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VOL. XLIX
BIG LEAGUES
■TODAY START
PENNANT RACE
Both Major Organisations
Get Under Way With
Plying Colors
PREDICT GOOD SEASON
Pittsburgh ami Washington Are
Still Held to tw the
t
. Favorites
By H E N R Y L. F A R R E L L
(United Press Sports E ditor)
N E W YO R K , A pril 13— (U .P .)
— The old war-cry; "Play b a ll!”
splits the a ir today.
The season is on in the major
leagues and in the American and
Southern Associations.
Thousands upon thousands of
fans are ready with the frenzied
urge to get tbelr favorites off
to a flying start for the next
w orld’s series.
grandstands,
bleachers
and
bands ere dressed In their sum
m er’s best to do justice to the
opening of the country's great
est show. And, says Jolfn Heyd-
ler, It w ill be "bigger and better
than ever.”
Unquestionably s
"top-notch Mason,” echoes Com
missioner Landis.
D ew ee Attends
Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volerne 41
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APRILjff, 1926.
ASHLAND, OREGON;?
INSPFÍTÍÍR OF
Drunkenness Is
DANIEL F. STECK WINS OUT;
p j SENATE CONTEST; GIVEN
Greater Than In W J I1 A /1 U R U 1
Old Saloon Days
PLACE HELD BT BROOKHART
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W A S H IN G TO N , D. C.,
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33 enness has beegme more
33 widespread than ih the
33 days of the open saloon,
33 Stanley Shirk, research
33 director
for
the
New
33 Y o rk Moderation League.
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33 tlon committee today.
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Opening tHe final stage
33 of the wet case. Shirk
33 revealed cases In a na-
33 tional
survey
showing
33 that arrests for drunken-
33 ness had IncreaMd from
33 240,000 in 1020 to 550,-
33 000 In 1924.
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to
marshal
their
33 forces and confidently ex-
33 pect to wipe away what-
33 ever Inroads the wets
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33 now almost at an end and
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V. HI. U. PUNS FOR
FULL K O F F !»
Ashland May Have Secre
tary Regularly Starting
Next September
Vice President Dawes having
warmed up his personal pitching
member, w ill give W hite Housn
, Directors of the Ashland Young
approval to ithe opening by
Men’s
Christian association are
tossing out the ball in Washing
seriously considering the employ
ton’s opener.
Scores of thousands of aunts, ment of a full-tim e secretary for
uncles and grandmothers w ill the coming year and a definlte
conveniently die for the day to decision is expected to be reach
give the office boys their chauce ed early in May, The directors,
to participate in the proceedings at a recent meeting, went on re
cord as favoring a fu ll time sec
throughout the land.
The umps after several months retary and they are now giving
of vocal training and preliminary the m atter careful cpnsideration.
In ' this connection, it was an
w orkout* In the southern Samps,
nounced
that the Y . M. C. A. of
are IB better voice than ever.
ficials
are
expected here w ithin
The team clowns have dusted
off some brand new acts and re a few weeks to make a survey of
furbished a number of old ones the Ashland district.
so that all who go may laugh.
A ll in all It looks like a great
year and the clarion call to arms
this afternoon w ill be music to
the ears of fandom from coast
to coast. The United Press has
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made arrangements for thou
sands of miles of special wlroa Masonic Bodies of Oregon
to carry the scores and stories
Expected to Meet There
of the big game during the sea
Next Summer
son.
K—
B ig Y e a r Ahead
A STO R IA , Ore., A p ril 13—
Heydler says It w ill be a bet (U .P .)— Although
the
m atter
ter season than last year .be- w ill not be fu lly decided until
cause the teams are so closely Thursday, Bend, apparently, has
grouped in the big leagues. And the call for the 1927 convention
the competition makes the in of the York R ite Masonic bodies
terest which Increases the clattor of Oregon. The Rpyal Arch Ma
of the dollars In the tills.
sons last night selected Bend
In the ’ American League St. for the convention and thi«
Louis w ill open at
Chicago, action is expected to be con
Cleveland at Detroit, Philadel curred in by the Royal and
phia at Washington and NeW Select masters and Knights Tem
Y o rk a t Boston.
plar.
