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“ ¿ ' M I a^aseà TXXWXÀTBXB 0HRI8TMA8 SHOPPHtG Do your Christmas shopping early, while the stocks are com plete. Unsettled tenight and Ériday, probably rain in the northwest for Over Fifty Years (United Nahe W ire Service) DAY, DEC. 23, 1926 wen POLKE A ffi K B « Rx^cntion of; Mexican Gen eral Makes Change ’ Mecesa LOOPHOLE LEFT FOR AIRING OF CHARGES MADE IN BASEBALL LÓS ANOELB8, Dec. SS Plans for the deportation of hers of General Enrique Estrada*« “ army** were dropped by federal immigration officiate here Wed nesday following advices that Sos- tenee H errera had been executed Oobb and Speaker May Be- In ter Gamo to Test by Mexican federal troops. Charras gee Herrera, one of Estrada’s chief nontenants in the alleged plot to Q UI8TI0N INTEGRITY overthrow the Calle« government, Are Allowed wan recently released from the Players Word 'O u t On ^Loe Angeles county Jail. Support of Dollar Bond The execution, according to dis patches, took place on the San SE A TTLE, Dee. XX.— W arrants Miguel rancho in the «tate of CHICAGO, Doe. ’ XX.— ( U N ) — baaed upon Indictment« returned Durango, Mexico. Whan Judge Keneeaw M. Landis, by the Federal Grand Jury, which In view of the execution of H er- high commissioner of baseball, investigated chargee of officiate refa, action to deport other mem decided that no action would bo participating in liquor eelling ac bers of the alleged revolutionary taken on the now f a m o u s tivate« here and In Everett hai arm y rounded up near San Diego, "thrown" game scandal, because been laeuod agalnat a police lien w ill not be considered, imm igra all the men iavoivad are out of tenant, two sergeants a ad-six pa tion officials said. baseball, he left a loophole where trolmen of SeatUe, it was revealed' by the chargee of Hubert "Dutch’* today. Leonard might bo aired. Assistant chief o f Police Haas Possibility that T y Cobb and Damn announced that he had been Tris Speaker, two of the greatest C W H f f l M V S notified by the United players the game has known, and Marshall that warrants had idols of America’s multitudes, issued for the officers. Bail was m ight re-enter baseball to force a set at fifteen hundred each ex showdown on the chargee brought cept that of Lieutenant George H. County Road be Judges rStahed Ask to J That o b against them by the disgruntled Comstock, form er, head of the Leonard was aeon bora Wednee- Oregon Highways police dry squad. , day. PO RTLAND, DeC.XS. — (U N ) A t the present the situation la — Pointing ont that Oregon this: the Integrity o f three ptay- travel arteries to th^ California great in their lino have beea completed the aged by the integ- county Judges' assembly here player, alas good adopted a racommendatishi nah is motive in lag that California make hast« two tettoos, avww- Ja completing mate highways to fth a Oragqn llqa to connect w ith h er. Smoky hWhsrayu. 5 1S11 world who HKKME DEIKBPS NEW B U E V la pointed ont that the Pa rt fie highway, The Danaa-Califor- I I . — (tltllB DI&uWRyi RFG COtnpl0t6<l w AoniivVy 1 v n , L p OC. N ) — W hether bodies like the laterstate commerce commission are to continue to ho qnasi-Judl- clal, or pre to become political Js the issue at the bottom of the now fig h t brewing in the senate over the nomination of Cyrus B. Woods of Pennsylvania. Woods was appointed to the interstate commerce commission because of threats mads last win ter by Senator David T. Reed of Pennsylvania that he would oppose nil future nominations to this body until Pennsylvania was represented on ft. ' i v This Is tbo first opportunity the president has had to comply. Ho has replaced a Harding ap pointee, a regular republican from New Jersey, Frederick I Coff, w ith Woods. Woods was for years general counsel of the Pittsburgh Coal- company. He has been closely associated w ith the Mellon in tereets. He managed Senator Pepper’s unsuccessful nomination last spring. His personal record appears to contain no h in t The report of the senate primary in vestlgating committee mads pub lic today appears to exonerate him o f any responsibility for large expenditures In that Penn sylvania campaign Medford Business Building Is Sold _ » Indicative of tho healthy fin ancial condition of Southern Ore gon waa tho announcement la Medford yesterday ptteraoon of San Francisco capitalists. The purchase price waa reported to have boon la excess of 1X00, OtO. The property la a business block In tho Medford down-town tion. CORRBCTION O f A D Through error, tho Christman card for R. R. Isaac f a d Co., ap- poured la T>e Tidings yesterday whan It should have boot pub lished tomorrow. Tho Tidings as sumes responsibility for this mis take which caused tha premature publication of M r. Isaac's annual holiday greetings to the and patrons of Ms store. thq kodwood highway W GE DENIES SKIN B r a w ” * MOTION QUASH TO FORMER POSTON I.’ FALL ■ SINCLAIR L 0 8 ANGELES. Dec. XJ.— (U ~ N ) — In order to bring all defend-? J I I I \ I T P IT T C ants in the McPherson easo t o j j j J £ ty tria l at tho samo.tlme, p r e p a r e - • ' A * * * * M tlon of formal Informations against tho exangsllst sad her as*. ers Make Plea for Ad- soolstes was completed hero y e a -' Time to Pre terday,*but w ill not bo filed until pare Case the return here from the east of tho district attorney, Asa Keyes.:' p T .R A IS NOT GUILTY The Information containing three counts of perjury and con Both Fall and Sinclair Enter spiracy to obstruct Justice name Not Guilty P lea on Gov Mrs. McPherson, Kenneth G. Or- ernment Charge miston, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother of the evangelist, and Mrs. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.— Jus Lorraine Wiseman, ‘hoax woman*, tice Jennings Bailey denied the and thd state's star witness. Fall-Sinclair motion • to quash Depaty District Attorney E. J. the Tea Pot Dome conspiracy In Dennison announced that tha in* dictments. formations had been completed at The defendants plead not guilty this time in order to combine and set February second as the charges against a ll the defendant» date for the trial over the ruling and eliminate the necessity of on the layer’s pleas for more time. holding a preliminary hearing for Bailey announced his decision In Ormlston. ten words at the opening of court ¡J | SOUTH IS DAMAGED -rnwrows Hoar Olood Bursts Bring Torrents of Rain and Loss of Life L E X IN G T O N , K y.. Dec. |X .— ( U N ) — Flood waters s w e p t through West Virginia, Kentu id-Tawiesaee Wednesday el lug nve*, isolating and eanslag heavy property dam- MILLIONS IB BE SPENT FOR MERCHANT MARINE Chicken thieves are operating in the east part of the city and in the Bellview district, according to cbmpiainta which have been made to Chief o f Police McNabb thia Weak. Tha chicken thievery la not believed to be the work of an organised hand, hut poultry rais ers are cautioned to ba on tha look oat for tha thieves. two T rains crash ASH FO R K . A ««.. Dae. I I . (U N )— Two crack Banta Fa aengar trains resumed tke ir ached uie Wednesday following a collis ion bare Tuesday which reealted in slight damage to several sleep- tag oars. No one waa injared. An official inquiry was started to determine the sansa of tha, «rash whieb occurred when the Nevnjp” h it the rear and e f tha "Scout." whieh was standing at tha local station. CHURCH CAHSMTTLMD ROSEBURG, Dec. M - ~ ( U N ) — Circuit Judge H am ilton has da- ned a motion for * naw tr ia l |a the damage edit brought by A r thur Deceit against the Rev. A. M. Shafter and «theta la oonaceUoa «U h tha Oanyoavllla church H ot last Aaguat. Tha tria l attracted much atten tion sad resulted la a verdict te r tho defenduhts. I t la poaaibia tha ease w ill U appealed to tho supreme court. P M before Harry F. Sinclair, million aire defendant had entered the room. After Sinclair arrived he enter ed a plea of not guilty but a few minutes after former Secretary Fall had made a similar plea. ARBITRATION EXPECTED TO BREAK DEADLOCK G om pan Otaries Brotkerho Look Homs and .tb s Now York SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.— Elght men are believed to have Bad Sox, and rUNT— At-MEraEIofi wIÏT s e i t l e coach at Tales, been killed. from where two sane are students, re Near cloudbursts brought tor- Qranst Paap the Roosevelt U g h - tired from Che game, their rec-,' reate from the hllls too quickly vray are wall under way. and orde in the eyes o f fane apparent- for effective warning. A t Catlettsburg, Ky., 14 men at .that tha.. Paoific highway io the ly Unblemished. But like the I only on# w ith which California eword Damocles, they knew that work on a span of an immense Mas made connection ahd with scandal hung over th e ir heads. bridge being built across the big an inferior road in that case. i Tha game between Cleveland sad Sandy river, were tumbled into A proposed amendment to bo Detroit on September X I, 101S tha Icy water when the r u s h considered today by the jndgm, when Cleveland has second place smashed the supports. Rescuers If passed by the legislature, in the American League cinched dragged nine to safety a few min wokld place -power of designating while Detroit was fighting for utes later, no trave of the other m arket roads In the bands of third waa under Inveetightlon. five has been found. Seven of the county courts, end commissions. nine rescued were injnrd by the I t would, thought the judges, (Please T orn to Page 2) would favor such a proposed law. It being stressed that a mere satisfactory policy would bo pos sible If power of designating m arket roads were to be np to counties. M * Poultry Thieves Operating Here Is Asked to Resume Work as Head of Prohibition Enforcement Défendante Will be brought to T r i a i t Same ▲mertaan Bugine« Men Will Keep United States* -tea Boats on Sea W ASHINGTON, Dec. X I.