— rax poultry industry Is a potential pay roll for Ashland Ashland’* Leading M ”wt ~¿¡»>¿3 P«S ~W. «M femt-Wfehly VOL. fc U f 1 THUK. WIGHT "What Com»» Next" will 7>e the subject o f the annual'high school commencement address to be «Ir­ en Thursday night at the annual graduation exercises of the . Ash­ land Senior high school. Mar­ shall Daqa. Portland newspaper man. Will deliver the address. Ex­ orcises will start at 8 o’c le c k a t the Ashland Armory. P'xty-two boys and girls will receive their diplomas from Super­ intendent Oeprge A. Briscoe. Commdncement Thursday night wilt bring to an end the high school days of the members of the graduating class. Her.'Chai. D. Gaffney, pastor of the Congregational church will deliver the invocation and benediction at the commencement exercises. Music will be furnished by the high school orchestra un­ der the direction of Miss * Laura Raguse. Members of the graduating class are: Anderson, Ruth-J.. Beck, Irma Iola, Beeson, Clyde E., Bibby. Wil­ liam R., Boyd, Jessie Mgrie, Briggs, James T., Barnett, * Veryl Marguerite, Carter, Bernice V., Clary. Charles W., Cook, Emma Maries. Cotter. L. Raymond, Otow- son. Max Locke, Davies, Marie Kathleen, Dodge, Leajha El­ more. Marjorie Enid. Faris, Ther- on» I., Onley. Mary Merriam. Gal­ latin, Frances L., Gandee, K. Le- Roy, Gosnell, Ida Elsada. Gunn, Geraldine C.. Gyger. Wilma B.. Hervey, Thelma Lucille, High, Helen Charlotte, Hinthorhe, Don­ ald Bert, Jnlow', Allene Pearl, Johnson, Winston, Kannasto, W. A., Kent, Lois Q... Krampr, Foss G.. Kidwell, Nina, King. Mae, Mc- A IPs ter. James A., McGee, Ray­ mond, McGee, Rosetta May, Mae- Cracken, Charles Gordon, Mer- rhon, Clarence Earl, «.Mitchell, Madge F., Mitchell. Marie E. Neeley, L. Lynn, Neil, Kay FM Ol­ son. Ruth Cecilia, parr, Aldo D.. Prescott, Glenn A., Prescott, Sam G., Rose, Sanford, Ross, Juanita M.’, Scheidereiter, • Helen, Shaw, Marvin Brown, Smith, Adelaide DcnlBe, Smith, Lydia Margaret, Stratton, Jean, .Swennlng, Nadine Doris. Taylor, Izetta Hildo, Ves­ tal. Donald 0., Walker, Janey, Wardle. Pearl Elizabeth, Wagner, M. Wilfred. Wilson, Jane 8. Wise, Rosalind, Wood, Margaret Florence, Young, Eugenia Fran­ ces. 8th Grade Graduation WEBFOOT NA =5 No. 230 E8DAY, May 31, 1927 Difficulty in Distinguishing Meaning of “ Yer* and VNo” Experienced Despite the* fact that election day wan preceded by two holidays, a fairly * representative vote was being polled today at the two vot­ ing places od the qneetion of whether the conetruction of the dam should be postponed or whether It should be started as previously planned. At the library, 185 had voted at 8 o ’clock this afternoon, while the elty hall voting judges report­ ed 188 had expressed their choice at that hbur. Considerable difficulty wen en­ countered by many of The voters distinguishing what yes and no meant on The ballot. At the library they had posted a sign. Yes, is ^gainst the dam; No is for the «lam. At the city hall they had posted a sign: 100 is for postpone­ ment; 101 is against postpone­ ment. The judges reported many had veted contrary to their wishes until the meaning of the yes and no was explained to them. Voting continues until 8 o’clock tonight. PERIODICALS Board of Ohristian Educa­ tion makes Report to Gen­ eral ‘ Assembly Against “ Polluting S t r e a m of • Filth Under Guise of Lit­ erature.” More than 408 former Jael county and Southern Oregon folk», now residents of Southern aqd Central California, held a “South» ern Oregon” picnic Sunday, M*y 83 In Berkeley, California. j The affair was t»e ontgvOwtk of aehanee m uting between, Mrs. Earl Fraley (Gertrude Barber) and Mrs. Anna Dunn-Wright, who met In Oakland and decided.,they would like to meet their* Oregon friends again. They u n t out notices to all of those former southern Oregon (dents, whom they coul«Y residing near the Golden Gi More than 400 responded, and R was a genuinely successful af­ fair— with happy reunions. So pleased were th ou who re­ sponded at the succeu of the afv fair, that a committee of seven was appointed to arrange for reg­ ular Oregon reunions. This comm lttu includes, Mrs. Anns Duna-Wrlght, Oakland. foi> Merly of Talent and Medford, afl chairman; E. J. Kaiser, formerly of Ashland, assistant - chairman? Mrs. Fanny Wertz-Borchert. land. Grants Pass; M. W. Tay Oakland, formerly of Ji SAN FRANCISCO, May, 31.