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March 1 and 2
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(United News Wire Service)
ASHLAND, OREGON,
Betake Standard Oil Vessel
and Disarm One Hun-
.
dred Soldiers
ARMS TO BE RETURNED
Guns Taken from Soldiers W ill
be Given'Back a t Request
o f Diplomats
W ashington , M arch's. —
Americas forces in Chinese waters
went into .action, recaptured the
Standard Oil vessel Mehung at
Hankow which had been seised
by the Chinese, and disarmed 100
Chinese soldiery on board, the
state department announced to
day.
According to information from
United States Consul Lockhart,
sailors from the U. 8. minesweep
er Pigeon, took part in the first
encounter with the Chinese.
Two other Standard Oil ships
were released several days ago af
ter Lockhart had filed protests
w ith the Cantonese foregin min
ister. The three vessels weye
commandeered by Chinese troops
at Ichang 10 days ago.
The Mehung apparently was
not released and and 100 soldiers
were kept on guard while the
ship waa moored at Hankow.
The department announcement
giving details of the encounter
said:
“The United States ship Pigeon
went alongside of the* Mehung,
took the vessel in tow and an
chored near the U. 8. S. Isabel. .
“The Pigeon removed from the
Mehung the aoldiers. Numbering
more than 100, retained most of
their rifles and ammunition and
Informed the Officer In charge
that these rifles and ammunition
wonld be handed ever on request
from the minister o f/o ro ig n af
fairs by the commander general
of the Hankow area, against a
receipt.
“ Mr. Lockhart has reported
that he has so informed Chen,
the Cantonese foreign minister."
Hankow was completely tied
up on February 38 as the result of
a general
strike,
protesting
against the presence of British The Monthly Prediction of
Father Ricard is Made
troops in Shanghai, Lockhart al
Public
so reported.
“ Both Chinese and foreigners
! SANTA CLARA, Cal., March
were obliged to vacate rickshaws,
2. — March w ill be a month of
automobiles were stopped; tele
unsettled weather along the Pa
phones and lights were complete
cific coast, according to the
ly shut off and free movement of
monthly predictions of Father
the Inhabitants was Impeded by
Ricard of the University of
arbitrary and unwarranted inter
Santa Clara.
ference.”
Forecasts of the famous “padre
of the rains” follows:
March 1, 2, 3, 4— A disturb
ance of unusual intensity mov
ing In from the G ulf of Alaska,
followed by generous rains from
Alaska to San Diego.
A Christan Missionary Alliance
March 5 and 6 — An addition
convention will be held in the al depression w ill delay clear
Moose hall March 2, 4, 5, and 6, ing.
during which there w ill be a ser
March 7, 8, 9 — F a ir from
vice each afternoon and evening. Alaska to Sonora.
This a ffa ir w ill be In charge of
March 9, 10, I I — Cloudiness
Rev. W . W . Newbury, superin but little rain except . in San
tendent of the Pacific Northwest Diego and parts of Arisons,
district of the Alliance, Including where the rain w ill be worth
the states of Washington, Oregon, measuring. \
Idaho and British Columbia. The
March 13, 18 — Generally
musical program ’ w ill be under fair.
the direction of Rev. J. C. Ba
March 14, 15, 1«, 17 — Bad
ker, superintendent of the work weather on land and sea, and
of the young people of this dis quite w ithin the possibilities that
southern California ahall get
trict.
downpours.
The missionary party w ill he
March 18 — Low depression
composed of Rev. A. I. Garrison
continued.
of India, Miss E. M. Beyerle of
March 19 — Clearing, showars,
West China and M r. and Mrs. C.
sunshine.
T. Carlson 'o f Ecuador, South
March 20 — Threatening.
America.
March 21 — Unaettled.
The Christian A Missionary Al
M a rc h '28, 23 — W et, windy,
liance Is a Nlssionary movement unpleasant weather.
which was organised more than
March 84 — Rather fair.
35 years ago by the Rev. A. B.
March 35, 28, 27, 38 — Fresh
Simpson, a prominent pastor in south winds w ith rain*.
one of the larger New V o r ' k
March 29 — F itfu l clearings
churches.
