T O wsatjsbe
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
Unsettled with showers in nort
is « potential pay roll for
Ashland
Ashland's Leading N
(United N eva Wir« Servie«)
School
fair in south part of state.
per for Over Fifty Years
id
(United Preen Wir« Service)
A SH L A N D , OREGON,
DAY, A PR IL 29, 1927
ASHLAND RAIS]
RED CROSS 1
M ISSISSÄ
#135.50 FOR
LIEF WORK IN
FLOOD DISTRICT
Through volunteer subscription ing to the Red Cross for succour
Ashland has raised a total' of will be added to materially before
9135.50 for the Red Crow relief this calamity has spent itself.
fund, according to Mr«. San» 1. These people must be sheltered,
McNair, chairman Wf the loci I clothed and fed for an emergency
chapter of the Red Cross. , k period of at least two months be­
strenuous effort Is being mat I fore the water will have subsided
to raise the Ashland 'quota witl - sufficiently for them to return to
out making a complete canvas . their farms. Much medical and
and all Ashland people are urg< hospital care will also be neces­
to leave their contribution wit sary during this period. In a
Mr. O. (1. Eubanks, treasurer
great many Instances the refugees
the local chapter at the 8tate w II find their homes completely
Bank.
washed away and all their person­
A telegram'from Wm. C all al affects and live-stock gone, be­
Hunt pf the San Francisco head­ side all this year’s crops being
quarters gives some first hand In ­ destroyed. This will require an
formation of this disaster a n d A enormous amount of aid during
is follows:
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the period necessary for them to
Greatest In History
get started again. Rehabilitation
"Quotas expected from yo«r is an exceedingly slow and costly
Chapter area were wired to yep rroccss where the families must
yesterday. At no time In thlfc depend upon growing a new crop.
country’s history has such a gig­
We are confidently counting up­
antic and devastating flood 'over­ on every Chapter In the Pacific
taken Its people, and, sadder stjH Coast area to do its share in mak­
to relate, the devastation has not ing a most generous response to
reached its peak. The now enor­ the pitiful cry for help that is now
mous figure of more than one
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hundred thonsand refugees looks
Ashland to Meet Grants
Pass Team at Grants
Pass Sunday
ASHLAND—Given the approv­
The Southern Oregon baseball
al of President J. A. Churchill and
league will open May first with
the faculty, Theta Delta Phi, an
Klamath Falls playing at Med­
honorary scholarship for men was
ford and the newly organised
established and formally oYganls-
Ashland, Gold Hill, Owens, Ore­
ed at the 8 . 0 . N. S. this week.
gon team will meet the Grants
State U ses F orty F ive W it­
Raid on Communist H ead­ Pass aggregation at Grants Pass. Head of N ational Gnards
’ John. M . Brady, a graduate of One H undr^l and Thirteen
Makes Inspection Trip
nesses to Gonvinoe
H ave Lost L ives in
quarters Results in 21
O. A. C. and a senior in Educa­
The copiplete schedule for the
Jury o f G uilt
of Flood ed D istrict
One
State
.
B
eing
K
illed
tion, was elected president, John
season will be as follows:
Galey, vice-president, and Albie L.
May 1. Klamath Falls at Med- GAN BE NO FARM ING
MAKE MANY MOTIONS Beck,, secretarf-treasurer. James STA TE IS HARD HIT
executions c r u e l ‘ford;
Ashland at Grants Pass.
May
8. Klamath Falls at Ash­
Defense of Blonde and Corset Q. Adams and Clarence Haan were
State
Secret Trial is Held and Unhsunl
the other student member« elect­
land, Medford at Grants Pass.
Salernitan to Start T h eir
Mettimi of Execution is
May 15, Grants Pass at Klam­
Case Todnÿ
■ . ed, while Prof. A. C. Strange of
Worked Out
the Dept. of Education was elected
ath Falls, Ashland at Medford.
a faculty member as well as
May 22, Medford at Klamath
BY B. W. LEWIS
LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y„—
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. April 29.
