MALAKIA GERMS Cannot «arrive three months in the rich ozone at Ashland. Pore ^omestio water help«. The Tidings Has Been Ashland9s T idings Z Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years ' m VOU XLIX Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tiding*, Volume 4$ i ASHLAND CTTMA'nr, Without the use of medicine cures nice cases out of ten of asthma. T < \is a proven fact W ire Service) ASHLAND, OBEGON, THU Maid of Athens, . Mothers, Too, Must Cover Knees Thursday, December 10 Set as Day for Raisin« $800 Quota Here TO AID HOSPITAL WORK Oregbn Fund Thia Year to be Vaed in Aiding D oem becker Hos pital for Crippled Children Thursday, December 10, has been set aa the day for an in tensive d,rive by the Ashland post of The American Legion to raise its quota of $800 in the $5,000.900 Endowment Fund for Disabled Veterans and their Orphans, according to announce ment of local Lvglon officials. Practically all Legion posts in tbe state have already held their drives and in a ll cases the posts have raised more than their actual quota, the people contributing libcra.lv to t h i fund which means so *uncb in the re habilitation of the veterans of the late war and in the care of the orphans of veterans who died e lth e r d u r 'n g the wiir Or since then. 1 Every city in Southern . Ore gon has already contributed more than the local te s t’s quota and the Legion officials here feel confident that when the drive next Tuesday lc completed Ash land post w ill have procured more han Its quota. One of the most interesting features of tbe Legion Endow ment Fund drive In Oregon Is that the Oregon Legion has -agreed to contribute $80,000 of this fund to the Doernbecher hos pital In Portland. In tom e man ner, no fonda were allowed for the maintenance of thia worthy enterprise fo r the firs t year. The Oregon Legion has assumed thia obligation, so those who contribute here w ill know th a t their contribution is being used In Oregon. . . The United States government is doing a splendid work in tho rehabilitation of the disabled men, but, due to government«! complications and red-tape the government is unable to pro- chrd the intimate contact with the disabled men and their or phans which Is so essential to the complete liquidation "of the debt that America owes the ex- service men and th e ir depen dents. The American Legion, through its 11,000 posts and 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 IA)NÜON Dec. 2— The » polii« of Athens have is- 8 sued a special regulativa 8 w h lcli, forbids Greek girls 8 over 12 years of ag) 8 on and Greek women to 8 Robert Carson, Held Burglary Charge. Dashes wear skirts more than « 8 From Police Station 12 inches off the ground 8 says a dispatch to the 8 H O U SE D aily M all from the 8 E N T E J R E D 8 Greek capital. Trans- 8 Had Been Held in City Jail Over 8 gressors of the regula- 8 Limit W ithout Com 8 tlon yrlll > bo prosecuted. 8 plaint Being Filed 8 The new measure becomes 8 8 «tfective- Decemtcr 15 8 Slipping through the door of tbe police station and dodging up the alley in the rear of the City H all, Robert Caraon, ar rested Tuesday night following his attempt to burglarise tbe M<: Murdo home near Ackson H o t Springs, last night escaped custody here. Despite an in tensive search, no trace has been found of the fugitive as yet. Carson was standing in the police station, and Chief! of S. Hotel at Jacksonville Police McNabb and Patrolman Ingling were In the office. Mc Scene of Tests. List of Nabb went into the vault in the Subjects is Given rear of the office, when sud Examinations for state certifi- denly Carson made a dash for cates w ill be held at the U. 8. the door. In spite of Ingling’s H ail in Jacksonville, commenc efforts to reach him befofw he ing at nine o'clock Wednesday, got through the door, Carson December 18, 1926 and continu dashed out and around the cor Ingling ing until Saturday at 4 o’clock ner of the City H all. p. m. of thé same week, according and McNabb pursued him for to Susanne Homes Carter, county several blocks, and Ingling fired three shots Into the- a ir In an iuperintendent of schools. effort to stop the fugitive. How W ednesday Program 9:00 a. m. U. S. History, Music, ever, Carson disappeared in the darkness and the police were Drawing. unable to pick up bis tra il. 1:00 a. m. W ritin g. Carson had been held In tbe 1:00 p. m. Physiology, Manual Training, Composition Methods city Jail for mors than 30 hours without a complaint being filed InReading. $.30 p. m. Reading, Course of against him, while the legal The police Study for Drawing, Methods In lim it is 24 hours. were doubtful of their ability Arithm etic, Domestic 8cience. to hold him, even though he 9:00 a. m. Arithm etic, History should have been, recaptured. The fugitive, when arrested of Education, Psychology, Meth Tuesday night, admitted that ods in Geography,. Mechabical he was wanted in -Payton, Ohio, Drawing, Domestic A rt, Course of for the theft of an automobile. study in Domestic A rt. - 1:00 p. m. Grammar, Steno graphy, American Literature, Physics, Methods in Language. Friday P b o ffm t Medford Man Tied Gagged by Thieves Who Obtain $37 9:00 a. m. Theory and Practice, Physical Geography, English L it erature, Chemistry. 