The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, December 17, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUiiiver-ity Lilirarv Euirene. Oregon AID THE COMMUNmr $ Published Dnlly at KLAMATH FALLS "An Empire Awakening" CHEST; IT DESERVES YOUR WARM SUPPORT Associated Press Leased Wire Eighteenth Year- Number r70f KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1925 PRICE FIVE CENTS Mitchell Dismissal Is Sought Army Chiefs Out After Scalp of Fiery Air Service Officer WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (AP) The Mitchell court martial retired late this afternoon to consider a verdict WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (A.PO Dismissal of Colonel William Mitchell from the army was askcil today by prosecution counsel in opening arguments before the general court martial trying the air officer under the tli article of war. In asking the maximum -eti tence prescribed for offenses trialable under that article of war. Major Allen Gullion, as sistant trial judge advocate, de clared Colonel Mitchell "had proven guilty o( disorder to the prejudice o( good order and mil itary discipline and of conduct of a nature to bring discredit to the military services." Referring t Colonul Mltrholl, Major Ciulllnn mtlil: "It till man ii HOIU, fitted In land t.hn people nut of u wilderness which In hl own creation jnl? Is he of ih (Ivors Washington typo on uuunel would hiivo you believe? ho not raihor o( thn ull-too-fom-lllsr charlatan nnd demagogue type? o ! u good flyer, a fair rider, a rood shot, flamboyant, solf-udvor-Using, wildly Imaginative, destru. tton, never constructive, except In wild non-fonslblo schemes and never overly careful SS to the ethics Of hln methods. "Would an admouiihmoiil fit thn offonnvH of mlilch tho seeused bss bnoii clearly proven guilty? For mnkiiiK statements which IiIh coun sel road Into the rocnrdi. statements similar, hut not us bad as ih o of September 6th and 9th., tho nrcuaoil chief, Ocnornl Patrick, rccommend (led that ho lie ndmoniln'd, Ku courugod by audi lcnloucy ho hna now koiio to tho unforgivable ox trcmo. "Would a reduction In flloa bo n suitable punishment? u would hardly bo punishment at all. Tlio nccuaed ia n colonel and promo (Contlnued On Pago Four) Convicts Get More Time to Make Plea BALEM, Oro.. Dec. 17. -Circuit Judge Kelly today Signed, an order extending the Mine for fllliiK Irons crlpt on nppenl to January 2 In tho caaea of Tom Murray, J nines Wllloa nnd BllSWOrth Kelly, sentenced to banc for the slaying of a prlann guard In an eocapo from I ho peni tentiary some montha ago. GIIT8 EXEMPT WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (P) Tho houan rofuaod today to place a gift tax In tho revenue bill. Len Small To Buck Court Decision Ordering Him To Account For 1,000,000 Fund SPRINGFIELD, 111., Dec. 17, (AP) Governor Len Small will fight the decision of the Illinois supreme court ordering him to make an accounting of approximately $1,000,000 interest money alleged to have been with held by him while state treasurer. He will soon petition for a rehearing, asking the court to reconsider its finding which charges that he deposit ed state funds in a ficticious bank at two percent interest and later split profits accruing from reloans at from five to eight percent. He has until the February term of the court to file the plea. What action Attorney General Oscar E. Charlstrom, .will take, he would not indicate. . .. Volstead Act s Held Cause Of Car Shortage Too Many Wine Grapes Shipped, Pear Man States UBDFORD, Or.'i Ewe 17 A Statement Hint the Volstead Ml la responsible for tin car shortage in Orssoa was nsde at the Pssr nest lasj here today iy B. w. Johnson, a prominent pear grower o( Monro, OresOn, who delivered a response on iieiinif of ttie stats herUeuUural society to die tfnlcoine dsilVtrod by Mayor (). 0. AHenderfer, "The Volstead act," anld Mr. Jbbnsoa, "iiaa tto loeresied the blprnents of wine Brants from California that the railroads can not keep up with tli demand for earn ami therefore a ear shortage In Oregon In ulmost Inevitable. "in left California shipped 44,- UUU cart of grape and Ihla year I InO' shipped K5.000 cara. The So lution fa for California lo, atop iblpplnS Krnpea and ship Krape Juice only. ThlS would cut down I In. cur demand materially." Following Mr. Johnaon'a remarks a local minister ornso and suggested thai speakers confine their reinarkH to the aubjecl at hand. It waa ex plained to thi' mlnlater that Mr. Johnson made no statement either for or against prohibition or tho Voistned act, I LATEST E TO RAIL T Rival Armies Encamped Across Road Prevent Passage of Train AMERICANS MAROONED Fighting Occurs Daily; the Wounded Treated by Rockefeller Doctors PKKINO, Dec. 17. (P) Wlf.i n lapao of eight duya alncu tho Inst train passed bo tu cell Peking and Tientsin and with the armloa of both Four Yu-ltslnng and Llchlng I.liiK entrenched across tho railway. tho situnti.n is gtttlng serious, A group of Americans and llol gluns, duo to sail this month, are leaving f ir Knnkow In hopes at flndlii); an available steamer. Ma roonod residents Of Tientsin are touring 1500 miles to got around tho battle lino and roach tholr homes. Fighting occurs d.illy near Pcn- thnng, nortb of Tientsin, where Liohlng-Uns army Is entrenoaed, hut according to reports reaching hero the actions havo not boon of a decisive charactor. Number of wounded soldiers con tinued to arrive at tho emergency hospital In Naiiyuan, Feng'a old headquarters outsldo Peking and al tho other nearby plncoa. Assistance ia being extended to tliu wounded by tho ltockofellor hospital, tho phy Blclana of which also are visiting emorgoncy Capitals, Quautltloa of auppllea and roln forcemonts for Feng's army are mov ing toward Lung fang from Knlgan and Poking. Drlvo on tax dodgers -lias started, Drive on taxi dodging c.intlnues. 