A sh la n
BRAUTÏ
Years
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jACK, B LA C K BOVS
MATINEE AGAIN
Hooray Bhlnnqy. k t* »
ATTRACK i r o c ^ T i o x
Much Interest wah arous
ed
by
two
coed
black
"Pygmies,’’ with head shap
ed like geography pictures
f t African Wildmen w h o
were found yesterday awer-
noon in the rear seat of an
automobile left parked on
Main street.
One of the ‘'pygmies’’ was
very small, the other about
four feet tall.
Spears and
huge bows and arrows caus
ed many' conjectures regard
ing the possible origin of the
two blackmen.
Two white men and two
white women later joined the
party and said the pygmies
were exhibited in a side
show and the arrows and
bows and spears were merely
part of the bquipment.
The two black boys were
indignant when the crowd
gathered about the car and
repeatedly urged the crowd
to ."go way, go way.’’
to Dto matinee tomorsew. /■
W ith the quarantine ban
lifted, H enagar H. B, Hurst
o f the Vining theater « n -
nouncOd today the teanmp-
tion of the* regular 1:30
matiqees — particularly ap
propriate among children on
Saturday afternoons.
W ith the favorite, Tom
M ix scheduled for a screen
"The Outlaw of Black R iver"
Manager H urst has given the'
ing Lease of Rieh
Leases to Sinclair
W A S H IN G TO N , D. C„ Opt. 81.
— (VP>— Both sWee strnck effec
tive countering blows today in
the government’s conspiracy tria l
of. H arry F. Sinclair and Form
er Secretary of In te rio r F all
growing ont of the Teapot Dome
navll oil reserve lease In 1 *82 .
Answering the government's
contentions that F a ll practiced
secrecy, the defense Tend i letter
M r. F a ll wrote to the late Senator
La Follette, fath er of the senate
oil lease probe. The le tte r Was
dated a fte r the lease had been
signed and said there was no
objection to the widest publicity.
No sooner had the letter been
read than the government pro
duced tw e witnesses to strike * t
the contention that F a ll leased
the Teapot Dome because of pa
triotic motive« to eave the navy’s
oil from being drained because
of nearby drilling.
G eorge. Otis Sm ith, U. 8. geo
logical survey director, told o f a
conference w ith F a ll, as a result
of which K. C. Heald was as
signed to Investigate the drain
age situation and Heald reported,
both he and ■ Smith testified,
that he sad Smith testified, that
thé main body of the Teapot
Dome was in ne danger.
QUARANTÈNE"
OFF TODAY
Rerumption of AH Activities
Scheduled to Take .
.Place
kid« t t y lr heart's desire—
as h a nasally does— and the
theater w ill nndonbtedly get
a capacity crowd.
'• W ith the klda out of tbo
theater for throe weeks It has
seemed a desolate place and
they w ill get a real welcome
back again.
Presentation o f the needs of
the Bible achocl w ill be m a d e
Sunday evening at a community
mass meeting which Is to be held
at the Methodist church.
Congregational,
Preibyterian,
Baptist,
Christian.
Nasarene,
■ Four Square, Brethren and the
■Methodist churches are cooperat
ing in sponsoring the school and
a ll othertf interested in ¿he work
are Invited .by thls/group to a t
Sparks Fallii
on Shingle tend the services and pledge their
rly Mora- support.
Roof Cause
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hag
Mrs. Grace Andrews, who is In
charge of the Bible School work
F ire , starting ^ frq in
sparks
l has expressed herself as w e l l
which fell on the dry shingle pleased w ith the result of
the
roof, early Thursday morning first two weeks of stu d * Of,' the
destroyed the home of D. N. graded course w ith more than
Davis, well known rancher whose 300 children enrolled.
home is several miles south of
The course of study outlined by
this city In the -Green Spring the state, a graded course which
mountain district.
takes the child each year
into
•"-ff “brisk tire started In the more advanced work, without de-
fetornlng, and the sparks fallin g nora (national quality, is used * in
on ‘ the shingles are believed to the local Bible school which has
have smouldered for some time been pointed ont as a criterion of
before the conflagration broke
The budget this y ea r, amounts
oat.
