ê , ; MALABTA GERMS Cannot survive three months in the rich ozone at Asfthmd. Pure domestic water helps. ASHLAND CLIMATE W iihout the use of medicine < _ nine cases out of ten of asthma. This is a p ‘-»ven fact. Tidings Has Been Ashland's Beading M ewpaper For Nearly Fifty Years (United PNM Wire Service) VOU XI,IX SENIOR CLASS PLAY SCORES DECIDED HIT =£- Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volarne 49 ASHLAND, OREGON, SATruDAY- APRIL 24, 1926 HIGHWAY WILL Auto Theft Probe BE COMPLETED BY SEPTEMBER PLEADING OF WIFE Cast of Characters Following Is the complete cast and synopsis: Tom Browne, the chief engin eer, Jack Stewart, who drew the plans ..................... Wilbur Tucker Colonel bane, a heavy stock holder ......................... Earl Nutter Lannon, a contractor, ......... ............................. Virgil Gillette Bolton, Browne’s valet ................. ............. i............ Roland Parks Dalntry, foreman at the dam :..... .............. ?........... Albert Marske Eva Lou, the Colonel’s daughter ........................ ....... Velma Clapp Torrence. Lannon’s daughter .... .......... .......... Frances Chisholm Mrs. Lane-Turner, Eva Lou’s Aunt Jude ............ Elizabeth Stearns ATTORNEY GENERAL FAYORSOIL MERGER Amalgamation is N ot Any Violation of Anti Trust Laws, He Sai ■vs WASHINGTON, April 24.— (U P)— Formation of the Tide water Associated Oil company by merger of the Associated Oil company and of the Tidewater company is not in violation of anti-trus^ laws, Attorney General Sargent announced today. Department of justice agents investigated the merger and Sar gent said their reports did not warrant instituting action under Place— Arizone. the anti-trust laws against the Time—The present. company. The government, he Act. 1.— Browne’s apartments said, could reopen the ease at in Colonel Lane's residence, nine any time. o’clock in the evening. Going it blind. Act II— Engineer’s general of fices at the gain, six weeks later. Keeping it up. Act III—The same, the follow ing mornfhg. Putting it over. Business Mgr......Warren Doremus SEATTLE, Wash., April 24.— Stage Mgr........... Hubert Gilmore (UP)— D. F. Burns, aged 59, Is Property Mgr....... Charles Tilton being quizzed by the police who suspect him of being the vandal whose depredations cost two lives and thousands of dollars of damage. Burns was arrest ed during the night as he was releasing the brakes of a coal KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April car in the Northern Pacific 24, — Lennart C. Sands, oiler yards, it was charged. The car would have, gone for the Lamm Lumber company at Modoc Point, came to his death down a grade to great damage through electrocution, it was de if the deed had not been dis termined at an autopsy over the covered. Railroad officials have body of the popular young mill been seeking for five months a worker. The body at first show man who set a Northern Pacific ed no signs of having been burn switch engine in motion, caus ed by electric ¿current and the ing it to crash into a Great cause of his death was a mystery. Northern train at the King He died a few minutes after go street station here, killing two ing to work - ——s-------------- Caught Trying to Unswitch R. R. Car Electrocution Is Held Death Cause Air Service To Auto Suicide Is Start On May 1 Latest in London SEATTLE, April 24.— An nouncing that air mail service be tween Seattle and Los Angeles would be Instituted about June 1, Vern C. Gorst, president of the Pacific air mall transport, was here today to perfect mat ters pertaining to the air mail schedule. He arrived here from the south yesterday via air plane. Gorst declared the Paeoo- Elko air mall route might again be <Q operation by May 1. STOKB-ON-TRENT, England. April 24,— John P. Fleet, 23, an automobile enthusiast, depressed following an attack of Influenza, locked himself in his father’s ga rage, started the motor of a road ster, attached a rubber gas tube to the exhaust, inserted it In Ms mouth and committed suicide. Langlois— Star cheese factory opens, to handle 80,000 pounds milk a day. EAR1H SLIDE REPORTO) ÂT CRATER LAKE Amundsen^ Par* < At Spitzbet For Pole Flight SCHOOL BOARD TO OPEN BIDS FOR BUILDING 8 KINGS BAY. Spitzberg » en, April 21. — (IP) —' Plans for the chamber of com and participate in the night meet » Captain llaold Amundsen merce prograni for the ensuing ing in the city councU chambers 8 nud Lincoln