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WHOLE NCMBER 2781.
LOCAL PEOPLE
SAILING Ail
FLEECY CLOUDS
rutKT flights ok mMMicitq.u.
AIKI'LAMX .MA IH-; UtOM
TTY TOIHY .
WEBBER AND R061E FIRST TO FtY
I'lniin to lUmmlii Till Tlwrwliiy Kvr-n-Inic
nml Take I gyr to
Axltlattd ,
"How do you feel?" "IMd you like
It?" "Wu K cold?" "Wm 10 min
ute long enough?" and hundreds of
other foolish questions were shot nt
several Oranta I'nni people aftr
they had taken a flliflit into the
-ti(l which hung low over the val
ley this morning. Out tlia clouds did
not mar the pleasure nor dampen the
ardor of flying fans who anxiously
waited their turn to occupy th
front seat In the Curtis plane owned
hy the Medford Aircraft company
which arrived from Modford this
mornlnic and will remain In the city
over Thuntday. ,
The plan waa piloted by Nonten
ant Floyd Mart, a Medford hoy, and
carried a passenger John 'Dcnlxon of
this city. The trip wan mad from
Medford to Grant Pass In 23 min
utes. All was clear at the 'hop off
and the plane made a steady ascent
without circling. At Rogue River a
bank of nlouda 'Was encountered.
The plane circled over thin city above
the cloud and although the hum of
the propeller waa plainly heard the
machine waa out of sltfhl, 4500 foot
above the c4ty. The Curtis Appeared
in slirtit at about sr. 15 and while
sailing over the city many horalda
announcing the appenrance of "Chin
Chin" lit Medford Friday were let
drop and the aliim of paper stilled
Peacefully to earth, but In making a
roupln of circle to reduce elevation I
the plane encomited a batch of prlnl-
oil matter which had been let go n.conimltton are sincerely grateful for
few minutes before,
After the landing was made at the
aviation field the plane waa looked
over by 'Mechanician Seely 'Unit, of
Medford. and Relief IMIot Dcflbert
Jones, of Ashland, and a freh sup
ply of gufcollne was taken on and the
ship wnti ready for commercial
nights. '
If. W. Webber was the firs' pns
avnger to sign the Utile, slip of pa
per which relieved the company of
rcwpotiHlblllty in case of accident. Me
donned a helmet and goggles and
waved adieu to the crowd. On his
return to earth 10 minutes later
MT. Wobher was enthusiastic regard
ing the experience. "Nothing like
It," he said, "I iwould like to stay
nn two hours."
I. A. Robte was the1 second pas
senger. He approached the machine
M'lth Ai "do or die" expression on his
Taco. ille chewed his Spearmint w'th
a little, more vim than usual 'hut he
waved a cheery good bye to the
spectators. On his return Mr. tto;
hie was "feollng fine." "You ought
to take the trip," 'he said. "Ton get
a view of the country that you will
never get otherwise. Why, the lttm
"hor yard looks about this big," aald
the man who Js engaged In cutting
the lumber up into fruit boxes, aa he
extended his hands a space which
oorreponds to the length of his fa
vorite cigar.
The- third passenger waa O. Arm-
wplkor. IHIs experience was slmllmr
to the others, Then tTarry Cougle
put on the helmet iCnd goggles and
sailed away around t;he rim of the
mountains whirih enclose the city.
Other passenger during the fore
noon were J. C. Williams, II. ,R
Grower, IN. 111. Oreen, H, R. "Kroh ami
Al 'Mnrttneatt. -
, 'Flights were suspended 'for a time
, on account ot a slight wind hint were
resumed In the 'afternoon with
tenr sky, v ' " , . .
The alrplano field is the property
of lr. Ilioughrldge nd was fitted up
(Continued on page $.
BANDON SLAYER
STILL AT LARGE
Belief Im Aoxuiillcr MurtliTrd Girl to
I'revenl JMXcliMuro of
Alteiiiit
Uundon, July 30. The person who
so brutally 'murdered pretty Lillian
l-eulhold of Hiunlou may nevor be
apprehended for though official
have been over" the scene of the
trrtKudy and sought out all probable
leads, no definite nlew of the least
moment hu been uncovered,
It appears there la absolutely
notlilnir upon which to base the prob
ability of a motive, for the girl was
strictly one who was reserved, never
had any male escorts or friends, and
did not (to out In company with
boys of the high school nor with any
others.
