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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 12, 1925)
universitv T ii-., Eugene," Oregon BUY AT HOME; LOCAL MERCHANTS CAN GIVE YOU BETTER, BARGAINS Published Daily at KLAMATH FALLS "An Empire Awakening". Associated Press Leased Wire Eighteenth Year No.. 5519 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS - rr . mat COUNCIL SCRAP iiwi ii n n -uitn o nnnunn r nnnnnuin innur mm ml Same Old Story Repeats Itself With Same Old Forces Lined Up A concrete wall, again Intervened Inst night between the O. C. & 10. railroad and their oxcluslvo railroad crossing across Sixth street, a con crete Htructu.ro personified by two adamant councllmon supported by a mayor who wlil exerclso Ills veto. It was just an encore of the same number, with slight variations In the upper register. It. C. Grpesbeck, at torney for the Strahom lines, ap peared before, tho council to' dsk passage of a resolution to cross Sixth street with certain modifica tions which he specified as follows: That the O. C. & 10. bo given 120 days to grant certain property, to the city; that tho railroad , be .granted the same, time' to begin tonstructlon of its tracks." . - Hume riot. The same old forces fell into line, facing each other. Councilihon 13, H, Balsigor, C. E. Stuokcy and Charles I. Roberts, helped along by the at torn oy for tho railroad, sponsored the cause of the O. C. &. 10. railroad.. Councllmon Merle West and Fred Cofer,, the only two councllmon who have served the city previous to last January, aided by Mayor Goddard took up au offensive defensive against the O. C. & E. "Just a, camouflage,'' was Mr, West's verbal disposal of the mat ter. "We. have told Mr-. Strahotn time and again tnat he can have the crossing permit with common user Included." . . ' Grocsbcik Mutters To which ..MrwGrbesbe.ck1 muttered .'"aloud -soindtnlng to; the :effect that Hades could ho frozen . for!,, iOOO ' ;ears .bofcro the 6. C. & E. 'would permit tommon user on the lino In ' question.. . . ' . i . 1 No compromise or agreement In the offing, tho council voted on .she ersolution with the Uual result. Cbuncllmenl Stuckey. Roberts and Balslger favoring the resolution, and (Councllmon West and Cofer oppos- Ing. Mayor Coddard indicated last night that the resolution would meet the same fntn sm tlio rea-i. lutlori favoring the crossing,, which was passed April 13 by tha council. HnVAH'a 1i.n,ull.... ' The bickering , on the resolution was primarily dofonslve us far as West, Cofer and Goddard were con- corned. But the mayor led tho of fensive against tho Strahorn line, when In ti written communication ho strongly recommended that the city attorney write to the Interstate commorcb commission nsklng that some assurance bo given that the city's 300,000 coulty. In tho rail road bo protoctod In case of a trans fer of the railroad. Councllmen West and Cofoi-.TIn particular, seemed, to favor. the propostlon. It would not do any harm to write the Interstate Com merce 'commission and ask what could be done to protect the cit;-, they held.: ' ' ' , . " Roberts Disproves Councilman. Roberts showed his disapproval when he sourly snapped at Mayor, Ooddard: . " , "What assurance have we t'jut the railroad is going to be sold.". (Continued 011 l'age Six) Air Mail Pilot Has In Effort to CHEYENNE.' Wvo.. -May ;,peifaftcl mail has a counterpart in Pilot Frank R. Yager of the1 air mail service. 