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THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
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C oasldersble D issatisfaction
Kates Found Among
B usiness H ouses
on
Equalization of water rales
and consideration of complaints
occupied tbe attention of city
council members at à special
session Monday evening.
Reduction of sprinkling rates
is assured by the. passage of an
amendment to the recently ef
fective ordinance. The amend
ment provides for a change from
IS cents to five cent per 100
square feet for the first 10,000
square feet. The acreage mini
mum was changed by amendment
from one-half to one - quarter
acre.
These changes were recom
mended by O. M. Frost, who for
the last two weeks has
been
making a survey of the water
rate situation. Council members
were unanimous in the passage of
the amendment.
Reporting to the council on
the survey Mr. Frost salji he had
been checking residences and ir
rigation users for the last two
weeks and in this group the water
users seem to have. expected a
material raise in the rates and
iiflle'dissatlsTactlon is fos
householders agreeing the $2
straight rate, .with 5,000 feet of
ground Included seems to be fair.
F in d IMsesttoCsctlon
“ P issa i t l sfs*<wte » le lo a p d among
business men where the Increase
seems to be excessive without
reason, se'’
**s rate on lawn
and gardens he said, and in con
nection with the latter complaint
recommended the reduction which
was made.
Misunderstanding of
various
sections of the ordinance has
caused some dissatisfaction, he
said, in his two Weeks’ survey,
Mr. Frost said he had found only
three irrigation Water users who
have definitely decided to let
their land go dry than pay tbe
increased
rate.
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Council members agreed that
Installation of fheters was tbe
only certain method of equaliz
ing rates. Cost and installation
of meters for the approximately
1,200 water users in the cit>
would be in the neighborhood of
$40,000, according to estimates
by engineers. Councilman E. A.
Wood * said. Councilmen p. T.
Bergner and J. E. , Thornton
said they believed this estimate
was too high.
POPLAR BLUF*F, Mo., May 10.
— Fifty are known to be dead and
more than 240 are injured from
a tornado which swept this south
ern Missouri city wrecking the
business section.
Hundreds were trapped by the
falling debris when the wind
struck late yesterday. Estimates
of the damage vary from one Util
lion to five million dollars.
' Freak Wlml Kills
KANSAS CITY, Mo.,. May 10.—
At least 81 persons have been
killed by freak winds which, ac
companied by terrific rains, hare
ravaged parts of eight states In
the great American tornado belt
since Saturday night,
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At least 550 have been injured
and some estimate the figure to
be 750.
Climaxing a week-end of death
and destruction, a tornado Mon
day afternoon swept through Pop
lar Bluff, Mo., killing at least 26
persons. Injuring 250 and caus
ing great property damage, ac
cording to figures supplied to the
United Press by State Senator
pwight Brown, publisher of the
Poplar Bluff American.
Thirty-five persons were killed
in Texas Monday morning by
twisters which ripped practically
every county in the northeast part
of the state. Property damage in
Texas will total more than one
milllqp dollars.
In Kansas, over the two-day
period, 13 persons were killed.
Until the tw isterPoplar. Bluff,
Mo., counted 12 dead. Ode per
son was killed in Illinois.
Two Nervous Siezures That
Resemble Epilepsy, At-
, tack Mrs. Suyder
MAY E S C A P E CHAIR
Jury Verdict benjamin the Life
o f H erself and Henry
Judd Gray___„____
LONG ISLAND CITY/ May 10.
— Mrs. Ruth Snyder, who has
been convicted of first degree
murder for which the sentence
Is death, has suSered two ner-
vlons seizures, which physicians
said have a strong resemblence
to epilepsy.
Both attacks have occurred
since the jury brought In the
verdict demanding the life of
herself and Henry Judd Gray, for
the murder of her husband, Al
bert Snyder. As tbe rekult, there
Is the new possibility of her be
ing sent to an asylum rather
than to the electric chair.
NEW YORK. May 10. — (IP)
— Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and
her former lover, Henry Judd
Gray, cornet salesman, were con
victed of first degree murder by
jury in Queens county court
Historical society
Auditorium
SDAY, MAY 10, 1927
la s t n ig h t.
