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Man Giving Name of H. A.
Forsythe Mulcts Local
Firms Here Saturday
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tion» in City
Police of Oregon and Califor
nia citiea have been asked by
Chief of Police McNabb to be
on Kthe vetch for a young forger
who operated ip Ashland late
Saturday afternoon and then left
the city before his worthless
checks were returned from the
banks.
Prom description furnished by
local firms which were vic
timized, police believe the forg
er was one of the typical auto
. “ tramps” ^rho arrived here abort
of funds and who put out the
bad paper in order to get enough
gas and oil to carry him to some
other town.
The Western Auto Supply com
pany, the Automotive shop and
the Ford garage were mulcted
out of small sums by the alleged
forger, who gave the name of
H . A. Forsythe. He bought auto
accessories at each of these
places and received some change
at each establishment. The to
tal
amount
of
the
checks
brought to light last night was
not more than 915.
Woman With Him '
The young man was traveling
in an Oldsmobile roadster and
was accompanied by a younr
...woman. The checks were made
opt to a woman and endorsed
over to Forsythe. A t ..the W ast
ers Auto Supply company the
check was for 93.25. The Auto
motive shop cashed a check for
95.60 and the Ford garage for
94.90.
The reputed forger and hie
feminine companion were travol-
ing in a car bearing a Callfor-
* n ia license and It is believed
they headed north when they
left here. I t was reported they
had attempted to cash checks at
soversl other places but were
refused when they conld not
Identify themselves.
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DEATH UNDER PROBE
Well Known California Resi*
dent Said to Have
Been Badly Treated
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PA R K ,
Cal.,
March 16— (U .P .)— Investigation
of the death at Tia Juana of
Carl
F.
Reynolds, prominent
Huntington Park resident, was
demanded today by local author
ities.
Chief o f Police W illiam s, in
a telephone conversation with
San Diego police, ordered a com
plete investigation, maintaining
that Reynolds’ death resnltod
from mistreatment at the hands
of Mexican police following his
arrest on an Intoxication charge.
Prisoners Escape
Los Angeles Jail
LOS ANGELES, Cal.K Match
16— (U .P .)— Six . prisoners
a t
tacker a M ile r in the new 96.-
000,000 Justice building here
today and escape^. T h rM .were
recaptured a short tithe later
and the others. gtft away.
It
was the sixth break from the
expensive hostile since it was
first occupied less than a month
kgo.
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Girl’s Institution Wants to
Raise >1000 From Ash
land and Vicinity
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Ashland and vicinity w ill be
asked to subscribe 91,000 for
the Jnvenlle hospital for girls,
according to Mrs. Elisabeth Cos-
g riff, district campaign manager,
who is in Jackson jeounty this
week. Mgs. Cosgriff was In the
city yesterday making prelimin
ary plans for the local cam
paign, and will return later In
the week to get the drive under
way.
The g irls ’ hospital w ill be built
under the auspices of the JPa-
elflc~ Ftotecttre' x»«ih(mr E state
aid in the sum of 317/600 for
the Institution was votpd at the
last session of the legislature.
Mrs. ( Cosgriff expressed confi
dence* that Ashland would he
quick to respond to the appeal
on behalf o f the girls of Ore
gon.
TEN POUND BOV IS-
Stork Alights on Pullman
Car Near Arlington;
Everybody Happy
A R LIN G TO N , Ore., March 1«
— A fast start in life and an
uncertain birthplace ware accord
ed a ten-pound baby boy, born
to Mrs. George Kirkwood- of
Baker on eastbound passenger
train No. 24. Dr. V. Gessner of
Arlington was asked by telegraph
to board the train.
The child was born about 4:30
when in the vicinity of Hermis
ton.
Dr. Gessner left the train
at Echo, where both mother and
child were reported to be doing
well.
Council Will Buy
New Road Grader
Purchase of a new street
grader as well as the purchase of
500 feet of fire hose w ill bo
the chief matters to occupy the
attention of the city council. at
the regular meeting tonight.
Test. have been made during
the week of two makes of grad
ers, and it is expected that City
Manager Malone and the street
department w ill submit recom
mendations to the council.
E lk’s Dance To
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THE WEATHER
Oregon and
Washing
ton— Unsettled with rain
tonight, probably Wed
nesday. Continued mtld.
