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EXPEDITES A B M AIL SERVICE
A MISTRIAL IN
F ® S MILLION
•
({felted Prone Wire Service)
41
Local B aiatali Team Takaa
Tour Straight Games'
From Neighbors
so cold tonight.
iper /or Over Fifty Years
(ü n ttM
BANDITS HAKE
O f
THE
The new mail
air mail service from
neetiona aa will* be seen
ing schedules.
A l l KAIL
iules serve to expedite the
and afford favorable eon«
examination of the follow-
Z
.
E TO THE EAST
normal
ON WEEK FOR
■ fe ttlA I
COMMENCEMENT
S H 1 E B IN RELIEF’
F B I HEAT WAVE
Ifeur Prostrations Are R<
corded in New'fiTork
City
IS STARTS) IN
STRICKEN AREA
MIDDLE
Ashland high school baseball
NEW YORK, April 21.— (IP)—
Letter» in the Asht
Office by* 2:10 P. M. are
team took Medford to a 8-8 score
The east Is sweltering In the first
13 to Sacramento, Calif.
Dispatched
by
Train
Wednesday afternoon on the Med
t wave of the year. There were
leaves Sacramento,
.. (next day) 9:15 P. M.
ford grounds. * It was the fourth
four prostrations, three in New
Arrives Chicago
.
(second day) 5:45 A. M.
straight wik ever the Red and
York and one in Elizabeth, N. J.
Black
team
by
the
locals.
Arrives
New
York'.
.
(second
day)
6:00
P.
M.
. All war weather records for
¿Mexicans Attack Train. De
99
iury Has Been DI «mined
A Play “ Smilin’ Through April were shattered Wednesday Thousands Are Fleeing Be
Ashland scratched out eleven
rail Engine and Set Tira
and
Famous O ase Comes
Wilf be Given on Night
-Pacific Coast
Air
fore Rush of Waters
hits while Kannasto held Medford
when the mercury climbed into
to Coaches
to an Abrupt End
From Mississippi
of '•June Eighth
ta six scattered hits. Hulen, Kan
Letters in the office ;
(the nineties in New England, with
A. M. are Dispatched by
nasto
and
Nutter
doubled,
as
did
Train
3
2
‘
to
Medfoi
hot weather extending on down
in. Daily Except Monday.
PASSENGERS
ROBBED
C H A R G E S A R E MADE
(GUARDS ARE CALLED
TO HAVE ALUMNI DAT the Atlantic coast.
Anderson of Medford.
tTH
Kannasto had the lower val
Disaster Is Said to be W orst la
Street thermometers in Hart Control of the Levees Are Placed
'om** Juror Is Accused o f Mar
AU Graduâtes of Old Normal to
ley men under his power at near
Leaves Medfor
ford, Conn., and New* York City,
the History o f Mexican
(same day) 9t30 A. M.
ias Made Statem ents Against
In the Hand« o f Guardsmen
he Inv^ed Here For
*
Ks»v<xlaat
ly all times, the third Inning be
~*i—
7*"—
nx^v era tai i«ki>
zvrii
registered as high as 92 degrees.
Arrives Portland
M illionaire
. (same day) 12:00 Noon
H pcial Day
by Governor
ing a little rough.
A t S p. m. official readings In
Arrives Seattle, Wa
(same day) 2:00 P. M. _ ____.
Hulen,
second
base,
got
four
Manhattan were 88.
MEXICO CITY, April 81.— (IP)
WASHINGTON, April 2 1 — The
The commencement program of
DETROIT, April 81.— Mistrial
Late in the afternoon a hot
— President Calles issued a sen hits ont of five times up and
crest of the midwest floods will
the
Southern
Oregon
N
o
r
m
a
l
sational statement
Wednesday, brought In four runs. Kannasto In the million dollar libel suit of Leaves Medford, Oregon*
(same day) 8:15 A. M. school will covir an entire weak southwest wind shifted to the reach the lower Mississippi reg
and the weather bureau pre
night. charging that the hold-up bnt Jhree times and scored one Aaron SaplrO against Henry Ford
ions in about ten days and the
Arrives San Francisco
(same day). 12:00 Noon beginning June 8, according to an north
was declared today by Judge Fred
dicted It would be much cooler.