Ellsworth year will be. discussed, and re in order that a complete outline :: have arrived here, the ports oB officers and committees of the year’s work can be map Boat Houses Badly Damaged 8 starting point of the flight Contract for New Junior for the past year will be heard at ped out. High Expected to be By Tons of Earth and 8 they will attempt to cross "I am more than pleased with the open meeting of the' chamber Awarded Tonight Rock, is Report 8 the north pole in the dir of commerce directors in the city the cooperation which has been 8 igible Norge. hall at 8 o’clock Tuesday even shown by the individual members NEW PATH IS NEEDED 8 WORK STARTS AT ONCE Crowds welcomed Cap ing. This wilt be the first pub thus far, and I am sure that with 8 tain Amundsen and Ells Excavating Now Being Done; Pa* lic meeting -of the chamber in 'the permanent committees organ John Maben Makes P erilous Way 8 worth, who came from plls Not to be Moved This From Rim to latke; Bouts ized and under way. this will be several months. 8 Tropisoe, Norway, to make Year - W recked a most profitable year for the 8 final preparations for the O. F. Carson, newly elected I chamber," said Mr. Carson. flight which may carry 8 president of the organization, Will "There are a number of import A gigantic slide has swept Rids for the alteration of the announce his committee appoint ant matters to come before the away hundreds of tons of aarth 8 them across the pole to present Hawthorne school into a ments, on which he has been organization, and I am sure that and rock down the precipitous 8 Point Barrow, Alaska. junior high school will be open working for the past two weeks. all of them can be speedily and descent from the rim of Crater ed at a special meeting of the j school board tonight, and if tho There will be no forum lunch successfully solved through the Lake to the surface of the lake, I bids are acceptable, a contract and cooperation partially destroying the boat eon on Tuesday noon, but all coordination houses and causing other dam ; will be awarded In order that members will be urged to attend which Is everywhere apparent." age. ! the work may be started as This was the long distance speedily as possible. message received here lats night Several contractors are sub from John Maben, who is now at Hawaiian Born People of mitting bids for this work and Eastern Countries Get Crater Lake lodge putting it in it is expected that competition Special Permits readiness for the summer tour will be keen. Extensive atlera- —< ist travel. WASHINGTON^ D. C.. April tions are planned under the The body of Emil Mahony, . Maben yesterday felt his way 24. — (U.P.) — Restrictions drawings of the school board ar who died at Cottage Grove will down the 1000 feet from the rim against the entrance into the chitect, and when completed the be brought to Ashland tomor to the lake and came upon the United States of Hawaiian-born new junior high school will be row and funeral services will slide which caused so much dam citizens of Oriental origin were one of the best buildings of its be held Monday morning at 10 Friends Pay Last Tribute at age, and which will necessitate ordered removed yesterday after kind in this part of the state. Funeral Services for o’clock from the Dodge Chapel' some changes in the winding noon. Under a special immigra Members of the school board Mrs. L. E. Norris with Rev. Pemberton officiating., path which leads from the rim ' tion certificate devised by Gov today said the pupils now at Interment will be in the Moun to the lake. ernor Farrington of Hawaii and tending the Hawthorne grade Funeral services were held at tain View cemetery. « Several of the boats were' W. W. Husband,, assistant sec school will not be moved to tho Eugene yesterday for Mrs. L. E. partly damaged, Maben reported,! Norris, for many years a prom retary of labor, natives of Japan new Lincoln school this year. but most of these can be repair-! inent and respected resident of and other farm eastern countries There are but four more weeks ed. The snow is fast melting at “l ar® acc°vded th° *ame p '«viie^ i and 11WM not thought Ashland. Scores of Ashland *and advisable to make the change Jackson county friends weie the lodge, there being about five of travel as Qn„ any other foreign feet at the present time. during the closing weeks of the ers. grieved to learn of her passing at school year. Eugene earlier this week. Excavation