Fresh -. southerly '¡Winds
along coast.
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BANDITS FAIL
IN EFFORT TO
STAGE HOLDUP
Louis Bennett and H. 91
H. De Armond, prominent 91
Bend ' residents, wanted U
to aid Jay Upton, re-
publican
candidate
for
Cashier of Bank East of
governor,
during
his
Portland Fights Off Trio
compaign
trip
through
at Neon Today
Jackson county, so they
set ont by auto from
FAIL TO GET MONET
Bend after dark last
night, and made the trip
without Incident over The
Police Hend Ont Posse« in At«
Dalles-Callfornia highway,
tempt to Capture Outlaws
arriving at- the (.Rbia
Who Fled
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Springs
hotel
late
at
Bight.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 16
Both Bend men are
— (U .P .)— Heroism on the part
former resident» of Jack-
of Charles Drake and wife pre
son county, having spent
vented the robbery of the Park
their boyhoods here, and
Rose bank today.
When the
they were glad of the op-'
bandits ordered them to pat up
portunlty
of
renewing
th e ir hands, Mrs. Drake ran to
boyhood friendships as
a side office for guns. In spite
well as doing what they
o( a hail of bullets, she got a
could on behalf of Sen-.
shotgun which she handed to
ator Upton.
her husband and the bandits
fled. Drake is believed to have
wounded one of the outlaws.
HOSPITAL DRIVE TO
START HEff SHORTLY
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Members ..of ..the ..Ashland
lodge of Elks and their friends
w ill enjoy a , St. Patrick’s day
dapee i t thè Elks' temple thia
evening.
The a ffa ir promises
to 6e one of the most enjoyable
R staged by t ie lodge daring' the
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Newspaper For Nearly Fifty Years
Ire Service)
ASHLAND, OREGON,
no ; 16S
kSDAY, MARCH 16, 1926
CITY PARK BOARD AWARDS
CONTRACTS FOR BUILDING
OF AUTO; TOURIST CABINS
SENTIMENT OF
PEOFLE HELPS
IN TAX FIGHT
I brothers received the contract
for the plumbing work.
They
agreed to install plumbing in
both cottages for |92 .
W. A. Wiest of Klamath
There were 16 bidders in all,
Tells of the Results of
and because of the spirited bid
Conference Today
ding the cottages will be con
W . J. Montgomery was glv
structed somewhat cheaper than JACKSON TO BENEFIT
the contract for putting up
had been estimated.
buildings, his bid being S
Mr. Montgomery w ill start Senator Stanfield’» Land Tax B ill
for both. Wilson and Ong w<
Meeting W ith Strong
right to work putting up the
the lowest and succesaful b l *
two cottages, and It is planned
Support
ders for the painting, w ith
to start construclon of several
An Increasing public senti
more later this spring.
proffer of 3140, while Provoi
ment is getting behind the move
:— - J . r ,
ment initiated by Senator Stan
field and taken up by a group
u
of Western Oregon counties to
get from the government several
15586238
millions which were lost to the
I x
counties
when the Oregon and
The hot mineral water p ln afe
California railroad grant landc
at the Ashland natatorlnm wiB Balloting for Director Nom-
reverted to the government.
be open to the public, s ta rtid t
. inees Will Close at
This was the declaration today
at noon tomorrow, according' t*
Six O'clock
of
W. A. Wiest of Klamath coun
announcement today by M . A.
ty who conferred wjj,li Jackson
Mann, new owner of (he natak
Balloting in the chamber of
torium.
The cold plunge a s ’ commerce primary election for county officials this morning.
“ Big industrial and commer
well as the baths w ill be opened directors w ill close at 6 o’clock
cial interests of the several
PO RTLAND. Ore., March 16.— later as soon as' alterations are this evening, and shortly there
cqpntles are seeing the justice
(LP) — Three bandits attempted > completed.
after the election committee will
of these demands and are pledg
.to hold up the Park Rose bank
canvass the ballots to determine
ing their aid to the county courts
who shall be the nominees for
shortly before poon today but
and other officials in this fight
the places to be filled. Voting
were unsuccessful, according to
which will soon be finished In
has not been as brisk as In for-
telephone reports to police head
the halls of congress.” declared
i mer years, according to Secre
quarters.
Mr. Wiest.
