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ORDER ARRESI E m m s HEAVY DAMAGE
DENY THAT GRAVES
OF AIMEE AND ARE BEJNGDAMAGED IS CAUSED BY
THREE OTHERS
AUTUMN_ RAINS
Warrants Sworn Out in Los
Angeles Today by Dis
trict Attorney
OONSPIRAOT_OHARGBD
Evangelist and Followers Are
Accused of Obstrnctin*
, Justice
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— De
ploring the proposal of Senator
CaraWay, Arkansas Dempcrat,
that American war dead be
brought hack from Prance to the
United States, officials of the
French embassy said that the
bodies of the American soldiers
form a great bond between the
two natlOtoa.
The Arkansas senator, who has
Just returned from abroad, said
thht American graves have been
desecrated as a result of French
hostility to the United States
growing out of the debt settle
ment, Insulting phrases were
wrlten on many of them, he aald.
French embassy officials de
clare. that Ill-feeling against
Americans In France has been
exkggerated.
WELL KNOWN! OCAL
WOMAN6 M E H R
nun citizen if
M M ESSEEF
TO PENALIZE W E N
WTH SNOOT SKIRTS
PLATTA, Switzerland, Sept.
17.— The authorities of thia lit
tle community have decided that
more decrees against short skirts
and other tads of modernism
wen», «insufficient. Hence they
ruled* that every person appear
ing within the boundaries of
Platts tn dresses that Were too
short or too flimsy, would be
fined SO Swiss francs, approxi
mately 910. On each recurrent
violation of the com
’ ro'
visions In this respec’
>ct the fine
will be doubled.
Prisoner Given
F
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Extended Credit <
By Kindly Judge
WEEHAWKEN. N. J.,
Sept.
17.— T h e popular installment
plan of payment has been extend
ed to tbe courts. Unable to pay
a fine of 998 imposed upon him
when he pleaded guilty to as
sault and battery, Christ - Klsh-
auner of Union City, N. J., win,
by Judicial consent, make pay
ments of 96 a wedh for i o
weeks. Ha was permitted to pay
95 down.
Advertise Ia Ilta
Jersey Steel Mill Sets Unique Record) in Harmony
NEK WIRE O T E
10 START SHORTLY
Plans for United News Re
port for Daily Tidings
Near Completion
Plans are fast nearing comple
tion for starting the United Wire
service fo rthe Daily Tldlnga, and
it is expected that definite notice
of thia' improvement and up-to-
date wire service can be made
*wlthln th« next few days, with
aerT|Ce coming to The Tidings by
not liter than next week.
Thia 6000-word service will
come to Ashland by air mall from
Portland dally, except Monday.
Mnd will be rushed from the fair
grounds flying field - direct to
The Tidings If arrangements now
under way are successful con
summated.
London Girls Now
Try Hair Cutting
LONDON, Sept. 17,— The girl
who «*•< to manicure her nails
bt har office I* now exchanging'
haircuts with har fello'w em-
Worea. la many offices the girls
hava talma up collectloas to buy
barbers* tools which (hey
during the lunch hour.
K
floods and Cloudbursts in
7 Middle Wert Are Worst
in Many Years
20
PERSONS
KILLED
Property L o u Placed at «18,000,-
000; No Relief Yet in
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CHICAGO, Sept. 17. — Floods
and cloudbursts have caused ap
proximately 915.000,000 damage
and killed 20 persons in the Mid.
dle-Wmt during the first half of
September.
The entire region is waterlog
ged and the federal weather bur
eau here holds out no hope for
immediate relief.
' “Low pressure areas continue
Over a large portion of the Cen
tral W ait,1’ C. A. Donnel, govern
ment forecaster, t'old the United
News. “As long as this condition
exists, we may expect more rain.’’
Some localities have experine-
ced more than a foot of rainfall
in 48 hours, and almost every
where the precipitation for the
first half of the month la far In
excess of full-month records of
previous years. ,
Public utilities and farmers
have suffered the principal losses.
