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' Wtz jEugnmg Mztzdh J OFFIOIAli PAPER OV KLAMATH COUNTY ithVcar No. 3,727 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1919 Fourteen Price, Five Cents fusi IIS BEFORE CAPITOL CROWDS 1 Pennsylvania Avenue Ringa With Loud Cheers USE MASS FORMATION E SEVERE DAMAGE Hundreds lt'irtcl in Have llcrir Taken From ItrcfN in Niiim-ch Hay Properly Loss Estimated lie Over $1,000,000 HELP THE BOYS OUT .. i i.-i. i.l. Chid l''lulilerN Img ww-i rwct (SllllerliiB Hperuiei" 51,n,nKlnB (',..ls-Tl.nM, (hiii. umlm 'f VtumuH IMvfeloii M Vnrlous Times Hide at Head ' -(rA(o-llvl-l Made Hwiiril WASHINGTON, Sopt. I C-Over llsiorlc rcnnBylviyulii Avouuo, the American Way of Victory marked tut moro than fifty years ago by tbj returning blue-clad lpglonn of the Army of tlio Potomac, tlio Flrat Division, American Expeditionary rorce, marched today. It was Wiih- Jnitons first Kront paraii'i or me war jad It was conceived mid run led out m the Nation's tribute nut ulono to the veteran fighting men who lurched but to the wholo great nr- nr toe Nation created o nmico cer tain the utter dofeat of Cornum reams of world conqiieiit. Marching In mass fonnution niul tqtlppcd with nil tli) guns, gun throwers and countless other derail dealing devices of front lino ,'crvlco, the First Division, fresh linni from France, moved along tlio liroml nven le, a IIvIdr tldo of Himhurned flight ing manhood that filled tlio Htreet from curb tn curl). In their It hale I and olive drab uniforms, tlio men nwting Ij as reslstlessly ns tlio spring floodK o( the Mississippi. Ahovo each Hol la block of Infantry, roao tho grim lint of bayonets, tho hluod stool gllnt- bj dully as It caught tho light. Far ther back camo tho long lines of field inns, French "7G's" to which French olflccrs' havo said Frnnco owos her Miration and, after nil tho trains nnd ons had rumbled by. camo a bat talion of tanks, streaked nnd yellow ed with paint to conceal thorn from enemy eyes, but now growling" and tluklng their way bohlnd thn trooptr ft noisy respon.so to tho choors thnt Jfeeled them. There was nothing lacking to make "e parade an cpltonio of tho wholo rat array American Hklll and In imitable, will had created to moot d beat the enemy at his own game. There were guns of all tho typoH used Franco that could bo moved thru je streets. Machine guns, big and "" brlstli nmong tho rlflomon; '""" mortl"-s to hurl bombs from 1 ireDChcs: h,Bh 'nontO(l rifles ' ch peered skyward tu though 'I In search of enemy flyers. Some we guns wero horso-drawn. some led behind panting motor trucks "actors. The show wns as com mas tho Ingenuity of tho War De Wment could make It, a cross soc- of the American Expeditionary Bt H wag to tho linos of khukl-J- brown faced men themselves crowds i.,erCSt f th0 Pronging C tL r th0 wWo nv6nuo Jr. iL , hme Com,nB this o Aumor"-"n man power to Cl i s"bmarln"-lnfo8tod seas C,0;srked CntraBt t0 f -!. ' i Z ,!' unroporto departure, VsLT,nn.d womon nlne ",o Cl , l f01 th0 lBnlflcanco Ihi m,im 7 10n wa,tod ln worl- tun.. ..y t0 henr at those samo ' to dlnB boys hnd como .rj'"11 harbor, those oth H th ," "rSt Wor(1 n,torotl thell yB hml 0 to W om" ,,,rnR0 ,n nctIon (1 tho ,,sts that carried tho "ftiai. mon wh0 oop forovor i "J"1"0 nt tl10 "oad of tho CORPUS CimiSTI, Tex. Sept. IC. -With troops piitrolliig the Main streets, Corpus Chrlstl liegan em- tirglllg from the WlecKllge ("illHeil by tho guir hurricane which struck the city early Sunday morning, bringing death to a largo number of persuiiH. The hurricane did iiiIIIIoiik of dol lars of property damage. An uncon firmed report said that over loo bodies had been taken from the rcofs of Nueces Hay. SINTON, Tex.. Sopt. 10. Seventy bodies mutilated beyond recognition havo been found In tho surrounding hay shore, following tho storm of Sunday. CONDITIONS GOOD THRUOUT LAKEVIEW ird rodo 1VT..1 . M p .., JU1 uonorai Ed- """era of i "rraor com- "Nthe VUvl8,0u tho first to 'lorno 0t th? ,UvIsl0"B to "" William r 7 woro MnJr Oon- " rrice n 7 t " w" too" It ?sV "outonant Qonoral 'dTao ' Lakevlcw Is prospering and busi ness Is very good, according to word brought to Klamath Fulls last night by F. Kim llnldwln, Harry Calder wood nnd John Lewis. They report that tho Commercial National Hank has Increased Its fyin Ital to $150,000 and will orcct this fall a stcol and rolnforcod concrot bank building. Next spring a llrst class hotel will be erected ln order to taku caro of tho tourist travel that Is Incronslng each year. Mr. Haldwln, who is manager of tho Consolidated Stago Company, is authority for the stutement that tho walls on their new steel two-story garage are up and that thoy expect to havo tho roof completed by next weok. On September 2G a grand ball will bo given on both floors of tho spacious building. Paisley's or chestra will furnish tho music for tho affair. Tho management will furnish coffee, and guosts are re quested to bring pocket lunches and cups. WILIj IXKCT OFFICKItH The Klnmnth Falls Chapter of the Hod Cross will hold Its annual meet ing this afternoon at U:::o p. m. for tho purposo of electing olllcers for tho ensuing year. The plan' this year Is not to havo an organized