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«LAN D. OREGON
Ministers Compliment Tidings
Chapter
Vader a proclamation Issued
by Supreme Chancellor Richard
S. W itte, Milwaukee, Wle., nearly
a minion men, members of the
Order Knights of Pythias la
Is Being Held in a Secret
Place While Waiting
for Boat
Income Tax and Tithing
Bills Expected to Reach
Governor’s Office
BUDGET
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NO VISITORS ALLOWED
Capter la Qniet Fellow. With
ADOPTED
Plan for Purcbaelag Agent SUU
RSmatea In the Hands of
The Committee
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H E A V Y GUARD— J« .....................
M A N IL A , P. I.. Fab. IS .—
Guarded closely every hour of the
day, Hugh D'Autremont, accused
of participation la one o f, the
moat sensational train robberies
’ in American criminal annals, Is
’ being held In a secret place of
confinement here.
M ilitary procedure has been
f evoked by the captors of the man
wanted in Oregon for (he dyna­
m iting of a Southern Pacific train
' In 1123 and for the slaying of
four men during the holdup. Not
even the oxact place in which D’-
’ Antremoat Is Imprisoned h a s
1 been revealed, and no visitors are
allowed to Interview him.
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But from the persona fam iliar
with circumstances surrounding
D’Xutrem ont’s arrest, the United
; News has gained an authoritative
review
of
this extraordinary
young man’s alleged coafeasion of
crime and of the events between
the spectacular robbery a n d
D’Autremont’s capture here.
Thw principal figure in this cap­
ture was Postal Inspector Smith,
a quiet, be-spectacled person-who
has the bearing of a clerk or
teacher, rather than the demean­
or of a man-hunter able to take
Into custody a desperado who had
baffled one of the most extensive
searches ever Instituted for a
wanted criminal.
SALEM, Feb. 15.— (U N )— Ad­
ministration leaders are confi­
dent that Governor
Patterson’s
program w ill, «get through the
Senate and Into the executive of­
fice before the end of the week.
The future did not look so rosy a
short time ago, but today, how­
ever, friends of the governor
were open In their predictions
that Patterson’s income tax bill
and the tithing bill and some
others are due to find their way
through “ as Is," which Is the way
the governor wants them to be.
Three times the Income tax
bill made Its appearance Monday
and on a like number of occasions |
it went back to the committee.
Tuesday w ill probably see It In
thè secate, where If is hoped it
w ill meet with favorable action.
On the other hand the tithing
bill Is still in the custody of Sen­
ator M iller, where, aa M UIer says,
It is due to stay until the income
tax hill Is disposed of.
The budget bill has passed both
houses and la out of the way as
far aa future entanglements are
concerned.
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The bill providing for the pur­
chasing agent and giving him the
task of buying everything for all.
state activities, la still in com-
The M il providing fo r a reas-
sessment of reel property Is now
awaiting Its turn for consideration
in the senate committee on as­
sessment end taxation.
Prophets of the senate and
house are beginning to believe
that the session can be ended on
Sunday morning at the latest If
the members keep pounding now
between now and then.
Attempt W ill be Made by
Mn. Chaplin to Regain
Her Home
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 15. —
(U N ) — Details of the midnight
party which led to the final
break between Charlie Chaplin,
noted screen comedian, and his
wife are to be aired In court
here tomorrow.
L IU Grey Chaplin, girl wife
of the actor, w ill appear to toll
how Charlie ordered her guests
from their Hollywood home on
the occasion and h o < later he
threatened her life, her attor­
neys announced tonight.
Mrs. Chaplin’s personal appear­
ance, promoted by her 'desire
to occupy the Chaplin mansion,
promises the most sensational
development, since the divorce
complaint was Iliad more than a
month ago.
She w ill ask a court order
reinstating her in the Chaplin
home. In ab ility to pay rent on
the *10,600 a year house In
which she is now living because
of legal restrictions which pre­
sent her collection *4,000 ali­
mony, wifc be the basis of bar
plea.