The delegates seem anx
In the National League Pitta-, ious to accept the Bend ' invita
burgh w ill open at 8t. Louis, tion.
fchleago at Clnclnattl, Brooklyn
at New York and Boston at P hil
adelphia.
Competent critics are almost
unanimous In the opinion that
four clubs have to he considered
in
the National League— tho
O A K LAN D , Cal., A pril 13. —
champion Pittsburgh Pirates, the (IP) — Edmund C. H ill, Jr., aged
New York Giants, the St. Louis 3 years, has the right Idea even
Cardinals
and
the Cincinnati If it did cause the police consid
Reds.
The champion Washing erable annoyance.
A four-year-
ton Senators, the Philadelphia old g irl playmate gave Edmund a
Athletics and St. Louis Browns sound spanking so the boy sent
rank as the foremost contenders In excited calls to the police sta
in the American League.
tion fo r help. The shotgun squad
10 N A M E K tO R
MASONIC MEETING
Youngster Calls
Cops To Aid Him
MILK IS HELD
1 0 BE NEEDED
Misa Neveu O. Betz Urges
Closer Supervision of
Supply and Sale
ADDRESSES LUNOHEON
Other Talks Given at
M eeting Conducted
H ealth Unit
Forum
by
Residents of Ashland were
urgently requested to maintain
a closer supervision over the
supply and distribution of their
m ilk, in an address before the
chamber of commerce luncheon
today noon by Miss Neven O.
Betz' of the American Child
H ealth association.
Miss Betz traced the wqrk ac
complished during a m ilk sur
vey here and elsewhere about
the state last November, and
declared this survey showed the
people, and particularly the chil
dren, of Ashland are not d rin k
ing sufficient m ilk.
She said
the only way the m ilk supply
can be guarded is to employ
a fu ll time inspector to analyze
and grade the m ilk of every
dairy a t least once each month.
H is salary, she pointed out,
could be paid under a system ef
licenses on all regular dairy
men who sell m ilk products to
the consumers.
In an entertaining manner,
the speaker went deeply Into the
m ilk question and told of the
results
of
numerous
clinics
throughout the country which
proved that good, wholesome
m ilk and plenty of It is ab
solutely necessary to the grow
ing child.
L. 8. Leech, deputy state food
and dairy commissioner, spoke
briefly and urged local super
vision of the dairies.
D r. V. 8. Geary, county health
officer, introduced the two speak
ers and also told of the Im
portance of the child health
work and proper supervision of
the m ilk supply.
He explained
that the plan Is to have an In
spector appointed to supervise
the m ilk supply of Ashland,
Medford and Grants Pass, and
have the license fees from all
three cities pay the Inspector’s
salary.
The luncheon today noon war
the first at which O. F. Carson,
newly elected president, presid
ed.
H e* outlined some of the
things which the chamber hopes
to accomplish during the coming
year.
The tourist travel, land
settlement work and publicity
w ill be stressed, he said.
Advertise
The
W A SHING TO N. A p ril 13— (tl. i In the 1924 election after Brook-
p .) — Daniel F. Steek, Democrat, hart was given the election by
was awarded the seat of Junior Iowa state officials on a plural-
Unlted States senator from lo w .:, ity of 817 votes. « The recount
late yesterday by vote of the according to a 10 to 1 m ajority
senate.
l report of the senate election«
Acting In the election contest committee, showed Steck had
arising from the 1924 senatoria! won the election by a plurality
race between candidates, t | i ' of 1420 votes and the senate In-
senate deolded that Steck hh<l dorsed* that verdict.
The decision will result In
legally won the election and w|M_
Brookhart becoming a candidate
entitled to the seat.
for the seat now held by Albert
The vote was 46 to 41.