Crop, damage In Illinois alone Is
estimated by. the state agricul
ture department at thore than a
mllloin dollars. ■ . .
Railroads in Illinois, Kansas,
Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri
have had to concentrate thous
ands of repairmen in the flooded
areas to keep trains running
against the handicaps of high
water and washouts. Dozens of
smalt towns and cities have been
without electricity for power ar
Light, a s s . result of. Abe Aooda.
H E T S ERIAL
Alleged Bribe - Taking of
Former Attorney General
Basis of Action
NEW YORK. Sept. 17.— The
Daugherty - Miller conspiracy
trial, after opening with inter
esting testimony regarding the af
fairs of former Attorney General
Harry M. Daugherty and the lato
Jesse Smith during Daugherty’s
first term turned to determine
the dates Miller made trips to
New York while he was alien
property custodian.
Early testimony had to do with
the apartment occupied by Smith
and Daugherty in Washington. It
is believed to have been the samo
boues on “K street" which figur
ed In the Washlpgton Investiga
tions.
Daugherty and Miller are be
ing tried on charges of conspiring
to defraud t h e
government
through the return of German-
owned property after the war.
TUNNEY'S DIET IS ”
CAREFULLY CHOSEN
Plenty of Vitamins Must be
Furnished Heavyweight
Challenger
STROUD8BURO, Pa., Sept. 17.
Vitamins for Gene Tunney! The
challenger must gat enough vit
amins, according to George Rana-
berry, the cook who has cooked
for the big round-up men in the
West.
Here’s Gene’s menu?
Breakfast— Orange Juice. Glass
of warm milk, never coffee,
melon, cooked cereal, perhaps a
few prunes, two soft-boiled eggs.
Lunch— Lamb sandwich and
glass of milk.
Dinner—Soup, large steak or
;
two cbope, hearts of lettuce, cel
«ry, vegetables such as beans or
buttered beets, sometimes baked
potato, always pudding or ice
cream.
Classified Ads Bring R esulta.
HAS
u b i com iriai FARM RELIEF
FLAN IN MIND
Judge Declare« He Cannot
Rule Nebraska Statute
i s Illegal
Proposal to Bring Dead V.
" rn Home Deplor-
8 Soldiers
ed by Embassy
LOS ANOBLE», Oal.„ Sept. 17.
(U P )— Warrant« for the arrest
of Almee Semple McPhereon and
four others on three counts of
abated eenepiracy to obstruct
Justice were issued by the district
attorney’s office today.
The warrants charge perjury
and preparation of false evidence,
thus climaxing the long Investi
gation into the evangelist’s story
of her alleged kidnaping by Mex
ican bandits.
Others named in the warrants
are Kenneth Ormlston, former
radio operator at Angelus temple.
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, the evan
gelist’s mother. Mrs. Lorraine
Wiseman and “John Hoe” Mar
tin.
Preparations are being made
by District Attorney Keyes for Mrs. V. Phillips Carter Wins
a speedy prosecution, bnt this Fame WRh Set of Traffic
may be delayed because of the
Devices
Illness of Mrs. McPherson, who
is confined to her bed with a ser
Mrs. Vetabelle Phillips Carter,
ious Infection of the nose, near daughter of Mrs. L. A. Phillips of
her brain.
East Main street, le receiving
much attention io San Francisco
and elsewhere In California ov
er some traffic signal Inventions
which she has perfected.'
It la interesting to her many
local friends to know that these
signals were constructed by Mrs.
0 .0 . MoOall Taka« Own Life Carter at the home of her tdoth-
At Hie Home in Oovncil, er In Ashland.
.
The city,
H of San Francisco
/ . „ Idaho ,
has Dr. MWer McClintock, a
aVf-"
**
O. C. McCall, who was born In truffle expert o f Boston and Chi
this city on May «, 1979, and cago, reorganising and perfecting
who grew to young manhood In a uniform system -of traffic, and
Jackson county, took hls own life the women’s division of the'D e-
by shooting himself in the head velopment Association is spon
at his home In Connell, Idaho, soring the movement to make
according to word received hero the regulations state-wide.
