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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1926
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I'M THANKFUL
Kid Klamath scratched his
tuURled head,
And grinned a wicked grin,
Ah he saw Thanksgiving
morning drawing near;
"I a msure a spiff y kid," he
said;
"I've played the game to
win,
So there's lots that I am
thankful for this year.
"I'm thankful for the splen
did way
We've settled everything,
So easily without our throw
ing mud;
We're just like happy kids
at play
Or love-birds on the wing,
Or some contented cow a
chewing cud.
"Believe me, boy, we have
n't had
The faintest bit of strife,
Throughout the year that's
drawing to an end.
Co-operation's been the fad,
And harmony's been rife,
As we worked to get the
railroad down from Bend.
It's nice to see how "Brad"
and Mead,
Have got along so well,
And patched up minor
troubles that arose.
Such spirit's better, we're
agreed,
Than always raising hell,
And stepping on each
other's tender toes.
I like the way the city dads,
Keep such a watchful eye,
To protect the people's
rights at every turn;
They're sure a group of
clever lads,
Who help to get us by,
When the paddle-wheel of
trouble starts to churn.
There are many things I'm
thankful for,
And you are thankful, too,
As we hearken to Thanks
giving's yearly call ;
For no matter how we al
ways war,
No matter what we do
We've a pretty darn good
town here, after all.
TODAY'S EPITAPH
lloro list tl.o body
Ot Hormnu Wlso;
Ho wont to Kono,
With sorno nroad street guys.
GOLDEN THOUGHT
FOR TODAY
l.ove may be blind hut Cut's no
rcanon why n girl should Ill's ovory
body. rs.v i.m OF DEATH
(Contributed from Modoc I'olnt)
Toll mo wot In mournful numbers
Thnt this llfo will not end soon,
IWhon a Rlrl who wolghs ono hundred
Ools outside a qunrt of "moon."
Til 10 II Al l, OF FAME
Wo nomlnnlo for tho hall of fame,
M'stor It. B, Knowles, county truf
tlc cop, who urines from his downy
couch nt 3 a. in. In ordor to nab
a few unsiispor.tlng opoodors bonded
lor tho duck and gooao ponds, and
thereby 'hold his Job which depends
upon so many nrrosts each nnd
.every month,
Three Portland People Burned
To Death' When Still Explodes
Man and Son and Daughter Victims of Flames
Started From Illicit Enterprise -Charred
Bodies Found by Firemen Who
Answer The Alarm
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24. (AP) Three persons, aj
hither, his son and daughter were burned to death here
last night in a fire which started in an old burner in
the kitchen of their home used to heat a. still containing
25 gallons of moonshine mash. The dead.
Floyd Camp, 36,
Douglas, son, aged 4,
Elizabeth, daughter, aged 7.
The three were trapped in the bedroom of the flame
swept dwelling. Mrs. Camp, who discovered the fire,
STUDENTS DEFY
POLICE IN BID
FOOTBALL RALLY
Deserted Fraternity House
Burned and Other Dam
age in Celebration
COPS ARE ASSAULTED
Mayor Bartlett of Evanston
Knocked Senseless Try
ing to Halt Rampage
GbtlCAOQi ov. n.av)
Defying poller pistols, tear
bomb null itriHUIIS rroiii fire
bosd il.ooo Northwestern Unl
rorstty men mill women stu
dents hut tt I-tit celebrated iin
Ul'p'lUtSS of their football teatn
by rampaging '" over quiet mill
iirlstm-rnllc EviiiiMoii.
Before their enthusiasm waned
early today a vacant fraternity house
wan in ashes, a pollcetnan had two
broken rlb, four students Were In
Jail, scores had lilnck eyeH nnd
cracked heads, and Mayor Charles
B, Iliu licit, ii it rn I it k brttliid head
declared Northwestern would never
have the rniw htiidliim it has plan,
tied.
Officers Helpless
The police nnd firemen wero help
lens when the Jubilation began, by
pre-arranged plan, about !) o'clock.