1 .Leaving Omaha early yesterday morning with a 'cargo ,-of mail,1 Yager. found the fog so dense he was unable to see. He-made a forced landing in a small tield in Ne braska. In a short time the fog lifted and he took, off again, only to be forced down a second time. . -Yager made five forced landings in this manner in the course of 100 miles, he reported here, the fifth being at Archer, Wyo. There, determined to get ahead in spite of the fog, he decided to taxi his way across the wide open spaces. But even .the wide open spaces have oc casional fences, and the air mail pilot began to encounter them, but on hurdling the, seventh e .began to tire of it. ; He' then waited for the first streak, of dawn and then took the a5r for a'!thag'e';'alTiving herpat eight oclockiin the' . -'..:.ij.,.i-.i .yAunfi-rVr ;' . . . ,,vi!iri'n'''Xi:r:' 'J1'1 Jail Sentience Given Klamath County Woman PORTLAND, Ore, Slay 12. Mrs. Zclla Jr. Hough v.f Klamath Falls pleaded guilty hi ft-dci-al court to. day tu a charge of using the mails to defraud anil mis sentenced to 1)0 (lays in. jail. Ilir husband, who was arrested on' the same thai-fee, was freed when the federal grand jury returned it nut true bill against him. The two-year-old baby girl which Mrs. Hough bruught with her to Portland when arrested, has been glared In the' Waveiiy Haby home hole pniuliiig the ill-other's release. The rlim-go against. Mrs. Hough was based oil two alleged worthless checks, aggregating less tliiin $100 willed were sent to 11 Poitlaud .mail order horse for orders, incliidin; licuschold goods, auto parts and soap. The (hecks got. back tu the mall order house before the goods were delivered. DAIRYMEN TO FIGHT ANY RATE INCREASE SALEM, Ore, May 12. Freight rules on shipments of dairy produce will bo the question at Issue at a hearing before Interstate Commerce Commission officials In Portland today. , Oregon dairy produce ship pers will -be represented by the public service commission. An ef fort is afoot to Increase the rates.. The move, It is said, was precipitat ed by shippers cast of Salt Lake who want uniform rates in the west ern states. At present the rates are lower on tho coast than farther east. DR. F. M. TROUT TO ADDRESS KIWANIANS Some v stralght-from-the-shouidoi-facta, about .what the: .people. pt liar Hn anil Merrill think of the present railroad situation and the 'Strahoi-n of torts to bottle up the city will be given mombers of the Kiwanls club Thursday noon by Dr. F. M. Trout of Mtilln. One of the leading boosterj of the valley, Dr. Trout yesterday con sented to address the Kiwanians, ani wIU Prent the vleW3 f tho IPle of .that section In a forceful mannor- NOTES APPROVED . PARIS, May cabinet today 12. Tho French unanimously ap- Proved Foreign Minister Drland's two notes, one replying to the Gor man 'offer of a security - pact and tho other laying down tho require ments for Gorman disarmament be fore Cologno shall he evacuated. SKKKS MISSING HON' Wallace W. Vernon, who, dropped out 'of sight shortly after the war, 1s being sought by his mother, who lives at Ramsey, Ohio. The mother has writton to offlceis of the Moose lodge In Klamath iFalls, asking their aid In lo- eating the missing son. The young man- was reported ' to have come to Klamath county after he was. discharged from the army, .but his mother has not hoard from him for sev- eral years. Any information will be gladly received either by the mother or by local of- fleers of the Moose lodge.' '. Weird Trip Keep His Schedule .12. Kipling's hero of the FURTHER GHARGEiTflashes ADA Id MVU VM 1 MADE PUBLIC .j New York Nurse Worked With Undertakers to Fleece Parents XKW YORK, May 12. Investi gators of the career of Mrs. Helen Auf.vu.stc. GelseiwVulk, under arrest fee alUse-.t baby substitution at her lillby fai'ill, were lohl today that she woiiu-d , Willi undertakers to fleece tin; parents of children who died -while J in her care, Assistant District Attorney Ryan . announced. Mrs. Margaret Toohey of the Drcnx, whose 18-month-old child, Agnes, was one of the 23 children who (lied during the past 11 months after having been placed with Mrs. Geisen-Volk, told Ryan of the latest phase of the investigation. She -said that the woman had' induced her to pay $60 for a grave purchased from Jacob Heerllch, an undertaker who had his place of business near the baby farm. 60c later learned that her baby had been interred in Mrs. Geisen-Volk's private burial plot In St. Michaels cemotcry where many other little victims of the baby farm have been buried, Ryan said. Ryan is seeking a supreme court order for the exhumation of tho Tc-ohey child's body, for several witnesses have' testified that Mrs. Geisen-Volk banged the infants' head against a wall when the child annoyed her with Its cries the night before its death.