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ì MALARIA GERMS Cannot anrvive three months in the rich exone at Aahhuuh Pure domestic water helps. TWENTY ALN AFTER BLAST IN COAL MINE Death Toll at Virginia Mine Bas been Set at 20 TWENTY BROUGHT OUT Survivor« Fight Way Two Mile« to Mouth of Shaft. Smoke Stop« Work of Rescuers LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. — Ardent tayer-camplicat- ed by. a stomachache, was spread on the records of Judge J- W: Summerfield’s court her«. today. George Baylis« asked a divorce from his ¡wife, charging that she had received pas- donate, letters from Jose Jardlnes, and although Baylis« produced what he ' said was one of- the letters, the Judge deqied. his ap- plication oa the ground that It all happened too long ago. One paragraph of the missive reads: "My soul, for a week I have been feeling bad in the stomach. I am going to take some medicine for the stomach. My heaven, my love, my hope, my all,. my life, good bye. I am pending you some bananas. I can not eat them my- self.” 8 8 8 «8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 FAIRMONT, W. V»., Jan. 1«. — (LP),— Twenty miner« at the Jamieson Coal and Coke company mine No. 8, at Farmln<ton,. twen ty mile« from here, given up for dead yesterday evening by mem ber« of the many rescue «quads which have been digging in the debrl«, are today, alive and unin jured. The total of survivors of Thurs day night's disasterous explosion and cave-in are twenty. The number of dead has been fixed at nineteen by official« of the mine.* The survivors were stationed about two miles from the mine entrance, but succeeded In work ing their way to the .mouth of the drift In which they were laboring, and were then brought out by rescue workers. A district mine inspector ip di recting rescue work at the mine. He reported that a rescue crew had penetrated the working of the mine for 2800 feet from the foot of the hoist shaft, but that it Pierce Said to be Seriously was forced to turn back by dense Considering Entrance clouds of smoke. in Race A crew was at work at the foot of' the hoist shaft when the ex SALEM, Ore-. Jan. 16— plosion took place. They signalled to the surface at once and were Governor Walter M. Pierce said her eyeotentey that be is serious brought out on-the hoist. ’ ly considering the advice of friends that he be a candidate PORTLAND MINISTER for United States senator, and ATTACKS OFFICIALS may abandon his previous plan to seek re-election as governor. PORTLAND, Jan. 1«.— (IP)—. Asked point blank If he in Following the example of the tends to be a candidate for sena clergy of Seattle and Spokane tor, the governor said: Dr. Clement O. Clarke, pastot "You can say that the report of the F i r s t Congregational did not emanate from me or from church has started an attack this office. Until recently, when upon the city administration. I have received letters from ‘all Ho issued an open invitation to parts of the state and other re Mayor Baker and Chief of Police quests from friends of long Jenkins to be present at hie standing urging me to be a church Sunday night to face hl? candidate for the senate, I had criticism, and answer him as given no consideration to the they see fit.* Clarke says the matter. I am considering it ser vice conditions in Portland are iously although I had previously disgraceful. thought only of being a candi date for re-election as governor.” Governor Pierce said that If PROHIBITION IN U. S. the movemnet to Inject him Into IS SIX YEARS OLD the race for senator was part WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— (IP) of a plan of Income lax forces to — Prohibition celebrated Its sixth elect a senator and governor birthday today, with the Issue favorable to their program .Jjy stirring the capital anew aa a throwing their support to Sey live issue. The wets in Con mour Jones for governor, he had gress are pushing tor a modifi no personal knowledge of the plan. cation of the dry laws. ASHLAND, OREGON Wire Service) ATURDAY, JAN, 16, 1926 Now Mr. and Mrs. Berlin He Gan Eat No Bananas; Gives reisri to Affinity M 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years The Tidings Has Been Ashland's S u o Ä ? to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volume 43 VOL. X U X T idings ly A comprehensive program, de signed to take up every topic concerned with the securing and holding of tourists In Southern Oregon, has been prepared for the meeting here Tuesday after noon of the various tourist cater ing organisations in this section of the state. The meeting will be started at the forum luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce,' at yrhlch Colonel. C. G. Thompson, sup erintendent of Crater Lake Na tional Park, and Gfifcrge C. Sabin, manager of the Oregon Caves resort will be the speakers. Ih vttatlons have been extended to all hotel managers, auto camp managers, park boards - and chamber of commerce heads. At the afternoon session^ which will be held