MALARIA GERMS
I
* Cannot survive three months in
the rich ozone i t Asfiland. Pure
domestic water helps.
The Tidings Has Been Ashland's
Newspaper. For Nearly F ifty Years
(United
•or to the 8eul-Weekly Tidings, V o la m e li
vol . XI.IX
1926 BUDGET
FOR CHAMBER
TO BE RAISED
Workers to Take Field Tues­
day Morning to Get Fin­
ances for the Year
$7000
TO BE
NEEDED
Entire Rum Needed W in
Bought lu One Drive
Be
Bucceu Expected
Solicitation of funds for the
annual chamber of common'«
budget will get under way Tues­
day morning by the finance and
t budget committee of the cham­
ber, of which V. O. N. Smith U
chairman. The budget for the
/e a r will be approximately $7000.
At a meeting of the committee
yesterday it was decided to bud­
get all expenses for the chamber
at this .time and complete the
work in one drive rather than be
compelled to make additional
solicitations during the year for
special Items.
%
As previously announced, ad­
vertising and publicity will bo
one of the major projects of the
chamber and much of the money
budgeted for the year will be
used for this purpose.
Other members of the budget
committee Include J. H. McOee,
Gerald Wenner, A. E. Kinney, W.
M. Wright, and C. W. Banta.
The committee has selected a
list of members to aid in the
solicitation campaign and hope is
expressed that thq entire budget
can be subscribed in one day.
Those who will aid In the work
are F. C. Homes, George A. Bris­
coe, Louis Dodge, E. T. Staples,
F. F. Whittle, 8. A. Peters, Jr.,
O. T. Bergner. T. H. Simpson, O.
H. Billings, Dan Kay and S. D.
Taylor.
These workers will meet with
the budget committee In the
chamber rooms at 8:30 Tuesday
morning, at which time the city
will l*e districted and the field
work will get under way.
Wire Service)
year."
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$$ Criminals Uncovered by
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CHECKS
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"Two-Bit Gang".
KLAMATH FALLS, Ord, May
8.— An organised band of juve­
nile criminals, whose depreda­
tions during the past few months
have varied from forging checks
to theft of auto accessories, has
8
8 been broken up by police. One
8 boy, charged with passing two
8 bad checks, will probably be sent
8 to the reform school. Eight
8 other youths 'are under surveil­
8 lance.
Ranging in age from nine to
8
13
years, the young boys have
8
been*
responsible for much of the
8
petty thievery which has puzzled
8
8 the police during the past four
months. Breaking up of the gang
8
g ! was affected through the arrest
g J of a 13-year-oId boy on the charge
Mlo f passing two forged checks on
AA I
John Vale, local merchant.
The arrest of the youth led
to other disclosures, and soon
the activities of the juvenile
gang in all Its ramifications were
uncovered by Chief' of Police
Harry Loucks and his patrolmen.
"Two-Bit Gang"
Grants Pass Defeated in Six
The gang dubbod itself the
Straight Games by Local
"Two-Bit Band.”
Each mern-
Court Stars
l>er of the band, before they were
admitted? took an oath that they
Aghland High won the tennis would not sell any article stolen
match with Grants Pass High yes­ for less than two-bits. Receipts
terday afternoon, winning all six from the sales were, police said,
matches.
turned Into the treasury o f the
Dick Joy won the feature match band and dividends declared at
with Carl Bennett, 7-6, 7-6. Phil stated Intervals for all members.
Bryant won, 8-3, 4-6, 6-4. Jim­
It is believed by police that the
mie Nutter, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Lee boys have a cache of stolen goods
Boyd 7-6, 7-6. Lee Boyd made a but Investigation has failed to re­
fine comeback as the score stood veal the hiding place.
6-2 In Tavor of Grants Pass and
Hjs winning five games in suc­
cession enabled him to win the
match. In the doubles Jimmie
Nutter and Lee Boyd won 6-4, 7-
9, 6-4. Dick Joy and Leslie
Ketch, 6-3, 6-4.
