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is s potential pay »11 for ‘ ' .«Lictf S .’ J r I*- <>• ■'■* &' I. i Oregon — Unse fi Ashland’s Leading N< (United News Wire ferrico) rains. Moderate ■per far Over Fifty Fears d (United Pres* Wire fervine) A S H L A N D » Q B fiQ O K Accepté Position in Eastern School UNIVERSITY , OP ORBOON. Changing B r p o r t a KJ» Eugene, Ore., May IS.—»(Special) la o t Pilots on Oon. * Homer P. Rainey, professor of ed .stent Tension .'‘A ucation at the University, *111 Seventh Annual School Day Man Held in Bene Formerly Lived in Medford Officers Say STORY IS VIVID 0MB Sheriff Ralph Jennings of this county discredits the story of J. W, Fredenberg, alias Collins, who startled officers yesterday by telling a wierd yarn concern ing his alleged participation with the three D'Autremont brothers in the Siskiyou Tunnel outrage In 1922. Collins was a fo rm er resident of Medford and familiar with all details of the crime. Sheriff Jen nings said. Ha haa a nimble imagination and is prone to In volve h i m s e l f In spectacular crlmek, according to Jennings. There are two flaws In his story, according to the sheriff. He tells of one of the bandits being drowned and wounded. No posse got in shooting range of the bandits and the man fohnd in the Rogue river was securely bound, hand and foot with, wire, his trouser legs filled with rock. Paul D'Autremont. father of the D'Autremont boys was unable to Identify ,the man as one of his sons. Further details of the confession follow: Everything Is In readiness fok the seventh annual Jackson Coun ty School day exercises to be held In the chautanqua building In thia city tomorrow, according^to Susanne Homes Carter, county superintendent of schools. There will be approximately 240 boys and girls who will com plete their work In the eighth grade and receive their diplomas tomorrow from V Carter. These pupils come from the Jackson county schools, all school districts with the exception of Medford and Ashland being - in cluded. . The program will start at 9:30 o'clock when the graduates will assemble at the 'Washington school grounds to march to the Chautauqua building under the escort of the Boy Scouts. President J. A. Churchill of the' Southern Oregon Normal school and Attorney Wm. Briggs, will speak. Saow plow patented by a group of Medford cittsena is clearing the road to Crater Lake and it ia be lieved that the road will b e , In readiness for traffic this__year eartter than usu)..^Ytm FLEE TO FOOTHILLS Meats H ea r Mighty Roar W aters aa They Sweep Toward Them ROCK SPRINO8, Wyo., May 1». —(IP)— With eight known dead and many others missing, the town of Kelly, Wyoming, was vir tually swept away this morning by a flood released by the break ing of. the Gros Ventre dam in the Jackson Hole country. Relief work is being organised in the stricken valley. Wilson, Wyoming, on the edge of the floods path Is nnder water. Residents, together with the survivors of Kelly, fled to the foot hills. The wall of water, twenty feet high aud a mile and a half wide swept upon Kelly, as the in habitants, warned by the mighty r^ur of the approaching flood, fled to the foothills. The only build ings left standing were the Catho lic church and/a schoolhouse. TWIN F AL I, Idaho, May 19. — (IP)— Flood aters from the Baake river < lapd by A b e -Gros Vhntre dam break began today to Inundate territory In the vicinity qf Idaho Falls, according to word received here. Fishing’Vessel Wrecked by Gale ASTORIA, Ore.. *May 19.—OP) snow RENO, Nrv.. May 19.— (IP)— plew la said to be clearing away Still astounded by tha story of the groat drtfti with g sweep tnr- Bert Floyd Collins, allas J . W. tbeught of before. Fredeuburg, a* little, thin maa with light hair and blue eyuffr that ha was a member ot the notorious D’Autremont gang and prepared from dynamite the nit roglycerin need in blowing up the train, Reno authorities today awaited confirmation from postal Trial of. Five Persons for and Southern Baciflc officials Movie Actor’s Death Maÿ before accepting completely the End Friday \ purported confession. It is the most realistic fabri LOh ANOBLES, ‘May 19.-MIP) cation I could possibly Imagine, — The trial of five persons for the If Untrue.