Tbo entire roof of the
dwelling, a fram e structure, was to $1.200 and an effort w ill be
ablase when the. fire was discov made to raise this amount at the
ered aad little furnitu re or other meeting Sunday evening. ~
H e*. H. F. Pemberton w ill de
household equipment was saved
aa the building burned furlons- liver the principal address, with
Oy. Neighbors gathered but were other pastors of the city taking
unable ; to . «Kt^guiah the fire part In the services.
“ No one w ill be overly urged to
and ffhwrted tbtrtr efforts ta the
pledge so come and hear what la
direction e f saving other a r m
buildings end carrying a ll the beiqg done in onr Rfbl« school’’
contents o f the dwelling possible 1« the request made by members
o f the executive organisation.
from the flam ing structure. '
FARM HOME IS
LOST IN FIÉE
Tho loss la estimated at be
tween $1,000 and $1,000 and
is p artially covered by Insurance
carried in the Billings Agency.
“PEP” MEETING
A Ï HI SCHOOL
Henry O. Enders Bpésdcs to
Student Body at
Assembly
Volunteers
The volunteer f iw boys enjoy
ed a food In ' the /Ir e station
last night. Those who in addi
tion to the regular firemen were
present were: Guy Good. Lloyd
Orowson, Voyal F ran klta, Micky
F ra n k lin , Guy Applewhite, George
Baughman, f Lester W erts, Joe
K ing and Sam Prescott.
*
W ith the game w ith K lam ath
y Falls scheduled fo r «tomorrow
>r Senior H igh pupils at an assem-
hip Thursday showed « lot of pep
and Joy over the fact that the ban
* on athletics was lifted.
h
Henry Binders, J / . , * a a the as-
d «effibly speaker and Was introduc-
1 ed by Prlaelpl B. F. F o u y th a
"Mr. Enders reminded the pu-
,c pile there are three types of ath-
* letlc followers, the optimist, ths
pessimist and the pspthnlat. ’ 1
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"D on't ha over optimistic nor
down In the month wtt& pessim
ism.’ but he loyal to yoe'r team and
say *• we w ill do o ar heat-’’ Of
coarse tho peptlmlst bits a cer-
tain amount o f optimism aad a
B certain amount o f pessimism, bnt
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V TO E ASHLAND
Three Die, Thousands Are
Homeless and Property
Damage is Estimated at
More Than a Million as
E e e o r d Breaking Pall
Rains Dover Entire State.
Support of Week Day Bible
School Work WiU bo Ask
ed in Community Meeting
to be Held. Sunday Even-
P ITTS B U R G H , Penn., Oct. 21.’
— (VP)— Pennsylvania Is today re'-
covering from one of the most
d Haste rous fall floods in t ie
history of the state.
Following continuous rain for
7$ hours, three are dead an&
many are homeless.
Kuudreds of highway* In thia
district
were
flooded,
creeks
overflowed* their bank; and water
poured Into towns.
Two rallrpad employees were
killed near Hallstead when their
engine went into a washout and
an unldeqtiiled man was drowned
near Sayre.
Coal mines were
flooded forcing a suspension of
work.
As the torrents made the
WUkes Barre section an inland
sea, hundreds of families fled
from their homes to dry grounds
and were marooned in the bot
Gnglielmo Marconi, In ven tor o f wlrelesy, and his titled wife, the tom lands of the Susquehanna.
former Countess Christina Best! Seals, ate pictured here arriving Highways and residence« «round
In New York to attend the (International Radio Conference at
Scranton were ruined by the
Washington.
waters and lowlands were wash
ed out and badly dkmaged.
Accompanying the floods near
Uniontown, snow clogged traffic
arteries.
Along
the
Deleware
river,
seven feet of water covers the
Maximum loads on macadam
mala highway in spots and It la
highways west o f the Cascadk
impassible at Poltat Pleasant,
bave baen reduced by the « t *
•!. In aeettena where «HflkpUy ta
highway commission, the
ordef Experienced In applying the late Bxowuahnrg and Yardley.
imm ediately effective «nd to ba d&rmaMt spray because of Wet
in force until A pril 1$, 198$. The soli coadltlon, it Aould be ad
order lim ita loads to .16,60« visable to apply the* lime sulfur
pounds.
spray this fa ll, says County
The AshlandKlamath F a l l a Agent J. P. Wilcox.
highway between Klam ath Fall«
Liquid lime sulfur, one gal
and the junction with the Pacifie
lon
. to sight gallon« of water,
highway is included in this rul
applied when approximately 80
ing.
per cent of the foliage has 'fa l Prohibition Badge Used in
Conspiracy Witnesses
len;- w ill be just as effective In
Testified
th« i «antro! of «cale. Insects as
YOUNG M AN K IL L E D
the spring application, he says.