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BY W. H. PERKINS
B n I N K WILE
DOWN S M S ; FATAL
PORTLAND. May 8.— Cogitat­
ing orar t ie faiehtal strfeU and de­
mands of their profession, add
distftsslng rifthnardomdstlL irostr,-
Clay F. White, 33, and James
Donnelly, 31,* both 1 llb&typers,
cPadt|dd K 1 sensation • Thursday
when Mri Wh ft e'quaffed bofcrtn
and* his crony essayed to 1 admin­
ister antidotes. Both were' 6uf*
ferthg from' alcob^Md 'hl44s and
boote/follAArlng kii all nlfcbt Ses­
sion In a hotel robih'. ThCwMrld-
wekry typo aVakededf to a bright­
er world ;lb St. Vincent's hodjfttal.
that brought a glow tq her eyes as she said
in her heart: “ That is mv hoy!’’ or “ That
is my daughter!”
lak e a healing balm will be such memor­
ies when you kneel by the grassy plot
where, with tired hands folded upon her
breast, Mother sleeps at last in peace, all
unmindful of the solemn requiem of the
pines that point 'with tapei* spires to Hea­
ven.
God pity you if such memories may not
be yours!
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• VANCOUVER, Wash., May 3.
(U P )—Approximately 3000 acres
of land.-comprising a portion of
the old Yacolt burn within the
Spanking Proves
Fatal To Father
’.A #
. Nearly 'Exhausted
But Not To Son Camp Fire Girls
' GRANTS PASS, Ore., May 8.—
LOS ANOEJLE8,, May 8.— How
Enjoy Swimming
tional forest, have been reforest­
ed at a cost of about $40,000, the
forest service today announced.
This Is part of the service pro­
gram to keep young timber com­
ing up, and it re-trees a district
which was swept by fire threo
times in less than 20 years. ,
The prdject was stkrtdd four
years ago and about 2,000,000
trkSs have been sbt ebt.
Thlrty-flye Camp Fire girls and
their older leaders enjoyed a
•wlmmlag party thia moenirg at
the Ashland Natatorlum. The two
big.sw im m ing pfungse were re­
served for tho exclusive use of
tho girls for more than ee hour
thia morning.
Hex Social— ,
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The American. Légion Auxiliary
will bold a box sootal at the Civic
Club Friday evening at 7 o’clock
and all members of the.Auxiliary
and Legion are requested
te
come, Auxiliary members bring
boxes.
CHICAGO, May 8.— The stork
still makes direct deliveries to 71
per cent of American farm homos
according to a survey of farm
life, by a local agricultural asso­
ciation. In the la*t (Ive yqars. when It was found they w or. not tn(T
,
only 29 per cent of the country's implicated.
mourning the* statute of liberty,
rural ba Idea .were horn In hospit­
/o r 10 minutes .two black ban­
als. ? »• • ‘
ners waved from the eyes of the
statute until they were discover­
ed and removed.
BBWHW
(U P )— After 'skating almost con-
' fatuously for fobrdays, tiro Seat­
tle girls, Ethel fiestey add Billie
Keyes, arrived here yesterday In
a etaW d f fexhauntfon kfter hav­
ing skated 477 miles In 40 hours
of skating tim e .' They mid they
bad ’’accepted but onei ride, that)
being1 for 30 miler la mrfuhtatn-
ous country.
’
, ,
4* father died
as ‘the .reeutl of
spanking his son was the unusual
story heard by • coroner’s jury
Investigating the death of Antone
Bnchlcco, 46.
Buchleco had been operated on.
He had occasion to .correct hie
boy end soundly spanked him.
The exertloh tore open the wound
fthd he died. •
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MOSCOW, May 8.— (U P )—
The Russian Trades Unions have
sent 2.000.000 rubles to the Brit­
ish strike committee in addition
to the previous gift of a quarter
of a million rubbles. Two mil­
lion gold suhles, at the present
rate of exchange equals $1,303,-
000.
Tho Communist International
has written to the British Com­
munists declaring "your task la
to raise the strike movement to
the highest form of a liberating
struggle of the working class for
power.”
