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early, while the stocks are com»'
píete.
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day, warmer tonight.
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vr for Over Fifty Years
(United N eva W ire Service)
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LOCATION
Car Stolen Prom Loci
Home Recovered in Less
Than an Hour
vote of five to four, La
ie location for the new
Oregon over Pendleton,
Committee Votes
For New Cruisers
Late Reoorta I n d i c a t e
. Tim Pilot WU1 Soon
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Ms Oat
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WORRIES
OVER
1 W ASHINGTON. Dec. 20— By a
¡unanimous vote the house naval
affairs committee today reported
the Butler bill authorising the
construction of ten new cruisers
at a cost of one hundred and five
million dollars.
PIPE
•aerad Heart hospital In regard
to the condition of “Pat** Pat
terson, air mail pilot who was
injured whan his mall plane
crashed against a moantala to a
fog between Medford and Ash
land Thursday.
No broken bones nor serioas
Internal injuries wore sustained
by the intrepid flyer, tt was
found after ha had head carefully
x-rayed by physicians. Accord
ing to Dr. E. a . Pickle, who at-j
tended Pattesaan, the latter had
a vicious looking cat In the
muscle o f hig iowsr Hash be!
;had‘a bad eat oa tho hood nad
hto hip was oat of joint. His
ehtof danger lay la tho terrible!
ebock to which ho had been
subjected.
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Wednesday, Thursda1
Friday Nights Will
Probasco near death from three creased Interest.
dropped .grasafcutlr
ittto the btotet. a p a e a g o f vlp-
tbry that echoed and re-echoed
thtoegh the armory came from
nearly l i p thrpata as the scorer
chalked Up the.single point which
put the normal in t o th e le a d for
the f ir s t time ty rin g the game.
W ith CO seconds yet to pipy.
Coach ’ W aiter Hughes seat hla
charges back Into the fray with
instructions to keep the ball un
til the shrill whistle of the « ■ .+.
keeper should announce the «wd
of the game. Aad those fighting
youths obeyed his Instructions to
the letter.
Crowd Goes WfM
I
The whistle shrilled,
staid
business men and sedate house
wives could scarce beltoye their
ears. Hate Fere thown Into the
air. Stranger slapped stranger on
the hack and everybody was tell-1
lug the bright-eyed
world th a t)
THREE NRW SUBMARINES
PLANNBD BY U. 8. NAVY
W ASHING TO N, Dec. 20.— (U
— Congress w ill be asked to
pass upon Navy plana for the
construction of three submarines
of a new design which w ill place
the United States foremost In
the -development of under-seas
craft, Admiral J. D. Beuret, chief
of the Navy's bureau ot construc
tion, stated today in hla annual
report.
'
Light cruisers of 10,000 tons,
displacement with a main bat
tery of eight-inch guns have also
been designed by th * Navy and
w ill be constructed under the
general building program, the
admiral reported.
Although the United States la I
mal team. Tha format- high school
■tar weaved his way tip and down I
the floor and shot ¿ sk ats from
restricted, nnder terms of the
disarmament treaty, from ex
tensive building of battleships,
the navy Is devoting Its attention
to modernisation of tho fcraft
already in nse.
Plans for ths I
almost impossible angles, getting
fonr field baskets.
bn frag
throws from the fohl llap, Marake I
Oat of eight at-
coming year include the conver
sation of the Oklahoma and the
Nevada from cod! to oil burners.
(Please T ira to > » g e I)
BLAME TEA FOR ILLS
NEW YORK, Dae. IP.— Four
teen men ware known to have
drownM aad several more vara
nMssity whan the Ferro Launch
Llneeca
AVALON, Cal.’, December 20.—
Hovering between life and death
at a local hospital as the result of
ten days suffering a fra il fishthg
boat, E. B. Kelley,, sixtynlne year
old fisherman, told a fl‘ amaaing
tale of a batUe for life w ith hla
companion James McKinley, six
ty-three.
Kelley's confession was made
to a nurse, Miss H; Hackathorn.
“ I lived on McKinley for five
days,” the old sailor said, in
telling of an agreement reached
while adrift, that the one surviv
ing the other shoifld eat the other
fellow.
i u.ii
King,
conveying
more
than fatty Workman waa struck
W l<4e'flows la tho Hudson river
today. Tk* Mat sank . immed
iately after being struck.
LONDON— (U N )— The enthus
iasm of Londoners for tea has
been someFhat dampened by a
medical pronouncement that top
much hot tea loads to Inflamma
tion of the stomach aad to neu
ritis.
