OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF KLAMATH COUNTY
llilrlwitlli V our -No. ll.lll.l
HUNS
GREAT FEAR OF
FAMINE IN LAND
ARMISTICE IS EXTENDED BY ALLIES UNTIL JAN-!
UARY 17TH ALLIES TO OCCUPY TER
RITORY EAST OF THE RHINE
REICHSTAG TO BE CONVOKED, BUT DATE NOT
INDICATED BOLSHEVIKI TROOP MARCH
ING TOWARD CENTRAL EUROPE
(By Aitociftted Prest).
WASHINGTON, I). C, Dec. M. Switzerland, acting
for Germany, has asked the United States for of.ieial in
formation of the state and place of the formal peace con
ference, and has urged a prompt reply, because of the fear
of the famine in Germany. ' '
COPENHAGEN, Dec. M. The German armistice has
been extended until 5 o'clock in the morning of January.
17th, according to a Treves dispatch.
In extending the armistice the Allies have notified Ger
many that they reserve the right to occupy the neutral zone
east of the Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead to the
Dutch frontier.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. U.-Koustantin Fehrenbach,
president of the Reichstag, has convoked a meeting of
that body, reserving a further indication of the time and
place, according to a Berlin report.
PARIS, Dec,, M. Heme dispatches say that Holsheviki
troops are marching toward Central Europe on a -100 mile
front from tlfoGulf of Finland to the Dneiper River. The
advance began on November 11th.
German soldiers are joining the bolsheviki, who are de
stroying everything in their path, and capturing much
material.
VICTORY LOIN
BIGGEST ONE
IF TIE Fffi
V'ASM Ul'ION. Dim I I I'hnt '"
I nitcil Sillies limy luiMi Hi float "
$7,0011,00(1,1100 "Virion" bond Ik1"'!'
In addition lo the billions ulioud)
rained thru Llhiiily houd Issuos, "lis
liidlonted hy Hpcroliiiy McAdon. si en
hn appeared nt nn executive -insioii
of (ho linnio ways mid meiiiiH com
mlKoo lo urgn Hint Aiiim Irn'r nlUc,
ho Krniited nn mldUlonnl loan of a I
billion and a, linlf, mnnibois of Iboi
committee nfttirwurilK mild
A "Victory" bond Ihsuii of Uo mid
half billions iih early an noxl s !':
woiRd probably ho necessary, II llm
United mitten Ik to mmil IIh wii" and,
reconstruction obligations, tho koci.
Ury Intlmntoil, these monilnim added
Mnmhers of llm eoninillleo Hinieil
that thoro was u disposition iiii'diik
them not to luko any iictlon on llm
loan until after thu ponro conforunro '
iiAnv n.vciiiTKR Aititivrs
A buhy ilntiKhtor nrrlvod this nioin-'
Inn nt tho homo of Mr ami Mm. R H I
Combs ut 710 Oak Stieot nt five,
o'clock, Tho llttlo Imly weighed teii(
lioundH. Dr. A, A. Houlo wna In at
tomlnnco.
(ftV famtttra
FRANTIC FOR PE AC
LOCAL BOY RETURNS
FROM TRAINING CAMP
lieulKe ItlKCH who en'el.nl the
hiit'. IK Al lilt at LiiKeli" ill Septein
hul returned bml ulKht from the Of
riiiMH Aitlllei) TuilnlilK camp lit
("amp Tnlor Keiilmlo w'li'U'howjs
liaiisreirnl shoi(l) afier his nnlal
Yoiiiik ItlKKH has lmd nil eMeiislMi
(tip sluie leuliiK Kliinmtll KiiIIh.
MiuielliliiK inel i.oi0 miles and has
eneoiinlered a uuniher of Inteiiistliu:
oNpnileiirrH. Im liidliiK the Infliienr.l
lie wiih In Kannis n when llm min
im Ion wiih hIjiiumI mid he said thero
wiih ho niui'li peine llmre that It limit
two iompanli'Sor Infantry to sub
dim the people Al one Hum he win
ahle to nee foul IIkIiU on Ibo ttieot
without inoxlliK his pivsltlmi nn the
( iii!
