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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1925)
Univeriiu , , Published Daily at KLAMATH FALLS " "An Empire 'Awukonlng" BUY AT HOME; LOCAL MERCHANTS CAN GIVE YOU BETTER BARGAINS Associated Press Leased Wire Eighteenth Year - Nurnber 6601 KLAMATH FALLS, OKKfiON, MONDAY, OCTOBER M, Y.W PRICE FIVE CENTS 17 KILLED WHEN nn i Known Dead Nearly a score with Hundreds of Fam ilies Left Homeless MANY ARE INJURED Relief Agencies today Seek ing to Aid Sufferers from Huge Disaster TROY, Ala., Oct. 26. Residents of many portions of Pike, Barbour and Cren shaw counties today were endeavoring to brine; order out of chaos that resulted from a tornado which claim ed a known toll of 17 lives, injured many, rendered hun dreds homeless and left thousands of dollars damage in its wake. Troy Red Cross forces, and local physicians were ministering to the needs of the injured and were assist ing the stricken people to orient themselves. A relief fund was subscribed here yesterday afternoon and made available to the relief workers who went into the field. The tornado seemed to have its origin in Crenshaw county, where it swept down with tremendous fury, tear ing its way across the bread th of Pike county and on eastward Into Harbour, when- I' posrp to have spent itself. Near Luveruc, county Mai ol Crenshaw, two wore kill .1. both n( them ngod Iltnl oil" punt Iom yean of nun. Tlio iloodi lint OOnld not hi) com pleted nn to itAim'ti. io tin. widely scattered districts, soma or (hem romoto from telephone and telegraph ciininuntcullon .ml the general impairment to wires iy Ube tornado. PamUy Wiped out In addition to two dead la Cran haw county, there with i'IkIU dead in pike county ami sovan in Uar- lionr. Of Hid eight who lost their liven In Plk qotintr, tin worn children of the samo family, while tbolr father mill mother wore se,rl uusly Injured unit air not expected to live. TUn other persons of tho Ham n family liamo, Knight, tfore hIho injured. In Barbour county, six nogroes worn killed.. Residents niiar t ho paUi of the tornado worn aroused by the roar of tin. iwIhiit tiiul tlu erlos "f tb Injured. Thay rushed Into the stricken aras In n deluge ol ruin, working 'for hoiirH In ' u search for Ube duud anil giving nld to the In jured. 37,500 Heart Balm Is Given Mrs. Katherinc Frey Wins Alienation Suit MtNiOt'A', N. v.. on. Mi yf) Mrs, (tathe'rlne Froy of Louisville, Ky,i today1 Was awarded n Jury's vbr dirt for $.17,nuo ugulnsl Wlldn Ben nett, inn i . ,i i comedy sbtrofs for uitonnting tin' affections o( tin' plain tiff's husband. Charles Proy, race home owner mill sportsman. Tho ease was given to I ho jury in supreme court last Friday after noon mid n lealed vefdiel was re liirni'd late Friday nlKhl. TIik ver dict wan road wbob court cantoned thin morning. 3?ho ouSo was being triad before supreme conn Justice Vabor. Mr, Eroy Sltod for $ I mi, nun. Thi' trial lastod iiliunHt a Week. Miss Bon nott mid Pray sat in tho court mom and Siva, Froy on Hie Witness stand accused tho ni'triWM of stealing tho llffi'i'i loim of 1 r hunhnnil. TORNADO SWEEPS THROUGH SOUTH Gienger Would Supply Water For Chiloquin Merchant to Lay Pipes And Pump Water From River A i'. fj longer, prominent merchant of ohlltrQulo, aspires to provldd wut ar for thm prosperous community of tho Inillan reservation. Id desires ii pump water from Williamson liv er for the purpose of serving his own building n'ol also all ollurs who want tlir service. Hut to realise his ambition, dli-h in for plpen unit conduit miiMt he dug. mnl Hie plpci must run under the COUBty road that proceeds tlirolllill tl I loll II 1 11 . dinger petition ed the court to allow him permission to dig dltCbes mid to lay IiIh pipe miller tho county bonds. The court, Saturday afternoon, readily assented thm the oeod ol rogulsr water supply in Chiloquin waii naadadi and gave Qienger thai which he sought, the rich! t" dig dltobaa scrosi the roads. Norwegian Crew Rescued in Storm NKW VOUK, Oil. 26 Thlrtv- two membars of the disabled Nor weglan steamer Eleven's