\S t lk A ^ \ I IjM A jh
u ufcuiu»
\ | medicine cure»
H T ’ M A k A B J A $ £ B M ¡S I ’ i
I pann [«it. «arrive three mohths ut
he rj
rich ozone at Aealand. Éun-
the
I domestio
dome
water, halpa.
* í «
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up
T/U Tidings Has Been Ashland's Leading
paper For N ea rly F ifty
Years
o<*
(United Preea Wire Service)
Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Voi
VOL. XLIX
CONTRACT FOR“
SIDEWALKS , ; IS |
LET BY CITY
41
NO. 196
ASHLAND. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926
™ “ “ KLAMATH HAN
M THREATENS TO
DROWN SPOUSE
A s Strike Leader
LARGE AND SIGHTLY SIGN
TO BE ERECTED AS GUIDE
TO LITHIA PARK AND CAMP
. of ten of asthma.
-proven fact.
Both B ills For
ANOTHER ROW
STARTS OVER
DRY HEARING
Farm R elief To
®e^°re H ° use
tt
tt
tt
jlJ
«
Anti-Saloon League and Li tt
!»
quor Interests Reopen
Fireworks
' tt
FOUR ALLEGED
AUTO THIEVES
ARE ARRESTED
WASHINGTON, D. C-,
April 21. — (LP) — An
effort to have the house
agricultural committee re
scind Its atklon of yes
terday in deciding to re » I Everett Rhodes, 15, Shot in
City Policeman Interferes
Calvert, Calvert and Schrad
Leg in Attempt to
port out both the Haugen
As Woman is Pleading
er of Grants Pass Are
Escape Officers
and
Tlncher
farm
relief
For Her Life
Lowest Bidders .
hills wus made today at
IN THRILLING CHASE
MORE TIME DEMANDED!« a turbulent session of the
HUSBAND IS ARRESTED
WORK TO START SOON
l
committee.
Local Officers Nab Quartet of
Wets Want to 4’I ohc Argument
At one time the discus
Bernie Duckett Jailed A fter Al
Tbrye-HIuule Motor for Normal P
«
Boys in Hard Chase on
Anil
-Dry»
M
ay
They
sion
became
so
heated,
leged
Threat
Against
His
School; City to Aid on
t$
Highway
Have Last Huy
one member of the com
Park Sign
W ife
«
mittee threatened to re
tt
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.
sign unless the quibbling
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April
Another decisive step forward ö
Everett Rhodes, aged 15, of
— (IP) — Drys and wets reopened !
was stopped. It was pre
21. — Charged with attempting
In the sidewalk improvement pro «
Los
Angeles, is in a local hospi
the
clash
over
the
fairness
of
the
1
dicted that If both bills
to drown his wife in Ewauna lake,
ject near the normal school was «
tal
with
a bullet wound in his
senate
prohibition
investigating
1
wero reported out by the
Bernie Duckett, Klamath farmer,
taken by the city council last night «
j.
j
right
leg.
while three youthful
committee
today
as
the
hearing
'
committee
tho
open
de
war arrested Monday night at the
/when Culvert, Culvert and Sch tt
g
;
companions
are held in Jail on
drew
near
a
close.
bate would become so
edge of the lake and yesterday
rader, Grants Pass contractors, tt
charges
of
auto
theft as the re
Wayne
B.
Wheeler,
general
1
£
bitter and extended it
afternoon was arraigned before
were awarded the contract - for »
sult
of
a
thrilling
chase on the
counsel
for
the
Anti-Saloon
Lea-
;
£
might
defeat
any
and
all
Justice of the Peace R. A. Em-
the entire Job. Their bid was the »
Pacific
highway
a
few
miles south
gue,
demanded
that
the
drys
be
!
£
farm
relief
legislation
at
mitt on charge of assault with K u b li To Serve.:
lowest of seven received. They
V
of
Ashland
early
last
evening.
allotted
an
additional
three
hours
£
tills session.
>
lptent to kill.
offered to do the work at 16 cents
__
__ < A
Rhodes
was
struck
by
a bullet
|n
.which
to
present
testimony.