11:00 a. m. Spelling. 1:00 p m. School Law, Geology, Bound M EDFORD, Dec. 3 Algebra. and gagged by two men believed 2:30 p. m. Civil Government. to be between 25 and 30, F. J. Saturday Program W llm ok, proprietor of the Crater 9:00 a. m. Geometry, Botany. Lake Service Station, was robbed 1:00 p. m. General History, of $37.45 on East Jackson while Bookkeeping. on his way home Tuesday night shortly before 9 o’clock. Because of darkness identification was Im possible and no arrests have been made as yet. W ilm ok, according tp police, was walking home and had near ly reached It when two men, one with a revolver, ordered him onto a vacant lot where he was forced to lay on his stomach while his hands were tied behind his back and hia mouth gagged with large Ten dollars was an came forward to make her handkerchiefs. confession of belief ,in Jesus saved when the men failed to Christ at the close of the ser examine a small notebook taken vice. There w ill be baptism Sun from a vest pocket. Leaving W il day night nt the close of M i. mok where he lay, the two walk Myers sermon on the subject of ed away. “ Baptism.” • Unable to arfce immediately Toingbt the sermon subject from his awkward position W ll w ill be “ Repentance.” Special mok struggled for several min music delights the audience at utes before he was able to give ■ each service. the alarm. He stated the m«^> ""~The"music of this revival Is a were not rough and apparently special feature. Last night the knew their business. church was visited by Frénela A rant and wife who were re Linn County potato growers re tu rn in g to their pastorate at Compton, California from the ceive about $388 an arts for thfo sad mission of burying his de year’s crop. ceased father who passed to his reward a few days ago. They sang In a most effective man ner the beautiful duet: “ He Is Mine.” Only Christian hearts could sing as they aang last night under the circumstances. They have a faith that God Is a rewarder of those who love H im . M r. and Mrs. Earnest Arant, and Mr. and Mrs.* W . F. Arant, both residents of Ash land, are brothers and staters-in- law* of the deceased.' They W ith the subject of “The Reasonableness of Belief In God” and w ith a large and enthus iastic ■ crowd to listen. Rev. Myers, evangelist, delivered what wag conceded at once to be a masterpiece of logic and argu ment for tbe belief of Christians in the existence of a . reasoning, thinking, loving God and Heav enly Father. M r. My®r® con" vlnclngly spoke of the foolishness of Atheism now parading under the cloak of evolution and of In fidelity now .parading under the guise of modernism. He referred to his own upbringing in the doctrines of Ingersoll and Tom Paine’s age of reason. He as serted that be took a post grad uate cours® in a university Just to be fam iliar w ith t the teach ing of the mpdernlst and evolu tionist and to hia surprise found the modern schools teaching the same old stuff as delighted the infidels of a previous genera tion. In tbs theme last night, Mr. Myers showed from the creations of God in the m aterial world great and convincing proof of the necessary existence of God. were present at the funeral In Then from the existence of man Monmonth, and at the services he showed the necessary moral lest night. character of the God of the (Contributed)' Bible. Ohe splendid young wem- Sumner Edward Pratt, 9, narrowly escaped death in trying to get his crippled brother to a safe spot on a railroad bridge near Los Angeles when a fast train trapped them. After trying frantically to save his brother, be leaped from the bridge when the train $rns only a few feet away. His brother was killed instantly. Sumner (insert) is shown re-enacting his jump. , . . Nine Tear Old Boy Confesses to Shooting Negress Foster Mother French Premier Backed by Vote of Chamber on Fin ance Program CLAIMED MISTREATED ALL Said Mother, W ho W as Cook, Beat Him When She Claimed he Lied. Found in •• W igwam" Prem ier Twice Raises Question of Confidence. W rings Votes from Members by Sheer Personality PO RTLAND, Dec. 3—-(U . P .) —•A little , tearful negro boy, Frank Thomas, 9, today told deputy sheriffs of Multnomah county that last night, he had shot and killed the foster mother who adopted him, and had run away from the home a fte r the