SE A TTLE. Oct. 21.— <IP>— Use
F R E M O N T, Neb., Oct. 2 1 — (IB
Remembering last years ex- c-f a federal prohibition badge to
— Slyberg E. Haugen of Pelkan
Rapids, M inn., nephew' of Con perlence it . would be well for amoothe the way And arrange for
gressman Haugen of Iowa
" M orchardiets to consider this pro the landing of liquor cargoes Was
killed when his auto overturned gram and makèi their plans ac charged against Alfred M. Hub
bard, a suspended dry agent, in
cordingly, 1s the advice given.
today.
the Olmstead liquor conspiracy
trial today.
/
Hodges, watchman for a
ftah concern, and one of the de
fendants made the charge. Hub-
'bard is alleged to have shown his
badge IO arranging for .nse of the
dock in landtag
,
State Highway -
Loads Reduci
A gent’s Advice
CHARGE DRY
AGENT MADE
WAY SMOOT
CAROL WOULD
SEEK THRONE
he Is well balanced,’* the speaker
said.
In a more serious line of talk
Mu. , Baders reminded ths stu-
dents they should begin
tblnk-
in g about whet they are to do af-
te r they leave school, as' every one
should have some Idee as to the
teak ahead o f them. ’’Dou’t
be
just d rifters" was hta advice
Following hta ta lk M r. Enders
land thd* school la staging some
of the old songs o f t h e h i g h
The stretch of Pacific highway
between Medford and the Cali
fornia line is in rfne condition,
according to Wm. Drummond,
chief of the’ state maintenance
crew who has returned from a
trip through the east and Thurs
day afternoon made a complete
survey of the road.
The maintenance crew has
spent much of the summer wid
ening the road in the mountain
section, building up “ shoulders’*
on the curves, and doing general
maintenance work, he said.
W ithin a tew days a crew w ill
•l»e working between Ashland and
t ty
Ktomath * J «set ton, «doing
general repair work on this
stretch.
A state maintenance crew, un
der a division foreman w ill prob
ably be stationed Ip Ashland this
winter, in charge of the road
between Medford and the Klam
ath Janctlon, M r. Drummond
stated. Quicker and more ef-
toclept «tearing of roads follow
ing storms Is possible*' when the
c ïe ty ta- d)W(ted in|o groups,
each w ltfl. a «toetci bf highway
to keep' In condition and operat-
a competitive basis, he
said-' . ■ '
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He said the crew w ill prob
ably be'divided Into three groups
during tho winter months when
maintenance work constats large
ly of keeping the highways clear
ed of snows and slides.
to “ Pep” Them ui
thusiasm at School
High.
In spite of the fact that th e j
have been “cheated" out of sever
al games through the quarantine
ban which first made It impos
sible for them to play In Klam
ath Falla and later kept them
at home when Jackson couqty
became in looted Irlth infantile
paralysis, the football squad a t
the high school has been fa ith fu l
in practice and training sad Ash
land folk« owe It* ta the boys to
turn out full force tomorrow
and see the Grlsslles pit th e ir
strength against the K la m ath
gridders.
Just what the result M going
to be when the smoke o f tho
opening contest clears away and
Coach Crtpe’s men have shown
their stuff in this In itia l contest, «
no one is predicting, the K lam
ath gang Is heady and fast, h at
the G rlu lles lack' nothing in
speed and handwork on the grid-
Iron and are expected to show
some real ' class and team work
in the battle.
The high school is a happy
place these days— pep meetings
are everything the n ita e implies
and enthusiasm and confidence
in the Grisslies runs high.
