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RUTH ELDER IN
OPPOSITION
GIVEN TIME
RST PHOTO
Commission Gives Roads
Opposing Big Merger
Evidence Chance
Highest Percentage of Per-
? feot Lights Beer Re- - i
corded, is Pound
M IN N E A PO LIS , Nov. 1 — (IP)
— The Interstate Commerce Com­
mission a lte r a hearing on the
Northern
Pacific
and
Great
Northern merger w ill adjourn
for SO days, at a date not yet
set, to allow the railroads, oppos­
ing the unification to prepare
evidence.
W ith lights on >7 cars tested
In ar “ light m id ” made by state
‘t ra fle oflcers last evening a
Value o f taxable property In
Jackson county this year is
*27,022,500 according'to a sum­
mary of assessment completed by
J. B. Colemarf, county assessor.
Value of property this year is
increased 11,174,550, records in­
dicate.
The summary shows 855,152.
acres of land in the couqty with
a total, value of 514,085,762.
There are 128,821 scree of t ill­
able lands valued at 551-64 per
acre or 58.8««,400.
T h e 756.-
879 acres of don tillable land la
valued at 50.80 an acre.
improvements on deeded lands
in this county are worth 61,418.-
800. Town and city lots la- the
county aré valued at 53,281,169,
and improvements 9a them at
84.495,320.
The value of logging* railroads
and rolling stock fa 894.809.
M apufactjirlag machinery In the
county to valued «m 3701,580.
Merchandise aad sufck In trade
percentage o f 75 percent perfect
lights v u recorded, the highest
percentage o f properly adjusted
lights ever reported In a state
ofleers eheck-up, according to
traffic men. N et an arrest van
made in the raid. ..
Adjustm ent of headlights la
stressed at thto time of year
when frequent rains and frost
and enow makes travel over the
moantoia highways dangerous.
_ Oflcers W m . M yaeft, O. O.
Nichols aad C, P. Talent made'
the ehack-up last evening, check­
ing cars as they passed along the
Boulevard.
W ith state tra fle oflcers -lsau-
lag hnadrads o f warnings in re­
gard to m taor violations each
moath, Ahe lack ana county state
highways a n rem arkably' free
from serious traffic problems,
and officers have expressed thaak-
falaees over the cooperation aiW h
*F the public la heeding warn­
ings aad making more drastic
hctlon Saceaaary
SENIORS WIN
HIGH DEBATE
Here la the first photo to reach thia country show tag -R h th
arrival in Ltobon, Portugal, and rushed to Leads a by plan
transmitted across the continent by telephoto, la the photo»
U. 8. minister to Portugal; R ath Elder, wearing her famous
fain Coos of the Barendrecht, rescue ship; President Carmi
piloted Mias Elder’s plane, and another o f l d a l o f the Port
Whiskers” is to be T in t
Locally-Made P i c t u r e
With J . A. McGee, Jane
Tudor and T. E. Patterson
Oast for Leads—Theobald
Gets Contract.
Southern Oregon Normal hopes
for a victory over Albany Col­
lege in the In itia l football bap­
tism of the institntion were
given a hard jo lt last night when
Connie Conrad, the only ex­
perienced backfield man on the
squad, was sent to the showers
w ith a shoulder In ju ry.
The
trouble proved to be more ser­
ious than anticipated when it
was diagnosed as a displaced
shoulder and Conrad was ordered
to take a complete rest for sev­
e ral days.
The physician an­
nounced that it would be very
Hughes Named
As D elegate
W A S H IN G TO N , Nov. 1.— (IP)
— Charles Evahs Hughes, former
secretary of State was designat­
ed by President Coolidge as chair­
man of the United States Dele­
gation to the sixth Pan-American
Conference to be held at Havana,
Cuba, January IS of next year.
Junction City — Wooden-rail
Horton railroad Will be built from
hero to Summit.
Please Turn to Page Five
A ll of the carrier boys of The
Dally Tidings w ill be taken to
the fairgrounds tonight where
they w ill be the guests of the
carnival management, who will
permit the boya to attend all of
the shows, see all of the wond­
ers and in fact take In all of the
dozens of attractions which are
being featured by. the carnival.
This carnival, one of the larg­
est in the west, is stopping at
Medford only for a few days In
order to break a long trip to
their winter headquarter^ In
San Bernardino, California.
————------------------------------------- j > Later Justice Siddons declared
the case adjourned after confer­
ence, saying he wanted m o r e
time to consider the sensational
charge of Jury tampering. ’
Tomorrow It is anticipated, he
wHI'probably declare a m istrial.
Affidavits in the case w a r e
made public after adjournment.