Justice Townsend Scudder will
sentence them to death In the
electric chair when they are call
ed before him at 10 a. m. Only
vW —vvirfrviBt 02 tn u ir mw jrtsra nwer*
ved the court from passing sent
en ce * T ™ * * * t y y
TO TAKE AIR S
Will Soon Perfect Ship Cap
able of Flying at Bx-
ie Hefr] hto
treme
ri!
Not even District Attorney
Richard E. Newcomb, who char
acterised the killing of Albert
Snyder, art editor of the ma
sine "Motor Boating,” last March
20, as "the most coldblooded and
premldsted murder In the history
of Queens county” had looked for
so speedy a judgment.
Actually the jury’s dellbera
tions had consumed little more
than an hour.
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Jury Retiree
The jury retired at 5:18 p. m.
At 6:32 p. m. the tap came on
the door that meant a decision.
One hour and 16 minutes had
elapsed— lese time than Justice
Scudder had consumed in. his
charge.
The absence of William J. Mil
lard, Gray’s counsel, caused a
delay.
At 6:55 p. m. the jurors, with
strained faces and grim expres
sions. filed In and took the seats
they had occupied for two weeks.
A minute later Mrs. Snyder came
In, followed by Gray. She sat
down and burled her face in her
hands.
Gray assumed his usual erect
posture.
The room was stifling hot.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 10.—(IP)
j—A new type of naval airplane
capable of flying* at extreme
heights and which may be taken
Into the air soon in an effort,to
set a new America»/ altitude rec
ord, was tested for the first time
at the naval air staffon here io
day.
The new plane, equipped with a
super-charger, which makes it
possible to>fly the .craft at extreme
altitudes, is known as a FJ-1 and
is to be assigned to flight duty
with the new naval enlisted men’s
squadron, commanded by Lieut. C.
p . Chaplin. Fifteen of the planes
are now at the naval sir station.
During a recent test of the
planes on the east coast, they were
able to fly 32,000 feet high with
the super-charger. It it possible,
naval officers here say, that the
planes can be made to fly much
higher and 1t is the plan of the of
ficers in command to test their al
Report On Meter
titude ability here as soon as ox
Justice Enters
Earl Hosier, superintendent of ygen tanks and other altitude
Justice Scudder entered In his
water, said that installation of equipment are obtained.
flowing black robes, and the spec
meters could not be made before
tators arose silently without any
three or four months, and would
warning cry from the bailiffs.
be quite useMss until the new
Justice Scudder, In his deep
water mains were all in place.
voice, gently cautioned all to
be decorous.
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The thin voice of the clerk
of the court broke the silence:
Court Decides That Petrol "Gentlemen of the Jury, have
you reached a verdict?”
eum Company Shall Pay
William E. Young, youthful
Accrued Interest
Accrued
publicity man, and foreman, an
LO8 ANGELES, May 10.— (IP) swered in a voice almost Inaud
—The United States government ible:
won a moral victory in its suit to
“We, the Jury, find the de
collect several million dollars In fendants, Ruth Snyder and- Henry
terest which had accrued from the Judd Gray, guilty of murder In
Elk Hills oil leases when Federal the first degree."
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Judge Paul McCormick handed
down his long-waited decision.
The court decided that the
IS ON STAFF
Psh-Amerlcan Petroleum a n d
O R E G O N AGRICULTURAL
Transportation company should
COLLEGE,
Corvallis, Ore., May
pay the accrued Interest on miner
al properties on naval reserve at 10.— Francess Pratt of Ashland,
the rate of seven per cent per an senior In commerce, was on the
num up until March, 17, 1924- staff of the Co-ed Barometer, a
Totnl payment, It Is probable, will publication of the O. A. C. Dally
nöt exceed ,$1,800,000, although Barometer In which all the work
women.
the amount has njt yet been was' done entirely by
I
Once
a
year.
Usually
during
determined.
In its suit, the government Mother’s Week-End, the co-eds
ín L e BEcAuue«. f »*« r
sought to collect interest up until publish an entire Issue of the
¿ i AS BACV AS rr UMKg
February 28,
1927,
which Barometer, and a ’ creditable
would have aggregated more than showing was made this year by
their 10-page paper.
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$2,000,000.
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SUIT FUR MILLIONS
.The California Oregon Power gaged with Barney Gray in mak
Company which operates through- ing repairs to the Montague sub
out Southern Oregon and North station. They were replacing !
ern California has again won
disconnecting
switches!