He
That he had beaten her and
for sidewalks, 22 cents for cross
Term
In
Prison
from
the
revolver
of
Policeman
Claimed
that
Senator
Reed
had
then dragged her to the edge of
ings and 80 cents for curb and
Harry Ingling when the supposed
tnkenup thus much time In the i
Ewauna lake, stating that he
gutter. According to the figures
examination
of
witnesses.
stolen car failed to halt at the
would drown her, was the state
Chester Kubli, who comes from
compiled last night by City En
command of the officers.
The
Julien
Codman,
attorney
for
the
ment of the wife, Mrs. Pearl a pioneer Jackson county family, Shipping Board to Confer
gineer Walker, the total amount
bullet
pierced
only
the
flesh
and
wet
interests,
protested.
He
said
Duckett, to District Attorney El must serve three years in the
of their bid will reach >28,622.50.
With
President
Before
Is
not
considered
serious.
that
dry
members
had
taken
up
state penitentiary for his part in
This Is approximately the amount American Legion Post Ex liott yesterday afternoon.
Deciding
more thnn this amount of time In
Other» Held
pecting Big Crowd Out
Ordered to Pray
wrecking the Bank of Jackson
which was estimated.
Formation of Ball Club Still The Three
their
examination
of
wet
wit
other
three
boys held are
For
Function
"Hd told me he would give ihe ville, according to word received
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 21.
Other Bidders
Considered Likely For
nesses.
Pearl
Roberts.
15,
of
Long Beach,
five
minutes
to
say
my
prayehs,
by Interested friends this morn — (IP) — Members of the United
A. L. Lamb was next lowest I
Ashland
Wheeler also demanded that
driver of the alleged stolen car;
bidder for the work, his total I Between eight and a dozen and that I had better get down ing. The state supreme conrt yes States shipping board will ask
the drys be permitted to present
old-time fiddlers are expected on my knees and start saying terday afternoon denied a peti
Doug Reed, temporary cap Joseph Beach, 15, of Long Beach
price reaching $30,959, accord-j
the advice of President Coolidge
the
final
argument
to
the
com
here
tomorrow
nl^ht
to
take
part
them," Mrs. Duckett said.
tion for a re-hearing which had before signing thé contract for
lng to Engineer Walker’s figures, i
tain of the Ashland baseball and George Thornton, 16, of Los
mittee instead of the wets. This
In
the
old-fashioned
fiddlers'
Attracted
by
the
screams
of
the
been
filed
on
behalf
of
Kubli.
the sale of the government-own
club, today urged that all play Angeles.
Others who submitted bids were •
question was taken under advise
The chase started a short dist
Frank Jordan, Freeland and Tins-! contest which will be staged at woman, City Patrolman Reed
ed Admiral-Oriental line to the
ers who wish to play this summer
ment by the committee.
the armory under the auspices rushed to her assistance and plac
ance
the other side of Nell Creek
Stanley Dollar interests, it was
turn out for practice every even
dale, R. I. Stuart, M. J. Olsen and
of
the
local
American
Legion
when
Policeman Ingling and Jack
ed Duckett under arrest.
The
learned today. This is the first
ing at 5 o’clock at the high
C. J. Semon of Medfbrd.
Post.
Fiddlers
from
all
parts
of
Schrader,
who accompanied him.
prisoner
wgs
in
the
get
of
strik
favorable
response
to
the
storm
The contractors are expected to
school grounds. Baseball en
of protest from the northwest
file the necessary bonds within the the county are planning to ing the woman when arrested by
thusiasts now have one or two ed toward Ashland at a high rate
against the acceptance of the Dol
next few days and start active compete for the cash and mer Reed on the banks of the lake.
sites under consideration for e toward Ashland at a hfgh rate
chandise
prizes
which
have
been
Weeks
Divorce
s
lar bid.
construction of the sidewalk Im
ball park just outside the city of speed. Ingling turned his own
I
offered.
Mrs.
