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VOL. XLIX
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(United Fredt Wirt Service)
Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tiding». Volume
10 KILLED IN Ä
BIG BLAST OF New
IRON FORNACE
Sixteen Others Seriously In
jured in Birmingham
Tragedy Today
INVESTIGATING CAUSE
Brooklyn Explosion Causes B ig
F ire But Nobody K illed, is
Report
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Mayor
4*
Carl Loveland Issues Gall
For All Musicians to
Be Present
WILL PLAN CONCERTS
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——
Musk* in Lithla Park During
Summer Months to be
Popular Feature
Definite steps toward the for
mation of a municipal band for
this summer will be taken at
the city hall Monday evening
when all musicians have been
urged to attend an organization
meeting. The call was issued by
Carl Loveland, band director.
Mo. Loveland Is anxious to
start band practice next week
and for that reason asks that all
old members of the band be
present.
Other musicians who
have arrived since last summer
are also asked to attend the
meeting.
The 'meeting is scheduled for
BROOKLYN, N. Y.. March 20.
8
o’clock, and the first practice
— (LP) —1 A terrific explosion oc
will
be held as soon as the pre
curred In a twp-story fram build
liminary organization Is arrang
ing adjoining a gas storage- tank
ed.
a
here today. The building burst
Boys
Who
Want
to
Join
the
A series of concerts will be
into flames. Fames from the out
U. S. Navy Are Given
held in Lithla park during the
let pipe caught fire and a thin
Another*
Opportunity
summer
months.
Those con
streak of flame shot Into the air.
certs In former years have al
Mo trace of any victims was
So successful were they before
found so It was thought no one when here a few weeks ago that ways added greatly to the pop
was killed. The explosion was recruiting officers for the United ularity of Ashlands famed nat
ural park.
caused by a bursting- boiler.
States navy have come to Ashland
again to recruit young men for
the navy. J. N. Cochran and O.
A. Johnson of the navy arrived
here this morning and will be at
the Ashland hotel until next Tues
day taking enlistments from this
section. Young men who are ac
Fourteen - Tear - Old . Boy cepted for enlistment are sent to Banquet to be Held by Bank
ers of Jackson and
San Diego to training school for
Admits He Has Organ
Josephine Counties
two months before being assign
ised Communists
ed to sea duty.
R. M. Alton, assistant trust of
ASTORIA. Ore., March 20—
ficer
of the United States National
(U P .,— The Young W f ’-----’
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bank of Portland will be the chief
League is a communistic c
speaker at the monthly meeting
cation of Astoria school b„,„
and
banquet of the Bankers* As
propagate the principles of soviet
sociation
of Jackson and Jose
Russia, according to Paul Slro,
phine
counties
at the Lithla
aged 14. deposed president of
Springs hotel this evening. Mr.
the student body of the local
high school. Slro admitted ex Fruit Growers Prepare to Alton will speak chiefly on trust
Use Smudge Pots; Ice
matters.
istence of the league but de
Forms
on
Water
Approximately 35 bankers of
clined to disclose the names of
the two counties are expected to
members. Slro also said that
HOOD RIVER, Ore., March 20.
The banquet will
sympathetic parents found
it — (IP) — Thin Ice formed here be present.
start
at
6:30,
and
V. O. N. Smith,
necessary to send their children last night when frost and a low
president
of
the
association,
wilt
to radical schools during the temperature of 31 degrees visited
preside.
summer to overcome the Amer the mid-Columbia fruit sectipns.
ican fundamentals learned at No damage was reported but
the public schools.
growers are prepared to use
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Mar. 20
— (LP)— Ten men were killed
and 16 others «seriously injured
today In a blast furnace explosion
at the Woodward Iron company
plant near here, five of the dead
are whites and five negroes.
• The furnace was in operation
when the explosion occurred. The
top of the stack was blown
off and the flaming coke and
molten Iron were flung about
the furnace. The cause of tho
explosion is not known but an
Investigation has been started.
M I N G OFFICERS
M OM
ASTORIA SWOENTS
ESTABLISH SUVET
smudge pots if the temperature
passes the safety mark.
Colonel Fofrbes
Is Now Convict
Those Favoring Repeal or
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March
Modification Lead The
20. — (LP) — Colonel Charles R.