PEKING, April 2 9 — Strangled
fraternity
advisor,
and
Prof.
V.
V.
Falls,
Grants Pass at Ashland.
United Press Staff Correspondent
April 29.— Her low, controlled
— Eleven more deaths, one of
to death for their espousal of the
May 29, Ashland at Klamath
(Copyright 1927 by U. P.)
voice tinged with cold hatred, Mrs. Caldwell, and Prof. A. S. Taylor those- a mother with a two-hour
communist cause In China, 21 Chi­
Falls,
Grants
Pass
at
Medford.
Ruth Snyder went to the witness are the Honorary Faculty mem­ baby, and nine negroes, are re­
nese, captured in the recent raid
June 5 Klamath Falls at
stand today and portrayed Judd bers. The president of the normal ported, bringing the death list in
on
the soviet embassy, were being
school
will
always
be
an
ex-offlew
Grants
Pass, Medford at Ashland.
Cutter 80S, o ff Poydras, I * . , ’
Gray as the man who had once
Arkansas, alone as the result of
prepared for burial today.
member of the Honor group.
June
12. Klamath Falls at Med­
A pril BO.— W ith a mighty f
been her master.
floods, to 113.
They had been strangled at the
The requirements forvmember-
ford,
Ashland
at
Grants
Pass.
blast
which sent the d irt fly- '
Mre. Snyder described the un­
order of Marshal Chang Tso Lin,
June 19. Klamath Falls at Ash-
ing hundreds of feets into the (
emotionally, unhappy home which ship are based on the high stand­
military dictator of Peking, and
a ir accompanied by n loud
was given her by Albert Snyder» ard setb y the Honor Roll, and ev­
VICKSBURG, Miss., April 2».—
for years war lord of Manchuria, land, Medford at Grants Pass.
June 26. Grants Pass at Klam­
roar ns the Mississippi river
but she indicated that she might ery man that received d grade of (IP)— Declaratiqn of a state of
the rich domain where the pres­
ath
Falls,
Ashland
at
Medford.
leaped
to freedom, engineers
have continued to be a faithful 2 or above in 15 credits of work martial law throughout the flood­
ence of'Japanese and Russians
July 3 and 4, Southern Oregon
blew the levee, 14 nsMaa
wife had it not been for the'influ­ for lost term was elected to char­ ed area of Mississippi with result-
constantly caused conflict.
League vs. Siskiyou Lesgne.
south of New Orleans .today
ence of-her lover. It was Gray ter membership In the organiza­ and forcible evacuation of per­
One woman was among those
July
10,
Medford
at
Klamath
in a desperate effort to safe
she charged who first suggested tion.
sons remaining in the district
killed. Executed In a similar
The first announcement
ot
Falls,
Grants
Pass
at
Ashland.
the
city and other parts of
slaying Snyder, It was Gray who
awaited but a word from state
manner was LI Ta-chao, famous
July 17, Ashland at Klamath
the state from the worst
advanced the idea of Increasing pledges for this term will be mode health officials.
throughout
China
as
a
leader
of
Falls, Grants Paas at Medford.
flood threat in history.
Snyder’s Insurance and it . was during the Commencement exer­
Such action will be ta^en if
the new Chinese movement.
July 24, Klamath Falls at
A break was made which
.Gray who committed the murder. cises In June, and at that time the they deem It advisable from a Several Games H ave Been
Initiation ceremony will be carried
Grants
Pass,
Medford
st
Ashland.
Chest
Clinic
W
ill
be
Held
widened
o at to about 1000
health standpoint because of the
Scheduled and P lan s
*
July 31, Klamath Falla at Med-
out before the student body.
in Medford Today and
feet as the released waters
danger of disease end pestilence.
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y„
Call for Mqre>
ford, Ashland at Grants Pass.
