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S outhern O regon Sc A Copy The Paper That Ila« Something To Say—And Says It! miner ASHLAND, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1937 Volume 6 1 The government health bureau lists a number of ways to live during hot weather, but omits the most Important of not greeting your friends with "Is it hot enough for you?" 1 After all, there la A railroad coined the America First," and going to use a plane gon forest little Justice phrase. "See now they're to seed Ore- 1 Whan a headline announced the marriage of "America's Sweet heart," Ina Getlt, the office null- ance, said "Don't tell me Shirley Temple has went and done It!" 1 Women are their own worst critics, else so many of them would not believe they had to de pend on trick hats for attraction. < One of the moat unusual fee- turca of the generally unsettled coast weather is the way Califoni- Ians make excuses for It and Ore- goni ans CUM it 1 What the steel industry needs pending action by the mediation board la a moderation board used where it will do the moat good on both aides of the conflict 1 The world la made up of two types of people; those trying to raise hell, and those trying to raze it. 1 (We could write enough of these paragraphs to reach the bottom of thia column if we'd Just pun ourselves down to it.) PLAYS OF BARD GET UNDERWAY ARRIVING in Ashland from her ‘ ' home in Thompson, N D., early last night, Irene Hlnion, former nurse in the Community hospital here where so much mys tery has been present lately over the discovery on Monday. June 14, of the decomposed body of an in fant, voluntarily went to the police station and gave her signed state- rnent which coincided almost ver- biitim with a story of the case released In the Miner during the week of the discovery by Chief of Police C. P Talent, stating that he believed her to be the mother <>f the child, that she had attended herself at its birth and, reluctant to destroy the body, had concealed it until some time convenient for giving It proper burial. Since finding that a trunk had been checked in to Miss Simon at the local railway station Sun day, local authorities have been trying to find the nurse all this week to straighten out the affair, even to the extent of a fruitless trip to Klamath Falls Wednesday by Assistant Chief of Police M P Dunn when rumor indicated her presence there Consequently, when Miss Simon arrived in Medford on the train last night, arrangements had been made so that officers here ware awnre that she was on the way to Ashland in company with Bert Swarlsley, Ashland friend who had driven there to meet her. as soon as she had started the trip from Medford On arrival In Ashland the pall was accosted by Officers Dunn and Thomas and Miss Simon went voluntarily to Talent's office where, after a few questions, she gave her story freely, taking all blame for the mistake. Assistant District Attorney George Nielson of Medford was (Continued on page 6) Final Temperance Shakespeare rehearsals are Drama To Be Given moving along rapidly these days in spite of the fact that the lofty On Sunday Evening sentiments expressed by Juliet (Kitty Ingle) must vie with the confusion caused by Technical Di- | More than 300 persons made up rector Bob Stedman as he is en - | crowd which saw the temjieraiive gaged in rewiring the Elizabethan drama. "Prisoner at the Bar,' " en- theater in Llthla park acted at the First Church of Christ All these preparations are tow- , here Wednesday night. ard the third annual Shakespear- | The play will be repeated Sun ean festival to be held August 2 day night, when all churches of to 7 inclusive, under the direction the city meet in union service at of Dramatics 'Professor Angus L the Baptist church, by a cast Bowmer of the Southern Oregon headed by Hayward H Johnson, Normal school, assisted by Wil- J superintendent of the Anti-Liquor liam Cottrell of Cornish school of league of Oregon, and otherwise consisting of the following local the arts. Afternoon and evening rehears citizens: als are being held daily and most Mayor T. 8. Wiley, Frank J. of the characters have completed Van Dyke, C. M. Litwiller, Co- the learning of lines, so that stage zette Harmson. V. D. Miller, u. E. business, the tempo of scenes, and Messenger, the Rev. D. E Nourse, the building of characters is be Mrs C. M Litwiller, the Rev. ing emphasized at the present Melville T. Wire. Mrs A Segs- time. worth, Frank Davis. Newell Mor Director Bowmer has expressed gan. Wirt Wright. G H Westfall. satisfaction with the work and Mrs. 1W M. Brower, C. O. Pres- promises still more Improvements nall, H. C. Galey. Mrs. Glen Pres over last year's performances cott, Ida Meyers, Mrs. 8. Carter and Mrs. Gosnell. Butler Hospital Offer For Ashland Refused The official "kibosh" was placed, at least for the near future, on the offer of G. 8. Butler, local man, to furnish $5,000 and a building site towards a new state tuberculosis hospital to be erected in Ashland when directors of the two present institutions at Salem and The Dalles met with the board of directors and Secretary of State Earl Snell. It was suggested by the board that Butler, instead, offer the cash for further improvements at the two present hospitals, and recent news from the state house indi cates that the next new hospital is likely to be situated in Mult nomah county. GUY ARTHUR PRICK, SR. Funeral services for Guy Arthur Price, sr., of ISO First street, who died June 26, were held June 28 at the Stock and Litwiller chapel with the Rev. F. E. Troutler of