In which 100 to ISO persons were run for himself.
worst effects will be felt be
announcement
made
by
Verne
V.
(same day) 2:00 P. M.
Ashland started by getting one M. Raymond, on motion of the Arrives FreSno, Calif. -,
Bubway crowds during the eve
reported killed or injured at La-
tween May first and fifteenth
Caldwell,
head
of
the
Psychology
(same day) 3’:30 P. M.
ning rush hour in New York ex
barha station, was perpetrated by run In the first, Blbby bringing In millionaire’s counsel. Judge Ray Arrives Bakersfield, Calif.
department, who has been desig
the war department advised to
rebel bandits under the leadership Gsndee, Medford lyored In the mond immediately dlsmlfmd the Arrives Los Angeles,
(same day) 5:00 P. M.’ nated by President J. A. Churchill perienced the usual summer stick day. The supply of tepts to house
second an third, Moore eendlng Jury.
’
iness.
of two Catholic priests.
refugees has been exhausted and
Postage Rates:—10c per «ach Half Ounce or Fraction as chairman of the commence
Thousands rushed Into the
Cslles attributed the disaster, McDonald In and Halpenny put
the eastern area has been called
ment committee.
“ “ -----
thereof.
parks for a breath of fresh air.
which railway officials ’ term the ting Anderson across the plate.
on for additional canvas.
. A play "Smiling Through" will
DETROIT, April 21. — (IP) —
Ashland made one in the fifth,
Brooklyn
beaches.
including
worst in the history of Mexican
be given on June 8 as the first
Charging that a t t o r n e y s M r
Kannasto
counting,
and
one
In
Coney Island, were alive with hu
revolutions, directly to the Catho
feature of the week by. the
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 20.—
Henry Ford are deliberately at
manity.
lic episcopate la Mexico City. The the sixth and seventh, Katsei^^and
ftp)— Additional thousands were
schools
dramatic
club.
Alpha
tempting
to
keep
the
billionaire
clericals who aided la the attack, Kannasto coming in again.
fleeing before the onrushing Mis
Touri, which -is under the direc
W ith ‘ the score four to two In from taking the witness stand
Callee etatemebt said, received the
sissippi
today as the roaring river
tion
of
Miss
Elisabeth
Richard
following "collapse" of their con
Instructions from the episcopate. their favor, Ashland hit Anderson
continued to sweep over .the 8t.
son of the English department.
tentions
ha
coart.
W
illiam
Henry
Thirty corpses -have already M rd in the ninth for three hits
Francis basin, cascading over and
The baccalurete serviced will
Gallagher, counsel for Aaron
been recovered from the train, and five runs, Kannasto, Hulen,
pounding through levees in the
be
held
Sunday
afternoon
June
12
Sapiro
has
issued
A
statement
an
which was a roaring furnace of Gsndee, Nutter and Blbby mak
l Ailki.ce. Being Made Be In the Normal school auditorium.
greatest southwest flood since the
“
W '
tween Nationaliste « 4
flames a short time after /h e at- j ing runs, and all except Kannasto j swering the Ford affidavits which
turn of the century. The hither
The
speaker
of
the
day
has
not
yet
seek
a
mistrial
of
tke
Ford
PoUcc
s i
South
tack was made. Names of the vic poling out hits, Nutter's being a
to unconquerable levees, centering
Veen announced.
Sapiro libel suit.
tims still are lacking, although ( dcifblq.
Luncheon is Held This Noon around
PORTLAND, Ore., April 81.
New Madrid, Mo., were
Commencement exercises will
“The
Ford
defense
realised
Where Plans Were Made being smashed
SHANGHAI, April 21.— ftp)—
the attack occurred after six j Moore, left field, closed the
Defying
___
shotgnn
_ squads
__
In the
and complete In -
take
plaee-the
following
Monday
»game hy making a sensational that the cross rexamioatl
anti-radical sentiment
to Take Part
face of drastic measures by the W h i l e
o’clock Tuesday night.
v
undatlon of the valley appeared .
morning, June. 13.
