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VOL. L
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ASHLAND, OREGON,
SWEETHEART t r a i «O H I THE
OF WEALTHY1 M 1
COLLEGE BOY
WHITEWASH
Sunerintendent Brisco« and
Normal School Faculty
On Program ’
Thous-
Warrepit la leaned fa r Arrest o f
Missin* Youth Before Cor
oners Jury M arte
P R A IR IE DU e H IE N , W li.,
Dec. 3.— (U N )— The plain folk of
the Kickapoo river valley must
w ait until Friday afternoon be
fore learning bow Clara Olsen, 22
year old farm girl, sweetheart of
a rich college youth, met her
death.
A t that time three professors
from the University of Wisconsin
medical college, and Dr. C. H.
Bunting of Madison w ill perform
an autopsy on the g irl’s body,
which was found in a shallow
grave today at Mount Sterling,
about a quarter of a mile from
the homq of Erdman Olaon.— tha
youth for whom a w arrant was
issued before authorities knew
that Mias Olsen was dead.
Immediately after
tha post
mortem examination, a coroner’s
Inquest w ill be held, Coroner
F rank Holly announced tonight.
* “ We have not examined the
body,” the coroner said, “and w ill
not do so until the professors
come.”
Earlier rumors to the effect
Ashland w ill ba well represent
ed on the program tomorrow
when the regular Institute w ill be
held at the Medford Junior High
school w ith Superintendent Brla-
poe,,and several from the Nor
mal school faculty, being leaders
In the discussion of various school
topics. The program w ill be as
follows ?-
Satardey, Dee. 4, 1090
8:39— Music, provided by Mies
Church, Medford Music Supervis
or.
Teachers* Roll C all; Music la
our school.
Community Singing and Music
Appreciation— Mias Marstera.
Our Week-Day Religious School
— Supt. Briscoe, Ashland.
Sections: Lower Grade:
in Silent Reading, Miss W hite,
Normal School.
Class ih Oral Reading, Mias
White.
Discussion.
* —
Upper Grades: Class In SUant
Reading, Mias Trotter, Normal
School.
V
Class in Oral Reading, M i a s
Trotter, j.............................
............
Discussion.
Noon.
,
.1:18 — The Free Textbook
Question, Supt. Briscoe.
Problems before the Teachers*
Association of tha State;
Teaching Spelling— Supt. Hed
rick. Medford Schools.
Round Table Sections:
For teachers of 7th and 8th
Grades.
County-wide Objective Teste.
For Lowers Grades: 8tereo-
that no marks of violence
fer Geography das
found on the body and that death ' ™
may have some from poisoning
Reports hy teachers «sing them
were repudated. Holly declared*
:
ten by any “ Using Library pooka.
the body baa not
Seat W ork.
one, and therefore no one could
Our Junior High School—FMn.
know whether ballet
knife
Ila Myers. Ashland; Prtn. A. J
Hanby, Medford.
was his «pinion that the body had
remained la Its improvised grave
since September 9, when Mias Ol
sen disappeared.
Chris Olsen, father o f -the girl,
remained in him home tonight a
broken man. I t was bis firm con
viction that his daughter had been
murdered that caused authorities
to Issue a warrant for Erdman's
arrSst before it had been estab
lished that Miss Olsen had not
met with foul play.
Albert Olson— the Olsons are
not related although they live
near each other— was not in a
communicative mood. U n til the
girl's body was found he stoutly
maintained that the Olsons— boy
and girl— were M ill living and
that his boy could not and wonld
not commit murder.
Volunteer American Legion
naires searching the s t a t e ,
found the bAdy Thursday.
SU te 4 H. Week— H.
mour. Corvallis.
'
C.
Sey
Patronage Will be Awarded
to the Two Necessary
For Majority
TO JOIN ORGANIZATION
Nye and F n w ie r o f N orth D akota
to be Consulted on A ll
Appointm ents
W A SHING TO N, Dec. S — Presi
dent Coolidge has yielded to the
imands for patronage by two
Insurgents senators, whose votes
■r* narMserv for republican con-
senate. As a re-
that two, Nya and
North Dakota, will
the party for organ-
Nye and FTasier ware consid
erably aroueed over appointment
of a United States marshal In
their state without being con
sulted. They even threatened to
reject overtures made by republi
can aenate leaders. These lead
ers Interceded at the W hite House
"and they want to sea the presi
dent today, carrying with them
two letters assuring him that no
appointment would be made un
t il he had been consulted. One
was Coolidge’s secretary, Everett
Bandera and the other from A t
torney General Sargent.