ficiating. Interment wits at Moun tain View cemetery. Hooray For The Red, White And The Blue! Flying Hero Wins Coveted Medal OKING just as patriotic aw any other publication which trie« to cover thio area (don't knock thio chip off, George!) the Miner will ad here to Its usual custom of not publishing a paper on Monday, official day set for celebration of Indejiendence day. Aa a result, the entire staff will spend inc holiday week end shooting off firecrackers, acquiring sunburn, cussing umpires and eating ants In picnic sandwiches (a welcome change from a regular diet of ty|»c-llce, we assure you!) < urrying patriotism to the nth degree, we will not pub lish a pa|>er on Tuesday, Wed nesday or Thursday, either, but come Friday, wheel sissss! BANG! Herr conies another! STATE URGED TO STABILIZE TIMBER AREAS QALEM Legislation placing ma- ture timber on a more equit able tax basis to perpetuate Ore gon's timber supply is urged by the state forester, in his annual report, filed with Governor Martin thia week. The report also recom mends that the state acquire a large area of timbered land as an aid to the stabilization of forest land ownership The state forester also de ciares that the lumber indus try owes a social responsibil ity to do whatever Is econom ically possible to Insure per manent communities through |M*rpetuatlon of the timber supply but |*olnts out that many operators are financial ly unable to carry on such a program under existing con ditions. < » » The state board of control is willing to sponsor an application for PWA funds for a new tuber- cuiosis hospital to be built in Mult nomah county but insists that the preliminary • work of assembling the necessary data to support the application be assembled by spon sors of the ney institution. Gov ernor Martin in reply to demands from officials of the Oregon Tu berculosis association that action be taken immediately looking tow- ard construction of the new hos- pltal calls attention to the fact that both he and the ways and (Continued on page 4) EXAMINER HERE JULY 9 Recent announcement by Earl Snell, secretary of state, states that Ward McReynolds, examiner of operators and chauffeurs, will be at the city hall here between the hours of 11 a. m. and 5 p. m. Friday, July 9. Regular examina tions will be given at that time to all thdke wishing permits or licenses to drive cars. TO AN ELDERLY GENT IN A GLASS HOUSE! By LARKY HUNTER Come out from behind the beard, Joe Grouch! We know that, forty or fifty years ago, You took the old man’s powder pouch, And the Fourth of July was an unholy show! And the townsfolks spent the rest of the year In palpitating, shivery fear! For you liked to snowball the Deacon’s hat, Or sic your dog on the old maid’s cat! But now your nerves and a liver condition Have prompted you to sign a petition In protesting dislike of explosive toys. You forget, Joe Grouch, boys will be boys! Ma) Gen Hank it McLo) commandant of the Second cv.*ps area pins the Distinguished Hying Cross -the most coveted medal in Ameri can military aviation— on the tunic of Lieut. Richard Aidworth. U. S. A. (retired), superintendent of Newark airport, at Mitcheli field where also a formal ground and air review was held, to honor the flier for an act of heroism he performed more than ten years ago The medal was awarded to Lieutenant Aldwcrth bv President Roosevelt for his heroic action of more than ten yr.us ago when he deliberately crashed his dis abled pursuit plane in the breakers of! Rockaway beach, narrowly escap ing death, rather than imperil a group of children on the sandy shore, where he might have landed safclv ‘Old Wives’ Tale Causes Merry Chase Wild rumors of a combination "murder and suicide” late last night were dissipated somewhat by local police in the wee sma' hours o(, the morning when they told their version of the story, which runs as follows: A call from a local woman in dicated that Paul Mitchell, 18, had shot his step-father, Oscar Lowe, at the Lowe residence on East Main street and then had taken his own life in a nearby field. Investigating officers found Lowe looking very hale and hearty and far from being a bullet-riddled corpse, and he said that the lad. apparently drunk, had come home bleeding about the nose and hands from some apparent previous en counter with some unknown per sons or objects, and had pointed an empty .22 caliber rifle at his step-father, who knocked the weapon from his hands. The youth. Lowe went on, then went across a field, where he was last seen. Officers believe that the youth will sleep off his jag and turn up in the morning with a long face and swagger length fur jaquettes on his teeth It is not known that charges of threat with a danger ous weapon will be pressed. Lowe was called upon Thursday morning to pay a fine in city court for the release of Mitchell, who with Clyde Crawford, 28, of this city, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. Mitchell is a frequent offender with quite a record of bad conduct on file with the local gendarmerie and was a former associate of Elmer Haab, Jailbreak artist. MRS. H. A. UNI) GETS $25 SLOGAN PRIZE IN CONTEST Mrs. H. A. Lind of Third street Monday received notification that she was one of 200 winners of a $25 merchandise prize for slogans submitted during May in a na tion-wide contest sponsored by a sea food company. Inclosed in the letter was an order, drawn on Loomis and Nel son grocery, local dealers. Having submitted three entries, Mrs. Lind did not know which slogan had been selected as winner. ----------- •----------- LOCAL COUPLE