Immediately after the luncheon, the following speakers will be heard: Hugh Rankin of the forestry depart- ment, I. E. Vlntng, president bf the: state chamber of commerce, and Herbert Cuthbert, manager of the publicity department of the Portland chamber of com merce. ■ft M IN E IN BATTLE ON SISKIYOU IS DEVELOPING Power Substation is to be Installed Near Ager Author of Eighteenth Amendment, Texas Senator, and Senator Edge, Advocate of Modification, Write for United Press. Edge Urges Modification of Amend- , ment at Once. WORK IS PROGRESSING By Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, author of the Bighteeftth amendment. W ritten for Copywright by the United Press. , WASHINGTON, Jan, 16. — (IP). — The operation W. C. Alderson of Portland, fo» of the national prohibition in the United States for the past six years, finds this measure of increasing benefit many years county superintendent Mie Uiiited States. During 1925, hundreds of leaders of schools of Multnomah county who Is a candidate to succeed J- in industry, education and trade in this nation, publicly A. Churchill as state superintend emphasized the value of prohibition. . • ent of public instruction. » Judge E. H. G arry of the steel corporation, said he whs ijiore than satisfied that the prohibition legislation should have been passed and continued without an amendment, and that it should be more strictly and rig idly imposed. . . President J. E. Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers said that the abnormal lawlessness at the time could not he reasonable attributed to prohibi NEW MEMBERS ARE SIG NED IN GOLF CLUB mrinm'Santa re ra,,road 8ystem' Ba,d The barriers of religion, parental objections and possi gociial ostracism were all cast aside by Elim Mac __________ . w . E. Storey, president of the daughter of Clarence H. Mackay, multi-millionaire p m i i iiin dent of the Postal Telegraph Company, when she m arn H i l l H A \ T r V l that froni the standpolnt of Irving Berlin, famous writer of Jazz music.-Mr. ahd M|s. H lL lI j l l l l l ) 1 L l ) 1 ! railroad operation, the eighteenth Work to Start on Course Berlin ar? shown in the office of city clerk of New Y ork Next Week. Clubhouse I amendment had been, very help- where the ceremony was performed by Deputy City Cleric, a f i Planned n i l III? IW ful t0 that 8y*tem. and that 11 J. J. McCormick. 111 II A l a i 111 111 htts Sreat’y reduced drinking Prospects for completing thi GOVERNOR MAY BE CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR DEATH CALLS College Bans ADVERTISING Radio; Keeps WELL KNOWN Girls Awake .1 LOCAL MAN PROGRAM IS READY FOR BIG TOURIST MEET HERE TUESDAY ASHLAND CLIMATE Without tie use of medicine cures nine cases out of ten of asthma. This is a proven fact. VI B. 8. Mellor, Resident of City for Pive Years, Dead . H. 8. Mellor, 61 years of Ui g e ! « died a t his home on Ashland street, Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock, after a brief illfaees Heart trouble was the cause of the death. ' He was born at Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada, April 27. 1875. Mr, Mellor was a resi dent of Ashland for five years. * rfe is survjved' by his wife, Mrs.*' H. 8. Mellor, his mother. Mrs. Mary A. ' Mellor, of this city, two brothers, Eldon Mellor of Chicago, Illinois and Albert E. Mellor.¿of Spokane, Wàshing ton, and one sister, Mrs. Ella Allan, Castlewood, South Dako-' ta. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock from the J. P .. Dodge and Sons chapel. Kiwanis Plan to Celebrate Eleventh Birthday In speaking today of the local Kiwanis cldb’s program for the observance of the 11th annivers ary of the Kiwanis International ’s founding, J. Henry Hardy, president of the local club, told of the remarkable growth of the civic organisation that now has, more than *1450 clubs and over 95,000 member» in the United States and Canada. The first kr wants meeting to be in Detroit, Michigan, on January 21, 1916, and that Is why the local club together with all the others will observe Anniversary Week from January 17-18.' The Ashland club will hold Its anniversary meeting on January 22 at, the Llthla Springs Hotel. The ladles will be Invited and a dinner at 7:80 followed by a dining room program will comp lete the entertainment for the evening. be discussed at the afternoon session: » ; How may we best reach the tourist to secure thir routing through Southern Oregon? How may we hold the tourist In Southern Oregon the maxi mum length of time? H o w tn a y we combine to di vert the tourist from "our High ways to our byways?" What attitude shall "we ta ie toward advertising gn the hlgh- Wdye z To what extend should we en courage auto camp development? Junction City — Six miles of How shall we tie our local ad wooden railroad from Horton saw vertising into the ljlg Pacific mill over summit of Coast Range, already built. Coeat program? * , BALTIMORE, Jan. 16.