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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1918)
Olljtf iEumrnn Herald OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF KLAMATH COUNTY OFFICIALvNEWSPAPER OF KLAMATH, FALLS Thirteenth Ycnr--No. 3,504 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1918 Price, 5 cents ft WILSON LAYS POLICIES BEFORE BR LLOYD GEORGE IS E CTION BRITISH PREMIER IS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT BY AN OVERWHELMING VOTE HERBERT ASQUITH, EX-PREMIER, UNSEATED WILSON, IN SPEECH TO BRITISH LEADERS, SAYS FUTURE MUST PRODUCE CONCERT OF POWER TO PRESERVE WORLD LONDON, Dec. 2.S. All indications now point to the fact that Lloyd George and his government will have an overwhelming majority in the new house of commons, as a result of the election December 12th. j The nremier was re-elected to his teat Hi parliament from Wales. . Herbert Asquith, the former premier and leader of the; liberal party, has beeft defeated for his scat in the house of commons from Fife, in Scotland. i Returns tVus faT show that the coalition unionists have elected 127, the coalition liberals fiti, the Fife liberals 2, labor 28, Irish nationalists 1, Sein Fein 2(5, and independ ents 1. LONDAN, Dec. 28. Speaking in the historic Huid Hall at a gathering of England's most distinguished statesmen, the President today reallirmed the principle that there must no longer be a balance of power, which might unset tle peace of the world, but that the future must produce a concert of power which would preserve it. LONDON, Dec. 28. King George called at the Presi dent's apartment this morning, and wished him many happy returns of the day, it being the occasion of Mr. Wil son's Y)21 birthday. LONDON, Dec. 28. Vilna ,the capital of Lithuania has been threatened by the advance of the bolshcvikist troops, according to a Warsaw dispatch. The Polish chief of staff has demanded the free passage for troop trains over lines now in German hands from the frontier to Vilna. !f the reply is unfavorable, the Poles will begin their march in Lithuania. The Poles have asked the Allies to send officers to ac ("ipany the troops. REPUBLIC OF IRELAND WILL RELAUNCHED LONDON, Doc i!K I'twlors will appear lu every parish In li eland to dsy announcing that tint Irish He public has ttinio Into being hhjh the KxprcHS. The Central Soln Kolu Council will I stublUhed III Dublin almost Im mediately and will call Itself tho Irhili l'lirllaniont. It Ik probable that the l.aborlloH w be Ihii second NlrniiRest lnty the House nt Commons iih the Soln Keillors will refrain from iillondiinco but tint l.nhorllos losl two of their MroiiKcst leiitloiH Arthur Hondorum and I'hllllpp Hnowilou who woro ilo feotrd, lu tho roi'uiit election, MUS. HTHIOHH IMI'ltOVlIS The ninny friends of Mr. .1. ' BlulKor will ho ploiiund to lonril that hor health Iuih undergone n change for tho bettor. Mrs, Stolger. whoso health Imil boon poor, loft fovor.il wooIcm ago for Portland ami l'" lll!im recelvliiK trontniunt In Bimltarlum. FAVRRITF NOW ANNULLtB AFFAIRS II DEATH'S DDOB HHRRED KREKULtU Dl w m mm p COAST SENATOR TAKES AIRPLANE TRIP TODAY I WASHINGTON. 1). C. Hoc. 2S Senator Junes of Washington start ihI fni Now York todut In an airplane liilinoil hy l.loui'ii.i!it l.oi!rf. itor . iop-iiM Indlcatoil iti.it li Imil com pit Hi' t lit trip Mf"ly .mil woiiitt flv luifl. to Washington .tiummy. i Kiirin AMiutesi: 1 iiti:i:is kiiiknds. 1 Holiday (lieotlugs to his many i friends lu Kliinnth Kails mo aont via .1. II (Innell of this city from Keith Ambrose, a weir known Klum 1 hi h Kails boy who Is now a Lieuten ant In I ho I'. S. Marines. Lieutenant AinbloFo wrllt'H that he will sail tor , Ctili i wlllilu I lm next few days. MOUHTHAN MILLION , v.WKK soon i'iti:i:i. I WASHINGTON, 1). C. Dec 28.-- Over a million and one hundro'l thomuml Holdlors lit home and abroad have now boon designated fir ilemohllUallon since the nrmlutlro wus.Hlgned (iounnil Much anuiiiinroil Ititluy, OltlttiON IMHIUI.TV MST TOII.W. Killed In Action, l'vt. Win. Kiiecht, Portland. 