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(U e^ad News W ire Service)
(United Prase W ire Serri««)
MARCH 7, 1927
ASHLAND,
Many Are Killed and Injur
!
ed by a Severe
Shakeup
Japan is Still Chafing Under
Provisions of Immigra
tion Law
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DIPLOMATS
TO
BULK
(B Y . JOHN H. P U L L E R )
N E W YO RK , Mar. 5.— (U P ) —
I t doesn’t seem possible that
! Japan’s unequivocal acceptance of
It Is time to elect Directors fo r
, the American proposal for a naw
the Chamber of Commerce again,
naval
limitations
conference
sach, however, la the cake, and
shows that the shrewd diplomats
already a primary ballot has
at Tokyo have decided not to
been sent out to the membership
throw In their lot with the lesser
calling for the nomination ot
European power, Including Italy
twelve names, from whom six
and Prance.
shall be selected to serve for the-
Japan In still chafing under the
n e x t.tw o years.
This pjan ot
provision of the American imm i
electing directors has been fol
gration law which places the Jap
lowed now for the pant seven
anese on a lower level than the
years and has furnished the
lowest Europeans, but this fact is
Chamber at all times a Board o f
not allowed to Interfere w ith the
active and progressive men. The
judgment of International affalra
nix whose terms expire nt this
nt the Tokyo foreign office. "’Jap
time nre O, P. Carson, Homer
an Is Increasingly casting her lot,
Billings, E arl R. Isaac, Dan Kay,
Internationally, with the most pro
R. B. Detrlck and Clyde Malone.
gressive western nations and la
Thoee continuing for another)
this respect Is showing fa r'm o re
year are Geo. W . Dunn, W . M.
vision than any of the m ajor
Briggs, Fred C. Homes, H. L.
countries of continental Europe,
Claycomb, A. E. Kinney and V.
with the exception of Germany.
V . Mills.
The ballots call for
The Japanese are so far from
return not later than six
m.
the western world that they are
Satarday, March 12th thus a l
able to get an im partial view
lowing this .week for the con
point, much as the United States,
sideration and nomination Of
because of Its aloofness from
twelve men from whom the final
Europe, is. in a position to Judge
six shall be selected.
European events
Impersonally.
President Carson has appointed
The Japanese, however, can ia -
clnde American as well as Europe
an election committee, consisting
"Am I glald to be bock In the In their distant range of vision.
of Homer H . Eihart, W irt M.
W right and Law Hansen, to aa United States — well It seems I t is, therefore, a unique endorse
sisi the Secretary ta conducting lik e returning to heaven after ment of the correctness o t the
American plan for fa rth e r navpl
the election ' and to sort, count having been some place else.”
-Chevalier's home is ta Gaines reductions which Japan gives by
and tabulate the hallóte.
ville, Texas, and he intends re Supporting the Washagton policy
A t a masting of the Board here turning there with his children without reservations.
to begin life anew a fter consul
Express Pear
Saturday noon, .a number of m a t
Those critics who express fear
ters ot considerable importance tation w ith the state department.
occupied attention aside from
consideration of the annaal elec
tion.
One of these items was
regarding the distribution of the
L lth la water throughout the city,
and it was unanimously decided
that the City Council and. Park
Board be Invited to a jo in t meet
ing with the Chamber Board to
more fully oonslder this question.
A
resolution
thanking the
American Legion for their Inter
est ta and successfully conduct
ing the style show oa March 1st
and 2nd, was adopted;. also a
sim ilar resolution thanking and
commending the Klwanls Club
for Interest and activity ta urg
ing the adoption of the County
Library B ill passed by the last
Législature.
Some days since we noted some
comment In the paper abeut the
Boulevard Parking— some sug
gestion relative to the Introduc
tion of shrubbery, etc., and a
statement also from the Chair
man of the Park Board that no
funds were available for this
purpose.
No further remarks
having been made, we are tempt
ed to suggest that the removal
of the uneven and dead shrub
bery, which now occupies this
space, and planning so that thia
entire strip through the city's
main thoroughfare be kept ta a
perfectly mowed and green con
dition. would amply aapply the
necessities In this direction.
Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 8,
the regular Chamber
Forum
Luncheon w ill be held at the
L lth la Springs Hotel a t 18 o’
clock. “Legislative Doings" will
be the topic and Senator Dunn
and Representative Briggs w ill
tell of the various activities ot
the 1887, sesstQb.
1 ' /
The Governor’s program, W hy
a * Income T ext. Some perfectly
gdM bills, etc., w ill >e features
of the talks by these gentlemen.