Many concluded today that the ag
gressor, foelleving bis victim about
to escape, killed her rather than see
her Mnd refuge at home and disclose
tho details of the attempt. Aa the
girl wo murdered, the offlclala hold
to the theory the person who com
mitted the murder was known to
Mis TiButhold.
PLEAD FOR REPEAL
OF TAX ON JUICES
Washington, July 30. Washing
ton, Oregon and (Pennsylvania logan
berry and Krape juice producers re
newed arguments for the repeal of
the 10 tier cent tax on bottled juices
before the senate flnunce committee
here today. The producer declared
the tax would .bankrupt, the Indus
try. ,
The member of the bathhouse
the willing response made by the
merchants of the city to the request
for prises for the wlinmlng contests.
The donations are varied and for the
greater part useful and should in
spire the swimmers to make their
beat efforts." The prizes iwill remain
on dtxplay in the Sixth street window
of Howes Confectionery until Friday
evening. There will be two conso-;
htlon prizes, one each to the boy
and girl who In the opinion ot the
Judges, have tried the 'hardest with
the lest success. The officials for
the contests are: Judges, If.'llj. Ston
aker and K. H. Halslger: starter, E.
II, 'Mater: announcer, E. ti. Cohurn.
Tho program of events with first
and second prizes la as follows:
Olrls mnder 12 years, 100 feet
down atreat: 1st prize, box note pa
per, M Clemens; 2nd prize, bathing
cap, National Drug Co.
noys under 12 years. 15ft feet
down stream: 1st psize. pocket knife,
Cramer Bros.5 2nd prize, cake choc
olate. J. Pardee. .
Olrls 12 to 16 years, down stream
smnll flont to punvp house: 1st prize,
purse. Firth ft Bon; 2nd prize, bead
necklnce, Mrs. (Rehkopt.
Roys 12 to 16 years, down stream
Oa1s" to bathhouse: 1st prize,
camera, iRowell'a Music Store; tnd
prize, . pocket knife. Grants Pas
Hardware Co.
IrfCdlos over 1 6 years, down stream
f Continued" on page I.)
PRESIDENT TO REVIEW
FLEET EARLY IN AUGUST
Washington, July ' 80, "President
Wilson wilt not review the fleet at
?B.'n Francisco until September 4 or
1, It was decided' today. Secretary
Dimiels wilt review. the fleet at Los
n?ples .August 9, after which the
vessels wilt spend a month visiting
porta south of Loa Angeles.
SLACK AND
WHITE KILL
AND PILLAGE
MANY
KIN
INJCItED WIIK.V Al'TOH
DOWN MKMIIKltfi OF
HUTU RACKS
WILL . SETTLE STRIKE
RiotliiK Spreads Over Entire City of
(IiIcuko With WIUU Mi
' Aggronlvo
Chicago, July 30.---Hitter fighting
between white and negroes spread
last night to all. parts of Chicago,
serioua cuuaiuo Deuig mora nu-y
niorour than during any similar peri
lod of the racial war. City author
ities made no call for troops, and,
lackl.ig such a request, , Governor
Lowdcn could not order soldiers to
take 'harge, although S.000 are now
rratlrg under arms.
Tno death list has reached 28.
Two negroes were killed during the
right Hundreds of persons are In
jured. hiies and negroea slashed each
other with knives, and many were,
shot 'rom ambush. Some, driving
cars, ran down isolated members of
the other race.
Some looting ha been done. Prob
ably a dozen have been fatally
wounded. Whites seem to be the
more aggressive.
A grand jury will attempt to tit
the responsibility for tbe riots.
Chicago. July 30-A white woman
shot a negro in the side at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. Shooting took place
on south Wabash avenue. The wom
an escaped uninjured.
Chlcagot July 30.W. D. "Mahon. In
ternational president of the street
oar employes union arrived here to
day and took charge ot the strike.
Mr. Mahon promised that he would
try to settle the differences without
delay.
rX)lK A It MY I'LAXKS AUK
IIKADKD FOK THE NORTH
San Francisco, July 29. Four De
Havllnnd army airplanes, making an
extended flight in a recruiting cam
paign for the atr service, arrived
from Fresno at the Presidio here late
yesterday. The party is headed by
Lieutenant Kdw&rd W. Kllcore.
The tilers plan to remain here
three or tour days before resuming
their Journey up the coast.
REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN RELIEF
CM I TTEE EXPOSES TURK
New York, July 30. Charges that
Turkish officials dedmuted the
Greek population along the . Black
Sea coast, 250,000 men, women and
child re a living between Sinope and
Ordou, without the sheddlug of blood
but by "parboiling" the victims in
Turkish baths and turning fhem halt
clad out to die of pneumonja or
pther tils In the enow of sn Anato
lian winter, are made In a letter from
Dr. George E. White, representative
of the American committee for re
lief In the 'Near Bast, made public
here today, .
Sinope was the birthplace of the
piiuuHuinuT iLiiuguiies, ur, nne re -
calls, and Ordou Is Just beyond Cape
jaiion wincu is buu preserve in or. White said that in the pro
memory of the Argonauts and the j vince of Bafra, where there were
Ciolden 'iFloece. The letter, written more than 29,000 village Greeks,
to iProfessor J. iP. Xehldes; secretary , now less than 13,000 survive and
of the Creek relief commission here, every Greek settlement has been fir-
described the. new method ot ridding
tne tana ot it innaDitants wnicn, it
said, was somewhat different from
that employed iby the Turks against
the Armenians. ?
The tworst ot the crimes laid to
the Turks, according to Or. White,
U. S. AIRPLANES
DEMOLISHED
IS
AIKI'LAXKH STRIPPED THEN
THROWN IX PILE A XI) Bl HNKD
IS KTATKMKNT
Of
At ColoipkUw Lea Italic Armed
Guards Prevent Taking of
Photograph
New York, July 30. The house
sifb-com mil tee headed by Royal U
Johnson, of South Dakota, turned
lis attention' to the alleged destruct
ion of 'American army property In
France, under the direction of Unit
ed States army officers.
Testimony tended to show that a'
hundred airplanes at ColomMes Les
Belles were damaged and then burn
ed. Apparently the engines were
chopped out, the gas tanks and ra
diators saved, and the planes thrown
in a pile and burned.
Armed guards patrolled the vicin
ity to prevent' the taking of photo
graphs, according to the testimony
of soldiers.
MILK8 OF BALLOON CliOTH
UK MADE INTO RAINCOATS
St. 3xuis. Mo., July 30.Half a
million yards of cotton balloon cloth
enough to stretch from St. Louis
!to Chicagowill be manufactured
('into' raincoat bv a fit. Louiscon
vhlcn bought tne coth ,t ,(1C,
tion from tbe government.
The auction price ot the 38-Inch
sea-Island cloth purchased by the
government for manufacturing bal
loons was announced as approximate
ly 125.000.
TO DPPOSE
TREATY M FRANCE
Washington, July 30. Discussion
among senators today indicates that
the opiKMrttlon to the treaty . with
France would he likely to be, center
ed on claims that the treaty directly
antagonizes the tradition of no en
tangling alliances, and subverts the
constitutional rights of congress to
determine all questions of war and
peace.
were committed in tho winters of
1916 and 1917 when orders were is
sued for the deportation ot the
Greeks along the Black .sea coast.
The people, he wrote, were crowded
Into the steam rooms of the hatha in
Chorum under the pretense of "sani
tary regulations" and after being
tortured for hours were turned out
ot doors into snow almost linee deep
and without lodging or food. Their
garments,' iwhkli had beep taken
from them for fumigation, were lost
ruined or stolen. Moat or the vic
tims, ill-clad and shivering, contract
ed tuberculosis and other pulmonary
1 diseases and "died in swarms ' -on
the way to exile, the letter declared
;ed. The number of orphans, Inchid-J
ing some Armenian nd Turkish
; -children. In the entire district, tt
was said, aggregated '60,000." Since
j the armistice the doctor wrote, many
, ot the deportees have been returning
to. their ruined homes.
TEST MONY
METHODS
S
mil
Olmolute Craft I'sed In Experiments
With Depth Itonib Three
Are Kenned
New Ixindon, Conn., July 30.
People on the beach at WaxerTord
today reported that a submarine,
thought to be tbe G-2, suddenly sank
witu bate beg open. .Two men are
reported drowned.
It was later learned that three
men were drowned.
The G-2 was an obsolete craft,
used for experimental work, and
when it sank in Iong Island Sound
waa oelng used in experimenting
with depth bombs. Five men were
sared. The submarine sanlC without
warning.
AXTKMiT TO BUTTLH KML,UH ,
, STRIKE IS l-XSl'CCESSFlTi
' London, July 30. Attempts to
settle tbe Yorkshire coal miners
strike were unsuccessful. A confer
ence between owners and strikers
failed to bring about tin agreement.