Elaborate
completely
collapsed
the’.i
catch, rolling over with the ball
police to end the crime wave, five grows among Chinese in t h e flans for alumni day, which will
If present plans materialise certain because all IdVeea protect
In his hand, and threw to McGee, the statement said, “and they are holdups were, committed last night Shanghai district, the first al
be on Saturday, June 11, have Ashland will be represented In ing the basin from the Mississippi
now doing everything In their
MEXICO C ITY . April 81.— (IP) catching Anderaon off first.
liance between nationalist Chinese
and this morning.
been made/ All graduates of the the Rose Festival by a float and have been broken «by the savage
power to keep Ford off the
—Bandits who attacked a train
Umpires. LeRoy and Walters.
The Dntch Maid Luncheon was and a* northern war lord.
Cld
Normal school, east of the other attractions, accord! 9« to the force of the swollen river.
and burned ” Its coaches on the
Ashland 9 runs. 11 hits. 2 er stand. They w ill spend s million robbed of 868 and the other hold
General Chiang Kai Shek, who
Scores of towna are under wa
city
before that institution was
or
a
hundred
million
If
necessary
lunch
line to Guadslajsrs have killed rors. Medford 2 runs, 6 hits, 5
ups were petty ones in the resi captured Shanghai for the nation moved to Monmouth, will be In-
ter. Rowboats and . improvised
meeting
held
at
the
Llthla
Springs
to keep him from testifying."
and wounded between 100 and
alists, only to throw down the
dential district. Two
eluded, according to President hotel this noon and attended by rafts are being used where, be
140 persons, according to reports
^^BFBBs Ford affidavits submit were arrested todpy; Qevgijl
Stage of battre to the radicals
Churchill.
Every alumni
and representatives of the various or- fore. automobiles and trains sped ..
ted to substantiate. their motion aged 18, an«t Roy Rickman, agqd within his party, agreed to
reaching railway officials hare.
over concrete luadb b ds nud'tiaqkar ~
elate himself with General Bün
th ^ o lA to a « - r n n trtte M of
City/
fo r mistrial, tout
I F W i f e In e stolen car.
A few hardy residente have re-
tutlon and present school will be
8.
C.
Pier,
former
commlaslon-
given.
bares station, the attacking «ronp
Chuang Fang, northern general
mained In the flooded districts.
notified
through
the
press
or
by
That Cora Heffmaa.. Juror In
derailed the engine of the Wain,
PORTLAND, April 81. — T h > who Chiang htmaelt drove, out of special Invitation, according to Qr of Jtlance for, the city of Port-
wee Mvtwg
the M O c « o( their
«am
faad
an
executiveof
Use-fes
engaged Its military escort W a
question, falsely testified that curfew w ill ring at Porting« to thè Yangtse area, according to the
Arthur Taylor, of the Sociology tival attended today’s meeting, homes, story deep In water.
two honr battle and then, before
her bnsbaad was in the “ plumb night applying to all ii'J’
' ’
’ * report.
About 40,000 persons already
department, who Is head of the and explained many of the details
those aboard had had an oppor
ing and ¿eating business.” where
Chiang immediately appointed alumni committee. Other mem
ter midnight. The con
have
fled to higher, more secure
Including the plan of financing
tunity to flee, set fire to the
hla enemy commissioner of de bers are: Miss Pearl Durst, libra
Will At- as his principal business la "op an ordinance giving the
Noted
Surgeon
ground. The Red Croes has char
the
affair.
Thia
is
the
first
year,
entire train.
erating a blind * pig.”
fense of northern Kiangsu pro rian, and Miss fiva^L. White of the
right to hold sil pei
tempt to Save The Life
that an effort has been made to acterised the flood as a major »
Earlier reports said that 87
That Mrs. Hoffman falsely tes after midnight.
vince and continued plans for ov Primary department.
They
cf
a
Snake
Interest outside towns In the fes disaster and relief work la begin
persons aboard were either kill
tified that she had no interest held In Jail for further
erthrow of the left wing of the
A local committee constating of tival, the visitor explained, and ning rapidly to cars for the desti
ed or wounded, hut It was
nationalists, which Is headed by citizens of this city and members
DENVER, April 21.— ftP)— A In the case, whereas she had tlon unless a valid
an effort is being made to make it tute.
thought this figure was too high. snake suffering from a fractured stated before examination she en for their being up.