Secretary Fuller w ill have * few
remarks to m ak* regardta* tke
Normal Schqol appropriation bills
and observations from the side
L -
Everyone Interested la Wvlted
to 'to m e -s o m e speotal music.
leapt Japan w ill tarn toward the
Orient and Russia and Join in a
A R R E ST C H UR C H BOMBER
combination against the western
8AN FRANCISCO, Mar. 7.— A
world can find little satisfaction
man believed to have been re
In Japan’s present attitude. The
sponsible for bombing' t h e
Japanese are no more bound ra
churches, St. Peter’e and Paul, lay
cially to the Orient than America
dead here today, but bis Identity
is bound racially to Europe. The
and the reasons for the outrages
United States does not regulate Its
are still a mystery.
International policies by the fact
The man was shot and killed
that It is a western power.
It
by detectives shortly before day
encounters . constant
criticism
light Sunday as he placed the fifth
from other western power* and
bomb In the vestibule of . the
makes Is own international plans
church, lighted it and stole away.
without any thought of western
Another man, Identified as Cel-
hegemony.
sten Eklund. was shot and ser
Similarly, Japan Is developing
iously wounded a he fled from a.
her foreign policies without con
street corner near the church.
sidering the fact that the Japan
Detectives believe that he la an
ese are eastern. Japan desire* a
accomplice but he denies
the
progressive national development
charge.
and her future requires the main
tenance of friendly relations with
the other progressive countries of
W IL L 8P R A K SUNDAY
the world. Irrespective of their
Gale Seaman, Pacific Regional geographical situations.
Espec
student secretary'of the Y. M. C. ially dods Japan need peace for
A. w ill be the speaker at a meet her growth.
ing for men, yonng men and old
The problems of Japan are
er boys, which 5 III be held ta
predominantly domestic and con
the Congregational church Sunday
cern economic Improvement, high
March 18 at 3:00 p. m., under
er material progress and a wider
the auspices of the local Y. M. C.
distribution of wealth among all
A. "M r. Seaman la a speaker of
the people. No war can accomp
ability, and a real treat is In store
lish these results. The population
for those ¿who are privileged to
problem o fJ a p a n Is really a sec
attend this meetin," stated Sec
ondary. one, which the Japanese
retary W alter. • Plans are being
eventually will settle, as they have
made for M r. Seaman to meat
always done ta the past, by lim it
w ith some o f the men students of
ing their Increase to the capacity
the Normal school earlier in the
of their own territories to pro
day.
vide adequate sustenance.
The evolution of Japan, ma
terialistically, la the hope o t the
SPEAKS A T GRANTS PASS
country, The Japanese states
Secretary W a lter and fam ily men realise this fact and they are
were ta Grants P a n yesterday, subordinating all other , taellfla-
where M r. W a lter occupied the tlons to It. The acceptance by
pulpit of the, Presbyterian church Japan ot the American naval/ re
In the morning. In the afternoen duction proposal la not only an
a meeting was held w ith alder act of friendship hot It 1« also ah
boyh and leader« from o t h e r Indication of the soaid Jadtment
churches regarding the coming of the Japan««® government, In es
Older Boy’s Conference and the tablishing a permanent lias of di
orkanlttak of*work for older befrs
rection for Japan’s evofutlonary
in the charches.
progress.
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M atnal b to re e t
- There is an Increasing bond of
G L E E CLUB COWGKRr
m utual-Interest developing be
The Southern Oregon Normal
tween the Untied States, Japan
schbol Glee Club, under the dlree-
and Great Britain wbteh may well
ttoff of Miss Leona Msraters Will
play a paramount part in world
give a coneert Sunday afternoon affairs. Tlieee three nation® load
at four o’clock ta the- Normal au
ditorium. The public ta invited.
Twenty two bey* took the hl
scheduled Satarday by. the T .
C. A. Pioneer«. . Thie boys S i
Secretary W alter le ft PJoL
H a ll at |:8 ® Satarday m oral
and hiked to within a few m t
ot Skyline mine, bar« on top
one of thè lower hljls ta t
ran *« the boys found plenty,
snow fpr snow ball fights a
games, and It was here the hl
ended and the fa a began, i
cording to those making «
trip. P lr« boys, Leonard Goen«
Vincent Sawyer, K eller Mah!»
Cecil Harbort and W ilb u r Di
ham passed tb« test on b aildl
a suitable lean-to. Other mei
bere of tb« group passed ,M
tag teste.
Just before leavti
for home a same of play grow
baseball was enjoyed by alL T
group returned to ' Ute city
1:8® in the afternoon.