sewing room hut iusteud tho women will take up economic problems and do their part by saving and practic ing economy. LANDS PURCHASED Western Lumber Company Takes Over a,500,000 Hoard Feet of Timber oil the Uiiipquii National Forest Reserve PORTLAND, Sopt. 16. Tho West orn Export Company, Cottago Grove, Oregon, successor to tho United States Logging Company, has pur chased a block of two and ono-half million feet board measuro of Urn bor, mostly Douglas fir, on tho Ump quu National Forest. This tlmbor adjoins n much larger block of gov ernment timber previously purchas ed by this company. Tho prices named in tho sale are $1.25 per thousand for Douglas llr and west ern rod codar, and 50 cents for hem lock nnd othor species. Tho timber will bo loggod under forest sorvico regulations and taken to tho com pany's mill at Cottago Qrovo. Acting District Forostor Munger has approved a tlmbor salo agree ment covering tho salo of 750,000 foot of pino and 70,000 foot of Doug las fir, on tho Okanogan National Forest, to tho Lake Cholan Box Fac tory, at $2 per thousand for pine, and $1 por thousand for Douglas llr nnd othor species. Tho tlmbor will bo manufactured into himbor from which upplo boxes will bo mado. Every resident of the county will have an op portunity to place themselves on record this week as to whether they are willing to co-operate with the ' High School Cadets or not. The boys are out to make a campaign for money to pay for their uniforms and to defray the expenses of their camping trip next year. They are not coming to you in the guise of beggars, but they are coming as one business man comes to another. They come with an article of value that they want to sell you. They are going to give you an opportunity to purchase a copy of The Honor Roll of Klamath County, a publication that no patriotic home in the county can be without. They will not ask you to pay an expensive price for this book. What you pay for it just barely covers the actual cost. The few cents over that amount the boys are going to put into their treasury to be used for the purposes stated above. The Honor Roll of Klamath County needs no eulogy. It speaks for itself. Enclosed within its covers will be the pictures and records of those who helped to win the war those at home and those who shouldered their guns and went to the front ready and willing to lay down their lives that those they left behind might still possess the blessings of a free American government. Its publication will always stand as the brightest page in the histoiy of The Evening Herald. It is a work of which this paper is proud and it is with a Reeling of pride that it offers it to the people of Klamath County. It never has urged its purchase, for it has always believed it a privilege for anyone to own a copy. There will be no extra copies printed. Only those signing an order for a copy of it will receive one. When the subscription date is closed, it will not be reopened and no amount of money or solicitation will enable anyone to get a copy of the book. It will never be reprinted and it is on this understanding that the books are sold. It will thus make the book invaluable to those who will be fortunate enough to secure a copy. INVITKl) TO AGKXCr. Profossor L. A. Hepburn received a special Invitation this morning from tho people at tho Klamath Agency asking him to conduct a dancing class there on Wednesday and Thursday of this week. The profossor has accepted tho invitation and will not bo in Klamath Falls on these nights. Ilowover, tonight thero will bo a special class in the fox trot at the Whlto Pelican Hotel, to which every one Is invited. Regular lessons are to contlnuo us usual in the Moose hall Friday, Saturday and Monday. FIRE CAUSES niG LOSS SHEFFIELD, Ala., Sept. 16. Fire destroyed tho warehouse of an engi neering corporation hero today. Tho government nitrate plant suffered a loss of $100,000. RETURN FROM PORTLAND. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hoagland ar- j rived in Klamath Falls late last I night after a short visit in Portland. j They drove back in a new Westcott car that Mr. Hoagland purchased for a customer in Klamath Falls. THE WAY IT WORKS i in w i i i i n CONGRESS W IT 0 SHERMAN IN HE! Largest International Assemblage of Newspaper Men Ever Gathered Together Is Scheduled to lie held in Sydney, Australia SYDNEY, Australia, Sopt. 10. The largest International assemblage of newspaper men ever gathered in any city in the world is expected at tho Press Congress of the World, to bo held here October 15, 1920. Two hundred of them are expected to como from North and South Am erica and delegates are expected from all portions of the British Em pire. Largo parties of newspaper men in India, China and Japan have promised to bo present. In connection with tho Congress, routes for world tours are to be pre pared by transportation agents act ing in behalf of the New South Wales government and It is expect ed that large reductions will be made in passenger fares. The Congresses to follow a meet ing of the British Empire Press Un ion in Canada ln September, 1920 and the delegates should arrive in Australia in the spring of the scut! ern half of the world. This