— (IP)— Presbyterians, through their board of Christian education, have declared war upoi/sex magaaipes and periodicals devoted to lasciv­ ious “art” displays. In a report to be preunted to the Presbyterian general assembly Monday? the board declared that to destroy utterly literature of this kind “is a challenge that can­ not be Ignored by thé Christian church and the forces of Christian education.” “One of the safdest commentar­ ies of the poet-war period was the lowering of the safeguards against this polluting stream of filth un­ der the guise of literature,” Mid Dr. J. W. Cleudy 'o f Pittsburgh, acting director >f the department of public welfare, which prepared the report. “The magazines are given over Arrangements For D r i l l to the study of the nude, erotic Team Visit Are Nqw dances, erotic pictures, refined Completed ‘‘Lucky” Lindbergh Has obscenity, u x confessions, sex ‘‘Spirit of St. Louis” stuff. What purpose they urve June 7 the special fire drill Dismantled except to stimulate a morbid and which is being staged by a train­ licentious curiosity, is not clear. ed tyre/squad In connectlen with LONDON, May 81. —(IP)—King There cannot be any mode seduc­ the oburvance of Fire Preven­ George today received Charles tive u x lure, coarse, lewd and tion Week, wilk be preunted In Liadbergh at Buckingham Palace nasty suggestlveness than is found Ashland, according to Fire Chief and bestow«! on the trane-Atlan- in these magazines.” Clint Baughman. He aviator the Air Force Cross. The habit of publicizing porno­ “Lucky .visited the English Chief Baughman made arrange­ graphic magazines as “art** stud­ King attar -he said an revoir to ments for the visit of the spaelal his monoplane “The Spirit of St. ies is attacked by Dr. Claadyr^— squad in this city. The visitors Art is uplifting,*’ states his Lonie*’ which carried him on ■ his will include Cliare L u , state Look Into . the report. successful flight from New York ____ _ , . pages of marshal, and J. Stevens, ______ , the to Parts, later to Bru— l . where 1 th*“ .wh!C.h U“ word ’‘art'’ in their titles and you j tary* the N»tlonal he was royally entertained by the Association, and a number of king and queen of Belgium, and will find* that art means lewdness other fire chiefs prominent for and that alone. This is a'source then into London..* of pollution, rile, filthy and de­ the work they have done. He flow to a British coast port The squad, which will stage grading. which, unless stopped, where the plsne is to be dis­ the fire drill, whieh includes sev­ mantled for shipment to the Unit­ meant the perversion and deprav­ eral breath.taklng life * saving ity of youth.” ed States. stunts, will cotae etther fom Port­ He plane to return home within land or 8alem. The visit of the a few days. caravan to Ashland will be in the 'morning. A squad of Indian runners, four of which will be chosen to carry the colon of the Oregon Gavemen l-i the Redwood High­ way Indian Marathon, starting from San Francisco for Grants Pass. June 14. trotted through Ashland Sunday. The rnnuers are undergoing intensive train­ ing at a eamp on the Klamath River, delng some road work each day. The husky, braves of the Karck tribe were picked by the Grants Pass Chamber of Com­ merce, and according to J. R. Harvey, manager of the Grants Fase organisation, “These Karck boys, noted for their endurance as runners, áre In the race to wla.” The runners were In track suits and were a husky looking aggre. ration. attracting a lot of atten­ tion as they passed through Ash­ land. '• Body Taken Front River v' ’ vllle; W. B. Dilley, Oakland, for­ merly of Corvallis and Portand; R. L. Chapman, Berkeley,, of Ore­ gon City, Ed Uzaforage, Oakland, formerly from Salem. An Oregon club has existed In California for some time and learning* of the propoud South­ ern Oregon picnic, members of this group cooperated, and the former president of this organiza­ tion, Mrs. Lillian Bristow-Perkins, formerly of Grants Pass now, of Oakland,- was made an honorary tnembers of the new committee.' Amohg those who attended the reunion, wass Mrs. A. H. Russell of