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THE POULTRY INDUSTRY Fair in the santi), unsettled is a potential pay roll for Ashland A M a n tf s Leading N (United Newa Wir« Servie«) ASHLAND; 01 the north, with showers. per far Ove^ Fifty Years id (U nited Presa W ire Service) •T5SIUY, APRIL 26, 1927 ARDENT BASEBAIL FAN BEGINS TO FEEL A tB O M E ONCE MORE Otis 0 . Helmut is Celled After Illiness of About Two Months Far Reaching Program is Manned-Out bv Hoover and Other Officials RED CROSS IN CHARGE M E M PH IS, Tenn., A p ril 26.— (LP)— The giant Mississippi river flood relief organization moved swiftly and smoothly today in its work of caring for 150,990 per sons driven from their homes by the disaster. „ A far reaching prograni of re lief and rehabilitation was map ped out bare today at -a confer ence attended by H erb ert Hoov er. secretary of commerce, H eary M. Baker, national director of disaster relief work for the Red Cross, and others. Hoover placed Baker in charge of all relief work and gave him dictatorial powers over govern ment agencies assisting in the Otis O. Helman, aged 53 years, passed away this morning at his home on Lqurel street, following an illness which has lasted for the past two months. Mr. Helman was born and raised in Ashland and has spent nearly all of his life in this city. The deceased Is survived by a wife, ohe sòn, four brothers, •Lin coln and Grant Helman of Peta luma, Cal., John and Butler H el man of Ashland and two sisters, Mrs. J. E. Niles of Alturas, Cal., and Mrs. Jane Carter of Ashland. Funeral services w ill be held from Stock’s Undertaking par lors Thursday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. and w ill be conducted by the E lk ’s Lodge, of which M r. R ei man had been a faithful member for m arp years. His brothers Elks w ill assemble at the Elks Temple at 2:00 p. m. Thursday, and go in a body to the parlors. One Hundred and Fifty At tend Three Days Epworth League Conference INTERESTING PROGRAM Annual Epworth League Institute Lasting One Week Will be Reid on McKinxle Laughing, talking, joking, old acquaintances renewed, n ew friendships formed; such was the scene last Friday evening at 'the Methodist Episcopal church when 150 young people gathered here for the annual District Con vention a t the Epworth League for a three-day conference. A delicious banquet was served at Which Rev. Joseph Knotts of Rosebnrg acted as toastmaster. George Mason, president of Ash land ¿hapter, gave a word of N S W T O R N . A p ril 26.—TM game's best loved veterans yield arden type of baseball fan, v M ed to youth and found them root« fo r ' the established ordefl selves, comfortable corner seats o f things in the national pastime In their respective dugouts. Peck- Is beginning to fell at home orfhg Inpaugh could not keep up with more. ’ the pace required of the W hite A t the end of the firs t ta r ij Sox Infield, and old Max Carey W ilb ert night of the 1IS 7 season. «H was benched by Uncle Robinson in a shakeup of „ the game has h it its stride. The leading sloggers of the Brooklyn dub. Yet Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker, m ajor leagues have begun W find the range of the varioed the whitewash twins. long rivals greatest of American fences. Age has claimed its to n as the of 40 year old veterans V M league outfields, both are close up time started the season as blithely as to .350, earning, for. the being at least, the price of scan yearlings. Babe R uth has been passed* a dal. John McCraw's silver jubilee score of times in half «■ m ap* .327, games. Roger Peckinpaogh‘0 club's batting average is legs have given out, and th<[ enough to delight even the most veteran warms the bench one* exacting of managers. But h it more; Umpire "B rick ” Owen has ting against the pitchers of Bos ordered the entire Washington ton, Philadelphia and Brooklyn is something vastly different from facing the brilHant hurt ing staffs of Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Chicago. Bib Jess Haines, who was the two time winner for the _ 8t. Louis Cards in last year’s world series, has begun the 1927 sea son in b rilliant fashion. On April 14 the big farm er boy pitched the first shut out of the year when he stopped the Chi- welcome to visiting delegates; and. a response spoken by R utji P ratt, District Treasurer and o f Grants Pass. A program was (Please T arn to Page 5) H as A uthority Baker w ill have authority to requisition government boats and charter private craft if necessary. Army and * Navy planes were placed at his disposal and he was given supervision of the dis tribution of food, clothing and la the flood aqea glsen out by Hoover while in MempUa showed there are now approximately 29.