.MiLit'Ain mi'i.ns roit
iiK.ii .school aiiihvi:.
Two hoM's of SpilliKflnbl llflos m
iloil lieie this nioinltiK for use hi
tiilllt it i til 111 b the IiIkIi neliool liovn
AiiikikimiihiiIh woie inmliMiiirl) In the
year for ii'Riiliir t I 111 lit tho llkli
Sehool rind It In expected that II IM
heeome u mrl of tlio renulnr row re
when Ibo sohsIoiis am iiKnlll rosi.nloi!
...Not'Nn:ii:.r
Kouitli l.lbei ly Lori llnmln nro
now leady for dnllum to eiihtoinerrt
of tlio Flrut Nallouiil Hunk who paid
In full for them on u: Iwfoip Nucoin
her 21st.
KLAMATH FALLS,
mm i l
CET HELP ON
nisi srvn. aii is (H"ii.im;i
IN l'lt(M.ltM lOlt 1111) lit .COM.
MISSION. ISI.II lOWAItl) III:M
ON IIOAD IO JACKSON.
Klamath ('(Hint) Ik hi lu-diilcd to
gel flft) l tioiiKitml dollars In road
inline) IIiIh tinning mr In tin1 pro
gram fur icork which In mm Issued hy
the hlghwa commission nt Salem
Omi half of thlH aiiiiiiuu which is to
hi) taken mil nf the uniirUT mill tux
f ii ml mill tin' motor llienso fund, will
hn iimimI on tin- hlghwn townrd Hend1
mill (irn- half front Klmnnth to Jnck
mii County i
Italians .crisi:n or
CRIT.I.TY IIV Jl'JiO SI..WS.
WASIUNOTON, l C Dee 14
A htiiti'incnt hy thii Nutlounl Council
of .agoro " the pro Inlonul govcrn
iiiiuii of the Jiiko Slav territory sn
that tln Allien H)H-ctiilt the United
Statin Iiiimi taken Immediate steps
to iiocnt hlooihilieil hy the ltall.ui
nrmy of occupation on tho Jugo Slav
ioiiilatlon of Daluintla Fliiin Zadnz.
Claims h:tM heen niailu that the Ital
ians lin( lolateil the iirmlHllie pro
vlnlous In Keerul maiinurH
UNTRUE TALES
To the I'.iIhuik. PrlendH and Meuihers
of the Anierlean lied t'riwH As
kiii ialloii
A pel 'Intent effoit IuiIiik been
iiimle to dlHciedlt the Loml Chapter
of the Amoilnin lied ('loss with as
MMlliiiiH that I buy ehnrRod the iltv
and count) for supplies furnished the
Isolation haspltnl, one party oxen t?o
Iiik so fin as to pieM'iit n hill to the
t'llj Council tinaiithoilied h. and tin
Uuown o any or the officers of I he
i:xecutie Coinmlttee of the Local
Chapter foi pneumonia Jackets;
tlieiefoie let it he known th.it tho
Local Chapter secrn limes sIkiiI
fled to tho niithoilties that no iharges
would lie miidn for supplies and It
has mil and will not mako any
liaises to either the clt or county
for whatever supplies It has fnnilslu
oil Kiiithernioio the Loci I Chnpter
has at all times been ready to assist
and Iris on numerous occasions offor-
ed lis nbslst.inco (o tho oMont of Its
'power to lomhat tho Influenza epi
demic mid If their services hao not
heen used II Is no fault of tho lied
Cross niKiulzatlnn, charges and ns
hellions lo the contrary which nro bo
iiiK cliuulated nro neither truo nor
patriotic.
This statemnnl l made us II has
come to Ibo allonllou of Ibo Kxncn
the cominltlio thai ponio of our clll
ens will refiin lo boiomo members
of Ibo American lied Cross In the
coming ilrUe owing to (lioso fiilso
iihsertlons,
(Slguod): Mrs II, D Morlouscn
chairman, Ilnv H, T. I.nwronco
snciotury, J. W. Siemens vlco
chairman, IK D. Mnrtenson, W. O,
Smith. Mrs. K, 1). Hall, Mrs. 8. K.