Ashland, now 93 years old, who is visiting la California. Mrs. Russell is one of the pioneers of the Ashland district, coming t>o Oregon in 1853 across the plains in wagons pulled by ox teams. Among thou who registered at the picnic, who were former Ash­ land residents were: Mrs. A. H. Russel, Percey P. Grtsey, Margorie Gillette. Lucy Davis, Eunice Da- vls-Swartont, Gladys Nprton-Wid- ley, Teresa Reinhart-Norton, E. J. Neville, Jack C. Wldley, Cecil (Please Turn to Page 2) FIRE CHIEFS a Crater Lake COME JU N E 7 Road to be % ■ Open July 1 PILOT VISITS ENGLISH KING Marathon Race Runners Train BOLD IN CALIFORNIA • Friday morning at 10 o’clock the first annual eighth grade com­ mencement exercises will be held at the Chautauqua building, ap­ proximately 100 boys and girls who have completed their work at the As'hlapd Junior high school re­ ceding their diplomas. The address will be delivered by Attorney Wm. Briggs. Miss Ila Myers, prlnclpalWf the junior high school will present the class with their diplomas. Rev. H. F. Pemberton, pastor of the M. E. church, will offer invocation and benediction. Music will be fur­ nished by the high school orches­ tra. • A Special Invitation is being ex­ tended to the public to attend EUGENE. May 81.— ftp)—The these exercises. body of Harold Mangnm, editor- elect of the Oregon Emerald, ltu- dent publication; was recovered from the Willamette rlVer yester­ day. » Children playing In the Munici­ pal auto park saw the body float­ ing down'the rlvef two qtilee be- .Former residents Of Montana, low th« point where Mangum was now residents of Jackson county, drowned ndarty three weeks ago. will hold their annual picnic, ' NO BAND Sunday, June 8 at the Riverip For the first time la many years Park located between Gold Hill and Giants Pau. ‘ A program of there was no band . to head the music and speaking Ts being pre­ Memorial Day parade In Ashland. pared. Thou attending are The head leader has bean absent asked to bling baskets filled With from the city tor several months the “makin’s” of a picnic dinner. and members of the city band Coffee will be served on the have not yet organised for this grounds.' . ’ Montana Folks - T o Hold Picnic ASHLAND, OREGON, (United Prep» W ire Servlet) «Hb FAIR VOTE ON WATER BONDS BEING POLLED Mear 100 Eighth O r a d o Boys and Girls >WU1 be Graduated at First Annu, An al Junior H i g h Oom- Mencement to he Held Friday Morning. per for Over Fifty Years (Unite!. Mewa w ir« ferrica) TWELVE VETS ARE PRESENT Attendance a t' Memorial Services Sunday at M. E. Church Good “We do not glorify war -but we honor thou who offered them­ selves as human ucrtflces for love of country and an ideal,” Rev. H. F. Pemberton, pastor of the M. E. church said Sunday In a Memorial Day sermon. Twelve of the 14 members of the Ashland G. A. R. attended the •services. In view of the fact that the youngest veteran tn the group w u past 88 years old, and dll are quite feeble, the attendance was unusually good. • Members of the W. R. C. a lu Fere present at the services. The center section of the chnrch wm reserved for th u honored gqests at the services. The altar wm moat attractive with Its baskets of Xummer blossoms. Pinedo PIhne Safe in Port HORTA, Asores, May 81.— (IP) —Cheerdd by officials and resi­ dents, despite the failure of hto flight from Trepassey, Newfound­ land, Commander Frances de Pinedo, Italian four-continent fly­ er, arrived here Monday aboard the Italian steamer Snperga. The Santa Marta, II, de Pine­ do’s plane, was In town of the Superga. It hM suffered little damage upon being forced * down nearly a week ago 300 miles north of Azores. - ' ASHLAND FOLKS BROADCAST The Ashland high school trio, composed of R om Alkene, cello; Floy Young, violin end Mary Oaley, piano, will broadcast from KMBD from 9 o’clock to 10 o’clock tonight. Mrs. J. Gore of Medford will sing uveral selec­ tions. . ’ Clearing the road to Crater Lake, now deeply packed with snow and ice started today. A crew of ten laborers, whose ef­ forts will be augmented by a five ton caterpillar tractor started the task. Some preliminary work was already done. This crew of five men will be enlarged later as every effort to to Se msde to have the road cleared by July 