The senate's action auto m it- B. Cummins. Iowa’s senior sen
lcally expelled Senator Smith W. ator, who must stand for, reelcc-
Brookhart, Republican Insurgent., tion this fall.
who has been
serving
since ! Im m ediately after the vote,
March
4, 1926.
Steck was! Steck was brought to the desk
awarded the seat as a result of and was sworn in by Vice Presl-
a recount of the ballots east dent Dawes.
More Buildings
Need At Oregop
U N IV E R S IT Y
O F OR
Eugene, A p ril 13— The unlve
Is suffering a “very acute shi
age of classroom space on
campus,” the visiting committee
of seven prominent citizens rep
resenting nearly 8,000 alumni
In the state, declared in its re
port made public following three
days of investigation on the
campus.
STATE PRESIDENT
• TO VISIT ASHLAND
Parent - Teacher Association
Plans For Meeting Here
On Thursday
f
Mrs. W . W . Oabrlel, president
o f the state Parent-Teach«^- i»-
soclation, who Is on her way
to the national convention of
Parent-Teacher associations at
Savannah, Georgia, w ill be in
Grants Pass on Wednesday, to
speak at the schools and at a
banquet to be given in her
honor at the Redwoods hotel.
Mrs. Louis Dodge of Ashland,
state vice-president, and Mis.
Olen Arnspiger of Medford, dis
tric t vice-president of Josephino,
Jackson and Douglas counties
w ill attend the meetings.
On Thursday, Mrs. Oabriel will
speak at the afternoon meeting
at Medford.
Thursday evening
sn inform al reception will be
held at the L lth la Springs ho
tel w ith the following on the
reception committee, Mrs. J. A.
Ruger, Mrs. E. M. Berg, Mrs.
Clinton Baughman, Mrs. K. P.
Nlms, and Mrs. Louts Dodge.
CAPTURED BY POSSE
Cummiiu Bill for Consolida
tion Reported Out
Favorably Today
W A S H IN G T O N .. D. C., A pril
13— (U .P .)— The Cummins ra il
road consolidation bill, providing
for the voluntary unification ef
railroads -Into a few main sys
tems within the next five years,
was reported favorably today by
the senate Interstate commerce
committee.
Land Settlement
Fat Thief Sticks
Official Leaves
In Window; Police
Moonshine Leak
On Business Trip
Get Him Speedily
Spells Disaster
F E W YO R K , A p ril 13. — From
the Mdan Just In front of the
police flivver
trickled a
thin
stream of liquid.
"Hey, your gas is leaking,"
yelled the friendly coppers, pulling
np alongside. Both machines stop
ped and the policemen got out to
reader assistance.
Thed
they
fo u n d . It was Scotch which was
•scaping.
B
C O M E E FAVORS m MORE C O N «
responded and it took consider
able explaining to smooth over the
situation.
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SCRANTON, A pril 13 — ’A l
though he 1« ’lik e ly to receive re
ducing exercises and diet for t»
year, or so to come, the treat
ment came too late to help Oscar
Bates, who was caught by Police
man M. J. Barry. I t seems that
M r. Bates, who Is an obeee per
sonage, was trying to emerge from
a partly opened window w ith an
arm fu ll of booty. But by an error
of judgment, he did not open the
window Wide enough to permit the
egress of his portly person. Hence
disaster.
ASHLAND CLIMA
Without the use of medicine
nine cases out of ten of
This is a proven fact
A rth u r Foster of th ^ state land
settlement bureau le ft this morn
ing for RoMburg where he w ill
advise with the Douglas County
Land Settlement committee this
evening. He w ill be met at Rose
burg by Mrs. Foster who w ill ac
company him back to Ashland.
Mr. Foster w ill leave the la tte r
part of the week for Los Angeles
where he w ill remain for a week
or ten days In the Interests of
the land settlement, work in Ore
gon. Mrs. Foster will* accompany
him.
Six in All Have Been Taken
Following Sensational
Delivery
N A S H V IL L E , Tenn., April 18.