Mrs. Chaplin, according tp her
attorneys, w ill repeat allegations
contained in the dlvoree com­
plaint, that, she le ft the Chaplin
mansion “only because she’ fear­
ed great bodily harm.”
-The events of the night, when,
according
to
the
complaint,
Chaplin “ insulted her guests,’*
am* then threatened to ahoot
her If “ she dared leave the house
or toll newspapers about the epi­
sode,” w ill be retold to eld Mrs.
Chaplin to get a court order rein­
stating her In the Chaplin man­
sion, It was said.
Feb. 14, 1927.
To the Ashland Tidings:
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Greeting: It is encouraging to know that there
are even -a few newspaper» which refused to lie
purveyors of the filth of the Browning trial under
the plea that it was news.
I am glad the A S ^ L jp il) TIDINGS was one of
these papers, which Üa*¿ 'Conscience sensitive enough
to feel that each details Ms reported in this trial
have passed beyond the limits of decency, and have
become a menace to the inoráis of the community.
Thank you for your actios in this case.
Signed, fiftJOH MITCHELMORE, v
President of the Ashland
3 Ministerial Association.
On Dnty
When D'Autremont was
’ sd on tbs Los Banos riffs range,
whets he was on duty as a U nit-
Si States soldier, he denied a ll
oonnectlon with the 81sklyou rob­
bery. Later, however, according
to the arresting inspector, ha
broke down and told an amus­
ing story of mingling with offic­
ers searching for him, maintain­
ing the same habits of life and
dress, and even then eluding his
pursuers.
According to this
account,
D ’Autremont stayed In Oregon for
several days after
the crime.
Joining posses which were hunt­
ing him and speculating with of­
ficers regarding the
possible
route taken by the escaping ban­
dits.
Later, D'Autremont went to
Chicago, whore he enlisted In the
army under the name of James
Price. He produced two witnes­
ses who swore that he was born
near Houston, Tax., and that his
father ran a pool room In Pecos,
Heavy London Tog is Ganse Texas. H e,actually was bo<*n in
Artesia, N. M.
of Head on Collision of
School Trains *
LONDON, Feb. 15.— (U N )—
Ten were killed end forty In ju r­
ed, mostly schoolboys end girls In
one of the moat dramatic train
wrecks In the history of English
railroading near H u ll todky.
Driving through a fog from
opposite directions the Wlthecsea-
H u ll express, carrying hundreds
of school children, and the H u ll-
Scarborough
express,
collided
heed on.
Six coaches oDthe school child­
ren’s train were telescoped.
A
saloon coach filled w ith business
men wee overturned.
By an odd freak of fate the
crash occurred within ton feet of
the H ull naval hospital. - The
noise of the Impact was tremen­
dous. I t was quickly followed by
the roar of escaping steam and
the cries of the injured.
A well ton feet high separated
the yard of the naval hospital
from the railway tracks.
, W ithout waiting to detour to
the track by way of a street,
nurses end doctors from the hos­
pital boosted each other over the
wall.
Visitor from Portland—
V irg il Ham ilton, a Koletor
radio salesman from Portland,
Ora., is spending n few days la
Ashland looking a fter business
effdlrs.
R eceives Scare
D’Autremont was
delighted
when assigned to the Philippines,
but experienced a bad scare in
San Francisco. Standing on the
postoffice steps there with enoth-
or soldier, he saw a placard with
jils picture and an offer of a big
reward for his arrest.
“That looks Just like you,”
D’Autremont’s companion t o l d
him.
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Battery B Team Will
Meet K. F. Tonight
The test Battery B basketball
team will meet the Pelicans, the
Klamath Falla teem that has won
every game they have played this
yoar. in • game on the. armory
floor tonight, beginning nt night
o’clock. The Bkttory B team has
had a snceeeafiil Reason also being
tied with the Faculty for first
place In the Inter-city league.
