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ASHLAND, OBEQQN.jFRIDAY, MAY 6, 1927
NFW AI TlTIlbP1 JOHNSON TELLS OF JUSTICE
FOR iwn
HLlllUlSh
AS IT WAS IN* THE OLD
OLE DAYS L U M
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
QUEER
MEN ARE SEEN
DODGING BACK
FREIGHT CARS
SfflOOL'
ARE ORDERS)
OUT OF COURT
BY THE JUDGE
WATER
PROGRAM WILL
BE
BY
¡RECORD MADE
BY BALLOONIST
Justice administered in tty* were frequent in the days when
dsys when the Jackson county the courthouse was new. Hanging
Now in Readiness
Proceeds From First Game
cdurt house was new was a
was the méthod of execution and
for 0 , 0. Canvas to
Will go to Flood
ler process than the justice whl
convicted criminals were not tak­
Start Tuesday >
Sufferers
will he meted out to Hugh D*.
en to Salem, but the scaffold was
tremont, youthful murder
oreeted in an enclosure occupying
The Membership Committee of
Ashland will have a twilight
pect now facing the scaffold,
the site on which the Jail now
the Chamber of Commerce held
baseball
leaxue this spring, ac­
¡the
wheels
of
justice
turn
slowly
stands.
a meeting at the offices In the Reaching Heighth of Eight
cording
to
plans laid by captains
City Hall last night with Chair­
Miles, Army Man Forced In the dingy, gloomy, old-fash­ Varnishing and Interior decor­
of
the
various
teams who met
ioned court room, according to 0 . ating of the courthouse in 1883
man O. P. Carson presiding. The
Down by Chest Pain
in
the
Y.
M.
C.
A. office last
H. Johnson, former mayor of Ash­ was done by cousins of Mr. John­
Committee was divided into four
Raymond Pinneran Tells the sections
evening. The opening game grill Authorities Complain Thai
land
and
a
pioneer
settler
of
son who had walked with him C h a m b e r of Commerce
with the following heads PARACHUTE I S U S E D
Jury of Seeing Two Men
be played on Wednesday evening,
Interest in Trial is De­
Jacksonville.
Adopt Resolutions for
from Glendale, then the terminal
as captalnft, W irt M. Wright, W.
May
11 at 5:30. o’clock on the
on Day of Grime
pleting School
Forty-three years ago, In 18*:
Years Program
of the Oregon-California road to
P. Walters, W. H. McNair and V iew a t Forty ThouHaud Feet is
local high school grounds when
Clear, W ith VUioa Range
when Jacksonville was in
Jacksonville, the most flourish-
Hugh T. Mitchel more. The first
the fast Hi-Y team will ^cross ONE HUNDRED LEAVE
BATTERY JDENTIFIED twp cafctalHk will divide the city
o f 1OO Miles
heydey of prosperity, as hu:
'ng village in this Section of the FAVOR COLF COURS!
bats with the Normal nine.
dreds of thousands of dollars
state.
Idaho Men Testify That Battery into two districts, making" Oak
A charge of 26c for adults and Defense Spends Moot o f Time
W
ould
Make
Ashland
a
Conve
placer gold was washed from
Editors Note:
Just a year arter the courthouse
St., the dividing line. -The other
and Wires were Stolen from
T6c
for students will be made
This Morning Cross Ex­
tion
(Yty
so
A
ttractions
hills, the courthouse was bull
Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray,
was built, the site of the village of
two handle special prospects and
Lumber Camp
am ining W itnesses
|
and the proceeds will be turn­
Would
be
Known
Furnishings
of
the
offices
now
are
an
army
bailonist,
ascended
Medford was surveyed, and there
names.* The
entire committee
ed
over
to
Mrs.
Sam
McNair
of
practically Intact, the same Sft began a decline in the prosperity
41,000 feet in the air Wed­
consists of O. P. Carson, Chair­
(Speetal
That ha saw two queerly acting man. Dr. C. A. Haines. Millard W .
were installed when tho bulldln* of the county seat town.
nesday. and thereby is be­
At the recent *Board of Direc­ the local Red Cross chapter to
be
fitted
In
the
Mississippi
Relief
JACKSONVILLE,
May I.
men sneak down the trfcck and Orubb. H. T. Mitchelmore. W. M.
was new.
