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VOL. L
ASHLAND, OREGON,
Has opened.
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tion and observe all state game
laws.
Newspaper For N early F ifty Years
Wir* Servios)
■ NDAY, OCT, 18, 1926
That The People May Know
Campaign B eing Marked by
Much B itterness Center -
• ing Around Stanfield
DEMOCRATS REJOICING
Hope That Three Cornered Race
W ill Result in Victory for
PO RTLAND, Ore., Oct. 18.—
(U P )— The old tim e democratic
trick of splitting the opposition
party is being attempted in Ore
gon and through it democrata
hope to elevate Bert E. Haney,
former shipping board commis
sioner, to the United States sen
ate.
As Oregon is overwhelmingly
republican, mueh bitterness has
been engendered and It centers
around the robust figure of Sen
ator Robert N. Stanfield who
caused the trouble within his
party by becoming an Independ
ent candidate for the senate after
Frederick Stafprer had defeated
him for the republican nomina
tion in the May primary.
Singing a song of "freedom
from dictatorship,” Stanfield is
stumping the state, charging that
an
alleged
“whispering cam
paign” against him was "u n fair” ,
and asking that he be returned
to the senate In order to com
plete his legislative program.
Steiwer, a - forceful young at
torney from Pendleton, and a
colonel in France during the war
has replied by charging that
Stanfield ,1s a traito r to his party
and a foe of the' direct primary
system because he refused to
abide by Its decision.
Meanwhile democrata ate Jub
ila n t over the opposition’s d lv ti-
ion of strength *j»d, so republi
cans charge, are giving Stanfield
under cover encouragement In
the hope that Haney w ill reap
the rewards of faction strife.
As lo r Haney himself, he has
remained apart from the Issue
created by Stanfield, and is m a t
ing a strenuous campaign of the
state, giving the McNary-Hnugen
farm relief bill unqualified en
dorsement, an<^ advocating the
establishment of an American
Merchant Marine.
Another eleventh Tiour entry is
W . P. Adams, an Independent
wet, but mention of his candidaoy
is lost In the echo of the greater
three-cornered battle. A few pro
test votes will go to him but ev
ent wets admit that to be the ex
tent of his strength.
An interesting feature in Ore
gon is that Senator Charles Mc
Nary, co-author of the McNary-
Haugen farm relief bill and a
member of the republican sena
torial election committee, is re
maining apart from the bitter
battle in his home state. He is
scheduled to speak in behalf of
republican candidates fo r nation
al office In every western and In
ter-mountain state where there is
a contest, with the exception of
Oregon.
One of the most important measures to come
up on the local November ballot will be the request
for authority to issue bonds to the amount of
.$8000, .to provide more adequate fire protection.
The present fire truck has been in existence
for thirteen years. During that time it has done
valiant service in protecting the homes and build-
pigs of Ashland Residents, but like everything
else mechanical, it has suffered the ills attendant
to old age, and, now stands as a fitting monument
to the early days of fire fighting equipment.
, The proposal, according to members of the
council, if passed upoiV favofably by the people
will allow the purchase of a modern up*to-date, hill
climbing, chemical and hose wagon, and 1200 feet
of new hose, as well as provide funds for the
repairing of the present equipment in order that
there may always be a machine in reserve.
The present hose equipment consists of about
1000 feet of good hose, the balance amounting to
700 feet being from nine to thirteen years old, an
amount that, would prove to be wholly inadequate
should this city have the ipisfortuUe to suffer a
disastrous fire, such as has visited some of our
neighboring cities during the past few weeks.
From a strictly business standpoint it has
been pointed out that the interset on the cost of
the new equipment will not exceed the amount of
money now being spent on keeping the present
equipment in repair and there would he the addi
tional safety feature that cannot be computed in
terms of dollars and cents. In addition to this, it
is a known fact that insurance rates would take a
marked downward trend with the additional equip
ment installed. This would be more marked how
ever if the general water bonds are received favor
ably by the people.
