The Evening herald., June 15, 1925, Page 1, Image 1

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KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening" .
Eighteenth Your Number
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COUPE; DRIVER
ESCAPES DEATH
Wm. Crosslin Has Mirucu-;
lous Escape in Crossing j
Crash
CAR IS TOTAL LOSS
Crew Astonished When
Driver is Found Alive
in' Wreckage
A i'IiiumI f'licvrolet coupe lie
lunging l William (... Hi,, Mills
Addition rfxldcnl, In n luliil wreck,
nml Crosslin In limolnu Mimli-y cuts
mill lirulwN follmvlng a rnllUlim n(
rltfW) n. m. Kiniituy, when tin rur
whm htrtirk nl the Mulii nim'1 grade
rroMiliif( by n Kouilirrii Pacific rnr
hlilrh him being M Hi lu ll In ill"
yards. Tho nrclilnt neenrrd ns Crosslin
drove past I ho II I k Himln Lumber
company.
According to railroad officials,
thu trnln wlilBtled before coining to
inn crossing and two liriikomi n nil
llm cnri of lugs, which was being
switched, shouted to wnm ('muslin
of Ills il minor.
',. Triilniiii'ii J ii in
Boeing Hint n rrimli was routing
tho trainmen Jumped. Tlm t Ir lit
enr wok struck hroadld nnil car
ried for approximately to r?-t down
tho right-of-way.
Tho body of thi enr was coui
plainly crushed and nil four T.honlB
torn off, Trnlnmon who rushed
to the scone expecting to pick up n
corpse wore astounded to sco CrosB
I In nrlso from (hit wreckage, nit
nnil bruised, hut wit Ii apparently
no serious Injuries.
Iilil Not Hi-n Danger
According lo rnllroiul of f Icinln,
Crosslin mild Unit ho looked in
nvory direction lint llm right ono
whim ho ennio to thu crossing.
Hearing thu trainmen shout ho Ih
nnld to have looked to tho rimr,
believing somo frli'iiil was trying
to hall It 1 lit. t
Thu car Ik damaged beyond hope
of ropalr, loral nutn men say.
Isabelle Pope'
Gives Version
Sweetheart of Dead
Youth Take Wit
ness Stand
CHICAGO, Juno IS. (A. P.)
Miss lanhclln , Pope, "Hilly" Mc
CHntock'H childhood swautheart,
who waited with n mnrrlago license
while he died with typhoid fever,
took tho witness stand In the Shep
herd murder trial Into today. Ah
outlined In ndvlco by tho state,
which charges William Darling
Rhophord induced tho fatal (Unease
by administering germs, MIbh Pope's
testimony was to deal with tho
Shepherd's opposition .to her mur
rlugo to tho youth who recently had
coma into possession of his $1,000,
000, and bow they successfully re
strained It until Hilly lapsed Into
tho coma procedlng denlh, which
prcvontod tho coretnony.
Dawes Moves When
Children Protest
CHICAGO, Juno 15. (A.P.) A
picnic group from Iho Irving Purk
lUptlst church woro porlurlied yoa
torday whoa Ihoy found a genllo
'mnn with n fiuoor plpo sitting modl
tntlvuly nl the tnblo they hud spnt
tod for tholr lunehoon In tho Doa
Plains fnront preaorvo.
"Would you. mind moving, Mist-
or?" nskod an Intropld young pic
nicker bluntly, "Not nt nil," said
iVloo Prosldont Charles U. Dawes,
Jovially, ns ho strolled to mnothor
qulot spot, .
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University Library
Fuirn. Oreiiow
Still Another
Community Is
for Hill Line
Langell Valley Com
munity Club Votes
for New R. R.
Still ii ii ol hi' r community of
KhuiMilli county wuntK thu IIIII lines
lo cxlnd from llond.
Tli In muk miiilii certain ui nn on-
IhUHlnstlc meeting of the I,unitll
Vnllny Communlly rluli Saturday
ulKlit whim a resolution urging tlm
coming of tlm Mill lines was
tdtiptud by i li an Imoii volu. The
club wont on record n urging thu
Mill Ilium lo como luto Klumutli
Fulls by way of Iloniinzn, and will
do vorylhlng lu Its power to aid
tlm coming of UiIk great rull sys
tem to Klumutli county.
