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DAY, AUGUST 16, 1927
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FIRES RAGE
IN FORESTS
Crash Kills Pacific JFJy I
LOOT SMALL
TOWN P.
I in Cascades Ripe
reat Disaster,
is Pear
Robbers Secure $4,000
Mail Robbery, Author
ities* State
PORTLAND, Aug. 16. — <LP>
— The condition in the Cascades
are ripe for a fire disaster ac­
cording to forestry department
head.
Forest fires in the Columbia11
I National and Washington leaped
into new. paths of destruction the
district office here was advised
today.
The wind shifted late Monday
and new fires were started. Six
bad fires are biasing, and all
fighters can do is to hold the
blaze in check until the weather
changes.
The only other Na­
tional Forest fire now burning is
In the Olympic Forest, W»«hing-
ton and this is being held under
control.
Four hundred men are on duty
In the Columbia Forest.
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"Ashland Has It."
'‘What?”
Almost everything, members of
(he Lithians who composed tbe
slogan committee decided In se­
lecting, this slogan ns tbs one
most (descriptive of tbe Induce­
ments Ashland has to offer.
Mrs. N. A. Clark, 131, Ohio
street wij| receive the $10 prize
offered by Lithians for the best
slogan submitted In the slogan
campaign. Mrs. Clark sent her
slogan in throngh the Dally Tid­
ings office.
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Cards will be printed bearing
the slogan in bold, outstanding
type and some of the attractions
which will be mentioned are: best
water In the state, best mineral
waters in the state, only lithla
!
Harvesting Started in Very
Few Orchards—Work
Soon Under Way
Just after they had taken off from the San Diego airport en route to San Francisco to enter the
Less than five percent of the Honolulu race, the monoplane bearing Lieutenants, George Co veil and R. S. Waggener, U. 8. N.,
valley Bartlett pear crop Is be­ crashed at Point Loma and burst Into flames, killin g both men. This picture shows firemen trying
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ing picked now but workers wHl to extinguish the flames In the “plane’s wreckage.
be harvesting the fru it In 95 per
cent of the orchards by the latter
part of the week according to L.
P. Wilcox. Packing housese are
in readiness to start sorting and
packing tbe fru it as soon.,as it
comes in. No fruit has yet been Show Lot Reveals Many In
Boston
received at the Ashland Fruit A
taresting fa c ts — Good
PLAYGROUND
WILL CLOSE
FUGITIVE IS
IN CUSTODY
Man Wanted on Auto
beulement Charge H
in California.
Oldest Naval
Officer D ies
HOOD R IVER , Aug. 11.— UP)
— Captain Charles Alexander
Schetky, aged 100 years, Amer­
ica’s oldest naval officer, died at
his home here late Monday after
an Illness of several days. He
fell to the gronnd dead.. , He
celebrated hie one « hundredth
birthday anniversary last March'
M.
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PEARS SLOW
IN RIPENING
Industries mentioned laclude:
Eawmllls, box factory, granite
mining, shale deposits, kaolin de­
posits. cannery, erdamery. datjry-
inr, poultry, hog raising, farming,
stock raising.
Excel leat schools. Ashland as
the home of the Southern Oregon
Normal school, ir e attractions of
the city to be mentioned on the
D. Taylor, but work is expected to
card.
start
at any time.
Hunting and fishing as major
sports and the close proximity of
the city to Crater Lake, Diamond
I-ake, Lake o* . the Woods, and
Klamath Lakes are also mention-1
cd as the reasons why this city is
the best place in the world in
which to live.
Members of the slogah' commit­ Monday, August 22 Set for
“ Swimming F ight,” Miss
tee: Earl Crow, chairman, 8. A.
Carver Announces
Peters, Guy Good and Glenn
Simpson ¿hose the accepted slo­
gan from the more than
200
which were submitted and 'they
expressed belief that ' “Ashland
has it” expressed In the most a&4
tlceable terms the attractions of
the city which not only possess
" It” but everything.
Caids hearing the slogan, and
the list of Ashland attractions
will be printed and broadcast ov­
er the country while it Is expect­
ed merchants will adopt the (Slo­
gan In advertising campaigns.