Its headquarters are north of Tehachapi.
at 260 West 44th street, NCw Maroh 20 — Generally iWr.
March 21 — New disturbances.
York City. In tke 86 years o( Its
Special Convention
Will Be Held Here
Underwent Operation
2. H. Hardy, who underwent
a tonsil operation at the Com
munity hospital Frid ay, is report
ed to he getting along nicely.
From Eugene
Senate committee reports fav
- M r. and Mrs. L,. C. Larsen of
Eugene, Ore., spent yeaterday orably on h ill for federal recla
mation on Deschutes project.
in Ashland visiting friendk.
for Over Fifty Years
south winds
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>AY,-MARCH 2, 1927
» A striking feature o ^th e in ter -
I views with different poultry Ssan
Violation of 3:00 a. m. Our
has been ¿hat all have streeped the
few Laws Brings an
necessity of good stock. Ona
Order for Closing
summed it all up very aptly whan
he said, “ I f you get a bunch af
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NEW YORK, March 2 — (U N )
bum baby chicks you ;are beaten
I — Seventeen of Broadway’s gayest
General Spring Opening at before you begin.'*
1 night clubs have been ordered
Ashland poultry grower»- tern
Armory Proves Big
. closed for violation of the 3 a. m.
fortunate indeed to have right
curfew Igw.
here at home the opportunity to
License Commissioner W . M.
secure baby chicks from reliable
Sixty Ninth Session W ill . Quigley,
Police are Called out to Pro
WILL CLOSE TONIGHT breeders who are maintaining
acting on orders from
Go Into History Next
tect English Premier
Mayor Jimmie W alker, the night
Friday Noon
Prom Angry miners
Free Dance and Giving Away flocks of heavy laying, vigorous,
club reformer, refused' to grant
d isease free birds.
of Ford Coupe to be
I I licenses to the sinful 1?.
Eight , years ago E. O. Smith, be
AT ODDS WITH CHIEF # Under terms of the commis RECOVER PEW BODIES
Features
z
gan his poultry operations with
Last P a rt of Session H ave Been sioner’s rejections the clubs may Tw enty Three Bodies a re Recov
30 hens. He built up gradually
T O N IG H T ’S PROGRAM
operate, but there must be no
Many Attempts . to E m
ered From One Shaft and
from this modest start and vary
music or dancing. And without
Many More to be Found
barrass
President
j soon he found bin backyard gnnp-
Doors open at 7 p. m.
either
of
these
elements
there
ters
too
small.
He
is
now
operat
“ Daredevil”
D e a n
in
", (;v
VALE, Wales, Mar. 3.— Police
[ W ASHINGTON, March 3.— The Is no night club.
ing on IS acres, earing f o r >
straightjacket escape frofta top
i
69th
congress,
elected
on
the
When
Mayor
W
alker
inaugur
action was necessary today to pro
flock of SSOO hens beside opeHR-
of Elks bldg., at 7:15.
Coolidge landslide in 1924, goes ated the 3 a. m. curfew he said tect Premier and Mrs. Baldwin
ing s 14000 Mommoth Buahayu
Vaudeville and style show
into history Friday noon as much that ail decent New Yorkers from the angry rush of miners
incubator. He is also trap naatttg
start at 8:15 with complete
at
odds w ith the president as it should start home by that hour. when the conservative leader vis
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pullets
.from
which
ba
w
ill
change of program.
has
been throughout most of ite But the butter and egg men, if ited. the scenes of yesterday’s
select
his
breading
stock.
.
Eh
New Ford co^pe to he given
not the New Yorkers
gstetek plosion, which cost the
two years.
finds he has enough to keep him
sway Immediately after style
continued to 4 nrsau* ’^ * g S Z a U
52 men.
At
the
same
tim
e
President
busy,
but
the
evident
enjoyment
show.
clubs rem ain!
* * * ¿ ¿ 7 ,7
Baldwin
was hissed and booed.