- ICQ. BUYS PROPERTY Site at Sixth and Klamath Sold by A. B. Epperson for $16,500 A record was set for values on Klamath avenuo yesterday, when the lot at the southeast corner- of Sixth and Klamath avenue, now occupied by the service station of the Union Oil company of Califor nia, was sold to that corporation by A. R. Epperson for ?16,G00, making a price of $310 per front Oaot on Klamath avenuo. The negotiations for the pur chase pi' this pioco of property have been under way for several months. Two. years ago tho lease for the ser vice station was taken by the Union Oil company, and soon thereafter II. decided that it would prefer to own the property outright, but there was some difficulty in reaching an 1111 dorBtandliig as to tho price to be paid. . ' Tho property was bought by Mr. Upperson about flvo years ago from D. A. Lamm, for a fraction of what It was sold for. ELKS WILL MEET TOMORROW NIGHT Exalted Ruler Charlton ,S. Currln announced today that the weekly session of the Elks' lodge will lie hold tomorrow nisht, Wednesday, May J 3, instead of Tnursday, due to the opening . of Western Nights Thursday:. There will' be Important business to transact. Authority for the change in the dates of lodge t'nis week was given by District Deputy 'P. A. Young of Albany. RUSSIA NOT PRESENT GENEVA, May 12. Russia re fused to attend the present arms conference giving as the reason that Us purpose amounted to interfer ence in- domestic1 affairs. - ; ' Collier Chosen President A.M. Collier, representative from this district at the last .session of tlio legislature, was cxerclspd , Its prerogative of the Klamath County Chamber -of Commerce for the ensuing year by unanimous vote of the hoard of director;. E. M. Bubb, cashier of the American Na- tlonal bank, was chosen vice president. The board In. elect- . Ing W. O. Smith as trensuror exorcised Its porogatlve of chasing a man for this office who wa.S Hot a director tjf the chamber.:-' 111 KIL1.S IIUHI5AXD COEUR D'ALEXE, Idaho, 12. A charge of fii-st .degree May niiii'- der was filed today against Mrs. Jt. J. Miles, who has confessed to dynamiting a shark in the rear of her home- here In which her hus band was asleep Sunday night. Sliyos died sooh"iifteiward. ' ARMY OFFICER DIBS WASHINGTON, May 12. Major Cieneral Arthur Murray, retired, for mer coniJiiaiidei' of the western department-, died at his home here to day' after a iolonged illness. He entered the 111-1113- from Missouri in 1870 and retired 011 account of age in 1015. ; I: ... REWARD SIONEV PAIR PqRTLAXU, Ore'., May 12. The $100 reward offered jointly by Chief of Fuller Jenkins and t hief Inspector. John T. Sluore for cap ture of "Inch mid a Quaiter Jimmy" was today paid to J. 1". Padden, who friiin his darkened window the night of April 10 saw Alexander Ger lach's effort to jimmy his way into a near-by house. HELD FOR MURDER vixmoil. tin.. 'May 12. Sirs. (ircen Bowman, whose husband 1 was killed by Ouy Thurmond last fall, was placed in jail here today, charged with ' baring shot and killed-Thurmond. Sirs. Bowman, ac cording to uiforniation . given' of-v ficials, met Tliuriiioiid 011" the'iiiainj street of Staham today ' and de$ maudod the return of'a pistol, which she said the luan liady DAVIS JURY THOSKV TOI'EKA,: Kans., Slay 12. The jury that will try Jonathan SI. Davis, - former governor -of .Kansas, on' charges of .seeking a bribe, was completed and. mvorn liv-iodnjv: : -41 ,; CHICACfO, ' May 12 Sliss Isn bella Pope, fiance of the late Vi'il 11am X. SIcClliif ocb, orphan mil latlier, Win.' D. Shepherd, Is charged lionaii'c, for whose death his foster with murder by tj;;ihoid inoculation, today was on Iiei- way to Chicago today to .testify in the trial of Shepherd, set for next Slonday. FORFEITS HEAVY BAIL " .PORTLAND, Ore.,, Slay 12. Cap. tain K. V. Swank, British Columbia murine!