*' said Harlan Howard, murder of "Two-Gun Tom" Ker assistant district attorney. rie, film cowboy, moved quickly “I want to get It all off my Wednesday with Indications that mind; all off my chest,*’ Collins the stpte would rest Thursday end said. *T’m a man who knows the case might get to the jury by _ I ain’t got long to live. My lungs Friday evening. are gone, my heart Is gone, add Reading of statements given by the five defendants when they I’m about gode." W. B. Mauser, Unlted'''fltates were first taken into custody was postal Inspector, arrived here this to conclude the-state's evidence. The first direct testimony point morning, and was so Impressed with Collins* story after talking ing to any one person ns the act with the prisoner that he will or's slayer came when Mrs. Buret summon other postal operatives te Kellogg, a neighbor of Kerrick, familiar with the case for furth testified she heard one of the de fendants accuse the widow, Mrs. er investigation. Colling admitted he was on Sarah Kerrick, of doing the shoot parole from Washington under ing. a sentence lasting until 1937. He minutely described the cabin in which he sad the D' Autremont brothers plotted the Southern Pacific train dynamit ing. He described the brothers In detail, declaring he met them ’ THE DALLES. Ore., May 19.— In 1912 and again In the spring (IP)— Ben and Margery Evans of of 1922, at Medford. Portland, alleged town-to-town “They propositioned me there" bootleggers, were arrested In The he said. Dalles yesterday morning and nine Collins told of preparing tha gallons of moonshine whiskey tak nitroglycerin and described the en from their car by Sheriff Levi spot where he hurled a dlshpan Chrisman and Deputy George and the materials a hundred steps Scherrer. The arrest .came at an south of the cabin. opportune time, ad* the county Collins declared he sprained grand jury just concluded the his knee shortly prior to ths pending business this morning. robbery, and was unable to parti According to the woman, It Is the cipate but he gave a dramatic third ^rrest for Evans and the word picture of the bandit’s ‘second, for her. as she told officers flight. , • : . . V that her husband had done a “Ray ’ or Roy was ' b a d l y “stretch” In Portland and each wounded," he; said. "I haver of them had seryed a Jail term and paid g <400 tine In Hood could toll them apart. "He was carried by Hugh tq River, the cabin and then Hufh and I v carried him to Rogue .River, We ,, went for aid but whan wa got ' J™ back we found, marks through "*c the brusb to the river. I guess he “**“ jumped In when he was driven *5®°™ ernsy by suffering.” f * Hugh and Collins nephratod, Collins sald^ and have never mat “ n< since, although the other twin Bòotleggers Are Arrested (Mease Turn to ¿"affé 4) Wyoming Village Inundat ed as Dam Suddenly . Breaks leave the first of September to as sume the presidency of Franklin College, Pranklin, Ind., he an nounced today. The board of trustees at Prank lin has been negoitatlng with Dr. Rainey for some time, and it was Gorgeous Display of Bright stated that he was the unanimous Colored Flowers Is choice. President A. B. Hall, of Made the University, attended Pranklin Bertaud Mas Troubles BROOKLYN, N. Y.. May Iff?*- College as an undergraduate and B I G I R I S D I S P L A Y (LP)— Lloyd Bertaud, who h a t his father was . vice-president I been picked aa navigator of the th ere. Ashland Hotel Dining Room la Bellanca plane, ‘’Columbia,** oa Transformed Into Veritable its projected non-stop flight to Paradise Paris, late tod^y secured a temp orary injunction against the beak Fifty different kinds of sprlng- ers of the flight, restraining then} 1 time flowers, a special display of from his substituting someone I iris, in which 45 different species else in his place. * are included, transform the din Youthful Murder Suspect ing room of the Hotel Ashland in Was Popular With High to a veritable paradise. Songbirds singing add to the School Pals general pleasing effect. The annual spring flower show Hugh D'Autremont gets much sponsored by the Ashland Floral mall, his jailers say. Nearly ev Society opened a t 2 o'clock this ery day the youthful suspect, afternoon. It will be open this held in connection with the Sis evening, open tomorrow morning Fifteen Killed; Millions ip kiyou tunnel outrage, receives at 10 o'clock and continue until Property Damage Caus letters from former high school 10 o’clock Friday evening. ed by Storms friends in Arlsto, New Mexico, Members of the Floral Society where he was a star athlete and INDIANA. III., May 19.