Slnrtln. Mrs. O. W. Hobortson,
Mrs. C V Stono, Lcsllo RoRers,
It. II. Dunbar, Mrs, Z. C, Klmbal!,
Dr. 13. D. Johniton, Mrs. 15. K
Wnttenhiirp, A J. Lyle, Mr, Jns
Drlscoll, W. A. Dolzoll, Mrs C
M. Ilnnisby, II. V. llrldcoford,
Kuthor MnrBluill, Mrs, L, O, Slso
more, Mrs. W, B, Johnson,
IS
IT
CROSS EN
OREGON, SATURDAY,
mntoients pmkenh
NiUNUb ur rniuna in hill
NOW RAPIDLY PENITERTIT WIR
ih:moimi.i.aiic.v in initi:i
stati-s i'ik-i:i:i)in. at rati:
or rirri:i:. tiioisa.nh daily,
ka'i i: u M. i- in: not uix.ii soon.
WASHINGTON, I). C.Jic. II J
Ceneral Pershing Iiuh ilelguntcd flM!
thousand nioro men for early return.
Tho lurgest milt was the Fifty First
Coast Artillery.
General Marih announced today
that tho demohillzatioh of tho Amcrl.
ran soldiers In tlie I' nlted States was
now proceeding at tho rale of fifteen
thotixand dally He expects It to
reach a rate of thirty thousand.
I
F
M. AHDED
i:ighi Honor F'lags for the Fourth
Liberty Loin lmo been recehed and
distributed and an attempt has heen
made to secure others for precincts
which won them, according to Chair
man Arthur Wilson
The following h.no heen .iwardedt
Klamath County. City of Klamath
Falls, Mcirlll, FortKlamath, llonmiza.'
Mallii, HI), Southern Pacific Com
pany Thvso aro only n portion of
thu number won thruout tho count
and were awarded whero thu best re
cords wcro ntndu
FLYER CROSSES
IIFKNOS Allies Dec 14 Lieu
tenant Ilagobcrto Oodo of the
Chilean arm, on Thursdii ironed
the Andes mountains .it their highest
point In a llrlston all piano- The aI
ator left Santiago, Chile, and crowed
the Tupungato range at nn altltudo of
19,700 feet, lauding at Mendoza, Ar
gent Inn
Lieutenant (lodoy Is tho IJist Chil
ean and tho second man recorded as
crossing tho Anilc b airplane The
first Might jieross tho mountains wai.
luado last April by Llouteuant Cen
dolarla of tlio Argentine nrmy. who
crossed at nil ultituilo of nearly 11,
000 feet
MORE NEW INFLUENZA
CASES ARE REPORTED
John Worden at Slilpplngton is one
of tho now eases of Influcnia ropoit
cd today by the health bomd His
wife Is Isolated nt his homo with lilm.
Mrs. H. llnrden ut ."00 Jefferson Is
nlso III Sho Is In Isolation with her
relatives Mr nnd Mrs. Powoi.s.
Mrs Losllo Stonrns and two child,
ren aro among tho now cases on tho
West sldo of tho rher
I.HAVi: FOR CALIFORNIA
i
Mr nnd Mis. II Nownhnm leave lo-morion-
morning for San Joso and
I'usadonu whoro they expect to spend
tho winter months it tlio poiuo of
tholi" dnuehter Mis. Vooihles.