Thousands of Britishers
suffer from the latter complaint
but np to b o f they have blamed
It on the weather rather than on
Portland — Plans being drawn
for Madeleine girls* school, 24th
and K lickitat Streets,
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One of the features pf the Golf
supper and dance to be staged at
tho Ashland hotel tomorrow night
F ill be a song by the “Pep Ped-
dlers" under the direction of Miss
Laura Raguse, director of music
in the local schools according to
’ V. V. Mills, general chairman of
i the committee having the affair
. In charge.
(The “Pep Peddlers** la an or-
f sanitation of high school girls
who have some outstanding abil
ity along vocal lines. They have
been rehearsing for some lla e ,
and thia onp feature, it is predict
ed Will adA much to the general
entertainment plana.
The Ashland hotel la belag dec
orated especial for the occasion,
and proprietor Lon Hanson, has
Boy Accidently Shoot« His worked
out a ylan that reflects
Brother w hile Oat
the holiday spirit, and has trans
Hunting * . .
formed the large dining room into
Molalla, Oregon, Dec. 20.— a veritable bower ot seasonable
Lloyd Hilton, sixteen, was shot attractiveness.
W ith the tickets all sold and
and fatally wounded while hunt
ing in the tlmberland near here many requ nests for additional
Sunday.
Hla brother, Shlrle/, tickets and the entertainment
twenty-two, mistook him for an features so well in hand the eve
animal. The brother carried him ning promises to be an unusually
in his arms for seven miles, but delightful one.
Prises for the various contests
he died before reacting medical
wUl be given by the Clayoomb
Motor Company, Ths Automotive
Shop, J. p.„ Dodge and Sons, The
Hotel Ashland, "BUly*' Selkirk
and the Tidings.
The four ladle« >boae efforts
have insured (he —i— im of the
Oregon Men Hold
Up Bridge Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.— Ob
jections by representative Sln-
nott, Crum packer and Hawley, all
Oregon republicans blocked the
consideration in the house today
of the bill authorising the con
struction, of a bridge across the
Columbia river between Longview
Wash., and Ranier, Ore.
lan din g field at the fa ir gronnde.
tha normal school, had fought Its
way to victory after oha o f th e ]
most desperate court battles ever
witnessed in Southern Oregon.
- Elusive little Albert gprshe
v m high point man for thp npp- I
. . I t toast ha said, however,
that It was not ths individual
playing o f any an« m t y iU r of
tha normal team w hieh h rA u g h t
thorn victory. I t was the excep
tional team F ork from f i r s t
whistle to .th e last. »
the
fighting heart and tha ftghtidg
gplrtt.
i t was tha determina
tion hot to give up even la thia
face o f Impossible odds
Ashland people today are a«-
olalmtnk W hiter Haghte, normal
school ccwch.
kix Fpeke ago
Hughes took up tha F o rk of
Gorgeous Decoration That Ro-
, .. fleet Holiday Spirit Belli«
Pat Up
A t the Presby-
. been carrying « T I T Usual with ballet wounds.....
terian church the decorations
, mall arriving dally.
In some
The police are piecing togeth were declared by some to be the
■ ¡of the foggier districts around er the story of a tragic love in most beautiful they had ever
i Portland the- m all was carried volving the two Ingersoll fam il seen.
Evergreen trees banked
through by antomobUes to points ies, aa Probasco’s wife, to whom the front of the church, with over
.where the atmosphere had clear he gasped ont the shooting over hanging sky of blue dotted with
ed and from there the planes the telephone, is the daughter stars. The front of the choir
¡made delivery.
of Robert Ingersoll, world's fa- loft was railed with evergreens
Aviator. Book waiter made the j I toons agnostic.
interspersed with many poinset-
>ound trip frOm Portland to Med
Probasco claimel that the wo tas. For the Christmas eve ser
ford and return yesterday; Virden' man shot "him and then turned vice a large lighted tree will be
¿reached here from the south, the gun on herself. He i r tech added and all will be changed to
¡while Starbuck hopped off tor nically unddt arrest in a hos a winter scene. Mrs. O. Winter
is in charge of decorations.
San Francisco, all from the local pital.
W p o p s r ih fR h
"JSa W
line f§ r t h e free throw, a d estt-
like stlehjee prevailed as the Imll
through t h e a lr toward the
fietsket.
Like a. homing plgeqh
flld ln g into Its nest, thia, awato-
vaa a wonder.
MAKES AH AGREEMENT
Ashland
department
stores
starting Wednesday will keep op
en until light-thirty In the eve
ning according to an announce
ment made today. The stores
will follow this practice Thursday
and Friday nights aa well as to al
low Christmas shoppers, who find
it Impossible to make their selec
tions during the day to h a v e
ample time to make their holiday
selections.