-, today '. forfeited $7500 bonds under which he was at lib erty 011 a charge of being Implicated with an alleged 111111 r111111in.tr gang, five members of which went m trial here today in federal court.' They were arrested at Warrentoii, Ore., July 24, 11)21. Two gasoline sea going craft, 175 cases of liquor aiid a truck were seized at the time of the arrests. START CLEARING ROAD TO GRATER Chief Ranger of National Park Obtains Horses at ' Fort Klamath Today Openlng, of the Crater Lake road wll start tomorrow, according to Pete Oard, chief ranger ' of the Crater Lake National park, who spent the day in . Klamath Fall3. Oard came d:vn as far as Fort Klnmath to arrange for the horses that will take the snow plows up to Crater lake to make the Initial clearing of the road. Through telegraphic communica tions this morning'Oard learned thai moro than 12 feet of snow sur rounded the l4.1se and snow began falling again tills morning after a cesatlon of more than two weeks. According to Oard, the lodge Is preparing for tho biggest . tourist season In- the history of Crater Lake park. Publicity sent out through various mediums has her alded the beauty of Crater Lake as novel- before and the lodge Is ex pecting 50 per cent Increase over the number of tourists both In the lodge i .Itself and i:i the camp grounds. Cofcnel C. G. Thomson, who has spent the past few weeks inspoctluii the Crater Lake park land, was ex pected to arrive In the city late this afternoon on his way to his homo. In Sledford." . Headquarters " ol the ,p,avk. are also In-Mo(lf6l-d."C61.' Thomson i.. Is .superintendent !'" Of Crater Lake hatluiial Jmrk, i"";' MFLEBII SCURRYING FOR ST Blockade Off Atlantic Is . Causing Liquor Carriers to Change Plans . NEW YORK, May 12. With a business that has approached $40, 000,000 a year, smashed by the dr; navy's blockade;- whiskdy ships flee ing the .'.Atlantis seaboard are be ginning to ' offer their cargoes In foreign ports at - bargain rates. Meanwhile an effort Is being made to pour into tho United. States via the Pacific coast. Five 10,000 ton vessels flying British and Belgian flags and stocked with well assorted cargoes are 40 miles off Saa Diego, Calif. 1 Their presence has been reported by the coast guard cutter Tamaora and officers of tho cutter are quoted as saying that the- boats of customers- of the rum fleet are too speedy for the dry navy there, as at present equipped to overtake. Presumably tho coast guard' will extend Its activities to prevent the thirst of Californian3 being 1 satis fled in an Illegal manner. When there were indications that the rum fleet was heading south to seek customers' from Baltimore . and Washington the dry navy promptly met. the situation1. Mlxtest advices say. that 26- coast guar craft are maintaining a Xig'obloekade off the ivirgima capes, tne; ary navy naving been doubled ElnceJ the biockade gff New England, Nev York and JJew Jersey began a' week ago todays OGTORSMEET; Interesting' Medical Papers Read by Portland Phy sicians at Banquet Meeting with .13 Klamath Falls physicians, a number of Portland and Eugeno doctors gathered in the White Pelican hotel last night for a banquet and meeting which prov ed to be one of the most interest ing held lii Klamath Falls among medical men. ', Dr. Fredorick Strieker; secretary of the State Board of Health Bpoke on the work of the .public health commission. Frank S. Ward follow ed with an address -on the work of the State Medical, Society and the Public Health league. Ward is executive secretary of the Oregon State Modlcal association. ; On tno "Treatment of Cranial Injuries" Dr. George A. Cathey of Portland spoke. Another Interest ing paper road was the "Correla tion of the Roentgen end Clinical Findings of . the Diseases of the Lungs.'