LEWIS, D els, Nov. 18.—
(LP) — The
Clyde
Line*
Ix'napc, with a fire in the
hold, Was rushed through
out the night toward the
Deleware breakwater and
seem ingly won the race to
safety at the last moment.
The vessel (steamed into
port early th is morning w ith
fire
burning
from
the
hatches.
The ITS passengers w ere
discharged, and the crew
then beached and abandoned
the vessel, which burned to
the hull.
A calm w ireless operator,
who told the passengers that
4«
4 k « ln
old “from every direction,”
prccented a panic.
BARNETT SUFFERS
A FRACTURED LEO
Bert (Shorty) Barnett, wall
known Aahland character la in
the Community hospital today,
suffering from a broken leg, as
the result of an accident which
Barnett himself cannot desert to.
Barnett declares he waa walk
ing along yeaterday evening,
whan suddenly he slipped and
fell to the sidewalk. H$ waa
unable to arise, and a physloiait
was called. The latter ordered
Barnett removed to the hospital
where his injury was pronounoed
to be a fracture of the lag.
Widow, About
to, Wed Again,
is Killed
SCOUTS ARE TO
GATHER OLD
CLOTHES SOON
PALO ALTO, Cal., Nov. fl
18— Death Intervened St 91
the altar when
Mi's. 88
Luelle Fredman, * w idow ; 88
of San Francisco, waa 88
killed in an automobile ■ 18
Near East Relief Work Be
accident at Mayfield, near 88
ing Carried on by
here yesterday. She was 88
Boy Scouts
on her way to San Jose It
to be married.
Heir 88
Next to food, the greatest need
fiance, Charles Cuneo, al- 88 of the refugees In the Near East
so of San Francisco, 81 Is clothing.
Old coats,' suits,
driver of the car, was not 88 shoes and woolen thinge are.
hurt.
He was arrested 88 literally, worth their weight In
on a technical charge ot 81 gold, relief workers say. Warm
man slaughter.
88 garments can be exchanged for
The car crashed Into
anything and are far more valu
a telephone pole.
The
able than the depleted currency.
victim’s neck was broken
Last winter, children, scarcely
and she died Instantly,
old enough to stand, came shiv
Police said that Cuneo
ering to the doors of Near East
had been drinking. Thia
Relief hospital! and orphanages,
he denied.
, He
was
for warm garments, sad
boohed here and releas
Often showed that their tfny
'd on bell of 81.000.
hands and feet were frozen.
fh e couple had driven
"Bundle Days’* are being hbld
from Ssn Francisco and
all over the country for the bene
expected to be married in
fit of Near East Relief.
Tho
San Joee yesterday.
clothing Is packed in bales and
SE SSIO N OF
GRAND JURY
ON THURSDAY
Several Criminal Matters to
Come up. Petit Jury
Meets Today
A meeting of the grand jury
kas been called
to
convene
Thursday morning, and will con
sider criminal matters pending,
which Include three liquor viola
tions, a chock forgery charge,
and a statutory charge from
Gold Hill. The grand jury per
sonnel la the samq as in the
May term of court, holding over
for the October term, upon a
court ordeY which aet forth
’’economy” the “beat Interests
of the county,” and "the famil
iarity of the grand Jury with
the situation" aa the reaaon.
The petit jury will resume
thia morning, and will hear
civil caaea until Monday, when
the trial of Omar W. Murphy,
charged with manslaughter la
scheduled.
stored at the Army Warehouse
In Brooklyn until It' can be
shipped to the Near East. There
it Is distributed to the needy
refugees who, for the most part,
are clad In rags and strips of
burlap and linen, anything they
ean find.
The shipping tags distributed
by the Boy Scouts last Saturday
will he sailed for next Saturday
morning, November 21. If bun
dles have not been prepared,
those who have old olothes arig
requested to do ao at once so
that there will be no delay when
the Scout calls for the clothing.
Those who have not recelvod
one of the shipping tags and
who have some used clothing
which they do not Intend to use
further, please call 353-Y or
211 and the bundle will be pick
ed up.
ONE KILLED. 25 ARE
HURT IN BIO WRECK
OLYMPIA. Wash., Nov. 18 —
(IP) — One dead and 25 injured
was the toll today of the wreck
of the Northern Pacific patsaenger
train No. 426, which jumped the
track near here last night, en
route from Grays Harbor to Ta
coma. B. M. Pitnam of Tacoma,
the engineer, waa killed outright.