Prohi’s Five to One
NEW YORK CITY. March 20
— (U.P. )—A majority of the
newspaper polls on prohibition
closed today and those voting
for modification or repeal of tho
Volstead act seemed assured of
a flve-to-one lead. Some papers,
however, 'are continuing the poll
and it may be weeks before all
returns are In.
Grand totals
today were: for modification or
repeal, 2,519,$68; for present
law, 495.004.
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NO.
INVITED TO
CONDUCT NEXT FORUM LUNCH
FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
If one or two worthy memTOtts , voting strength, at least, when
of the recently organised New they put across five of their six
comers’ Club will speak right Ml» candidates for chamber of com-
they have a chance to put across merce nominees, so an organiza
some of their. Ideas at tho next tion as active as that ought to
chamber of commerce luncheon kt have one or two speakers who
the Lithla Springs hotel Tuesday could make interesting , talks,
thinks Mr. Fuller, and for that
noon.
John Fuller, secretary of the reason he is anxious to get In
chamber of commerce, would like touch with them and make defin
to have the forum conducted Joint ite arrangements for the lunch
ly by the Newcomers and the Old- eon.
At noon today Mr. Fuller, was
Timers. He says the woods »re
full of old-timers but having a hard at work trying to Add a name
hard Job finding anybody who to fit the initials, “W. V. A.,” by
admits membership In the New which the secretary ov the New
comers’ club signs the calls for
comers’ Club.
The Newcomers showed their all meetings of the organization.
EAST TRIBUTE
GIVEN MEMORY
OF PATRIARCH
Colonel John Galvin Coolidge
Laid to Final Rest
This Afternoon
SERVICES
ARE
BRIEF
President Stands W ith Bared
Head on Nnow-Bnnked
Vermont H illside
4
New Evidenyve*° K
Help In Solving
Editor’s Murder!
QJJ
KELSO. March 20. — New de
velopments that cannot be disclos
ed, hut that will probably clear
up the murder of Thomas Dovery.
Kelso, editor, shot June 19, 1925,
for which John Smith and Frank fB. F. Chisum Arrested At
Tennant for Transport
Hart are charged with murder,
ing Young Girl
and the shooting of Dwight Bailey,
Kelso policeman, In January, have
been uncovered, Clarke Stude- NOW IN COUNTY JA IL
baker, who resigned as Cowlitz
A dalee Byrd Taken Into Custody
county sheriff, Tuesday disclos
H ere F ollow in g Invest!*
ed, prior to his resignation.
gut ion of Case
Studebaker does not believe
that Warren Williams, a cook,
held at Montesano on suspicion
B. F. Chisum, aged 47, was
that he shot Andrew McKeen to lodged in the county Jail
death nt MeClftery, Wash., ‘re Jacksonville last night on
cently kvas connected with tho federal charge of whito slavery^
shooting of Bailey.
while Miss Adalee Byrd, aged
15, is held In custody as com
plaining witness against the niid-
! dle-aged cook.
Chisum was arrested at Ten-
1 nnnt, Cal., where he was em
ployed as a cook In a logging
j camp. Miss Byrd was taken In
Miss Mildred Carlton Named to custody tn this city, where she
had been stopping for several
President;
Ashland
weeks.
Woman Selected
SLAVE CHARGE
PLYMOUTH, Vt„ March 20 —
(U.P.)—John Calvin Coolidge
was burled here today on a
frozen side hill of his native
Vermont. His son, Calvin, the
chief magistrate of the nation,
performed a son’s somber duty,
following the body to tho grave
and watching with bared head as
the ol<] Vermont patriarch’s soul
was consigned “unto Almighty
God'* at the culmination of the
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Mar. solemn Episcopal order of burial.
(U .P .)— Dowager Queen
The journey
retraced the
Land Settlement Head Will .20'—
Louise, mother of King Christ Gethsemane trail which Presi
Open up Summer Offices
ian, died here today In her dent and Mrs. Coolidge followed
Taken Into Custody ’
in Ashland
74th year. She had be^n ill for a year and a half ago to bu:y
Chief
of Police McNabb. Sher
Miss Mildred Carlton was
their son, Calvin, Jr. The monu
Arthur Foster, in charge o f the several days.
elected president of the Jackson iff Jennings and C. C. Spears of
ment was already there. It had
land settlement bureau of the Ore
County Public Health association the federal department of justice
been selected by the elder Cool
gon state chamber of commerce,
at the recent meeting held In returned last night from Yreka,
idge two years ago.
will be in Ashland next week to
Medford. Other officers chosen where they took charge of
The final service was opened
open up permanent headquarters
were: Vice president, Mrs. Stan Chisum and brought him back
at 2 o’clock this afternoon In
for the summer months. -
Chisum
ley Roblnett; secretary, Mrs. to Jackson county.
the parlor of the Coolidge home.
