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for Over Fifty Years (V alta* Premi W ir« l a uto») AY, JUNE 30, 1927 H 1 Ì I f U i i J 1 L3 FARMERS LIKE OREGON STATE Visit in Willamette Valley and Lower Columbia River Region Toung A r m y Lieutenants Disappointed Whan War Department Reíase» to G r a n t Permission f o r Homs Flight—fete d by Islanders. WASHINGTON, J u te SO. — War deportment affidato HONOLULU, Jana SO.-— <IP>— Lieutenants Lester J. ffaltlead sad Albert Hegenberger, frat aviators to croes the broad Pa cific sad heroes were at pooa today ready to m a w their re- "Rogue River valley orchard- lata should conserve their water supply sad not waste it,*' says B. B. Newell. Irrigation engineer of the Hood River district who to making a tour ot the valley. The new low pressure Irriga tion system was thrown into op eration at the Hillcrest orchard Wednesday and Newell was en thusiastic over the result. This system of percolation and econ omic distribution of water will net. the growers an Increase of thousands of dollars a year and conserve the water supply for surrounding orchards he said. Under some systems of irrigation more than 'one third the water supply to wasted, he said. VIOLATED FOUR LAWS Guilty to Many Traffic Violations A. L. Rice, chief building lu- c specter of Klamath Falls was ar- t rested by State Traffic Officer C. P. Talent Wednesday evening, i with four traffic violations charg ed against him. g •Btot.w as driving a Buiek coupe with inadequate brakes, driving in a reckless manner by passing L M i r on curves, driving 42 miles an hour withla the city limits and oparntota U- Acclaims* as no human I haH been feted siuw Mi Fein eheee these totonds ft home, two young American army aviators Wednesday afternoop slept soundly after conquering th* elements in the first non-stop flight ever made between the mainland and Hawaii. Lieut. Lester J. Maitland and Lient. Albert Hegenberger, proud, happy and tired, were secluded In the luxurious roof suite of the R o y a l Hawaiian hotel while thonaaads of men and Woman, pouring .out their enthnaiaam in the most Spontaneous outburst Honolulu h is seen, elamored for a sight of these men who had de sired fate and won. After slightly leas the» 1« hoara of flying, through fair weather and storm, light and darknaaa, at speeds ranging from 7» to near.ly 130 miles an hoar, the fliers who left the Oakland airport at 7:10 a. m. Tuesday, landed nt Wheeler field, Honolulu at 3:6» a. m. Wednesday, Pack fle standard time. They had conquered the Pa cific easily. As If making a last frenzied attempt to retain its age- dld domination of the air, the ocean kicked up a storm around Hawaii Just before the fliers arrived. Message« Home The United Prom delivered m essages from the parents of both men. (Please Turn TO Pag« Five) In response to a widespread de mand the Woodrow Wllaon Foundation has Increased the scope of the prise essay contest by adding to the two 315,00» Wises offered »3 smaller prtoee totalling 17,000, according to a communi cation received by J. ft. FuUSv, local Chamber ot Commerce sec retary. The purpose ot th« Foundation, according to tho offtoer, 1a to In duce young people to understand the Ideals and principles Of Wood- row Wilson. Man and . ’womStt who have passed their twehtleth birthday are eligible for nfitrance In the contest. Articles are to he of no more than 1400 words, an* »re to ba written on th« subject "What Woodrow Wllaon Manns to Me.” PLAN NEW ORDINANCE Within Limita is ( Problem Disposal of city garbage to oc- cnpylng the attention of city eouncllmen and members of the sanitary committee at the present time. With City Solicitor Wm. Briggs, eouncllmen are working on an ordinance which will pro vide for city regulations. A num ber of propositions are under con sideration. Tho sanitary commit tee will probably report at the council meeting next Tuesday eve ning with a recommendation that an ordinance which is being worked oat be accepted. GAR STOLEN • Report of the theft of an auto mobile frojn Dunsmuir, Califor nia at midnight Wednesday was received by Night Police Chas. Clause early Thursday morning, A lookout was kept in this city for the stolen machine. Enthusiasm In connection with the Aohland-Talent Irri gation District July Fourth celebration la increasing all the time and a big crowd will undoubtedly attefid th« cele bration according to those in charge. The old-fashioned picnic Idea has appealed to many folks and they are