- 999 homeless refugees in the NORFOLK, Va., April 11.-— Clerk Refuses to Accept Petition atus. ■ ■ Saturday morning’s devotions were led by Rev. E. B. Horseli of W ilderville. He presented in a remarkable way that the Ep- worthlan's task was not to die for Christ, bnt to live for Him . Committees on resolutions and nominations were then appointed- A t 9 o’clock D r. S. J. Chaney, district superintendent, continu ed Rev. Horsell's topic by speak ing o n / "Do It.** He pointed out many instances in the Bible where charcaters did something worthy Instead of just, thinking about it. Then came a summary of "Our Institute'* by Rev. T. H. Xemple of Medford as he held his hearers in suspence waiting for thq announcement as to where the Institute this year would be held. Epworth League Institute lasts for the duration of the week and is a course e f study in Methodism, life Work, evangelism, League methods, Bi ble study, recreation, and many other festures combined into * summer camp. Fin ally Rev. Temple of a sudden declared that plans were in favor of a site on the McKenxle Rive'r 59 miles from Eugene. I t was pronounc ed as an ideal place for the In stitute. A capable faculty is be ing selected. M fiD FO R D , April ' 26.— (LP)— Miss Delilah Stevens, county clerk, Song Contest has refused to accept the petition As was form ally announced, a submitted by the Jacksonville song and yell contest was held county seat club, calling for a in which all Chapters would par special election June 28, submit ticipate with one original song ting house b ilf No. 192; passed by and yell. The winning ones to be the last legislature, removing the need at naxt Institute. N e lr county seat from Jacksonville to noon, the judges brought in a Medford to a referendum. decision in favor of M yrtle «Pólnt Legal action may be brought winning the song prise sad Ash against the county clerk in an ef land the yell. A discussion of fo rt to compel her to accept the. League methods which has al petitions and call a special refer ways been of great value in ta t- endum election, according to a re ,fer conventions, was presented port from Jacksonville. at 11 in which the first depart ment work was reviewed by Mr. Newbry of Talent. This depart-, ment has* as Its leading task the promotion of the Sunday devo tional meetings. He emphasised the devotional period as most Important to the lite of any SALEM, A p ril 29. — (LP) — An League. Christian leaders ara alternative w rit in mandamus developed through the efforts ex proceedings, filed hers recently pended in the devotional moat to compel Marlon county to pay ing. The second department, as to the state a portion of its given by Wade Harmon of Grants share of the 0 ., and C. land "Pass, specialises in evangelism grant tax refund, la returnable end to this department ta ll the May 9, according to an order study coarse and also of making j issued today by Judge L . H . Me Land Grant'Case Be up on May 6th large number of people hgya tirg- ed that it be repeated, so the cast, w>lch Is Intact at present, haa ex- pressed a willingness to take part again. The play Is being sponsored by Clara Huck, teacher of the Soda Springe school, and the proceed« w ill he used for playground appar- policy is E xplained Newspapers Who U njustly Attack Foreign Policy Come in for Criticism N E W YO RK. A pril 26. — (IP) — President Coolidge’s speech at the twentieth anniversary din ner of the United Press last night in which he defended the administrations policy abroad and presented his view of conditions in Mexico, Nicaragna, and China was regarded by political observ ers as being his most important pronouncement in recent months. T h e p re s id e n t addressed an audience of a thousand made up for a large part of newspaper executives. He. pleaded for a fair American press and criticised the newspapers who he said had at tempted to inflame opinion against foreign nations, and those who unjustly attacked the ad- ministration for defending Amerl can lives and property. Mahan. FLOCK OKESR-WKEN A large flock o f gease1 were seen on the Rogue river Bhnday by Deputy Game W arden Roy Parr., The geese attracted much attention as it was the firs t time that any had been sekn id this