— Nineteen business men are w ill ing to risk 1X00,000,000 so that the American merchant marine can stay on the seven aeaa. This American marine develop ment plan was disclosed to tha Uaited News by Jndge Benjamin D. Crosscup, of Seattle, after he had appeared Tuesday before tha senate commerce subcommittee investigating the proposed sa of Charter e f the government- owned North Atlantic fleet to the W illiam f . Keaney company of New York. r "Associated with M r. Kenney w ill be IS business man, includ ing two ex-member« o f the ship ping board, whose aggregate wealth, with whieh they «111 bask tha American merchant ma rine, totals StaO.OSMdfi.** Judge Crqeseup eald. Tha names eeuld net be disclosed. "These ate man e f prominence from the Pacific coast, tha Missis sippi valley and tha Atlantis saa- bodrd, who have Joined with Mr. Kenney la an effort to keep the American flag oa tha oceans. "They axpaet to contribute to the country's welfare and they are willing to risk millions la tha be lief that they eaa do ft aa a pro fit,** tha Js^fce Said. The w e alW T is a subject about which « a talk a grant deal and eaa do v e tr little. Health la-'a subject about which wa talk a great deal and eaa do very mneh. the deadlock between the South ern Pacific company and the bro therhood of railway clerks over demands for increased wages, it was learned. Hjnyell Davis and J. W. Walsh, mediators of the United States de partment of labor, brought about the decision to submit the dispute to arbitration, it was stated. The action affects several thousand union employes of ferry boats, trains and stations throughout the western territory of the Southern Pacific. ’ A Rude-Awakening SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 23.— to hie former position, as prohibition adminis trator for northern California and Nevada. Colonel Ned M. Green Is planning to confer with Gen eral Lincoln C. Andrews before again taking charge of the office Legacy of 0. W. Root and Wife to be Used in Adding to from which he was suspended on Lithia Park, According to Announcement by Those July 26, last. in Charge of Fund; Park Board to Aid in Improve Acquitted of charges of em bezzling' confiscated liquor Col ment. onel Green declared today that he waited to talk with General The spirit of an e a rl. yAshland pioneer, whose last Andrews, either in Washington or by telephone, before going desire was to do something for the city that had been his back to his old position. An home for so many years prevaded Ashland yesterday with drews, who suspended Green dur the announcement that the board of trustees, {is provided ing the investigation of the lat in the will of ¿he late C. W. Root and his wife, Virginia ter's regime here, today notified M. Root, afterj.a joint conference with the members of Green of his reinstatement. "I am ready to hand over the new city council, and the park board, had concluded everything .to Colonel Green that they would be best fulfilling the duties entrusted to whenever he step« in," said W. them, by the purchase of some two to three acres of land W. Anderson, acting administra tion. “He told me, however, that adjoining Lithia Park and presenting it to the city. It probably would be some little time before he took charge." — In case of ths death of my Green does not relish the idea said wife after my death, I of being associated with prohibi give, devise and bequeath all the rest, residue and remaind tion enforcement and took the er of my estate unto the said post originally at the suggestion City of Ashland, Oregon, aald of General Andrews, an old army estate to be need to beautify friend. It Is thought that Green Five Hour Delay is Caused and benefit aald city,— J* will resume his office for a short by Heavy Fogs on -Ettrff/ frtiu will t f butJC F. i t t t time only before resigning. Second Day ( U N ) — Returned FLYERS TAKE OFF ON SECOND EEC OF TOP Thé land upon which options had been previously secured, and TIJUANA. Met., Dec. 23.