Equipment in the
lieved to have reached the
Activity and interest in the vil­ tors meeting of the Chamber of
dodge in and hide between the Wright, O. A. Briscoe, W alter
gloomy old courtroom is worn and lage of near half centy ago, then Commerce resolutions were drawn Fund, It was decided last night. Pretty high school flappers, who
highest altitude ever attained
Every effort will be made to get have shown an Intense Interest la
cars of a parked freight train, Redford, P. P. Whittle, Pred C.
dingy with age.
by
man.
Approximately
nourishing and prospérons, was up and unanimously adopted as
out
• large crowd In order that the fate of Hugh l/A utrem ont,
Inst as train No. IS was arriving Homes, W. P. Walter. W. H. Mc­
Criminal suspects tried in Jack­ in marked contrast to the lathergy to the program to be carried out
eight miles ahbve ground, he
a
large
sum of money may be youthful and handsome train dyn­
at Siskiyon, October 11, 1923, was Nair, P. J. Swenning, J. C. Hop­
sonville when the court room
felt a pain in the chest, and,
which now pervades the atmos­ for the fiscal year; These reso­
raised
for
this much needed work. amiting and murder suspect, were
the testimony that Raymond Pin­ per, H H. Blhart. The teams will
a
model
of
modern
architecture
lutions
are
as
follows:
had to descend. And even the
phere, ail interest centered now in
The
game
will start at 6:30 driven from the court room where
ners n, local hoy, gave to the start their canvass Tuesday morn­
and cheerful newness, were net the grim battle for life which Is
descent had Its thrills, for
Whereas: The City of Ashland
sharp
and
will
be a nine Inning the murder trial is in progress to­
crowded courtroom during yester­ ing at 9 o’clock and it Is their ex­
represented by any array of legal being waged in the old-fashioned is so situated and endowed with
he had to parachute to safe­
game.
This
promises
to be one day. Judge Thomas announced
day afternoon’s session of the pectation and hope that the mem­
talent but the evidence was pre­ court room, rich in history of natural beauties and resources un­
ty. In the following copy­
of
the
snappiest
games
of the from the bench that school au­
trial which Is beinj held for Hugh bership list may be increased by
sented
in
an
unadorned,
unemo­
common
to
other
iocalitie*
making
righted story for the United
such fights for justice.
season
as
the
HI-Y
team
is com­ thorities had complained that the
D’Autremont, youthful
alleged one hundred names.
tional manner, verdicts were ren­
Press. Captain Gray tqtls
The D’Autremont trial, which it stand above all places as a de­
posed
of
practically
the
entire Interest was depopulating the
slayer of Oron Johnson.. Pinner­
dered In the same spirit and pun­ will probably be the last battle for sirable mecca for all seekers for
what he saw and how he felt
Every member of the Chamber
High
school
baseball
team
and Medford and Ashland h i g h
an, who was employed with a will be asked to wear a badge dur­
ishment followed almost as rap­ life to be waged In the Jackson­ a healthful home, educational
pn the ‘‘roof of the earth.”
Southern Pacific surveying gang ing thp week starting May 9, and
idly ts vindication In the pioneer ville courthouse, is a fitting cli­ center, recreational site and re­ the Normal school has some good schools.
“ Yo’u will have to leave,"' the
stattonr|l at Siskiyou at the time several young ladles have been By Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray days, according to Mr. Johnson. max and close to the grimly ro­ sort.* And Whereas: The .c iti­ material in the field ■this season.
Judge
said, “or I will have to ask
Tickets
for
this
opening
game
of the, crime, stated that his at­ enlisted as auxiliary members to
mantic history of the old' build- zens of this community have in
W ritten for the. United Press
Frequent Murders
the sheriff to pnt yon out.**
ill
be
on
sale
Monday
morning,
tention was attracted to the two pin these badges on. Those not (Copyright, 1927, United Press)
the past realized these assets to
Shooting affrhys wind murders ing.
About one hundred young per­
men by their particularly sneak­ wearing' badges will be visited by
the extent of developing our won the sale being handled by the
SCOTT FIE LD , Belleville, 111,,
sons
mostly girls, left the small
Hi-Y
club.
“Wherever
possible
ing actions. According to the wit­ ithe committee.
derful Lithla Park, bringing the
May 6.— My trip 41,000 feet above !
court
room.
we
would
like
to
have
business
ness these men were dressed in
the earth was uneventful, alm ost!