1, the official opening date of the Crater Lake u a u n , according to C. G. Thomson, superintendent of the Crater Lake National Park. M ethodists Plan Picnic Eight hundred Methodists are expected to be In Ashland Thurs­ day, June 16, when all Southern Oregon Methodist will picnic In the Llthla Park. Methodists from Grants Pau, . SALE SUCCESSFUL Wllderville, Medford, Talent Legion Auxiliary members 'sold Klamath Falls and Ashland are to all of the 1,750 memorial popples be 'included in the affair. Speakers during the th r u day sale held of prominence' will be secured for the occasion. l u t week. Pioneers THREE FAST LOSE BY ASHLAND Close Scores and Brilliant Plays Features Week-end Schedule—Oral Robbins is Hero of Monday g a m e With First Home Run of Season MANAG / FOR HOTEL HERE iRAHS OF I Eric Hauser, Portland Hotel • Man, Takes Charge of Local Business A contract between The Llthian Hotel company of this city and The Multnomah Hotel Corporation of Portland for a 10-year lease of the Lithla Springs hotel has been completed, according to J. W. Mc- coy and J. H. Hardy, who have b u n In Portland for several day# negotiating the contract. This followed the voluntary re­ linquishment last week by R. W. Price of the 10-year leau, with eight years still to run, on the Llthla Springs Rote!, as previously announced jn The Tidings. Eric Hauser, who is connected With The Multnomah Hotel cor­ poration, and his wife arrived in Ashland yesterday and will re­ main here for several days while the Change in the lease, which to to become effective tonight at mid­ night, Is being made. Mr. Hauser stated to the di­ rectors that he was well pleaud with the condition of the property and optimistic about the possibili­ ties here. A resident manager has been selected, according to in- formation given The Daily TJd- tngs. He is now connected wlth a hotel in St. Paul, Minn., and will not be able to arrive here for several days, according to the announcement. Additional members of the Multnomah Hotel corporation will arrive today to assist in making the change of lease holders. Ashland BOAS played in hard luck over the weekend and drop­ ped three straight games, each a tensely fought, well played con­ test with the scores telling little of the real atory. Scores were: Coumbia University, 5; Ash­ land BOAS, 4. Klamath Falls, 9; BOAS, 5. Yreka, 11; BOAS, 9. Harrlsoq, l u t season Medford star twirler, pitching for the Boas did fine moundwork. In the game with the Yreka team played Sun­ day afternoon at the Jackson Hot Spring diamond, Harrtoon struck out nine of the-Californians, who won their game with two runa, by hitting at the time when hit­ ting meant scores. Haffner, pitch, ing for the Yreka aggregation, had but two strike-outs to hto credit. Robbins, who was out of the game Saturday afternoon because of an injured foot, wm the hero of the game lionday afternoon, when In the seventh Inning, with the bases full, and the score standing 10 tq four in favor of the Californians, he clouted a home run, scoring three men in addition to himself and bringing the score up to 10 to eight. This XT wm the .big Inning for tfie B om , Pressure B r e a who scored one run In e a c b o f the ucond, fifth and ninth in­ onnection on New nings. Water Main —y — ’ The Yreka team started out H stru t wkr flooded well by scoring four runs la the first Inning of the game. The to Pionur struts Saturday night fourth inning, a lucky hit by when the connection of a lead to a Cassidy, brought two men in newly Jnatalled hydrant broke at home, and Rooney, hitting at the the main, and the water spouted right tftaie scored two more rune. forth in a heavy stream. There is heavy pressure on the Five run# were made in this in­ ning. In each of the third and new mains and hydrant connec­ ninth inning's, one run was scored tions are left uncovered until the connections are thoroughly making the total of 11 runs. Yreka players had six errors tested. The break occurred at a checked against them while the hydrant Installed Saturday at the Boas without the eight errors Intersection of First and B struts. Earl Hosier, who Is supervis­ checked against them, might have had a different score to their ing the installation of the new wa­ credit. Seven hits were credited ter mains in the. city wm called and the water in tie main wm (Please Turn to Page 3) shut off until the broken connec­ tion was repaired. . Water flooded the atreet to a depth of five Inches, running over the curbing onto the sidewalks. BSTREET / FLOODED GIANT OVEN INSTALLED G. M. Franklin purchases $3,000 Electrical Equipment ( Installation of a mammoth, eight ton, electrically heated fven, was made in the O. M. .Franklin bakery Sunday. The big oven, with a capacly of 600 loaves oY bread at one time, ones of the largest and finest ov ens to be secured, wm purchased at an approximate cost of 33,000, According to Mr. Franklin. The new equipment replaces all other ovens In the Franklin bkkery. Installation was completed dun- day and the oven wm used Mon­ day. Moving the giant oven, which weighs a little more than 38,000 pounds, and which arrived on a flat bottom car, completely as­ sembled. was a task which re­ quired three trucks and 18 men and approximately IS hours of herd labor. The oven arrived from Seattih at the Southern Pacific station Saturday morning. Shortly af­ ter 9 o’clock the work of moving the oven from the station to the bakery was started by the F. F. Whittle transfer company. The oven was moved on rollers, la mnoh the same manner used In moving a building. The rather steep grade oa B street made the Journey from the T" (Please Tarn to Page Two) Gray - Haired and Feeble Soldiers' Participate in Memorial Observance at Cemetery — Judge 0. M. Thomas Delivers Address at I. 0 . 0 . F. Hall With fitting ceremonies Mem­ orial Day was observed in Ash­ land. ' Business was suspended and during the morning hours special services were held to honor the memory of thou who have passed on. The Mountain View, Hargadine, Ashland cemeteries, and the Mauuleum were beautiful with their wealth of summer bios« soms of brightest hues. Peonies, rosles, snow balls and Iris were in abundance this year for decora« tiye purpous. The usual Memorial Day parade procession was formed at 10 * o'clock at the Plase, with school children, members of Co. B., O. N. G., and a large number of auto­ mobiles Ine line. Previous to this brief memorial ceremonies were held by members of the W. R. C. at Ashland Crek in memory of the soldier-sailor dead. 'ServlcM held at the Memorial stone at Ashland cemetery were spbken by Mrs. Fielding repre­ senting the D. A. R. Chapter of Ashland. Judge C. M. ThomM spoke fitting words of tribute to thex memory of the soldier dead of this the I. 0. Qt T. kail, (ollewlng the ceremony-wt the cemetery. Two vocal nhxihers sung by V. D. MUler wm also a pleMlng fea­ ture of this program. ■■ A' pfehte* diwner at tlte* doow hour enjoyed by the W. R. C. and * G. A. R., ended the memorial ser­ vices of the day. v ’ i ' i » i i jfllM .'i'' HERE TODAY Shrinera and From Neigk Attend Re Towns. From Medford, Klamath Falla,, and Grants Pass Shrinera an<^ their ladles camo to Aahlaad to-»" day to attend the annual spring ceremonial of Hillah Temple be­ ing held in the Armory here. The reunion started thia afternoon at 3:80 with a business session. As banquet at 6 o,’clock this evenlag' will be followed by a program and^ dance at the Armory at 8 o’clock. The Armory wm beautifully decorated for the 'occasion, under the direction of F. F. Whittle o t this elty. chairman of the decorat-, ing committee. *- Mrs. W. H. McNair Is la charge, of a delightful entertalnmeah> which Shrinera’ ladles are enjoy­ ing this afternoon In the Masonic club rooms. Representatives ot H i l l a h Temple leave for the east late this week, by a special train upon? sored by the Nile Tempi« of Seat­ tle. to attend the Imperial Coun­ cil to be held at Atlantic City. -------------------— T Conductor on . S J .K ille d Struck by aa eMt-bouad freight train In the Southern Phetftd yards at Dunsmuir, a eoadeetor named Hoxie, wm klled shortly before midnight Saturday. Horid jumped to avoid a week heaad train and landed directly la the path of tha freight. Far the last foar years he had made the run between Klamath Fall» and Deaa^ mulr. He waa 88 years M married. Hto home wee is mulr. ' GBNBVA, UaUed Stete» the secretariat of NaUeae Monday that fe e pov It would at 4 p. m^ Jaae 89.