4 AKIHAN I* c U j m . i i Without the uue uf uiet>\uie cute» nine cases out of x^thu.s 'Ulis is a proven MALARIA GBRlfS Cannot survive thrw months in the rich ozone at Ashland. Pure domestio water helps. Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years The Tidings Has Been Ashland'8 W ire Service) VO L. X L IX Successor to the Se® 1-Weekly Tidings,- Volume 4« ASHLAND, OREGON Potatoes Lift Mortgage Frdm Church amp Fiddler IDAHO PALLS. Idaho. Believe Sentence Unduly Harsh for Peace Time Conviction M AT BE REDUCED Hoped That - President Will t.’nt ' Sentence Which Has Been Recommended W ASHINGTON, Dec. 18— (U . P .)— Colonel W illiam Mitchell’s sentence to five years suspension from the army, decided upon last night by the ju ry of gen­ erals who heard bis court mar­ tial, was today on Its way through the war department's le­ gal machinery to President Coolidge. ' It le believed, however, that the President w ill reduce his sentence, possibly to only two years. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the sentence, which short of the absolute dismissal which the w ar department pro­ secution attorneys sought, to still unduly harsh for a peace tlmp conviction, under the 98th article of war, Ihe catch-all. blanket article, that covers every offense not mentioned in the other 9 1 -articles. Dee. 18— Contributions of potatoes have lifted the mortgage from the T rin ­ ity Methodist Episcopal church, one of the finest in the Helena conference district, which includes Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. The edifice, which cost 190,000, was freed of encumbrance yesterday. For three years com­ mittees have- canvassed codntry ( districts collect­ ing. saqks of poltatoeis which were sold and the money turned In to the mortgage fund. Rev. Horace Turner, pastor of the church originated the plan. “ Mellie” Dunham, champion backwoods fiddler of Mfthio, ploys for Henry Ford at Detroit after the automobile king had brought him th e « in connection with his cam- paign to popularize old-fashioned dances and dance mtih-u Ford likes Dunham best of all the 39 old-time violinists he has had play for bin , The Salvation Army Christmas d winter activities are well ider way, and a large number of friends have been anxious and Inquiring to know what they can do >n aiding ine array this work, according to Envoy Schwindel. Perhaps an account of the plans would help them to know the needs, Schwindel say«. W ASHING TO N, Dec. 1 8 — (U . P .)— Congressional friends of Colonel W llUam Mitchell today moved to rescue him from the five years suspension from rank and pay, imposed upon him by his Jury of general i last n ig h t A bill was Introduced in the House by Representative I-a Ouargla of New Y ork to Ut the.. •entente from fir» y e a n to have already been found are having a struggle to keep ly together. Aside the unemployment from this CHINESE SMASH UP .. I situation AMERICAN SCHOOLS In this w ill throw many more condition. Much tem- ----------- ! porary relief w ill thus fall to HONG KONG. Dec. 18— (U . i those ready to take It to them, p .) — An antl-Chrtatlan revolu-' The need w ill involve com- tionary mob today attempted forts of the home— foodstuffs or to wreck both the English all kinds, clothing, bedding, Presbyterian school and the An- plain furniture, stoves, fuel, etc. glo-Chinese college at Swatow,1 Arrangements have been made and succeeded In doing damage for these articles to be left at estimated at 1125.000. the Riggs Paint Store, If It Is CHILDREN BURNED MOTHER MAY HOLDEN, Mass., Dec. 18— (U . P .)— Two children were burned to death, and their mother and her year old baby perhaps fatally burned early to­ day, When the home of John Hoey was destroyed by fire. Hoey Sheridan — Hoffman & Bi carried his wife and baby from 320-acre fish hatchery and ft the burning house. The other will cost 120,000 to >50,000 children were trapped. M EDFO RD, Dec. 18. — At yes­ terday afternoon’s session of the Oregon State H oftlcultural society annual meeting here, Floyd T. Reynolds of Salem was elected president; C. A. Reed of Hood River, vide-presldent, and Clay­ ton L. Long of Corvallis was re­ elected secretary and treasurer. Paul Scherer, Bert Anderson and S. M. Tuttle, local • orchardlsts, were recommended to Governor Pierce as three out of which one is