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73 ARE KILLED
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DOWN V BRITISH
British Airplanes Met Invaders and
Thrilling Air Batlla Snsutd Dsad
Include 37 Women and 23 Chlldrtn.
Raid Began ''18 on Seuthat
Ceatt All British Riant Safe
Craft Type Nat Known.
LONDON. May 3s-8lxten Herman
aJrcrafU, In tfaa bloodiest raid on Bng
land alnce tho war began, hilled aev-,
eaty-ais persona aad Injured 174 laat
night
Britlah airplane mat the Invader,
tad la a thrilling air battle brought
doaa three Oermau machine.
Tba doad Include Iwenty-acven wom
an and twenty-three chlldron. An of
ficial atatement aaya that tha raid
organ at 6:16 laat night on tha south
aaat coaat.
Ona llrltlah plana engaged thro
Gtrmana, bringing down one while tha
other two find, toward Belgium whom
they encountered naval airplane.
When the Oemaa plan were driven
aeaward, naval plane from Dunkirk
purautd them.
An Admiralty Board atatement aaya
that all the llrltlah machine are
safe. Borne ahopa and houaea were
"seriously damaged."
The atatement doea not make clear
the type the raiding machine were
and It la believed they were mixed
Zeppllnea and airplane.
MEMORIAL DAY
PtiS COMPLETED
FLOWKR LAOIN BOAT WILL RE
LAUNCHIO IN MEMORY OF THE
SAILOR DEAD AND PROCESSION
GOES TO CEMETERY.
The plana are fully completed for
the observance fo Memorial day hero
under the direction of the Woman"
Relief Corp on Wedneaaday next.
The program will begin at 1 o'clock
In the public aquare. Several aonga
will be sung by public school children
and a short' addreaa will be roadeby
Rev. O. H. Bennett, of. the Methodist
Sproule Urges His Men
to Buy
Company to Buy $5,000,000 and Will
Aid All Employes to Purchase
Liberty Bonds,
BAN FRANCISCO. May S6-Presl
dent Sproule, of tho Southern Paclic,
given out a statement in which
n urges, the cempaay'a 46,000 am
Ploy to buy Liberty Bonds.
He said the 'company Itself will u
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clmrrli. A flag uUIiik will lie hold
by Hip chlldn-ii at this lime.
Following ilinHit ccrc-inonli-H pro
rrsslon will l. formed, hesdrd by Ihe
Klamath Falls bund, and will marrfrto
tho Wanhlngtnn street Canal bridge
where a ceremony will be held and
a Ituwrr laden boat launched In mem
ory of ihct iiallor dead.
The ununl ceremony will tm hold
at the cemetery and tho graven will
bo decorated.
At thrre o'clock tho Memorial day
address will bo delivered by II. C.
OrufttMYk, In tho park. In case of bad
weather Mr. Grosbeck will speak In
tho Opera lloimo.
A romliti program will bo an
nounced Inter.
RoSSlOn LtaAtVS GW
Up Hope Quit Office
General Guchkeff
Oineral ruslloff
Worn out with tho vain demanda of
the Socialist and soldlor delegate
who are In command of the govern'
mont In Petrograd, General Bruslloff,
commander of the army on the west
em front, and General Guc'hkoff, mln
iHter of war, have quit office. They
found they could do nothlngjn the
face of tho action of the soldier and
soclalliiU to prosecute the war satis
fact or I ly. General Guchkoff said ho
refused to share responsibility for
the sin being committed against the
country.
Liberty Bonds
scribe $5,000,000 worth and announced
that the company is ready to pup
chase any amount of bonds any em
ployee want up to 15 per cent of his
annual sslary, and will permit re
payment at a rate of two dollar per
month for each fifty dollar bond.
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RIAKINQ OF COMMISSIONER
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PREVENT COMINO.
Word received today from Roy W.
Itltner, who haa been at Lakevlew
with 8tate Highway CommlHaloner
Thompaon, of Pendleton, who were
uppoed to be here tonight to apeak
on good road, state that they will
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Ing down of the machine and the con
dltlon of thd road between thla city
and Lakevlew.
They return north by way of Bend.