Tho nil Iron 1 1 problem was pre
sented by II. J. Tli'knor, president
of thu i-ltili, ii ii (I lifter short dis
cussion it wuk in Hint llm mmll
ini' lit or tho Langell Valley farmers
win strong for t ho Hill linen.
Rose Festival
Now Under Way
Portland's Big Annual
Pageant Opens
Today. 1 .
PORTLAND, Juno 1.5,,-M'ortland's
ahnniil Hoso ftutlval oponoif today
with u liny Bklcs. Tho evont
on tho week's program of cmor
talnmvnt wim tho arrival at noon
today of thu old battleship Orugon
nt tho berth proparud for hr In thu
Wlllumolto river hero where, alio l
la bo maintained purmnnc.illy an a
relic. On board tho Oregon wuro
the fvBllvul (iicen, Susinno I. and
her t-iurt. TJulghl Iho performance
of the pageant "Hosurla" will bo
given jil Multnomah fluid. it Is
n sorlOB ot pplnoilCH drawn from 111.'
history of the world from tho eur
HeBt time, t'hurlea Wakefield Cad
man rompoBud tho iiiukIc, and Mi'b.
Doris Smith, of Portland, wroto the
story. Hundreds ot Portland Blng
cr. anil 'daiicera liuvo bean rehears
ing tho pageant for months under
tho direction of Montgomery Lynch.
Tornado Reported
In Missouri Town
I.INEVILLE, lown, Juno 15.
( A.P.) Reports reaching hero say
a tornado struck Princeton, Mo.,
early today, unroofing n number
of houses and demolishing ono
brick business building. All com
munication lines with tho town nro
out of order.
Rate Increase
to Be Delayed
WASHINGTON, Juno 15. (A.P.I
Unto Incronso on doors, door pall
ida, and Ilka materials from North
Pacltlo coast points to Michigan City
and Gary, Intl., which railroads: pro
posed to niiiko oftcctlva today, wore
hold up by the Interstate Commnrco
Commission until October 31, pend
Ing Investigation.
CO.MMITTKK NAMKD
Tho committee on nrrnngo-
nionts for tho public reception
of Hill offielnls to the people
of Klamath county was named
today by W. O. Smith, chair-
man of tho general reception
committee, ns follows:
10. W. Kberluln, chairman;
J. V. Kimball, A. M. Collier,
' It. K. Ilrndbury, W. T, Loo.
Tho reception will bo from
8:.10 to 0:.10." Tho only two
aponkors will bo Charles Hon-
! nelly, president of tho North-
orn I'nelflo nml Hnlph Budd,
president ot the Ureal North-
orn. .
tstmti
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY,
l&A et&
FIREMAN KILLED
Three Big Packing Houses
in San Francisco Are
Destroyed by Flames
THREE ARE INJURED
Thousands of Cattle Roam
Streets During Blaze
Damage is Heavy;
HAN KIlANflHCO, Junu 15.
(A. P.) Ono fireman wan klllud
and three Injured In two spectacu
lar fires In separated district to
day. Tho largent fire burned away
tbreii of tlm principal packing
hoiiKiis In the IbIuIb creek section
und thoiiBiinilB of cattle ready for
Blaugbter were sent roaming
through tho streets when they were
freed from their pens by firemen.
Tho dead fireman, Lieutenant
James llerllhy, was overcome by
smoke nnd drowned In flvo feet of
water In a basement In tho first
flro which destroyed two buildings
In Clay street In thu downtown dis
trict. Tho ImIuIb Creek fire, which con
tinued burning at daybreak, did
damage, estimated In early reports
at tl.OGO.OUO. A xlreel car stalled
In the path of tho flames was
burned to tho trucks, - '
"The" fire In' thu packing Iioiibc
district started In tho plnnt of
Miller . Lux and Bpreud to thu ad
joining plants of Levi & Co., J. G.