PROJECT COMPLEO
boundaries or
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WASHINGTON,
May
8.—
President Coolidge Is highly grat­
ified by the foreign debt funding
fcetti} fnen'tjs, ^taljlir^ $22,143.-
000,000 whicn the bi-partlsan
debt commission has achieved un­
der the leadership of Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon.
While expressing high appre­
ciation for the work of the
American commission, the presi­
dential spokesman said most cred­
it was due Mellon In whose fi­
nancial judgment the (American
people and foreign financiers
have complete confidence.
KAISER’S PROTEGE
IS THROWN IN JAIL
Mother! Can y o u picture the full measure
Operatic Baritone Educated
of her days? Let it he in this wise: Lean­
by Former German Rul­
ing from the para|M?ts (of Heaven, God
er Gets Drunk
sent forth an angel that winged its way to
CITY, N. J.. May
earth and entered the soul of a new-born 8.— ATLANTIC
Reny E. Marsano, an operatic
child — the child that as you first re­ baritone who said he had l>een
member her, bent over you with an angel’s educated as a singer at the-ex­
smile upon her face — proud, exultant, pense of the former German
Kaiser, was sentenced to Jail for
hopeful.
Intoxication. He told the court
Came then the days that lengthened into he was l>roke because his prop­
the fading years — came days of suspense* erty he had been seized- by the
perhaps of heart-ache and sorrow. Came alien property act.
joys, too, let us hope, and let ns hojx* that
you made such joys the greater.
Tho years grew many. The form became
bent and feeble* the cheeks wan and white,
the hands listless, the hair silver. The
Mother became as a child again, and He
who said “ Suffer, little children to come Two Hundred Dollars Taken
by Safe Wreckers; Big­
unto me,”, beckoned from above. The
ger Sum is Missed
angel pinged its way hack to Heaven, leav­
ing only the form—the familiar features
MADRAS, Ore., May 8.— Burg­
of Mother.
lars believed to be professionals
Thus were her days, and thia shall he In the use of nltro-glycerlne,
wrecked the safe In the store of
your days, Oh, Mothers ’of men I
sentenced to two years In a fed­
eral reformatory when they
pleaded guilty in federal court at
Portland yesterday. News of the
disposition of the case was re­
NEW YORK CITY. May 8 —
ceived by the police today. Two (U P )—-In Satiric proteat against
other youths who were with the prohibition a delegation from tin,
pair were released at' the time World War veterans’ Jlght wines
Draped in Black
Orientals Urged to Give Assist­
ance; Warslilpe Will
Protect Food
Mr. Coolidge Highly Grati­
fied by Settlements
Which Are Made
7
ALI TENNIS MATCHES
Records Disclose
JAPANESE WILL HELP
PRESIDENT PLEASED
WITH DEBT TREATES
>•
tiro cwuiuBia na­
MADRAS STORE SAFE
LOOTED BY BANDITS
Girl Is Injured
By Stray Bullet
. BELLINGHAM, W us|.. May 8.
— Celeste Joly, 17-year-old high
school girl, was In a critical con­
dition in a hospital here with n
m imic ' wnu w B w wer ituinw ir.
She wag shot while on a hike
with girl friends. Miss Marxian
Taylor, normal school girl, fired !
with a rl/le. at a> tafgét gnd the
bullet glanced off the target
platç and e^rufk Miss Joly.
“Wild Man” , just
Silly Youngster
POTT8TOWN, Pfc, May 8.—
The “wild man” , who recently
caused a reign of terror through
Saratoga valley, Betting fire to
a bam and attacking children,
Is 13-yegr-old Fannie Young, a
supposed victim of tbs “maniac.”
LARGE SUH IS
SENT B R IM
TRADE UNIONS
Russians Contribute Over
One Million Dollars to
. Support Strikers
Other officers chosen
were: Raymond Cotter,
vice-president; Fred Kat-
zer,
second
vice-presi­
dent;
Virginia
ltose,
fo u r th
vice-president;
Jean Stratton, secretary;
Barney Miller, editor of
The Hogue News and an­
nual. S. A. Peters, Jr.,
un alumnus of the high
school, was chosen
as
treasurer for the student
body.