vicinity so late in the season. A signed confession was ob tained by Chief of Police McNabb yesterday from W illiam Allen, nineteen year old Detroit youth, which cleared up the stealing of the Grubb automobile Sunday night. The confession declared that the boy came into Ashland on a freight train about ten o’clock Sunday night. That about g.:30 or 4 Monday morning, he stole the car, and drove it to Medford. Here he claims he pick ed up two more boys. Jack L ltt, 19, of Chicago, and John Plttnor, 17, of Denver. They drove the car to a point about eighteen miles beyond Grants Pass, where they attempted to sell the five tires. They aroused the suspicions of some of the residents there and the Josephine county sheriff was called and placed the boys under arrest. The chief accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Jennings went to Grants Pass y e s t e r d a.y and brought them to the Jackson county Jail, where they are being Thirty Thousand Dollars Worth of Bonds to be Offered Public Prosecutor Asks That Testi mony Be Stricken From Records DENTIST IS ACCUSED W itness Who First Thought Den tist Was in Car * W ith Girl Had Wrong Night SEATTLE, April 2«. — The State’s case against Dr. C. C'. Dobbs. K irkland dentist, virtu a l!* blew up in the Superior court this mc-rning when Prosecutor Col vin electrified the court room with the admission that the two most important witnesses, the Girard brothers, were mistaken In the identification of Dobbs as the man they saw* on the SammamiaW Slough bridge, in a car In which was the limp form of a girl. Dr. Dobbs Was being tried for the murder of Letitla W hitehall, fourteen year old patient. -"T h e brothers, discovered,’* ColxJn said, that it was not halloween nigh< and he asked that there testimony be stricken from the records. This leaves the state w ithout much evidence connecting,, Dobbs' with the murder. The prosecutor depended jipon the Gerard’s testi mony to clinch the case. A t a, meeting Monday ol the board of directors of the Bag- ley Canning Company Ralph E. A snrpriee party was sprung when state, county and pity of ficials collaborated in t iM L n n . bead lights. Motorists were lined up for Mocks while the teet was ^asrlSS M t , and atcordlng-to the Chief o t Poffes, seventy per cant of those cars examined had head lights that were not in compli ance with the lew. ceqtly, and in his Observations gives some interesting tacts con- corning the early life of this Ashland citizen. relief organization for hMp. the following to eay: Baker w ill retain headquarters "Ashland is naiqne In many in Memphis nntii the relief work ways, bnt the one feature that has been carried to an end. no stranger ever forgets is Lithia Lend Supplies Park and the L ith ia Park munl- Food .supplies, medicines and clpal auto camp. I doubt if there clothing are being harried to all is a more beautiful park any- points where there Is need and where than L ith ia Park, w ith Its reserve supplies are being gatfc- wild beauty. Tourists who have ered at convenient ra il points traveled all over the United for later nse. States and who have visited most Concentration camps fo r re- of the auto camps in America pay fugees are in process of enlarge- tribute to L ith ia Park In the ment in readiness for the hordes guest book in the club house in of Inhabitants of the lower Mis- the park, saying that In all th^ir sisslppi valley, who may yet be rambles they have never seen a driven out. more attractive park nor been Arm y engineers have been de- better treated. The Southern Call tailed to -d ire ct all water trans- fornia resorts would be w illing portat4on and removal of refugees to spend millions to duplicate it, by boat, working w ith the Missis- but the Ice-cold, crystal-clear sippl river commission and dis- mountain stream, the rock ledges, trlct engineers. the mountain mahogany* and the An engineering officer w ill be other natural features cannot placed in charge of railroad be a rtificially reproduced. Ash- transportation of supplies. R ail- land lb certainly one of the spots roads are moving the supplies that erery tourist revisits with without cost to the relief organl- delight.