A POULTRY CENTER
A
Fair tonight and tomorrow j
partly cloudy in southern part..
Moderate windjp.
Ashland can be made the poultry
center of Oregon* This is some
thing to study*
For Nearly Fifty Years
The Tidings fías Been Ashland's
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ASHLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCT. 5, 1926
VOL. L
That The People May Know
Interest in McPherson Case
Centers Abqut Bald
Radio Operator
DAMAOENQ
EVIDENCE
Deputy District Attorney ; Tells
About His Probe of
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Aimee's Story
LOB ANOBLES. Oct. 6. — A
bald headed radio man. whose
asserted amours with one of the
country's foremost champions of
chastity and godliness has made
him the object of a country wide
search, is hourly expected to sur
render to the district attorney^
office.
While the preliminary trial of
Aimee Semple McPherson was re
sumed Monday Interest was tem
porarily focussed outside the
courtroom; when the district at
torney dispatched a squad of
deputy sheriffs to the reported
hiding place of Kenneth G. Or-
niiston, somewhere on the out
skirts of Los Angeles.
May Give Self Up
No report had been received
today and If the radio man is not
captured, it Is bleieved he will
surrender. It is reported he is
in this city for the purpose of
facing the charge of conspiring
to defeat justice In connection
with Mrs. McPherson’s disappear
ance and bizarre story of kid
naping.
Under garments, a pink corset
and other clothing which Mrs. Mc
Pherson wore when she reappear
ed In Agua Prieta, Mexlcp, be-
came*the center of Interest In the
courtroom <aa Deputy District At
torney Joseph Ryan took the
stand and revealed details of his
investigation of -the co««. —
Ryan testified that he traced
footprints from Agun Prieta to a
point one and a half miles be
yond the town, where the foot
prints disappeared and automo
bile tire tracks took their place.
Mrs. McPherson in her, story be
fore the grand jury declared that
she had escaped from the kidnap
ers' shack, and after an all dky
trek across the burning Mexican
desert, reached the American bor
der at nightfall.
When the clothing was parad
ed before the courtroom the even-
gel 1st blushed deeply, and her
mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, a
co-defendant In the case, wept.
Mrs. McPherson disappeared
while bathing at Ocean Park and
the clothing she reappeared In
was given to her by the kidnap
ers, she asserts.
Hairnet Shown
A hairnet which she. said she
was wearing at the time she was
spirited away and which Ryan
testified he found In the pocket
of the dress she was wearing
when she reappeared, was looked
upon as an Important bit of evid
ence.
Ryan declared flatly that hte
evangelist had used "artificial
means" to put dark circles under
her eyes when she came back to
this city to face her followers
after the "kidnaping."
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Serial to Start
The Tidings' big new serial
story, “Lydia Of The Plnee,"
will start tomorrow afternoon
and will continue daily for
about four week«. “Lydia of
the Pines" Is from the pen of
Honoré Wlllsle. and Is a dra
matic love stfry of the pine
forests of the Upper Mississ
ippi-
«
This serial story will appear
each day on th i editorial page
of The Tidings, and is one of
the many feature« and improve
ments which this newspaper
will give Its readers during the
coming months.
.
Be snre and start this story
tomorrow and read it each
afternoon In The Tidings.
MORE TALENT DISTRICT WATER
Another water project which will appear on the
city ballot in November as a measure separate and
distinct from the general bond issue is the proposal
to purchase another additional 200-acre feet of water
from the Talent Irrigation District.
This proposal calls for the exj>eoditure of ap
proximately $22/KM), and if it should be authorized
the city of Ashland would purchase this water in
perpetuity, with never any additional annual charges
fo r th is w ater.
..
It is conceded by all who ar„e familiar with the
. water problem and the efforts being ipade to remedy
the situation that this is bv far the most misunder-
stated measure of all. To put it plainly, tins
measure today is not jwipular with the rank and file
of the voters of Ashland.