rrew were raaouod In mloVooaan this afternoon by the American merchant ship AmiTlran trader. The Eleven was one of several VfaaelM hit hy the storm that hmi raked the Ninth Atlantic ilurlnit the pant few days. IIHMK'S 111 Moll NKW VOHK. Oil 20 (,7, v e Dnrauti uutoinohiie mannfectiirof mnl stoek miirket operator) in a formal itatemenl today denied r- ports rjurreni in Wail Street for the lirM few wcel.H that he wan aeok- flr olVrol "I th" (ii nr IV I SlDlori Corporation, of wblcb he wrh for marly the tu-aii. Bloody Hammer Testifies That "Rough-House" In Broad Street Dive Was Bitter; Trio In Jail Three May Be Charged With Liquor Possession And Disturbing the Peace Residents Complain When Noise Gets Too Loud A bloody hammer, blood on the floor and general pandemonium were the sights that greeted two police patrolmen who answered a hurry-up call to stop a "rough house" in a Broad street dive last night. "Slim" Lane, eaid to bo a notorious Broad street char acter, and two women, Hose Adams and A. King, were placed in jail. Charges of possession of intoxicating liquor and disturbing the peace will probably be prefer red against the trio. irate residents of Broad street- had listened to inc carousing in tho dive long enough. They tele phoned about midutghl lust night for police atslatsnee. Patrolnton .Morgan unit lirown answered the cull. Aa they stopped Inside. Lsne crestied bhe bloody hammer against a bottle, shattering it i tiny nits Offloers state they conflsoatod i small Qunntlby of moonshine whisk ey In a gliiss. which will flu used against them 'f tha case comes to trial. f The dive in which the figbt look plii'.'o Is known as "Casoy's place". recognised by police us cue of tho lougibesl Join ts of the underworld section, Mexican War Vet Dies at Roseburg ROSBBlIltOi Ore.. Oct. ill. Kohl. BtnrVoy, aged !)7 years, the on ly survivor in Oregon of the Mexican war. iiieii ui the Oregon soldiers1 home this tnnrntuK, following n stroke of paralysis. Mr. Bturkey came to the slate Institution nbonl a year ago from Mnrshtteldi IIOTH HKFIANT 1'AIUH, Oci. an. () -Mutual defiant larkod tho attitude of both Bulgaria and dronco today before the opening of the special session of the leiiKue of nations council, convoked In settle the new Balkan V.9MIM, SNEAK THIEVES ENTER HOI OF LOCAL Rflie Rex Bord well known sheep man, of Near Olcne is Victim of Prowlers MUCH LOOT IS TAKEN Clothing, Furniture and oth er Articles Carted away by Burglars Anolher graphic t'-Mimonlal to the pnxHliii! of the "unlocked door" era of Klpmatb farming history ' cnactad either rrlday r Balurday nlKht when Iruiihlunt unenk thlev on tared iba it'jt ifoni farm near Olene end csrrlad uwuy bterythlni of value In I lie limine. The robbi.TR hud no difficulty In ciilnlnK entrance to the house, an ordlnaVi1 praca'fttlons against rob bery, iisuallT taken in t ptty, bafl not been taken by .Mr. fiord. Jui-t how much Iorh wSs himtnlned by the prominent Klamath cheap man has not been ascertained by au thority, although clothes and gen eral household effects were carted away. It hah been the custom among farmers for years to leara open their front doorit, no that a neighbor d--nlrlnK food or a bed for th- night might find u Welcome, even If the Inmates urare absent with the ' InfeMMe of transient tourist travel, land the riff-raff and scum that al- ! wuy deeompanlea this invusion. i burgUJtttai of homes along principal I highway! of Klamath hnve been on the Increase, according to reports I received here. , Tho Bord home robbery In typlr.il ; officers say. No clue aR to the Identity of the bUrglSra had been uncovered this morning, nor dii the tttlthor 1 1 lOfl Hp.M'ur io cntt-riain much hopt-K of ihi'lr apprehension. Mt. Diablo Is Scene Of Fire Farmers and Wives Out Fighting Big Blaze OAKLAND. Calif.. Ort. 26 Koa MfiitH or hx vHIukos at the norlli biiHO of Mt. Diablo wuro out this morning ftttcitnpMng to bring uitder control a fire I hat swopt over tho COUntryslaQ duriuK llu night anil huvm'tl ovtM" nlOtQ than -1000 at-ivH of wooiletl at'oa. Tltei rira started yoeterday on tho