Johnson Co. and tho II. Moffatt
Packing Co. v
Former Chairman
Of S. P. Board Is
Dead In New York
Julius Kruttschnitt Passes Ear
ly This Morning Follow
, ' ing Operation
NEW YOHK, June 25 A.P.)
Julius Kruttschnitt, former chnlr-
maan of the board and directing
head of the Southern Pacific com
pany, died tod.i.v.
Mr. Kruttschnitt died at tho Pros-
bytorlnn hospital three at 3 o'clock
Ihht morning. Ho wnj taken to tho
hospital throo weeks aga for a
minor operation and apparently was
recovering when unexpected hoart
attack set in causing his death.
Funeral arrangements had not
boon mndu hut his formor railroad
associates said that' lie probably
would bo burled at New Orleans, bis
old homo. '
Washington Gala
With Many Flags
Patriotic Day of Elks Lodge
Fittingly Observed at
Nation's Capitol
WASHINGTON, Juno 15. (A. P.)
Tho huge court ot Iho post offlco
department building was decked to
day with hundreds ot Unltod Stntos
flags and tho flags of nearly nil tho
stutes for tho oltghteonth nnnu.il
celebration of tlio birthday of old
Glory, which toll on Sunday.
It has ono of tho most complete
collection ot sluto f)ngs In oxis
tnnce. Only Kansus, Novada, Now
Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon nnd
Wyoming iro missing from tho col
lection. Some ot thoni having no
at alo ting. ;.-.
Gang War Results
In 2 Indictments
CHICAGO, Juno 1 5. (A.P.)
Two Indictments charging murder
wuro rumrned by Iho grand Jury to
day against John Senllso nnd Albert
Ausollnn, gangsters captured Sat
urday after n clash In which two
policomou woro killed.
PEGTACULAR
DOWN TOWN RRE
a
Associated Press Leased Wire
All Criminal
Cases Delayed
Until July 6
Judge Leavitt Post
pones jTrials for
Three Weeks
llecnusu of the resignation of Act
ing District Attorney W. P. Meyers,
un act which threw tho burden of
county legal nctlon upon the should
er of Deputy District Attorney I). It.
S'andeiiberg without warning, Cir
cuit Judgo A. L. Leavitt suited this
morning that all criminal cases
originally not for trial Junu 18 would
he set forward to Mondny, July S,
at 10:00 o'clock.
Acting Attorney Vandenberg, the
court explained, has had littlo op
portunity to famillarlzo himself with
tho cases to como lo trial and is
further liundicnpped that ho now has
no assistant, facts which render it
Imperntlvo that ho bo given more
time.
Murder Motive
Is Now Sought
Authorities Say They
Have Chain of
Evidence
LOS ANGELES. Juno 15. Con
vinced they hove perfected a chain
of evidence to prove that Dr. Tliomas
Young, Los, Angeles dontist. killed
bis wife, Grace Grognn Young,
widow of tho late Patrick Grogan,
known during his life time as "The
Olivo king" Independent of Young's
confession, representatives of tho dis
trict attorneys of fico concerned
themselves today wllh establishing
a motivo.
The .first objoct of their search
was a will which they had been In
formed Charles Patrick Grogan, 13
year old son of the slain woman, had
mado In favor of Young within tho
past fortnight, at the request of
Young. Young Grognn who was tho
principal heir to Ills father"! estate,
had continued to live with his stop
father up to the moment he learned
tho hitter bud confessed to killing
bis mother nnd contriving to havo
tho son unwittingly aid in sealing
tho body up In a cistern.
GRAND JURY
CHOSEN AND
IN SESSION
E.
M. Hammond
Selected as
Foreman
Is
Following their selection this
morning In circuit court before
Judgo A. L. Leavitt, members of tho
grand jury are In session this after
noon, mooting with Acting District
Attornoy D. H. Vandenberg. Tho
session began at 2:00 o'clock.
Members of tho grand jury nro
as follows:
E ,M. Hoinmoud, foroman; II. S.
Wakefield, E. L. Hopkins. Marshall
Orr, F. It. McCornnck, Merlo Kll
goro, Walter Donnrt.