The Pelicans have the reputa­
tion for playing unusually cleaa
basketball, having only had fifty
fouls ealed on them in sixteen
games, aa average of lesa than
four fouls per game.
A preliminary w ill be played at
eoven thirty and Battery B men
are hopefal that a crowded bonsq
will greet them tonight.
Pilot Rock Wilt Chafer—
The Pilot Rock Encampment
No. Id, 1. O. O. F. w ill confer
the Patriarch’s degree this even­
ing at 7:30. AU Patriarchs arc
urged to be present.
Feed fol­
lowing business meeting.
e Indicates That J,
Homed Committed
Suicide
(B Y DOROTHY R E ID )
Ijung Reach, Cal.
Chief of Polite,
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Ashland, Ore.
Letter Prom Sec. Mellon
Opposing Plan Made
Public
FORECASTS
A
VETO
Revolving Fund Is Said to be
Impracticable by Finan­
cial Head
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ClothfM and message« left
on the beach Indicate’ '' that
J. E. Norreil has committed
Huh-hlc. Please advise family.
J. H. YANCEY,
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Chief of Police.
Difficulties With Life is
Reason Many of Them
■ Are Giving
SIX NAMES ARE ADDED
Total Number Who Committed
Suicide Daring H ie New
Year Reaches Sixteen
W A SHING TO N, Feb.
15. —
The administration opened Its big
Berthas on the McNary-Haugen
W farm relief b ill today w ith a let­
ter from Secretary o f'th e Treas­
ury Mellon, criticising the meaa-
__„ ure as impracticable, expensive
nR and open to easy evasion by the
•w u .u i'.u
Best»
ag, unscrupulous persons.
man W Or«P»» ¿ S t o r in m
ter 1 He declared the 125,000,000 re-
. -.««ui care for
aei , volvlng fund proposed to be set for won
00 up by the government would nev- hla loved ones, had come to the
ng or be completely collected back, end of the trail, and all that was
er, Into the treasury, because too left waa a little heap of clothes
many persona would hold odt on and some messages that would
;h- the government. This letter from guide the officials in thqlr task
hie tpe financial brains of the ad- of notifying those who were left
■he ministration forecasta a W hits (behind.
Tears welled to the surface of
ln- House veto for the farm bill.
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The letter was w ritten to Rep- the mothers eyes andi as she
Hoarse
a resentatlve Chlndbloom, Illinois heard the bitter news.
republican.
I t created a sensa- sobs shook her entire body as
,ve tion in the house, as many nor- she vainly struggled to regain
ng mally faithful adminlatration con- the composure that had 'borne
id- greasmen have already committed her over the rough spots of the
themselves to vote for the bill, last year, when adversities were lor at Hampsted, N. Y., high
at- Some of them did so In the be- continually knocking at the mod­ school, who shot himself to death,
>or lief that the president would ac­ est Norred home on Indiana back of the stage In the school
auditorium. In e note the b ril­
me cent the measure if congress actu- avenue.
liant student said he felt he waa
y ally put It up to him.
They came to Ashland two
a
burden on hla mother.
Ik.
Mellon did not recommend de- years ago.
The children were
Misa Alma Evans, 31, school
n’a feat of the bill. He confined hla placed in school and tha family
in. criticism to the equalisation fee took up the even tenure of thalr teacher of Union City, lad., who
,ke Ulan, by which It is proposed to way. The Anna Creek Lumber hanged herself. She wee a uni­
of levy a tax on surplus farm pro­ company provided,’ employssent versity graduate end an accom­
duct? to defray the coat of getting for the head of the household plished musician. She had been
to-¿I)®*“ ou^ of the country to heM during the spring and summer. In noor health
B, Bradhem. Jr., 1». of Alvin.
up the domestic price.