The three seriously Injured are
Mrs. Laura Hahn of Aberdeen,
George Kephart, a brakeman, of
FOUR MEN. WOMEN _ Puyallup and Ralph Whitman,
FAIL SHOOT INFANT fireman, of Tacoma. All but two
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18. — (IP) of thp injured were taken to a
— Pqlice are searching for two
men and two women Who were
frightened away from an attempt
DARLING IS MAKING
ed lnfanttelde here recently.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
Hearing pistol shots along the
bank of a drainage canal In one
Extensive Improvements are
of the suburbs a gendarme reach to be made immediately on the
ed the spot la tlm sto see a group Darling J trf Store, according to
of four well - dressed men and C. A. Darling, proprietor of the
women firing at an object floating establishment.
In the water. They fled at his ap
New shelving, new tables and
proach and were driven away la new display cases are now be
an automobile.
ing installed in the store.
Fishing the object wrapped la
Early. In July, when Mr. Darl
clothing and paper from the water ing first occupied bis present
the gendarme discovered a six location, he Installed much new
months old girl within. The child equipment used la photographic
was placed In a .hospital awaiting work, sand now has one of the
possible dtscovsry of the members finest studios In Southern Ore
of the group.
gon.
>
HEWITT GIVES
PLEA TO POT
AN END TO WAR
The Chosen
HARTLEY MUST
SHOW POWER
OF POLICIES
Declares Youth Should be
Educated Away From
Worship of Militarism
Test of Strength to be Made
in Wasnington House
Today
:
DECRIES ALL WARFARE
BRIDGE IS APPROVED
Hays World Not Safe so Long as
Flow er of Manhood Used as
Cannon Fodder
Oregon Shipping Interests Show
ing Home Antagonism Over
Proposed Move
I
----
With a powerful plea for the
education of the youth of thw
country to an abhorrance of
war, Roy R. Hewitt, assistant
professor of political Bclence at
the Oregon Agricultural College
last night brought to a clone
the observance of Education
Week here at the gathering of
members of the chamber of. com
merce at a dinner meeting at
the Llthla Springs hotel.
Heroism may mean many
things, according to Professor
Hewitt.
He declared that die
youth of the country should
be educated away from the wor-
shlp__of. generals anil soldier«.
and toward the worship ot those
who have labored /ind died In
an effort to rid the world ot
disease, poverty, waste and In
humanity.
"Education should direct Its Miss Elinor Kountx, 19, daughter
energies toward the solution of of Charles T. Koutc, multi-million
the world's problems. Its func aire banker, of Omaha, Neb., Is
tion should be to conserve and the 31st annual queen of Ak-Bar-
develop the best In this civilisa Ben of Omaha. Each year the
tion. World wide education, by most beautiful girl In Omaha's
presenting war stripped ot Its wealthy and socially prominent
deceptive glamor and glory, with families in chosen ter this honor,
its debasing lies, its brutalities. and this year she's the lucky ons.
Its horrors and In its other
futility, can stop the develop
ment of war psycosls and put an
end to war.
"We fought In the world war
to make the worlff safe for ffe
mocracy. The world Is not a
sa re place for democracy, so
long as the world selects Its fin
est and most Intelligent man
hood and sends It to the sham
bles to be slaughtered.
The
price of war Is the blrih right
of generations tljen unborn. If
men must fight, education should Bids Are Asked for Grading
train and Inspire them to fight
on Redwood Highway in
the enemies of mankind, which
Del Monte County
are Ignorance, disease, poverty,
waste and Inhumanity,” Profes
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 18— The
sor Hewitt declared during his
bids were asked Monday by the
speech.
California Highway Commission
Moro than 100 members of the
for grading a section of the
chamber were present at the
Redwood Highway at the south
gathering last night, one of the
approach to the Douglas Mem
largest turnouts of the yrfar.
orial bridge, now under con
Several musical numbers were
struction
over
the
Klamath
River, near Kequa, .Del Norto
(Continued On Page Six)
county, Tho work to be done
OLYMPIA. Wash., Nov. 18—
(U. 1*.)— The test of Ooverner
Hartley's influence in reclama
tion affairs in the state of Wash
ington was expected to come
up In the Washington legisla
ture House today.
