malaria germs Cannot survive three months in the rich osons at' Ashland. Fore domestic water helps. > The Tidings Has Been Ashland?s VOL. XLQC Without .2 medicine cures nine j * & « of ten of asthma^ proven fact \g Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years ASHLAND, OREGON, SATÜBD. Flip of Coin EWides Suicide Route Survivors of Two Ill-Fated Vessels Are Returning on Rescuing Ships AM OTHER IN TROUBLE NBW YORK, Jan. J O - ( U .P ) SAN DftSGO, Calif., Jan. 30— Leslie W. Nila- son. 27, engineer, first- elaas, attached to , the destroyer Moodjr, com­ mitted suicide in a hotel room here yesterday by drinking poison. A note which he left to his mother, Mrs. B. L. Nils­ son, *232 Pacific street, Omaha, Nebraska, indl- c^teyl that despondency prompted the act. Another note Which he left showed that he tossed a coin to deter­ mine the method of sui­ cide with heads for hang­ ing himself and tills for poison. The flipped coin laid on the note tails up. Np loor ini6 ’ [ur_ to the YREKA, Jnn. 30. — With the death of Congressman John E. Raker, aged <3, representative for Siskiyou in congress, at Wash­ ing ton4 D. C., January 22, after a long illness, a figure unique In California politics passed and the question of who will be his suc­ cessor will,mart the political pot boiling In . northern California even earUerJn the season than was expected. Congressman Raker was a judge In Modoc county when he was elected to congr^s and he took office March 4, 1911, which he held continuously until his death. While hie constituency was overwhelming Republican political faith, he was always re- fortable-majorltles, generally with the endorsement of both Repub^- llcan and Democratic parties back of him. When Congressman Raker came to Yreka last Jane and, after din­ ing with leading business afud professional men of Yreka, gave the principal address at the grad­ uation exercises at the Yreka High School. It wAs one of hie last public appearances. Shortly after he returned to his home In Alturas, he was stricken, hut, In spit, of his physical handicaps, ha returned to his work at Wash­ ington, D. C„ where he underwent an operation last fall from which ha never rallied. Two weeks ago. Speaker Nicholas Longworth want President Churchill Here in Interests of School STEAL AN AUTOMOBILE FACULTY IS C H O S E N " —The terrible gale, which has been pounding the Atlantic ship­ ping during Hie past 'week, is reported by vessels still at sea to be abating today. The President Roosevelt, with the survivors of the Autlnoe disaster aboard, la expected at Queenstown between six and eight p. m., today. The Nord Dqntacher Lloyd liner Rrenen, with air survivors of the LArls- tan tragedy. Is due here Mon­ day. The Errlngton Coart, a coal steamer Which was bound for New York, has proceeded on Its way after repairing the dam­ ages to her steering- gear, while the Canadian Settler, a Canadian government boat, la reported In Eugene Drops Game to Med ford Toners. Play trouble out of HaUfax. - Again Tonight The ‘New York Red Cross line steamer pot Handicapped by an unfamiliar back into St. ind- floor/, one altogether too small land, after the for their . style of play, and > to tired after a terrific game play­ ed Thursday night here against the Eugene high five, the Ash­ land high hoopsters laet night failed to equal the snore made here against the Merrill tos- trol Desperate Prisoners Flee Roseburg Jail When . Keeper is Attacked They still practice polygamy in tne soutneni riiilippines, despite the fact that the American flag flies over the land. This photo shows a Moro chieftain named Mama, aad his ten wives. He likes ’em young. » Sick Man Asks for H eat; Coal Passed In; Jailer Ixx-ked Up as They F lee j Outsaading Teachers u i Faculty of Southern Oregon Normal $100,000,000 of Gold Coins to be Minted Bellview Organisation $150 From Dinner About 200 persons took advan­ tage of the splendid chicken din- ** ner and dance, given last night a by the Bellview community club. for the benefit of the building ** fund of the club. Almost $150 ** was realised for the fund by the 8 evening’s entertainment. $$ The chicken dinner was served - $2 from 2 to 8 p. m., and was fol- 32 lowed Immediately after by danc- 33 ing, which continued until mid- 33 night. , » Many Ashland firms contrlbut- ed to assist In swelling the fund. ^ea tM r,.tan gled -. l*«t H. O. Enders of the Enders’ « night with the Klamath county Wholesale Grocery, contributed 