BoyH R ange PVom Nine to 13
Years; Called Selves The
FOLI IN OKLAHOMA
Blues And Booze •
Cause Of Trouble
Kay Neil was elected
president ot the student
body of Ashland high
school for next year at the
annual school
election
held yesterday. He Is
now finishing his junior
year and is one of the
most popular students of
the school.
"We have enough water
to carry all our crop«
, through
the
present
HOSPITAL DAY KILL
8£ HELDWEDNESDAY
SPIRO, Okla., May 8.— (UP)
— One dead, 14 Injujred, six of
them serlonsly and more than 20
homes destroyed was the toll to­
day of the tornado which swept
through four eastern Oklahoma
counties .last njght. The dam­
age was estimated at,$50iP00.
Kay Neil Chosen
Student
To
ay Next Year
MOTHER’S ' D ftY
, Memory, turning the pages of the golden
years, lingers in love before one picture—
the picture of Mother. Lingers* pauses on
a little way, and then returns as if to a
sanctuary—a very City of Refuge.
F or you know and I know that no m at­
ter how far tem ptation may have led us
from the path where Motjier walks in
beauty, we.have only to stretch forth sup­
pliant hands to feel again ita touch that
heals the heartache—the voice th at dries
the remorseful tear. F o r are we not her
very own, and did she not in like manner
comfort us when childish footsteps strayed*
or childish waywardness led to remorse­
ful repentance?
To Mother we are none the less children
now. To her, always we are children, for
never does a mother gaze upon a child,
though grown to m an ’s estate, or woman’s
th at she does not see, in retrospect, a help­
less
little mite of humanity, dependent upon
San Francisco Woman Killed
her fqr the fulfillment of every want. I
Billings* Montana, Man In­
During Family Quarrel
ju r e d When Police Stage
have seen such a look in Mother’s eyes. And
With Husband
Raid on Room
so have you.
SAN FRANCISCO. Calif., May
Happy are you if you hear the voice of
BILLINGS, Mont., May 8.—
8.— Mrs. Maries Revel, wife of
Charles Foster, 24, was shot but
Maurice Revel, a baker, was kill­ Mother, or feel the touch of her gentle
not seriously injured in the left General Public Invited to Re­ ed today during a fight with her hand,, fo r the day must <’(»me when the
ception Which Will be
hip here last night, during a po­
husband when he presumably
Held Here
, threw her down a stairway, voice will be stilled* the touch will be lift­
lice raid on his room, where po­
ed and you will gaze upon her face no
lice found some of the loot from
breaking her neck.
Next Wednesday Is National
a $1,000 bufglary at a local Jew­
Overcome with remorse, Revel more forever.
elry .store Monday night. Foster Hospital day, and the Community fired a bullet through his temple
On th at day, and not until then, can
and his roommate, Charles Steph­ hospital will observe the day by and was pronounced
fatally
earthly
sorrow teach you ihe meaning of
ens, were arrested In connection holding a public reception from wounded.
desolation,
for on that day vour heart will
1:30 to 4:30 o’clock In the after­
with the theft.
noon. Committees will be on
he as a desert* where even Ihe tempests o f
hand to show people through the Auto Thieves Get
regretful tears can bring no oasis. God
hospital and the general publtc
gran
t that on that day there may be some­
Is invited to visit the local in­
Two Years In Jail
thing on which memory may linger — a
stitution on that day.
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flower
brought to Mother, a burden light­
Pearl Roberts and
Joseph
ened
for
her aging footsteps, a kindly deed
Behch, rtwo youthful California
Stork is Popular
auto thieves who were appre­
One Killed and Fourteen In­
a
hended hero recently by Police­
ured by
1 Twister—Prop-
jured
Visitor on Farms man
10148365
Harry Ingling, were each Liberty Statue
erty Damage Heavy
IWN SUSPECTED OF
B f i J I SHOT
NO. 211
ASHLAND, O K EG O N .aV lTlW A Y , MAY 8, 192«
KLAMATH LADS
A ll 1926 Crops
ARRESTED FOR
PETTY THEFTS
This was the reassur­
ing statement this morn­
ing by Ole Arnspiger,-
manager of the Talent Ir­
rigation district, and sets
to rest all previous doubt
that crops In this section
might suffer immeasur­
ably because of the unus­
ually open winter and
spring.