Normal Schools to
Debate Tonight
Foreign occupation in
Ohtaa
w ill be settled tonight insofar ba
the Oregon N orm al schools ase
con earned when a team rapra-
sentlng j the Monmonth Normal
school, w ill meat a team compos
ed of John Churchman and W a r
ren K irkp atrick, representing, tbe
Southern Oregon Normal school
a t the Normal auditorium, at
eight o’clock. A t the same time.
John Galey bad W arren Dorema®.
w ill debate at Monmouth Normal
school, I » - ■
\
No admission la to he charged
at tonight’s affair, and the public
la cordially invited.
a
LOCAL MAM D IR S
TOKIO, Mar. 7.— Reports of
death and destruction caused to
day by an earthquake which was
the most severe In the region of
Kobe and Osaka, began arriving
tonight.
Six D ay Search in Rough
Nine girls in a spinning mill
Country o f Lane Coun
near
Osada were killed and 2S
ty is Ended
persons were injured when a dor
mitory collapsed.
ONE D E N IE S CHARGES
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One Drowned
Twenty Six Year Old Itendlt Re
TOKIO, Mar. 7.—One unidenti
fuses to Admit That He
fied elderly woman was drowned
Helped In Robbery
Fifteen minutes after the Tid-
tag stin d bees issued last Monday,
Dow Spencer, was awarded a
months subscription for being the
firs* to gness the name of the
Ashland bnstaess man whose pic
ture was reproduced. His guess
was E . V . Garter, and his solu-
G. F . BUltags, called shortly
after, and the phone had hardly
been disconnected when Mrs. *C.
J. Brady and Miss Renidict, both
culled giving the same name.
Susie Allen and F. J. Hwenning
also expressed their belief that
M r. Garter was the man. R. E.
Detrlck thought It was Frank
Jordan and Guy Randles was
also of the same opinion, while
Mrs. Lou Hanson, thought It
was Mayor Pierce and Mrs. S.
H. M ille r ,. was just as sure It
was C. J. Perrine.
Axel H all
wrote In suggesting the same of
Howard Rose as being appro-"
priate to give to the photograph,
and many others Insisted that
Dr. Tilton, resembled M r. Carter
when the photograph was taken.
There were hundreds of telephone
calls, and the game has proved
to be a most interesting one.
I
EUOENB, March 7. (U P ) —
Ending a -day search in the
rough country west of here, both
of the Veneta bandits and m ur
derers of Eston Hooker were in
custody today, Sheriff Taylor
Bald.
Dewey Russell, aged 2®, Is be
ing held In Jail here and Albert
Brownley Is held In W alla W alla.
Russell refuses to adm it hla part
I but he has been Identified by per
sons who were in The Veneta pool
hall when it was robbed and W il
liam Maddaugh, its proprietor,
was shot.
Hooker, a posseman, was k ill
ed last week In a fight between
the fugitives and the possemen.
Both men are paroled convicts
of
the
Oregon
penitentiary.
Brownley, according to word re
ceived from W alla W alla, has ad
mitted his Identity.-
t, the
d off
hsve
llttlv
taken
f the
land,
’ foe
ed a
the
Duth-
» B°-
or to
rould
the
yonr
’
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y
State Takes the Lives of
Pour in Paym ent for
Murdered 'olicem&n
— The Olney bandits died ta the
electric chair today for the mnr-
der of Harry Cooper, a Philadal-
phia policeman. This is the first
time In this state where four
men have died for the murder
of one man.
Joseph Curry, Harry Bentley,
william Jullano and Frank Doris,
who tried unsuccessfully to rob
money from a truck belonging
to the Olney bank and murdered
Cooper In trying tq evade ar-
rest, were led one by one to the
chair this morning.
Curry, who fired the fatal shot,
was the first to die.
Sinbad Has to Carry Double Now
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Destroy City
HONOLULU, Mar. 7.— The city
of Osaka. Japan, was destroyed
by fire following a terrific earth
quake, which rocked Central Jap
an this morning, according to un
confirmed advices received from
Japan.k
All c&mmunicatlon from Osaka
to kobe has been disrupted. Re
ports said that the towns of Koy-
W ASHINGTON,
M*C
T- —
(U P )— A by-product of Teapot^
Dome gees on the fire here today.
Harry Ford Sinclair goes on
trial in District of Colombia Su
preme court on an indictment
charging contempt of the U. S.
Senate.
The oil multim illionaire refused
to answer 10 question* put by t^a
members of the oil investigating
committee March ZZ, 1*34.