Duckett
had
recently
filed
provement early next week.
limits, and a determined effort car broadside across the highway,
. --------;—«— '----
Following the fiddle contest, suit for divorce and It was the William McMurray, Union
A controversy which has been
"
!
will be made to organize an but the four boys swerved their
Pacific
Agent,
Dies
Irving
V
ining
To
an
old
fashioned
dance
will
suit that Incensed the husband,
carried on for the past several
Workers Find Body of An- A»hland baseball club, it was roadster around the police car
After Long Illness
and speeded on toward the city.
be
staged,
with
all
of
the
fiddlers
according
to
the
district
attorney’s
other Man; Fate of
weeks was definitely settled last
decided at a meeting last night.
IngTlng fired several shots at
D
eliver
Address
Others
Doubtful
night when the council ordered furnishing the music. The contest office. He came to Klamath Falls
PORTLAND, Ore., April 21. —
the
fast disappearing car, one of
and
dance
are
open
to
the
gen-
from a. ranch where he la, work HP) — William McMurray, gen-,
electric light wlgjng to the new
them
going through the rear part
.QUINCY/
Cal.,
April
21.
—
(,IP)
eral
public.
ing,
late
Monday
afternoon.
Seek
T
o
M
edford
Post
normal school for a three-phase
eral passenger agent for the uaAj
—
Rucks
mountain
tunnel
of
the
of
the
car and hitt'ng young
ing
ont
his
wife
he
attacked
hpr,
motor which is being Installed
ion Pacific, died here yesterday
Feather River Powder company
r hodes In the left leg.
and then dragged her to the Afternoon. He had been an Ore-
there. City Manager Malone urg Stom ach Pum p Is
Irving Vining of Ashland will
brink of the lake, telling her that gon railroad man for the past 20 address a large gathering at the today yielded up Its second dead
Talent Gluss iYieite
ed that a single phage motor be
Imprison
he would drown her, she told the years and was widely known Medtord Armory next Monday victim. 43ix men were
Stale Traffic Officer Charley
used because It would save the
r
lagt
U sed To Prevent distrldf attorney.
Talent was a short d’stance be
city a considerable sum of money
throughout the Pacific northwest. > nlght Aprn 26th, on the subject
S aturday night, Thus far It has , /ssis ta s t Cashier Waylaid hind the police car. and when he
In laying wires, but J. H. Fuller,
The deceased was born at Belfast,! of “Americanism." This patriotic been a fifty-fifty race with death.
bv Bandits and Re
S elf D estruction
saw the roadgter s^eed by him he
normal school regent, declared the
Ireland, 65, years ago.
Heart address will he delivered as a
lieved
of
$25,000
One
man,
Thomas
McDermott,
turned about
gave chase
building had been wired for a
trouble with complications caused special feature at the public in
was hauled from the mass of dirt
When
the
boys
snW
he
was gain
three-phase motor and the cost
BEND, April 21— Prompt ucc
his death.
CHICAGO, April 21—Three
itiation of new members of Med- a ~ tlmber8 yeBtMdBy ftnd has a
ing
on
them,
they
jammed
on the
of changing would be prohibitive of a stomach pump, which re
ford Post No. 15, American Le chance to recover. This morning 1 robbers pounced out of a dark
brakes,
turned
the
car
into a
at this time. Normal school au lieved 17-year-old Opal Dunu of
gion, to which all people of Med the rescue workers fyund the life-1 hallway on Halstead street here
ditch
at
the
side
of
the
road
and
thorities likewise Insisted that two ounces of poison which she
ford and vicinity have been In- less body of James Coyne, aged ■ yesterday, hurled Kasper O.
rleaped
out.
the three-phase motor is more de had swallowed, will save the Los Angeles Business Men
vited. Admission Is free.
Schmidt, assistant cashier of
45.
Two of the boys, Roberts and
sirable.
girls life, attending physicians
Sent to Prison for Four
In the neighborhood of fifty
the Prudential State Savings
Beach, fled Into the underbrush
For Park Sign
announced. Disappointment in
Year Term
new members will be initiated in
bank to the ground and took
of Nell creek and tried to escape.