to be appointed trustee tor the society. Salem was selected for flie conventlorf city In 1924. Over 279 people attended the Medford Chamber of Commerce banquet at Hotel Medford W ed­ nesday evening, given In honor of the visiting delegate». Dr. E. W . Clancy, president of the cham­ ber, 'acted" art, toastmaster 1| a very able manner. The banquet was not given over to serious buslnees matter», but was a “ ket- to-gether” add Jollification meet­ ing, and aa such was a groat suc­ cess. During the course of the even­ ing, mnslc by the Crater Clnb 'Movie Thriller Proves to be Real Article Donations for Work, Receiv ed From Many Here Envoy States orchestra and singing by Miss Hamilton and "Toggery B ill” Isaacs were enjoyed and the fol­ lowing speakers were heard: C. A. Park of Salem, president of the Oregon State Board of Horticul­ ture; F. E. Bailey of Spokane, Wash., federal Inspector for grade and pack; D. R. Wood, Medford, president pf Oregon Rale Horfl- cultural society; Paul A. Scherer, president of the Fruitgrowers' league of Jackson county; W. F. M iller of Portland, general freight agent with the Southern Pacific company; Judge E. E. Kelly of this city, W . H. Witherspoon. E l­ gin, Ore., commissioner, Oregon State Board of Horticulture; F. T. Swett o f San Francisco, man­ ager of California Pear Growers’ association; W . S. Brown of Cor­ vallis, department of horticulture, Oregon Agricultural college; C. K. Bennett of Hood River; V. J. H uyl, San Francisco, vlce-presV dent of the California Pear Grow­ ers’ association, and Claude C. Cate, Jackson county agent, Med­ ford. • '.S' - tt 8 N E W YO RK, Dec. 1 8 -q robber stood in the doorway and turned the 8 crank of ft Bellview Community House to be Built From Funds Obtained , II It ft II a Tho "Podaak- Limited,"-tp ««« i B to arrive at the Bellview school a house at 7:30 o'clock this eve­ a ning, and the residents of that a section are expecting a large a tft a i B i a This 1« the word received1 from those backing the b e n e fit' show, “ Fun on the Podunk Lim ited," which w ill be present­ ed at the Bellview school thia evening, the first of a series of entertainments to be staged to raise money tor yie construction of a community house to that district. Almost every resident of the Bellview district has a part in the play, which Is being directed by Mrs. W . L. Moore. In addition to the show, re­ freshment booths, managed by the women of the Bellview dis­ trict, will be open and it is believed that a tidy sum w ill be realized from the sale of ' foods. HARDY IS ELECTED KIWANIS CLUB HEAD J. H. Hardy w ill be presi­ dent of the Ashland Klwanls club during the coming year, figures of the election held at the annual m eetlnf of the club today show. V. V. M ills was selected vice president, F. S. Engle treasurer, and H. G. Enderr, Jr., trustee. The seven directors chosen are Ralph Billings.. W . M. Briggs, B. C. Forsyth J.’ H . McGee, S. B. McNair, F , F- W h ittle and R J. Woods. Stores to Remain Open Evenings Until Christmas Practically * all of the local stored will remain open la the evonlngs, starting Motwtay to accom- modate tip Chriatnian »hop­ per,, according to Informa­ tion gathered by The Tid­ ings. A few are now remain­ ing open at night, but thia will not h e general untIL Monday, probably. Many shoppers who a r e , unable to spare the time daring the -daytime find the "open evenings" custom very fconventont. A Jt II 'll motion pto. / It tense of making a t il® II i From while his four compan- 8 u n n lv Ions, posing as actors In ft led a movie thriUer, held up ft a Is« » members of the « tha. N ltto ly R ep u b lica n club W le to''lav in Brooklyn last night a v of fup, and robbed them of 1 550 a — and the large m ajority of the In cash and Jewelry. The B people serenely wait until Jack robbery did not become B Frost comes along and nips the known u n til today. It buds before they fill up their Scores of persons who B wood or coal house. * passed believed that a ft Practically evdry year this movie melodramA was 8 habit results in the consumers paying a little more, as is right. hut this year the habit has re­ sulted more seriously. Many of the box factories, from which the wooden block dealers get their supply, haVc closed down and the supply to the local dealers this year is practically nil. The