ranch of tl. W. Kmnions ami oarlv today tin restdenta o! t'olwoii, Ala moo, Danvillo. Walnut Crock ami Concord wovo called out to Hght tho blato away from ihoir homos, Wo- mou aro In the Held administrating first aid to Injured fire fifchtera and supplying food. a. M . SHChenmuller, fin cHlet of Danvillo, ts in a precarious COhdtMon and may dio from hnrns sustainod When ho nltoniptod to leap throur.M' flames which hemmed him in. cotton PlttCK UHMAKfl NKW YORK, Oct. 2G. (fl)--Ca4-ton prices broke $ n hale today on pUbltcnttoll of t he Ki'vornnient crop estimate of 15,220,000 hales, an Inoroaao of 1 87,000 hales com paved with the forecast on October Boundaries Of Ward Itemized For Election Only Those Who Reside In Ward Ahle to Vote No (x i huh 1m rut It led lo cai a tote In III election foe councilman nekt i dii' Mljiy unh-Hs he or mIio I rciiiillng within the bonndarira of tin Second Hard. There hits lie'll rrpoil prevHlent on the Ntreeln tlmt (he eledlon was open (o tli" toun, and tbjM linj'bod) could It Ih tw I fie reshhnfs if the Herond wtitd, and Ifl to select a lepresenlatUe i.1 that wurd to rep. Vi sent the dUtvlel on the HI)' council. To clarify llu altuatlon, (he live mmi'' Herald uf;iiiii kUok a del Mnl ttcacrlpUdn of the xmnduieu of the anl. In tuder tlmt ft will he gener ally IrnoWli n to who can cant u vote and Who connote following are the hounilarU'H: StitrtltiK at the northwest Comer or the word ut the inlet-sot lion of ( 'ook, ( ainpo and Seven! h ht reels, directly smith following the western houndat-y line of Pint addition to 1-,'wiiuiia street; southeast on Kwnu ha Hi red to IuniHr: one hloek on JltnJpcr to Center street ; Center sln-et to lake shore; follow around shore of laki to terminus of Tule it rCCt northeaht on Tule strei-t to t ointucr htl street ; up ( 'oiiimercial street in Sevetith strtsi-t; northwest tut Ni'Venih ,s! rrrt ii point of Im' huiiuK, at the Intersect Ion of 'ook. Cnntpb anil Seventh streets. Local Druggist's Father Dies Today A long life, will spent, came In a close at A :3V o'clock this morning fur Samuel DcWe.-se of Wendell. Ids., r.l the ripe old age of S5 years. The aged man died at the home of his son. It. K. DeYVeese. locnl druggist, 7,S3 north Kleventh street. from bronchial pneumonia. .Mr. DeWeese had been .visiting his son for several weeks. A week a.to he hnd planned to journey on to California. He caught a cold, how ever, which rapidly ileveluMcd iuto pneumonia. Mr. DeWeese is survived by his son. H. V. DeWeese of this city, and n daughter. Mrs. K. I.. Sinionton of Wendell, Ida. The body will lie shipped east to WanjOgO, Kansas, where funeral services will be held and the liddy laid to rest beside the grave of the wifiwof the decenved. The son will uctompuiiy lb body east to its last resting place. Mr. DeWeese was born .lulv Id, IS Hi, in Ohio. Seattle Fugitives Break Out of Jail BAKKlt, Ore,. Oct. 2li. Uf--Frank Smith ami Albert Dee, both of Seattle, escaped from the Bajker county jail by picking the lock of their cell Sunday morning. They lowered themselves from the top of tho court house by bed clothes. Boiu were facing charges of passing forged checks here. Roseburg Pioneer Commits Suiicde liOSKDl'lU;. Ore.. Oct. 2ti. Thoillas t'hipmau. 70 year old resi dent of North Myrtle Creek, killed himself lute Friday night. In the opinion of officers, hy shooting him self through the head with a shot gun. The shot gun and a forked slick. which had been used to push the Irlg-i ger. lay on the ground. Despomlency over continued ill health Was be lieved by neighbors to be the motive for the suicide. WINS All! fl.ASSIf HAY SHORE PARK, Haiti more, Md. Oct. 26. (P) Lieut enant James H. ixoiittie. Wait ed states army, flying a Our tlss seaplane, ovon tho world's seaplane racing classic, the .Inclines .Schneider tiophy here today. Ills official speed was announced at 88$iS?8 miles per ho ill'. IL GREEKS KEEP UP Hostilities Still in Progress Along Macedonian Fron tier, is Word HARMONY IS SOUGHT League of Nations Council Endeavors to Bring Ce cession of Fighting PARIS, Oct. 26. (A.P.) The council of the league of DA Ihius (oilay (old (ireece ami lul pirla they must eaeuatc each other's territory. Tho two Balkan states were nil en 24 hours in whith to in form the council that they hud glrep anctl orders to their troops and 00 hours to inform it who tiW the evacuation wuh act nulls carried out. PARIS, Oct. 2Z.