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The full extent of the danger attached to th e'
* present equipment can be realized when it is known
that for three days recently the old relic that reposes
so majestically in the fire dpartment quarters, gave
in to its many aches and pains, and while Fire Chief
Baughman was frantically searching for new parts,
the city of Ashland was entirely without protection
except for an ordinary truck and a few hundred
feet of hose for three days. The machine has been
out so long that every time it is necessary to make
repairs, those in charge find it exceedingly difficult
to locate the necessary parts. The time refered to
above the Fire Chief had to make a special trip to
Portland and search the city over before his efforts
were rewarded.
One disastrous fire, would pay many times over
the cost of the new equipment, and there is little
question that when this portion of the ballot is
fully understood there will be an overwhelming
majority cast to give Ashland the fire protection it
so badly needs.
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Three Are Held
By Local Police
Maroni Olsen Players Please
Many in Their Interpre
tation of Modern P lay
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ASHLAND TIDINGS
LETTER CONTEST
Following are the rules for
ths letter w riting contest. I t
closes Oct. 28.
Any person over 18 years
of age is eligible.
Letters are lim ited to ISO
words.
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Cash prises totaling 880 w ill
be given the three winners.
W rite a letter to some friend
in another city telling what
you think of Ashland.
W rite on one side of the
paper only and if possible use
a typ ew riter.,
Bend a copy‘ of your letter
to the Contest Bdltor of The
Tidings.
The letters w ill be Judged by
five disinterested Judge* and
the winners annonnead a few
days after the close of the con
test.
Battling through four periods
of ragged football, punctured by
much wrangling, and frequent
I penalities oh both sided, the Ash
land football team. In a sea , of
mud and water, kept the Grants
Pass team from scoring while
• they themselves were unable to
• cross their opponent’s goal line,
i when they met at Grants Paa«
Saturday.
The game was replete with
! thrills that kept the spectators
on edge during the entire contest
SAN FRANCISCO, OeL
18.— ' and reached a climax at the lat
At
least , twenty-two violent ter part of the third
quarter
deaths occurred over the week- when Grants Pass worked the
end on the Pacific coast, the Het ball down to the locals five yard
including
murders,
suicides, : line. A series of line plunges
drowning, automobile fatalities, left but Inches between the ball
and hunting accidents, while for« and the goal line. When the
ty-nine automobile injuries w er* third quarter whistle interrupted
reported
grants Pass’ efforts to score, and
Most of the tragic deaths w er* with the reversal of goal lines
In Loe Angeles where Mrs. A d * ' the Ashland team stiffened, and
Chamberlin put her three child the opposing team lost the ball
ren, Edwjpa, 8, Delnyn, 7, and on downs. The locals punted out
John Jr., 4, to sleep with sleep J of danger, and from that time on
ing tablets and then took herVWw the play was entirely in Grants
life and their by turning on the Pass territory.
,
The last quarter Ashland seem
The Northwest tragedies were: ed to strike her stride, and with
Reedsport, Oregon, Victor L a r
a series of line plunges the ball
sen, fifteen, shot gun accident. was carried up to the middle of
Rietdorf, 8, burned to death; the field, where It was again
Frank Novak, Ana Cortes, drown lost, through the local’s pnsuc-
ed; Nelney Banderpool, 18, shot , cessful efforts to forward
pass
while hunting. Clarence J. Vince their way to victory.
killed in auto accident, Rodolph
Welding, 40, Seattle, drowned.
and Swan Johnson of Seattle sat
cide by drowning.
Teachers Here
For Meet;
Teachers representing e v fffi
school In* Jackson county are In
Ashland today, attending the
regular yearly meeting of the
Jackson county teachers Insti
tute. The sessions which begin
at nine In the morning and con
tinue throughout the day are be
ing held
In the
high
school
building, where n busy program
has been outlined. The sessions
w ill close tomorrow, and school
which has been dismissed for the
two days, w ill convene regularly
on Wednesday morning.
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Oregon A ggies
Skin U. o f C
Two Cars Stolen
Over Week-End
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Several W eeks in Tour
I.OS ANOELKS.’Oct. 18.—M rs.
of This Country
Aimee McPherson charged today
that .«he, had been poisoned' by
IS GOVERNMENT GUEST
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1 I one of her enemies. She was
Buffering from a leg abcesg W ill Spend Tw o Days a t W ash
forum on
hursday when Bite arrived in court to be
ington W here President Coo-
Med fo n i Riisiness Men to Com« gin t(he fourth week's "hearing on
lblge W ill he Host
a charge of perjury and conspir
H ere fo r 'Joint M eeting and ‘
acy tp ohstfuct Justice.