Claud Leon, wanted by local
police for removing a mortgage^,
automobile /rom the state. Is
held in Quincy, California, ac­
cording to word received by Chief
of Police George, McNabb. Leon
last spring purchased a Chevro­
let touring car from the Auto­
motive shop In this city, then
disappeared before all payments
were made, taking the car with
him. He will be returned here
for trial. Leon was employed In
this city at the time the purchase
was made.
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,g Mystery Surrounds Return of “ Oklahoma” Piloted by
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Bennett Griffin—Crowd Estimated at 100,000 Gather-
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eti at Airport for Start of $35,000 Dole Race—Pav-
a
orable Weather Conditions Exist Along 2,424 Mile
Route.
KLINE SHOWS
FLOOD WATER COLORED MAN
ARE POPULAR SWEEPS OVER
WINS BATTLE
KANSAS TOWN
Patronage Assured
Vast Inland Sea Threatens
Great Damages—Rains m
Continue
A carefree, happy class of peo­
ple, here today, gone tomorrow,
wealthy with a few rents In their
possession, but clean and honest,
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 16.— (IP)
prond of their queer possessions, — Muddy water charged through
with all of the usual human trials a dozen Kansas towns and eitles
and Joys, the life of show folks to­ today, threatening to s w e e p
day has lost but little of the ro- through . with the resultant de­
mance and fascination which ha? struction running into millions of
surrounded It during the ages.
dollars.
In the Kline shows which are
A vast inland sea stretches over
showing this week at the Junior'
western
and southeast Kansas.
High School grounds under the
auspices of the Lithians. is found Rains during the night and con­
tinued downpour this moring is
all of this activity.
In Lithla Park each afternoon bringing further anxiety to resi­
dents of toAns along
a dozen
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small streams.
Lying under a tree near the
Presbyterian church
on Main
street and apparently seriously ill
Fred Musk«p, aged about 70
years, w4a found by lodnt police
today. , He was taken to the Com-
Muhfty hospltkl 'where he will be
given proper care.
Thè old man, dressed in thread­
bare clothing, with all cf h it pos­
sessions in a little pack he carried
op .his shoataer. ana penniless,
was a pathetic figure. He said his
home wan ip Eugene sad that'he
had been injured In an auto ac­
cident. Ha told police ha had no
relatives.
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.OAKLAND AIRPORT, Calif., Aug. 16—<IP>—Three
it planes are searing away toward Honolulu in the $35,(KK)
n Dole race.
Five airplanes entered in the race were headed over
the Golden gate tow ard Hawaii at 12:45 today.
W illiam Erwin Teturned his “ Spirit of D allas”
plane to the field at 1:10 making a safe landing. The
fuselage of his monoplane was torn loose in the air.
r „ . The “ Oklahoma” piloted by Bennett Griffin, and
1 the first plane off returned two minutes after Erwin.
He also made a safe landing. A1 Henley, navigator of
W. G. Ide, Manager of Ore
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the
“ Oklahoma” refused to answer questions concern­
gon Chamber of Com.
ing
the
reason for the return of the plane. Ernest Smith,
merce Visita Ashland
first civilian Trans-Pacific flyer started talking to
* Griffin but Henley pulled him away. “ Get away from
’ this plane,” ho shouted.
Postpoument of the flight from
last Frldny to today served to
move away much of the trouble
andm uch of the tension which"
developed lust week. All of the
pilots passed their flying and
navigation tests and the atmos-
phere, charged with bitterness
last week, was cleared today.
Captain William P-. “Loa« Star
B ill” Erwin of Dallas. Tex., was
the last pilot to qualify. W ith]
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his
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Erwin
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flew his “Dallas Spirit” !
monoplane over the prescribed I
course with precision and speed I
He was In ninth position at the I
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As to why people come to Ore-
’ gon, Mr. Ide said ‘many had told
' him they had heard so much talk
about Oregon and Its opportuni­
ties and beauties that they had
dedded to come here to locate.
One salient feature In their work
has been the receipt of 1600 re­
quests from, people who h a v e
come to Oregon for hte office to
send booklets about Oregon
to
friends, back in Eastern states.
When asked about the cost of
procuring Inquiries. Mr. Ide said
for the last three years the cost
has been as follows: 1925, $1.00
ar inquiry!» 1926, 60 cents and
that In 1927 they were costing
only 30 cents each.