—(IP)-— brilliant stqdent. According to of have made a special effort to Rain and winds sweeping through ficers who read the letters before -make the affair worthwhile and Indiana and Illinois killed jtt least Hugh gets them, they are filled the public it is hoped will respond 15 persons, and caused property with friendly youthful chatter, by viewing the display. Mrs. Frank Jordan was chair damage estimated at <5,000,909. with never a mention of the At East Peoria, Illinois, 200 ware boy’s man of the committee in charge of gruesome predicament. maroondd on the roofs of their- Most of his friends close their the show. Mrs. Lewis Jacks is homes. A cyclone struck at the letters with the words “Good prtsident of the society. heart of Indianapolis busines^ lurk from an old pal.** Only a section and hundreds were injure few of th e le tte rs com e fro m ed. ■ J girls, n^ost of them coming from boys who were pals of the pris oner for many years. NBW YORK, lfay < l» ~ Weather once more this morulas prevented the getaway of tha New York to Paris fliers. Early reports were favorable hut later ones adverse, delaying the start at least 24 hours. Ventre valley preventing the ree- cne parties from ascertaining the exact number dead. Eight are Jinpwn to have perished, bu( it is feared more were fought iff the mighty flood. A mountain slide Is held the cause of the dam go ing out.' The dam was erected June 23, 1925, by a huge mountain slide which walled up the canyon. It caused a disastrous flood at that time. f “Klamath Falls Is ion the list for one of a series of commerciai hotels, a part of a large project of this nature which my asso ciates and myself have already launched In Los Angeles and Santa Barbara”,. A. G. Barnes, millionaire circus magnate told Klamath Falls business men when he visited there Tuesday. This statement was made in connection with queries regard- Odd Fellows Get Down to Business ASTORIA, May 19.— (IP) — With play features completed Ore gon Odd Fellows convention today addressed itself Solely to business. Two sessions concluded the Re bekah Assembly * session. AJ( state officers were advanced, l<rs. Etta Sanderson of Freewatei' be-' came, president. , / ... THEY MADE A MISTAKE - - Wjth a confidant a|r. of ■ cer tainty, a Medford youth aad a pretty girl entered the office of the chief of polled of' that city and requqated a marriage lleghae. They pere crestfallen when they were told they must go to Jack sonville .to secure the necessary docnmsnt. APFOINTED t o ANNAnW Edwin Anderson McDonald. Medford youth is one of the fonr Oregon men who will h,j admit ted to the United States, Navy Academy at Annapolis, thia fill. end Youth Dies Oiling of the road between Dunsmuir and Redding has start ed, according to local 'garages, who report many cars arriving which clearly show the, oil which lias been picked up on this stretch of road. ( Oiling the road between/Klam- ath Falls and Bend is progressing, and many antoists are* stopping here to have their cars cleaned, after making a trip over the freshly laid oil. —Badly battered by the terrific Mine Yeggmen Secure More Than $10,000—Kill an Offioer BEGGS, Okia., May 1».— (U>)— Posses late today were scouring the wooded hill country of North western Okmulgee county for Frantic Parents Search for Children in Mass of eight bandits who looted two Wreckage Beggs banks of more than <10,- 000 in cash, killed an officer and wounded a woman in “shooting PLAM WAS DIABOLICAL up” the town Wednesday. The search centered about the old Klmés farm, rendecvous of the Ktmeg brothers, notorious Southwest bandits, in the belief Bath. Mich., May 19.— that Mathew Kimes. fugitive kill (IP)—The story of Andrew er, led the raid. Bank officials Kehoee mad attack on so are said to have Identified Kimes ciety was Completed today as the leader of the bandit with the finding of the body group, and also believe that Ray of his murdered wife In the Terjilk_xpmpanlon of the Kimes ruins o£ their farm home, brothers, was a member of the also destroyed by dynamite. band. Her head was beaten and The banks robbed were the body burned. Parmer’s National • All else except the ter National. rible tragedy is forgotten In Three J^ndits entered each the grief stricken commnn- bank while two remained on guard in the streets. Four thou sand dollars was obtained from BATH, Mich., -May 19— The the first institution and <6000 plotting of a