planning to spend at’ least the morn ing hours at the Hyatt Dam where the festivities are scheduled to take plaoe. Among the youngsters Sec retary W. P. Walters finds a lot ot enthusiasm and Inter est In the gam es which are being planned for their pleasure. The Talent District folks are displaying as equal am onnt o t attention an d to- t er Set in the affair. Damp Life Was Much En joyed by 47 Enlisted Men and Officers Composing Battery B Unit — Troops Entrained for Home at 5:30 a. m. Wednesday. Bronzed and sunburned, it was a healthy looking lot of aoldiers who arrived in Ashland this morning gfter spending 1* days at Fort Stevens, at the regular.O. N. G. summer .training camp. Forty-aeven enlisted men of Battery B 24»th Coaet Artillery, together with their three offic ers, Captain L. G. Slack, Lieuten ant Clyde Young and Lieuteaant J. Q. Adams reached Ashland this morning. The troops were entrained from camp at S:SO o’clock yesterday morning and went as far as Port land In day- coaches, reaching that city at 0:80 a. m. Wednesday night at 11:30 the Roseburg, Grants Pass. Medford and Ash land companies were entrained on a special train and the home ward. trip alerted. » Every detail of the camp at Fort Stevens this year was most desirable according to Lieutenant Clyde Young. Buttery B did ex ceptionally uraU in target work, making three hits out of a pos "Señora X" to in the market fur Lady Bountiful offers to hash fij •▼UOor sible eight. Bain was owe of the wnAttr- race ter Oto |Xt.6<to prise effevfi sb le feature« of the camp and It las. Tex., to Hongkong. Chin».' rained every day with the excep- through the Dallas Chamber of Commutes, to that th« aviator must taka her along. ilott ot two while the men 7 were In training. The artillery from Ft. Stevens and the infantry from Camp Clat NEW YORK, June SO.— sop were reviewed by Governor (IP)—Lou Gehrig. New York Patterson and high government Jackson county may not have a first baseman hit his 25th /A ill' )fficlals last Saturday. All dur fair this year as the result of ing the review work the men home run of the season in a the re|eetlon of the one-mill levy marched in a downpour of rain. gqme with Boston today and by vdtors of county. Directors passed Babe Ruth in the four will meet Monday evening, and base marathon. nnleoa! funds can be raised by Ruth has 24 homers to his other '.means It to likely there eredit. Gehrig hit in the will' hip no fair thia fall It to first Inning and scored Ruth and- Morehart ahead of him. said. . . Western Oregon received high praise from 20 farmers from Iowa North and South Dakota and Min nesota when they spent the week end visiting points of interest. The group, brought west by the Northern Pacific railway, under the direction of,H. W. Byerly. General Immigration Agent, was filled with enthusiasm after they, had been showered with hospital ity by commercial organisations throughout the WUamette Valley and the Lower Columbia region. Accompanied by T. F. Lang and L. E. Lowe of the Northern Pa cific railway, and representatives of the Land Settlement Depart ment of the Oregon State Cham ber of Commerce and tho Port land Chamber, the mlddlewest- ern farmers were taken by the Washington county delegation to Beaverton where they visited Johnson’s onion farm; thence to Hillsboro, stopping at Hire's alf alfa farm and the Ray Mating Cannery. At Forest Grove. Behr- man's dairy and Ihrick’s straw berry farm as well as walnut and prune orchards attracted the vis itors. Bates’ combination dairy and poultry far/n at Gaaton re ceived a visit. Giant Fokker “ America*' Plows Through Great Sleet Storms and Pogs Over Vastness of Atlantic Ooean— Radio Log Sent Prom Plane—Byrd Congratulates Honolulu Fliers in Afr Message. Bulletins LEBOUBGET FIELD—Byrd’s monoplane America arrived in vicinity of Lebonrget early this morning, bul because of fog, darkness and bad compass, experience? (diyiculty in finding airdrome. ’ United States radio picked up a message from America, saying “ we are fly ing around with bad eompas; cannot find airdrome or landing ground.” At this hour, 7:50 p. m. Thursday, Eastern daylight time, the America had not yet beeu sighted. PARIS, June 30.