--(JP) At last uccountH hostilities were in procreB. ulonK th Macedonian frontier be tween the drank! and Rulgarians. The (ireeks were reported to "be throwing shells into various parts of the troubled district, while the ; Bulgarians from points of vantage ' were declared to be carrying out j sniping operations against thj (Ireeks. There still continued the excited rush of the frenzied pop- j i While the council of the league of nations was gathering to investi-! gale the situation and try to bring I about harmony, report had it that ; I the Bulgarians were rushing up re inforcements with which to counter act the Greek invasion of Bulgarian territory. Dcmjii niN Itcparat ions Orecce, It Js said, still adheres to her threat to hold all the po- (CaattDned on Pace Fire) BULGARIANS ID STEADY WARFARE Telephone Pole Is Snapped In Twain As Touring Car Plunges Off Road Near Altamont Park Heavy Bumper Saves Automobile From Demol shment Four Boys Enroute Home From Dance at Bonanza are Un injured in Crash A heavy touring car swerved off the highway near Altamont at 5 o'clock Sunday morning, and crashed into a telephone post. That post broke off at the bottom, and toppled over as if it were tinder. Four bovs were in the automobile. Thye were N. Z. Matins, who was driving, 0. B. Hammond and two oth ers whose names the authorities could not secure. The young men were returning home from a dance at Bon anza and were speeding, according to State Traffic " Officer Walter A. Foster, who in Salem Man Is Badly Injured In Auto Crash A. B. Hansen Suffers Fracture Of The Skull SALEM. Ore.. Oct. 26. A. B. Hansen, employed hy the llodgers Paper company, has laid uhCOttclOUS for more thmi 20 hours in a local hospital as a result of InpttrleS re ceived when an automobile pitched into the ditch on the Snlam-Daltan highway between K.ola and Derry early Sunday. Mis. Hansen received a broken arm, and F. (1. Jewett of Salem was unconscious while being brought to Saleni from the scene of the accident, lie Is at his home and is not In a serious condition. Han sen's skull is fractured, hut his con dition was more favorable today. Oilier occupants of the car were .1. I.. Illenkhorn. poultrynian at the state hospital for the insane, and O. K. Dewitt of Salem, nil of whom es caped Willi light hfnlses. SCHOOL COSTS tilVKN SALEM. Ore., Oil. it. The cost. of operating the schools of Oregon for the school year l!i2l-2!i was $2ii.l 14,1 06.981 according to 11 re port on school expenditures, pre pared be Supelintellilelll ( 'lun'clllll. Pelican City Joint Raided Sunday Night ' 1 Jack Blake, Chargedf With Possession of Gin and Moon It took u catlike wutchfiiliii'Kft In knoik over the I't.-llran City pool liall and area then, strictly speaking, the eStaalisluneal wan not Included in the raid. Hut its proprietor. Jank Blake, wan arretted lact night juet outnld' the estahllshment hy a flock of offi cers, led !' the Htate prohibition agent. 1.. I.. McHrlde. on a charce of poi- ,"" of intoxicating llqoof. Seven quarts of alleged (iordon gin and a pint of moonshine were con fiscated by the officers and will be handy evidence for the state if Blake decides to fight the issue. The liquor was very cleverly hid- den. McBride said, and said that if,,(Jeaths and much property tw. lift ft iirtt u-nti'lidfl tli. nlfir-n rnro.l i . he had not watched the place care fully, no liquor would have been dis covered. The whiskey was hidden in a woodpile and the gin in a wood shed. The officers did not disturb the persons in the establishment. "There was nothing raw or rowdy ! about the place," McBrlde said to- ,a. and I have an idea that there arc a lot worse Joints in this town that , woulj io navc knocked ov,.r first." other officers on the raid were Dopllty