will per mit visits to tropical Queensland be fore hot weather sets in. The Congress is likely to be en gaged in business discussions at Sydney for about ten days. Excur sions In New South Wales are plan ned before and after the session and later visitors are to "be given an op portunity to attend the yearly rac ing carnival a;t Melbourne during the flrst week ln November. It Is an nounced that everything possible will be done by the Press and people of Australia to make representative men from foreign countries under stand Australians and their meth ods of life. Membership of the Congress em braces all who are engaged in press work. It Is proposed to divide the sessions here into a series of conven tions each dealing with some branch of newspaper activity. Dr. Walter Williams of the Uni versity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., Is president of the Congress and Captain J. W, NIesigh of the Prem ier's office, Sydney, will be official secretary and representative of the Now South Wales government in matters connected with tho Congress. QUITTER If ILL' Republican Senator Attacks President in Speech OPPOSES THE LEAGUE If League of Nations Is Ratified tho Ajiicrlcan Mothers "Will Hut Cra dle Their Sons to Fill Muster Rolls of Armies to Give Lives in For eign AVars," Says Sherman Hi ram Johnson to Attack League U. S. ASKS JAPAN TO DECIDE DATE HONOLULU, Sept. 10. The U. S. has asked the Japanese government to fix a definite date for the return of Kiso Chau to China, accord ing to cable advices received by the Japanese daily newspaper hero to day. The Japanese government has not answered as yet. WASHINGTON, Sep:. 16. Offi cials will not comment on tlw rojjort that the United States has asked Japan to fix a date for fhe return of Kiso Chau to China. The general impression here is that tho report is well-founded. URITISH ENLIST 8,054,407. LONDON, Sopt. 10. Tho British Empire put 8,654,407 men into tho war, according to figures' made pub lie by the War Cabinet. Of these, England recruited 4,000,158. Other white enlistments in the United Kingdom and tho colonics brought tho total white enlistments in the empiro up to 7,130,280. Enlistment of races othor than white, including over a million and quarter from India, woro 1,524,187. DIES IGNORANT OF WAR HOUNSLOW, Eng., Sopt. 16. Though several of her relatives died in active sorvico, Miss Charlotte Fri day, who has passed away at her homo hero at tho ago of 100 years and 8 months, was kept by members of her family in Ignorance that thoro was a war. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16. "Pre sident Wilson himself is the crown ed monarch of quitters without a rival on the Western Hemisphere," eaid Republican Senator Sherman of Illinois today in referring to Wil son's attacks on Senators opposing the League of Nations. The Illinois senator further de clared that the President's silence and speed in escaping from his Im perishable principles of yesterday is abysmal and swift as primal chaos. In attacking the League ot Nations Senator Sherman declared that if the covenant was ratified as now drafted the American mothers "will but cradle their sons to fill the mus ter rolls of armies to give their lives in foreign wars." SIOUX FALLS, Sept. 16. Senator Hiram Johnson of California will speak tonight in opposition to the League of Nations. He will speak from the same platform where Pre sident Wilson appealed for the in dorseemnt of the covenant a week ego. WASHINGTON, Sept. 16,-OwlnK to the opposition of several members both Republicans and Democrats, privately expressed to the appropria tion of $10,000 for a sword for Per shing the proposed gift was abandon ed. Many contended that a vote ot thanks to the general, his officers and men was sufficent, and a resolu tion to that effect was adopted. Re presentative Schall, Independent from Minnesota, cast the only dis senting vote. No mention of the sword was made on the floor ot the house. The rcsolutibn now goes to the Senate. LOCAL COUPLE ARE UNITED IN WEDLOCK AT QUIET WEDDING In the quiet of her mother's home on Jefferson street Edith Rutenic became 4he wife of WHIard Johnson last night at 8:30 o'clock in the presence of relatives and Immediate friends of both parties. Rev. C. F. Trimble, pastor of the First Chris tian church, officiated. Jesse Bailey acted as best man, while Mrs. A. C. Yaden stood up for her sister. The' house was pret tilly decorated with sweet peas and pink and white roses. Following the ceremonoy a dainty repast was served, the table being decorated, with pink hose buds and sweet peas. Both the brido and groom are well known in Klamath Falls, al though the groom's home Is in Call-. fornla. Mrs. Johnson is the daugh ter of Captain and Mrs. J. C. Ruten ic. Tho newly-united couplo will spend tho next two or threo weeks in Klamath Falls prior to a trip thoy aro planning to California, whero thoy will visit tho parents of Mr. Johnson. Those who witnessed the ceremo ny last night beside tho bride's par ents woro Mr, and Mrs, Jesso Bailey, Mrs. A. C. Yaden, Fnyo Hague and J urn os S. Sheeny. MAY SIGN TREATY. PARIS, Sopt. IC Serbia and Roumnnyt expect to sign tho Austri an Peace Treaty today. k