“ I t now appears
tary F u lle r, although It -was
The bandlts'entered the insti
that every county in Western
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hoped that there would be a
tution east of Rose City Park,
Oregon which Is affected w ill
heavily armed and masked. The Golden Role and W inelsad’s ;U8h °ff b*,,ot8 dur,”g th* dav
have public sentiment 100 per
in order to make the primary
cashier, however, reached for his
Millinery Have Display
cent behind them when our lob
election representative of the en
gun and engaged the bandits in a
at The Vining
by goes to Washington within
tire membership of the cham
gun fight and succeeded in driving
the next few weeks.”
them away before they could ob
Much feminine Interest was ber.
Mr. Wiest who is deputy dis
tain Any of the bank’s funds.
aroused at the Vining theater
trict attorney of Klamath county,
The men left the bank, climbed last night at the fashion show
Is one of those who was named
into a waiting motor car and fled staged jo in tly , by the Golden
to go to Washington, D, C-,
down the Craig road, said meager Rule store and W ineland’a m il
on behalf of the measure which
reports from Park Rose.
linery .between the first and
8enator Stanfield has Introduced
Posses of police are scouring second showings of the films.
and which he is Becking to have
the west side section In an af-
Models for the occasion weM
parsed.
I f the bill is p
fort to apprehend the bend Its. S«d M4BB muton. Mm. WHUgm-fce«A President- E l e e t O f N o n n e ! Jackson county w in receive' i
All roads leading to and from the Misa Velma Clapp, Miss Ruth
proxfmately 9376,000 from the
School isits on Offic-
district are being closely guarded. Flackus, Mrs. B arnett, Mias L il
federal government.
Matters
lian McM illan, Miss Opal Deni
J.
A. Churchill,
president
mer of Talent and Miss Georgia
elect of the new Ashland normal
Edwards of Medford.
Dainty frocks for little misses school, arrived in thp city last
were tastefully shown by two evening to supervise the plan
charming little
models, Mttla ning for the landscape garden
Betty Kearney and Betty Evans in g ' on the normal school cam
pus and to attend to other of
Kennewick Growers to Take
State Prison Tailor Shop
ficial matters connected with
Measure to Protect
Cutting 50 More Uniforms
the opening of the school here
Against Frost
For Unruly Men
during July.
M r. Churchill Is highly pleased
K E N N E W IC K , Wash., March
SALEM, Ore., March 16— Tha
w
ith
the progress being made Oregon state penitentiary tailor
16— F r u i t g r o w e r s , especially
on the normal school building shop today was making 60 or
those w ith cherry orchards, have
Installed apparatus to protect Colonel John 0. Coolidge and expects to have everything more convict suits -of red and
in readiness for an auspicious black material. These suits will
their bnds from frost, and A l
Rests Comfortably
opening of the institution.
bert Cook of the United States
be worn by Incorrigible prison
Immediate
construction
two new double cottages In
auto park was authorised
night by the city park
which awarded bids for
work.
Mineral Plunge.
Opens Tomorrow
S IM M «
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ON BUSINESS
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ARE TO BE HEATED
Salem Bank Will
1 Build New Home
During the Night
PL Y M O U T H , V t., March 16—
(U .P .)— Colonel John C. Cool
idge, father of the president,
rested comfortably during tl.e
night and there is virtually no
change in his condition, Mae
Johnson, his nurse, reported to
day.
She refused to say if
she thought what little improve
ment was noted might be per
manent.
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Chinese Leader
Gets Ultimatum
P E K IN G , March 16— (U .P .)-
Forelgn naval commanders today
delivered an ultimatum to the
Chinese nationalist commander
of Taku Forts, giving, him un
til noon of next Thursday to
remove the kines from the chan
nel of the Peiho river.
I t the
ultim atum Is ignored tire naval
men will “ take such action as Is
deemed necessary.”
REPORT WILL FAVOR
H
BROOKHART Perjury Case Is
SALEM , March 1 6 — Plans for
the new home of the F irst Na
tional bank here were completed
today.
The building w ill he
ten stories high and w ill be of
Romanesque design.
The bank Democratic S e n a t o r Will
w ill occupy the entire lower
Submit Minority Re
floor, while« the nine upper
commendation Shortly
floors w ill be utilised for of«
W A SHING TO N, D. C., Marek
flees.
The structure w ill cost
approximately 9200,000.