Unable to find steady employ­
s t
“Apparently the administration ment, the missing men left Ash­ Texas, asked his tether, “ what
Is making its last stand against land for California about the sort of a death la banging.’* Four
the bill as diplomatically as pos­ first of the year and searched hours later his body was found
sible,** observed Representative in rain for work. An automobile hanging in a barn.
Howard Fisher, 23, Sioux City,
Dickinson, Iowa republican, and accident waa the next thing that
■Iowa, piano teacher, end former
strong supporter of the bill.
the patient w ife heard from her
Opponents of the bill were more husband, arfd as fate would have student of Morningside college,
killed himself by inhaling gas.
rI* hopeful than they" have been at
it, thie wee the lest word until No motive for the act could he
n' any time thia season, but some
the Long Beech chief of police given.
by feared that they would not receive
notified the local officers of their
Other recent suicides Included
enough eleventh hour support to
findings on the sandy beach of Rigby W ile, University of Roches­
ns beat the measure.
the ocean.
ter student, who killed himself
One son is in the navy and because he had tasted life end
La Grande payrolls for 1326 the other four children are at found It empty.
home with the mother.
What
reached *1,993,838.
Morgen Derr, Jr., hie friend
they w ill, or what they can do, end classmate, followed W ile to
remain in the hands of a divine death.
father who watches over all. The
C. L. Noe of the University of
ton who la stationed at San Diego Wisconsin was intrigued
by
xw ill go to Long Beech and in­ death. He wanted to find ont
vestigate the matter further end whether there Is an after life end
in the meantime, the little moth­ took his own life, sending a bul­
e r end children are waiting, let In his brain.
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hoping against hope that It is a
Others were Harvey Jones,
mistake, that the man whom they medical student. University of
all loved so well la alive end Chicago; Richard Starr Unter-
will some time rejoin the happy meyer, son of Jean Starr Un(er-
family circle, that la now appar­ meyer.
ently broken.
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UNION C IT Y , Ind., Feb. IB. —
(U P )— Miss Alma Evens, *1 , a
school teacher and a graduate of
Otterbein Unlverelty, took her
life by hanging herself from a
cross beam In a barn, with the
cord of her bathrobe.
■ An accomplished musician, she
resigned recently as supervisor of
music In the Palestine, O h i o ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1 *.—-
schools because of 111 health.
(U N )— A rail line connecting Pa­
cific coast points with Mexico
City w ill be completed In March,
Paul Shoup, executive vice-presi­
dent of the Southern Pacific com­
pany, announced during t h e
course of an address before the
Three of the Y. M. C, A. Pio­
Foreign. T ra d v e lu b today.
neer
clubs of the city held In ter­
Shoup said that rails w ill have
been laid over the full route in esting meetings in their respec­
another month, but Indicated that tive churches last evening, ac­
passenger service would not be cording to reports turned In to
started until later In the year, Secretary W alter. The Beaver
because o f the necesslsslty of put­ Pioneer club ef the Methodist
tin g In roadbeds, signals and wa­ church reported a good attend­
ance with an Interesting meet­
ter systems and other details.
The route to be followed will be ing. Wayne Chaney gave a talk,
from Nogales, Sonora, which Is on “ How to dlapoae of Garbage’’
connected by n Southern Pacific ¡while Lonnie Scroggins.told the
line with Tucson, Arts. From No­ [members hew to piny Ova differ­
gales the new line, over the ent games. Glean Hand told the
Southern Pacific of Mexico runs Story Of “David and Goliath.'*
The Beer Pioneer d u b of the
to Pom, ' Hermosllla. Guayama,
Corral, Gullncen, Masatlau. Acnp- Christina church reported a goad
onste, Tehee end thence Into Ga- attendance w ith three aew mem­
ndaljnm , where It connects with ber* voted la to the elvb, Brneet
the regular route Into Mexico Otheea. Merle M ille r and Harvny
Gerhart.
City.
Pioneer Clubs of
Y Hold Meeting