It was explained that the usu
Football Idol Pays a' Ten
al practice of keeping open at
Dollar Fine in Texas
least a week before Christmas
City
had .not been followed this year
because Of the hardships that
DALLAS, Texas, Dec. 20.—
such a procedure works upon the Red Grange and four members of
help,
the New York Yankees football
team spent three hours in Jail to
N E W YO R K . Dae. 29 — Mi
day following their arrest.
Roberrta Ingersoll, wife of t
CHRISTM AS DECORATIONS
Grange was charged with being
disorderly and the others were
through the heart in her ' The Christmas Spirit whs lrtffBl Charged with drnnkenefts and dis
home last night. In the adjoin test in Ashland ’chtirches yester turbing the peace. All paid a ten
ing room lay Wallace McLean day by larger attendance and in dollar fine.
Aa audible
parte a f / t h e
ptainedhali
Ancient fisherman Teils
Revolting Story of
Sea Tragedy
A seventeen year old boy was
caught in Medford Sunday night
leas than one hour after he had
atolen a Studebaker touring car,
belonging to W alt Blair of the
B lair Granite company, which
“ Pep Peddlers" Prom High
had been parked in front of the
. School to be feature
Perossi home. on Granite street.
of Program
Chief of Police
IHOTEL
IS DECORATED
had been no***" .
« -m en .
77iaf Happy Yuleiide Spirit
MNoœsuee
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Attempts Suicide
PORTLAND, Dec. 20.— Mrs.
Oakley G. Kelley, wife of Lieu
tenant Kelley, the noted aviator
attempted auicide Sunday by poi
son, but first aid saved her life.
The Kelleya refused to discuss
it today, but the police reported
that Mra| Kelley
aald
earlier
that domestic trouble was the
cause.
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AUSTRALIA IS TR A VER SED
BY N E W T E L E P H O N E U N R
of Richard W. Price of the Llth-
Is Springs hotel today noon. The
guests were Mrs, Louis Dodge,
Mrs. Daley McGarry. Mrs. V. V.
Mills and Mra. George Converse. -
"The success which has crown
ed your enthusiastic efforts has
shown that any worth-wkile civic
project can ba pnt scrota la Ash-*
land If genuine Interest is shown-
such aa yon ladles displayed I«f
your ticket sales,*’ M r. Price told
his guests.
- Indications now are that tick»
eta w ill be at a prelum made by
ot the thorough canvass made b y
this committee aad the good work
they did in arousing enthusiasm
tor tha function.
Parents Approve
Old Type Dance
DEARBORN, Mich., Dae. SO.—
(U N )— Five hundred Dearborn
parents attended an old fashion
ed dancing exhibition In the high
school auditorium Thursday night
aad decided that the dance taught
in ths schools Fas’ not harmful to
their children as’ charged la pro-
SYDNEY, (U P ) — The second
longest trunk telephone line in
the world has Just been opened
by the Ai/stralian postal depart»
ment for public traffic between
Townsville, in th a north of
Queensland, and Melbourne, capi
The exhibition was conducted
tal of Victoria, a southern state.’ W 'H rfn la ib ln B. Lovatt. Heary
*£he ,line runs almost the anttv*
Hsvd’f m nclng Instructor. Ford’s
length of the continent.
I t Id
private orchestra supplied tha
1Q17 miles long, araPtha d ta F
music. la tha demonstration Lov
York-8an Francisco lino Is the
att naed sixteen couples of child
only Uns of greater length known
ren ranging in Aga from eight to
ro postpl o M d n li hero. p
I I yean.
1 H ig iyy aenaftlipd instruments
As they danced Lovatt ad
magnify’ Voice sounds at ten sta
dressed tha audience pointing out
tions along the roate.
Iks' qualities of deportment and
The fee for three minutes' con
etonette which he said tha dance
versation between the two termin
was inculcating in tha pupils^
als of the line la slightly less than
four dollars or about half the fed
for a similar call over the same
length of line In the U n i t.a d
States.
F IR S T SANTA CLAUS T R A IN
The first Southern Pacific San
ta Claua trail), being what la
known as a pares! post train aad
carrying the Christmas moksga
malls south and oast reached Ash
land from tha north yesterday Af
ternoon at three o’clock, running
as a seeokd section of train M l .
This train la to operato daily un
iti the rusk o t tka Chrletmae mall
Is over.
NEW YORK, Dam M — (UN)
—A holiday warning against bad
check paseara wen iaeaed today
by the Forgery Preventioa Enr
asa of tha Metropolitan Onsnalty
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