In charging tho Jury, Judgo Lea
vitt asked their Indulgence In thu
matter of Acting District Attorney
Viindenborg, explaining that tho on
tlro burden of representing tho
county It nil been thrown upon his
Bhonlders without opportunity for
ample preparation. "
Perhaps tho most Important case
to como bctoro tho grand Jury is that
ot Frank Way. Klamath stockman
accused of tho murder of Timothy
Murphy in n flt fight over a black
sheep. ; '
This Is expected to bo ono of the
most hnrd-tought legal buttles over
onuctod In the local court, should
Way bo indicted,
Interest in the case Is widespread.
Both Way and Murphy wore known
to hundreds of people In Klumutli
and Luko counties.
Mttklh
JUNE 15, 1925
TEST FLIGHT IS
IDE BY PLANES.
IN ARCTIC SEAS
Norwegian G o v e r nment's
Relief Expedition Pre
pares of Search
CROWDS F A S C INATED
Sun Shining at 2 O'Clock
This Morning When
Seaplanes Circle
ADVENT' DAY SPITZENI1ERGEN
June 15. The two seaplanes of the
Norwegian governments expedition
to search for the Amundsen-Ellsworth
North Pole explorers, have
mado trial flights here. The expe
dition arrived Saturday on the
Steamship Ingertre.
A veteran pilot of the Arctic seat
Olo Olion, navigated tho Ingertro
through the numerous floes at the
mouth ot Icefjord into the clear
waters ot Advent Bay, where ono
ot Amundsen's auxiliary ships, the
Farm, was anchored.
Jt was thought the relief expe
dition would continue quickly on
Its way but changes in Hie arrange
ment Intervened. It was several
hourj before the Ingertro moored
to n littlo wooden Jetty arid begin
unloading tne planea and i spare
parts. ' . . . i, ,
There" Is 'constant dayligM hra
now, 24 hours around the clock. It
was midnight before the planes were
ready for a trial flight.
The machines behaved excellent
ly during about two hours of trial
flight. It was 2 o'clock In the morn
Ing when they descended but the
sun was' shining and the fascinated
crowd watching them from the shore
had no thought of bed time.
Burned To Death
Building a Fire
In Kitchen Stove
Mrs. Jacob Berchtold of Mount
Angel, Meets Tragic
Death Sunday
JIOUNT ANGEL, Ore.,June 15.
Mrs. Jaoob Berchtold, wife ot the
proprietor of tho Mt. Angel hotel
was burned to death about 3 o'clock
yesterday afternoon while starting
a fire In the hotel kitchen. She
was alone at the time and the ex
act details of the accident are not
known. According to the vordlct of
Coroner Rlgdon an explosion cc-
curred when she poured kerosene
on a small blaze in the wood stove.
American Killed
On Shanghai Road
W. W. MacKenzie Mortally
Wounded Woman Com
panion is Slightly Hurt
SHANGHAI, Juno 10. (A.P.)
W. W. MacKenzie was shot and
killed and his companion, Miss
Mary Duncan, slightly wounded by
roadside snipers Into last (Monday)
night, ns they wero driving near tho
American Columbus Country club
ou the Groat Western road.
Eagles Of Oregon
Stage Convention
EUGENE, June 15. Members of
the fraternal order of Eagles from
all parts of the state of Oregon
assembled In tho locnl lodgo hull
this morning for tho opening of the
annual state convention. Tho ns
senihly was called to ordor by
O. E. Lee of liugouo, stato president.
An address of welcome to tho vis
llors was dollvorod by 5I.iyo,r E. II
Parks ot Eugene.
Appointment of convention mem
bers nnd routine business occupied
tho attention ot tho delegates today.
Walter Hill Taken to
Hospital With Throat
Cut; Ira Ware in Jail
Alleged Drunken Affray Saturday Night Re
ported by Police Deep Knife Wound
in Throat Reputed Assailant Badly
Intoxicated, Say Officers
Stabbed during; what police say was a drunken fierht.
Walter Hill is now lying in
Klamath Valley hospital and
Ware,, is held in the city jail.
Ihe aiiair occurred late baturday night at tho corner
of Sixth and Klamath. Officers called to the scene
found Hill in a fainting condition from loss of blood
and near him Ware, so drunk that he did not realize
what had happened.