Operation
They revealed aa hour by hoar
surveillance of Jurors had been
kept, this evidence being disclosed
by a raid on the Burna Detective
Agency. Four affidavits were
presented, lncluding,one definite­
John A. Pender, convicted but ly charging ju ry tampering.
pardoned murderer, arrested here
last week after be had lured a
young girl to a lopely spot and
attem pted ro aaeaun het.
ft is believed ft w ill be lm-
posslbie to get definite evidence
linking him to other unsolved
crimes.
Senaca Fonts, his at-
torfiey, announced insanity is to
be his plea and that Pender has Bov Stiffen Tram Badly
agreed to submit to* a surgical
Wounded Leg— Was Shot
operation.
by Merchant
Authorities place little or no
PO RTLAND, Ora., Nov. 1.— (IP)
credence in contention of W . A.
Gaines that Perfder killed the — Harold Gray, 17, Oak Grove,
girl, Identified as Sylvia Gaines, youth. Is in a nospital here today,
for which his brother, Wallace suffering from a wounded leg aa
the result of a Hallowe’en prank.
Bob Gaines, was convicted.
He was playing aronnd a store
owned by F. A. Smith of Oak
Grove, who was watching for man-,
queraders with a shotgun. The
charge struck
the boy’s
leg.
Smith said he did not intention­
ally strike the boy.
HALLOWE’EN
PRANK HAS
BAD RESULT
Coos County
Students In
Organization
WORKMAN LAV CURBING
City workmen are engaged in
Organisation of a Coos County
completing the curbing on t h a
Society, which last year was one
of the strongest unlta of th e 1 Boulevard, preparatory for wid­
Southern Oregon Normal School! ening the street past the Southern
Oregon Normal School.
student organisations has been !
effected, with Don Smith named '
as president, Henel Deyoe as
C E L L IS T W IL L A PP EA R
vice president and Thelma Reis,
Frans Aner. cellist, has
secretary. Miss Veneta Fountain,
been engaged by Manager H.
supervisor of teaching, has heel"
B. H u n t, of the Vining thea­
named as the faculty advisor for
tre to appear a t tha theatre
the group.
next Monday aad Tuesday la
connection w ith the showing
of the picture “Garden of Al­
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F L U B F IR E TODAY
lah.”
H r. A aar w ill prob­
A fine fire in a rooming house
ably appear once each eve­
Sailor Says He Killed His on the corner of B and Fourth ning in a hetween-pictura
streets occurred shortly after
number. Thia w ill ha the fln £
Faithless Wife and
nooa today.
City firemen an­
general public
appearance
Sister-in-Law
swered the call and extinguished
of the famous cellist since
hie locating In Ashland.
N E W ORLEANS, Nov. 1.— (IP) the blase without damage.
— Henry Molty, former Arcadian
sailor, today confessed he mur­
dered his wife and her sister-
in-law.
Since his capture at
Cutoff, |p>ulslana, Moity has In­
sisted the killin g was committed
Pretty nearly the whole town
A t the high aahool w ith prac­
by a Norwegian 'sailor, although
is
moving on wheels.
tically -half the student body
he admitted he witnessed the
Young and old, boys and girls, skating. It became necessary foa
crime. Jealousy because of the
men
and women, everybody has tha authorities to tosue aa edict
Infidelity of the two women caus­
taken
to. roller skating.
ordering the skates takoa off
ed the murders he said.
The football squad rolls along before they come on the high
the streets m errily getting tha school groaade— hat thera are
' T R A D E D PR O P ER TY
finest kind of exercise.
skates and skates and skates to
C. L. Swenson, faamerly^of this
Distance to the Normal School found la the doak raossa. ,
city, has traded his residence has been lessened since many of
hropertyz at 858 B street to A r­ the students travel on toiler
thur E. A a d e re o n o f H ilt, Cali­ skates. The collegiate Ford bids
fornia, Mr. Sweneon getting a well to become passe If the rol­
residence in Medford.
Mr. and le r skating erase contlaneb. Six
Mre. Hudson, parents of Mrs. foot husky boys tower high In
Anderson, w ill occupy the resi­ the atr aa they roll eboat tha
dence here
JEALOUSY IS
CRIME CAUSE
Everybody is Skating Now;
" Real “Rolling” Craze Here
Hallowe’en N igh t Observed
With Proper Fun a
brought clttsene to a realisation
of the night, and the windows
were generously (poaped— gea-
erautly
enough
that window
cleaners m ight wish Hallowe'en
came more often, bnt thera was
Tom Beswick and Duane Malone
are the junior debate team mem­
bers, and Adena Joy, Dick Joy
aid Kathryn Lucas, Bentons, Tom
Beswick and Adena Joy were
rettuttal speakers.