** Play to be Staged at Community Hpuse A Thousand Newsnaper E x ecutives Hear Him at Anniversary Dinner Bi-Plane That Was to be Seventy Per Gent of Head lights Are Found to Used for Non-Stop Need Adjusting Flight, Falls to the park, the «rtU r.has floqd victims can return to their homes with the return o f normal conditions. . Every Red Cross chapter in the flood regWn is aiding in the re lief work, Baker announced. Plans of the Red Cross Include providing those refugees who have bene left penniless w ith enough furniture to start house keeping again. .Chief of Police Gets Signed Statement on Recent Auto Theft Former Chancellor Says the Coast Cities Expected to be Customers SAN DIEG O,. Cal., April 26.— (LP)— Ggtmaa/ intends .Jo make a powerful bid for the m aritime shipping of the Pacific coast 'in the Immediata future, Dr. W il helm Gune, ex-chancellor of Germ any, and the managing director of the Hambur-Amerlcan S. 8. line, declared today in the course of an address made before a chamber of commerce luncheon. Dr. Gune declared that Germ any is looking to San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle as valuable and im mediate customers. BEST DRESSED M AN EUGENE. A pril 26. — (IP) — Forest Alders Ehlers of Red mond, Ore., today wore the title of being the best dressed man on the University of Oregon cairfpus. ' A* contest to . choose the best dressed «niversify of Oregon stu- Ld e *t wqa . started two weeks ago and terminated at the annuual Portland — 975,000 Electrical Seven Seers dance Saturday night when one of six candidates was Products factory on Sandy boule vard open May 1. voted tor. J. Ferns, vice-president and B. B. -Ad a m so n , secretary and treasur er, These officials with J. W , Mc Coy and F. F. W h ittle constitute the board. Organisation ot the heard,and completion of tks nsw incorporation were perfected, and certificates of stock w ill now be Issued to the stock holders of the Ashland Preserving Co., In lieu of their present stock. This is in ac cordance with the consolidation recently worked out with the Ashland Preserving Co. stockhold ers. j The new corporation in order to complete the details of this amal gamation and to provide funds for the construction of a large con crete warehouse w ill sell $30,000 worth of seven per cent gold bonds. These bonds are secured by first mortgage on the all ot the company's holdings at Ashland and Talent, and Inasmuch as, all of the local banks have endorsed this Issue and purchased 919,000 of the bonds it is expected that the remainder w ill saon be taken up by local investors. Officials state that as soon as these bonds are all sold construc tion on the new warehouse will begin Immediately, and plans made for one of the largest packs of fruits and vegetables in the his tory of the business. Intimacies With Salesman Are Told in a Frank Confession LONG IS LA N D C IT Y , N. Y., April 26.— The confession of Mrs. Ruth Browq Sgydqf the Jury in the triaT of Mrs. Sny-- der and Henry Judd G » y for the murder of Albert Snyder. In Frank term« it admitted her intimacies with Gray and told the. Story of bow a 19 year old girl.** who, marrying a man several' years her senior, had failed to find happiness, although it specified that Snyder cared for her w e ll, financially. George V. McLaughlin, form er police commissioner, quoted h e ( own words to accuse her ot the murder. He recited how tire . Snyder and her lover had told him of their illic it love and a plan to get rid of Snyder and how he was murdered as he slept. Both of them have since repudiated thesa>. confessions as (hey were obtained under duress. LO VELAN D , Colo., April 25.—» (LP)— A freak jackrabbit with long sharp horns, similar to those of a steer, is on display here. The an imal was shot by O rrtlft Moore, who said he killed it east ot the city after it had attacked and LOS ANGELES, April 26.-MLP) gored his dog. — A fter an absence of several months, Aimee Semple McPher son w ill return to the lawcourts today. , She w ill not make a personal appearance, but counsel for the dynsmlc evangelist w ill go before Superior Judge Hahn in support of her dem urrer to certain sec tions of the 91.099,009 damage suit filed by Mrs. V irla Kim ball. Mrs. •K im b all, who testified in the hearing of conspiracy charges against the evangelist alteged In her complaint that Mrs. McPher son was the companion of Ken neth G. Ormiston in a cottage at Carmel last spring and Mrs. Mc Pherson aska that thia portion of tba complaint be stricken o n t Mrs. K im b all’s snlt charges that Mrs. M'oPherson and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, slandered her during their sensational hear ing. Aimee to make a Return in Court Astorta claims the longest mo tor m ail route in United States, Route A, 74.9 miles.