'CUT mUSt STRUBLE IKES IETERIN OF LOSS OF WELL HUNS NOW IIKIUG HFIM DF CITY KLAiflftTH NEAR ! ' ,u i ii.i in; jo aithvii ox dati. si.t I'llll HMARIM; (Al'SHS .MIMii: CALKINS to ihsselvi: oitncit on ror.vrv (oritr. Tin- lnliM mote In tin- Kltrtia;h Comily ('mill House rlKtit In tho t'l soltlng of tin- Injunction Issued !y Circuit Judge Calkins of Medford on July lltli. which enjoined Hip Coun ty Court rroiu proceeding with the construction of tln Court House !n lint Springs Addition Hocombor 24th was cot hy Judge Calkins for ii hearing us to why this Injunction hIioiiIiI not liu dissolved :iml no one upiirarltiK In Hk defense. It wits annulled. Tin' order iih Issued prohibited the County Court from "making or en tering onion of imy kind or charact er, having reference to the construc tlon of the Hot Springs Court House or from hnrrnsslng or In nny way Im peding J- M- Dougan In tho building of tho com l house In lilock 3." or from attempting to aoll block 3.' or jfrom removing or nttomptltiK to re 'mow uiiv of the building material. ' GEORGE CREEL OF WA8HINC.TON, I). C. Doc 2.S - Persons In touch with relations be tween t'ri'Htiliint Wilson anil Chair man George ('reel of the. comniltton on puhllo Information sultl that thoy tlouhtoil Creel hail tiult that post for any reason other than tho tint' asslgn oil In published roportH, namely that hi work Is finished. Creel went to Paris to assist In publicity work thoro with tho presl tliint, hut It Is believed, hero that tho systom has boon so arranged that Crool's services run bo spared. Ho Is anxious to got back to prlvatu llfo, as his publicity work for tho govorn nieilt shoulil bo llnlshed. President WIIhdii Is unilorstooil to bo giving bis personal atlonllou to publicity at present. KLAMATH BOY FALLS WOUNDED IN FRANCE A loiter Just received by M. J. Ny hurt from his son, Noah, written from a huso hospital In Franco, convoys the news that ho was shot in tho leg. in his llfth uxporlenco going over tliu top, but that ho W recovering rapidly ami will probably bo sent homo. Tliu boy tolls of tho numbers that woro Shot down and wounded when the advances woro matin, and thinks it Is a wonder that any of them re mained ullvo. Those who woro Wounded, ho says, would not penult their friends to stop anil help them. Tho peaco celebrutlon thoro was u great sight, he declares, VISIT KLAMATH Itlll.ATIVK.S Mr. and Mrs. Cliudo D. Clark and little son Hurry, have arrived from Cnlgary, Alberta for a visit nt tho hoiun of Mr. and Mrs, It. K. Smith. Mr. Clark Is a brother of Mrs. Smith, who neither of them have scon for thirteen yuan.. The two are on their wuy to southern California for the winter months, but will stop long enough for a good visit boforo con tinuing tholr Journey. RESIGNS POST PUBLICITY M.w i;.i:ttii. will i Mi:it taki: ui:sposiiiii.ith or eirici: AT CTTV OITL CHAMltnitS TONIGHT. It Is expected Hint Mir Klcrt I. It Strublo. will assume his place a.i Hit. city's chief executive tit the con tinued meeting r the City Council l.ero tonight, according "to Acting Mayor W. T. I.ee. who has turned the responsibilities of this office over to Mr Struble. Mr. I.ee stated today that tho mat tor of the logullty of the recent elec Hon hail been sallsfattorlly establish ed In an opinion handed down this week by the Supremo Court and that ii this was tho decision awaited to nettle the recent controversy, ther" was no need of further delaying ac tion, i The dlffcience lu opinion 6ver the! elcttlon.was the result of tho change! of tho election date from the Spring! until Kail by a ote of the people two I etrs ago. It was brought out by many attorneys of the state that lu order to iegully.Momply with this, change, the city charters of the state would have to be amended. Some uintlo these amendments and .some did not and Klamath Kails was among those who did not. It was question ed therefore whether the Mayor who was elected on November 5th could legally undertake his office. As tho city of rortland. was .in a similar iiuundry and as points which Involved tho same If.suos. were argued before tho CourtR there and sent to the su preme Court for final decision. Mie Jtlrmulh Kills officials decided to wall and abide by the opinions bund ed down tlioio. KLAMATH SOLDIER SENDS GREETINGS Christmas greetings to his many friends In Klamath Kails, which did not get here in tlmo .for publication, have Just been received in a letter from Private Hynian Wochsler. with the American Kxpedltlonary forces In Franco. Tho letter says that the hoys where ho Is are getting along lino, but for tho fact that there Is no Y. M. C. A. establishment In that district, which thoy miss greatly. The weather Is cold, but clear, which, ho says, is