Ashland’s
toted Honor
Means Naught
Says Senator
B a R c h o r s Evada
1. 8 . Bowers, Recently
jured When Struck
An Automobile N am
Escapes In Early II
ing Accident — B:
Bands Bad.
In Forma
News To
Of Out
HOLLWOOD., Cal., Jape 81.—
(LP) — Hollywood, the world’s
greatest rumor center, was exceed
ing its'own naual output Friday
night.
Speculation hinged on whether
the high-priced stars of the film
colony w or^ going to accept sal
ary cate of from 19 to SB per
cent', announced by the Motion
P» t »200 And flMod
Picture Producers’ association.
In many cnees, it whs predict
ed, stars woald not^be ashed to
Arraigned before Judge J. L.
submit to the general slabbing of
Roe,
of Jacksonville, ~and charg
incomes.
Open rebellion is ox-
POcted from a greet many of the, ed with illegal transportation of
film celebrities, humble submis liquor. '»Big Jim” Aldridge of
.Klamath Falls pleaded guilty and
sion from other«.
Late Friday night only one must pay a fine ef 9190 aad
company had officially naked its costs aad serve 19 days In the
players to Join la the revision of county Jail. Unable to pay the
salaries. Warner Brothers issued fine Aljdridge. who hut three
a statement saying all employes weeks ago was released fro m the
had agreed to take from 19 to Multnomah county Jail, where he
SB per cent lees pay la the newl served six months aa a non-eap-
step to "stabilise the motlen pie-1 port charge will "lay out" the
fine in the Jacksonville Jail.
M. C. Thompson of Klamath
BUrs on the Warner Brothers’
payroll effected are Moats Bins, Falls was driving Aldridge’s ear
Dolores Costellg aad Irene Bleb. when Aldridge was taken into
" It seemed like the only thing custody pleaded not guilty to a
tft do under the circumstances," c h a rg e 'o f posssesioo p l a c e d
against him. lie w ill be given a
Bine eaid.
Billie Dove, Mary Astor, Rich- bearing before Judge Roe next
’LEGGERGETS
told tbs United Press there had
been no move to pah them to Jota
the salary shakq-up. gills said "fie
was coaldent no such jneve.-itould
John Gilbert, Crefe OdrW.
Norma Shearer, Renee Adoree.
Metro-GOOd wyn-Mayer store, re
served comment on the stteatlen.
None of them bad been approach
ed. they said.
Executives at Paramount, where
the economy program whs first
announced, mid they expected to
confer Individually with each of
their sure next week.
Trouble was predicted for this
organisation from Fela Negri,
Clara Bow. Bebe Daniels and
other high-salaried stars under
contract. Miss Negri, who Is said
to be receiving 96099 a week from
Paramount, declined to disease
the proposed slash. - Miss Bow
said it could bq better discussed
after the had^been asked to take
a reduction, am} Miss Daniels said
she wasn’t "worrying about I t "
Medford Gets
Big Battery
Galeria and Reed, sensational
battery J n ) » the Northern Cali
fornia baseball league w ill report
for dnty with the Medford Pear
pickers for their two games with
the Coos Bay champions which Is
to feature a three day celebra
tion of the Coos district folks.
FILL VOTE ONT 7
ONElffiALEVY
One of the issues to he passed
upon by the people of Jackson
county nt the special election to
be held next Tuesday, June 28,
la the one m ill levy for the pur
pose of securing funds for the
completing the bnilding program
at the J a c k s o n county fa ir
grounds.
T h s bnilding program w a s
started elk years ago and has now
grown to sueh an extent that the
fair beard sees no way of financ
ing the necessary Improvements
other than through the one mill
levy.
Temporary quarters which have
been need are said to be too
costly aad expensive.
The e x p e n s e * of temporary
honsing ia the peat few years
has grown to be approximately
'84999 each year.
According to the bnilding plans
one of the ffrst bnildings to be
constructed wonld be for school
exhibits.