Mr. Itltner ajatod that the car could
be fixed only temporarily.
Leave fer Michigan.
Mr. and Mra. O. I. Gregg and family
left tbia morning for Mlehlgaa where
Mr. Gregg will take ap agricultural
work.
Here Pram Paint
Mr. Cnas. Pickett waa down laat
night and today from Rocky Point
Her daughter. Mies Beaa Pickett, I
graduated from the high school laatj0d method. He brought out that school
night.
Returna Here.
Fred Cliff, formerly a realednt of
this city, returned laat night from
California where he has been living
for several years.
Gees (o Mt Hegren.
Mrs. J. W. Hensley leaves in the
morning for Mt. Hebron to join her
husband for the summer. He 'Is work'
ing' there.
KLAMATH BALL
SEASON OPENS
MAYOR CRISLER WILL TOSS THE
FIRST BALL OVER TOMORROW
MORNINO AGAINST THE AR-
BUCKLE ALMONDS.
The 1917 baseball season for Klam
ath Falls will oBclally enter tomorrow
morning at 10 o'clock when Mayor
C a Crisler tosses the first ball oyer
the plate In the first game of a double
header with tho Arbuckle Almonds
who will arrive tonight-
After two past seasons of superb
ball and plenty or wins, Manager Watt
haa had a problem to gather together
a team that la to keep up his past
"rep." The fans' that have looked them
oyer this year and who know the play-
era. believe be has accomplished it
and with the addition of Sheeny next
week from the University of Oregon
his. roster Is expected to be complete.
Second baseman Shandllng, of Mt
Angel college, arrived last night and
Is, working out today with tha, boys.
Clarke, formerly of Vancouver and
Camas, Washington, haa been signed
by Watt and will be seen I action
tomorrow.
The manager will bo satiated If
Klamath Falls wigs one of tha double
headers tomorrow as tha Weak have
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PITTMAN ADVISES
- PRATjCAL WORK
GRADUATION SPEAKER ON LAST
EVENING EMPHA8IZED NECES
SITY OF SCHOOLING BOYS AND
GIRLS TO FIT INTO COMMUNITY.
Houston'- Opera House waa filled
and standing room .was not to be had
at' the fourteenth annual commence
ment exercise held last night for the
largeat class the Klamath County High
School 'haa ever graduated.
M. S. Pittmai. of the Monmouth
Normal School, gave the addreaa of
the evening In which he recounted the
work necessary "for a high school
atudent to graduate and his position
in the world after graduating.
Mr. Pittman emphasized the need
of preparation today, pointing out the
result of preparation and using the
German military machine as an ex
ample, and the manner in which Con
gress falls into line after the President
haa Informed them wbathe wants as
another,
Mr. Pittman suggested closer asso
ciation between the schools and the
people and recounted the difference In
modern educational methods and the
work Is being made more practical and
must be. ao that high school student
will be fitted when they leave school
to Join in the community's Industries,
He advlaed that every atudent devote
several hour a day to work in some
local Industry.
Thexmuslcal number on the pro
gram were rendered in excellent man
ner, the 1317 class having exceptional
talent among ita members.
Following the program the diplomas
were given each member of the class
by R. C. Orosbeck. city attorney.
C. R. Bowman, principal, acted as
chairman of the evening, and M. S.
Taylor played the accompalnment to
the musical numbers. The high school
orchestra rendered several selections.
The stage was decorated In red and
white and blue and white with a large
American Bag for a backbround.
JOE O'BRIEN'
PASSES AWAY
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LOCAL RESTAURANT PROPRIETOR
SUCCUMBS TO HEMORRAGE OF
BRAIN 4pTER FALL ON STEPS
YESTERDAY.
Joseph O'Brien, of this city, died at
the age of thirty-six years last night
at 11 o'clock at bis room In the Wash
lngtoa House.
O'Brien was proprietor of the Jewel
Cafe at the croner of Sixth and Main
street la which business he was en
gaged with his brother. W. J. O'Brien
'Mr. O'Brien had been ailing from
rheumatism for some time and yester
day after being down to his place of
business, fell on the stairs-on return
ing home, causing a hemorrage of the
brain which was followed by his death
last night He waa thirty-six years
old yesterday, '
Tha body will be., taken to Carson
City, Nevada, where hie" mother Uvea.