Lithla Water Into It and building
What
would have been na oth­
houses
close
at
5:30
sharp
in
brown suits, which be thought
a splendid hotel for ,the accom­
commonplace in the experience of
erwise monotonous and uninter­
order
for
the
men
to
attend
the
* were khaki, were eaps, were about
modation
of
our
guests.
a bailonist.
esting session, became <oae of ex­
25 years old, weighed approxi­
And Whereas, this development game and thus help this worthy
I took off at 1:16 p. m„*Wed­
treme interest when John Collier,
cause,”
'slated
Secretary
Walter.
mately 160 or 100 lbs. and were
up to the present time has caus­
nesday with a 15-mlle west" by
consul for the defena, during A
On
Thursday
evening
May
12,
about I ft, 10 inches tall, their
ed no Inconsiderable financial out­
northwest wind carrying the hag
m.
, . . ««
~
As a mark of esteem for Rev.
Battery B will meet the Bankers vigorous cross examination of
height varying very little.
as tt rose 700 feet a minute.
Man Thought to Have R ^ n p K . Hammond, who has for lay without a plainly visible re­ team at 5:45. Other games of states* witness F. B. Ramires,
The train was going at the rate
turn now be It
Unballasting of*sandbags was
Implicated in Kidnap­
many years been ahaplain of the;
special Investigator, for the South-
of 1 or 8 miles an hour when it New Dank to Awigt in Li aot difficult, as In my previous at-
Resolved ' that the Ashlahd the league series will be:—
ping
Plots
local lodge of Elba and ia a - Paat Chamber
quidating Affi
o
f
Cöinmerce
put
forth
•'•«
w
m
a
l
j
g a Pacific ( and tt ^ g t e a .t h ^ -
I collapsed at 35,400f
Exalted Ruler,' members of the
on the stand at the close of ye»*
May
18.
time he completely lost track of
Its
efforts
to
further
the
follow­
I had let out two racks of
lodge, Jn accordance with a unani-
NEW YORK. May 6
HI-Y vs.Battery B. Thursday. terday afternoon’s session, fired
the two men. Tt^e witness was
ing program of ■ devel op m e nt A r
BEND, May 6 — f t » —Appliea-
id sefvl ces wF
a question at him that might Indi­
Reaching
for
his
revolver
May
19
cross examined and asked who
the ensuing year:
Thq^ oxygen apparatus
tlon for
cfaarter for a new levai.
the Trinity Episcopal chnrch of
confronted by police near
HI-Y vs. Bankers, Monday, cate a portion of the defeaae’a
the men could possibly have been
1.
To
foster
the
policy
o
f
’
a
•Mnk- bars, to be knows as.
functto®*» Portectly. Although I tra* Park. Jack Thompson, notary Ashland, of which Rev. Ha1
plans hinge on the revenge mo-
¿ e a te r distribution o f oof
lira IPTnpf’rn-
ormal
vs.’
Battery
S’,
Thurs-
directed at members of the
tous Chicago gangster, was shot ta pastor, on Motherh Day,
gest asset, the rftWTjfffla^WhWr,
been forwarded to the comptrol­ tare at that height as indicated by
day. May t . All Elks are re­
train crew on the Id fated train.
and
killed
yesterday.
day,
May
26.'
anyone, after the holdup, about
remembering the slogan once used
ler of currency in Washington, the thermograph, was 60 or 70
D a v I d Berman, Thompson's quested to meet a t the Elks so effectively, “ Ashland grows
The Bankers team will be com­
Defease
seeing them. Mr. Pinneran said
D. C. by a group of Bond bOal degrees below sero.
Temple at 10:30 o’clock Sunday
posed
of
some
of
the
members
companion
a£
the
time
of
the
Leading
up to the question e f *
“yea” that he remembered dis­
while
Lithla
flows,"
and
develop­
My view at 40,000 feet was
nessmen headed by the Shelvin'
shooting, was arrested- Both,had morning tn order that the lodge ing this policy to the extent that of the Employed Boy’s club and
cussing it with a couple of men.
clear.
I
t
was
like
seeing
a
beau­
Hixon company, operator* of •
may attend en masse.
will procure a suitable sanitarium.
Testim ony Strengthened
My range of been trailed as suspects iq the
large lumber mill here. Stock in tiful miniature.