Saturday
swirled and twisted through
General Curtis Greene of the
April 29.— Mre. Ruth Snyder step­
The Southern Oregon Normal
August
7,
Klsmsth
Falla
at
the gap and started on Its
Mississippi national guard, upon
ped into the witness stand In the
B Ashland, Medford at Grants Pass.
returning from an inspection tour School baseball team js now prac­
During the past week the coun­
crowded court room in a final des­
'
August 14, Grants Pass at
St. Bernard Pariah whleh
by boat, reiterated his statement ticing regularly since It’s organ­ ty and school nurses have made a
perate effort to escape the elec­
g
Klamath
Falls, Ashland at Med-
ization
was
made
complete
by
had been sacrificed ta , ap­
that the only thing standing In
tric chair. She was pale but com­
careful survey of children who
Coach
V.
V.
Caldwell
last
week.
ford.
pease the Mississippi river’s
the way of an order to clear the
have in any way developed symp­
posed as she faced the crowd that
Tentative arrangements
pre
August 21. Medford at Klam­
wrath against
Hew Or­
eptire delta region by force has
had packed the little room to hear
tom« cf chest trouble and these' (Please Turn To Page Three)
ath Falls, Grants Pass at Ashland.
leans and other pasts of the
been the reluctance' of health of- now under way to arrange games children will have the benefit of
hor plead with the jury for an ex- Testâmoo;
August 28, Klamath Falls- at
state.
.
____
ficials to recommend that action. with the U. of o. Frosh and the ^xpert-m » '*^ *i *A vica fn rq M m L
Oregon
Aggie
Rooks.
So
far
te
^
- Grants Past, Medford hl Ashtawt.
"From a military and economic
der of her husband Albert Snyder,
by the StateBoardofM eatth i t s "
standpoint I am willing to assume northern schedule Includes a chest cll’jtc to be held today and
for which she and her lover Hen­
full responsibility for the move/* game with Chemawa on May 14. tomorrow at Medford under the
ry Judd Gray, are being tried.
and a game with Monmouth on
The crowds got beyond control
supervision of the Jackson Coun­
May 20. With return games Hfc ty PuTjllc Health association. A
this afternoon, overraa the court
en Acres o f L and Near
The steamer Vicksburg docked Ashland.With these Institutions specialist connected with the State
room end the corridors and pre­ caused that body to adjourn
later
in
the
month.
without
taking
an
action
In
the
Bend H as Been Burned
today with 500 refugees from the
sanitarium at Salem is to make
vented tbs opening of this after­
death
of
Tom
Kerrick,
cowboy
Ashcraft,
a
Veteran
from
Grant
Over
region
of
the
upper
Sunflower
noon’s session at 1:20 as was
the examinations and there will
high school, and Kinney, a Benson will be no charges In connection
scheduled. More than 100 per­ film actor, shot to death la the river.
BEND, April 28.— (IP)— The Club W omen W ant Lindsey
Military authorities were ad­ Polytechnic letterman, are* show­ With his services. -If In the opin­
sons crowded Into the court room, course of a wild party at his
to Head Their Juvenile
first
forest fire of the season In
vised that hundreds of negroes in ing up well on the bases, while ion of the school nurse in either
packing the aisles so closely that home last fTueedny night.
Courts
The session was marked by the the territory near
■oitfcrlng Motor boat trip into the
Moorhead, Brlttenbucher at short has proved Medford or Ashland, a child is In central Oregon was under con­
the attendants were unable to
collapse of two women held in the Miss., were marooned In shacks a sensation at picking up the ball need of such advice, the parents trol today after 10 acres of land
8AN FRANCISCO. April 29.— lower delta* basin 'tafny with
move.
cose. Miss Iris Burns, held os a and box cars around which the in bis territory. Butterfield, Mer­ have been interviewed and an ap­ had been burned over In the (CP)— A campaign to bring Judge ■General Curtis * Green« of. the;
material witness, and over whom
cer and Vincent comprise the pointment secured, parents have Swamp Wells country, where log­ Rend Lindsey from Denver to San Mississippi national’gnard, I be­
NEW YORK, April 28.—A des­ Kerrick and his wife fought, col­ water was rapidly rising.
pitching staff while Barker and been given an .opportunity to ac­ ging operations are being carried Francisco to preside over the juve­ lieve the following sitnatlon ex-,
perate attempt to drag the blonde lapsed os she left the jury room.
on by a Bend lumber company.