Additional room for
live stock, a hall for the exhibit
ing of autos and machinery, spec
ial attention to forestry exhibits,
n rabbit building npd additional
comfort stations arc nil planned,
Yreka Golf Fans Mourn Loss Of
Pet Rattlesnake-Course Mascot
usefni on a golf ©ourse lf (rained
to rattle a signal designating the
location of a lost hall. T M T re k *
course was lucky to have each a
reptlle until Jnst lately; new it la
without, because a member, T .
P. Brown, chiropractor, vdMglor-
lonsly alow the serpent while the
letter was oa duty.
O. O. strata, another golfer who
knew the rattler well sad helped
to make It a pet, aad ww daly
was rare of the Joeatloa.
"The club president waa about
to do the suitable thing and im-
pose a fine whoa It wan dlseover-
ed that Steele, in making bin mo-
tion. had failed to adhere to strict
Lion'dcoorum whoa patting a mo-
tton before the house affecting a
snake.
Accordingly, the oppor-
tnatty to path Brown was lost,
..
M‘#re a,e
appreciative of Its a la r« system
®°, r “
when a ball could not bo located,
Anya who have to search
tried to get even with Brown at Mreortiy tor their straying apher-
tbe Lions d ab hy suggesting that (olds' with oat their late araistdat**
LOS ANGELES. June Î6 .— OP)
— W ith a terrific r ia r heard over
a radian of several miles, dynamite
intended to- destroy thd* Loa
Angela« sequeduct was exploded
last night, near Lone Pine. The
latest attempt was the fifth nn-
sneoeeefal effort made within a
month. The plan failed when the
aide of a cliff which wee expected-
to move Into the open eoncruto
waterway was loosened and
«book hat stopped nt the edge
of the ncqneduct.
Guards have been sent to the
valley and ordered to shoot on
Bight anyone" loitering near the i
aaaadnet which furnishes Lot
Angèles with its water supply.
The dynamiting Is the climaxing
of -# battle between the ranchers
nhd the city of Los Angeles, the
former claiming they were never
adequately repaid fo r damage Daddy's bringing home a fta fi)A re t& a t
done in the bnilding of the acque-1 the pan,” The president proudly is ah
duct.
.
trout he caught la bis first tussle with :
' Wholesale indictments of those I Roy’’ is eyeing tba catch »uspictoftety. w k
it off. Guides praised the nlmtodship i
> i i
“panned waiter,
BISHOP WILL
Archbishop Howard Will
Oondnct Examination Of
L ocalF eop le
•
Portland, head of the CathoHd
church in Western Oregon, will
administer the sacrament of con
firmation to 17 children in the
church of Oar Lady o f the Moun
tain Sunday afternoon.
Seventeen children have com
pleted preparatory work Under the
direction of Father A. J. Carmody
and w ill be examined'and receive
sacrament at the services. Bene
diction Of the Blessed Sacrament
and a Procession from the church
Will be a part of the services.
The candidates w ill be dressed
In white, the girls wearing the
o Fourth Person Involved
In Holdup, Staled State
ments
Of
Crime Are Saase A* Told
In Interview» With News
paper Men.
Two automobile accidents oc
curred early '/.la morning in the*
Ashland territory resulting in
damages to flve automobiles.
At 9:45 o’clock J. 8. Bowers,
enroute, to his work 'with the Pn-
fclfic highway maintenance crew
working in the Siakiyoua, drove
south onto the Pacific hghway
off the Klamath highway nt
Klamath Falls Junction. Just ns
he made the turn a north bound
Ford sedan driven by John Stra-
ley of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, struck
the Ford touring car driven by
Bowers, and threw it 'in t o the
ditch.
Bowers ¡was slightly injure«.
His car was damaged. Straley, a
stranger in the state waa unfam
iliar with state traffic regulations
and agreed to be responsible for
all damages. He was not placed
i under arrest'by Traffic Officer C.