.' ; Dr. F. E. Diemer of Port land stressed the X-Ray findings of the work and Dr. Mattice discussed the clinical ond of the subject. Among the covers laid for tho dinner for out of town doctors were Dr, . Frederick Strieker, Dr. F. E. Diemer, Dr. George A. Ciithey, all of Portlunil, Dr. L. Bogan of Eu gene, Dr. Charles T. Early of Port land, Dr. R. H. Early of ' Portland Dr. Mattice, and Frank S. Ward also, of Portland. TO APDRI'SH PA RSI Kits . SALEM, Ore., .May 12. Govern or Pierco will leave today for Bend where' tomorrow he will address the chamber of commerco at a meet ing of fnrmers in the afternoon. He will also Inspect the Tuinnlo pro- (ieot. Ho will be accompanied by William S. Levens, state prohibition commissioner. .'' ' Accident on High Street ' W. "L. Flnley, driving, a Bulek touring car, and Charle3 Gasklll, driving a Dodge car, crashed Into each othar on the intersection of Tenth and High streets nt 2:30 this afternoon, P with Flnley's car getting the worst of It. Front tenders of Flnley's car were crushed and front wheels wore broken, (las- kill claimed that , ho struck Flnley's car . while trying t; avoid- hitting a -small , child tliat had run Into the', middle of the si.i'eet-. A -v .. PCI 0 ire Cop Will Patrol Forests During Summer Thousands of camp fires that will burn in - the forests, of Klamnth uriug the .summer months, nil! be lieeked by u United States Eores- y Fire Prevention officer, tvhd is scheduled to arrive here on Slay 15, he opening of fire season, Duncan McClcan, connected with the Klam- lli Forest :! Protective Association uiioiiiieed yesterday. The officer 'who. will take charge f this work Is Charles Unlcum of Portland. It -is a new position rented by tho forestry department as a result of the heavy fires that prevailed, not only in Kluinath but timbered sections throughout Oregon last summer. . . ; ; . : Sir. Unieuni will patrol the, for- sts of Klamath. He. will enforce tin law with regard to care of camp fires, careless throwing of matches, cigarettes and the like. ' Any of fender of the forest, laws will be -anked up before proper authori ties and fined according to statute. In connection with the opening of fire season, Sir. SIcClean men tioned several, "shall nots" for the benefit of logging operators: ; 1. Hum slashings or brush dur ing the period Slay 15 to . October without first having secured n permit from a state fire warden." (See. I).) i. Iturn slash dining period Slay to October 1 without first cut ting all : snags over S3 fect In height for a distance of 250 feet In ward from the outside edge of slash area. (Sec. 21.) . - ; !l. Permit fires,, in flieh-Uvo logging operations or on their cW'V"...'. ihi In the formules which had over lands wDlcli nuvc not oeen burned in coinpllnnce with the sea sonal requirements of the law. . :; SPRAGUE MERCHANT. ,., .P'JRCIIASSGVTIMBEK A timber 'claim, owned by. Jef ferson , Riddle, Klamath .Indian, of "aina, Was purchased yesterday by B. E. Wolford for the exceptionally low price of approximately $1.85 a thousand board feet. The tract con tained 1,100,000 feet, according to the deed, and lies fairly close to the O. C. & E. railroad. It Is located just two miles northwest of Yainax. The purchase price was approxi mately $2000. The description . of the timber discloses, that it. lies in section 12 of township 36, south range 10 east. Mr. Wolford is a merchant, for merly of Sprague, but now or Sprague River. -' ', " EUXD FLAX GIVEN PARIS, May 12. Finance Min ister Caillaux announced today that the Dawes plan annuities that re vert to France must be used for .the completion of the reconstruc tion of the devastated regions anl for the amortization of interallied I debts, under s-ome form to be de termined later. Caillaux made the statement to the finance committee ; of the chamber in outlining his financial plans. . . ': SIANY AUTOS SHIPPED LONDON,- May 12. Amerlcnn made automobiles are being ship ped to Great Hritlun nt the rate of a thousand a day as the result of Chancellor Churchill's threat to ad vance tho date for the Imposition of the