local dcal- 1 ers get most of their "filox" I from the H ilt plant, which la 1 working only on part time and some of them report they have had p o etically ho blox this toll Mail so Far E asily Handled, N o D elivery on Christmas one ha» been urged time and again to mall their Christmas packages early, in order that n last minute rush might possibly be avoided this year, employees of the Ashland postoffice declare that there Is no change from previous years, and that they be­ lieve the big rush Is yet to come- Only five days remain heforo Christmas, and packages going to distant points within thè state should be mailed at onco. lriie 3ay belort cnrliittk» can-* not be counted a« a mailing day, and since there will be no de­ livery on Christmas day. It la believed that many w ill be dis­ appointed this year. Some of the Southern Oregon post offices have announced that they w ill have an extra delivery oa Thursday, but sych will not be the case here. A fter the final regular delivery, all pack­ ages w ill be held over until Saturday, and packages coming to on the afternoon trains will not be delivered on Thursday. 1 Packages for local delivery can be mailed right now. and easily be bandied. The poet office • 1» ' cleared every night of outgoing, and Incoming package«, the employee declare. ‘ and winter. I ■ One of the blox- dealers re­ ports that many of the orders i placed w ith them to September are »till unfilled— and may re­ main that way for some time. The only ray of hope Is that production at the box factories w ill Increase In the next two or three months, and that there w ill be sufficient blox to go around for the tail-end of win­ ter. A ll of the dealers report plentiful supplies of coal. And some of them have other 'forms of wood fuel, but no blox. The admonition next summer “ to lay to your winter fuel now” w ill probably get a more llbernl response from those who are now feeling the disappointment, Mrs. Minnie Whelpy Con­ fesses to Starting Blase in Home Declares Tribunal Lined up W ith League of Nations HELD TO GRAND JURY REFUTES Ipsaiie Im agination Accounts For Actions, P olice Officials - Declare lu n g Expected Attack is Opened by Idaho Hen lor Senator Upon Resolution A fter more th a n , five hours of the closest questioning pos­ sible, during which Fire Chief Clinton Baughman, Deputy State Fire Marshal H. H. Ppmeroy, Chief of Police C. W. McNabb and Assistant District Attorney Alllsion Moulton again and again reviewed the facts In the case, Mrs. Minnie Whelpy last evening broke down and con­ fessed to setting the fire which partially destroyed the home of Mrs. Jane McCoy on Iowa street, lust Saturday evening. Jealousy, brought on by an insane Imagination, Is the rea­ son given by the officers In ex­ plaining her actions. Mrs. Mc- Coy, Mrs. Whelpy asserted, was “ trying to steal my husband," and for that reason, Mrs. W hel­ py determined to drive the for­ mer from the neighborhood. Four threatening letters were received by Mrs. MoCoy before the fire, and yesterday after­ noon she received the fifth let­ ter, • again threatening her. Mrs; Whetpy-oonfessed to wrlt- ing these letters. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13—> (U. P .)— The long heralded irrecon­ cilable fight, which was ex­ pected would h9 waged against the orld Ccu-I. was opened I f tr • Penate this morn'"», who* H-tiulcr W illiam Pt;r-.r» R'ph> resolution Ictrod ih d l-y Sen­ there, He went Into the burn­ ator Swanson. ing Grand Hotel and ran the Senator Swanson's resolution evator after the three lower would phege American adher­ oors were enveloped by flames, ence to Ine international tribkOr saving eight women from death. He was then trapped on the Senator a Borah contended eighth floor, and rescued by that the World Court was la flretoen. extrleably lined up with tb< League of Nations, denying the statements of President Coolidge and others that it is an inde­ pendent Institution. i SANTA GLAUS WILL BE HERE MONDAT Santa Claus Is going to have a big number of presents tor Mr8' whe,py and Mrs- Mcf,°y re8hle side by side on Iowa "treat. Saturday night a fire was discovered biasing on tho . P°fQh of the M c °y SW A N SO N . a Controversy J , ------- J H e a lin g on the' eqatty of the Ashland Baptist church ugntost the First Baptist church, Inc., ofOAshland, will