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THE ADVOCATE WORLD FLIERS REACH HOME AT YOUR SERVICE YELLOW TAXI CALL MAIN 0059 1‘arvnls OF CURRENT WEEK Welcome Aviators at Diego Seattle is Gaal. San Diego« Cal. San America's round TORNADO KILLS 30 IN MID WEST th*-wo*4d filers returned Monday to Also Seven Passenger Touring Cars for Sightseeing LOWEST RATES IN THE CITY Briet Resume ftlost Important Daily News Items. Rockwell field. San Diego, from which they took off last March to start on their globe encircling trip. As It to give good measure to an achievement Minnesota, Wisconsin Swept by Severe Storm. already heralded far and wide, the filers got In ahead of the announced schedule, disappointing part of a large MANY ARE INJURED crowd which was assembling to meet anil cheer them, but there was enough Svsuta *f Noted People, GaverwassuU of a crowd on hand to make the wel Twenty-Two FataUtiea Said to Have and Pndtc Narthwea*. and Other come a real one, and the aviators made Thing* Worth Knowing. it plain that they appreciated the re ception. The announced plan is fur the filers to continue aa far north as Seattle. The end of the flight aa far aa San Diego is concerned came nt 10:34:43 A. M„ when Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith, commander .of the squadron, dropped the wheels of his air cruiser on the ground of historic Rockwell field, where the army turned out many fliers tor service in the world war and where there still remains & great es tablishment tor the training of Amer ican army aviators. Lieutenant Eric Nelsqn. wingmate of Smith on the eat ire world voyage, brought his ship to the field at ltf:34:51. followed by Lieutenant Leigh Wade at 10:35 o'clock. Above the crash of the band, the cheers of the spectators and even the roar of the propellers as Lieutenant Smith taxied his ship up to the dead line, came a cry from the Bps of Mrs. Jasper Smith, mother of the world flight commander. It was: “I want my boy." From his seat in the forward cock pit. Smith, his grime-smeared face eagerly scanning the crowds for the sight of those whom he loved best, saw his mother agd father wildly wav ing tiny American flags to attract his attention. *> Major Shepler W Fitzgerald, com mander of Rockwell field, sprang onto the lower wing section, reached through the strut wires and shook Smith's hand. "Let me get down, major.“ said Smith. “I want to get to my mother.” Jumping from the plane, Smith rushed into his mother's arms. "My boy. my wonderful boy." she whispered as she kisagd the flight commander time and again. Smith's father, reaching the only spot on the army aviator’s face that was not being smothered with kisses by his wtfe. reached his arm around both and planted a resounding smack on his boy’s right ear. It was more than Lieutenant Smith could stand and not give vent to his feelings. The man. noted throughout the American air service for his steel nerve, his stoical demeanor in the face of the greatest danger, wept softly. Another mother, too, wept for joy at the home-coming of the globe air men. She was Mrs. Harding, mother of Lieutenant Harding, relief pilot of Lieutenant Nelson. "God bless you." said Mrs. Harding as she flung her arms around her boy's neck and kissed him. "God has brought you back safely to me." October S ha« been assigned by the United Slates railroad labor board tor SMITH’S CAFE • 108 North Ninth Street Telephone Broadway 1M7 OPEN ALL NIGHT Boiled Dinner Daily* Short Orders At All Times Fish and Game in Season hearing ot petitions tor wage Increases of varying amounts filed by the brotherhood of railway and steamship clerks, and Involving 30 railroads. The squirrels near Sweet Home, Or., not finding many hatel nuts to put away tor the winter, have gone to the walnut trees, and are carrying off the »inter food as fast as they can. The walnut crop is a good one despite the dry season. R. C. Denny. 55. was burned to death at Whittier. CaL Sunday when Call Us and We Will Gladly.Arrange for Private Parties the oil derrick on which he was work- | ing burst into tlarnes. Ed Sitner of Walla Walla, who. with bis wife, is visiting his wife's sister. Mrs. A. E. Pringle, in Vakima. was playing with his wife's wrist watch and put it in his mouth to hide it from her. He gulped. The Dratch went down. A physician was unable to remove the timepiece from Sltner's stomach. MORTICIANS Three bandits held up Luther A. Bernheisel. cashier of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, late Monday as he was leaving the Post-Intelligencer building, and escaped with 16000 in silver, checks and currency, according to the police. HAIR AND BEAUTY PREPARATIONS S'uch as MME. C. J. WALKER. MME. DE NELO AND OTHERS can be purchased at The ELKS SANITARY BARBER SHOP 31S Flanders Street Also a fine line of Straightening Combs like the one shown here OPAL HAIR DRESSING FOR MEN—NO KINK Japo Preparations—Pressing Caps—and a Full Line The Black Swan Phonograph Records are now on sale here at 75c each E. W. AGEE. PROPRIETOR Your Patronage Desired Phone Broadway 5388 Courteous Treatment to All Herbert A. Thompson of William ton. Mich., war elected grand sire of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the sovereign grand lodge session in Jacksonville, Fla.. Tuesday. Port land. Or., was chosen for the 1925 convention city. At 4:10 o'clock Monday afternoon a huge subterranean gasoline tank in the heart of the area burned over in Sunday’s fire north of Monterey ex ploded. its (biasing contents spreading over Monterey bay and again threat ening the town of Monterey. After serving 19 years in the state senate P. H. Carlyon of Olympia Mon day lost the republican nomination to that office to Mrs. Emma M. Russell of Tenino by a narrow majority of two votes, when the county canvassing board completed the official count. The Brazilian revolutionists have captured the Brazilian river ports of Gnayra and Mendex, on the upper Pa rana river, southern Brazil, killing or taking prisoner the federal garrisons in both ports, according to advices from the town of Exposadas, Argen tina. An increase ef more than 60 per cent in the number of divorces grant ed in the state of Washington in 1923, compared with 1922, with an increase of only 8.2 per cent in the number of marriages, is shown in a bulletin from the department of commerce, Wash ington, D. C. THE UP-TO-DATE CLEANING and TAILORING CO. 496 Union Avenue North K Arguments for a continuance nntil after the November elections In the trial of Colonel Charles R. Forbes and John W. Thompson, St. Lottis and Chicago contractor, jointly indicted in connection with irregularities in the administration of the veterans’ bureau, were presented before Federal Judge Carpenter of Chicago Monday. LEANS LOTHES LEAN Hats cleaned and blocked to suit you. Yes, we clean everything from neckties up to rugs, blankets, etc. Suits and Overcoats made to your individual measure. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded. Our prices are very reasonable. Give us a trial We will please you. Call East 0258 for TAYLOR THE TAILOR J. W. IXGEI^OLL, Prop. HATS NECKWEAR An odd coincidence noted in Med ford, Orw is that A. H. Nelson, 39, and George W. Dow. 60. well-known busi ness men of Medford and former busi ness associates, died at the same time Sunday morning at separate hospitals in Portland, where they were under going treatment. SHIRTS Let us show you the new Conklin Life Time Pen, guaranteed for all time. New shipment of Leather Goods and Eventharp Pencils. STIPE DRUG COMPANY 143 Fourth Street at Alder. Portland, Oregon Two Masked Men Rob Inn. Eureka. Cal.—The Eureka inn was held up and robbed Sunday morning about 2:30 o'clock by two masked bandits who escaped with 1192 in cUr- rency from the hotel safe. Entering the hotel the men separ ated. one holding up the night clerk. Ostar Rogers, and the other giving his attention to'the porter. The clerk was forced to open the safe at the point of a gun. The robbers then marched the clerk and porter five blocks from the hotel before allowing them to go. It Is thought that the bandits escaped in an automobile. Officer Stays Mad Dog. Roseburg, Or.—A mad dog caused excitement at the railroad station Monday, the animal charging the flag man and anyone who ventured upon the platform. The dog. growling and frothing at the mouth, rushed first at the crossing flagman, who sought refnge. The animal then paced up and down the platform threatening anyone who approached. Chief of Six persons were killed Sunday Police Ketch shot the dog before any night when two automobiles collided one was bitten. , st Donovan's Station, seven miles from St. Johns, N. F. The machines Japanese Plan Flights. carried passengers returning from Tokio.—The Imperial aviation soci British warships. Included In the list of dead, it was reported, was Lieuten ety has announced plans for flights ant Callahan and another officer of by Japanese aviators across the Pa cific ocean and from Japan to London, the British warship Constance. and possibly around the world, for Lost in the mountains for nearly a next'year. week, but refusing to leave a sheep Yakltsuna Sanada, now residing at which he protected from prowling Oakland. Cal, will attempt the flight coyotes, a shepherd dog owned by from the Pacific coast of North Amer Tom Connolly of Maupin, Oregon, ica via Hawaii and Midway island to Monday drove bis woolly charge to Japan In May, 1925, according to the the camp of Tom Merchant, forest society. service fire guard. When the dog found the camp of the forest service Huge Fortunes Joined. employe near Devil* lake be was half Pontoise, France.—The Duchess De starved, but he refused to let the Marchena, the richest woman in Spain, sheep get out of his sight. and 81r Basil Zaharoff, an interna Oregon's state income tax law, as tional banker, reputed to be the wealth» enacted by the legislature at its last lest man in Europe, were married session and later approved by the Monday in the private chapel of the voters, is constitutional, with the ex bride's chateau, Balin ttyirt, near ception of a proviso contained in sec Paris. tion three of the act, permitting cor Guards Kill Lifer. porations to deduct from their net In come returns dividends paid to a resi Chester, Ill.—George W. O'Malley of dent of the state of Oregon on or be 8t. Louis, serving a life sentence for fore 30 jiays after the expiration of murder, was shot and killed ^nd John the income year. This was set out Weger, another long term convict, was In an opinion written by the late Jus dangerously wounded when guards of tice John McCourt and handed down the state prison here frustrated a de by the state supreme court Tuesday. livery of six inmate*. Occurred at Thorp, WIs Prop sei j Ikunage High St. Pau). Mina. — Twenty two per sous were reported killed In the vi cinity of Thorp as the result of Sun day's tornado, according to a report from a staff correspondent of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, who reached the scene early Monday. Among tha dead Included by the staff correspondent, and not previous ly reported, were peter Magyja. his wife and children; Hurry Barry and Lydia Veunet, living near Owen. Thorp, WIs.—Several «tersons were killed, probably a score of others in jured and property losses aggregating several hundred thousand dollars were caused by a tornado which struck about three miles south of here at 3:15 P. M. Sunday, according to re ports reaching this city. A heavy rain and hall storm, with a high wind blowing, preceded the tornado, which lasted only a few minutes. The twister covered an are* of be tween 10 and 13 miles, according to residents of this vicinity, causing the most serious loeses In the territory about 3H miles southeast of here. B While Rose Royenskl, her three brothers and father and mother were upstairs in their home, the tornado passed through and wrecked ths dwell Ing. Rose was instantly killed, all the other members of the family being injured. Anton Larxinskl was killed while driving home the cows. Several of thq cows were killed. Koly Saresek, a farmer living near here, was killed, apparently while walking along the road. Sophie Gralkowskl, n high school girl, was killed when her borne was destroyed by the twister. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gral kowskl. 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