Coolidge
reaches
the
hvlfway
he
gets
from
his
work
makes
i
t
fb
Free dance starting at 10:30,
point of his elective term still a p .and there were numerous viola He had motored to the scene of
no wise drudgery. M r. Sm ith hte
with Loveland’s orchestra.
the disaster as a gesture of sym
parently the dominant figure of tions.
made a careful study of e v e n
Free lunch at Tavern cafe
pathy and was obviously upset by
his party, suffering little from 'lie
angle of the poultry Industry h»d
after show.
thp miners’ attitude.
he Is giving his flock the advan
A group of miners attempted to
tage of this knowledge.
A driving downpour of rain
rush the Baldwin car when the
The day we tlslted him , ha was
failed to dampen Ashland's en laying a cement floor in Mb
police Interfered.
thusiasm last night, and as a re brooder houses pad yards. “The
sult of a spontaneous response latest word from the college” ho,
LONDON, March 1.— (U N )—
from the people of this city, the said. ' “ By keeping the birds o ff ,
Pour of the Pive Men Se Twenty-three men are known to
arm ory was erowded almost to the ground un til they are eight
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looted by President Are
be dead, and a total death toll of
capacity for the opening night of
Technical Experts
65 is expected as a result of two
the Spring Opening, ante show,
style show and vaudeville pro
mine disasters In Nottingham
W ASHINGTON, March “ 2.—
shire and Wales.
gram. The exhibit booths were
Men of radio experience will dom
Twenty-three bodies were re
prettily decorated and drew large
inate the new federal radio com
covered and It was stated that the
crowds.
totaldead would probably number
L et it be said to the credit of
61.
the local American Legion post
Attempt to Light a Fiery
Fourteen lives were believed to
that everything ran smoothly and
hare been lost when staging col
Grose Results in Severe
without a hitch from start to fin
lapsed at a pithead at the Bils-
Injuries
ish. Exhibits were all In place
, thorpe Colliery in Nottingham
before the doors Were opened,
D E N V E R , March 8.— (U N ) —
shire.
and the program was put on with
Throughout the day and into
a snap and vim which kept the
BAN ANGELO, Texas. March Claiming he eras injured in at
the night groups
of women,
(crowd In good spirits from theOp 2,— (UN) —. Leo. D’A u trem o i. tempting to light a fiery cross
clutching children to their breasts
ening selection until the last >rotl^er of Roy, Ray and R e * Atop Table Mountain, tfcree years
watched the reacue workers at the
i s untr y store article Y M give* D'A^Ueihont. alleged trpln r$K am». ■ A rthu r U, Nichole, has
brought suit^ fo r 225.270 dam
’ Wales pit aeattem pts were asade
away at the hour of midnight.
Mr*. . died here yesterday from
ages against Denver tia n num
to bring out some of the .135
Parade Called O ff
gn accidental gunshot wound.
miners/
Because of the rain, the street
D'AntremoRt Wan- shot by a ber of the Knights of the Ku
The entire Welsh countryside,
parade and stunts were canceled Jnan : named (StektSrt In an oil K lux Kian.
In
the
suit
filed
today
Nichols
which
had been preparing to cele
at the last ^ninnte. I t was thought gam b lin g pMcn sear Crawford,
brate Saint David's day, the na
inadvisable to ask people to prom Texak, ' last? ¡Saturday.
D’A ntre- claimed a gas tank which was to
tional Welsh holiday, waa plung
enade about the streets in such mont and' 'ngfhrnF witnesses to have been used in setting the
cross
ablase,
exploded
and
broke
ed
Into grief as news of the disas
a driving rain.
the thobtlak’gatd R Waa accident
ter spread.
“ Daredevil’* Dean
qtood In al.
No arteSt hak been made, his arm and leg and Injured his
Eighty four of the missing
readiness to attempt his straight- acoarding tV U- ’®- Thompson, back and neck.