“ Why pay out this big sum of money for water
when they can’t supply it during an unusually dry
summer like we have just experienced?”
This is the <piestion whjch is being asked on all
sides. Because‘the situation is not understood, there
is a feeling among the people of Ashland that this
would be a needless waste of public money to spend
$22,000 for additional peonanent rights to Talent
Irrigation District water.
In answer to this natural and pertinent question,
the mayor and meml»ers of the council vehemently
insist that the purchase of this additional water will
mean the delivery of this water each summer to the
people of Ashland.
It was two years ago that the city of Ashland
purchased 600-acre feet of water from the Talent
Irrigation District. In comjdiancc with the terms of
this purchase, the Talent Irrigation District is bound
under its contract to store, this amount of water each
winter in its storage reservoirs and have it ready for
distribution at any time the city of Ashland calls
for it.
This past summer was nnnsnal up and down the
Pacific coast. Cities which never before had felt the
shortage of their water supply were compelled to re
sort' to water regulation's, and the Talent Irrigation
District was inctudd jft those which had to order
some curtailment.
k
; ’ But the mayor and members of the city council
put forth this claim for the Talent water purchased
by the citv:
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“ IF THIS ADDITIONAL WATER HAD NOT
BEEN AVAILABLE, THE FRUIT ORCHARDS OF
ASHLAND WOULD HAVE BEEN TOTALLY
RUINED THIS SUMMER AND ORCHARDISTS
WOULD HAVE SUFFERED A TREMENDOUS
LOSS.”
This was the first summer since the purchase of
this irrigation water that its value to the city was
put to a test, and it more than proved its worth in
saving the fruit crops on the favored hillsides sur
rounding the city.
According to the mayor and' members of the
council, the purchase of this additional 200-acre feet
, of water will provide just that much added insurance
for Ashland’s vaunted fruit. If next summer should
be as dry as this summer, anti the Talent Irrigation
district should be compelled to pro rata its water
supply, the city of Ashland would receive 25 percent
more water, even under drought conditions, than it
received this year. The Talent district would be com
pelled to store this additional amount this wipter for
the upe of this city.
The question also has been asked during the re
cent weeks why the city should wish to purchase the
Talent.Irrigation District water if the people vote for
the general bond issue to increase the domestic water
supply,
•
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The answer of the mayor and members of the
council is that the Talent water will for all time to
come take the heavy load off the domestic water
system during the summer months and always in
sure an abundance of water for general purposes.
The action of the council two years ago in pur
chasing f>00-acre feet of water from the Talent Irri
gation District was condemned by many who are now
the strongest boosters for the purchase of tliis ad
ditional water. The value of this water is especially
realized by Ashldhd orchardists, and in the opinion of
the mayor and council members, the famed foothill
fruit products of Ashland are far too valuable as a
city asset to be placed in jeopardy when the expendi
ture now of $22,000 will insure an adequate supply
for all generations to- come.
♦
If Ashland purchases the water, the Tplent dis
trict will supply i t
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TINNEY SOME BETTER
RANKERS CONVENE
DETROIT, Mich., O ct.' 5.—
(U P )— Frank Tinney, comedian,
passed a comfortable night and
he was slightly better today, ac
cording to announcement by hie
physician, Dr. Leon Dretlka.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 6.—•
(U P )— The American Bankers*
Association, In convention here
today, listened to an inspiring
talk on prosperity by Oscar
Wells of Birmingham.
cung Man, 26 Years Old,
Says Daugherty Should
Be Absolved
District Attorney Keyes and
Others Accused of
Embexslement
POLITICAL
MOVE
Cardinals Win 4 to 0, With
Big Jeff Haines Doing
Pitching
Another Surprise May Be
Sprung in Hall-Mills
Murder probe
Board of Regents of Univer
sity of Washington Fire
President
DETECTIVE ARRESTED
ACTION
County Hupervtoors and Others
.Held for Alleged Criminal
Offenses
o
false
evidence
and
nine,charges of embexslement.