Nye, 88 years old, slightly
built, a former country newspaper
editor, came away from the W hite
House satisfied. I t now appears
probable that the president w ill
not eond the name of the nominee
for the disputed post. C. F. Mnd-
gett. to the senate. Nye gave no
tice of a fight against confirma
tion before ho Wont to the W hite
House and If tha .president de
cides later that sending the name
re I U V re
II1V 7 re
S re
r l e
l e
O red
l “ re A
Ire
v r re
x lay
i i j re
w e
r re
e re
j e
u are
u d
t
of the dilemma, It w ill be w ith the
knowledge that the nomination
w ill have little ehance.
Nye apparently got everything
he wanted.
Soon after he left
the president’s office he went to
see Postmaster General New re
garding postoffice patronage and
later called on Attorney General
Sargent to discuss patronage
■that comes under Sargent’s Juris
diction.
Nye announced
that
Senator Frasier would be invited
to the W hite House and the har
mony then w ill be general.
Frazier was ousted from the re
publican party two years ago,
along with Bcookhart of Iowa
and the late Senators La Follette
of Wisconsin and Ladd of North
Dakota.
ram little
w
orkers
M EXIM DIWKHDS
Bonuses sA Christmas Time
Will be Much Less
Than Tear Ago
...t N E W YO RK , Nov. 30.— (U
N ) — Although stockholders will
benefit by general prosperity of
the country in the form of extra
dividends this Christmas, work
ers In New Y o rk’s financial dis
trict w ill not be ' so fortunate.
Last year It was estimated
that more than 850,000,000 in
bonuses were distributed In W all
street, but this year only about
835,099,900 w ill be the g ift of
business to its lesser help.
Office boys, telegraph opera
tors, stenographers, pashlers, of
fice managers and secretaries—
all are eagerly discussing the ex
pected rewards, but not w ith the
fervor displayed last year when
bonuses In many cases ran Into
several thousand dollars.
Although brokers adm it 1926
was not as prosperous as 1925
there has been enough business
to warrant fa ir slsed .rewards
to employes.
Former Masonic
Official Passes
Word was received here this
morning of the death' in Port
land yesterday of James F. Robin
son, who for 88 years was grand
secretary of the M&eonlc bodies of
Oregon. He had been secretary
up until two years ago whan he
was retired as secretary emeritus
on full pay.' He had been In
falling health for the past several
years.
State Senator George W . Dunn
w ill leave this evening for Port
land to attend the funeral which
w ill be held tomorrow afteraoon.
Two Of Aimep’s
Lawyers Withdraw
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2.— (U N )
— In preparation to r the bitter
battle expected when
Almee
Semple McPherson goes on trial
in superior court In January or
February tha evangelist It was an
nounced Wednesday, that W . I.
Gilbert w ill remain as chief coun
sel for the defense, w ith Jerry
Celsler as assistant.
Leonard Hammer and A rthur
Vettch, associated w ith tha de
fease at the preliminary hearing
have retired from the case.
A l
though ‘rumor Wednesday indicat
ed group of friends would make
aa effort to have tha case thrown
oat of court, the evangelist dis
claimed knowledge a f the report.
EDITORS TO MEET
Roseburg and Bahdon w ill en
tertain the Oregon Editorial asso
ciation next summer and although
the date w ill be decided on at tha
state press convention held at
Eugene In March, the committee
In charge of the summer meeting
w ill recommend Friday and Sat
urday of the first week In Au
gust as the time of the meetings
in Southwestern
Oregon. The
business session w ill he held nt
Roseburg Friday and on Saturday
tha editors of the state w ill en
joy an outing oh the bench nt
Bandon, according to the tenta
tive plans.