At the request of City Manager love Is said to have prompted
a group Into the ranks of the
from him a package containing
The other two. Rhodes and Thorn
LOS ANGELES, April 21 —
Malone, the council authorized an the girl's attempt to end. her
$25,000 and then threw him ton remained with the stalled cjtr.
Daughter of Wealthy New American Legion at this meet
appropriation of $172 to defray life. She Is the daughter of Mr. Louis Lehmus; prominent mer
ing. Vice-Commander Norris of
Into a nearby basement. They
Yorker Held for $6000
"8tay right here or the police
one fourth thè cost of installing and Mrs. M. Dunn of this city. chant, was today fined $4000
Medford Post will be In charge
also took the assistant cashier's men back of you will shoot to
By
Kidnapers
n large electric sign for Lithia
and sentenced to four years 1”
of arrangements, and n large
revolver.
kill,” Talent warned tho two boys
Park and the auto camp at the Portland Man Is
the penitentiary on the charge
NEW, YORK. April 21— (U.- gathering of Lcglonaires and their
Schmidt, whose father is presi
plaza block. The city park board
of knocking down aq aged men P .)— A score of dectectives families will be present, together Premier Briand Ready to dent of the bank was returning in the auto as be leaped to the
Injured in Crash and woman with his motor car searched the Brownsville sec with other citizens of Medford
ground and took after their two
and the chamber of commerce
Settle With U. S. Says
to the bank with $25,000 he hud fleeing companions.
will pay the balance of the cost.
several weeks ago. After Injuring tion of Brooklyn Monday night1 and surrounding communities in
Reliable Report
just obtained at the First Na
Clyde A. Mnlone, J. H. Fuller
Finds Fugitives
PORTLAND, Ore., April 21— them, Lehmus, It Is alleged, for 10-year-old Emma Martuecb terested in patriotic activities. The
tional bank downtown.
and W. H. Perkins were appoint (U.P.)—John B. Yeon, capitalist speeded up and made off without daughter of a wealthy tile com gathering is scheduled (tor 8 o’
PARIS, April 21. — (IP) —
About 500 yards from the road
ed by Mayor Johnson to represent and former member of the state offering aid.
side. Talent found the pair ot
pany owner, .who was kidnapped clock, next Monday evening, April It was learned from nn authora-
the city at a Southern Oregon hlghwgy commission, was pain
youthful fugitives and covered
at noon Monday as she was re 26th. at the Medford Armory. A titlve source today that Premier
milk conference t° b® held al fully Injured yesterday when his
them with his gun. They submit
turning home to luncheon from number of musical numbers will Briand has Informed the senate
Medford tonight. The purpose of auto crashed into one driven by
committee
on
foreign
affairs
that
ted to arrest without further
also
be
presented
along,
with
other
schsei. The child Is held (or
an agreement has beon reached
this conference Is to map out some a local insurance man. Yeons
trouble.
entertainment
features.
$6000 ransom, according to 3
for a settlement of the $400,200. -
plan whereby the cities of South right ear was badly lacerated
The quartet of boys had been
note handed her father by a mes
ern Oregon can procure the ser and he suffered other painful
000,000 debt which France owes
chased through Siskiyou county
senger boy.
Second One Will be Ready by State,Traffic Captain Dutro ot
A ir Mail Service
vices of a regular milk Inspector Injuries.
the United States.
Next Week; Other
to standardize and Inspect all milk
.California.
They bad out-dist
Facilities Planned
• W ill B eR esu m ed
sold In Southern Oregon. The
anced Dutro, and the California
U
niversal
Health
Directors Will Meet at the
project Is being sponsored by fed B ootblack F eted
officer then telephone Into Ash
One of the double cottages at land for the local police to inter
H e W anted To Get
Cijv Hall Next Tues
eral and state health authorities.