much to lie preferred lu camp llfo to tho mud and slush. FAMOl'S KI.YKU IS KILLKI) IX t'HANCi: NTW YOltK! Dec. 2S. Captain lohart A. H. linker, the famous Princeton athlete, known In his col lege days as "Hobey" linker, an avl-; ator lu tlio American army In France, I has been killed In a fall of his plane. News of his death was received hero hy his friend, Percy Pyne. Pyno received n calilo message from Paris signed "lnglehart." a l , ..! Il.llr.,HU IllK Unllllllt-llll yueutiiur in nuiui o ,.. ,,...,. , yrhldi said that captain tiaKcr nan been killed in an airplane accident, and requested that his family bo no tllled, No details woro given. I'lU'OlWY MOIIIMZKS AtiAIXST HOLSIIKVIKl MONTKVIDKO, Uruguay, Dec. 2S. Tho government has ordered the uio blllsntlon of units of tho Uruguayan army In face of threatened troubles thruout the republic Foreign agi tators, principally Russian:". hao boeu-busy for several days eirloavor Ing to fomont a gonornl strike. i:itLY i'iencli: st rn;i:s flak- 111- IN.lt Itll.S AT HIS ASIII. AMI iie.mi: viii; ins clothing c.viniKsox rim;. i Now that her father, Captain Ivan D. Applegite. oaily pioneer of Klam ath County and now residing near Ashland wu In a dangerous condi tion as a result of burns reel veil at his home this morning, Is the su-l news which readied Mr. W. O. Smit'.i In time for her to catch tho trai.i for tint point. Prom the moaner details avail able It Is learned that Mr. Applegates robe and night shirt caught fire from tho blaze In tho fire placo-whleh he had Just kindled. It is believed that ho fell while trying to roich the bath room. Ho wag burned fearfully when hls'wifo heard him fall and ran to bis side. ('apt. Applegate has been in poor health for some time and it is ft red that he may not recover from hts Injuries. POItTLAND. Dec. 2S. WHIi-im Howard Taft declared at a dinner at tho Lotus club that the stars in their courses were d.lvlng the world into a liugtie of .nations to enforce peace. The 'former president asserted with solemn emplHSis that unless sucu a league, at least In Its essential prin ciples, develops out of the Paris con ference, the war will bavo been a tall tire, the treaty will be a failure, and tho iie.-.ee Itself will be a failure. Mr. Taft said that while President Wilson at llrst' favored such a league 1k hm! been for a tlmo "faint-hearted" toward It but the speaker holle ed Mr. Wilson had been won hack to Its suppoit. Ilo added that every IndUntlou In diplomatic exchanges and In the utterances of prominent public men abroad, Indicated that all the principal allied lountrios would luck the proposal in its essence. Mr. Taft flatly took Issue with his former secretary of state. Senator Phlli'udor C. Knox, who asserted re cently In tho t-ennlo that there should li a quick winding up of the war, leaving tho discussion of the league, changes in the laws of tho sen and other International questions to a later ami more leisurely discussion of the nations. The speaker, building his arguments with much of the pre cision of n legal brief, save when now and then be digressed long enough to laugh heirtlly at his own erst while political misfortune. Insisted tluu practically oery covenant of treaty as foriH'ast hy the armistice, tonus, must have such a congress of powers ti enforce It, unless the treaty Itself Is t'J be worth no more than the piper It Is written on. Ho assorted it to bo his observation Hint gentlemen nt Washington sit up and take notice when an Issuo be er mils llvo nnd acute. This Issue, he Haiti, now has reached that stage. POST.MASTKU IMPItOVlXG Word from Postmaster W A. Del zell who Is 111 at his homo on Crfs cent Avenuo with tho Influenza, Is to, tho effect that ho Is getting along nicely. WAR DECLARED LOSS WITHOUT i NATION LEAEIE I I ! woman who has m:i: aituu ix wi;i.r.iti-: or city i-'oi: MANY Y KAILS I'ASSKS AT IIOMK LAST XI CUT. The Bid tidings of the death of Mrs. Nellie Montellus, wife of W. M. Mon tcllus has brought grief to a host of warm friends In Klamath Kails tod y. Mrs. Montellus, who was known to be ill but not believed seriously so, passed away from heart trouble at tho family apartment In the K. I). Building last night. Of a cheerful nature ever active In work for others. Mrs. .Montellus In her seven years residence In this city had endeared herself to an unusual number In this community The de ceased was born In Carlton