SOMERVILLE, N,. J., Oct. 6. National League rhamplona pull-
— One of the attorneys for the. ed them through when Jeff
defense may become the target. Haines, a right hander, let the
for an Indictment sought from hard hitting Yanks down with
the Somerset grand jury when It' five scattered hits and shut them
sits here Thursday, as a result of ont completely. Haines not only
the arrest of Felix DI Martini, pitched a wonderful game hut
private detective, as an acces-' surprised his team-mates by hit-
sory after the fact in the Hall-, ting a home run In the fourth Inn-
Mills murder.
J Ing that scored Thevenow ahead
Special Prosecutor Alex Slmp-{ of him and broke up the ball
son has such n move under con- game,
slderation. The attorney In ques-
The finals:
tion, according to his theory, en-
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gaged with DI Martini during th e '9t- k °u,!’
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original Inquiry four years ago In Yankees»
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ohstructng justice.
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SEATTLE. Wash., Oet. 5.—
(U P )—A strike of more than
6000 students of the University
of Washington was threatened to
day because of the summary dis
missal of Dr. Henry Susxalo as
president or the Institution. Pres
ident Sacsalo was removed last
evening by a majority vote of the
l>oard of regents.
He refused to resign when
aHked to do so, * claiming there
were no grounds for his dismisi
sal. The board then placed him
on an indefinite leave of , ab-
EEE IS B E D FOB
SEATTLE. Oct. 6.— The board
of regents of the University of
Washington Is reported to have
acted In accordance with Instruc
tions from
Governor Rotami
Hartley and summarily removed
President ' Henry Suszallo from
the presidency of the university.
Suszallo refused to resign and
the board relieved him of all dnJ
ties and pnt. him on an indefin
ite leave of absence..
- Sussallo rfused to comment on
the action.
Statement Issued
A. H. B. Jordan, president of
the board of regents, issued the
following statement attar the
board had adjourned Monday
evening:
"The majority of the board of
regents, having an increasing
conviction that politics ~h«nttl
have far less Importasse In prpe-
celved and promulgated by* Gore ent affairs of the university, and
and that he worked long and con- therefore in its best interests,
slstentiy for It, and was largely while fully appreciating the ser-
instrumental in having the law vices and standing of President
passed.
Sussallo as an educator and ad-
————— — ——
.mlnistrator. feel called upon to
nsk his resignation.
"The affairs of the university
LA GRANDE, Oct. 5.— Five
will be managed by Dean Thomp
Austrian laborers'were more or
son until a new presldeht Is elect-
less shot up and cut up follow
ing a bloody battle In a small
David Thompson la dean of the
house on Monroe street Monoay, Mrs. Jarvis Dies at Family college of arts ang faculty.
as a sequel to a quarrel.
Home: Funeral Plans
A sixtli participant escaped.
DI Martini was arraigned In
Brooklyn after his arrest and re-
i i r a r a n n n r n in r ilT
lensed upon $1 0 ,0 0 0 ball after a
MLi|U|D[l pLCIr|LK|T
brief
stay
In
jail.
^He
formerly
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,U | HJIl’Iu U 0 1 f ll I was employed as a private det<ic-
tlve by Mrs. Francep Stevens C ou nty Court W o u ld P a y
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5V. JJ Gore for T&X
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n«» Hall, who with Willie and Henry
Stevens and Henry Carpender, is
“Refund Work
under indictment for the tnur*
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<ler of her rector-husband an ! a
PORTLAND. Oct. 6.Multnomah
nlO lu g
„
-
county commissioners
Monday
Another important step— that choir singer. .