Eugene Chen, nationalist foreign of the graduating class are work
state wide.
Klamath
Falla,
skull will be put upon the oper "hoped she would be selected extra policemen Joined
minister. >
Guards Called
ing In conjunction with the facul Grants Pass, and Medford have
The holdup occurred between ating table here while modern and that if she was It would not
Headquarters of the Kuomlng- ty committee. This committee is
gnn squada tod¡ay- Thia
JEFFERSON C ITY, Mo., April
all
signified
their
Intention
of
the towns of Limon and Felic surgery makes one of its most un be healthy for Henry Ford.’’
tang,
(nationalist)
party In composed of Mrs. F. D. Wagner,
the result of the recent
21.— ftP)— Governor Sam Baker
participating.
iano In the state of Jalisco.
That Mrs. Hoffman daring the wave in which forty-eight
usual fights for a life.
Shanghai still maintain that the Mrs. Cecilia W illits, A. C. Grey. H.
Those attending today’s meet today called out 180 Missouri na
While terrified passengers hud
The operation will.be perform trial discussed at length with san dollars was taken to four party will continue adherence to B. Carter, Susapne Homes Carter
ing were, V. V. Mills, President of tional guardsmen to control (he
dled In the coaches, the troops ed by Dr. Albert Crabtree, who unknown persona the substance down town holdups and robber- the policy of Dr. Sun Yat Sen.
and Fred Homes.
the
Chamber of Commerce, Dr. R. levees In the southwest corner of
fired on the attacking band, but once before distinguished himself of which conversation appeared lea committed within a 'period of
L.
Bardic,
members of the Board the state.
In the end were forced to yield In delicate surgery, by removing in a Detroit paper April 18.
(Please Turn, to Page 8)
nine days.
‘
r
( Please Turn To Page Five)
Four units of the 130th Infan
of Directors, J. H. McGee, chair
to superior numbers. Railroad cataracts from the eyes of a
TKat Mrs. Hoffman held con
try
will be mobilised at Charleo-,
man of the advertising committee,
officials said the holdup was the snake.
versation with a certain person
ton under adjutant General A. V.
W.
M.
Briggs,
Exalted
Ruler
of
worst railway disaster in the
The reptile to be operated on known only aa "K id ” Miller, who
the Elks, J. H. Fuller, secretary Adams.
history of Mexican revolutions. Is a three foot anaconda snake. It was In attendance at the trial
Headquarters will be. establish
of the Chamber of Commerce, R.
After the bandits had gone was brought to Dr. Crabtree late and who In the presence of Mrs.
ed
there.
«
W. Price, of the Crater Lake Na
through the train and robbed Wednesday, after being found in Hoffman, engaged in conversation
The governor said other units
tional
Park
Company,
and
J.
A.
the passengers they set fire to a dazed condition In the outskirts with Sapiro.
Churchill. President of the Nor would be mobilised If necessary.
all the coaches before those in of the city. According to Dr.
Miller was alleged to be a Jew
mal school, and 8. A. Peters, Jr.,
side had had an opportunity to Crabtree had been attacked by and the insinuation was that he
98 Known Dead
of
the LIthiane.
flee. While the flames leaded children, who drove an ice pick had acted as a possible go be
The matter was referred to the . SPRINGFIELD^ III.,«April 81.
over the coaches, some of the through Its skull.
tween for Sapiro and the Juror.
BuT-ffe AtffemSeiMs
advertising committee of
the — (IP)— W ith 83 known dead more
passengers were able to fight
Although the operation probab
Sapiro filed an affidavit ad
Chamber of Commerce, who are than 100 Injured and property
their way ont and reach Labarca ly will be one of the n,ost delicate mlttlng having met several per
’S ? »
damage of 11,000,000. central
to
work out the details.
ivtov JuSTcoTTTlF
station, where they wired the ever attempted. Dr. Crabtree be sons during the course of the
Illinois today began relief werk
news to Mexico City.
lieves he will be successful.
trial, but denied any knowledge
for tha hundreds who were aaade
According to reports of rallr
" It will take about three hours of “Kid” Miller.
