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MALARIA GERMS
Cannot survive three months in
the rich ostme at Ashland. Pure
domeetio. water helps.
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Newspaper For N early Fifty Years
The Tidings Has Been Ashland's Lead
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VOL. XLIX
T idings
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Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, V o la n e 41
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(U nited
Wire Service)
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Third Message Sent Solons
by Governor of
Washington
ATTACKS
M ETHODS
Not Question o f
fidala, But i
Methods" li
O L Y M P IA , W hih., Dec. 22—
(U . P .) —»Governor H artley to
day sent his third message Of
the special session to the Wash
ington legislature, and again
spent almost the entire message
attacking the methods employed
In the selling of the state tim
ber to private interests.
“The issue which has been
raised by me is not one of
men, but is one of the methods
employed by men,” the govern
or’s statement declared. In this
statement. H artley was alluding
to the resentment expressed by
Commissioner
Bavidge
CHICAGO, Dec. 22—
Mrs. Luelnda A. Blodgett
today celebrated her one
. hundredth birthday by
making her first speech
over the radio.
“Children should re-
member that ‘early to
bed and early to rise,’
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“That’s
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all ’ the rules I
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22 except being temperate
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22 20. 1825 at Denmark,
22 New York.
Two half
22 brothers, 81 and 89 re-
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Spaniards Bid
Farewell to
U. S. Ambassador
j Scientists
to Back Flight, to
be Made by Aviation
Society
DETROIT, Dec. 22— (U, P.)
— A north pole airplane flight,
In behalf of the people engaged
In the study of geographical
science, and for the advance
ment of aviation,' w ill be started
soon, it was announced at the
gathering of noted scientists of
ths natlan, at the meeting of
the National Geographical So
ciety here to«lay.
In case land Is discovered, it
prill be claimed for the United
tho- members of the D etroit Aviation
w ilt "Society, who w ill have chargo
of the, flight, la conjunction
w ith the association of scien
timber lands common carriers tists.
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The flig h t la projected for
next spring, hi con junction with
the American Geographical so
ciety' 'of New York.
Members
of the latter society have for
several years been studying the
possibilities of land lying aronnd
bunch o f youngsters who
the
north pole, and they de
have » cn ix l you faithfully
clare they are convinced that
throughout the year. Kain
nuch Is the case.
or shin«*, In «»mmi-r or
w inter these fellow s liave
delivered your papers to
your doors. And they have'
ixx-n glad to do this work.
They are TT»e Tidings car
rier boys.
In many cities, it Is the
custom for subscribers, w ho
feel that they have been
given good service through
out tlie y«*a.r, to remember
thtnc carriers on Christmas.
Last year, the custom was
started here, and many left
remembrance« for the car-
The m anagem ent o f The
Tidings w ill remember the
carriers this liriatmaa as
la past year«, for th e splen
did service they have rem-
dered. W ill yon?
opes for “ White” Christ
mas Evidently Blasted
by Sunshine Today
Hopes for a “ white” Christmas
faded rapidly last night, when a
heavy rain started falling.
The
rain fall continued until this morn
ing, when It was succeeded by a
fog which lasted until after ten
o’clock. Then the sun came out
and the atmosphere was warmed
up, precluding any possibility of
snow, at least for today.
A remarkable contrast has been
noticed between thin holiday sea
son, and Cbrtetmae last year. A
year ago the streets were coated
with Ice the result of a prolonged
cold spell, and during the early
part of Demmber, snow fell upon
several occasions. ,
Today, Wednesday and Thurs
day w ill see the frantic rushing
UJ0N*T MOO
HAME «30HB MOttB
CHI6KBH, 5
RUSSIAN-TURKISH
TREATY CONCLUDED
B E R L IN , Dec. 22. — (LP) —
The Soviet embassy have confirm
ed today to the United Press the
conclusion of the Russo - Turkish
neutrality treaty, which presum
ably la calculated to counteract
the British Influence in the Near
East.
TRIBESMEN WIN IN
PALESTINE BATTLE
LONDON, Dec. 22. — (LP) —
Agency reports today claimed new
successes for the Druse tribesmen,
who were reported to have taken
the town of Khym, and attacked
two other towns near the Pales
tina border this morning.
of the last minute shoppers. And
there w ill be quite a bit of rush
ing by those who shopped early'
but who, during tljelr shopping
forgot some friend or relative.
Now they w ill be dashing about
madly, trying to make an ade
quate selection for the forgotten
party.