— Two more of the 17 convicts
who escaped from the Tennessee
penitentiary Friday night «l-’re
captured early today.
Six now
have been captured.
W . A. Craig, serving a life
term for murder committed in
Memphis,
and
James
Oliver,
serving* 21 years for murder,
were caught when three city de
tectives found them asleep In
an abandoned farmhouse near
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lx a
n i k l w r H
m l e
They were
exhausted
after
wandering for hours in a driv
ing rain storm, and surrendered
without resistance.
'PLAZA GROCERY GETS
NEW REFRIGERATION
The Plaaa Grocery has install
ed a modern Iceleas refrigerai ion
system, whleh w ill give the store
the most perfect refrigeration for
their m ilk, butter and other pro
duca. M r. R ill has made several
Improvements In the store recent*
ly and reports that he has en
joyed a splendid bnsiness since
he returned to Ashland and pur
chased th e * store
from H. A*
Stearns.
ORCHARDISTS
FACE SEVERE
CHERRY PEST:
Fruit Fly or Cherry Maggot
. Makes Its Appearance
in Western Section
WARN LOCAL GROWERS
8. D. Taylor Hays Hpraylng M ost
Bo Done or W hole Crop
W ill Re Ixiet
Rogue River valley fru it grow
ers are threatened by the cherry
fru it fly. it was revealed today
by S. D. Taylor, manager of the
Ashland F ru it and Produce as
sociation, and he warns grow
ers that immediate steps must
be taken if they would save the
cherry industry of this section
anit of Western Oregon.
"The industry, In this section
is doomed unless tho cherry mag
got is controlled,"
he said.
"Canners and other buyers of
this fru it lost considerable money
last year due to this worm.
They are prepared this year to
Klamath Falls Woman, De refuse all cherries infested with
these maggots. This means that
serted by Husband
nothing but sprayed
fru it
in
Overcome by Hunger
Western Oregon will be m ar
PO RTLA N D, Ore., A p ril 13— ketable.
(U .P.,— Mrs. Jack Van Ryder,
Easy To Control
25, of K lam ath Falls, carrying
“The Cherry F ru it F ly or
a slx-months-old baby in her Cherry Maggot is an easy pest
arms, fainted In the lobby of to control. It passes the winter
the central police headquarters in the ground, emerging & b &
yesterday. ,
lacy-wing fly in June about the
Mrs. Van Ryder was in the time the Royal Anne takes on
act of reporting to Patrolman its first color. In a short time
W illiam T u lly that her husband, this fly lays her eggs just be
Jack Van Ryder, 26, had desert neath the skin, in the flosh
ed her in K lam ath Falls last of the cherry.
The egg soon
week and that she had been hatches out and proceeds to eat
without food for the last three ana grow fat.
days.
In doing field work, last
Police revived her a n d . sent year, for the Bagley Canning
her to a hotel to he cared for Co., I found no evidence of thia
un til
arrangements
could
be pest, though I found many cher
made for her support. She tolri ries infested with codling moth,
police that her husband drew but it is useless for us to ex-
out what money she had in the 1 pect that we w ill not be vlsltod
bank, then deserted her, Apt 11 by this pest, when It Is all
6, sad two or three days la te r 1 over the W illam ette Valley. If
she received a letter which s aid 1 we allow It to get a foothold
that Van Ryder was going to here we might as well dig up
his mother’s home near H ills -, our trees as we w ill be barred
dale In order to borrow money j from Interstate shipping and
with which to obtain a divorce.. ai80 from the canning market.
She coluld give no reason for
certainly behooves the growers
his departure, she said.
! to be on the alert for this peRt
! and to report at once, to I’ rof.
' Reimer, any indication of Its
I presence in the valley.
SMALL BABY FAINTS
JN POLICE STATION
cüban T mbqzíer
CAU6HT « DENVER
Sw eet Spray
" I t can be controlled and erad
icated by a sweet,poison spray.
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consisting of Arsenate of Lend.