—(IP)—Comiqander Byrd and his , crow of three in the monoplane “ America” through rain and darkness, made their way to France after a heart breaking flight through freeaing fog. Through a drenching and terrific downpour of rain the Byrd plane made its way along a southern route in DIAMOND LAKE France — a route well lighted from Cherbourg to Paris. The plane was moving slowly at the finish, scarcely ROADS OPENED 80 miles an hour. A tremendous ovation awaited-the conquerors of tho- Mndholes Are Few and Fish ocean vastness. turned PARIS—Unconfirmed messages this afternoon report, ed that an.airplane resembling that of Commander Byrd passed over Landisvisiau, 25 miles east of Brest at 3:9ft p. m. Eastern daylight time. A message from Brest Me- reported the plane passed over that city at 3:20 Eastern daylight time. Dr. C. A. Haines, with Q. M. Franklin and others, returned yesterday from Diamond Lake af ter a very pleaaant fishing trip, reports that the roads are in splendid condition to this popular resort, contrary to previous re ports that snow had blocked the road to the lake. Dr. Haines said they encount ered only two mud holes, the on ly obstacle to a perfect road. In cidentally they reported they caught the limit and that the fish Ex-Service Men Must File Application for Renewal were biting everything they fed in Two Days them. TIMELIMIT SOON EXPIR Few Ashland World War vet erans have taken advantage of the government proposition for renpwal of war risk insurance and conversion of Insurance, accord ing to Millard Grubb, commander of the local Legion Post. Expiration of the government offer occnrra on Saturday, July I, and local Legion men are being advised that only two days re main on which they may file papers for securing the govern ment Insurance. The rates are moat favorable, and n continua tion of time was once made by the government In order that all veterans might be given ample opportunity to secure the Insur ance. z ‘ PLAN ROGUE RIVER PATROL State Men Meet With Val ley Sportsmen to Dis cuss Work Matt Ryckman, superintendent t t game fish hatcheries of the state and Hugh Mitchell, super intendent of commercial f i s h hatcheries and Hareld Clifford, state game warden, met with a group of Rogue River valley sptfrismen at Medford Wednesday evening in an informal session to discuss the advisability of pnU tine a special fish warden over all the length of the Rogue River Sportsmen of the valley some time ago started a movement for the.appointment of a game war den for this duty, to look after the prevention of polution of the water, to screen open irrtgatien ditches and keep a highway for them to go up and /ow n to the ocean, and supervise the restock ing of the stream. Definite action on the matter will be taken th« later jtort of thlr. week, OUfford Bald. NEW YORK. Jnne 30.—Oft— « Bridging the Atlantic on a aoa- stop scientific expedition t o ; Paris. Commander Richard B. Byrd and his three aides left the American continent behind them last night and were heading straight as a homing pigeon for the coast of Ireland. The mechanical monster to which the four airmen were un dertaking the moat scientific of all long-dlstanea flights— the tri- motored monoplane America, went snorting ont to son off the coast of Newfoundland shortly before 7 p. m.. Eastern daylight time. . Reports received by backers at the flight at Roosevelt field Indi cated the plant encountered considerable trouble over New foundland and that Byrd had great difficulty in navigating his craft. "Dense fog covers all New foundland," Byrd radioed at «:»• p. m. “Getting above It and have had adverse winds. Impossible Old Newspaper Has Interesting Item s o f News o f 75 Years "Horae thieves, more arrests, fire, robbery, murder, Indian troubles In Shasta, Jieavy robbery, scene ot desolation,” so read the headlines In no issue of the "Sac ramento News Letters" of July 31, 1IS1. The interesting issue w a s brought to the Tidings office by W. Beeson -ot this city who found the relic among some old papers. A letter was written en the hlaqk page inside the sheet — newspapers serving as both personal and general greetings ia the days of pioneer life in the LIGHT RAID PLANNED Traffic Officer 0. P. Tal ent and Olin Nichols went to Klamath Palls today to assist traffic officers to conducting a light raid In that eounty. The “one-eyed” driver to to be Kept off t>e highway and light raids planned are a part of tho concentrated ac tion of traffic officers to put a step to the light menace. west. * c The paper to the second leans of the first volame of the Sacra mento News Letters. Qua interesting Item found to the paper concerns the founding of "California City" net* hnoWn as Oakland. Oregon and Which V*ek P T elile Roek « a »hart Um«