One knife thrust had bared the muscles in Hill's arm,
another had cut a long gash in his other arm and- a
third had entered his neck. . , '
According to police a difference of half an inch either
way in the knife wound in
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S Inlll I
SHE
FIRST OF INTH
Economy Plan of Depart
ment of Interior Will go
Into Effect Soon
PLACES ARE COMBINED
Consolidation Affects Four
Federal Office Holders
in This State .
WASHINGTON, Juno 15 (A.P.)
The offices of 22 receivers of
local land offices in 11 states were
ordered abolished today by tho in
terior department.
The work of the receivers will
be ta,ken over by the registrars of
tho offices and tho department esti
mates a saving of $50,000. a yoar
will result.
The order becomes effective July
1. The local land offices with the
names of tho registers appointed
to servo in tho consolidated posi
tions included:
Oregon Portland, Walter L.
Toozo; Roseburg, Hanitll A. Cana-
day; The Dalles. James W. Don
nelly; Vale, Georgo W. McKnlght.
Under this merger none of the
romainlng 4 4 local land offices has
more than ono official, where in
many cases previous a register and
a receiver existed.
Tho consolidation follows out a
provision' in tho 19 26 interior de
partment appropriation net.
Troops Disperse
Rioting Strikers
Mine Workers at Sydney, N. S.
, Attempt to Loot Com
pany Warehouse
SYDNEY, N. S. Juno 15. Local
police assisted by special constables
recruited from tho United Mine
Workers cf America toliy frustrat
ed nn attempt' to loot a wnrehnuso
of tho British Empire Steel Cor
poration at Glnce Bay. A squad ot
30 rioters who had effected am en
trance Into the building dispersed
without resistance, .
A troop train from St. Johns,
Quebec, Is expected here. During
the might three privntoly owned
stores wero looted.
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a serious condition at the
his alleged assailant, Ira;
his neck would have resulted
in deatn. Tne knlle passed Between
i his windpipe and JugUr vein.
I Ho li now conscious but in a
weakened condition, and doctors say
"Ih.w.lUnw,nUij 'Vmpllcatlons
A Jacknlfe, declared to bo tho
weapon used by Ware, Is held as
evidence. '.
A tentative charge of being drunk:
and disorderly nnd of having fought
with a knife is now lodged against
Ware.
Hill lives at 521 High Street, ,ln
the Sattorlee apartments.
Ware came here recently from
Lake county. When searched at
the police station, officers found
in hie possession a bank book show
ing deposits ot more than (200
!n a locil bank., . -
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Jail Break Is
Halted; Four
Men Face Pen
Quartet of Yreka Pris
oners Will Plead
Guilty i
(Spec'.al to The Herald)
YREKA,' Culif.,'' June 15. Four
men are facing ' penitentiary terms
today as the result ot their desper
ate efforts to break from the Siski
you county Jail here lust night. Tho
men and the crimes charged against
them follow: Fred Myers automobile
theft, James Thorpe automobile theft
Frank Marquej attempted murder,
James Aniloisoa hotel burglar, Myers
and Thorpe are from Portland, Ore.,
waero they left a criminal record.
A spoon, a tlatlron with IH handln
broken, and a brick were the toools
used by the men In an effort to
crash their way from the corridor
of the main Jail through a wall and
Into the office . ot Shevltf A. C.
Calkins. - .
The men timed t'iclr work whllo
a baseball gune was under way and
when Deputy Sheriff , Sawyer Ma
goffey returned before his usuul
schedule ho found the breaks under
way. ' '
The men Involved .confessed to
district attorney Charles K. Johnson
and Sheriff Calkins and they agreed
to plead guilty' this week to tho
charges pending ngilnst them on
condition that the folony chnrgo ot
breaking Jail . would Hot bo prose
cuted, thus saviug tho coumy sever
al thousand dollars in Jury trials,
as they had signified their Intentions
of standing trial. ' ,. - A
Mr, and Mrs. A. D. Hemming anil
children ot Dorrls, California spent
tho day In tho city ou business anil
j pleasure. ' ' '' " . "'