Laws are on the receiving end.
nile court here has been started by lets.
company their children.
and fighting Mrs. Ruth Snyder Mrs. Sarah Kerrick, held bn a
The fire started from Brush a group of prominent clubwomen.
Definite
places
have
not
yet
First, the lost of life before
Mrs. Bertha LT Denton, city
and her apathetic ex-lover, Henry charge of suspicion of murder,
burnings and spread raplly when
been
assigned
by
Coach
Caldwell
the
delta land Is again dry wilt
Mrs.
H.
B.
Harpold,
chairmen
of
school nurse, assisted by members
Judd Gray, from the door of the broke down while giving h e r
the humidity dropped to a low the juvenile committee of the city be greater from disease than from
as
he
is
trying
out
the
meipbers
of
the
local
Public
Health
associa­
death house will begin this morn­ statement to the jnfy. .
In the various positions, and a tion, of whom Mrs. C. F. Tlllon Is mark for this time of the year. and countv federation of women’s drowjlngs.
,
ing. Their move came abruptly af­
This Is one of the few April fires clubs, announced the movement
Others who were parties to the
selection
will be made within a
Second, there can be little, If
ter the state had used 45 witnes­ shooting and who testified at the
ever reported In Deschutes timber. Thursday with the statement that any cottom grown In the district
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short time.
ses In a towering structure design­ jury session were Mr. and Mrs.
Get
Acquainted
Trip
Be
the executive board of the wom­ thia year,/for the Hood water»
ed* to* convince a Jury beyond Henry Isabell, and Joe Hunt.
tween
Arizona
and
C
ali­
en’s
organization will take up ths are extremely unlikely to recede
doubt that they jointly murdered
In each instance, it was under­
fornia is Made
appreciably within five weeks.
matter Friday.
the husband, Albert Snyder, while stood the statements were at wide
Third, the property damage-
"Judgo
Lindsey
Is
thn
outstand­
lie slept In his own bod last March variance.
SACRAMENTO, April 29.— (IP)
A eoronbr’s Inquest
will
reach an astounding figure^
ing
juvenile
court
judge
in
the
20.
will be held over the screen actor’s — Five members of the Arizona-
Fourth, it is my pe.-t.oasl opin­
United States,” Mrs. Harpold
A flurry of motions followed, body Friday. - Statements given Colorado River commission ap­
said. "His conduct and judicial ion, shared with tbs’ of General
aimed to allow for later appeals, to detectives indicate Hrs. Ker- peared before the California sen­
sagacity on the bench have placed Greene that lees lives would
aimed to free the two defendants riok shot her husband in a fit of ate today and delivered a message
him In the highest esteem In have' been loet In (he ilee of tha
without more ado.
jealous rage, with Miss Burns as of good will from the state of Ari­
handling children’s cases. San flood waters if forced evacuation
Supreme court Justice Town­ the innocent cause of the jealousy. zona.
Francisco needs an experienced had taken place.
send Scudder denied them all, and
California and Arizona have
Mrs. Kerrick, while admitting
, s
Water is Deep
judge
and I believe that Judge
sternly ordered the defense to be­ the revolver was In her hands, been saying harsh things at long
In
a
speedy
motor relief boat
Lindsey,
the
best
obtainable,
gin then and there. He relented when it discharged, claims the distance for the last four years
should be brought here if pos­ we shot np the srtlflclsl harbor
only sufficiently to allow Edgar shots were accidental.
over a matter of vital importance
of Vicksburg to follow the Yaso»
sible."