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HIGH LIGHTS OF
HOLIDAY WELCOME
PRINCIPALJ
Eugene, Dec. 8.— W arfare
between members of the stu
dent* body, of the high sebool
and J. O. Swan principal,
flamed anew following an a c t,.
presumably f»y Xhq jtp d q n ta, J>.
dousing thé principal With
whitewash. -
Swan was on the stage dur
ing an assembly period, when
i bucket concealed overhead
overturned, the fluid drenching
*hlm from head to foot. Trouble
In the school resulted from the'
oarring of
several football
players from the team for Var
ious reasons.
RESCUE THIR1Y H
FRON SNOW STORM
Veteran Stage Drivers Go
Through Heavy Snow
Blockade
TONOPAH, Nev., Dec. I.
(U N )— Dan Haaktn, v e t e r n »
stfcge driver, and B ill Farrlngdon
sturdy musher, are the heroes ot
a rescue effort in recent fa r w est
ern history.
The two men fought their way
through the snowstorm t h a t
blacked the Montgomery
pnks
from Nevada Into southern Cali
fornia, and saved members of 81
automobile parties from possible
death , through hunger and expo
sure. The motorists were trapped
by a snowstorm that blockaded
the highway and stalled th e ir
cars.
A ll they could do was to wait,
huddled under whatever wraps
they could gather, for aid to
reach them.
Haskin and Farrington, with
four horses healing an autonu^
bile stage, started o at for the
rescue.. They hacked and ahi
horses straining forward to pall
the stage where its motor was of
little use.
F inally reaching (he stranded
group, Haskin and Farrltagdon
turned afiout, and with the rescu
ed party In tha stage opened the
tra il to Benton, where food and
■belter were obtained.
GKT NEW MACHINE
The Ashland postoffice cele
brated the opening e f the local
holiday shopping sqason today by
putting Into commission a new
electric power letter cancelling
machine recently provided by the
Department to take care of the
growing business in the Ashland
office.
Ashland tonight.
)er for Over Fifty Years
I • Serpentine starts at seven
I o’ clock.
Band concert Immediately
after.;
AU street lights to be turned
off at seven-thirty for five min
utes.
.
*• ■
A ll merchant’s windows . to
be uncovered at seven-thirty or
when lights are turned off.
' General, inspection of, win
dows from sevent th irty on.
Judging of window displays
Immediately after lights a re .
'Vote for Return of Liquor turned on.
Will Not Hinder En
Official awarding of cup to
forcement Problem
wlnneY.
AGENTS
IN
DETROIT
More T h u F orty Offlcere Are
Rent Into Boeder City to
Stop Liquor Flow
Salt Lake Woman
Gare of N’”**_
:■ 1»
u ot-Salt Lake is
nurse's care at the Ash
land hotel suffering from shock as
the result of a collision early last
night between a Lloyd's touring
bus from Los Angeles and-n Ford,
about a* half nilie this side of Tal
ent.
' ;
The Ford was driven by James
T. Sawyer of Talent. Neither ho
nor other occupants of the small
car was* injured although the
Ine was badly wrecked,
auto bus was a seven-
paasenger Bulck sedan and was
going n^rth. According to the
driver ok the sedan, the Sawyer
auto wjis crowding too close to the
siije of the road. The
General Reports Indicate
■aln and bright lights also
That November’s Rain is
uted to the accident, in
Heaviest in History
the opinion of Chief of Police
Storms throughout the state McNabb.
V isiting W ith B ert Milled—
J. A. F o rt of Newberg, Ore.,
is In Ashland today, visiting with
his old friend, Bert M iller of the
Hab-a-daah_Inn, Mlnner's Tog-
Practice
M PM O W E
H M E JIFFH ILTB
Nineteen Tear Old Bride
Leaves Luxuries of
Beautiful Home
At Baker the heavy rains show
no sign of ceasing as rains have
been falling nightly for the p u t
week.
Reports from the central Ore
gon Cascades district says that a
heavy snow is on the ground.
One Hundred and Twenty
Five Will Participate
in Musical
A free concert will be given in
the Presbyterian church, Monday
evening, December 6. at 8 o’clock,
In which 125 high school students
will take part.
This concert, which will feature
Indian and American music, is
ons o f the finest of its kind that
has been given In Ashland this
year. This will be the first ap
pearance of the new 25 piece or
chestra, also the boys’ and girls’
q„ |ntetu->
Cello.
Girls* Glee Club, “Pale Moon.”
Selected. Accompanied at tho
piano by Madge Mitchell.