■ » nS f some
ttonal recognition through
which had been destroyed a '
Award or the Insull Medal
short time before by lightning, j
»co ar Gray was In the sub-station, put- ■
other members of the Copco
gsnlzatlon. This makes the b third ting a switch in placé behind
Insull Medal to be presented
ted tt> the switch board. Knackstedt was !
Copco employees in recognition.
Of engaged at the moment outside j
itiön of
their efforts in saving the liv o t the substation building. He heard
h rough the familiar flash of a short cir- ¡ Only Thimr Known About
of their fellow workers throu
resuscitation from electric shook cult and » g r o a n from Gray, | M ’SSinjT A ir m e n i s T h a t
Flight Was Failure
This honor is doubly apprecla
Rushing Inside hq found that the ¡.
when It Is known that only
Switch in Gray’s hand had slip
of these coveted medals have ped Into a line switch adjoining, M E N M A Y B E D E A D
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been , awarded in the tenth« and Gray was stretched on the
Rescue Ship .and Airplanes Are
Northwest and three of these floor unconsciobs and not breath-
“ Sent Out to Heard« the
have gone to employees of tM ing-
e
.
Atlantic
Ideal company. The first of those
Hurriedly dragging Gray out
awards was made to Howard Dp- onto the floor in front o f the
NEW YORK, May 10.— Charles
nan of Medford on December 1, switchboard. Knackstedt applied
Nungesser and Francois Coll have
1925; the second to Ted Mont the ‘resuscitation methods in
failed In an attempted Paris-New
gomery of Klamath Falls on An* which all Copco men are trained.
York non-stop flight, but whether
gust 27. 1926, and the last one His manwaa to all appearances
¡they are alive or dead, Afloat on
to Emmitt Knackstedt on May 3, dead, but after ten minutes work, j the Atlantic shore somewhere in
1927. The history of the accident Knackstedt was rewarded by a
New Foundland or Nova Scotia
which so nearly proved fatal la ns return of life to his patient. Af
or
at the bottom of the sea, none
follows:
ter a few hoars rest, Gray was
could tell.
back on the Job, none the worse
Making Repairs
The glittering biplane White
,
for
his experience. Without the
On July 19, 1925, Emmitt
Bird must have run out of gaso
Knackstedt, known to all of Sis- j1)100111 ministrations of Knack- line yesterday, if some other con
kiyou county as “Perky”, was en-
tingency hadn’t forced her to
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alight long before. Plans went
forward along the northern coast
to send out rescue ships and Air
planes to search the Atlantic.
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M I K «ANY H E ARE
GffiMIMt SECURED IH DRIVE
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(United Preea Wire &
Service)
COPCO EMPLOYEE
FOSITKIllHiBY (ASYLUM MIGHT ANOTHER
CHAPMAN DISCUSSES
WINS INSOLE MEDAL AWARD VIGOROUS HUNT
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WATER RATES
CLAIM BLONDE
IS HADE FOR
CONVICTED OF
EFFECTED AT
LONG OVERDDE
KILLING HATE
SPECIAL MEET
OCEAN FLYERS
Two Hundred Fifty Injured
When Wind S leep s
Through Town
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lion. Probable showers.
Ashland’s Leading Newspaper for Over, Fifty Years
(United
•d New« Wire Service)
Amendment Passed by the
Council Assures Reduct
ion in Sprinkling Rates
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Collection of Facsimile and Forty Join the Chamber of
Hand Colored Repro- - .. Commerce During First
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ductions S
Shown
Morning’»
Work
With fifteen Ashland business
An exceptionally fine colled
collect'
men working, forty new members
ion of facsimile and hand color
colored
reproductions of the works of old in the Chamber of Commerce was
and contemporary artists will i reported at noon today. . The
success the teams were meeting
be on exhibit at the Southern
Oregon Normal school May' I M S L“’Uh * “ a *°urC8 ot
|io the committee having -the
Inclusive.
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The facsimiles are made by a drive In charge according to O.
couipaiatively new process which F. Carson, chairman. This was
reproduces the technique of th e : the. ftrst quarter o f. a two day “
aitiat and the original coloring. ur,' e’ and committee members
which the hand colored ones do -itel confident that when final
reports have been made the mem
not do.
