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«