The COPS were Stripped of their
badiel and made (he victlniH of their
own muccH. Firemen, dashing to
aiiHwer numerous, alarms, mom of
thorn false and others resulting from
(Continued On l'imo Four)
Man Convicted
For Revolting
Crime Monday
Roy Darling Faces
Long Term in State
Prison
Roy Darling Into yesterday after
noon wns convicted on the charge
of committing a revolting statutory
crime. A verdict wns returned to
the circuit court by the Jury at 4 : :tl
p. in., after 2fi minutes deliberation.
Darling will appear before Judge
l.eavltl Friday morning at 10 o'clock
for sentence, He faces a possible
sentonco of 15 yenra in tho state
penitentiary, The stntuln sots one
your as the minimum nnd 18 years
ns the maximum pennlly.
The rase was revolting In nil its
imrtlculiiiH. 11 hns to do wllh moral
perversion on the part of Purlins
Involving a minor child.
Little time was lost In the trial
ot the cane. It opened at 10 n. m.
the first 12 men culled for th"
panel were selected as the Jury and
tho lulling of evidence was quickly
tinder way. Ily early afternoon the
defense nnd siuto rosted, and After
brief closing arguments, the case
was submitted to tho Jury.
Personnel of tho Jury Is ns fol
Iowa: J. T. l.opor. Vorne Clordon,
John V. Utter, Norrls Short, C. H.
Cnrloton, J. 11. Drlssoll, T. J. l'rn
thor, 0. F. Mills, A. J. Manning,
Chillies W. Thomas, L, L. 1'ortcr,
and Qeorgo Trammel.
S I-'
huIiI she attempted lo rciurn to
rsscUt the others bill was unable to
do no on account of tho flame i.
Tim bodies, charred, nri found on
tho bedroom floor. Tho only cb
capo from the bedroom was through
the kitchen.
.Mm. Cnmp said i.he got up about
mldnlgnl lo proparo for the wash
ing lo lay itttU noticed do fire In
the kit hen. Sho rushed to tho
bodrr-om, rullod her husband and
children, caught tho youngest In
her arms and ran from the houn
Firemen who found the still on
I In- blazing oil move In t ie kitchen
mild the still hud either exploded or
I run over.
Charity Plans
For Christmas
Are Under Way
Community Chest to
Open Headquarters
Friday
Plans for the community chest
are rapidly taking shapo wllh tho
establishment of 'headquarters in the
new Smith building on Fifth and
Klamath, Mrs. f. it. vanes' iwlll b
In charge of chest headquarters
j where provisions nnd clothing will
lie receiveit anil tusirinuieu, u wu.i
iinninincod yesterday.
A truck will be sent out lo gather
up ull volunteer donations, states
Oeorgo Llndloy of tho American
National bank, who will nlso re
celvo cash contributions for chost
purpoBos.
"We ure hoping," said Mr. I. lad
ley, "thut many contributions of
cash, clothing and food will be
made without solicitation. None of
lis actually have the time to solicit
thCBO donations, and we believe that
penplo .who nro Interested In doing
their good turn will either telephone
for us to solid the truck around for
what they buvo In the way of sup
plies or will como In and give us
what tliey can afford In cash. Klam
ath Falls hns novcr failed when
called upon, nnd Since we nil be
llevo thnt charity begins at home,
the Community Chest fit ml Is sure
to meet with succoss."
It wns explained nt tho meeting
of the chest fund committee on
Monday evening thut In many agri
cultural commuiili.es armors bay
come to the rescue by donating po
tatoes and winter vegetables und
that a special request Is extended
tin it the newspapers to Klamath
farmers to assist In this charitable
undertaking, ' Every donation of this
sort will receive due recognition as
a vital uld in providing tor tho less
f oil una to of the community.
11. J. Suvldgn hends the finance
Committee for the chest funds, others
serving with Mr. BavSge being o.
M. Hector, Percy Kvuns, A. M. Col
lier, V. M. Montellus, B. W. A'ari
nlco, W. W. McNenly and George
Undley.
Tho supply committee members
nro Mrs, Ottcrbeln, chairman, Mrs.
1,. (irnhiim, Mrs. Oscar Peyton, Mis.
Jennie Hum and others to be nam
ed later.
Albert H. .May ot Moo's store hns
charge of the purchasing and tl.
1,. llaxtor of Moe's will attend lo
' the publicity.
Those Already listed ns conlribu
I lors wllh cnSh donations nro H. N.