Young Bank Clerk Who Ad- Molasses and water, applied
m ite Stealing $48.000
several times each season. This
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Paces Jail Cell
: 8Pr®y cannot be applied with
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D EN VER , Colo., April 13— as the lime-sulphur Is repellent
(U .P .)— T. F. Alalza, flashily to them and they w ill not eat
dressed Cuban embezzler, was poison containing any trace of
pacing a cell In the city jail it.
W e w ill be glad to advise
here today awaiting some where growers as to mixing this spray,
from Cuba, where he is wanted time of application, etc., and to
for the theft of 348,000 from a do all we can to prevent tills
bank where he was employed as pest from getting started here."
an accountant.
He was ar
rested after local bank officials
became suspicious of the mupty
bills which he presented to be
cashed.
Alaiza Is said to have made
a complete confession of the
theft after his arrest, and has
PO RTLAND, April 13. — (IP)
agreed to return to Cuba to face — Duo to heavy shipments there
punishment without extradition. are fewer logs in the Columbia
and W illam ette river than for
years. The Long-Bell Lumber
company cut 28,000,000 feet of
lumber during March. This was
the largest monthly cut in the
history of that m ill.
Logging Business
Is Slowing Down
Stanley Dollar
Offer Accepted
WASHINGTON,
D.
C.,
April
IS — (U .P .)— The United 8tates
shipping board today voted to
accept the 84,600,000 hid of the
Stanley Dollar Interests for tho
Admiral-Oriental line which op
erates from Puget Sound to the
Orient.
Baby Clinic Will
Be Held Thursday
Hastens Home To
Prevent Divorce
Officer T
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BULLET
i Trouble
SAN DIEOO, Cal., April
13— (U .P .,— Colonel Alex
ander W illiam s had itom -
ach trouble on the night
of March 6th and was not
drunk, as charged by
General Smedley D. But
ler, according to the ac
cused officer’s testimony
which was started today
at his court m artial here
on charges of intoxica
tion.
General B utler’s charges
which were hurled In
the open court m artial,
were denied by the testi
mony of defense w it
nesses who declared that
Colonel W illiam s had a
sudden attack of stomach
trouble at the Hotel Del
Coronado which
neces
sitated his being assisted
home.
General
Butler
had
charged he had to be as
sisted home because he
wns drunk.
a Josephine Pokorny, Aged 16,
n
Commits Suicide at
Home in Pinehurst
BETRAYED BY LOVER
School Girl Sende Bullet Into Her
Brain Because of
Despondency
Despondent, beeouse the man
she loved had betrayed her,
8 Josephine Pokorny, aged 1ft,
No1 Lii««.
MR MAIL SCHEDULE
IT
Leaves Farewell Note
Pacific Northwest Will Have
Daily Afternoon Deliv
ery, is Plan
PORTLAND. Ore., April 13 —
(U .P .— Aq air mail schedule
whereby the Pacific northwest
w ill have afternoon delivery in
California, and Los Angeles will
have afternood delivery In Pa
cific northwest cities, is being
worked out by Verne C. Qorat,
president of the Pacific Aid
Transportation, It was announc
ed here today.
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Gorst has the government eow-
The girl lived with a step
father and step-mother at the
small sawmill settlement ad
jacent to Pinehurst.
H er step
parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. E l
liott.
, To them she left a farewell
note, saying she h ad , become
despondent because of 111 health
and named a man named W h lt
zel as being responsible for her
condition.
Whttzel is said to
.live In another state, and the
authorities will continue an in
vestigation as a result of the
facts related in her farewell
note. W hltzel and the girl had
been corresponding since she
had been at Pinehurst, it was
said.
tract for coastwise air service
to start between May 15 and
June
1.
Under a tentative
H ad Been Morose
schedule, a plane w ill leave Se
The girl had been attending
attle at 4 a. m., and arrive at the Pinehurst district school and
Los Angeles at 4 p. m. It will was to have graduated Into high
stop at Portland and San Fran school within the
next
few
cisco.
On the same route a j weeks.
