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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