F. Hasleton, attorney for Mrs.
to at least two and perhaps five
river northward to a rail head
Mrs.
Harpold
has
questioned
Snyder to wait until Friday Morn­
other states in the drainage area
ether club women shout the plan, and there follow, if possible thé
ing to mpke his opening state­
of Colorado river, said H. S. Mc­
and reported that all of them fa­ line of the Yazoo and Mlmtalppt
ment.
Cluskey, former secertary to Gov;
vored It. A letter Is to be sent te valley railroad, now covered with
Makes Ruling
Hunt of Arizona, and a member
the.judge asking him to consider water, Into the plantation da.
Justice Scudder ruled that the
of the commission.
taking
np bis residence' here to
opening statements for both de­
“It is our hobs by this get-sc-
become eligible for election to the
fendants should be made before
qualnted trip to do something to­
court bench, she said,.
spy defense evidence was offered. D aughter of Mr. end Mrs. ward settling the questlonc at 1c-
“From the sentiment I have
Spratt
W
ells
Taken
to
Attorney Haselton was instructed
sue between the states. Out ot
found I am positive that Judge
H ospital
to outline Mrs. 8nydsr*s defense
the friendships ws make on this
Llndaey would be elected by a
first, since her name first appears
Journey
we hope tp solve the vex­
Katherine Wells, ten year old
large
majority If he wishes to
In the Indictment-
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Spratt- atious problems that have strain­
come
here,” Mrs. Harpold de­
A forecast of the hitherto mask­
ed the relationship of the states
clared.
ed defense of the corset salesman Wells, who live on a farm near during this time.
maternlalixed from one motloh of ths Rogue River, was badly
The other members of the com­
burned recently when her clothing
his lawyer, Samuel Miller.
mission, all of whom .are mem­
caught
on
fire
while
she
was
Miller said Grsyfound himself
bers of the
Arisons legislature
struggling with Snyder and did dressing In front of a fireplace.
were
Senators*Thomas
S. Kimball,
She Was alone In the room at
not strike Snyder with ths «ash-
Speaker A. M. Crawford and
the
time
and
the
flames
had
al­
welght. Gray’s cbnfqssion fixes
Representative Michael Murphy
the preparation o t the chloroform most completely enveloped her of Globe.
As early as eight o’clock people
on Mrs. Snyder, it says that Mrs. body by the time her frightened
had
began to gather et the doors
Snyder "belabored*)-: her husband cries brought her mother run­
of McGee’s store this morning In
ning
from
another
part
of
the
with the same sos^ weight.
It
anticipation of ths harvest of
ELKS HELP VICTIMS
leaves a, conclusion that Mrs. house. The little <1*1 trill be tak­
bargains that ore being offered In
Answering a pies from the
Snyder ffend the , picture # lm en to the Community hospital in
the
stock reducing sale being stag­
Grand
Exalted
Ruler
for
Medford'where It Isthought that
Grey w idW e loet shd went hock
ed there. By the time the doors
funds to aid U s relief work
she will fully recover In a few
to the bedroom
«ure'ot
were swung open,
additional
In the Mississippi vOlley. local
months.
It." by strangling the atfll breath-
clerks
could
have
been
used te
lodge NO. '944, B. P. O. E.,
Mr. and Mrs. Wells are well
good
advantage
to
cere
for thp
wired
one
hundred
dollars
known' In Ashland, having been
crowds, and according to Mr. Mc-
shortly after rsclspt of the
residents ot this city a number of
gee every Indication point« to one
reqasst.
years ago, and their oldest daugh­
of
the mow successful sales ever
ter, Annie, who is now a student
staged In Ashland.
During March, three Japanese
of ths Southern Oregon normal,
graduated from the local high ships took 8,017,819 feet of Coos
Bay lumber to the orient.
school.
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Many Attracted
To McGee’s Sale