The pictures arc representative bership will be nearly one hun
of all types of paintings, marine?, dred per cent.
The Normal school faculty re
ip ’pals, landscapes, flgu-. ! ' por
sponded
to the solicitation for
traits and still life. The money
membership
unusually well, and
received from this exhibit will
many
of
this
mornings member
be used for pictures which are
ships
originated
from that source.
much needed for the walls of
the Normal school.
Y ellow stone ^fan Here
The exhibit will be: shown in
Horace
Allbrighl, superintend
room 21 today, tomorrow, Thurs-^
ent
of
Yellowstone
National Park
day and Friday. The hours are»,
was
an
Ashland
visitor
last night
from 3 to 5 from 7 to 9 p. m.
being
the
guest
/*.**
w
. Price of
every day and the admission is
the
Crater
Lake
Lodge
and
Llthia
fifteen cents.
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Springs Hotel. The two men left
on a business trip this morning
Vale— Work to begin on Vale which will «take them Into the
northern part of the state.
irrigation project.
Are H ours yverd u e
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NEW YORK, May 10. — The
tragedy of failure. If not the ul
timate tragedy of death, appar
ently has ended the gallant at
tempt of Captains Charles Nun
gesser and Francois Coll to fly
from Paris to New York.
Hours overdue, the little White
Bird biplane In which the airmen
took off so—Jauntily from 'L e
Foster Tells of Land Settle
ment Work in the
Middle W est
ILLNESS OF A
JUROR CAUSES
POSTPONEMENT
MURDER CASE
Income tax and other tax
measures of Oregon were discus
sed by C. C. Chapman of Port
land, editor of the Oregon Voter,
at the noonday luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce held in S. W. Dunham is too DI to
the Llthia Springs hotel today.
Appear in Court Today;
Chapman expressed himself as
Will Meet Wednesday
opposed to the provisions of the
Income tax law.
TAKEN TO HIS HOME
Arthur Foster, land settlement
agent, connected with the local Attorneys Agree Better to Poet-
pone Case Then to Select
and state Chamber of Commerce,
New Jury
gave an interesting review of his
work in mlddlewest states dur
JACK8ONVILL7, May 10.—The
ing the last six months. Oregon
ift. looked on aa a "home state,” Hugh D’Autrejnont murder trial
Mr. Foster said, and many fam is at a standstill due to the illness
ilies whom he had Interviewed of S. W. Dunham, juror, who is
were planning to locate in Ore too 111 to appear . again today.
gon. The local Chamber of Com Court is to convene Wednesday
j
merce is taking care of the home for another report.— -
An examination disclosed that
settlement in this vicinity.
Sixty members attended the Dunham is suffering from infec
meeting today. The report ef the tion of his gall bladder. An
membership committee was re other examination will be. made
this evening to try end estimate
ceived with enthusiasm.
Governor and Mrs. I. L. Patter how long before he will be able
son will be guests of honor of to resume his duty. Clearly, the
the Chamber at their meeting state, defense and the court
next week. The meeting will be agreed that it was better to wait
for Dunham's recovery than to
an evening affair.
i-.elect a new jury.
WEATHER JINX STOPS
CONTEMPLATED FLIGHT
Taken Home
JACKSONVILLE, Ore., May 1».
(IP)~ Indefinite postponement of
the* Hugh D’Autremont murder
trial loomed late lait night pend
ing the recovery of S. W. Dun
Every Effort Will be Made ham. a juror, who was suddenly
to Start Transcontinen-
stricken 111 during yesterflay's ses
v
tai Trip Today
sion.
Dunham’s condition became no
SAN DIEGO, Cal., May 10,—
ticeable^ during tbe nffernoon,
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Captain
Charles
Lindbergh,
B o u rg et aird rom e « ) t h e -OUt-
who has been pursued by a weath when he had V» b» assisted Into
skirts of the French capital,
er Jinx during the past week, the courtroom by two bailiffs.
had not been heard from 49 1-2
’which prevented- film from liop- Upon learning of Dunham'r tlt-
hours after the start of the haz-
ping off for St: Louis on his first nesa. Judge Ç. M. Thomas ruled
arduons flight.