Yesterday and today were tho
big days at the post office. The
heaviest outgoing m all of the sea
son was sent from the office yes
terday, and it is expected that the
heaviest Incoming m all w ill be
experienced today.
Santa Makes His
Annual Visit to
Borgerson’s Store
cruise
rather
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r ye^-
board
axes
of In-
amath
tlm -
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tlm -
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In
such as has already been ln*>
auagnrated.
He would include
uncruised timber lands such as
have come under private owncr-
ahlp put of the public domain
since the cruise of 1910. And
he believes that such a survey
could be accomplished for muck
less than 220 000, and used as
a base for a horizontal increase
a new
>rov«d
e re-
they
i t tke
pendi-
10,000
9 has
need-
of valuations.
"I cannot sea, where It Is
possible to get an increase of
more than three and two-thirds
per cent out of the results of
this new cruise,” said Lee. "That
means an increase In the t»xes
on thia 100,000 acres of only
|l6 8 0 . I-w ish «omoone* would
toll mo -when the eonnty can
get back an expenditure of
¡heck” ®*®»®®® tor >181®* Mo,t
Idlnga
timber may be* cut before
erntaa wa ean gat that money hack.”
Was One of Moat Powerful
Men in Country at Time
of Death
Most Counties Show De
crease in Farm Values
During Year
O W N E D 17 P A P E R S
JACKSON LEADS STATS
Relaps«* After Operation Perform
ed on 73 Year Old Publisher
Is Cause o f Death
Counties With Lumber Industry
Slowest Show Greatest Defla
tion In Fann Values
N EW YO RK, Dec. 22— (U.
P -)— Frank A. Munsey, news
paper and magazine publisher,
died at the Lenox H ili hospital
here today, after a short 111-
nes8, following an operation.
rallied for a time
original operation,
wrich
performed last Sun-
day,
yesterday a second
Samuel H. Thompson is the new
operation
became
necessary.
president of the American Farm
During the uight, he suffered
Bureau Federation, winning the
a relapse, and died at 6:30 a.
election over former president O.
E. Bradfute of Xenia, O.. He was
Munsey was 72 years old. He
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M A D R ID , Dec.
former president o f . the Illinois
earned the sobriquet of “dealer
22 Alexander Pz Moore,
Agrictfliural Association. '
in dailies’’ having owned at
22 retiring Ameriean
different times seventeen news-
22 bassador to Spain
papers, but at the ttme of his
22 given' a touching send- 0
death, he published but two,
Donald
Kelly
Again
in
Toils
12 off when he left Madrid 0
the New York Sun and New
of Law as Result of
22 for Paris op his way
York Telegram.
. ,
Robbery’
22 home.
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Munsey
came
to
New
York
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The
railway
station 22
SAN
FRANCISCO,
Dec.
22
—
just
as
hundreds
of
boys
do
22 was crowded w ith soldiers 22
22 and statesmen headed by 0 Donald Kelly, alias Ernest Young, every year with a few dollars
22 General Prime de Rivera 0 and L. O. Gillian, alias Jack Ray in his pocket and grip sack full
22 and his entire cabinet, B mond are being held In ja il here of manuscripts,
He was born in Mercer, Maine,
22 who hade the ambassador 22 on charges of attempted robbery.
22 Godspeed. . The
diplo- 22 Both are ex-convicts to -police re- in 1854 and started his business
career in a country store.
He
22 -m atle
corp«,
laalad la g ■ -0 -cordx-------------------------------------- .
then
became
an
expert
Morse
0
Kelly
was
released
from
Ore-
the papal nu
H. E. Gale, Manager, Here
0 gon state penitentiary on a con- telegraph operator, but the lure
were present,
Arranging For Equip
0 dlttonal pardon last July. Gillian of literature was strong within
of the royal 1
ment Needed
0 was convicted of robbery here in aim so one day in 1882 be pack
represented,
■ 1922 and was ^released on two- 'd up all bis reject««! manu
fonso sent t
W lth the arrival here today of
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yéara probation. Both men, said scripts und decided to seek fame H. R. Gale, Southern Oregon dis
Moore
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22 , they had been working in Óre- >n the metropolis.
farewell letter.
trict manager for the Oregon
Munsey was often called by
I gon before, coming to Oakland
State Motor association, came the
biographers a thoroughly mod
where they were arrested.
?nnouncement that the local office
He was
R ally’s wife, Grace, atep-dangh ern “ Down Easter.”
of that organization would be
ter of A. V . Stonn, of Medford tall and slender and as sanguine opened within a very few days.