IT
" Washington, July 30. The house
military committee 'today reported
favorably on bills authorizing the
appointment of Generals Pershing,
and Mareh to the permanent rank
of. enera.. .The jroti on. theilach
bill was eight to seven. '
GRANTS PASS PEOPLE TO
(Ashland Tidings)
Secretary Will G. Steel and Ceo
E. Treichler, president of the Med
ford Chamber of Commerce, were in
Ashland Friday afternoon where
they had come to go over arrange
ments for Southern Oregon's part In
the entertainment Ot the National
Editorial lAsofiatlon which -will be
held in (Portland In August. In order
to allow these visitors to have an
opportunity to glimpse as much ot
this wonderful western state as pos
sible In so short a time, Portland is
giving them a special train to South
era Oregon, and the cities In this
section, in turn, ae going to treat
them to an automobile trip to Crater
Lake, beslde other hospitalities that
will be showered upon them.
While here Messrs. Steel and
Treichler brought the good tidings
that Grants Pass is as one with the
other Southern Oregon towns in her
efforts to ma.'ke the visiting editors'
stay 'here one of the most delightful
Incidents of the whole trip. Grants
Pass has most generously pledged
the use ot 15 cars as a minimum and
$250 for the entertaining fund.
This city is offering her eervices
purely out of desire Ho help South
ern Oregon to entertain the guests
and will cooperate with Medford and
Ashland In every way to make the
editors' visit here a memorable one.
EPORT
Washington, Jnly SO. The house
today passed the hill to deport all
undesirable interned aliens.
HOLSHEVIKI DEMAND
BVLGARTAN SOVIET
London, July 30. .Bolshevism is
reported to he epreadlng iin 'Bulgaria
and a soviet has been demanded. A
general revolution is . momentarily
expected. ', . '. ',:
nil
THOUTVARNING
POLAND STILL
ENGAGED WITH
FRONTIER WAR
FOl'R MUJJOX l'EltMONg DESTI
TUTE ANI MANY MOKE ARE
HOMELESS '
COUSTBK SWEPT B1! CONFLICTS
New I'olbth Government Making
Heroic Effort to Care for
Civilians i
Warsaw, Poland. July 30. It is
estimated that there are 4,000,000
destitute Dersons In Poland, includ
ing 2,000,000 mothers and chil
dren. For fivo yean the strug
gling armies of Russia and tbe cen
tral powers swept back and forth
over the country. Thousands of
house and building were destroyed.
Now that peace has settled upon
the rest of the world, Poland ii still
engaged in frontier warfare. From
the Baltic to the' Carpathians, on a
front three times the length of the
former western one, the Poles are
mobilized. Even women and girl
are performing military service, not
as their French and American sister
were in hospitals and ambulance, '
but on the firing line with rifle in
their hands.'
Despite these conditions, the new
Polish government Is making a de
termined effort to care for its civil
ians, with the assistance of allied re
lief agencies. The American " Red
'Cross has 'already sent to Poland a.
dozen trainloads ot supplies, cloth
ing, medicines and children's food.
What this has meant to the new re
public Is summed np in tho state-.
ment of a Polish government official
who told the Red Cross workers:
"You are saving a race which has
struggled for Independence for hnn-
dreds of years, and are winning
their.- everlasting gratitude and -
friendship. ' .
KEXTI-CKITS EXTRA WHISKEY
BEING SENT TO ENGLAND
'Louisville, Ky., July 30. Expor
tation of Kentucky whiskey has be-,
gun as a' result of the lifting ot em
bargoes in the 'British Isles, accord
ing to dealers here. Large ship
ments from warehouses throughout
the state are being made to Eng
land, Ireland and Scotland, export
so far having exceeded 20,000 bar
rels, according to reports.
The distillers are represented as
desirous ot disposing of the big Ken
tucky holdings before constlutlonat
prohibition' in January halts expor
tation., Washington, July 30. Major
General Bartlett announced today a
reduction in rank ot over 1,100 dis
charged officers of the marine corps
to reduce the corps from the war
time strength of 75,000 officers and
men to a permanent strength of
25.000. ' '."''.
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NEW ARTICLE OF WAR
Washington, July flO. The special
board of officers investigating the
army cotirtmartial system haa recom
mended one new article of war and
changes in -30 others. ,
Secretary Baker made the state
ment that the Aboard as a! -whole
found no radical defects" In the sys
tem. He attributes most ot the just
criticism to the Inexperiehceed per-