The traffic signal lnvdntlons
today.
Before killing himself, Mr. Mc by Mrs. Carter have been indors
Call penned a long letter to a ed by this body of women and she
close friend, William
Winkler, has been requested to demon-'
In which he asked the latter.to strate them before the conven
read the letter at hls grave as the tion of Confederated Women’s
only fnneral service to be held. Clubs at the Fairmount hotel in
Some of the old-timers of this San Francisco early next month.
section remember the McCall She recently appeared at a Santa
family, although they left here Crus meeting with her Inventions
and was accorded unstinted
many years ago.
praise.
The California association first
hopes to have uniform traffic
regulations made state-wide and
then .extended up and down the
Pacific coast.
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Switserland Adopts Drastic
Measure to Bring About
Reforms
‘W O AND »R j ARDINE
184 YEARS - - AND NOT A STRIKE U
W IS I I P ' IN
Pooling of All Product« to
TEKAMAH, Neb., Sept. 17.—
Maintain Prices is His
Opponents of Nebraska’s famous
Proposal
“bread and water" law met with
failure in their first move toward EXPLANATION IS GIVEN
having the statute declared un
System Would, be Backed by Gov
constitutional.
ernment With Four Per
A s a preliminary,, step, at
Ceut Loans
to r n e y ior R«y Carson, who is
aervihg a destrlcted diet sentence
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. —
in Jail here for bootlegging, at
Secretary
of Agriculture Jardine
tempted to enjoin county offic
ials from enforcing the sentence. has worked out a new farm relief
Judge J. M. Fitzgerald yesterday plan which calla for pooling of
ruled that he was without Juris- j agricultural products to main-
diction In the case and denied the u ln PHcea. a naw idea In thia
country. The plan would be fi
Injunction.
The attorneys, including John nanced by the government.
Producers,
under hls plan,
H. Chatt, whose brother, Judge
would
organize
Into wheat pools.
Orville Chatt, Is chief sponsor of
the bread and water diet for cotton poola and pools for other
scofflaws, said they had another <*ropa. Organically, it la a broad
line of attack In mind, but «to- extension of cooperative market-
clined to reveal Its nature. Thoy ' *“«• »■ numb«™ of cooperatlvee
•re planning a conference with would unite in a pool of their
Clarence Darrow here later in crop, withholding it from tba
the month. Darrow, win atop In market it conditions are not sat
Tbkamah, enroute back to Chica isfactory.
What it Means
go, from Greeley, Colo.
In its financial aspects it is an
extension of the basic Idea con^
talned in so-called agricultural
credit corporations.
Farmers
can not get mPney directly now
from the Intermediate credit
banks for other than marketing
purposes, but are required to
Olavcomb Demonstrate« at organise an agricultural credit
tachment Which Will
corporation The credit banks
Aid Parmer«
lend money to these corporations
at 4 or 4 1-2 percent and the
An innovation. In plows
corporation lends It to the farm
been annuonced by H. L. Ctay-
ers at 61-2 or 6 per cent, the
side by side.
fellowship, the pride and herit eomb, of the Claycomb Motor profit of i 1-9 per cent going for
By NEA Service
Company, Ashland Ford and
HIGH BRIDGE. N. J., Sept% It has been the same in the man age of a tradition.
overhead expenses. There are
President Percival
“Our men are well paid, each Fordson dealers, which will not over J 00 of these corporations
17.— The oldest steel mill 1» agement.
America is rounding out the 184th Christie is a direct descendant ot on the basis of the work he only allow tbe fanner to gat In now functioning.
to the fields weeks earlier bat
year of its existence here— and In Robert Taylor. There has been does.”
In tbe financial arrangements.
unbroken
succession.
those 184 years it baa n$V
Vino of ,the 700 employes in also will cut bis plowing time
“ W hat’s the secret?" President the mill have been on the pay-*' down materiaHjr., * « i * „ i
had a strike or a lockout!
of the credit coproratlon, ar an.