111 HINDRANG GRAND JURY li SIX INDICTMENTS GIVEN SECRETLY Courthouse Speculation Rife Concerning Identity of Those Hit by Findings RETURN ONE TRUE BILL Charge Against Dick Nolan Dismissed Today by De liberative Body Speculation was al white Host today in tin- court bQUSf) tills after noou over alx secret Indictments returned by the Klamath county grand Jury St t:S0 P. in. The dlSCUSslon and surmise re volved around (he proposition of Whether or not William Col?, special state agent, was indicted by the grand Jury for ills alleged par ticipation In the Slugging of Frank I'echolt. Tlint the cano wna probed by tho investigative body is com mon report unit during the last two days of the grand Jury session there bus been u persistent report that the grand Jury might hold Cole on some one of the vurlous assault charges. If an Indictment was returned against Cole, It would be a secret indictment. 08, the stole agent is re ported to hnve departed for Port land. A true bill was returned against W. K. Davidson, charged with oper ating a still. Davidson was arrested once before, sentenced to serve ten daya In Jnil anil fined $250. A not true bill was returned in tho caao of State vs Dick Nolan, charged with driving sheep from the range. The grand Jury was dismissed until February 24. 128. Person nel of thn Investigative body is at follows: Gene Hammond, foreman: Merle Kllgore. clerk: Hub Wake field. E. Li. Hopkins, Marshnll Orr, Charles Donart. Jury Convicts Moore, Purcell On Elk Charge Case Will Be Appealed To State Supreme Court - Leonard .Moore and Kd l'urcoll did hunt elk on February I and must pay the penalty for tho violation of tho state game law. This is tho verdict returned this afternoon at 1 o'clock by a circuit court Jury. Mooro and Purcell will be sentenced Monday morning, De cember 21, nt 10 o'clock. Moore and l'urcoll. who are Klamath Indians, were tried nnd con victed In Justlco court. They appeal ed and their case was tried In circuit court with the rosult Hint a second conviction was returned. Tholr at torney announced this afternoon the caso would be appealed to tho BU prome court. ARRESTjBD LAST NIGHT Hod finders and Jack Asey were urrestod late (yesterday afternoon by County Traffic Officor n. E. Kuowlos on the charge of possession of Intoxicating liquor. According to Knowlee, tho two men woro tit tin act ot making a dollvery of liquor to tho "Throo Mite" houso, west ot Klamath Fulls on tho Ashland-Klamath Falls highway. Kndors and Asoy woro released from custody to day oil payment ct S500 bull apiece. WHEAT PIUGH ICMP8 CHICAGO, Dec. 17. Wild fluctuations In wheat prices horo today followed talk which was cur rent among traders that n Boandnl was looming over the Argentine gov ernment crop report. DF.I'KAT TAX (IT WASHINOTON, Dec. 17. Jf) llepoul of tho len percent admission tax, proposed in nn amendment by Representative Griffin, democrat. Now York was defealetl 100 to 42. OLYMP1A, Wash,, Dec. 17. (AY Unshed lo St. Peter's hospital In nn unconscious condition, Representa tive Thomas W. Ilopip. of ralousc. Whitman county, died this morning at 7:50 o'clock. Kiddies Fund Big Enough To Fill Purpose I bufficient Donated to Make 250 Children Happy Due to the whole le aned manne.' j In which the Klamath Kalis public has responded, there is now suffic ient money In the Herald Christmas Kiddles' funil to answer uli purpoi et. On tlio da before i brlstmas there will be delivered to Klamath Falls needy homes U', filled Blockings and toys for about that number of child ren. The list from which gift selec tions will be made Is being com piled by Miss I.ydla Prick--, county ; health mime, to whom falls thn task of investigating all needy cases in the city. The Herhld fund was ralsdl slm- ply wllh the purpose of removing 'any chance that any child in Klam , ath Falls would on Christmas morn ing awake to the bitter realization l that Santa had overlooked him or her. as the case might be. Those needing clothing, food and shelter will be taken caro ot by tho Community Chest fund, now being ruised. In behalf of those for whom the fund was raised, the Herald wish es at this time to express thanks for the cheerful manner in which the community "came across." Our only regret is that those who gave cannot he prosent Christmas morning to sen the happiness which tholr gifts will -bring. Grass Blaze Is Threat To Local Plants Smoke Gives Rise To Rumor Mills Are Burning 1-aimed by a hiKit wintl, n hciiss iitul tuie fire tills afternoon swept across tlio territory between the Simula VteW lumber company ami the Kvvanilnn and Itii: likes plants ami fptve rise to a widespread report that one of the above mills was on fire. It burned over several hun dred acres and this afternoon was tiollcvcd to have burned itself out although some danger was still said to exist. Tile Shasta View mill, most menaced, is protected by ditch es