suddenly-erased from the latter, according to bank school board treasurer was hlam- officials. W. J. McAnnally, city marsh al, was killed when he opened fire 'on the two bandit cars as they sped out of town, and Mrs. Charles Campbell, who w a s standing nearby with a child lij> bar arms, was wounded by stray bullets, the child was uninjured. Senator Reed ig itt Portland storm at sea Monday and with one - ^of h i f g re w-ml Ml anngflto n~~ , of her crew missing and three oth ers Injured, the fishing schooner JBockeye, of Los Angeles, limped - BAND, Ore., May 19. — 4VP9 — into port here late*thls afternoon. Howard Noonchester, 19, was 1 The vessel, owned by Samuel Cu- killed here lest night when the - ka of San Pedro, left. San Pedro car In which he was riding plung last week enroute to Alaska, via ed across the curb and upset on 1 Seattle. the church lawn. Monday, the craft, carrying a crew of seven men, encountered the gale at sea. I Most of her housing and deck- I work was torn loose and swept overboard. John Cuka, 43, cou sin of the vessel's owner, was swept overboard and drowned. It I is thought that the Sockeye may be abandoned here as unsea- worthy. AUTO 1H WRECKED ON PACIFIC HIGHWAY Two occupants of a Hudson Se dan, California residents, escaped with slight injuries this morning when their .machine struck a post on the overhead on the Pacific highway, three miles south of town. The car was practically de molished. The man and woman occupying the car were taken to the Com munity hospital where their injur ies were dressed. The woman suffered from a scalp wound, the man from a cut on his arm. The car was towed to the Auto motive ehop In Ashland. It ’Is understood the machine was in sured. HEAVY SCHEDULE LISTED EUGENE, Ore., May 19.—(IP)— The University of Oregon debating team will participate in approxi mately «0 matches on Its world tcur next fall, It has been an nounced here. , < Members of the team* are Jack Hetnstead, * Benoit McCroskyy and Aver/ Thompson. Mark Tay lor Is alternate. First competition will be with the University of Hawaii. Austra lian universities have assured the team six debates and a large num ber of Scottish school have agreed to meet the .Oregonians. , , Other debates have been arranged In In dia, Egypt and Cgnada. CIVIL WAR VET DIES BUFFAM). N. Y.. May 11.—HP) —Isaac H. tejott, 99. the lest our- vtvtng mpmber of the crew of tha Monitor, which fought the Meyrl- mac, died at his home hero today. ed by Michigan state police to4( day for the tragic dynamiting of, Bath Consolidated grade school and the estimated death of 49 children and adults, yesterday. Seventeen of the dead z had been identified by grief-stricken parents or relatives in the im provised morgue at 1:S9 p. m. today. ' Andrew Kehoe, the treasurer who was, kllted whejl * subeo- quent explosion demolished his automobile near the school, was b e 1 la v e drospéssìble for the tragedy in the first semblance of bn investigation launched amid the confusion of wreckage and dead. The explosion crumpled the attending JtlgdwirffArtM and thè slightly older children attending the; fifth am} , sixth grffdes were housed. According to reports received by Oscar Olaader, head. of the Michigan department of public safety, only a Jew seconda after the explosion, Kehoe was seen* to emerge from the building had. dash jato his car. A shot, like from a rlfle^ sounded from the machine and an tnktaat later It went up. with a second mighty explosion: Only two hours before the school explosion, Olander said, Kehoe*! house and farm buildings had- been dynamited. Two passersby, Glean 'Smith; postmaster of the tows, pnd Nelson MqFarrls, 79. Smith’/ fsther-la-Mw, also were killed by the automobile blaet, as was B. E. Hayek, superintendent of the school. N o r m a l attendance at the school is 21«. so that every fam ily In the vUlage was rfcpreeeat- ed In the disaster. > „ Tragic scenes ware enacted In tha two hospitals to which the children who were burned and crushed but remained alive were taken. The Edward W. Sparrow bee- pltal in Lessing received 11 In jured children and the St. Lawr ence hospital 19. • Even more tragic ware the scenes around tha school house. Hera was written the eptteme ot children among tl injured. Twenty-one m a crushed forms were the wreckage and blankets which « ravages of the 4 the Identity of the tims. Not aR the ehttdr Bath itoalf, tor ante brought them. Era«