P. Talent, who investigated the
i wreck.
i
Mr. Bowers but recently recov-
ered from Injuries received when
he wan struck by an automobile
which failed to observe traffic
signs indicating the state high
way crew were at work.
Thos. Kapaabelis, Weed, Cali
fornia, was fined 110 and costs by
■i»»t<« ^ t h e _p « s ^ r L r a . Roh-
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 25.
erta this morning when he pleaded
(LP)— Aaron Sapiro baa been oi
guilty to a Charge of operating big
ed from his powerful ptoiijon
Chevrolet coupe without properly
general opnneel o f the Amerit
adjusted brakes.
Kapaabelis was driving North
announced today. The executive la their, power t o - ia p m * <** te - on M ain street when in frbht of
committee fgRed to re-elect him ttoaai government la reclamation the Ashland hotel he struck a
at a meeting held In tigy. Nfcws work.In eoatherjr Oregon, Senator Ford tonring caf owned by Henry
of t M ousting Was withheld for Charles McNary-and Senator Fred Onley, local real estate man. The
fear of the effect it might here in Stejwer Friday evening (old mem7 Ford was parked along side of the
Saplros suit against Henry Ford hers of the Ashland Chamber of street and when struck by the
for damages for alleged. slender. Commerce they were much Inter XtepsabeOis car bumped Into a
Abe Waldaner, a y o a t.h f n 1 ested in the irrigation projects Chevrolet owned by George Wolfe
Memphis attorney i a e c « e d i they have Inspected-on their three of Medford. Both cars were dam
day visit Jn the action ¡of the aged.
Sapiro.
•'
•tote. : ",
•
Officer Talent who investigat
More than, 66 were In nttend- ed the wreck found the car with
MRDFORD DOCTOR HONORED ance at the Chamber of Commerce out brakes and Kapsabells agreed
dinner held in the Lltbla Springs to pay for damage done to the
Dr. Arthur F. Weeks of Port
hotel dining roem Friday evening Galey and Wolfe cars.
land waa named president and
to 'h o n o r' Gm -two senators and
A short time Inter, a Ford
Dr. R. R. Elliott of Medford, viee
Coagruanaaaa N. T. Sinnott. ’
car
driven by n local man struck
president of the Oregon State |
another
car parked in front of the
dental association.
turn to Page Three)
Plaza cafe.
Little damage was
Sapiro Ousted
:
By Cotton Men
IS DISCUSSED
dofie.
GRADUATION
PERCENT HIGH
The graduating classes for the
eighth grade of the county
schools showed some gain In
standards this year according to
County 8uperlntendeQt Susnnne
Homes Carter. There were 118
pupils listed
for graduation.
From town schools, not includ
ing Ashland and Medford, 104
wrote examinations and 84 re
ceived diplomas. This was 81 per
cent of -the total.
Seven per
cent failed hnd 18 per cent were
conditioned.
From the rnrnl on», two and
three-teacher schools, 114 wrote
examinations, 87 received dip
lomas, or 70 per cent, while 18
per chat failed and 11 per cent
were conditioned.
"We should graduate a higher
per centage of eighth grade
pnpiis, and this would be pos
sible through a standardization
of the work,” Mrs. Cnrtsr says.
ROTS TO WORK
Superintendent Henry W.
Myers nt the penitentiary
said he wouM put the three
brothers nt hard labor la the
lime and flax plants at the
prison. HI> anderetand they
have been working in steel
aad they ought to bo able to
stead the hard work" M
•aid.
.
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LAST GAME OF
BALL SUNDAY
B om Meet Pearpickers On
Oonntv Fairwronndg For
Final Contest
The last game of the first half
of the Southern Oregon Baseball
League for the Ashland Boas is
to be played Sunday when the
‘ local aggregation w ill tangle bats
with the rejuvenated Pearpickers
of
1 Medford nt the connty fair
grounds.
1
, Both the Pearpickers and the
Boas-upset
ail dope last Sunday
'
when they won their games from
Grants Pass and Klamath.