Moo, Klamuth Ice nnd Cold Stor-
ngo company, U. P. O. B Christian
Science church, and Vusa Lodge
No. 400.
escaped -with an Infant child
pnDTI IMn rDl
Bill FNTIRF I (IT
LOCAL 80
Bond Companies Unable to
Perceive Illegality in
Procedure Claimed
ADVISER IS SCORCHED
America,, National Bid too i
High and Wanted to get
out, Official Claims
The American National ''ank Of
Klamath Kulls last night M the oun-1
II meeting, withdrew Its high bid for;
tho MUO.noo worth of city paving
bonds, without Interference of the
council.
, Three' bond companies o' Portland.
the Halpli Schneelock eoip:i.uy, Ih
Lumbermen's Trust company nndlglcr3' activities.
Pierce. Kulr company togqltiet, were
awarded the paving bufilla on tne
same bid they suhmi'ted the night
the bonds were awari'.-d to the local
bunk.
In other words, the losa liauk, ad
vised by Its attorney, D. V. Kuyi.en
dull, belli vci It detects a ricv. in the
bonds; w bereau three prninii'on:
bond companies; advlHed by tb3 fjre
most legal bond firm weal of Chica
go, declar the bond IsstH and nil lue
procedure leading up to the: opening
of bids to be perfectly legal.
Bank Holds (j'pper IImuI
But M City Attorney Carnahan
stated, 'he American National ban ;
held th" upper hand In the issue.
"Whn they submitted (heir high
bid, nnd it wan exceptionally high,
they referred ihe right to xubmlt til
Iranscripl to their siltorm.y. Kuyken
dull," he said. Inasmuch 31 Kuykeu
dnll has held the bonds illegal, the
bank cannot be held to their bid.
Otherwise. C.entlemen, I wo',ld cer
tainly advise the city to sue the bank
for the difference In amount between
their bid und the next highest, which
difference wns $-1,200."
The American National Intnl. con
tended that the bonds were illegal
because five days had not elapsed
from the time of tho Introduction o''
the paving bond ordinances lo their
passage. The emergency clause on
the ordinances was quartioned, iu
the opinion of the bunk's attoruoy,
P. V. Kuykendall,
Attacks Kuykenilnll
"All these bond companies, advis-
ed by the most reputable legal bond
firm west of Chicago, nro willing a:.d
anxious to secure these paving bonds"
illy Attorney rarnniian sam. ah
are willing to accept, with the excep
tion of this local hank, advised by
a local lawyer who never examined
a bond transcript In his life. His
sny-so is no judge."
There was a bit more haggling and
fussing nbout the matter and then
City Attorney larnahan exploded
another bomb iimlernenth the Amer
ican National bank.
"Tho truth of tho matter Is," tho
city attorney said, "that the bunk
bid loo high for Ihe bonds. They
went to their attorney, looking for
u chance to crawfish out of It and
this is the result."
Contractors Speak
P.. Dunn, representing Dunn und i
linker, bpntracting firm, and also!
speaking for the Warren Construe
tlon company, informed the city .
council Hint it was tho wish of the
contractors that the' paving bonds
be sold to the next highest bidder. I
which wns the offer of the three
Portland firms.
"Tho stale of Washington muni
cipal bond scandal lends the contract
ors to believe Hull It would bo very
nour Impossible to socure us high
bids us you received when you open
ed bids tho first time," .Mr. Dunn
snld. "For that reason we urge the
acceptance of the second bid, that
of the three bond linns of Pnrtlnnd
So nt the end of the liiiggllng the
couiy.il finally awarded the bonds to
the Portland firms.
TOUGH IACK
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24; (fP)
All prohibition parfhlta at-
lowing householders to mini-
tacturo annually 21)0 gallons of
wine wero ordorod Withdrawn
todny.
Suspect Rum Runners May Have
SIai" Employes of J p Morgan
vestigated by Police Body of One Vic
tim Will be Exhumed, Says
District Attorney
NEW YORK, Nov. 24. (AP) Suspicion that two
employes on the country estate of J. P. Morgan, at
Glen Cove have been murdered by rum runners in the
last two years is entertained by Long Island police.