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Several candidates will be Init­
port »bent the Inveetlgahdn of tho
This testimony was further the organisation was subscribed vision was a.circle 100 miles , In kidnapping of Abraham ^charlln,
2. To further develop Ashland
iated
at
the
regular
meeting
Sat­
suspected menf”
»
J
strengthened by John W. Martin, after decision was made to ask diameter. The atmosphere was a wealthy New Yorker who Is
as a recreational site by sup­
*‘Yes,” wss thty wltnies’ reply. *
urday evening and a special Moth­
still
held
for
*25,000
ransom.
also iwftthe employ of a Southern liquidation e f the .First National clear to the west and northwest,
porting and promoting our golf
“ I had to makfc hut ’reports.”
f
While the police lack com­ er’s Day program has been ar­ course.
Pacific surveying gang at Siski­ bank, closed on April 20 by but haze toward the east. St.
,
ranged. .
j
“
Do
yon
know
W.
D.
Miles?”
plete
data
on
Thompson,
Berman
you on Oct. 11, 1223, who stated recommendation of * Its.'board of Louis was a halo of smoke clearly
3. With the foregoing goal in
' "No."
was identified by fingerprints as
that be got. off train 13 at Siski­ directors.
sight, Ashland may Justly claim
visible.
'
“Was it yonr theory that whllq^
wanted
for
complicity
in
Chicago
its superiority as a convention
you and had walked for only a i F. E. Harris, chief bank ex­
Ballast Gone
making
the search there had keen«
kidnaping
cases
and
for
two
short distance toward the tunnel, aminer for the Twelfth Federal
center and should leave no means
All the sand ballast was gone
Retnrns Hom e—
a,
postoffice
robberies,
one
in
Su­
a
robbery
committed?*
when he saw two men coming to­ deserve .district; W. C. Crawley, at 40.000 feet, and I threw out
»
I
.
\ .
.
• untried, or opportunity neglected Miss Lois Wells Awarded
“Tee.”
Mrs. B. D. Jennings of Ashland for securing any gathering of
ward him and he Just supposed examiner in charge of the First my oxygen cylinder, weighing 20 perior, Wis.. and one in Chicago.
First
Place
for
Best
Aim­
returned home yesterday from whatever scope to make this their
“ Did you hear a theory that the
they were going to board the National bank since Its closing; pounds, to get the other 1000 feet
ing in Rifle Olnb
Klamath
Falls,
where
sitae
has
motive
for the crime was revenge^
train. Martin stated that he did P. J Leeman, vice president of and make the unofficial record.
meeting place.
Klamath
Falls
—
Work
will
and
that
members of the train,
been,
vlsting
Mrs.
Ferrtn
Stanton
not notice their dress, and there the First National bank of Min­
4. Ashland has as yet unde-
At 41.000 feet I valved and
Miss Lois Wells won first prise
begin by June on *300,000 new fcr several days. Mrs. Stanton
crew
were
(o well acquainted with
was nothing about their actions to neapolis; F. P. Eames, vice preel
In an aiming contest by the south­
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Union High School.
the perpetrators of the affair^.
motored over with Mrs. J:nnlngs.
cause any close scrutiny, but he dent of tho Shevlin, Carpenter
ern Oregon Normal school Rifle
that they had to shoot them, tq[:
Judged them to be young men, and Clark company, and members
Club which was held May third.
prevent their identifying theta
probably 25 years old, weighing of the local advisory committee
Five prises were given by the
later?”
somewhere In the neighborhood of were instrumental in Organising
Remington and Winchester Arms
“I did not hear anything alonr*
160 pounds, and about I ft. 10 in. the new hank. F ifty one percent
companies. The second prise go­
that
line.”
tall. He had just arrived at the of the stock was subscribed for
ing to Lee Byers, 3rd to Erma
The
face of the defense eona»'
end of the tunnel and started to by the Shevlin-Hixon company
Miller, 4th to Lila Dement and
work when the brakeman came Capital stock of tho new bank
eel,
was
a picture of disgust as he
5th to Alva Wetherell.
running out cried out that the en­ will he in the same amount i
faced
the
Jury after Ramires had
Sixteen
members
survived
the
Workman Are Shifted and
gine had exploded. Martin then that of the First National.