The Pearpickers last Sunday
displayed the classiest Infield in
Signed confessions of Roy, Ray
and Hugh D’Autremoat. eontain-
Ing practically the same Informa
tion contained in the interviewed
confessions given newspaper men.
were made public Friday. .
The confessions were at first
withheld from the press but later
the written consent of the killers
for the publication was given.
The confessions set at rest the
numerous reports that a fourth
man w m Implicated la the crime.
The confessions cover 49 type
written sheets of paper— the eoa-
fesslon of the qnarelous Roy cov
ering 10 pages, lees (Ban two
pages to the murder, the remaind
er to a rambling discussion of in
cidents which led ap to the com
mitting of the.heinous crime on
October 11, IM P . — —-—
Ray D’Antremont told hie story
in mneh. fswsr words than his
twin brpther, his story covering ■
19 loosely typewritten pages.
The honfeeslon of Hugh Was
much more brief tbna that of bln
brothers.
In closing Me statsmeats bo
says:
“I bad a story made np to M l
on the stand bat when Bay « M
^ L ja d
the
League, aad ptayed'SHhoei hot M l it.
1
‘ an errorless game during the ten
Innings with the Cavemen. It la
on that Infield that they are bas
ing their hopes of winning frdm
the local aggregation.
Parr Favors Bill Closing
Nestufcca Bay And Tri
butaries To Nota
Game Warden Roy Parr urges
voters of this county to vote Yen
next Tuesday On the state bill,
32S which provides for the cloa-
llng of the Nestucca river to nets.
The bill is listed aa the "Nestucca
Bay Fish Closing B ill" and Its
purpose la to prohibit the taking
or fishing for salmon or other
fish food In Nestucca Bay and Ito
tributaries nt any time, by any
means whatsoever, except with
hook and line.
Uss of nets la the stream threat
ens extermination of the salmon
and steel head (rout, according to
Parr, and the catch of fish taken
by commercial fishermen is con
stantly decreasing.
Ths hlH ia being backed hy
sportsmen all y e r the state.
C H U R C H ILL 8PBAK8
President J. A. Churchill of the
Southern Oregon Normal spoke
Friday evoaiag at the Live Oak
Orango hall. Rogna River, on the
connty Unit system.
caught, I could
I told it to the at
torneys, but I did not tell the at-"
torneya for
Bxfiass that f com
mitted the robbery.
"Thia is a voluntary statement
and in made fresly apd o< a y own
..... ~
.
aeeord."
The confessions repeat In de-~
tail all of the Moody, told heart- I
ed murder.
SCHOOLMAN
FAVORS UNIT
Commenting on the connty
unit system President J. A. Chur->
chili in speaking before rural
folks this wash waa made the
following statements:
"Portland years ago consisted
of several school districts. Enstk
side aad West Portland? Slabtown*
and the Heights had separate,
school systems. The time earns?
when the wealthy families could
no longer say *we w ill care for
oar own because we are able, let*
the mill and the river front folks
take care of themselves.*
The
entire city became a school unit*
to maintain equal school privet-*
egee for Portland boys and girls.
One school hoard, instead of a
dosen. oae superintendent, in
stead of twelve, now maintain
the Portland system of which all
Oregon is proud.
"The counties of Oregon have
the earns task before them that'
of giving equal privileges to
country boy and town boy; to’
children of tbs bills and to chil
dren of*the valley. Just as Pert-
land coaid not secure uniform
school advantages # for all bar
children without putting every
dollar of Portland property be
hind her schools and piecing her
school under one m a n a g i n g
Funny Ford Theft Is Made And
Imaginary Vehicle May
Theft of Imaginary, prelimin
ary end experimental advertise
ments from the offices of the na
tional advertising council of the
Ford Mot?r company, hy a news
agency, has heea reported.
The advertising material wan
purely imaginary, according to a
report reeelvbd from the agency
reporting the theft to every news
paper la the United Stotra aad