High School Girls’, Sextette
"By the W ater ot Minnetonka,”
— Eunice'Hager, Adena 'Joy, Dor
othy Stevena, Marie • Mitchell,
Letha Mllea, Vara W right, with
Madge Mitchell at the piano and
Floy Young, violin obligato.
High School Orchestra, Se
lected.
HOLLYW OOD, Cal., Dec. 8.—
W hether pretty 19 year old Ltta
Grey Chaplin, left the luxuries of
her Beverley H ills home because
a new love supplanted the old in
the heart of Charles Chaplin, fa
mous screen comedian, or be
cause, as Chaplin declares, his
wife Insisted on staging an
morning party, was the subject
for speculation here Thursday
night. *
Chaplin declares the m arital
r ift was caused by his wife when
she brought home a number of
companions. Including Baron and
Barohess ds Precourt, and staged
a noisy party in the early hours
of the Morning. He asserts he
had Just returned from the studio
and had gone to bed when a
crowd of men and women arrived
at the house and engaged In
larlons merriment.
The comedian stated
and his wife engaged In
varey oVsr tha proplety
party and that he asked
guests leave Immediately.
------
Chaplin complied and then her
self departed for the home of her
grandparents tha following day
with tha two children.
The del^nsq in the Fail-Doheny
oil tria l opened today by repre
senting E. L. Doheny as “the fore
most patriot of Los Angeles,” and
Albert B. Fall as a man Who had
the same beginnings as Abraham
Lincoln. I t then undertook td
build up its contention that the
Doheny oil leases were the result
of ha/d headed “horse trading”
loth sides. ,
he first defense witness waq
H. Foster" Bain, director oT the in-
terior department
bureau of
mines iTSder Fall, and now execu
tive secretary of the American In
stitute of Mining and Metallurg
ical Engineer^.
He testified that when the pro
posal to construct naval o il stor
age tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hono
lulu, was first proposed by the
navy repartnlent, he notified a’ se
lected oil companies
of
hte
general plans and Invited them to
bid. As' the navy could pay for
this agreement only from Its oil
reserves, bids could only be con
sidered from concerns.which were
able to accept qll as payment, in
stead or cash. Several engineer
ing companies who
Inquired
about plans were advised that
they could examine the Speclflca-
increase (Iong
the interest of music in general.
The program is as follows:
High School Orchestra.
Mixed Quartette, “The Indian
Drum,"
Bliss— Eunice
Hager,
Vera W right, Ronald Gandee,
John Ruger,
accompanied by
Madge Mitchell at tha piano.
Plano Solo, "From An Indian
Lodge,” McDowell— Mrs. Claire
Beebe.
Girls’ Quartette, “ I n d i a n
Dawn,”— Marie Davies.
Adena
Joy, Letha Miles, Dorothy Stev
ens. Accompanied at the piano by
Madge Mltche)!, violin obligato,
Floy Young.
High 8chool Boys’ Glee Club,
Selected. Marie Mitchell at the
piano.
Contralto Solo, Selected— Miss
Jean Anderson.
High School Boys' Quintette,
“ Indian Campfires,”
Turner—
Jack NIma, Barney M iller, Ronald
Gandee, John Ruger. Accompan
ied at the piano by Marie Mitchell.
High School String Trio. Se
lected— Madge Mitchell, piano;
Floy Young, V iolin; Rose Aikens,
( HARGKD WITH MURDER
they WOtffd « T W
tp accept payment In oil.
Bain recounted the negotia
tions in great detail, relating a
heated quarrel between Doheny
and naval officers over royalty
scales at which Roar Admiral
Robison declared he would not be
‘bilked.” Doheny got up and
started to leave. Secretary F all
proposed an alternative royalty
scheme which was accepted. Bain
recited this story readily with
names and dates at his tongue’s
end. Just before the end ot the
day Bain was turned over to
government counsel Owen^J. Rob
erts for cross examination. .
FORD MAY ATTEMPT
TO BREAKMONOPOLY
Car Manufacturer Expects
to Buy Own Rubber
Plantations
D ETR O IT, Dec. 3.— (U N )— De
termined to break the strangle
hold British rubber growers have
on the Industry, Henry Ford may
become a rubber grower and with
the products of his owp planta
tions enter into the , tiro manu
facturing business.