This is the Information convey
agreed to waive extradition, and
Lewis
Ulrich;
treasurer,
Mrs.
IT
.
There was no music.
ed in a letter to J. H. Fuller, sec
N. Nobllt; nurse committee, Mrs •nlso agreed to • waive any pre-,
"I am the Resurrection and
retary of the chamber of com Relief for District Will be
Leonard Carpenter; finance com llminary hearing. Both he and
the Life, sayeth the Lord. Ho
merce. Mr. Foster will have of
Sought by Two Oregon
mittee, Mrs. F. C. Kenly; edu Miss Byrd will be taken to Port
that belleveth tn me. though
fices in the chamber of commerce
Congressmen
cation committee, Mrs. Alice land at once to await action by
he were dead, yet shall hog live,
quarters.
Holloway;
supply
committee. the federal grand Jury.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March and whosoever liveth and be Mrs. W. H. Crawford; publicity
Chisum Is alleged to have
20— (U.P.)— Elimination of the lleveth In me shall never die,” committee, Mrs. Perry O. Craw transported the Byrd girl from
requirement that Portland Ump were the pastor's closing re ford. '
her home at Jonesboro, Arkansas
qua furnish half of the funds for marks.
’ Mrs. H. O. Anderson was elect to Oregon, They made the trip
The president, his son, John,
Jetty construction of the Ump
ed chairman of the Ashland in a new Bulck sedan, which of
Governor
Billings, Attorney Gen
qua project is sought in an
group and will arrange the next ficers allege was illegally taken
amendment being prepared by eral Sargent and the presidential meeting of the asaoclatlon which from that state. There is said
entourage were dressed in, black
will be held here~«lurfn< the firs "To he a balance of |600 sftRI
Advertising Group of C h aW ^ " «'888’’1*0
*buh
- -
-
-
will be presented by Congress 'CutawAyA Mrs. ’ Coolidge wore week of May.
duo on the car.
ber Also Investigates
man Crumpacker. It is pointed black. The services at tho house
Arrive In Ashland
Highway Boards
out that work can go ahead if occupied only 15 minutes. HI-
Tho couplo arrived here about
privates of the Vermont na
three weeks ago and registered
The chamber of commerce ad the requirement is set aside, but tional guard Ifore the body
if
not,
the
work
will
be
halted
their car at the local chamber of
vertising committee today in
through the door to a sleigh and
commerce offices. A few daya
vestigated the signboard situa as Port Umpqua has amoat thence to the cemetery where
later the Byrd girl was arrested
tion south of the city and like reached Its taxing limit.
the brief concluding cercmonlen
on a charge of speeding and
wise inquired Into the cutting of
were held.
Agent Dan Applegate of the paid a 810 fine In the court of
several trees adjacent to the
American
Railway Express Co. Justice of the Peace Roberta.
Neil creek bridge. Power com
announced
today that the ex At that time she gave the nanio *
pany officials today denied thoy
press
companies
plan to estab of Mrs. Chisum.
were reeponsible for the cutting
lish
a
system
of
charges‘for
the
Federal authorities procured
of the trees, and the advertising
storing
of
express
shipments
re evidence ,of Chlsum’s reputod
committee will inquire into the
fused when tendered for delivery transportation of the little girl
matter and urge that no nioro Aged Ashland Woman Suc
or
uncalled for.
to this state and began their in
trees be cut down along the
cumbs This Afternoon
DEDHAM, MASS., March 20—
Three days “free time’’ will vestigations. With xthe ala of
highway.
After Paralytic Stroke
The body of a 20-year-ol'd girl, be allowed, after which the
Chief of Police McNabb and
Members making the Investi
with a large boulder weighing
Mrs. F. A. Brown, mother of down her head, which rested storage charge will be 10 cents other officials of this section,
gation were Billy Briggs, Kane
dall Woods, O. M. Green ant! Mrs. George B. Icenhower, died In a brook, was found yesterday for the first day, five cents for the needed evidence was pro
each of the next eight days with cured to warrant the filing of a
at the Icenhower family home at near
Secretary J. • H. Fuller.