She was said to have
plane w ill leave Los Angeles at been bright in her studies ul-
3 a. m., and arrive at Seattle though she had been of a mor
at 3:30 p. m.
ose disposition during recent
FI
BENEFIT OF DOUBT
months.
i
Funeral
arrangements
i not yet been completed.
father and mother are
dead, but she Is survived
brother ana a half-brother,
i living at Pinehurst.
have
Her
both
by a
both
Man Who Cashed Govern-;.—
_ ,
ment Check Will Not be Brandenburg
Sent to Prison
PO RTLAND, Ore., April 13. —
.— Because the government attor
ney and Federal Judge Wolverton
chose to 'give him the beneflt of
the doubt, Edmund T. Sumpter,
22-year-old youth of Starbuck,
Wash., today escaped a jail sen
tence when he admitted the for
gery of a government check. In
stead. he was paroled for one
year to the United States mar
shal’s office on condition that he
repay Mrs. C. C. Durfey, Hermis
ton hotel proprietor, the 3124.66
which she had to make good after
she had been kind enough, to in
dorse the check. Judge Wolverton
gave him 9Q days in which to pay
back the money.
May
Show Films Here
Early Next Month
An effort w ill be made to in
duce George Brandenburg, secre
tary of the Oregon 8tate Motor
association, to present his motion
pictures before an Ashland audi
ence shortly after he returns from
the east.
This was the word
brought here today by H. E. Gale
of Grants Pass, district manager
for the association.
Mr. Brandenburg is now In the
east where he has been showing
several reels of Oregon films to
people in various eastern cities,
including
Washington.
These
films
depict
vacation
scenes
throughout the state and are de
signed to attract the tourist travel
here this summer.
EXPEDITION FAILS
10 SIGHT MUSHERS Former Ashland
Attempts of Captain Wilkins
in Plane to Find Over
land Party Fail
F A IR B A N K S , Alaska, April 12
— (U .P .)— A. Malcolm (Sandy)
EDM ONTON, Atta., April 13 — Smith, his mushers and his doga
Lord Cheylsmore, wealthy British faced possible starvation today
peer, Is hurrying to London to ’ as they pressed on toward Point
forestall hts Wife, a former actress Barrow, last outpost of the De
who Is suing him tor divorce. His trolt-A rctlc expedition.
Attempts of Captain George H.
lordship had a suit of his own
for divorce started here, when he W ilkin s and Pilot Ben Blelson
learned that
Lady Cheylsmore to locate the men from the air
plane, the Alaskan, and drop
might best him to the verdict.
them food were unsuccessful,
the
airmen reported when they
Moving—
H. C. 'O aley and family are returned here late ysterdey.
The baby clinic meets Thurs
day afternoon at the Civic Club
House with D r. V. 8. Geary
and members of the County Unit,
and Miss Ada Brewster, county
home demonstration agent, pres moving from 670 Fairview street
to 187 Sherman street
ent.
TRAGIC
pact or fina,
, shot and killed herself at her
horn«« near Pinehurst on the
I Grw-n Springs highway early
lust evening.
A bullet from s
small calibre weapon pierced her
brain and she is believed to
have died almost instantly.
Coroner (Jonger and Deputy
Sheriff Lewis of Medford made
an Investigation at Pinehurst
last night ana brought the g irl’s
body to Ashland where it was
left with Deputy Coroner Stock,
The coroner announced today
that it Is probable no lnqnest
will be held.
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Classified Ads Bring Resalte.
Girl Is Married
Mrs. L. A .. Phillips received an
announcement of the marriage ef
her niece, Mias Ernestine Edwards
to Dr. F rite Julius Swanson ea
Friday, A p ril
1 at 8t. Paul’s
church. New York City. Mias E r
nestine Edwards w ill he remem
bered by many Ashland people.
Oregon end
ton— Fair tonight, Wed- «
needay fair except »n- E
settled west porttoa Wash- •
tagtoa and northwest por- •
tlon Oregon. Light vart- tt
h* f