— 23. — (U N ) — Delayed several which Is now in the process of be (UN )— Airplanes have b e e n hours by fog, the five Pan-Amer ing purchased consists of the ican planes took off from the <calle<l into service to save Tijuana Bungalow property, the B. F . waters of Laguna de la Madre from a beerless Christmas. Smith property, facing Wlnbnrn Reoeut rains made an I t mile at 3 :3 0 p. m. today on tha aet- W afc a.stcJa.H ’feftUy-two feet by oad leg O f * 't M IT « ta e « * «Ute stretch ef highway south of ths tOO faet belonging to E. D. international border impassable South American good will flight. Tha flyers expected to teach Briggs, sad a portion of the pro-'. and three planes have begun the pM ly of Mrs, Sasme L. Geder, aU nsuw. transportation of beer over ' the of which . directly adjoins the The planes took a direct course washed out section. north entrance of the park and Trucks carry the beer from aoross the United Statoe-Mexico w ill not only Improve the entrance boundary and headed down the Mexicali as far as condition of the but will widen this portion of tho coast. roads permits. park and as gradual Improve The machines were in perfect Eighty barrels of the beverage ments are effected in the new running condition, according to are arriving here dally via the air Major H erbert Dargue, flight property, many unsightly build route. commander,’ who issued the fol ings w ill be removed, and that lowing message Just before climb which has added nothing to the SECOND (X»LD NIGHT ing Into the cockpit of his plane: many attractions Ashland has to According to Louis Dodge, "As the army flyers are about offer will be converted into a local weather reporter, the to leave the United 8tates for a lasting monument to the civic temperature was 18 degrees four months tour of Central and spirit of these early pioneers, above zero laatxnlght, mak South American countries, I that made the g ift possible. ing It the second coldest Mr. Root was a civil engineer, wish to extend to tha American night this winter. people a hearty wish tar a merry and did mneh of the surveying for Christmas and a happy New the railroad and other projects In Southern Oregon. Upon hie Year.” At Tampico ths flyers wore death aorae years ago. It was to be met by Majoa Robert Torres found that h‘ls w ill provided that and M ajor Pablo Sldar, Mexican after all bills were paid, and his aviators who flew from San Luis wife had received every material possible, upon her* Potosi to .Tampico to greet the comfort death the residue of the estate airmen. waa to go to the city, for the pur pose of "beautifying and benefit- ting aald city." The w ill also provided that a board of trustees consisting of the president of the three Ashland banks were to sup ervise the Investment end the ex penditure of the assets of the es tate. Leader of S t Louis Cardin Many Projects als is Sti|liPeople’s^ "Many projects were put up to ue,” W. J. Moore, president of the ST. LOUIS, Mo.. Dec. X I.— State Bank of Ashland, and chair (UN)— A wave Of resentment has man of the board, of trustees said spread through the Mound City la announcing the board’s d e c i over the deal whereby Rogers sion. "However, in order to com Hornsby, St. Louie Idol, who gave ply with the terms of the. «111 ft the ‘ Cardinals their first world’s was found that the m ajority of championship, wee traded t6 New those projects, while meritorious» York. could not ba considered because Sports writers ironically point the will specifically states that ed oat Tuesday that only three the estate was to go to the city of short months ego the Rajah wag Ashland and its nee and benefit. hailed as a miracle mah. We could think of nothing that The chambdr of commerce sent would mean any more to the city a 10 word telegram to Judge K. than this necessary addition to M. Landis, baseball commissioner, Lithia Park, there was nothing asking him to do what he can to that could be done with the seeney prevent Hornsby from going to which would he more lasting, the Giants in exchange for Frank which could not ha diseapated, * Frisch and Jimmy Ring. >, nor which the entire citlseary Hornsby haa consulted , with could gain any more benefit hie attorneys because of the peen- fromthan this. The members of Ilar j>o»ltlon(4n which ha finds the etty couacil and the a a » h hlmselL board agreed with ue la every de He is eald to own 140.000 tail. aad withta a tew days t>e t i worth .of stock la the St. Louie tle to the »roperty wfll be cent- club. I f he played ball .with tha vayed to the city." » ’ Olan|a at the same time drawiag '( The estate amounted to dividends from t h | Cardinals ha t« » ,H O aad the property believes hie position would be ««- Turn ta tenable. ( NEW USB FOR PLANE POINT ISABEL, Texas. Dec. H N S OBICE 10 RELEASE OE HORNSEY