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E n tertain m en t
NEW YORK, Oct. l8 .—
"Some one struck me with a
The
Leviathan,
hearing
poisoned pen, when I took my
Qfteen Marie, of Roumanla.
■ Arrangements have been com chair In court last Saturday.”
and entourage, on n visit to
pleted by J. H. Fuller, secretary she snld. The wound was said
the United States reached
of the Chamber of Commerce, to have resulted in her leg be
the American shores today.
for the entertaining of 175 ticket ing swollen and infected and
She will be received at
agents representing practically caused her much pain last night.
Washington tonight as a
every eastern state, on Thursday,
guest of the government for
October 21, according to an an
IiOS ANGELES, Oct. IS . —
two days.
nouncement made from the local (United News, — Followers of
Chamber of Commerce this morn Aimee Semplo McPherson arA
Marie, Queen of Roumania,
ing.
counting upon their religious who arrived in New York City
Tho regular weekly Forum leader’s personal appenrnnre on today started her tour of the
luncheon will be held on this the witness stand as the strong, country In a most democratic
date instead of Tuesday, the us est means of clearing herself of way. She granted interviews to
ual meeting day, and at c that charges <?f perjury and the con reporters and was escorted up
time hienibers of the Medford spiracy to obstruct justice.
Broadway where she was met by
Chamber of Commerce w ill mo.
W ith the state’s case rested, Mayor Jimmie Walker. After
tor to Ashland and participate presentation of defense testimony the reception she boarded the
in a joint meeting, at which time was started today. It was announ train for Washington. An im
a general discussion will be held ced that the tltlan-haired evan portant part of her trip through
on some of the more Important gelist w ill represent herself as a ths country will be her visit to
measures to be voted upon at tho witness In her own defense. Her Portland.
November election.
followers feel that her very pres,
This
meeting
w ill adjourn ence on the stand w ill do much
promptly at one thirty to the to establish her Innocence.
demit, the visitlug ticket agents
Start of the defense testimony 1
being scheduled to arrive at that was delayed today by a legal con- 1
time, and under' the auspices of troverse over the right of Mrs. 1
the local organization w ill be Gail X. Koonts to testify. The 1
taken on an automobile ride defense offered Mrs. Koontz as Its *
throughout this vicinity, the trip first witness in order to show !
to terminate at Medford.
that she, and not the evangelist,
Many places of interest in and sent a telegram from Gila Bend
around Ashland have been plac to Tucson, Aris., on June 14,
ed upon the itinery, and It is shortly before ’Mrs. McPherson
expected that the guests will be made her dramatic re-appearance
In a position to glvp an interest kt Agua Prleta.
ing account of their stop In Ash
veal the oontènts of the telegram
land to potential visitors of this
Mddcartal Discharge of Shot ■ecthm, Upon thelf return home.
1
WASHINGTON, Oct
18. —
Gun Brings Tragedy
The noon-day discussion will
1 (United Press) — The President
W hile Duck Hunting
be led by Former Mayor Cv B.
is ready to receive the qaeen.
REEDSPORT, Oct. 18.— Victor Gates of Medford" and present
Tonight he sent his personal rep.
Larson, fifteen, was iInstantly plans call tor the presentation of
resentatlve, Assistant Secretary
killed by the accidental discharge the affirmative .side of the court
of State J. Butler W right to New
of his shot gun Sunday morning house removal question..
York to welcome Marie of Ru
while hunting ducks in
the
mania Monday, and bring her to
marshes of Scoffield River. Lar
the W hite House on a special
Favorable Trade Showing
sen and his companion were at
government train.
tempting to leap from the boat
In July of this year our exports
A vlvoclous woman, monarch
to the shore when Larson’s gun Increased 129,(100,000 and- our
I of the Balkans, and a silent man
was discharged, the load striking ‘ Imports 814,OQO,OOQ oyer the
o f the Vermont hills.
him In tlje head.
same. mon(h last year.
,
picture of their meeting
has been set all Washington tatk-
ing and wondering.