8tonybrook
reservation. a maximum of 50 cents a month
white
slnve
charge
against
one o’clock this afternoon fol Nearby were blood spots.
for each shipment weighing 100 Chisum.
lowing a paralytic stroke suf
Tollce believe the girl had
fered earlier this week.
She been slain after being attacked. pounds or less. There will be
was 78 years old.
The body tl)at the boulder, which weighed a regular monthly charge there
will be shipped to her former 200 pounds, had been rolled after of 50 cents per month or
fraction thereof.
home at Storm Lake, Iowa, for on her to crush her head.
The express companies have
burial. The body Is now at the
not
heretofore made a practice
mortuary.
Wife of Chain Store Mag Dodge
to assess storage charges on uu
Mrs. Brown was born at Hol
nate is Given Settlement
claimed shipments, although It
land, Mass., August 10, 1848.
Out of Court
has long been a practice with
She had lived In Ashland for
Measure Filed
freight
and baggage. They con Initiative
NEW YORK, March 20—The the past 14 years. Besides the
With
Secretary;
to
tend that the expense of extra
marital and financial entangle daughter, Mrs. Icenhower, she
Circulate
Petitions
WASHINGTON, D. C., March labor Involved should be borne,
ments of Sebastian S. Kresge, la survived by a son, A. A.
20.
— Ralph E. Williams, chair not by express patrons gen
Brown
of
Mobridge,
8.
D.
SALEM. Ore., Marrh 20. r - (LP)
chain store magnate, and his
erally, but by the owners of — A move to iocure legislation
man
of
tho
Oregon
republican
pretty yonng wife, the former
state central committee, left for the goods so stored.
providing for old age pensions
Doris Mercer, were settled out of
his home today after an extended
was launched here yeeterday
court today.
visit In the national capital, dur
afternoon with the filing of an
This afternoon Max Steuer, at
ing which he attended to many
initiative measure with the sec
torney for Kresge, notified Jus
political
matters
for
his
party.
retary of state. The proposed bill
tice Wagner, before whom the
Mr. Williams was a guest nt a
will be submitted to the attorney
casq Is pending, that a settle
speclnl dinner given to President
general for ballot title and then
ment had been reached and the
ALHAMBRA,
Cal.,
March
20
Coolidge earlier in the week.
be circulated
css« withdrawn. Formal with
LOS ANOELES, Jdarch 20— petitions will
drawal, however, will not be __(U.P.)—Alhambra la the lat
A merger was officially announc throughout the state to get It on
made until Wednesday, when It est of the Southern California
ed as under way here today the November ballot.
cities debating annexation to
lg called on the calendar.
whereby the Standurd Oil com
Los A ngeleei.... . ....... —"'■■■........... —
pany of New York would absorb
The Issue will be decided at
the large Independent concern.
a special election In April.
General Petroleum corporation.
The city Is divided sharply
EUGENE, Ore., March 20. —
into three chmps; the westend-
ers.” those nearest Los Angeles (LP) — Because he was planning
Votes In the final*election of and adjoining South Pasadena, to leave the state without paying
the chamber of commerce direct favoij annexation; the **east- a bill of 886 he owed for an auto
ors are coming In at a good rate enders,’’ furthermost from Los crash, a young student at the Uni
• SALEM. Ore.. March 20. — (IP) •
and by the time the polls elope Angeles, oppose joining Los An versity of Oregon* Is held in Jail,
— Automobile accidents took a
It
became
known
yesterday.
Au
at 6 o’clock Monday evening a geles; the business houses in
J
W. J. Fuller of Dallat;. former toll of four lives and 212 Injur
good majority of the members the center of the city are non thorities are withholding the
young man’s name. This Is the mom her of the legislature from ed in Oregon during February,
will have cast their ballots, it committal.
according to the monthly report
The
annexationists
argue flrat case of record tn Lane coun-. Polk cqunty, gavo an interesting
was predicted at the chamber of
of T. A. Raffety. head of the state
and
Instructive
talk
on
forest
ty
where
a
person
has
been
jail
commerce offices today.
There “lower taxes, cheaper telephones,
traffic bureau. All of the fatal It Me
conservation
at
the
high
school
ed
for
debt.
are 12 nominees chosen last week and cheaper railroad fare to
auditorium last night, in which occurred In Portland, as did a
with six directora to be elected. the center of Los Angeles." The
The St. Louie Browns have be urged a deflplto policy on the major portion of the teju fal.
antl-annexatlonlsts say the Bro
finished last more times than conservation of all forested areaa. glate traffic police arrested 411
Harvard waa the flrat Amer gans are mere words.
any other team In the American Hla address was Illustrated with persona during the month f e r ^
ican collage to send a crew to
both elides and motion pictures. lation of state auto laws,.