. Miss Althea Dwyer. Miss Ethel
McCormick and Russell' Cripe
were judges of the debate which
was held nt a student assembly,
acted, j w chairman
lu st as soon ito equipment ran of the debate-.
he sent to Ashland from H olly­
wood, Carl A.- Theobald, picture
director, who is promoting the
.development of the Motion Pic­
ture industry in this city w ill
start shooting scenes for the
first Ashland-Made picture.
“Whiskers’’ a one-reel feature
has been chosen by M r. Théobald Daily Tidings Carriers Form
Merry1 Party
as his first try-out w ith local
Tonight
talent.
J. A. McGee has been
chosen to play the lead part,
Tonight will be Newsboys
w ith Jane Tudor, (Mrs. Carl Night at the W ortham carnival,
Theobald) an actress of consid­ which is showing this week,
erable experience, to play the starting tonight at the fa ir­
femenina - lead. -T . E. . Patterson grounds.
The bee industry has shown an
OBSERVE RALLY DAY
increase from 925 to 1,485 and
R ally Day was observed w ith
the value has Increased from 38,- appropriate exercises at the. Bap­
320 to 34,900.
tist church Sunday, w ith a splen­
did attendance recorded and pro­
In nine months, 78,848 for­ motion day exercises as aa added
eign care registered in Oregon, Interesting feature.
Judging from the shrouded
figures and masked figures seen
on the streets early last evening,
the goblins and witches of H a l­
lowe’en were out to turn the
world topsy-turvy last night, tout
only harmless pranks ware re ­
ported.
The wholesale destruction of
the past was missing and Chief
of -.Police George McNabb report­
ed only a minimum of trouble.
Trae, a stap ladder was seen
on ode street, shrouded iato a
ghostly figure, and an old bath
tub placed on the Bonlevard
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—(UP)—Justice Siddons re­
Student Assembly Hears In cessed the Fall-Sinclhir oil conspiracy trial today when
ter-Olass Debate
court opened and went into the Chambers to receive
Yesterday
affidavits charging jury tampering.
Seniors were awarded the de­
Attorneys for the government and prosecution went
cision l»y a two to one vote yes­ into conference after government counsel had announ­
terday afternoon, when the sen­
ced it was presenting something of very grave import­
ior debating toam met the ju n ­
ance’ which might result in mistrial.
iors in the lpter-cinss debate con­
test which Is being held at the
high school. .
The Juniors were negative de­
baters on the question, 'Resolv­
ed, the Child Labor Amendment
should become a part of the Fed­
eral Constitution." Jack' Balding,
PLAN WOMAN’S
in the county to valued at* 81,-
665,060, while farming imple­
ment» are placed at |1 5 < T 8 0 .
The total value of hotel and o g e e
furnlth re in the county to 31Í6,-
610. ’
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•A Woman's League to to ha
Some interesting statistics on organised at tha Bputhera Dra­
agriculture are given in Cole­ gon Normal school w ith Mjea
man’s summary. I t shows 2,217 Helen Anderson, dead of women,
horses in the county, as compar­ assisting
la
the organisation
ed with 2,372 for 1023.
The work.
A prelim inary organisa­
total value of horses this year tion meeting was keld this morn­
is 8102,140, or 847.02 each. Last ing w ith Lois Joy Hanaen act­
year, each horse was worth ing ns temporary president and
302.40.
Margaret Hammerbacher as
There are 17,000 head of stock porary secretary.
cattle as compared w ith ’ 10,500
Miss Hansen to to name a con­
in 1026 and the valúe o f-each stitution and nominating com­
Is 818.31 as compared to 316.20 mittee which w ill report at the
a years ago.
There are 5,468 next meeting o f the stadent group
dairy cows— less than a year ago. to be held next Tuesday.
A
In 1926 there were 6,766. There number o f faculty members spoke
is only a few cents difference. In a t the meeting this morning of
vafhe.
the splendid results which might
In the county are 12,007 head result from such aa organisation.
of aheep, while a Year ago there
were 10,909 head. Value has in­
creased from 36.95 to 87.89 per 1
head. The number of swine has
Increased fro m , 1,859 to 2,184,
and each one is worth about a
dollar more this -year.
There are 1,121 dogs listed ip
the county, about a hundred le u
than were listed last year. The
total value of the canine Impu­
tation o f the county is 311,880. i
Under poultry, Coleman lists ,
88,299, as contrasted to 21,887 j
In 1926. A year ago. each hen <
was worth 83 cents. *This year <
the value to placed, at 34 cents.*
in Europe. I t was taken on her
sent to America by radio, then
o right, ir e Fred Morris Dearing,
w and the cap given her by Cap-
Portugal; George Haldeman, who
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Aa overturned porch swing,
or the pit, pit, p it, of beans
from a bean shooter may be
heard, bat tha old tim e destruc­
tive spirit to lacking. -
Dances and parties ware num­
erous aad masqueraders appear­
ed on the streets at a late hour
In a grant variety of costuming.
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