This indictment was voted a
week later— the
first form al
criminal proceeding to result from
the famous Investigation which
shook the nation and helped la
jarring three men out ot
the
Harding.cabiaeL ...... ____
The odds appear against Sln-
d a lr. The official senate record
shows he refused to answer "oa
advice of counsel.” The prosecu
tion's case will be short, and la-
expected to consist of testimony of
Senator Thomas J. Walsh, the oil
committee prosecutor, and Inser-
tlon of the committee’s proceed
ings to establish his refusal. Tho
government holds that Is enough
to establish cry tempt.
S
when
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r M T -BELLEFO NTE. Pa., Starch 7.
P r o f Henry Georgs GllmolW
aged 17 years, passed away at his
home on Scenic Drive Saturday
evenin r after a& Hlppes, which
has lasted for a short tltae. He
had bean a resident of Ashland
tor thie past' 17 years.
The deceased leaves a wife
O n th la Stevens Gilmore, and
three childrap, Mrs. M ark Burn
ham Stevens of Detroit, Mich.,
Mrs. Prank D. Black of Seattle,
Wash., and Hubert George Gil
more of Houston, Texas.
Private services with Rev. P. K.
Hammond officiating will he held
from* the residence on Scenic
Drive and the body w ill be taken
to D etroit, Mich., for burial.
and 2 persons weer Injured at
Kobe today when tjie passengers
on the world-cruising steamer,
California crowded onto the land
ing stage during an elrthquake
which shook the entire city.
The landing collapsed, throw
ing many into the water.
ODDS ABE AGAINST HIM
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Sinclair’s expert legal staff la
expected to set for the conten
tion that the committee’s ques
tioning without cause, and that
— summoning of hla was unjusti-
16 tied; that he had already appear-
T ed ftVa time and furnished all avl-
denca and answered alt questions
» propounded; and that the eom-
i- mitten’s questions coaid not bp
shown to have a bearing on a
■ contemplated legislative policy,—
- In other woiAs,' fb»t the commlt-
I tee exceeded Its authority.
Select Jury
1
Selection ot a ju ry will be the
r firs t Justness. I t Is not expected
to take long.
f
A ja il sentence Is marftiatory in
’ case of convictions. Section 102,
> Revised Statutes of the United
■ States, under which Sinclair was
* indicted, provides a fine ot from
1100 to 91,000 and one to 1$
t months In a ’’comtaon ja il.”
k
M ajor Peyton Gordon, local V .
* S. Attorney, will lead the prnse-
> cutlon, assisted by Owen J. Rob-
> erta and Atlee Pomerene, th e »
special counsel
appointed by
t President Coolidge to prosecute
i the oil Indictments and seek an-
- nulment of the Teapot Dome and
t Elk H ills leasee.
.
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The government men ere con-,
* fident of a quick conviction on the
1 simple case...
Sinclair’s lawyers, headed by
Martin Littleton, noted New York
attorney, have given no Indica
tion of their case.
It is likely they will have a sur
prise In the form of a powerful
attack on congressional Investiga
tions In general, and a challenge
against the right of the public
O SW A LDTW ISTLR , ENG.,
Jands committee In particular to
PLANS CHANGE NAME ask the 10 questions here Involved
at (he time they were put. ,
LONDON.
(U P )— Just plain
S inclair,' before refusing to
"Oswald" w ill suit ths people of answer all the questions put to
OswaldCwistle, Lancashire, In fu
him, reed the committee a state
ture references to their town.
ment asserting that the action ot
The town councillors have tak the senate a few days previously. ,
en stapa to change the name of In adopting a resolution denounc
the town by dropping completely ing the oil leases end directing
the last part of the name. They the President to appoint lawyers
contend that the name as It now to annul them, had made the mat
Is holds the town up to ridicule ter eqtirely a Judicial o at. there
and damages business. One coun by removing <prisdicttoa front tbf
cil member asserted that he re senate committee.
cently had a jetter addressed to
Much evidence, with many pr
him :— Oawsldtwlstle. somewhere edents, may ba pat lb the re «
In England."
by the defease, la eatldpetloa
a possible U. I . Sapreme Coart i
, TR A G ED IES ARlb F E W
peal la ease of a deelstoa advi
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 7.— to them by the tria l Jury,
Tragedies over the week-end on government, of course, coaid
the Pacific coast are comparative appeal It the Jary should ae
ly light with only 14 deaths.
Sinclair.
The death list In Oregon ta-
cladee: ’ Portland,
Marybelle
Shields, aged 3, who was* ran
down by ah auto and Fred Moel
ler, aged 48» who was hit by aa
ayto.