W
ithin
Few
Days
Exam
s
Are
Urged
the Lithia Spring auto park was cept them.
day Evening
As R oyal Guest
completed last evening and is
R
id
of
Sons
Who
From Lon« Beach
The proposed public meeting
BOISE, Idaho, April 21— (U.-
now ready fpr occupancy, accord
DALLAS, Texas, April 21 —
According
to word received by
of
the
newly
organized
chamber
CORONADO,
Cal.,
April
21
—
P.)—Air
mall
service
over
the
ing
to
announcement
by
Frank
4LP) — Universal health examina
Pow er Company
-Caused*
Him
Grief
Chief
of
Police
McNabb, young
Society dames are whispering of commerce directors will bo tion through district organizations Elko-Boise-Pasco ebn tract air
Jordan, chairman of the park
Roberts
and
Beack
are alleged Jo
held
next
Tuesday
evening
In
To E xtend Line in glee at the consternation of stead of tomorrow, evening. as the most feasible plan to ward mall route will probably be re SAN FRANCISCO, April 21 — board. The other double cottage ^ave stolen the roadster
at Long
one of their number who exploit
sumed
In
considerably
less
time
will be furnished and ready for
hff and halt disease, is advocated
ed the "Grand Duke Sergius This was the announcement at by Dr. William D. Haggard, presi thatf the 60 days allowed, by the "To my worthless son, Wilfred, occupancy by the last of next Beach. They are said to have
WASHINGTON,’ D. C., April Romanoff," to the chagrin of the chamber of commerce head dent of the American Medical as- postoffice department, according I have already given $1000 on week.
picked up the other two boys at
San
Francisco and offered to
21—The California-Oregon Pow social rivals, and who is flow quarters today.
condition
that
he
expends
that
to Water T. Varney of San Fran
’soclation.
The- park board is now consid
hrlng
thorn north.
er company has applied for a In jail on theft charges. He
sum
for
a
ticket
that
would
The meeting will be held In
Speaking at the opening s ion cisco, contractor, who Is here
ering plans for the construction
Tho four will be held here un-
license för a transmission line ex proved .to be a R
the city hall and all members
supervising the installation of take him as far away from me ot several summer cot la gee ta
tending from the Fall creek pow who eked out a frugal llvllhood of the chamber will be Invited nnal convention here, Dr. Hag new motors in the planes being as it would go." In the will of help lake care of the auto tour |il officers from California arrive
er plant In Siskiyou county Cal as a Los Angeles bootblack.
Wilford Salmon 8r., Just filed, ists during the summer months. |o take them Into custody.
to participate. Reports for the gard urged that the plan he adopt used on* the route.
ifornia, to Klamath Falls, Ore
past year and an outline of the ed In the 34 states where it Is
Inefficiency of the former mo testator further says he had be
gon, the federal power commis
program for the ensuing year now In operation.
tors In the planes caused the queathed $1000 to each of his
sion
announce^., today.
The
will be considered by the direc
trouble on the opening day other sons, with the satisfaction W andering H obo
Escapes Jail By
length of the proposed insUl Other Girfs W ant
tors.
which resulted In the request for that it would send them to the
latiçn would be 38 miles.
the suspension.. New Wrjght mo- devil quicker than they would
liti
Ingenious Trick
P ek in g W ithout
< Is L Í eft 1 Fortune
T ó B e Cinderella
tors have arrived and will be! otherwise go. He reproached them
given ’thorough tests within the ior trying to railroad him to an
H
ubby
D
iscovers
A
ny
govern
m
en
t
NEW YORk, April 21.— Wan-
KWLSO, April t l — H. Taft,
next
two weeks. H Is believed !;»«yluto to secure his estate.
Son O f Actor Is
NEW YORK, April 21— Hun
Bulk
of
his
estate
goes
to
dis-
dering
around
somewhere,
an4
held
on a liquor possession
that these tests will allow, re-t
dreds of young women want to
W ifey Fooled H im PEKINO, April 21. — (LP) — sumption
-'hvrge
In the nswly completed
tant
relative«.
probably
without
a
meal
.
or
*
0
Cut Off B y W ill become Ctndhrellas and be adopt
of service on the
bed.
Is
Wallace
Ellis-Irving
for
[juvenile
ward, fashioned a hook
within
the
next
month.