Baseball League.
Advertise In The Tidings
England. •
ARTHUR FOSIH TO
BE HERE NEXT RQK
X
OFFICERS CHOSEN BY
Dowager Queen Of
Denmark Is Dead
TO’t t HTROOÄB)
C0MMET1EE PROBES
WILL MEET TONIGHT CUTTING Of TRES
flBH IH
MOE PEOPIE SEEK
nine cases out of ten of asthma.
This is a proven fact.
ASHLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY MARCH 20, 1926
CITY BAND
Starts
BE ORGANIZED
MONDAY NIGHT
SEATTLE, Wash., Mar.
20—:(U.P.)— A civil up
heaval is predicted for
Seattle early in June
when Mrs. Bertha Landes,
the new mayor, takes
over the reigns now held
by Mayor Brown. Mrs.
Landes haa already tak
en the oath of office and
filed her bond and la
now mapping out her
course of action.
Cht^lges, i t >ls pre
dicted, will be swift and
sweeping In the police
department. Seattle resi
dents still remember her
official acts while act
ing mayor a couple of
years ago during the ab
sence of Mayor Brown In
the east. At that time
she suspended policemen
right and left, and it Is
expected she will dis
charge a large group of
Seattle’s officers.
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medicine cures
Forbes, former director of the
United States Veterans’ bureau,
under sentence of two years for
conviction on charges of con
spiracy to defraud the govern
ment In letting contracts for the
veterans* hospitals entered the
federal prison yesterday after
noon.
United Press Is
Invited To Meet
GENEVA,
March
20— Th?
League of Nations today Invited
the United Press to participate
In the commission of experts
representing the world’s leading
press associations, which will
meet May 31 In Geneva to pre
pare an agenda for the league’s
Internationa press conference in
1927.
The purpose of the conference
Is to improve international press
facilities as a moral aid to dis
armament.
Portland Newsboy
Lumber Company
In Serious Shape
Increases Wages
Chapman Can Ask
Friends To Watch
Him Being Hanged
, MARSHFIELD, Ore., March
20— (U.P.)—The
Coos
Bay
Lumber company today announc
ed a wage increase effective
throughout the plant, starting
April 1. Under the new wage
scale, the dally minimum for
HARTFORD, Conn., March 20. common labor will be Increased
— (IP) — When Gerald Chapman, from 83.20 to 83.40 per day.
notorious mall bandit, dies on the
gallows here on the morning of
April 6th, three of his friends
can witness his tragic leave-tak-
tng If they wish. Under the Con
necticut law condemned men are
allowed three Invitations to their
Approximately 30 members of
own executions which they are The Lithians and their wives
permitted to give to whoever they enjoyed a little dancing party
desire.
at. the Lithla Springs hotel last
Chapman has not yet indicated evening. Brick Ice cream and
his choices. Bidding Is spirited cake were served during the eve
for invitations to the Chapman ning. It Is proposed to hold
hanging. .
similar parties once each montth.
♦A
-
Lithians Enjoy
Dancing Party
PORTLAND, Ore., March 2—
(U.P.)— Dennett
Grover,
12-
year-old newsboy, was still in a
serious condition today as the
result of a fractured skull in
flicted late Thursday afternoon
by an automobile which struck
him as he was selling 9 paper
to a woman passenger on 9
streetcar.
The* driver, Samuel
Schaffer of Milwaukie, age 17,
was arrested on a charge of
reckless driving and driving with
defective brakes.
THE WEATHER
Oregon and Washing
ton— Fair tonight, Sun
day fair except unsettled
northwest Oregon and
w e ster n
Washington.
Fresh coast winds.
Express Company
Announces Ruies
! F A
‘ called B I DEATH
Body Of Girl Is
Found In Stream
M B . KRESGE IQ CEI
« E PART OF CASH
OLD AGE PENSiON
Ralph Williams
Starts For Home
Standard Oil Buys
(renerai Petroleum
Many Voting In
Chamber Election
Auto Debt Gets
Student In Jail
Conservation Of
Forests Is Urged
Auto Accidents
Take Four Lives
During February
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