'lap of his flight to Paris, an- .that the trial be postponed “until
New York harbor, target for
Mj\ Dunham is able to resume his
-tumors of the approach of “the make every effort to get fnto the pi»ee in the J ury box.”
Removed To Home
“White Bird” from morning un air tomorrow on his trans-contin
night, waited in vain for authen Ipntal journey.
Dunhapa. was removed to. his
tic word from Nungesser and
In commenting on the trans-At home in Medford to récupérât^
Coli.
jerora Fill con
lantic flight, Captain Lindbergh The
Shortly before 7 p. mi, when said today that It thq two French tinue their semMmprlmniineat un
It was estimated that the French flyers had struck a sleet storm der the guard of hallffs»
The state oontfnued tl) call wit-
plane's supply of gasoline must which are frequently over the
to the stand today In an ;
hhve been exhausted, plans of North Atlantic at this time of
welcome , changed to plans for Vear, It is hardly probable that effort to offset the daa$ag< «.caused -
search and rescue.
they could have remained In the Saturday when J. L. Ben well suf
Airplanes which were to have air for long. He declared that fered a slight “mental relapse**,
flown to meet the “White BIrd” ?he
bMn forced down g, vprai while being cross-examined by the
,
and escort it In triumph to its 'times with mall planes when fly prosecution.
goal, took the air in an organ
Bonwell’s
failure
to
remember
ing through sleet storms. Huge
ized search of the coast as far chunks of ice will pile up on the a penciled potation nearly causetC
north as Rhode Island.
Other wings and struts and even the the state’s case to collapse, and R
planes rose from the Boston alr- propellor, forcing the craft to tile was to this end that the state pat
earth sometime« ' In a very few W. D. Chandler and Maurice Cot-\
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urri, special agents for the South
Irlnutes, he said.
ern Pacific, on the stand daring,
the afternoon.
Agents Testify
REVISE WATER RATES
The city council unanimously
Both agents testified that they
agreed to amend the water rates went to the • Hauser Hardware-
for ncreage irrigation and for store In Albany on Oct. 39, 1923,
lawn or garden sprinkling under and in their presence, Bonwell, a
Sections 29 and 30 of the new wa clerk in the store, wrote his ini
ter ordinance to read as follows: tials and the notation "10-39-23”
For each quarter acre or frac on a certificate for an automatic
tion thereof per season $3.75. pistol— the “murder gun.” which
i Was formerly half acre minimum the state alleges was used by
Hugh and his two brothers, Ray
$7.50.)
Lawn or gardeh Irrigation. All and Roy. in the dynamiting of •
extra area of either lawn or gar 'Southern Pacific train and the
den In excess of 5000 square feet murder of tour trainmen In South
up to the acreage minimum dbove ern Oregon more than three years
to be charged at the rate of 5 ego.
This gun, the state will attempt
cents per hundred square feet,
(waa formerly 10 cents per hun to prove, was purchased by Roy
D’Autremont, who signed for it
dred square feet.)
These rates go In effect June nnder tbe name of "William El
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1. if any water user now cares liot.’» - »
The defense, on tbe other hand,
to sign up for Increase of irri
gated area because of these more has pointed out that if tlje nata
favorable rates please call up tion "10-30-22” was tbe sale date
nhone 382 city warehouse and ask cf (he gun. then it was sold after
that Water Superintendent Hos the dynamiting, which occurred o»
ier send a man out to recheck the October 11. 1922.
former area.
Regarding others of the new
DEATH RUMOR M
rates, particularly In the business
The rumor that "lake’'
district, it Is admitted that some who Is employed by the
inequalities do exist, also admit Vscific compssy, bad bees killed
ted that the ordinance Is not quits yesterday, proved to ha falsa.
clear nt all points, but the Inten
Mr. Gyger was to a» ‘ automo
tion la to place all commercial bile secldeat sear riaaaosslr.
and business water users aa soon Cel., sad.Whs uimoaeelous for a
as possible on meters, that me^ short time, bat bearding to re
ters can function properly afjer ports received this moratag ha Is
Crc arson Hill reservoirs and new getting «U ox UMU*
distribution system are In opera
T
tion, one of the main purposes of
thia extensive new construction.
Mra Marion Tense o f the 1
The water superintendent nn-
nd Unity Center at
der this ordinance has full author
ity at his discretion to adjust any
Yea So, It’s A Hard Life
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