Mr. Arnsplgdr
said
that the storm of the
past week bad licen of
untold value to the Tal­
ent district and meant at
least another two weeks
of water supply, although
the additional storage of
wpter was not great.
The district manager
also took occasion to
spike street reports that
the district
had
not
caught all the water pos­
sible in the Immigrant
Cteek dam last winter.
“We got every bit of
water It was possible to
get, and none of It was
wasted," was hts emphatic
denial of this rumor.
ASHLAND CLIMATE
Without the use of medicine cores
nine cases out of ten of asthma.
This is a proven fact
JAPS TAKE A HAND
HONOLULU. May 8.— (U P )—
The Japanses federation of labor
has issued a manifesto urging ov-
ery working man and woman of
Japan to contribute to the finan­
cial aid of the British workers,
according to a special Tokyo dis­
patch.
TTHII) NHIPN HALTED
LONDON. May 8.— (U P )— A
destroyer hps been sent to Man­
chester where the unloading of
two food ships has been prevent­
ed, today's government commun­
ique says. Petrol boats have ar­
ranged to protect food ships from
on.
LONDON,
May 8.— (U P )—
Havelock Wilson, president of the
seaman's union, acted today to
prevent an unauthorised strike. '
He sent a wireless message to all <
British ship masters saying that
unauthorised persons are attempt­
ing to call strikes which cannot
be called until after the balloting
which Is not yet completed.
TROOPS ARK ACTIVE
LONDON, May 8.— (U P )— To­
day's strike devlopments bristle
with the atmosphere of war. The
weight of the army and navy has
been thrown Into the conflict.
Troops are stationed at stragetic
points throughout Britain and
are held In readiness In case of
trouble. Troops also are sup­
porting the market places and
food transports.
LINER CAN’T SAIL
LIVERPOOL. May 8.— (UP) —
Balling of the White Star liner
Cedric was cancelled today when
the crew refused to sign up.
Former Popular
Local Resident
t f
Passes in South
the Madras Trading company
owned by O. E. Roush, at 3:30
Telegrams were' received la
a. m. yesterday, obtaining $200 Ashland this morning Conveying
In money and checks. They fall word of the death at Santa Mon­
ed to find $400 more, hidden in ica, Cal., of Harry Casey, former
the same room, but outside the popular and widely known Ash­
safe. Officials believe that two land resident. No particulars of
men were .Involved In the burg­
the death were contained lu the
lary, and that they have headed brief messages from the family.
for Bend. Blankets and mattres­
The funeral will be held at
ses were used to muffle the noise
Banta Monica tomorrow onder
of the explosion which was heard
the auspices of the Elks Lodge.
by rnrty g fww hi to WIT*
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' and the body will be cremated.
WestPort Man Is .
Burned To Death
Iti Flaming Home
WEBTPdRT, Ore.. May
8.—
(U P)— Lloyd Carver, aged 20, a
driver for the Westport Lumber
company, was burned to death
yesterday when some baby’s
clothing on tbs back ot n kit­
chen stove In his home, caught
firs, «oraiFetely destroying the
house His wife and two babies
escaped. Carver is thought to
have suffocated ns be <11d not
leave the flaming building after
being aroused.
Mr. Casey wm n son of the late
J. R. Cagey. He leaves g*o sis­
ter. Mrs, Elmar Magnuson and
Mrs.; Charles 'Hargadlne, both of
Santa Monies.
Spanish Flier . Is
Found; Plane Gone
MACAO. Chine, May I.—The
The story of hov the airplane in
which he was flying from Madrid
to Manila wan
pnk. too
Chow Wen hw.*
Captain
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