Charles Clayton, a guard on the estate of P. G. Pen-
yer- son-in-law ot J. f. Morgan, was shot dead on the ;
, . r v . i .... i . ii
l,,ng Island shore property
wealthy persons, unguarded, xcepl
for private watchmen, is believed to
have been used extensively from
dlitant rum row. The guards whose!
deaths are under scrutiny are sup-
t posed lo have known of the smug-
"Whal would you do If anything
happened to me?" Clayton asked his
wife a few days before be was shot
near the Pennoyor home. The po
lice understood that Price once
found a case of whiskey with a
100 bill on his doorstep. Shortly
thereafter, the police have ,been
told, he was discharged as a Morg
an employe. Then he was found
dead In his automobile near bis
borne. He seemed to have been
poisoned.
District Attorney Weeks Is plan
ning to have Price's body exhumed
If developments warrant.
Man Who Posed
As Another To
Go To Prison
Medical Student
Alaska Reveals
Identity
in.
CORDOVA, Alaska, Nov. 24. JP)
After posing for four years as
Doctor John Aikin Flanders, serv
ing as mayor of Kenai for three
years, and ministering to the med
ical needs of cannery employes at
Bristol Bay and Kenai, Rudolph
Griess. former Chicago medical stu
dent, was here today on his way lo
snend n venr and a dav at the fed-
j Hral prison M McNveln.a Island.
, convi,t0(1 or V0lations
, Qf Amska nnrcoli(, ,aw( aftcr aU.
milting during the course of a trial
on a .statutory charge that he
was not the man he pretended to
be;
Dr. John A. Flanders, who is said
to bo a Chicago physician, was
Griess' room mate at Loyala col
lege medical school in 1919, Griess
testified. Using Dr. Flanders' name
in Sun Francisco in 1921, Griess
obtained employment as a doctor
for Llbby, McNeill and Libhy can
neries at Bristol Bay and Kenai.
Griess was acquitted of the statu
tory charge.
Eugene Man
Lucky; Gets
1st License
SALKMi Ore., Nov. ill.
l''rniik Deeds of l.orane. lame
county, ivlll drive around all
during tt iviih number l
license plnte on bis nutotttebllo
us the result of drawing fur the
the stnnler numbers In the of
fice of Secretin' of State Koieer
Inst night,
I. K. Snyder of Enterprise
mill Minnie M. Gilds or Port.
Iiutil drew numbers 111 null
respectively. S. I l.owry of
Eugene got -5 ami C. M. Ed
wards of Portlanil fit).
John Schlffcrer of Turner got
nunibcr tl, C. II. .Marshal of
Milton 8( E. .1. Iturko of Port
land, 4, Kev. H. II. (,'rirris,
Portland) Hi it. M, Rain or
Klamath Pntts n, m. d. Murphy
of Sweethome 7, l. J, Peals of
Springfield H, .1. I). Lawrence
of Scotts Mills I), ami II. U.
Myers ot l,ebanon 10,
mgnt or VJctoDer ju last, ne naa just Deen iransrerrea
to the Penoyer estate from the Morgan place.
A man named Price, another employe of the Morgan
estate, died under mysterious circumstances 2 years ago.
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PUTS DP FIGHT
TO CHEAT ROPE
Gets Writ of Habeas Corpus
to Have Case Taken
into Federal Court
LEGAL BATTLE STARTS
Notorious Bandit Says he
has 25 Years Yet to Serve
in Federal Prison
NEW HA VEX, Conn., Xov.
2-1. IJp) Gerald Chapman, no
torious bandit, bas eeapel
death on tbe gallows at the
stUte prison December ft, ns
sentenced when convirtrd of
Ihe murder of n New Britain
policeman more than a year
-Bo.
A writ of habeas corpus sought
on the' ground that Chapman is stilt 1
a federal prisoner and cannot be pu'.
to death by the state of Connecticut
until he has served his . 25 years
sentence in Atlanta for mail rob
bery was signed by Federal Judge
Edwin S. Thomas yesterday.
The writ directs that Chapman
be produced before Judge Thomas
nt state prison next Monday. Chap
man's lawyers say tho case will go
to the United States supreme court
if necessary. Chapman, original!;
sentenced to die last June, obtain
ed one reprieve in order to seek a
new trial, his efforts in that direc
tion failing. Governor Trumbuil
has indicated a second reprieve will
be granted as a result of the habcai
corpus proceedings.