Aa
a
result
of
his
Injuries
men
were brought out alive and
jacket escape from the Elks railway, special agent. «
Nichole claims one of his legs
later workers brought to the sur
building as scheduled, hut because
Thompson s k id - he had been is an inch and a half shorter
face 33 bodies.
of the added danger, due to thé
The disaster in Nottingham
elements, the Legion committee assigned .(o."keep the younger- (han the other, his back is still
shire occurred in a new shaft and
refused to let him attempt it. It D’AutrCmont under surveillance lame and he is unable to turn
resulted from breaking of a pipe
his head.
was announced, however, that he the past three months.
conveying water oat of the shaft.
Independence — ^>wls
hop
D ’Autretliont’s mother came
will put on this dangerous act
ranch of 190 acres Is sold to
When the staging crashed to the
Eugene’s city budget is 3209
at the Elks building tonight even here from Arcadia, N. M., to take
Washington buyer.
bottom 17 laborers were trapped,
though the city should be wrap charge o f the body.
but later three were rescued. Phy
ped in a blixtard.
He w ill be
sicians and ambulances w e r e
strapped to the straightjacket in
rushed from the nearby villages
front of the P lata block and tak
of Mansfield and Newark and
en Immediately to the
Elks
relatives of the entombed men
building, promptly at 7 o’clock.
hurried
to the scene.
Vaudeville Is Good
L
ittle
hope was held out for
The vaudeville program was
rescue of the 14 men. who, were
even better than scores of the vis
believed to have been either killed *
itors had anticipated. B illy Sel
In the crash or drowned when
kirk, golf instructor, put on a
Fierv Marine Smiles From water from the broken pipe pour
golf act, assisted by a boy and
ed over them.
,
Ear to Ear When
girl, which drew Interest even
When
rescue
work
was
resumed
Command
Gomes
from non-golfers. L. I. Moon had
In the evening after a day which
a black-face act, assisted by Vlc-
had been marked by harrowing
Mllls, that was a scream from
scenes at the Wales mine. 13
start to finish. Roy Lucas and
canaries were lowered at Inter
his wee son, Herbert, presented a
vals to the bottom of the shaft
skit of singing and talking that
where
the missing 38 men were
kept the crew'd In an uproar.
trapped. All of the birds were
Rush and Clary, with their gui
brought up asphyxiated. The
tars, generated a lot of good, pep
thirteenth to M lowered survived,
py music. “ Daredevil” Dean, as
however, and thia was taken as
the last act of the program, at
hope that the air In the mine
tempted to wriggle out of the
was clearing.
straightjacket while suspended
head first from the top of the
armory. Because of the intense
N EW ORGANIST
heat he collapse^ before he was
'Miss Wanda Hinkle, who arrlv-
able to make his escape. He w ill
i ed In Ashland some time age
attempt It again tonight after his
from Spokane, Wash., to take the
street performance, and promises
place
of George Convene aa or
to make It providing the hall is *
ganist
at tha Vining theatre, play
bit cooler.
ed her firet concert last evening.
Style Review
Mias Hinkle Is a graduate of the
Five of the local stores present-
Washington
State
Uaiverstty
ed a style review which waa snap
stander. And I know what action
school ef music: has stadied the
py throughout and which kept tke
meant, lots of It .”
organ at the American conserva
big crowd at eloee attention at all
He waa asked what he would
tory
of music la Chicago and nn-
times. The first review was giv
do In China.
til
recently
waa a student df 2.
en by the Golden Rule. The Isaac
“ Do what I am told, protect
store came next with its models.
American lives and property," he McClellon, who is chief organist
The Enders company followed
at the L. D. S. tabernacle in Salt
replied.
with both young men end young
“ My Job,” he continued, ‘ will Lake City.
women showing the lateet spring
be to protect American eitlaena.
She reeeatly completed a west
styles in their respective depart
That is all. I will do aa the oc ern tour during which time i
ments. M ille r’s Toggery had fdar
casion demands.”
gained dlstlnctlea la many et
well groomed youths prpeepting
“ As regards what should be large cities of the went la
the latest in street and sports
done with tha Chinese that is not
stateo of Montana, Texas. Cu
foraia, Idaho sad Washington.
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Looks Like a Chance to Eat Into Profits Again