Ha- la also survived by another bro
ther, a San Fraacisea newspaperman:
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WITH THE GREAT
AMERICAN FLEET
UNITED PRESS WRITER TELLS OF
PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY IN
PREPARING AMERICA'S FLEET
FOR WAR.
By CARL D. GROAT
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
WITH THIS AMERICAN GREAT
FLEET, May 15 The modern Jack tar
plays as hard and as wholesomely as
he work. Out with the great fleet,
you see him in thousand lots getting
Joy out of movies, vaudeville (home
talent), baseball, boxing, cards, phono
graphs, fishing now and then, band
concerts, and good reading.
On the theory that too much work
"makes Jack a dull boy." commander
of the great fleet see to It that thejr
program is varied, that there Is ao
overburdening labor except la the em
ergencies, and that there Is clean.
healthful amusement
Movies and vaudeville perhaps far
nlsh him his chief saaaemeat aboard
ship, while baseball ashore proves be
yond question that It is tho great
national sport
.Saturday afternoon and Suaday are
days of rest with the great fleet un
less conditions require otherwise.
Only the essential labors are perform
ed. Such ships as can do so, permit ;
a part of their men to go ashore oni
leave and see to it that on one of the'
two days a goodly portion shall have
a chance, at baseball.
If you want to see wild-fans and
enough good plsyers for several major
leagues Juat take a look at the Sailor-
men ashore for baseball.
ftie movie bugs are Just as enthus
iastic, but perhaps not quite as num
erous. Look out over the fleet on play
nights, and you see dancing flickers
against the ' night tha movies play
ing to hundreds aboard ship. Each
craft exchanges its films, and there
ia a wide variety. Melodrama thrilla
them,, but romance seems to appeal to
men whose lives. and works are based
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Merrill People Here.
A delegation from Merrill and Bon
anza attended the meeting of the Odd
Fellow lodge here last night There
was work in the second, or degree of
truth, and the third, or scarlet degree.
Following the close of the lodge, straw
berries and cream, coffee and cake
were served In the banquet halt
EIKS ATHLETIC COMMITTEE
INSTALLS STRIKING BAG
Through the efforta of. the Athletic
Committee of the local Elk lodge, and
particularly of Oscar Larson, one of
the members, the platform and strik
ing bag haa been Installed and ready
for use.
Partitions have been placed and ihe
shower baths are ready and consider
able athletic equipment haa been do
nated by members of the lodge. A
solid marble platform for tha punch
ing xbag was presented by- Dm Dale.
and a handsome nine pound medietas
ball by Dan W. Ryan of Fort Klamath.
J. H. Caraahaa also donated a new
double end striking bag. Inatallatlon
waa done by and at the expense of
Individual members of tha lodge. Sev
eral other pieces of equipment have
been promised and It la expected' te
make todeef athletles quite, a feature
of tha erub the aamJat summer a4
faU. .
With Pershing
Urdte4SttesSeaton
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Senators Heavy F. Ashurst of. Art
xona and William F. Kenyoa of, Iowa
have announced their intention of
resigning their easts to enlist as sea
men la the naval reserve; Beth have
passed the necessary physical exam
inations. Wheat Congress reconvenes
they, would be obliged to resign their
seata, for under present laws It Is un
constitutional for Senators to enlist
aa private la any branch of the mill
tary'senrice. 'Mr. Kenyoa accordingly
asked that aa amendment be made
to suspend the existing regulation,
Local Couple Take Prise.
The prise waits at Merrill last night
was won by Jesse Hunsaker and Vesta
Haaaaker. A large number attended
from thla city!.
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Died at Lee Angelea.
J. D. Gentry, formerly of thla city
and who left several week ago for
hk health, died at Loa Angeles, May
33, of Bright, disease, according to
word received here. -
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withdrawal of fW.000,0000 In gaM from
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Several suspects have been arreotsd.
Soldiers and mariaee are sserchlag
the surrounding country for the others.
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Falls and Mrs. Soy KUgore aadJ. T.
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