Peking la without any govern
ed by rich, elderly men like
some time a ward ot the 8alva i from wire, attached It to a traa-
KANSAS
CITY.
Mo.,
April
ment today, following the Hight
NEW YORK, April 21— (U - Browning, realty magnate, who
tlon Army, which Is seeking hlm’ som rod, opened a drawer in the
Rain in west portion and tt Elks la d le» Club Meet —
P.)-^-Heary, Miller Jr. of Los recently wedded a j 5-year-old 21— Charles Saxton, a plasterer, of former President Chi Jul «0 »
with good news. Tha evangelists desk of 'the Juvenile officer,
Elks
Ladles
Card
club
will
Angeles, son of Henry Miller, the girl. Advertisements áre flood has divorced his wife, Sadie Tien Tklfl. and there are indloa- $$ east portion of Oregon, tt
say
they have word that lir o g hooked a hunch of kegs, laclud-
meet
Thursday
at
2
p.
m.
at
Occasional
rain
In
Wnsh-
tt
famons aetpr and producer, who ing the personal columns offer Saxton. He discovered that he ttops that the situation' will he »
has
failed
heir to a bequest of ’*)< that of the ward, and eseap-
the
cldb
room.
Hostesses
for
tho
Ington
tonight
and
Thura-
tt
tt
further
aggravated
by
a
cla»h
be
died two weeks ago here, Is cut ing all ages and types of female was Sadies eighth husband in
$11,¿00
b
j
tke death of a ed. No trace of him has
afternoon
will
be,
Mrs.
J.
D.
day.
Southwest
coast
tt
tt
tween
Manchurian
troops
and
the
stead
of
her
fifth,
as
she
had
off without anything ip the will pulchritude In return for love
cousin.
found.
McRae
and
Mrs.
Frank
Merlll.
. r,
tt
tt winds. > /
army of Wn Pet Fu.
\
for some nice lonely gentleman.- | represented.
of his father.
$t
tt
1$
»
tt
»
n
»
«
i$
PASSAIC, N. J., April
21. — (IP) — Prospects
for a settlement of the
New Jersey textile mills
Btrike, which is now in
its 13th week, appeared to
rest ’ today on the will
ingness of Albert Wels-
brod to withdraw aa strike
leader.
If the young Harvard
graduatd'and alleged com
munist should withdraw,
it Is understood that the
American federation of la
bor will take over the
strike and negotiate for a
settlement.
Today
was
another
peaceful day in the strike
area.
The usual picket
lines are out with police
guarding the mills.
A large electric sign for the i quickly as possible from the com-
Lithia Park and aato camp will pany's branch at Oakland. He
be erected on Main street opposite, has been here for several days
the Plaza fountain within |he Interesting men and city officials
next 30 days as the result of an i in the project.
^agreement reached by the cham-J The sign will bo of royal blue
ber of commerce, the city park 1 with red inset borders and a large
board and the city council.
red arrow of exposed lamps and
The sign, 15 feet an* 2 l.ehes ! wU1 b8 80 placed that U can be
by 8 feet and 3 inches, wlU be
bf
au‘° tourist8 * on?ing
mounted on a concrete ornarne- e,th«r ir° m th®1noJ th °r “ U‘h ,
. . . base, 16
, „ . feet . , long, . four ».
The v sign will be installed
,tal
feH .
..
, „ by
tl^<clty,
with
the
aid
of
Guy
high and six feet wide. It will be
j(|i Good, who has been one of the
of double face construction
chief boosters for the civic im
porcelain efiameled steel.
/ ; JdL provement.
A contract was signed this
Mr. Strickland announced to
morning with Frank O. 8trlck day that he Is establishing tern-
land, sales engineer for the Fed porary headquarters in Ashland
eral Electric company. Who said while he covers the Southern
th^e sign would /he shipped as Oregon field.
L ASK COOLIDGE
ON SHIP LINE SALE
MANY FIDDLERS TO
m
FLAW
MED 10 M iff
M A G fr BANKER IS
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