- — Today was bargain day., for radio sets at Ooucher college. N o m ore w ill loMrt speakers or ear phones aid ' 8 in whiling sway the hours 8 betwixt supper time asd breakfast. President Wil liam Wesley Guth has ban ned them. Radio is responsible for late hoars and consequent ly loss of efficiency and "pep”, Dc. both told the students. * In the business world, he said, It is easy to pick out the men who own radios. In the morn ing their faces tell. There for the radio ban,' for the physical as well as the mental welfare” of Gouch er girls. BARNARD JOY COMPETES FOR ESSA Y PRIZE Local Youth Takes Part in Marketing Contest in Portland .»..PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1«— Nine boys and one girl, whiners In the state prise essay contest on marketing in their respective districts, were In Portland to day for the final contest to de termine who shall be entitled to the 8500 In cash prises which will be distributed by the »«rl- cultural committee of the cham ber of commerce and the Ori son state litH teiT association ~ p ie y are Winslow Stillwell and Adolph Benschetdt of Tilla mook; Raymond Kortge, Dufuk,’. B. W. BcManlman, Halfway: Rex Edison and Othel Stroud, Eugene; Barnard Joy, Ashland; Frances Bkstrom, Gresham; George Turner and Elizabeth Dnnning, Portland. Tonight the contestant« will mpet in the chamber for the final contest. The vrlnhers will appear Monday at the members’ fornm o f tlA> chamber. Oregon fisheries planted 844,600 , baby trout In stato streams during 1126. ■fU JV U “ ’ ¡among the rank and file of em ployes, In spite of bootlegging that is going on. Rockwell D. .Hunt, professor of economics at the University of Southern California, said the Non-Advertising Days Show nation’s decree against the liquor Loss of Business at habit was JuBt, In 4Us judgment Local Grocery and that beneficial results are omas HUI, proprietor of b^lng felt on all sides. These .are typical instuncee ol Plasa Grocery in this city, the testimony of numerous lead recently had a concrete tefft of er« in the front rank of Ameri the value of advertising. can life, during the sixth year Christmas day and New Years of national prohibition. What an day come on Friday, which la inspiration t h e s e statements the usual- day on which The should bring to us all. What Plaza Grocery, as well a« other renewed determination to <msk<- groceries, publish their announ prohibition in the coming year, cements of bargains for the fol a greater blessing than e.ver lowing day. Because of the hol idays the stores did not have before. Undoubtedly, as the result of their regular advertisements the prohibition, the average Ameri weeks of Christmas and Now- can today is In better economic Years. condition than ever before. While Last week, the Plaza Grocery he is still far from cqmplete published their usual Friday economic independence, his life bargain» advertisement. The re expectancy is longer, his sav suit was that the volume of ings greater, range of opportunity business last Saturday was al larger and his pursuit of happi most twice as much as either of ness more certain of realization the holiday Saturdays. than In the era of the open Their expense on the holiday saloon." Saturdays was practically aj much a» on last Saturday. With By Senator Walter Edge the smaller volume of business, (Copyrighted by United Press) the percentage of overhead was (U .P .)— The experience of the much larger on the holiday past six years of unsuccessful ef Saturdays. HU, says that adver fort to enforce the Volstead Act, tising Is necessary to make the must convince real friends of profits. temperance that It has been a t i ________ ' demoralising failure. It la with regret that I make this unquali fied statement, because I can not Imagine any conscientious American who would condone the orgy of law violations now everywhere In evidence. The regrettable situation as I view It Is the uncompromising Burglar»! robbers! thieves! attitude of a small group, who, cried Floyd Dickey, of 526 East notwithstanding the undisputed Main street last night. evidence of Increased drunken AU because when Dickey re ness, Increased alcoholic In turned home, he discovered that sanity, widespread corruption of someone had entered hl» home. public office and open boot He discovered mud on the carp ets, a window open, and the back legging, still persist in stubbornly restating and misrepresenting the door unlatched. 