TY
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Herald
DECEMBER 14, 1918
(.RRMAN LtlllLHAN MINIS'IKUS
i:ri: insiri cii:i in iilix
HIN c.Msi: in .si:iimons. .se.mi:
jaiix.d, oiiii:k.s i.oiai,
WASH INC.! ON. I) C, Dee II
Captain LUler testified In the brev
or) Investigation today that German
Lutheran pastors were instructed to
preach pro-Oermaii sermons before
the I'nlted States entered the war,)any announcing the Invention" and
and that some of these pastors who uoelopment by the technical staff ofi
entered the arm later and continued
proaihlng such sermons are now In
the Atlanta penitentiary
Other Lutheran
wholly loal, he said
pastors
were
KLAMATH MAN BEING
TRIED IN PORTLAND
The trial of Henrj C Lemler of
. v. .....I"" " " " ' " "- -
tne uiene uisirici in me rene-ai
Court at I'oitland charged with iho
Wolatlon of tho Ksplouage Act 10.,
R0I"K "
Attornuv W H. A. Henner of this
city Is in I'ortland appearing f- t..v
defendont Seeral witnesses from
this district hnvo been summoned to
appear at the trial.
MIC
IIKiA.N M:.N.milsRII'
COTROT.H.sY MILL OX.
WASHINGTON. D C. Dec 14
The piesentatlon to the Senate of the
formal election of Trnni'ii Newberry,
the lepubllcan who defeated Henry
Ford, has resulted in a controersy
ulili h has culminated in the with
drawn! of the certificate for tho pie
ent
anki:i:s cii(is niii.Ni:
WASIIINOTON. P. C, Dee. U
ener.il 1'ershing ha .innounced that
the ami ha crossed tho Ithlno and
occupied the Cohlenz bridgehead
M.l.t l!l(i MARK Ml'jsr
rn.i: yi'i:MioN.iRi.-.
Ni:W VOKK. Dec. 14 Amui lei's,
letuining toldieih nro going to bo pro
toe ted against hasty and unfoituaato
niarrljgos, to far as the go eminent
can gle them such protection. It is
loni lied 11 older of the l'roost
innrahit genoial "nuestlnnniros" me
being sent to man Inge llienso bur
onus at tho principal debarkation
points which must be answered satis
factory b tho poldleis and thcil
Piosoittp, brldos bofoio maniago li
censes inaj bo issued.
IIINS UsT NOW ITIlMsll
SHU'S FOR '1111:11: FOOD.
COI'FNlIAflFN. Doc 1 I (loneial
Foch has anuouncod In hohnlf ot ller
I bert Hornet that, two and a half
million tons of uugn spaco Mug in
German hubors must bo phucd und
er eoutiol ot the Allies lo supply nor
mally with foodstuffs.
DA1RV RANCHLR VISIlS
.loo Koessol. n well known lancher
from tho Daliy district Is pa Ing a
business visit to the County seat to
day. "FIX" VICTIM RFCOVFRS.
William lmmoi Is tiblo to bo up and
mound nftor n sovoio attack of tho
Influenza.
ONFERENCE
Hinn
SETS HUGE
I Ol R CON LltS.U IO.NS AX VOW
UK AHHILDO.N AThAML II.Mi:
ovnis e.m: pair or ti:lk
i'honi: uiui:.s.
WASHINGTON, I).
Postmaster General
C. Dec. 14
Burleson has
Just made public a letter from Tlieo-l
iloro N
Vail, president of the Amer-
can Telephone ana Telegraph com-i
iUl0 i5cli BVStem of "a practical sjs-
, tem of mitpiex telephony and teleg-!
I ranhj hy the use of which It Is now-
possible to Increase many fold the
message carrying capacity of long tel
ephone and telegraph wires.
"With this new- sjstem," said Vall's
letter, "four telephone conversations
otur ono pair of wires are simulta
neously carried on, in addition to the
telonhone conversation nrovided hv
1, ,,,,. ,,,. Th. ...
single pair of-. wires a total of live
telephone, conversations are simul-
eacU K,T,nB.MI,
vice as good as that pro tiled by the
c,rcult vvorklnB , the or(nar. way.
... ,,,, . VMr pn B ,,-.,.
oped the 'phantom circuit' arrange
ment, b which three telephone cir
cuits are obtained from two pairs of
"wires Now, by our multiplex meth
od, we aro enabled to obtain live
telephone circuits oer one pair of
wires .that is, ten simultaneous tele
phone coinorsatlons from tho two
pairs of wires which formerly could
be used for only three simultaneous
telephone coners.ations."