, Msqy new playa hav« been
developed and many old .play*,
have been rsheareed fa ith fu lly
by the squad in their scrimmagn
which with the quarantine baa
seemed rather hopeless. A , per
fect defense and a strong offense
has bean Worked out. A lthough
It might hav» don« ao w ith no
criticism the t«am has not gone
stale. ~f
,
For thfsvfakh rn l .p o rk la the
face of dhwuMdntmpnts and d if-
fieirtttes d L rH w m daaarve« a lo t
R’ a
of support.
up to Ashland
to tu rn J c m fiaS a help, the boys
w ith 'a lp li-ro e rin ' rooting sup
port, wheq Ah« whistle 1» softad-
ed tor the kickoff at 2 :3 0 o’clock
tomorrow. -
Plans To Send
- Daughter To
GANGSTER WAS
Local Seta
HANGEDTODAY
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First of the Birger Crowd J., W. Grinnell, m a y
Shasta City, Californio; i
of Southern Illinois
Ashland yesterday content]
Beaches Callows
Channel Swim
Failure Today
ths purchase of a hems
where hta mother and 1
old daughter wlH ■ locate.
Grinnell said he was anxtc
Ms daughter be in a cleat
and where tltare mere
schools «ed tadlevad Aahlai
the meat d««lrahld leeatto
daughter, who aeoempqate
Is a junior In high «afc»
Carol ta In d«My communica
work - h«r*
tion with advisors In Roumanie
Normal ««*
and has consulted, th«™ on th*
advisability df rétuinhig to clnimi
CAPE G R IZ NBZ, O ff. S l ^ r
hta throne n o * occupied by hta
(L«)_-_Mlss Merced«« Glelta«k<* ff
T*
five year old son, Michael, th»
Hntaspo- je«Mf- A .’S
London typist, tailed today to
United PreSs was informed on
swim the Enrllsh channel, bnt
good authority today.
proved her courage In «■ heroic
He may retufn to reclaim his
effort.
She entered the channel
throne the middle o i November,
here at 4:20 a. m. and carried
add ta In .th e meantime awaiting
on until 3 p. m .rw h en she was
the decision o f Ronnsanian poasj
w ithin eight miles of Dover, her
-ants party regarding his candi
qbjeetlve.
t
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dacy for the high place in Rou
manian politics.
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mech the w ane for wear, aqd all
assisted in moving the wood to
tty beuemenf.
'A ,«. - • v, , , „
After the men bad completed
their Work members of the Ladles
Aid. served some food which was
attired In overalls and clothing much appreciated. *
S t a t e Maintenance Crew
Foreman Makes Survey
Yesterday
-t VLKKVSK, III. Oct. 21.— <LP)—
Redo M llllch, the first of the
Birger gangsters of southern 111-
Love for Politics
loota to reach the gallows, was
hanged at 10:05 today for the
PA RIS, O C t r i H - ^ P ) — Car<’1- murder of Ward Jones, a fellow
madcap prince of the Aalkans has
gangster.
He pleaded self-de
given hta old ldve, Mme. Lupe-
fense to the last.
son dismissal In favor of high
Pep yells opened the assembly
Mn>. Lee Bromley of Klam ath
Falls, form erly a resident of Ash add were led bp t t y «new cheer
land has returned to this , city fot leader, L Boyd, la prperetlota for
the game with K alm ath. '*
a «tay of a«yer«i weelf«.^
;
' It was u real "woOd-bes" whtab
waa sta g ed '.a t the Methodist
churh last evening when the good
brethren met and atorad sway
more than $0 eorda af waod.for,
the cold Winter day« Ahead. . >
HIGHWAY IN
FINE SHAPE
>ys Hard Worked Hard Io
Keep Prom Growing Stale
Through Long Period of
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SIGNALS IMPROVED
A new jreostatt Is used on the
Philltps-C«rter trafflo signals to
be Installed in thia «lty< which
according to.F. M. Carter, will not
cause any interference with ro>
dlos. The signals are electricity
operated after nightfall aad this
has lq the P*at causM r » d L«
trouble, he said. W th 'this new
model thta trohble ii elimlnsted.
¡‘ Because a ’’vllllan** who
before abeeended with Ms di
tea and than btouaht her
r«p away with the yoeeg
this morning, Jaa. C
blett of Chiloquin thia mol
raqqteted Ghter of Polka O<
McNabb to ha on the loohbu