1 boys on their'hou^e court.' Thb the coffee while the Crown Flour | score was 40-S,’ with Ashland on company furnished the flour. Other supplies were contributed Z1 the long end. Coach Hughes need every by the people of the Bellview I district. The Civic Club donated man _ _ be took on the trip, in an the use of their club house. _ effort to conserve his charges* Fifty dollars was contributed to \ strength before their tussle with the building fund by the First Na- i j the. Klamath high five, to be tional Bank. ** played In Klamath Falls this eve. It was announced this mot-n- nlng. ing that almost $400 had been W . .... Although the Merrill outfit raised through the series of en­ ,howed 10,000,000, Robert J. Grant, director of the mint at Washington, an­ nounced here today. Other mints of the country, Grant said, also will begin production of gold coins «to a total amount of 2100,000.000. Grant said the mint­ ing of gold coins is to enable the trade to issue gold certificates which must have a gold coin­ age reserve. Outlines “ What is Not Ki During the night one of thp wanis Ideal” at Meet 17 prisoners in the county jail Yesterday became ill and other prisoners 33 33 33 tt U y jj n Deserted by his former asso- elates, with only a few hours to live, after five weeks of confine- meat la a hospital tent where no human being had visited with a word of cheer, and with the cor- onor already notified, the coffin ready for delivery and the grave already dug, this "Is the* picture c that Pat Patience, representative 8 of the Western Auto Supply com- pany who was the main speaker at the Klwanls luncheon yesterday 8 at noon, outlined as what wps j not real 100 per ceatK.^merl- ■"* » asked for coal with which to heat water for the sick man. As the guard opened the cell door and set a bucket of coal inside, he was seized, disarmed and crammed into a cell which was then locked. Other prisoners found the keys which the fugitives drop­ ped outside and later released the guard. Some of the pris­ oners are believed to have es­ caped In an automobile, which was stolen and later abandoned near Myrtle Creek, south of here. Jacksorç, Editor Tidings, Leaves For California Lemuel Tittle (above)- tried to sell hia 13-year-old daughter, Bertha to Joseph Parr (below) for 3100, according to police at Galena, 111., who arrested the two men. They live at Dubuque, la. Parr wanted to marry Bertha. Essay Winner to be J to Speak at Next Convention Summer school sessions at the new Southern Oregon Normal school her« will be started on June 21, and will continae for 12 weeks,' according to J. A. Churchill, president of the school,, who Is here today. A full faculty, of perhaps 22 members, will be In charge of the summer, session. This U the number Of faculty members who will have charge of the work during the regular school sessions, he declared. The only difference in the faculty be­ tween the regular and summer school sessions will be that dur­ ing the regular sessions, eight practice teachers will be em­ ployed, while during summer school, but four will be used. Churchill declined to make public the names of his faculty, although he admitted that he had already contracted for sev­ eral members. “We are work­ ing on a small budget, at first, and it will be difficult to se­ cure those who we feel are com­ petent, and it will be some time before we secure a full faculty,*' Churchill said today. During the summer school. certificate and to a two year, life certificate, will be given, Churchill indicated. In addi­ tion, history, science, sociology and mathematics will be taught. The teaching corps will be about double that employed during the summer session last year. Members of the building com­ mittee, of the board of regents will be here today to confer with J. H. Fuller, another mem­ ber of the committee and Churchill, relative to some minor changes to be made In the building. Discussion of the plans for the grounds will also be held, Churchill declared, r Patience found these conditions When he visited the dying man Educational work, along agri­ rx • nd’ even though the man's for- cultural and marketing line« 1 mer associates would not eome was decided upon at the semi 1/ forward at the "end of the man's annual meeting of the executive game of life,’’ he personally saw board of the Oregon Bankers as­ / that the unfortunate “fanned, out sociation, held 1 q Portland, | man’’ was saved from a burial in Thursday. J. W. McCoy of this I the Potter's field. city Is president of the asso This illustration was used to elation. show what Klwanlanlsm should It was decided to invite Bar­ not be. His subject was “Playing nard Joy of this city, winner of the Game or the Value of Friend­ the state -championship for a ship." and he said that the game marketing essey, to speak at the _ of life' would not bring the maxi- annual convention, to be hold sf mum enjoyment until it entailed in Gearhart, Oregon, on June a sacrifice, such as the time and 4 and 6 of this year. rs effort he made In bringing a little LONDON, Jan. 30— (U P .)