rcMt-flnala and were chosen to declared that he could still see thef
Levees Strengthened
entered the tnnnel and while pick­
participate In the finals. They impression of a body oa the
as Crest Moves
The new bank, according to
ing up some mall which had been those taking part in its formation
were are follows: Teresa Dement, branches o * trees, need tor a bed,
NEW ORLEANS, La.. May 6
strewn about by the explosion, he w ill become an Important instru­
Ralph Church, Victor Phelps, In the camp which the state main­
found an empty shell and four .45 ment in liquidating the affairs — (IP)— The crest’ of the Mlsal»-,;
May Youngmeyer, Estelle Carter, tains was occupied by the enai
slppl flood Is lost.
caliber revolver shells. Another of the First National hank.
Naomi Gray, Muriel McCutchen, pects immediately prior to the
Dr. I. M. Cline, chief o ftth p
young man at the same time pick­
Lila Dement, Lee Byers, Joy Fred­ crime on November 11, or onw
weather bureau for this section
ed np a ballet shell which had
erick, Lois Wells, Arlene Robert­ month after the crime had been
frankly admits he does hot know
been laying In the center of the
son, Erma Miller, Alva Wether­ committed.
where the crest Is.
ell, Vida Debt, add Nadine
Anbar
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And upon its location de­
Raroncllffe.
Collier Is a horn actor, and his
pends the extent of man’s battle
While awaiting the ammuni­ facial expressions, dnd * gentnree
to save portions, of Louisiana not
tion, rifles and such from Wash* are more eloquent In deflates hie
T H E bALLES. May 6. — (IP) already inundated, from the fury
Ington, D. C„ the Rifle club has feelings thaa r« re M A» snn|Mrt to
—- M, E. Calbreath and his of the flood.
secured rifles and ammunition words, He kept the mtlaann on
mother, who live In a tiny house
Levels are strengthened or
from Battery B, the 349 coast a»*; the stand ‘ d»r mom thaa two
on the Federal Street HH1 here, declared safe upon news of the
tlllery„ which will be used in pre­
hours n M did not release hlja anP
luckily happened to he down­ passing or the approach of the
liminary work in rifle shooting.
«1
}net Jtetdm the nooajmtedR*
town this mdrnlng when a heavy flood crest,
Labor gangs are*
This morning J. A. Churchill
car being driven upgrade by Mrs. shifted to new battlegrounds as
nnd committee lodked over suit­
with ««
J. E. Barnett hacked^ hver an the crest moves south. Bnt the
able ground for installing a fifty- signed to have the
embankment and almost com­ crest is lost. Dr. Cline Is not
foot rifle range for use In twenty-
descrlpttea of the country nroand
pletely demolished the little dwel­ that It has passed Vicksburg,
two calibre out-door practice.
the tutaadVand nroand« eaten im­
ling. Mrs. Barnett became con­ Miss.
Construction will be started. Im­ mediately shove tlteiteaanl. which
fused In shifting gears and pnt
“A drop of half a font in the
mediately and it Is expected that It Is claimed whs one of tho <
the car in reverse. The rehlele rirer level there may have been
the same will be ready for nee by ufied by the
dropped off a low embankment, caused by the. crevasses at M illi­
.the first of next week, when all
crashed into the side of the home ken Bend and Winter Quarter,”
members will be given practical
and ended np by retiring for the he said. ”We hard been unable to,
Instruction In shooting.
day on Galbreath’s bed with Its trace the crest of the flobd. Too
The first phase of the shooting
front wheels high In the air. The many breaks In levees have dis­
will he qualification of all mem­
occupants of the' car escaped un­ turbed water levels and npsqt
bers, following which individual
injured*
S
' —
our calculations,”
competition will be arranged end
River heights^ from Vicksburg
later team matches will be sched­
upene —- River Road district down to Baton Rouge have ex­
uled.
®
build 115,000 schoolhouse to ceeded all previous records and
Ae soon as a fair record of ac­
replace one hnraed.
from Natches soifth are apparent-
curacy Is reached, the club will he
rising. Prqvlons river level
ready to accept challenges from
Pendleton — > Umatilla National
any othftr school on the Pacific
Foroat will have *60,000 for records set In 1132 were com­
pared to heights set this year.
roads this year.
Coast.
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IS SHOT BÏ P M E
CHARTER B ASKED
FDR NEWBEND BANK
Elks to Observe
Mother's Day
“V-
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