slaying. The lad was found this morn ing cowering in A little “ Indian wigwam’’ which he had put up in the woods a short distance from tho home, and in which he had spent the night. A fter careful questioning by the officers, the boy said, “ well, she told me to go and see how- the beans were- cooking. I did and they were a ll right. I told her they were. Then, before long she began sniffin’ and said they wasn’t cookin right. “W hy did you lie to me? sho asked. Then she beat me, and then started In to look at the beans. I got the revolver and when Bhe came back I shot her,” he concluded. The boy said that he fled from the Dixie Tavern where Mrs. Louise Thomas, the slain woman, was a cook, and went down town until the jiurfew rang, and then returned home, hiding PA R IS. Dec, 3— (U . P .r— A fte r having wrung fsom the chamber of deputies, a vote of confidence, in the early morning hourfe of an ail night aesalon of that body, by the sheer force of his personality alone, Premier Aristide Briand, veteran premier of France, before noon today had succeeded, by a vote of 257 to 229, in obtaining the passage, In the chamber of deputies, of the whole cabinet financial program. This financial matter was the rock upon which the two prev ious cabinets had been wrecked. Premier Painleve, former head of the government. In two efforts was unable to obtain a vote of confidence on his program. A l though many members of the chambej* were violently opposed to Brland’s proposals, he worked from them their votes in spite of their opposition. * The vote came after Premier Brtand, following a tiring night dian brave', who was released of fighting, for a second time had from a charge of murder after raised the question of confidence he burled hia 17-day-old papoose in his regime. alive in the grave of its mother. He did this, he says, at the In MURPHY ON STAND IN OWN DEFENSE stigation of Mormon Joe Cuthalr below, aged llte medicine man. Omar W . Murphy, on trial In ( i ihglr Is now serving a 25-year terjn4o r killing a cellmate in the tbe circuit c o u rt,. charged with Jail wbe taunted him with re manslaughter aa the result o f file sponsibility for tbe death of death of hia wife, Emma, last spring, following an alleged beat- May’s child. ing administered as the climax to a fam ily quarrel, and Dr. J. J. Emmena were the chief witnesses Tuesday. In reply to a hypothetical ques tion, propounded by Attorney Roberta, that required four min utes to ask, covering the salient facts of the case. Dr. Emraens an swered, “ it would be the wildest kind of a gueh^to attribute deatfi to any given eanse, and a physi cian would be as liable to guess wrong, as to guess right.*’ Dr. Public Invited. Splendid Pro Emmens said, in his opinion, it gram Has Been Arrang would bsve been Impossible for ed for Services an “embolllsm,” as contended by the state, through four medical Sunday afternoon, at 2:30, the witnesses, to have caused death. annual memorial Sunday ser vices w ill be held by Ashland . Lodge No. 944. Benevolent and CHANGE IS MADE IN Protective Order of Elks. The FIRE STATION PHÖNE8 services will be held in the lodge A change has been made In rooms. the phones at tjie fire station, A splendid program has been it was stated this morning by arranged for the service, with Chief Clint Baughman. In the the principal speaker a Portland future, all calls for fires y lll man. The selection of this speaker has been left to the come under the old numbef, Portland lodge, and his name has 66, while all other calls w ill he given under the new number not yet been learned. of 140. In addition, several musical This change waa made to numbers have been arranged for facilitate answering calls to the the program. The public is Invited to attend department. the services. The program follows: Three refrigerator ships w ill Marlmbaphone solo...................... take 320,000 boxes of oppio» hi the “wigwam. S. P. Brakeman Near ’Grenada Expensive Fun Hurry, H airy” to ven by Students of High School “ H u rry, H u rry, H u rrj^ ” the annual play given by the stu dents of the Ashland High school for the benefit of tbe magazine fund of the high school library w ill be presented tomorrow eve ning In the high school gym nasium. Tbe story Is baaed on the will of an eccentric aunt. I t stip ulates that her pretty niece must be affianced before she Is 21, and married to her fiance within a year, If she la to get her spinster relative’s millions. Father has nice notions of honor, and fails to te ll daughter about the will, so that she may make her choice untrammetod by any other consideration than that of true love. The action all takes place Jn the evening, the midnight of which w ill see her reach twenty- one. Tbe cast for the play follows: M r. Hooker— (Business man) — Donald Hinthorne. Steven Hooker— (College fresh m a n )— Tern Cunning. Jack Crandall— (Cow-b$y,, auth o r ) — Lester Beck. Ted Stone— (Football hero)— , Claus Klelnhammer. Aloslus B artholom ew — (College professor)— Roland Parks. Floy Hooker— Dorothy Stevens. Letitia Brown— Lucille Crow. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3— I t w ill be not only dyigerous but Illegal for any motorist to attempt to beat a train to the crossing in < ontra Cositi 8 county, noribeust of San 8 Francisco, on and after Wedne.iluy. i ’t-cember 1C. An alarming disregard of railroad signals hat prompted the county board- of supervisors pass an ordinance mak ing such carlcrsneas pun- Is h x '/j by u 1‘ne of not m o rj then 4500 or l i ’ t - prlsonment In the county Jail for not more than six months, or both. YR E K A , Calif., Dec. 3— C. N. Myers, well known and popular S. P. freight train brakeman, was rushed to the Southern P a cific hospital at San Francisco late Monday night lr^ a dying condition as the result of a fall from a moving freight train one mile south of Grenada. The heavy freight train was traveling north and Myers, it Is believed, was attempting to fix one of the hand brakes on a freight car when he lost his balance and fell. Not until the train reached Montague, 20 miles north, was he missed. Speeders and track walkers were imme diately rushed out to institute a search for the missing man. Kenneth 8tott. who lives near the scene of the accident, wa.< reading In the front room of his house when he heard groans coming from the right of way. Going out, he found Myers in a semi-conscious condition, with his skull badly fractured. Ho cared for the Injured man until a special train could be pro cured to rush him to San Fran cisco. Members Meet in Regular RATHBUN HANDED HEAVY SENTENCE Bi-Monthly Gathering. Roland Parks Resigns Wednesday night tho III Y held Its regular bi-monthly meet ing a t Pioneer Hall. The devo tional period waa conducted by M r. regular business had been transacted, M r. Allison, local High School teacher, gave the boys a talk on clean living, emphasising the Mr«. Hooker— Id a Gosnell. fact th a t while there was a moral R ita— Marie Davies. Value to clean living expounded by teachers and preachers, there is also a scientific value of clean living at this time of their lives, Oregon— Generally fair for the plastic ags Is recognised tonight and Friday. at about the ages of 14 to 24. Washington — Oloudy In Hence the habits now formod the west portion, with are carrying either living of light rains near the elean habits or the contrary. const. F a ir In the east Mr.’ Allison Is advisor for the portion, w ith southerly local H i-V Club. winds along the const. Roland Parka, who has held the office of president of ^ha Grants Pahs — International H l-T so far this year, tendered Metals Co., incorporates, with (Continued on Page Four) capital stock of $1,800,000. (Continued on Page Four) from NIGHT MEETING Portland end Seattle. B. L. Rathbun, a Phoenix rancher was fined $450 and sen tenced to 30 days in Jail when he pleaded guilty before Judge Glenn O. Taylor of Medford yw- session, following his arrest Tuea- ¿Jay by state and federal prohibi tion officers. Although the of ficers believe Rathbun operated a still, none was found on the place. However, several gallon« of fig whiskey were found burled in a hay mow. Rathbun had been under the surveillance of officers for some time and la alleged to have been In th é ’ practice of bootlegging. Substantiating thp theory of a still, four empty piash barrels were found as well ae eountlefcs empty bottles and Jagg, leading the officers to believe a still is cached somewhere on the farm. Advertise la The Tidings. Despite the fact that November days brought the incoming of winter, Oregon claimed forty- seven new settlers for this month, according to the report Just Is sued from the Land Settlement Department of the Portland Chamber of Commerce. These new settlers have’ lo cated in various parte of the Plate. Throe have bought In the Tumnlo District In Deshutea county; twelve have located In Josephlno county;, n in teen in Lane county ad tour in Wash ington county.- ” One new settler was Teported' for Douglas eounty and one each for Yamhill, Linn gnd Multnomah. Klamath coun ty reported four settlers, all from Owens Valley, California. There were a total of <88 agri cultural Inquiries received from other states during November. 48 of whom stated definitely that they were coming to Ore gon to locate. In addition to these Inquiries received directly In the department, 181$ request* were made for Oregon HteratnTO during the Paetfle International Livestock Exposition, by mer resident» o f other Stt who wished to Interest tl friends In Oregon.