Missouri. May 17th. 1873 and had been mar ried nineteen years. She came here with her husband nine years ago and resided on Crescent Avenue while here. Two years ago last summer she went to Oakland where she remained until about six weeks ago. She Is survived in her Immediate family by her litiBuaml'and a" ilauglitrt Hss Kdlth. The funeral arrangements will not be announced until word can be received from the mother of the deceased, who resides In,I.os Angeles. MAJOR HAMILTON AND WIFE VISIT Major and Mrs. It. U. Hamilton who recently arrived from New York and are now located In Portland, came In last evening for a shorvislt In Klamath Falls where Major Hamilton will look after some de tails legarding his business arrange ments. They are guests at the Hotel Halt and expect to remain for about a week. Before leaving the service Major Hamilton received an Inviting offer to remain In the Army with bis rank of Major and prospect of promotion. He declined this however to come to Portland, where he found a good opening. ItiriTHXS TO All) IX t'.vitn ok hi:k motiikk. Miss Adelaide Schubert who 1ms been nursing at the Fablola Hospital at San Francisco for thu past two yoars returned last ovenlng to care for her mother. Mis- Carl Schubert. Sr. who lias been 111 for some time. CALLKDTO ILLINOIS UY MOTHMItS 1LLXKSS. News of the serious Illness of his mother at Yates City, Illinois wax re eehed last night by Reverend U. P Lawrence of Hie Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lewi once left on the train this morning for Illinois expecting to bo away about two weeks. liKTS THP.in: YIIAKS rXDK.Il MAXN A CI'. PORTLAND. Dee. 2S- Gleiin A. Campbell of Arlington Washington, was sentenced today to thrco years Imprisonment at McNeills Island on a churge of White Slavery under tho Mann act. The lomplalnliig witness was a seventeen year old girl, a ward of Campbells. WKATHKR HKPORT Oregon Rain in west or snow in oast; growing fast warmer tonight li south and east with strong south erly winds. . ' Maximum yesterday 33 degrees. Minimum today 9 degrees. ORDERS OF. PERSHING t lOKUMAXS IX TIlKltlTOHV OCCU- I ! l'IKI) JJV AMKIHCAX THOOI'S I I MIST XOW COXFOKM TO IX- i STIHXTIOXS OF I'KltSHIXC. IDHXTII-'ICATIOX C'AHDS MUST IJH CAimiED, WKAI'OXS AXI) AM MCXITIOX SUUKKXUKKKU. CKOWDS KOItltlDIJKX. COHLENZ, Dec. 2S. Rules for the guidance of Inhabitants of regions occupied-by -American-troops 'have been Issued by Pershing. Hitherto there has been no Interference with local affairs and tho German had crme to believe that such conditions would continue and while there has been no serious? Incident, It is deem ed best to check any tendancy to ward off such difficulties. Kacb inhabitant must now carry an Identification card and give notice or his changes of habltnUon. Weapons and ammunition must ho surrendered and tho assemblage of crowds is forbidden. rXt'liK SA.M TO SKLIi HOItSKS AXD MHLi:S. WASHINGTON. D. C, Dec. 28. fncle Sam is in the horse and mule business again this time as a seller. Nearly 45.(100 "surplus" horses and mules will be auctioned In Camps and cantonments on the fourth Tues day in January. This "horse power" demobilization lu oxpected to help the spring plowing ATHLETIC REFORMS NOW UP TO SCHOOLS NKW YORK. Doc. 2S. Various college athletic problems will be con sidered at the annual meeting of thu National College Athletic Associa tion, which begins In this city to morrow, it will ho the thirteenth : contention or tho N. C. A. A, and not since its organization has tho as sociation before boon confronted with such momentous questions ot nollcy. Many members who have favored athletic reforms in the past hold the opinion that tho present, is a propitious time tor a complete re construction ot thla department of students' activity. A number of ad dresses and discussions alone thcao linos are on the program. WAXDIUtl.r.ST OK CITY HOY CIRKD. Coleman OXoughlin who la In the signal service with tho American Bx. neilitloimry Forces In Franco has" hud a most vaiied experience, according lo a letter Just received by Uls mother, Mrs. Paul Jlogard-ii, and has travel led over ncarl the whole of Fr.inot) during tho past few months, UU appetite for travel has been admir ably satisfied he ?ay. and on-o ho gets homo, ho wUrbe'glatl to '' hero. Coleman has had forty men under hit supervision and hna uoan kept very busy, aceoruine.tq his letter. B V I i m