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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.”
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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. 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.
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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.
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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: »
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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? *
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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
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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.
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“ ’ ¡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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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