MARRY Miss Mary Louise Roberson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Roberson, and Howard Mayberry, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. H. May berry, were united in marriage by the Rev. Sherman L. Divine at 10:30 a. m Tuesday in Medford before members of the immediate families from this city. Mr. and Mrs. Mayberry will live in Cali fornia. A Copy Number 35 ’Mystery Corpse’ Case Closed NURSE RETURNS TO SIGN FULL craxy to pick the law's best loop hole fur escape from punishment ‘CONFESSION’ Sc NEW TALENT CUT-OFF WORK SET TUESDAY TOOKING over the job Thurs day, Jack Harrington, super intendent for the Jacobsen and Jensen Construction company of Portland, specified the days im mediately following the July 4 holidays for start of work on the new Talent cut-off, 3.43 miles of concrete highway extending from a point slightly north of Jackson hot springs to a juncture with the old road just north of Talent. Hill Lind, formerly with Berke brothers, will be foreman on the clearing and pipe laying which will give employment to a crew of about 30 men at the start of the job. Blueprints call for a 500- foot change in the course of Bear creek about a third of a mile from the south end of the job, a 32- foot bridge sub-contracted by Tom Lillibo, Coos county contractor, across Wagner creek, and a great many tiles and culverts for drain age Concrete pavement will be used with oiled shoulders, sup plemented by crushed rock. The contract calls for comple tion of the entire stretch by De cember 31, 1937, and the finished rerouting will eliminate several dangerous curves that have cost a number of lives in recent years. TWO-DA Y FETE REPLETE WITH ATTRACTIONS gETTING UP Wednesday, the Browning Amusement company carnival sounded the opening note In the Fourth of July fete which is in turn the starting gong for the busiest six weeks seen in Ash land for many years. The Independence day celebra tion itself wil feature two days, July 4 and 5. crammed full of every sort of entertainment for celebrants from the ages of one to 100. Hosts of people from all over southern Oregon and north ern California are expected on those days and Ashland .tradition al host city of the area, will be all dressed up in freshly painted and decorated finery to outdo herself in welcoming her guests to the inviting cool reaches of Lithia park for picnics, to her many fine bathing resorts, and to the concerts, games, shows and fun-fests to be staged In honor of the 161st anniversary of the na tion's independence. First of the series of sum mer dances sponsored by the Llthians, recently reorganized civic booster club, will be given at Twin Plunges Satur day evening, July 3, with Dickey's music. The Browning company show will be featured in the upper end of the park throughout the cele bration with rides, shows and con cessions galore. Food and drink concessions will be operated near the carnival site by local persona, four having signed with William Briggs, chairman, to date They ■ include Veterans of Foreign Wars. A. C. Martin, Bellview P-TA and ' R. J. Forsythe. Sunday will see a water car nival at noon at Twin Plunges, a concert by the Ashland mu nicipal band, directed by Ward Croft, at 1 p. m., and the first of two baseball games be tween Medford and Ashland town teams at 2:30 p. m. at the high school field. Monday, July 5, the bathing beauty contest will draw attention to the Plunges at 11 a. m., fol lowed by kiddies' athletic con tests in Lithia park at 1 p. m. At that time another concert also will be given in the park. The second grudge baseball battle between the Lithians and the Craters is called for 2:30 p. m. Monday. More band concerts at 7:30 p. m. in the park will give way at 9 o'clock to the big wind-up Lithian dance on the open-air pavilion at Twin Plunges. ----------- •----------- • Mr. and Mrs. Charles Denton. Ellsworth Danielson. Arthur Gru- enwald and Miss Ann O’Donnell, all of St. Paul, Minn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs G. O. Oium of this city. SEENm. DAZE BEAUTYENTRIES CLOSE TONIGHT FURMAN CARTER looming Midnight tonight is the deadline as a possible rival of William set for girls to file at Twin Steigs’. Plunges or the Chamber of Com SEVERAL PEOPLE being of merce for entrance in the 4th of fered jobs over the holidays, July bathing beauty contest to be they finding adequate but in held Monday, July 5, at the Plun sincere excuses. ges, according to Karl Nlms, man Half the Battery B roster re ager of the resort. Winner of the counting BUD GANDEE antics contest will be crowned Miss at Camp Clatsop. Ashland to rule over both the W. D JACKSON being held Independence day fete and the up by AL PRESCOTT. Greater Ashland celebration which CLARK THOMAS and JACK is slated for July 16 and 17. BEARSS breaking Olympic rec The following 22 girls have sig ords for the over-the-counter nified their intention to compete: jump in retaliation for their re Jean Neil, Alice Loftsgaard. cent expose in the Miner as Helen Dunn, Dolly deSantis, Flor sports commentators de-luxe. ence Hubert, Imogene Hopkins, DICK APPLEGATE window Ruby Turner, Helen Combs. Shir buying himself some new ley Walton, Edith Cullop. Marilyn clothes. Christlieb, Ethelmae Thompson, PARKER HESS making a Marjorie Dozier. quick- and revealing—Job of it Velma Conner, Jeanette Car from the shower room to rear mean, Patricia Deakin, Juanita platform of a fire truck. DARRELL LEAVENS and Moon, June McDougal, Shirley Mc Dougal, Laura Mae Ross, Sarah JIM RILEY working far, far Noble and Gertie Wenner. into the blight.