Oregon, is being cared for at r in literary color as hr disposi
Gale is here making arrange-
detention home.. She married tion.
mepts for the equipment neces
From behind the counter of
K elly at Medford December 7.
sary for the office,* and securing
Lena, Gillian's wife, is beinr the country store he came to be
an attendant for the information
housed by the Salvation Army un the publisher of a big group of
desk. When these have been se
til she can find employment. Bott newspapers and magazines, with
cured, ho declares, the office will
women declared their lntchtion of assets in the millions.
be put Into
operation
in the
Munsey could not convince
standing by their husbands.
Lithla Springs hotel.
the publishers that his manu
There ore more than 180 mem
scripts wore good but he did con
Three Hours After Loss Dis
bers of the motor association in
covered, Thief Reported show that a marriage license wn vince many persons that he had Ashland now. as the result of the
issued on December 7th to Don pluck and so he founded his
Caught •
drive staged here by the associa
newspaper.
the
’ ’Dally
aid Kelly,, to wed Grace 8evere first
tion during the past few weeks.
M ED FO R D. Dec. 22. — Three and L. O. Gillian appsared as : Continent,’’ In New York, in the
The Ashland offlc«, w ill be one
The paper for
hours after Samuel Nelson, 16, witness. The couple, the marrlag' late eighties.
of
the most important in the
stole a Chevrolet touring car, own return shows, w eft married by merly was the old Tammany
state.
W ith more than half the
organ
known
as
"The
tar.”
But
ed by H. Anderson of Coquille, the Rev. E. P. Lawrence, pastor of
from a city street here Saturday the First Presbyterian church of his venture into the publishing out-of-state cars coming into Ore
afterhoon, he was arrestqjl In Medford, at the parsonage, the business proved unsuccessful and gon registering here now, it is
expected that the Ashland office
Yreka, Calif., by officers acting same day, the witnesses to the he dropped It.
w ilf be the most widely used In
In
1889
Munsey
formed
"The
on phoped Information." Sheriff ceremony being listed as Mr. and
tho state, with the exception of
Golden
Argosy”
a
Juvenile
maga
Ralph Jennings brought tho boy Mrs. J. II. Raymond.
to Jacksonville Sunday where he
Tho police have requested Cali zine which he later converted In the Portland office.
Almost every tourist, especially
was scheduled to have a prelim fornia authorities to question Don to “The Argosy” a/id put - it
inary hearing.
ald Kelly and L. O.« Gillian, held over as his first big success those from California, are mem
The boy has been a local resi In Styi Francisco for attempt««! About the same time he or bers of automobile ciubs, which
Munsey's
Magazine,
dent for a month past, coming robbery relative to the holdup In ganized
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here from C alifornia with rela Medford early this month of J. which ho later converted into
tives. The sheriff stated several W ilmont, service station proprie Munsey's Weekly.
Munsey’s doctrine of publish
automobile keys were found on tor, who whs relieved of 260 at
his person, leading him to believe the point of a gun. According to ing which he once analyzed to
the boy had been engaged in ear Chief of Police Adams of Medford an audience was:-.
“ I do not think that any man
stealing for sometime.
the pair were known to him, and
succeeds
as a publisher who
'T h e stolen car had Just been suspected of the hold-up after Its
publishes simply what he thinks
parked by Its owner when Nelson commission
the- people 'ought to have.
He
drove It off with Its load of . car
must give them what they want,
penter tools and equipment. Thirty
subject, of course, to rules f t
minutes later the officers of Klam
decency.”
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W ASHING TO N, Dec. 22. — (IF)
ath Falls, Grante Paas and Yreka
Munsey was Often referred to __Despite the movement la Eng
were notified* « ,
as the Lord
Northcliffe
of land for the abolishment of the
America.
He hit thd popular submarine, the United States
ATTHNTION MINISTERS
taste In magazines and suc Navy la now planning the con
ceeded
In giving the public what struction of two additional fleet
All church announcements, giv
JLa wanted, a t the ««mu time ■iihwavhina Assigned tax althar
ing Infuimatlufl 1» to T ire ser
amassing a fortune.
fleet or Independent operation, the
vices in the various churches on
A t another time, Munsey de annual report of Rear A dm iral J.
Christmas Day, muat he In at
clared; " I t Is clearly more im D. B e ire t, chief o f the bureau of
The' Tidings office by Wednea-J
portant that the
newspapers construction and repair revealed
day n igh t Programs and out- j
should
study
deeply
and
serious today.
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lines of any special services
ly
the
needs
of
the
poor
rather
“ The prelim inary work on theee
should
accompany
the
ih -
than the needs of the rich.”
designs Was canrted on concurrent
nonnoemeat*.