8AO# ROd l Gf forts tor lip- provement. had investigated the alleged In my opinion, If a cokupro robbery, jthe culprit* walked mise, which * would permit a Into the police office and con reasonable modlllA cation. could fessed. Lawrence Wagner, son he effected„ much of the spirit of Postmaster Fred Wagner, and Kenneth Hobson were the of protest and- Challenge now so apparent could he ameliorated. culprits. - It happens that Dickey Is an Surely, a temperate condition orchestra leader. Wagner and would he better for the morals Hobson ale members of another of the nation than w prohibition orchestra. Dickey had borrowed that does not prohibit, but > some music from Wfegner and breeds defiance. Hobson, and had It In hts house. Last night, the latter were called, , Oregon bnllt eight miles state upon to play for a dance, and pavement, 250 miles rock surfac unable to find Dickey, they en ing, 300 - miles standard road tered his .house through a win grading, and 80 Important bridges dow, which was open, obtained during 1985; paying 610,600.000 for building maintenance. their musio and departed. When is a Robbery Not a Robbery? Explanation Made membership of the new goli course, being promoted by J L. Ketch, local realator, and Lee E. Smith, golf expert ol brighter todiay, following th< action yestarday of several prom lnent business men of Ashland, the Ktwanla club luncheon yea terday, a group of business raei met Smith and Ketch, and aftei discussing plans tor Euwv'kSUaj the course, signed up for mem bershlps. Work on the course is golnt along rapidly. Ketch reported He stated that the work of clearing the flarways would be started within the next threi or four days, and following tbl> work, Installation of sand green will be started. Grass greens will be planted, but it will be a* least a year before these greeni can be used. In the meantime it Is planned to play on the sand greens, .which are In use In a number of courses throughout the state. Work on the clubhouse will he started as soon as possible, and It has been predicted that play will be started on the courg-» within three months. THE WEATHER Oregon and Washington — Rain in he west, rain and snow in the east por tion, Southerly gales al ong the coast. Old M ine W ill be Producing Good Tonnage W ith in Few Month« Say Engineers YREKA, Jan. 16— With the generating 600 horsepower, de velopment work at the Siskiyou Coal Mines Company near Ager took a decided Impetus this week. • The Installation of the sub station by the California Oregon Power Company tpmes after four months of drilling and gen eral development work on the mine that once produced large quantities of bltutalnous cooking coal. The Installation followed conferences this week between W. H. Muirhead, manager of the Beaver Portland Cement Compi any of Gold Hill, Oregon; O. G. Steele, Siskiyou division man ager for (he California-Oregon Power Company; R. D. Clark, president of the Siskiyou Coat Mines Company, and Leveretl Davis, engineer In charge and who has been conducting the development work since the ml*« was taken over on an option four months ago by a syndics to whose Identity has never been made public. When the option was signed. It was announced that the devel opment work would bs conducted with a view toward finding ton ify of the coal is satisfactory to the principals in the syndicate. While the sub-statlOQ will he of 600 horsepower. It is probable that not more than 26 horse power will be used at present. The power will be utilised for unwatering the old tunnels and for further work. The Installa tion will be completed next week. The power line* of the California Oregon Power Coht- pany pass directly across the coal lands and the cost of cutting la Is greatly mlnimtzed but several thousand dollars will be expended In the electrical equipping of the mine. Clark, in discussing the es tablishment of the sub-statiop, said, "It Is another effort to confirm the tonnage that I apt confident is hers. It will expe dite the work and withtn 90 days I have hopes of a large proven tonnage. It may take longer, but the drilling in tho last four months has been very satisfactory and we have learned (Continued.-On Page Four) .. - 4- - » - -J-Ut! ■-«« 6 8 JUNIOR HI PUPILS HAYE PERFECT ATTENDANCERECORDS Sixty eight pupils of the Jun ior High School had perfect at tendance records during the semester completed yesterday, a report from the school shows. Of these, 68, thirty three were bspe> while tlss p4»ls numbered 86. a • The 7B grade had the highest number of perfect records, with 26. Eight B was second with 18. 7A third with 16 and 8A fourth with seven. Those who had perfect records are: 8B —Colver Anderson, Frencis Martin. Barbra Bdseil, M Inola Ooanell, Pearl Howell, Genevieve Scoctt, Hasel Massey. IB — Frank Redkey, Chester Squire, Clarence Woods, Everett Yso, Fred Cuthbertson. Robert Cadsow, Bobby Dodge, Kenaeth Hobbs, Philip Kseton, Ly'b Reeder, Edna Orree* Barbara Taylor. Beatrice Worth. Jean Balls, Eleanor Coombe, FraneU High, Amanda King, Charlotte Leedom, Bernice Leer. 7A— Franklin Arant, Pant Atkins, Maynard Croxall, Ralph Curtis, Gilbert Elder, Arthur Gilbert, Franco, Laurel yrood, Frances Hardy, Lucille Hamilton, Flor ence Hocking, Anne Kiel, Wilma Natter, Ruth Ragland, GeraW- ine Scott. 7B— Juno Alklns, J sen Csduew, Georgia Coed, Prances Cooper. Mae Clary, Elaine Flapkus, Max ine •earhsrt, Gladys Hamaker. Arvllla Harris, Agnss Hbrvep. Claries Hlgk. Viola Mayberap, Louise Moore. ^uclUa Roodft^ Robert Arant, Robert Neal Fsy, Harold Leonard Gosnell. Loren Nelson Miller. Brtord Walter O’Toole, Bverett ? - re. 1» (Contlaued on