Two 16— (U .P .)— A minority report
favorabld to 'Senator Brookhart,
elevators w ill be Installed,
republican of Iowa, in the con
test brought against him by
Daniel F. Steck, democrat, will
be prepared by Senator Stephens,
democrat of Mississippi, and pre-
sented to the senates he announce
-Normal Building
. Progress Is Good
Satisfactory progress la be
ing made on the construction
of the new normal .school and
if the work continues at the
present rate thd building Will
be completed by Way 1, said
ed this afternoon
Now Being Tried
T ria l of the state case against
D r. Charles , Sweeney, Is under
way In the circuit court at Jack
sonville with Judge Percy R.
K elly of Salem sitting as the
trial Jurist. The work of select-
la« a Jury was under way yes
terday.
Dr. Sweeney was In-
dieted on a charge of committing
perjury in hie testimony at the
H untley murder tria l • several
months ago.
Noted Publisher
ACTION POSTPONED
Is Buried At Sea i_™^^; admission to
Smaller Cities
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CIT.Y,
March 16— (U .P.)— With
less than a week reinaln-
Ing before most of the
hewspaper polls on pro-
hlbltlon come to an end,
ballots from the smaller
towns
cut
down
the
le a j for the wets which
was established by the
returns
from
larger
cities.
Returns today from 36
widely
separated
cities
show 57,590 favoring the
present law, with 588,286
favoring either modlflca-
tlon or repeal.
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BIG OVATION
AT LUNCHEON
» Candidate For Governor At
» I Republican Primaries
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Expresses Views
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Army Offioers Here to Re
view Local Troops; Rat
ing Not Yet Known
Battery B. Captain Clyde Ma
lone commanding, underwent its
annual federal inspection at the
arm ory last evening, and to all
outward appearances It wag In
every way satisfactory to the in-
speeting officers.
The Inspect
ing officers were Major W aller
Of Salem and Captain Bowling
of Olympia, Wash.
The two
officers are m ilitary Instructors
for their respective states.
Last year Battery B received
the highest rating of “very sat
isfactory” for Its federal In
spection, and is hoping to make
the same mark this yeaar, a l
though this will not be known
until the inspectors file their of
ficlal report.
policies o u t l i n e d
Declare» Automobile Owners Aro
Entitled to Better Treat
ment Hero
Jay Upton, candíante for the
republican nomination for gov-
1 ernor, has the happy faculty of
saying Just what he thinks, and
it was this characteristic of the
eastern Oregon senator which
brought him an enthusiastic re
sponse at the chamber of com
merce luncheon at the Llthla
Springs hotel today noon.
A t the outset he promised
not to discuss politics, but whis
pered urgings from club of
ficials told him to go the lim it,
and go he did, during the 20
minutes allotted him.
Right off the bat he criticised
the present methods of law en
forcement as is being attempted
by 8tate prohlbltlon officer, ( and
declared that a sincere effort is
not being made to enforce state
liquor laws in Oregon.
Need Honest Officer«
“ I do not believe that you
should employ a thief to catch
a thief, neither do I believe yon
should hire a bootlegger
to
catch a bootlegger,” he said.
“Court records throughout Ore
gon show that bootleggers, hi
jackers, ex-convicts and other un
desirables have been and are
being employed a» staja prohibi
tion officers. They jpreep down
on this town and that for a fsw
sporadic and sensational raids
without working In harmony or
eooperation with city or county
officials.
" If I am elected governor of
this state I w ill sea that honest,
One Man Wounded and Five reputable men are employed to
enforce the prohibition laws.
Citizens Held Prisoners
I w ill see that they cooperate
in Hold-Up
with the proper city police and
H A R T Z E L L S , A la.,-M arch 16 county peace officers. I prçmlse
— (U .P .)— O ut man was wound yon there w ill he none of the
ed and five cltlsbns were held present hypocrisy.”
prisoners temporarily here yes
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terday afternoon by eight ban
dits who ' escaped after robbing
a local bank of 916,000. O ffi
cers today had found no clues
as to the whereabouts of the
bandits.
The wounded bank
employe Is expected to recover.
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BANK AND ESCAPES
MAKE MORE STRIPED
SUITS FOR CONVICTS
P E W S FATHER IS
department ¡of agriculture Is
here to forecast the temperatures
during the danger period.