-— cheeiyto the dying man, as Illus­ Banks, both national and W. L. George) a prominent trated above. state, are working toward a British novelist of the modern '■ He said thatskiwanlans, whose standardisation of forms, both f tool, died today from pneu­ main principle Is “We Build." (Continued On Page Four) monia and heart disease. ■ “ should build encouragement, hope ’• and character Into the game of n life. That everybody should >• always be» ready with a smile, a ‘8 word of cheer, a handshake that showed by the grip that It was “hitched to the heart” 1- Comparing life with the game r, of baseball, he said there were' r men In every town who had been t “benched,” had lost out, and that BEESON IS MEMBER WASHINGTON, Jan. 80— "An In the flel HONORARY SOCIETY to these mates a word of encour­ era of air transportation in this tlon, Mr. agement should be extended. Carl Loveland, who has been country paralleling the growth June, 1925 visiting In Seattle, but who Is of the automotive Industry ana Commerce here for a few days, added great- the r«dio aft awaits primarily Engineering s or cheer to the meeting by lead­ .Federal support In the matter joint comm: ing in the club songs and also of airway faculties— their ad- prehenslve , with two solos, with William ministration, and the eltmina- omlc aspeett Brtggs at the piano. tlon of needless restrictions,” out the w< ' State Superintendent Churchill, J. Walter Drake, Assistant See- mend the n who was introduced by J. H. Ful­ retary of Commerce, stated to- encourage ler as a "guest for the last time,” day in making public the com- ment of coi ’ said he was looking forward to 'gnttton of good wort dons plats Uaai »epost. oa «tvU avia- the UaUed r living In Ashland. He announced ting or executive work for Mon of *h® Jo,nt Committee °* After can . that the normal would open June i publications. j tk# Department of Commerce liable soar * • wew f ac n l t y. new ------------------------ and the American Engineering here and th » equipment and new buildings. A ID S M A D E ON I u 11., I the Commlti PERNAMBUCO, Jan. 3 0 - (U. . splendid course of studies, which The Spanish consul has will be In variance with the ORT^N TA T. L IN E R S Pointing out that the develop- that the pro received a massage from Aviator . oourses In most normal schools In ~ . - - mant ®* re*l and highway tran5- ‘Ion In the Franco via Fernando De Nor- l that they will be not only for t i . hi i h aDj port DtcMtlee during the past tarded by f< onha, saying ha was proceeding • the purpose of training teachers, n o u n e d "nr/'hM* h08/ ) d®®ad®* has profoundly changod flcultlos: In his flight to South America . but will be cultural as well, has 1 for th. sale of the Ad- the •conom,c Mi® of *» . *’ L,Ck •n a that all was wall. , been prepared, he stated, Oriental Hue under the C0BntriM’ *® tk®,r d" t,nrt ad' ata‘aa and i . President Hardy announced the Is if th e secnnd adOarlUetnen» vantage, Mr. Drake, who appointment of three past presi­ Chairman of the Committee, de­ Government policy to « dents of the local club, Harry clared that the advent of air­ the civil aad indnatrtgl Tomlinson, Henry Enders, Jr. and craft, one of the outstanding aircraft. Oregon — Ridn in the J. W. McCoy a« members of the mechanical heritages or the War, 3. Lack of comm« west portion; rain and under-privileged children com- Introduces a naw and signifi­ craft and equipment 1 snow In the east portion. mittee. cant factor In the commercial «*«1 to profitable eomn Washington - * Unsettled; D. R. Baker, district sales man­ and business relations of man- eration. ager of Western Auto Supply, rein In the west por­ kjnd. Harry Johnson, whom R. J. Woods tion; probably snow In Recognising Introduced as the “manager of the tost portion. (Continue^ On Pegs Four) portunltles at Ashland's suburban Western Auto THE WEATHER