work for the new Mrs. Norris lived here from junior high school is now in pro Yayoi Maru Has Narrow 1889 to 1901 and was promin-. gress. This is being done by the Escape in Lower Colum ently identified with the Method-1 board in order, to speed up the bia River Friday ist church as well as civic and actual construction work when . charitable organizations, includ ASTORIA, Ore., April 2 4 a the contracts are let. It the bid pleted section of this important ing the Women's Christian Temp The Japanese steamer Yayoi is awarded at the meeting tonight highway in Klamath county." F o o d Situation Serious; erance Union. Another Not Exneoted to it is expected the contractor will The Bend and The Dalles busi Maru narrowly missed runiting Many Tales of Cruelties She was 84 years old at the on the rocks in the ColnmK Live as Result of High assemble bis material and men ness men are gdeste of Klamath Are Related time of her death and was the way Crash and be in readiness to start the Falls today at an informal cele River near Stella, Wash., yes p other-of A. C. Dixon, general terday afternoon The vessel alteration work the day school ■ P eking , April 24.— (UP)— bration gathering. ' manager of the Booth-Kelly WHITE SALMON, Wash., April j8 closed for this year was outbound for the Orient Fifty thousand refugees poured lumber company. 24. — (LP) — Neva Vaughn, IB, ‘ ■ from Longview, Wash., and Mrs. Norris’ last visit here Into Peking today with stories of Is dead and Ione Anderson, 16, while skirting the shore the three years ago, at which time alleged outrages committed by is suffering from a fractured skull steering engkyes failed1. Both she met many of her Ashland Manchurian troops. The food, anchors dropped and barely suc friends and Renewed acquaint situation in the capital Is acuta as a result of an automobile ac cident. They may die. ceeded in checking'the ship be ances of years ago. It was on and these additional mouths to The crash occurred when a car fore she struck. She swuug her last visit here that sho en feed is .making the situation ser driven by Scott Teal, 24, of Gil clear in a few moments and re joyed a motor trip to Crater ious. A majority of the shops mer, struck a bridge rail and fell sumed her trip. are dosed because of the Man Lake. about 30 feet to the rocks be Traveling Scholarship to Heavy Damage Done to churian commander’s orders to Europe Won by Ashland low. Property in Twister Late accept military money which High Graduate A third girl and Teal, the drliv- Last Night might be worth something today er were not seriously injured. and nothing tomorrow. George Verne Blue, a graduate DURANT. Okla., April 24.— of the Ashland high school, the (UP)— Cutting a swath about University of Oregon and uni 200 yards wide, and ten miles WASHINGTON, D. C., April versity of California, and who Is long, a cyclone swept through now doing post-graduate work at three villages north of here last 24.— (UP)— The prohibitionists State Health Officer Broad Berkley for the degree of doctor night. At least three persons ended their case for strict en cants Warning- Through - Pf philosophy, has juat been were killed and a score injured. forcement in the middle of a out State ______ BEND. April 24. — (U.P.)— awarded an European traveling The stdrm destroyed 30 dwell sentenbe before the senate com Oregon is due for an epidemic | 8,detracked fron> mittee today, their 24 hours of ings and damaged telephone lines Another Covered Dish Func scholarship. testimony endlng'wlth a declara of measles thia year, according to a hobo cat arrived in Bend this This award was made on the and crops. tion Will be Held Next tion by Dry Csar Andrews that week on a freight car and i< basis of brilliant achievement ot Dr. Frederick D. Stricker, secre Thursday he does not favor loosening the tary of the state board of health, now camped at tho local rail scholarship and is one ot the Andrews’ statement was ad- who Issued a bulletin today ask road station, evidentaly waiting The Ashland Women's Civic highest honors which can be won liquor laws to allow light beer, for some more inhabited out club la planning another of its by any student at the University ing the people to guard against duce by the drr«z to rebutt the bound freight to head north, lo popular covered dish suppers for of California. the disease. declaration drawn from him last cal railroad men report. Whllo He will spend about eight next Thursday evening at the Every thir<j yenr measles al week that he believed light the transcontinental mouser Is club house. Each member Is months in Spain. France and most disappear, only to reappenr DALLAS, Texas, April 24.