Tbe plow, which la tbe resuR of
Furthermore, the man who Is Christie repeats, when asked how roll for 50 years or more. Bach
der the present system. Jardiné
now president and principal own the concern has gone through 184 Is given a gold medal on the years of Investlgatioa on the explained that (her plan wenld he
er Is a direct descendant of the years without any labor trouble. EOth anniversary of hls starting part of the Oliver Plow Co., la
Fordaon worked out under legislation thn
man who founded ft, away back “Friendliness, . I guess, and fair nt hls Jolt. And the (loan o f made primarily for
administration presented to con-*
in 1742.
Play.
them all Is David L. Apgar, who Tractors, sad is attached direct gross last seesioa, which wan
ly
to
the
side
of
tbe
tractor,
thus
And most of Its employes are
“We try to make each man is 87 and who first came to work
turned down, providing a loan*
descendants of the first workmen interested in hls job and In th» SO years ago this month. He is giving the disks the entire weight
of the tractor, 2790 pounds, as fuqd of 9100.000.000 to aid co
in the mill.
Job of the company as a whole. now employed as a gateman.
operative marketing.
The mill is known as the Tay
“We try to explain our exe
As a symbol) of his patriarchal well as the additioaal weight of
Would Lend Money
lor-Wharton Iron & Steel Co. cutive problems to him. It usual estate he carries a gold-beaded the plow itself, or 600 pounds
The
federal government,’* he
Robert Taylor established It to ly results In the workman’s say cane, engraved with the words, more, making a total weight of
said,
"would
lend money at ♦
build horse shoes. It gained a ing, “You get the orders and wc “Standing together, we h a v e 3200 pounds on the disks alone.
per
cent
to
a
central cooperative
foothold and brought to the town will turn out the work.
We stood the test of time.” This cane This weight makes it possible to agency. This agency would lend
a . number of workingmen —• don’t want to know how you run| is the gift of the company; on plow dry hard grounds, where be
Sturdy Dutchmen, the Apgars and your Job.’ But it create a feel hls death It will go to the next fore it had been impossible to the money to pools in varions
parts of the country at 9 per
the Alters, strong Irish Burkes, ing qf trust.
oldest employe In length of ser keep a plow in the gronnd until cent an<f the 2 per cent profit
German Strubles and so on.
after the fall rains have softened
“Every change Is talked over vice.
would be put Into a sinking fund
Fam ily Traditions
with the workers and agreed to
■'We don’t pension men,’’ Pres the soil.
for overhead expenses and em
One of tbe plows being used at
Those men took root in the before It goes Into effect. This ident Christie explains. “We find
ergency purposes.
town. They brought up their sons includes changes In wages—and I Jobs for them as long as they the Ben Bowers raqch yesterday,
The central artney, managed
to enter the mill. Their great- rem r?!1''" »hnf wages have gon? want to work. The Half Century was turning a beautiful furrow by competent
leaders, would
great-grandsons are still on the down as well us up at times.
Club doesn't really run the iflant eight inches deep' in Alfalfa land study domestic and world mar*
m ill’s roster. In several cases,
“This extends down to every- bnt”— he added with a smile— that bad not been plowed for 14 keta, seasonal demands, etc/ It
years.
;
father, soil and grandson wo.k body In the plant—a spirit of "It thinks it does.
would supply information and
Mr. Claycomb is of the opinion
management for its organisation
that when farmers generally be
Just aa a central office of any
come acquainted with the merits
large corporation does for Its
of this plow, fall work will not
branch offices.
only be shortened many days,
Pools would be arottdd com*
bnt will be advanced several
modifies. By purchasing a suf*
weeks aa well.
ficlent amount of the total pro
WOODLAND, Wash., Sept. 17.
duction of say commodity each
Noted Criminal Lawyer Say« — Alexander Brothers have rab- Jacob Rosenthal Stabbed tO
year, the cooperative association
ed a crop so valuable that it has
Death During Attempt
would be able to stabilise prices,
He Ha« Not Been Ad
to be stored in a hank v a u lt,
to Rescue Him
caaee a steady flow of any com
vised of Plan«
They have harvested 80 acres of,
modity to the beet markets and
peppermint. The yield was 4 6 1 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 17.—
check dnmplag.”