Di Martini Is charged with in- considered a. communication front
timidntlng state witnesses a n d the county court of Jackson coun-
wlthholdlng evidence.
ty, 'asking if Multnomah county
Governor Moore, of New Jer- would be willing to pay W. H.
sey, has already requested DI Gore one per cent of the money
Martini’s extradition from New that will be received as lte share
York, according to Simpson.
of the congressional refund to the
Carpender, named In a state- 18 land grant counties • of the
ment ascribed to Henry L. Dick- state, voted by congress just be-
.roa,b
*»_rW£ *4*« J»ffi adjournment,
trooper 6>,*M te cease Inverit- . The Jackson county o ttM a la
£ £ “ “ £•= another addition
preparing
8URPRI8E
Given Indefinite Leave: o f Absence
When H e ID-fuse« to
‘ . Perien
LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct. 5.—*,$ut 26.years old when he became
(U P )— Nine high officials o f f t the alleh property division of
Los Angeles county are under,A m * department of justice with
technical arrest today on c h a r g e s '» W impounded millions of dol-
o ( conspiracy and erabeszelment lars at its disposition.
Insisted
as the outgrowth of a political ^P«n the witness stand that form-
war that has stirred the state.) er Attorney General Daugherty
District Attorney Asa Keyes, M^ouM be absolved,
prosecutor of Aimee Semple Mc-| Johnson said that h$ recom-
Pherson. five member« of the mended release of the securities*
county board of supervisors and 'once held by German financiers
three lesser officials are defend-, to the Swiss holding company nt
ants. Keyes Is accused of em -|the behest of Richard Merton,
besxlement arising from his as-j The youth denied that Daugherty
sorted employment of unauthor-jor any other figure In the case In-
ised special prosecutors and ln.fluenced him In Ihe’decislon that
connection with an expenditure)the claim was valid.
from a secret service fund*.
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had been named in complaints fll-
ed by Keyes. The supervisors
and other county officials are
charged in complaints signed by
IS
Injured in
Incomplete
r^URRECTION
EtfÔOLLŸ,
ífo J U S Í A S
G C O P A 5 /JEW
Mrs. Mary Olive Jarvis, aged
66, a life-long resident of Jack-
son county, died last night at the
family home on Pine street. Fun
eral services have not been def Mo”G Persons Visit Orator
initely arranged but will be hel-l
Lake This Year Than
the latter part of the week.
Ever Before
Besides her husband, Mrs. Jar
vis Is survived by five daughters
A total of 86.064 persona, the
and one son. The bpdy Is at largest on fecord, visited Crater
Stock’s undertaking parlors.
Lake this year, according to lntaet
figures. Of this number, sg ,.
627 came by way of the Medford
entrance. 27.161 by way of Klam
ath Palls, 6,236 by the east en
trance, and the remainder check
ing In nt Anna Springs and gov
ernment
camp.
Tickets
will go on* sale
Every state In the union was
throughout the city tomorrow for
the two performances to be given represented.
bere by the Moroni Olsen Play
ers under'the auspices of the
Southern Oregon state normdl
school. Tickets will be sold by
students and others and those
United News Report
purchasing tickets can make
Starting
tomorrow, the com
their reservation« at the Roee
plete
United
News wire report
confectionery. The first perform
of
more
than
6000 words a
ance will be given at the normal
lay.
will
be
added
to The Tid
school on the night of Oct. 16.
ings preeent naw« Morrice. Ar
rangements for receiving this
report have been completed. It
will come both by air mail di
rect from Portland and by
early morning stag« from
Klamath Falls, where It to re
The new model 8 linotype ceived until one a. m. each
which was ordered last week by morning.
The Tidings, to better the offlee
By reason of this augmented
equipment and thus give Ashland wire service, local aewp etorlee,
a better newspaper, was shipped unless o f paramount interest,
yesterday from Sen Francisco, will appear on page two. which
according to a telegram received Will ho made the local news
this morning from the Margen- page of The Tidings. So far
thaler Linotype company.
ha possible the first page will
bo devoted to general wire
hows.
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Ticket Sale For
Players Started
New Linotype is
Enroute to City
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