Nbw MSÈLF
homeless by the series of torna
way authorities there were 130 of very careful work for the oper
does Tueqday which e w e p t
second class passengers, 40 first ation,” Dr. Crabtree explained.
through seven counties.
class, 16 soldiers and two of "The lower lobe of the snake’s
Cyclonic winds swept a path
ficers aboard the train. The train Jaw lias fallen because of the In
Turn to Page 8)
(PH
left Ouadajara at 4 p. m. Tues jury, and It will be necessary to
day.
build up the bone tissue If the
Mr«. Chaplin Files Another
Notices had been posted in the snake la to survive.
Loe.'tmfo «atmen.«
Petition in Effort to
PUNINA «M1M ^Mff M M
vicinity of La Barca for one • " It cannot take kny food but
IMAM WnM.MBtMt W MU
Get Alimopy
week stating that rebels would milk which will have to be in
'
W pountrsiooV
begin'extreme, measures last Sat jected into Its body. It It pulls Aged Utah Ooupls Attempt
Suicide to Frevent
LOS ANGELB8, April 31.— (IP)
urday to eul communications at through the operation it probably
Eviction
— Lite Grey Chaplin will make an
that point..
will be eight or nine weeks be
OM.ua n tt m ari '
other
attempt to get Into the
^eaunnuy mot
fore It Is normal again.**
SALT LAKE C ITY. Utah. April
money bags of her famous comed
31.— ft?)— ^A anicide fiact enter
ELECT OFFICER»
ian husband, Charlie Chaplin, her
ed Into by R. B. W hite, aged
attorneys announced here Wed
express man and his wife, be
The officers elected at an or
nesday night.
bu
cause they were about to be
ganisation meeting of the Ancient
A petition for alimony for Mrs.
evicted froth their little home
Mystic Order pt Samaritans held
Chaplin will be filed In superior
has resafited In the death of’ Mrs.
at Grants Pass recently were:
'
court the/«, attorneys said.
White and the probable fatal
Grand monarch, H. H. Hulls;
The action w ill be baaed direct
vice grand monarch, J. L. Reed;
LOS^ ANGELES. April >1.— wounding of White.
ly on aa order Wednesday by
White; who la 88 years old.
chief councelor, G. W. Trefren; Seized with another fit of hyster
uhtch Chaplin traded hla person
registrar, L. B. Robots; cdUector ics, Dorothy Mcftnye, stage star and his wife. 86, had been given
al legal Immunity from California
apd banket, M. L .\LHlay; vener and csntral figure in the latest antll Wedneeday tq vacate their
courts for a two weeks delay In
able friar, L. H. CurrieT; grand drama of love and death, com home nnder a mortgage fore
answering the sensational divorce
monitor, Alvy Walker; . grand pletely collapsed and la unable to closure.
mplalat of h it young wife.
Rather than move but they
chief guide,"H. W. Conger; jgrand leave her bed,
The order, signed by Judge
herald. 8. M. Leonard; high exe
The nervous breakdown occur agreed to die together. White
Guerin, gave Chaplin until May
cutioner, C. E. Hooper and grand red aa the coroner’s Jury prepared shot hla wife through the temple,
< to appear or answer Mrs. Chap-
lln’s complaint. The same order
director, E. L. Coburn.
to open an Inquest Into the aneert- killing her Instantly, and then
. The following Ashland, men at ed bare knuckle murder of her fired a bullet lrfto hla head. White
brought Chaplin under the Jnrle-
-"etioij of California courts tor the
tended the meeting: G. W. Tref- ’ husband, Ray Raymond by Paul wee taken to the county hospital
ren, B. C. Payne, M. S. Nichols, Kelly, screen star and her alleged . where physicians said ha had
« M l tfo » alBM M n . Chaplin filed
(little chance for
.(her action.
Leo Bchoneifer and C. B. Hooper- ; sweetheart.»
TO STOP CRIME
S tN IM N I M S I ’
W G M N G
ASHEAND 10 ENTER
F IM I IN EESIIVAt
n
What Kind Of 4 Fit Will ft Be?
itestas ¿Tawern
NEW ATTEMPT MADE
ON CHAPLIN’S MONEY
WOULD RATHER DE
THAN»
HOME
NW-
HWI6E81
STAGE STAR SUFFERS
NERVOUSBREAKDOWN
CEUEf*
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