ELECTION
;t
1) Campbell, A U flalo and
William Sclieblo and Merle Kilg.iro
of Lorella and II J Tichnor are tho
dli pc tors- nonilna'oJ for the Lmgell
." Iirlgatlon d'ttrict tht creation
of which Is to he oted on at tin elec
tion, December .SJt
Should this election carry, It will I
mean the Immediate Iirlgntlon (level-j
opulent of between sixteen and twen-i
t thousand acres of land which Is
known to ho unusually fertile. Coup. j
led to the large units now be-1
Ing iirlgated b pumps from Lost
Ither near Ilouanza, this will .lo
woudoib townid settling up that por
tlon of the County and assure a sub
stniitial increnso to tho County's ngrl
cultuial pioductlon.
I.NFLFH.NZA
AUAI.V
IX SAX
FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 14. Two
hundred and olght-soen new oases
of Spanish Julltienu and six deaths
for the twcnt-four hours ending nt
D o'clock Thursday night wore an
iiiiuncod hy the board of health Ono
hundred and forty-one of tho now
ciiFos'weru repotted by mail.
DIUTHS OX (iRII)lRO.V
FRWKR THIS SFAROX
CHICAOO. Dec 14 Football
claimed nine lives this season, three
less than last ear mid nine less thmi
1910,
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OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
OF KLAMATH FALLS
Trice Kite Cent.
PRESIDENT
RECEPTION
AT PARIS
TIWMKMKIL'.S
CROWDS CRRKT
AMKRICAX FA'LCL'TIVK THIS
I'ORH.NOON. I'ARTV JtKCI-nVKIl
IIV lRKMDi:.T AXD l'RKMIKR.
i
I
WILSON DKMGHTKD TO KKEf
CO.NTACT OK FRIKXDSHIP BK
TWI'.KV UMTL'D STATI-S AXD
FRANCIS
FAIIIS, Dec. 14 President Wilson
atrltt:dTiura.L.ten fifteen this .morn
ing Dense throngs balled him with
olIes of shouts and cheoring. The
roaring of his welcome left no doubt
of Its cordiality.
Mr and Mrs. Wilson were greeted
by President nnd Mrs. Polncare,
Premier Clementcau and other offi
cials. They drove in carriages to the
residence of Prince ,Murat where tho
President will reside w'blle here.
French troops lined the entire length
of the route At a luncheon given
by President Polncare, Mr. Wilson
made a speech In which he said. "It
I ery delightful to find mjsolf In
France and to feel the quick contact
of .sympathy and unaffected friend
ship between the lenresentatlvcs of
the Fulled States and France." He
talked on the war and the Ideals of
tho I uited Stites, and drank a
health to tho hosts and to the pros
perity of France
Fl.f l.lS SIIVRRK.
AKOL'-M) MLUKILL.
William Koenlg who operates a
1 ranch in the Merrill distrht Is In
I Klamath Falls on business today. Ho
'reports that the nitlueiua situation
I lo pnnvlilm nhlv (mnrn0(l ill that lo-
callty
ST
R.G. ROOMS
IS REOOESTED
An appeal has been made In (ho
women of Klamath Falls to renew
their nttoudanco nt Ibo Hod Cnm
100ms heie and to continue the work
that hns been p'ei formed li tho past.
I.i.aders of tho o'ganlrallon point out
tho fact that nltho tin- V'li- Is over,
theio i.s a gieat twV left lo do for
t"e roliof of tho at '"toa wm suffer
ois Ih the Kuropenn nations..
An order has Just comn lit from
lmailnunrleis for 250 pair of paja
mas, eighty flvo bos blouso suits,
fifty little gills dresses, ono hundred
womens undorshlrte, - two hundred
convalescent robes and It la requested
that those girmonts nil bo completed
by tho 15th of Janunry. H can hn
easily seen that tho presont attend
1 Mice of nbout one per day nt tho
rooms will have to bo incrgascd If
this work U to be nccoinpllsbel,
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