Minimum
temperature
fore
casts w ill be issued for the var
ious fru it sections ‘each night
at 7 o’clock and passed on to all
In q uirers' from the local tele
phone office.
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medicine eures
nine cases out of ten of ssthnuk
This is s proven fact
MORE WATER POWER
IANDS CLASSIFIED
ers. The suits were ordered by
Warden L illie following the re
cent riot in the Institution din
ing room.
Wearng of stripes
in the Oregon prison was abol
ished during the administration
of Governor Oswald West.
STATE IS WINNER
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RABIES EPIDEMIC
Federal Judge U p h o l d s
Truck Cioense Fees
And Weight Limits
PO RTLA N D, Ore., March 16
— (U .P .)— Two lm poifant de
cisions making clear the state's
Three Dead and Many Criti right to regulate motor vehicles,
were handed down In federal
cally 111 a« Result of
Renewed Outbreak
court yesterday afternoon by
Judge Bean. In a suit brought
OUAYMAS,
Sonoro,
Mexico. by a group of truck operators
March 16— (U .P .)— Mexican of against Secretary of State Koser,
ficials are alarmed over the re challenging the constitutionality
newed outbreak of the dread epi of tha automobile license fees.
demic of rabies which Is sweep It was ruled the fees are not un
ing through this section. Three constitutional and were not tolls,
persons are dead and many arc as was contended.
dangerously 111, acoording to a
In a suit by R. B. Morris
report of health authorities. Tho against the state highway com
rabies became epidemic here a mission, the right to lim it the
monlh<kgo but It was thought It weight of trucks was upheld,
had been halted until the new Judge Bean ruling that the state
outbreak started.
| has tha right to safeguard the
1 highways
by
making
weight
lim its.’
Autos Interfere
With Glass Work
Water Spouting
Instead Of Oil
Interior Department Survey
Shows Better Results
For Northwest
W A SHING TO N. D. C., March
16— (U .P .)— The geological sur
vey has listed 11,960 seres of
public lands in Colorado, Ore
gon, Utah and Washington a t
valuable for water power pur
poses, as the result of a re-sur
vey, the Interior department an
nounced today. Forty thousand
acres in Oregon and Montana
were classified as non-lrrigahle.
Rasor Funeral To
Be Held Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. M ill
ington Rasor, widely known Ash
land resident, who died yester
day, w ill ba held at S:30 to
morrow
afternoon
from
the
Staelr ahflpahr wtth Rev. W eed
worth of the Baptist church of
ficiating.
Bnrlal will ha In
Mounta|n View cemetery.
Big Income Tax
Return
Is Filed
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SE A TTLE, Wash., March 16—
the
PORTLAND, Ora., March 16—
(U
.P .)— Because of . the nolso
league
of
nations
w
ill
be
poaU
J. J. Tranchall, contractor, who
(U
.P .)— 1« spite of greater ex
and confusion in class work, all
is here for a brief visit from ' C IN C IN N A T I, OJ. March 19 poned for consideration at n
emptions which cut the individual
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Wash.,
March
— (U .F .) — B. W . Scripps, noted future meeting of the league, tt automobile traffic at the Univer
Portland.
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sity of Washington is to-be stop 16— Tha A ttalla oil well Is die J retnres ta half aa eessparedw R »
John, V.
Bennee,
architect publisher, was burled* kt sea was officially announced today.
Bed. during school hours, accord- rhsrging artesian water In qusn-i l«*t year, tneome tax returns
for the building, arrived in the Monday, according to his wishes,
An office
building In Detroit. Ing to a decision reached
| « ‘ la. sufficient to Irrigate a ' J ! * ¡ * 2
city today noon from Portland J according to radio advices re
said to be
the largaet In the university
authoritiss. Oates
n u m b er, of acres.
The water Is STS.SS3 or re . s e n j s
Mr. Scripp*
for an Inspection of the build ceived here today.
world In floor area, requires the *H1 »>• constructed to keep out covered with oil
splotches and
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died suddenly last Friday night
ing.
Service, of
900 ja n ito r, and »11 »uch traffic. It ha. been db- h»«
lo a n e d * tha
three-inch
wrdlng tc, a report h
while on a cruise on his private
porters
¡elded.
| cwlng.
Rsrenn. Collator
yacht.
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