McKenna duties, which placed a tax of 33 per cent on foreign enrs or parts, retroactive. ' Railroad Employes Heavy Steam to Hide Big Thefts 7- ;::,'4(:j,., ''i'K' ' BOSTON, May 12. Under" cover of clouds of. steam purposely released from a locomotive in the south station here, between $20,000 and" $25,000 worth of American Railway Express company shipments have been stolen by a group of railway employes in the last three months, it became known last night on the arrest of three railway employes.. ' '. Light more men, including an engineer, are, expected to be taken into custody tomorrow. ' Police said the thefts were made from baggage trucks on the station platforms. The trucks to be looted were drawn along the' platform and .as they, reached .a .point opposite a certain locomotive :,0'.engineer. ai'iQ.wwd elouds of' steam to 'esckpe' from' the cylinders.""' 'Under covcii'of . this screen, packages containing furs and valuable cloth ing were removed. . . , HINDENBURG TD DEPUTES CH Impressive Service as Field Marshal Becomes Presi- ' dent of Germany - P.ERM.V, Slay 12. Field Slur sluil Von Hiudenburg was inaug urated President of Germany, to--day. ;- '.-;,v.,'. Except for a brief shower of pro test from ' the communists, the in auguration was carried out accord ing to schedule, the field marshal being sworn Into: office by Reich stag president Paul. Locbc before a crowded house. The oath taken by the president' was as follows:-'.' r "In the name of the Almighty, , all knowing , God, I swear to de vote all my energies to the welfare of the German people, to increase tholr . prosperity, to protect them from Injury, to preserve the con stitution and laws of the common wealth, to perform my duties con scientiously and to deal justlywltn all." To this he: added tho rellg-:. lous affirmation "so help me God," -. thereby setting a new precedent for German presidents. : ; Cooperation Urged r -Ilerp Loebe had addressed the flold marshal briefly expressing the hope", that . during his administra tion the reconstruction of Germany which bad been begun under Presi dent" Ebert . would be continued as !.;!. i, ithe .0ijey of mutual under- been successfully initiated so that the terrible consequencies of, the war would gradually be removed. -. ' Jn acknowledging Herr Loebe's greetings, President Hindenburg re-'.Wr-3l ;9a9)4Jf!j!-. "i?ti .vuiiablisiftu-' constitution of August 11'' 1919" adding:. , ''.The Reichstag and Reich president , belong together as both are elected" by f direct "vote of the . people." '-.'.' ' To Unite People The president's voice as he rep-. lied to Herr Loebe was firm and resonant. He said he had solemn ly, on his word as a man, taken the oath .of the constitution and he . once again affirmed that he would ; practically, devote shimsei; to tho . task of uniting the. German people. The . ceremony . concluded, with President Loebe calling for three cheers for the German republic. These the deputies gave enthusias tically, rising from their seats. . After the' conclusion of the program- In the Reichstag, Prosldont Hindenburg left 'the chamber ac companied by all the eabinet minis ters. Then in the presence of a large crowd outside the Reichstag building he took a salute from, a -regiment, bf Relehwehr whllo the crowd chanted "Deutschland, Uber : Ales." "'"'' ' '' After reviewing the regiment of Relehwehr President Von Hinden burg re-entered his motor car, and accompanied by Chancellor Luther, rode to the executive 'mansion be tween two squadrons of cavalry, j TO 1SIPROVE ROAD i Improvement of the Rock Creek , road where It passes through the Crater National forest will be proj ected by V)ie United States:' forest sorvlce this summer, according to a communication received this noon by the chamber of commerce board of directors from Forest Rangor E. J.. Rogers. The sections of road, that are particularly hazardous to tourist traffic will be improved, Sir. Rogers wrote. '"' -, , .-. ; Use Screen of , --. :; ' ; ,;'; " ':':- '