OREBLY, Colo.. Sept. 17 — pounds of peppermint oil to the (U P )— Jacob Rosenthal of Wood
The pools, he said, would have
(U P )— Clarence Darrow, noted acre ahd the oil sells for 910 a more, N. Y., has been killed by Anchorage, Alaska. Punled collective bargaining power, sim
i the Mexican bandits who were
criminal lawyer, has not been ap pound.
by Phenomenon Wednes ilar to that in Industry.
' holding him for ransom, accord
pealed to as tbe possible attorney
day Afternoon
ing to word received here. Troops
to defend Almee Semple McPher
attempted to rescue the aged*
ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Sept
son in the event of her arrest, he
|
American
while delverng ransom 17- — Buildings were shaken
said here last night. Darrow la
money to tbe baoTdts. The band- here Widneeday afternoon by
spending bis vacation here.
It
ts stabbed Roaenthall and fled. three mysterious explosions, be
was reported from LOs Angeles
Two of the bandits were killed lieved to have been caused by the
that Darrow’s services as at
NEW YORK, «apt. 1 7 —Na»
when the soldiers fired.
bursting of wandering meteors. body wanta to take the Job a i
torney were being Sought.
ASTORtA. Sept. 17.— UP)—
The detonations resembled aa morgue stenographer,
The steamer Memnon of the Co
Oeorpii
aerial bombardment of tbe town Lebrun, secertary to the chief
lumbia River Packers
associa
Occupants rushed from their medical enamlner, has complale-
ON WRONG SIDE
tion, is due to reach Astoria Mon
boases, bnt all that eonld be dd. For two months he has ad-
day from Chignik, Alaska, with
sedn was threesplrals of smoke vertlaed without rdralts for a
OMAHA, Sept. IT.— Mrs. A. A. the cannery crew and salmon
Harris’ infant son was born with pack from that station.
stenographer whom duties A
William Selkirk, former golf drifting with the breese.
its heart on the right side of its
Her cargo of salmon will not professional for seven years at n
would he to visit the
body. Doctors Who have exam be large, as on her previous trip country club In Sacramento, has
dally sad taka dictation
ined the baby say that he will south she brought 18,000 cases arrived In Ashland and’ has ar
surgeons dissect murder
live.
from Chignik.
sad unidentified dead.
ranged to give indoor golf les
sons to members ot the Ashland
LONDON, «m t. 17.— L * d
Golf club during the next few
N tW YORK. Sept. 17.—A Pani, wife of the baronet. Sir .
weeks. These lessons will be
given by Mr. Selkirk at tbe Ash straw hat which should have brsy Paul, has
While yon are a guest in our city, be certain to vtlelt Llthla
passed from fashion Wednesday wladow-waehlag
land hotel.
Park, a playground of many acres, with tbe main entrance
He arrived here this week from caused the death of aa unideatl- mahla« toed. Her Jeb W <
nt the Plana, where Nature's deepest beantles are found
Klamath Falla, where he reporta flad man. who was struck by aa Helt window-'
along the walks that lead yon through the forest border
he aroused much- Interest among elevated train while he tried to
ing on Ashland «n ek .
golfers with his Indoor lessons. pick it up from the tracks.
DARROW DENIS N E '
: WIFE D E F E N D «
Peppermint Crop
Brings Huge Sum
SLAIN BY BANDITS
E M IN E MEIEOR
Nobody Will Take
Job With Coroner
Alaskan Salmon
Vessel Now Due
Indoor Golfing
Will Be Taught
Straw Hat Held
Cause Of Death
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