The possibility of a presidential
pardon for Chapman, as far as the
i mail robbery is concerned, in order
that he may be executed is under
consideration at Washington..
Attorney General Sargent is in
clined to the belief that a pardon
is necessary in order to give the
state jurisdiction.
F
I Vancouver, Wash ington,
Man Held in Death
Probe
VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 2 1.
(JP) -1-. it. iioien. prominent
farmer of the Mill Plain section, li
miles oast of Vancouver, was ar
rested today on a charge of murder
in connection with the death lost
July of Walter W. Fleming, agei
t9, whoso headless body was found
floating In the Columbia river.
With the arrest of Bolen came
first intimation that the body of
Fleming had been Identified. He
is declared by Sheriff Thompson tt
have been n deserter from the Unit
ed States army, and prior to his
death, an employe ot Bolen for more
than a year, Fleinming disappear
ed about the time that a fire de
stroyed the house, barn and prune
drier on the Bolen farm. Bolen,
a cripple, told ofieers at the time
that he had quarreled wllh Flem
ing, and expressed tho opinion thut
Flemming hail set fire to the build
ings nud fled,
ERAtD CHAPMAN
ARREST FARMER
IN MURDER CAS
ARMED BANDITS
STRIKE TERROR
!N SMALL TOWN
Shoot at Everybody in Sight
in Futile Effort to Com
plete Bank Robbery
ONE MAN IS INJURED
Restaurant Men and Night
Policeman Bound and
Gagged by Outlaw
CASSOPOLIS, Mich. Nov.
24. (AP) Armed bandit
terrorized Cassopolis for
nearly three hours early to
day, firing at every resident
who dared to appear on the
street, and finally roared out
of town, after failing to rob
the First National bank.
The bandits, variously es
timated at between five and
ten in number, entered Cas
sopolis shortly after 3 a. m.
They bound a night watch
man and three other men
who were in two all-night
restaurants, cut telephone
and telegraph wires leading
out of the city and for two
and one. half hours ruled the
town.
At 4:45 a. m. after an in
effectual attempt to .break
the vault of the First Nat
ional bank, the bandits left
in an automobile. During
their stay the bandits fired
between 100 and 150 shots,
and only one shot was fired
in return. Revolvers and
sawed off shotguns were
used and the targets were
any who appeared on the
streets or who showed lights in
office buildings or residents near
the business sections.
George Jones a stock buyer, waa
the only casualty. As he emerged
from his house he was greeted .with
a volley, a shotgun slug inliictel a
neck wound and be retreated into
tae house.
Four Made Prisouem
The robbers first visited an all
night restaurant and bound tb
proprietor and the village night
watchman, who was in the place.
Leaving a guard over the man, the
other bandits went to another res
taurant and treated Us proprietor
similarly.
The front door of the First Nat
ional bank then was forced, the rob
bers taking t.ielr four prisoners in
side with them. The outer door ot
the safe was dynamited, no effor,t
being made to deaden the sound of
the explosion and tho noise brought
several persons to the street anjl
to .windows.
Five Explosions
Flvo charges of dynamite wero
exploded, the outer door ot tho
vault being torn away but the in
ner door withstanding the bandits'
efforts. Over a wlio whloa the
bandits failed lo cut, a Mrs. Aug
ust, night telephone operator, noti
fied officers at Niles while the ban
dits still were at the bank and road
leading out ot Cassopollb were Un
placed under guard.
Dr. James Kelscy offered the only
resistance the gunmen met. Called
by the telephone operator, who told
htm there .was trouble at the bank,
Dr. Kelsy drove down town. Ono
of tho bandit guards began shoot
ing under .Ma car. Dr. Kelsey fired
a shot at tho man and then drove
away amid a storm of shot gun
gun slugs from the bandits gun. j
8TANK1ELD TO SPEAK
4 Robert N. Stanfleld, Unite 1
8tates senator, will addrosj
the weekly forum luncheon ai
the chamber of commerce to-
morrow noon. Senator Stan-
field will spoak on matters of
Interest to people ot this oc-
tlon of Oregon. Special music
will be given by Miss Kathei-
ino Walton.