— beers for home consumption watching long strings of lumber privileged to bring her husband England in hiatorical research. (UP)— Wind and flood In Texas would aid enforcement. He said with violence in the two suc and stock cars move out of Bend and one other person, either a He stopped off in Ashland yes and Oklahoma today claimed at he had been sincere in Uls state ceeding years, according to Dr. It ts cleaning up several nests member of her family or a friend terday to Visit hla parents, Mr. least 14 lives and caused in ment, but that he had not advo Stricker. In 1925 the state had of mice in a warehouse near the for whom the uaUal charge will and Mrs. D. P. Blue, while en only 190 cases, and no deaths, juries to a score of persons, be cated any law change. route to Eugene where he Is to be made. eo this year a big increase is ex tracks. sides resulting in thousands of take part of the work of Prof, Each member attending is pected. dollars property damage. asked to contribute some prepar Barnes for the remainder of the Texas lost 11 lives by drown ed dish for the supper. Card spring team at Oregon. ing and lightning during the tables will be ready for those who week. Torential rains flooded care to play. the lowlands. Three were kill NEW YORK, April 24.—After ed near Durant, Oklahoma last robbing the safe of a Beck Haz .... PORTLAND, Ore., April 24. night. — (UP)—A monster parade ard shoe store, a nonchalant OLYMPIA, April 24. — Sacra with a climax of celebration on yonng robber sat down and re CHICAGO, April 24,— (UP) — BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 24. quested a frightened clerk to fit mental wine, when used for new Burnside bridge May 28 Electrical and wind storms, ac him with a pair of shoes. “Wrap church purposes but not by m«m- will constitute Portland’s fete — One dollar was left by Iaadore companied by heavy rains, struck them up,” he commanded, when Jarmelowaky "to my estranged ot * congregation, does not over completion of the span, It several at the middle wife," nt tfie wm which was made d, "find phi In A pair 6f[rwirtr» * pgmttt, according M was decided at a meeting ot the states today. Wire Communi ■ox— silk ones, If you please.'' a ruling by Assistant Attorney bridge celebration executive ph bile Friday. No reason for the LOS ANGELES. April 34.— unusual bequest was given. cations were extremely Impaired General E. W. Anderson. A committee In the chamber ot between cities In Iowa, Wiscon THIEVES HAUL AWAY Paul F. Mahoney, contractor, 1925 law provides for permits commerce Thursday afternoon. sin and Northern Illinois. wag found guilty of manslaught- where the wine la to be used County Commissioner Taft pre SIX CALVES IN TRICK by congregations. sided and announced commlttee, er by a Jury h#r# *“ connectldn with the fatal grandstand crash assignments. HARRISBURG, Ore., April 34. at Pasadena New Year's day. Daring thieves Monday night took which took 10 livsa. six calves, each about 6 months old, from a pen near the dairy, PROVIDENCE, R. I.. April 34. barn of George A. McCart, five — Bound for no place in particu lar. Frank Weeden, who recently miles southeast of town. Indica LONDON, April 24.— (UP)— tions are that the calves were NEW YORK. April 24.— Bruce made his 14th escape from the The Duchess of York and the In hauled in a truck to the unoccu Barton, Fannie Hurat. Louis atate hospital for the Insane, was MEMPHI8, April 24. — Cele fant princess, who was born to pied W. H. Dale farm nearby, Wiley and Benator Royal 8. Cope- brallng her 97th birthday nnni recaptured by railroad detective« her yesterday, are "both In ex were slaughtered and the carcases land are included in a commit-'vorsary ______ aa he was riding-the rods oa a at a family reunion of five cellent condition,” attending phy hauled away, presumably to some tae to Judge upon substitution« generations, "Grandma” Harriet KANSAS CITY, Mo.”, April 24, New Haven passenger ire’s. sicians announced in a bulletin market. All of the calves were submitted foi< the word "waiter” Perkins smoked her pipe In hap- Emil Porter,, a ’blind” beggar den had 9*0 In hla pocket today. "Their progress in every registered fun blood Hoi stela which has been termed "menial” piness, and took part in the danc- was arreatod when he picked np he said he had hurled ne way is normal and satisfactory,” heifer». McCart is in Eastern Ore and "common" by restaurant ing, doing the Cherleeton with a a dollar bill dropped by a detec- hoaplta) while previously A. the physicians announced. gon on bnsinese. PORTLAND, Ore., April 34. —- (IP) — No wrong was intended, by Miss « Twyle Mooney, pretty 17- » year-old Portland girl, “ Putting It Over’ ’ is Receiv » who fled from home and The Dalles and Bend Auto ed With Enthusiasm Caravan Arrives At » school March 1 with her By Large Crowd * Klamath Falls » young fiance, whose ac 8 tivities led him to jail. WORK ON FINAL GAP STUDENTS TALENTED 8 This is the finding of It the .Multnomah county Threc-Act Comedy Declared by 8 grand jury, which has ex Running Time W ill Be Lowered ■Many to be Ib-at In Several With Completion of New c « onerated the girl after Grading Yearn » listening to extensive evi » dence in the case. George Ono of the best senior class a Hofer, 20* another of the KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April plays ever presented by Ashland a trio that participated in . a 24.— The Dalle8-Callfornla high high school students wps the ver a the flight, also was exon- a way from The Dailse to Alturac, dict of scores of citizens who last a erated, but Ross Crlvyea, Cal., will be completed by Sep night witnessed the annual sen a 18, the fiance, has been tember, and in celebration of the ior class play, "Putting It Over" a indicted for burglary and early completion of this import as staged by nine competent young a larceny of an automobile. ant Central Oregon highway pro people of the graduating class. ject, an auto caravan of The The story deals with the con Dalles and Bend business men struction of a large dam in the arrived’ here today on a tour of west and the perfidy of Tom inspection ’of 'tie Highway. Browne, the chief engineer, as The last gap of the cross-state portrayed in a clever manner by highw/ay, a 32-mile section In William Tucker, Young Tucker Northern Klamath, is now being also played a double role, that of surface under two contracts. Jack Stewart, the young engineer Klamath Falls Man Not to North from Klamath Falls the Face Trial for Alleged who drew the stolen plans. highway is completed to a point Death Threat Dramatic Comedy near Beav.er Marsh. Running '.‘Putting It Over” is a three-act ‘ KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aprlb time between Klamath Falls and dramatic comedy, and in addition 24. — Pleas of his wife Pearl Bend, a distance of 140 miles, ts to the thread of humor which un resulted in dismissal of a charge now five hours. These facts, giv winds during the play, it also has of assault with intent to ' kill en today by state highway of ^ • I t s intensely dramatic moments ficials give promise of heavv which were handled in splendid against Bernie Duckett who was tourist travel from the north charged with attempting to style W the youthful dramatic drown his wife In Ewauna lake this summer. students. "There Is one bad section to be The hiigh school audltoriium Sunday night. negotiated between Bend and The district, attorney’s office was crowded almost to capacity, Klamath Falls," said C. C. Beelev and all who attended voted it hn acceded to the wife’s request, resident state highway engineer. and the couple, according to re entertainment of more than usual “That is a flve-ftiile detour near merit. The girl’s glee club render ports, are reconciled. Crescent. The road from this ed three enjoyable selections be city to Beaver Marsh is com tween acts, as did the high school pleted. From there into Des orchestra. chutes county is the only uncom tt » « WORK FOR CONING YEAR TO BE OUTLINED BY DIRECTORS OF CHAMBER TUESDAY NIGHT NO. 199 OPEN ¡ORIENTALS Emil Mahony Dead At Cottage Grove FORME! u n i BUSES H ME JAP VESSEL NEARLY S < ONE GIBL KILLED 6EORGE I. BLUE IS 1HREEKIUEDBY E Andrews Says Not For Any Law Change EXPECTED THIS YEAR Ilobo Railway Cat Visiting At Bend WILL STAGE SUPPER Many Drown in Storms In Texas This Robber Had Monster Parade Plenty of Nerve Legal Uáe Of Wine To Open Bridge By Church Defined Contractor Who Built Big Stand Is Found Guilty Little Princess Is Doing Nicely Estranged Wife Gets One Dollar Escaped Insane Patient Caught Waiters Seeking Does Charleston Change In Name At Ripe Old Age (IBlind„ Mfln Crisp Dollar Bill