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Many critics of Munsey have ly with the prelim inary work on*
chided him for what they say is the designs of a proposed light
hts policy of “k illin g ” news cruiser and It la estimated that
i OTS
oooudg
papers.
No less than fifteen they w ill be ready for tsaue In
D A W ll
ATIOV
publications have gone out of about two months.” Beuret de
business after they were pur
WASHINGTON' Doc. 22— (U.
clared.
P .)—«President Coolidge today
chased by him.
Of the total of 17 vessel» list
Publications which passed out
withdrew b in , nomination of
ed a t "under construction” last
of existence after his purchase
Vice President Dawes to be a
of them Included; The New York year, «two light cruisers, five sub
brigadier general la the officers
Here hre the three new women members of the new Congfews. They are left to right, Mrs,
Mary. T. Norton of New Jersey, Mrs. Florence P. Kahq of California, and Mrs. Edith
Rogers of Massachusetts. From the way their eyes are 'cast down, it ap{>ear8 they
aren’t as used as most congressmen to having their pictures taken
against
the governor’s second piessage,
In which he attacked the meth
ods of timber sales.
“ I t Is n o t-a question of hon
esty or o f the integrity of the
men who are responsible for tke
saley, or of the good Intent of
these
public
officials,
but
whether the state of Washington
Is getting fu ll value tor Ita
timber.
I have attacked no
person, but I do attack the
methods by which the public
officiala. Into whose hands
granted lands are entrusted,
erate, ” H artley declared.
The governor said that
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ASHLAND, OBEQONJ t I'KSDAY, DEC.
Woman, 100,
Makes Speech
Over Radio
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ASHLAND UUMAT»'
\\ nhout the use of medici'
uine cases out oi lea/"
This is a proven ftk
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reserve
qaaat
aorpa, at Dawes* ro-
The nomination <>•
transmitted to the
terday.
Clustering around active cen
ters of the lumber industry are
the only Oregon counties whose
farmers did not write off huge
sums in the aggregate value Of
farm lands between 1920 and
IS IS , according te what is ré-
vealed by the 1925 Farm Cen
sus.
Deschutes is thé only Eastern
Oregon County showing an ac
tual gain in per acre values.
I t is the leading lumber county
east of the mountains.
Its
neighbor, Klamath, where lum-
ber has been feverishly active,
showed little loss in farm value«
aa epthpared' with Eastern <Oro-
gon as a whole.
Opening of the great Pacific
8prnce operation in Lincoln
County and the Russell Hawkins
operation In Tllfamook county
are co-incident with gains in
farm values In those two coup
ties.
Jackson County heads the
state, with the largest gains In
farm land valuta, coincident
with the opening of the- big
Oregon-Ovrsn lumber op e ration"
and the Increasing activity of
the Tomlin lumber m ill at Med
ford.
_ Counties where lumber aothrtty
has been weakest show the heav
iest deflations In FUl'BI RUH
values.
Counties where lumber
milling has been more active
show the least deflation com
pared with neighboring coun-
These conditions coincide not
only as to Oregon, bat as to
Washington and Idaho, figures
for wh|fh now are available. In
Western
Washington.
where
lumber has been active, the de
flation la lightest; It Is lesi
marked In such Eastern Wash
ington counties where
there
are lumber operations and It
Is heaviest In counties where no
local market is provided by lum
ber activity. I t la In the lumber
mining counties of the Idaho
Panhandle where the least de
flation In farm values Is shown,
while the heaviest deflation lx
In the Irrigation
regions of
Southern Idaho.——Oregon Voter,
Portland — Steamer
Star” takes 130,000 hot
plea to Europe. Steamer
takes 185’, 000 boxes.
Pendleton —
Oregon
Growers meet hare, Jan.
for annual seaalon.
signed teats. Of the six 8 type
submarines, similar to the S -U
which sunk off Ragk Wand ea
September 25, under ooastmctlea
last year, all have been delivered
to the Navy. Tke fleet submarines
V-l and V-l have been complet
ed and are ready, ter service. Thy
V-8 will be ready for aervlee egyiy
next year. Benret stated.
Beuret pointed ont that the prin
cipal design wort of tho Bnroan
during 1985 was In river, — *"
Daily News, Dally Continent. marines, one fleet submarine and boats for use la Chinees w
Philadelphia Tlmee. New York three auxllsrtee were constmcfed Pinna are also beinx p»eesn
during the past IftctU year. There two addlitonsl aeent
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