“W hat w ill they say to each
othkr
what- will they find in
u; B. AJtorauy fchanrieeian, said
common?” is the asking.
As
postal Inspectora will be assigned
parents’ will they discuss sons—
td Iraee thh "a»*^ger” letters re
m i s ; fiu N W A . .'S
ceived by Mrs? Minnie tietanedy. Prince Carol, estranged from his
throne, and John at College with
mother of the fvapgpllst, whleh
(J U S T W A T V J A S
a secret service guard.
propnrfed to ¿ora» frdra Mrs. Mc
r
N E E D E D 1- . ^ .
Or will the ruler of a poor
Pherson’s “ kidnapers."
people seek a loan from the
spokesman of the richest country
In the world as whispered in
W all street.
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P’
W ill the President expand un
der thnt feminine charm which
has been so effective In European
diplomacy— or will her majesty
M E M O R IA L 8TA D IU M , BER And, as even more powerful per
K E L E Y , Cal., Oct. 18.— (United sonages have found— a Coolidge
Press— The Oregon Aggies came reserve which visitors cannot
ont of ths Pacific northwest Sat penetrate.
urday and literally took the skins
Diplomats
here
who
have
off the University of California known the queen say her political
Bears in a football game that power, as mother Jn-law of the
ended, O. A. C. 27; California, f .
It was not altogether an unex
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pected victory, fo r the Bears suf.
fered defeat at the hands of St.
QUEEN M A R IE MUST
M ary’s recently 27 to 7— exactly
PAY REGULAR FA R R
the same measure of defeat.
W hat it did was to put the
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 18.
Bruins deflnately out of the Pa
— California was perturbed to
cific coast conference running and
day over the possibility that a
the Oregon Aggies definitely in.
railroad's insistence that all
Local Chamber of Commerce
to Take V isitors on Trip
t
Around Ashland
A Proper Starting Point at Last, ¡
Two Seattle, Washington, cars
were held yesterday for speeding,
the drivers received a fine of
810 each and costs, according to
Chief of Police McNabb, while
Percy Marlow, charged with dis
orderly conduct was given the a l
ternate of paying 815 into the
coffers of the city or working his
penalty out at the rate, of 81 per
day.
The chief of police ' issued a
warning this morning to merch
ants in an effort to call to their
attention
the
danger accom
panying the cashing of checks for
unknown people.
A good sized
check was cashed Saturday in nu
Ashland business'house, and this
morning it was found that the
firm had no account here and
were unknown. The chief has
asked that merchants nt least
as to see tourists operators li
cense
before
.accepting their
check, and if there is any suspic
ion attached to their actions to
call the police immediately.
An epidemic of automobile
stealing seemed to p r e v a i l
throughout Southern Oregon and
Northern California during the
week-end when n Hupmoblle se
dan was stolen In Klamath Falls
Sunday evening and a Ford tonr
ing In Rogue River Saturday
night, according to reports re
ceived by Chlef-of-Pollce O. W.
McNabb.'
The Ford was recovered on the
Slsklyous last evening by 0 . W .
Drummond,
patrolman nt the
Siskiyou Station.
Ev anieiist Says Enemies
Are Bat;k of Attack Made
■ Saturday in Court Room
Muddy Field Hampers Both
Teams in Game of
Thrills
File Recall
On Governor
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SE A TTLE, Oct. 18.— A recall
petition urging that Governor
Ronald H artley he removed from
office because of misconduct in
the dismissal of state officials
without reason, and other charg
es wan signed here today.
Soon after the thirty-eight vot
ers from various parts of stats
and signed the document, an au
tomobile caravan left for Olympia
to file ths petitions.
royalty should be treated alike <
may cost the state a look at
Queen Marie. The Southern
Pacific, over whose line Queen
Marie must travel from Seat
tle to California? declined fe>
enter Into a "dollar’ transpor
tation arrangement lnetltnted
by the Great Northern, B. tad
O., and the Union Paotflc.
Marrle atw Entourage w ill
cross the continent under t h ^
arrangement nt a total coat of
83, one for each railroad. I
The Southern Pacific soya I
other royalty ha* paid th * roe- I-
ular ra t* and M a rl* mast do I