Pro. Carl Larde, University ot
Michigan natural science profes
sor, has been commissioned by
Ford to make a survey of the
Amazon river region .in
Brasil
and determine tha. best location
for the proposed Ford rubber
plantations.
I t is Larue’s intention to
search for virgtn rubber fields In
South America. So Important Is
the proposal considered by Ford
officials that every detail Is be
ing kept secret. A t tha Ford of
fices no information Is given and
questions are met with silence.
While it Is believed that Ford
w ill undertake this project with
out outside help I t was learned tai
authoritative circles that he may
he connected with Harvey Fire
stone, and lim it his end o< the
scheme to the production while
Firestone handles ths
turing.
PORTLAND. Dec.
(U N )—
Guy Sconchln, Klam ath Indian,
accused of shooting McClellan
Williams, October 81, on the
Klamath reservation, was charged
with murder la an indictment re
turned Wednesday in the federal
court before Judge Bean.
The grand Jury returned 12
true bills, seven secret Indict
ments and one not true bill. The
not true bill was In the case of
Russell W. W right, accused of vi
olating tha Mann act by transport
ing Mrs. Lena Craddock from
Phillipsburg, Mont., to Roseburj
urg.
Ha was Indicted In another bill
on a charge of transporting a
Anyhow mo
stolen automobile from one state
to another.
cold weather.
t
EXPLAINED a,
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.— (UN)
’
•eheel ege. bl order to
IS
t ’labn Is Mart«» That Deal Was
■ Result of "Hard Headed
Horeo Trailing”
HIGH SCHOOL TO HAVE
FREE CONCERT MONDAY
quartettes and trios.
Tha public Is cordially Invited
to come and bring the children of
Doheny* is Called . “ The
Foremost Patriot in
: Los Angeles’’
CASE
O R R IN RECORDS '
ARE SET IN STATE
WASHINGTON. Dec. 8.— (U N )
— Ontario's vote for the return ef
liquor will have no appreciable
effect on the prohibition enforce
ment problem of the United States
according to dry officials here.
Under Ontario’s former system,
set new precipitation records for
Whiskey and beer could be manu
factured for export to the United November in. many cities, but the
States or elsewhere and legalizing crisis is believed to be near, aa
the purchase of liquor by people swollen streams'and rivers are
In Ontario, or who visit there, w ill slowly receding after doing con
Idtt
siderable damage.
according
ti
for the United S' fè tes,
A t Bend It Is Indicated th a t a
to Frank Dow, assistant to L in
coln C. Andrews, dry enforce- new record w ill be set If It con
tinues to rain tonight. Already
ment chief
Conslderable liquor has been 3.9 Inches of rain have fallen.
coming into the United States Heavy rains have sent the Co
fro m
Canada.
particularly quille river on a rampagA, flood
through Detroit. Recently an ad ing the valley, submerging ra il
ditional force of dry agents was road tracks and cutting o ff all
communication between
sent to Detroit In an effort to r a i l
check the flow across the border. Marshfield, * M yrtle Point and
There are about forty Jhere now, Powers.
Residents'* In the Lee. Flahtrap,
Dow said.
The problem at Detroit is still Fairview and McKinley districts
acuts and more agents could prob are isolated.
ably ba used there. Dow does not
A t Salem the W illam ette river
regard the new system voted In I probably w ill reach Its crest Wed-
however, as added to the n ee d ay jv ith a m a rk .o f 18 or l g
particular problem with which feet. The erest at Albany preb-
prohibition forces have to cope. ably w ill be seen tonight with
Smuggling of liquor across tha a high mark of 18 feet.
border la nothing new and la one
In Portland the river rose to
of the toughest problems in
15 feet but tha 18 foot flood stage
whole category of enforcement.
w ill not be reached at present.
I t Is expected that Americans Trains were running on schedule
w ill cross the border to drink, but Tuesday over the O. W . R. & N.-
organized efforts to get liquor following a landslide north of
through w ill operate now no d if North
Junction, which forced
ferently than formerly since man trains to back track to The Dalles
ufacture for export has been per detouring to Bend over the Ore
mitted previously in Ontario.
gon T runk road.
DEFENSE IN
CASE AGAINST
DOHENY AND
FALL OPENS