sheriff Cole and Knowlcs aml c!tv Patroraen Patterson and Brown. Central Point Is Scene of Robbery MKDFOKD, Ore.. Oct. 3C For the second time within six weeks. Faber's store at Central Point, near here, was robbed early Sunday morn- jing. The robbers secured J50 worth j 0f merchandise, according to the po- lice. vestigated the ae.ident. The remarkable feature to the accident, was that despite the im pact of a heavy touring car. travel ing at perhaps 40 miles an hour, with a telephone post between 10 inches and 12 inches In diameter at the bottom, the car was practically undamaged. A heavy bumper ap parently saved the car from serious damage. Not one of the occupants was in jured in the crash, One young man in the hack seal, according to re ports, was asleep and di.l not even know thai the car har bovle;l over a telephone post. Authorities are conducting an in vestigation into bh.e case, to deter mine what charge, If any, to profe:' against th.' young men. Plead Not Guilty On Fraud Charges los anceles. calif., Oct, 28. (P) Mrs. Kna Harper and W. If, O'Bryan, accused potntly in a : it era! indictment of defrauding a in, la bor of residents of Washington and Oregon out of approximately 83li,u I hot! In colonisation sieme oil "ill island off tlie Mexican coast, plead ed not guilly to the charge In fedc al court here today. Both were re leased on ? 10,000 bonds. NORTH ATLANTIC COAST SWEPT BY Many Fatalities Occur in Various Cities as Result of the Disaster HOUSES BLOWN DOWN Overy 500 Buildings Un roofed Near Boston 7 Seaplanes Demolished NEW YORK, Oct. 26. A disastrous Sunday gale swept the middle and north Atlantic states. An 85 mile an hour rain bearing wind caused seven damage in live states. At Woburn, Mass., 500 nouses were shattered and troops were called out. Seventeen navy seaplanes were strewn on the beach at Baltimore, with seven demolished. Ocean and costal shipping was demoralized. The fatalities were: New York City Expect ant mother dragged from fifth story window by wind whipped clothesline. Mother and child died after ceasar ian operation. Two fishermen drowned in a capsized motorboat off Rockaway Point Baltimore Child killed by falling tree. Paterson, N. J. Child killed by falling brick wall. Woburn, Mats. National Guardsman killed by falling tree while repairing his automobile. Several tcrjfnj were In darkness last night and others were cut off from wire communication. Greatest damage apparently was in Woburn. Mass.. where Mayor Thomas H. Duffy has Issued ;n ap peal to contractors to cease their regular building work and canccn trate on repairing shattered homes. Mayor Curley of Boston has tele phoned a relief offer. Looting Starts With 500 houses unroofed or with walls caved In and the streets a mass of tangled wires and wreckage, looting began in that city, a resl dental and manufacturing suburb of Boston, and a national iC'.i tire) company hvas "ailed out to keep order. Two women are In a hospital, one seriously injured by the falling (I'ontinucd on rage Two) Jurors Still Fail To Agree Fate of Kelley and Willos is Yet in Doubt SALEM, Ore.. Oct. 26. A dis agreement In the case of at least one of the defendants in the trial of Ells worth Kelley and James Willos, con victs . halved jointly with Tom Mur ray in the murder of (iuard John Sweeney in the prison break of Aug ust 12, was strongly indicated a! 1:30 o'clock this afternoon when Hie case had been in the hands of the Jury for more thun 4 9 hours. At 11:110 this morning, the Jury, weak from its long deliberations, tiled Into tho court room for further instructions. They asked to be In formed If they could under the law bring In a verdict In the case of one of the defendants and report . dis agreement on the other. Presiding Judge Percy it. Kelly In formed them that they could, anil the Jury again retired. .U'TO lt.lt 'K ON SPEEDWAY. LAUItEL, Md . Oct 2il. (Ti Sixteen premier American drivers roared from Hie mark at the start of the 251) mile motor grind In the huge wooden bowl here to day. The field was hunched through out the enrly IjiPSi TERRIFIC STORM i