be heard to the circuit court the latter of January. Attorney Robortg, one of the counsel for tho defense, Is 111 with a bad cold, ' and is confined to his Baughman was certain that the home. The First Baptist church, blese was Incendiary, and he Inc., ousted last July by the wired Pomeroy to come to Ash­ housç of worship In controversy, land for an Investigation. Suspicion centered on Mrs. are the defendants. The religious action, which Whelpy because of her peculiar- has brought forth many acrimo­ actions. Yesterday, she com­ nious accusations, revolves about plained to Chief McNabb, tha» her life had been threatened, the possession of the church and when she was questioned, property. The bitter row Is an out­ gave Information which made growth of a revival meeting the officers positive she was tho held In Ashland in 1922 by Dr. qullty party. Mrs. Whelpy was held In the Price, “ divine healer,” as a re­ city Jail last night, and this sult of which the Baptist follow­ morning after being bound ever ers were split Into two groups— to the grand Jury , by Justice of one following the teachings of Almee McPherson Four the Peace L. A. Roberts, was the Square Gospel," and the other taken to the county Jail, where she will be held awaiting the cBnglng to the established doc­ next eession of the grand Jury. trines of the creed. Although It did but >125 dam- a*e. ha<1 the ilre »«toed * f«w minutes more start, it would have destroyed the entire build ing, and would have endangered several homes to the vicinity. From the conditions of the fire. Mrs. McCoy having beon away from homo for two days, Officers declare that It is prob­ able she will be committed to Grand Ronde — Machinery the State Hospital for the Insane. riving for new sawmill here. the youngsters of the city Mon­ day afternoon, according to a message which has been re­ ceived by The Borgerson lfic Stare. Thto message was te the e * fact that Santa Claus would ' hr'Ashfisad' H&flif’TF' ternoon about 4:11 o'clock; that he weuld land on tho roof of the Endere’ Department store building and that he would When the talnlng a pi would throw ! gathered In I gerson store at the hour men- tloned. NEW CRESCENT CITY ROAD IMPASSIBLE PiM tTLAND, Dec IS — (U . I*.) — The new section of the Grams Pass-Crescent City highway, which was to have boon opened to travel Monday, was covered with a slide of twenty thousand cubic yards of rock near Oregon Mountain, the U nited' States Bureau of Public Roads advised today. The opening has been Indefinitely postponed. Big Reduction in Price of Dodge Car is Expected Soon As announced In yesterdny’s Tidings by The Eakln Motor Company of Medford In a full page advertisement, Dodge Broth­ ers w ill make a tremendous slash in car prices on January FILM STAR MOTHER 7, the amount remaining a sec- PASADENA, Dec. 18— (U. P-> cret until that date. Mee Marsh, film star, became However, all cars which are MOPE SHOPPING- OAVSJS/ Cebnrg — Growers now peppermint oil un to |1 pound. 20 to <0 pound» sere. owner jester- ustic remarks jrte r relative handbills and tomoblle, and ilch he con- at his prop- erty rights In the automobile. He stated he did not object to having the dodgers thrown Into bis yard or on his porch, but that when a person opened the door of his automobile, be considered the person violating a property right Just the same as I f the same person would come to his home and open his front door without knocking Frequently, he stated, he left] packages or other objects to i Further, he stated, on twe occasions recently he has re- turned to his automobile and found the door ejar. "Suppose." he continued, “the door should project out far enough to r the aatalst parking next to my cay to Jam iato It. Who would ba responsible f The party who had opened the door to throw inside the circulor, of conn® but where and who la beT I would have to stand the loos," When questioned by The Tito togs, the auto owner said he did not know of any Instance where the disappearance of any prop erty from an automobile coaM possibly be blame« on tbw dis­ tributor of a elroalar n r whato the distributor's earotooaahftl had resulted la tojary to a» automobile. He added, bownfilR that because neither nt tltaafr eontlngeaclen bad arisen wad- M»‘ reason that the gate awMqg should be subjeetod, t o », -'ccurence. »WMli