The reclamation committee has
recommended that the Banker
reclamation bill be put on the
calendar for today. The mea
sure would take the powers and
duties of the code Department of
Conservation and Development
from under the appointive con
trol of the Oovernor, and place
them with the Commissioner of
Public Lands, which is an elec
tive office.
CALIFORNIA IS
DOING WORK
ON HIGHWAY
Duck Hunters Gain
Lost Fame. Bag
Several Limits
Showing that they can
and do come back, the party
which ycuterdny was report
ed to have failed’ to bug a
ahigle duck «hiring their
day's hunting on Mon<lay,
last. night have Into town
with »A ilurka In their bag».
Roy Parr, Harry McNair,
Fred Taylor, Terry Talent,
llert Slattern and Harry Ing
ling made up the party of
brave hunters. They declare
that during their first, (luy’w
hunting, which w ee spent
at
Hopkln'a
Marsh,
the
ducks were flying too high
for anyone to hit.
Yesterday, the boyn visit
ed the Tule Lake country,
Where they bagged their
»A «lucks. They state that
the «lurks are fly-'ng over
Tule Luke by the hundreda
of thousands, IlteraMy dark
ening the sky. AU hunters
who visited the latke enjoy
ed wonderful shooting, the
finest of the season, the lo
cal hunters declare.
No trace o f the epidemic
which wrought such havoc
w ith the duck hunting at
The Tule during the early
part of the season was to
to be seen, they state, anil
every member o f the party
is em ghetto la declaring
that he failed to aee a single
sick duck.
(Continued
On
Pago
Six)
. OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 18—
(U. P .)— The formal signed ap
proval of the Washington State
Highway Department for the
proposed three million dollar
toll bridge acroee the Columbia
River, from Longview to Ranier,
haa been given, and It now 're
mains tor the Oregon Highway
Commission to approve the plan,
It was said at the State Highway
Department this afternoon.
PORTLAND,
Nov.
18— Ap
proval of plana for the Ranier-
Longview bridge by tke Oregon
State Highway Commission was
welting for the action of tha
Portland Port and Dock Commis-
slQB.______ _'____ :__ 2___
Considerable opposition to th e.,
bridge, as proposed, has been
displayed la 'shipping circles,
which want the span much hlgh-
• er than is proposed*------—
r
HEAVY SEAS SEND
SHIPS TO HARBOR
MIAMI, Florida, Nov. 18.— (LP)
— Hurricane seas today forced ten
ishlps to seek shelter In the Miami.
harbor, to ride out the fifty mile
gale. Among the shlpe waa th*
Clyde Liner, George Washington,
with 265 passengers .from New-
York aboard.
•
Columblg county haa closed-
best year's road program 1«
the county history.
SAYS GERMANS IN LEAGUE
TO SLOW UP DISARMAMENT
By HENRY WOOD
(United Press Staff Correspon
dent.)
GENEVA, Nov. 18— (U. P.)
— The entrance of Oermany Into
the League of Nations Is ex
peoted to delay temporarily rath
er than to speed up the League's
program for a disarmament con
ference.
The fame delay will also sup
ply to the League's two other
principal projects for the com
Ing year, namely the convoking
of An International economic
conference and also an Interna
tional press conference for the
purpose of normal disarmament.
The first of these two project«
waa brought before the League
b y" France and the second by
Senator Vanes of Chile.
Aeoordtng to League circles
the entrance of Oermany Into
th* League changes immensely
th* whole situation of the Leagpc
I regards Europe and questions
affecting Europe. As Oermany
will com«
one of (he
powers and with a
League oouncll, it Is pointed out
that It would bo manifestly un
wise fer the League to go ahead
with any program affecting
----------------
?
• ’' J
Europe , as a whole until Ger
many Is In a position to present
her viewpoint and take an ac
tive part In what the League
hopes to do.
t As a result of the decisions
of the last League Assembly the
December meeting of tho LeegM
council was scheduled to take up
Immediately the question of
creating the organism necessary
for the preparation of a dle-
armament conference, aa econ
omic conference and the press
However, as
be admitted
fore January
feels
all
on
organism
these
ned
Decembei
questions
March