Their department has been a
consistent advertiser and Mr. Ida
said he was a firm believer in ad­
vertising, and th a t'It had always
gotten results In his work.
REPAIR WORK
IS COMPLETE
Aged Tramp Is
Seriously Hl
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W a t e r Department Em
pbyeei Lay Last of
‘^ Blacktop” Today
Completion of repairs to city
streets was expected to be made
today by city employees who are
placing the "blacktop” covering
on the "patches” according
to
Earl Hosier, water superintend­
ent
In laying the new water mains
in the city much pavement was
torn up by the water department.
Frank Jordan was granted the
contract lor laying the cement
base far the black top In tbe re­
pair work. This was completed
several days ago and wa|er em­
ployees have beeu rnbhlng to com­
plete the laying of tile ».‘»lack
top" coveting.
IR V IN G W R E C K
Bulletin 1:1M>
Irving'» Pacific F ly e r bur-
led Its right landing wheel
In landing th e
w heel
»Drained haad
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M IL D R E D FLYS
B U L L E T IN 2:2R
p«at the
Farallones,
threi
8tart-
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monoptaSee are roaring into i
The race la not an elapsed I sun-streaked path toward Hawaii
time basis, and the first to reach
Moro than an hoar and a hall
Wheeler field Island of Oahu will behind a fourth machine, a bl-
win the $25,000 first prise, re- plane streaked through the Gold,
gardless of his position at the Icq Q*te shortly after 2 p. m.
start.
I bearing ns one of its occupants s
The second prize of $10,000 J young woman.'
goes to the second plane to fin-1 The four y '-n r- are the aurvi-
Ish-
1 Ivors of the 14 ships originally
Lieutenant Bennet H. Grlffan I «»tered, The “Miss Doran” the
and Albert Henley, both of Okla- ,onrth P1»"«*. which returned a f-
homa City, was the first gway1. ter **’ first take-off le ft again
In ther drawing for positions, ** 2:0.5 taking the a ir success
Qrlffen picked the number 1
slip and held the advantage!
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through being the first to qualify. I
Bulletin 2 :4 0
The Grlffen-Henley ship “Ok-
Jack Frost in the gleaming
lahoma” was off promptl yat “Golden Eagle” and Martin den-
noon and the others at two mlnr sen in the riotously colored “Al-
ute intervals thereafter. As soon own” and Art Ghbei in the bine
as the blue and yellow "Okla- and yellow "Woolaroe’ 'are fight-
homa" was In the air, the mono-1 lug to set the pfice on the first
plane "E l Encanto" manned by j lap of the great race. All planes
Lieutenant NornRn A. Goddard »»-« of great speed. The “AIowa”
and Lieutenant Kenneth C. Haw- and “Golden Eagle” are capable
kins, roared away from the start of attaining 183 miles an hoar.
of the runway, Its nose pointed The “ Woolaroe” is slightly slow-
toward the Pacific.
The other «v.
pilots .were scheduled to tske off . “Miss Doran” Is faced by the
In the following order:
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of overcoming an immense
3.— Major Livingstone O. Ir- *«»d. Anggie Peddler s a i d ha
dng. Berkeley, monoplane.
I believed he could reduce the
4 — Jack Frost. San Francisco. | h* nd,f*P| Mildred Doran, chic
nanoplane “Oolden Eagle ”
l i n g e r . smiled happily as she
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DROWNS IN ROGUE
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Radicals Bomb
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Juror’s Home
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BOSTON, Aug. 10.— (IP)—
A
dynamite
oomb today
wracked the home of Lewis
McHnrdy, a ja ro r in the
Hncco-Vnn Zetti trial.
M cHerdy and foor other
member» of the fam ily were
hurled from their bed» hut
escaped serious injury.
Frank Melavin, 37, an employe
on the California-Oregon Power
company construction work at
Prospect, was drowned in Rogue
,-lver Sunday afternoon about 3
o'clock. W ith two oompaatoaa,
O. C. Lewis and H. Fisher, fel-
h v workem. wke we»e taking
pictures along the river. Melnvta
crawled to a rock near mid­
stream. He slipped and fall into
the swiftly moving water.
BUDGET COMMITTEE WORKS
Members of
ekamber of Cota-
at
work this week soliciting sub­
scriptions for financing tbe trash
of the orgaalsatioa next year.
mercé budget committee ' are