and railroad Kfndes ami shut off from direct contact with the flumes. France Shivers As Cold Wave Hits Country VYeather Worst in 30 Years, Records Show PARIS, Dec. 17. (&) France Is suffering from Hie most intense cold spell in 30 years. The thermometer In Paris last night dropped to five degrees above zero fahrenheit. Even the favored Rlverla is feel ing tho bite of winter. The best that its propagandists can say for it is that "it Is warm in tho sun here." In many parts of France the cold weather Is accompanied by fog of varying density. This has boon responsible fs,r a half dozen railroad accidents ot n minor char acter which have caused great de lay In tho system Whtdb had only partially recovered from the effects of Tuesdny's blizzard. MOPE SWOPPING DAYS MP CHAMBER FIGHTS MOTION TO MOVE Y Local Body Sends Letter of Protest to Roy Klein, Department Head ITS ACTION IS SCORED Impossible to Supervise Lake and Klamath Roads From The Dalles Vigorous protest against with drawing the division offices of the slate -highway department from Klamath Falls and of placing Klam ath and Luke CO an ties under the Jurisdiction of the division cfflce nt The Dalle, was contained in a let ter from the Klamath county cham ber of commerce mailed t:day to Roy Klein, head of the state high way department. Announcement that the division offices would be discontinued oame from the local highway office yes terday. No inkling of the move was known at the chamber, prior to the announcement. The chamber in Its letter to Klein asks why too people of Klamath were not advised cf the proposed move, so that they, as tax payors, could express their opinloi) before the office was cloied. It was point ed out that Klamath county and also Lake county are developing rap idly and that new highways were being continually built and more considered. With thi3 development, the letter stales, it is necessary to have a more direct supervision of state highway maintenance and con struction, than could be given from The Dalles. With the division highway f Ilccs, governing tho Klamath and Lake county territories, several hundred miles a-A'ay, proper sup ervision of a divisioa engineer could not be maintained, particular ly in view of the fact that until next spring, travel on The Dalles California highway to Klamath Falls wil be difficult, it was emphasized. There is probably more automo bile travel over macadamized state highways, as distinguished from paved highways, in Klamath, than in any other county in tho state. Thi3 brings continual .problems of maintenance and improvement, the letter brings out, which require a more direct supervision ot state highways in Klamath than could be furnished from The Dalles head quarters. - The chamber hopes to bring suf ficient pressure upon the state high way department, so that a more direct supervision of the Klamath and Lake county territory could be established. Naturally the civic body hopes to have the division of fices reestablished in Klamath coun ty, but it mould be satisfied if the division offices governing this ter ritory would be established closer to Klamath Falls. Ilccause of the move to discon tinue the Klamath division offices. C. C. Kelley, for years connected with the state highway department, was released from the state service. Accompanied by his wife, Mr. Kel ley left this morning for Illinois where he will visit relatives. He plans to return to Klamath Falls ia several months. Burglars Cut Wall; Loot Jewelry House LOS ANGEU0S, Calif. Dec. 1".(P) Thieves lust night dodged burglar alarms by cutting their i.vay through the store wall and virtually clean ed out tho slock of Swens.in and Indn, Jewelers. The boss, running ti several thousand dollars has not been estimated yet. City to Give up Little Red Engine WAKRENTON, Ore.. Del, 17. (itP) Declaring that the city Is unable to make the payments 4i on its $i::.o fire engine the 4 council nsked the firm from which It was bought lo repos- BSSS I lie machine. The city rocenlly defaulted on all bonds and other outstanding Indebt- . , w euness. I OFFICE No New Cases Are Reported By Physicians Spinal Meningitis Situa tion Presents Opti mistic Outlook Optimism prevailed at the county health office this afternoon, for up to 3 p. m.. no new eases of spinal meningitis had been reported to Dr. ('.. S. Kevrsom, medical director of the Klamath t'ounly Health unit. Nor were there any cases report ed to the health office as suspicious. This is the third consecutive day with no new cases of meningitis. Health authorities, despite their optimistic feeling, are not relaxing vigilance in the effort to check a pos- slble widespread epidemic of serious . consequence. It. was remembered that between the first two cases of men ingitis and the second two which broke out Hie name day several days had elapsed and tho county health office was beginning to breathe easily araip. With schools closed and with the people fully advised of the possible serious consequences, an extensive epidemic of meningitis, there is little that the county health office can do, but watchful waiting, it was reported. RECOGNITION OF Representative Burger Calls Present Policy Unsuc cessful and Stupid SEEK SENATE HEARING Points Out that U. S. Bank ers Think Soviet Rule Will Endure Sometime WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. () Recognition of the Soviet govern ment of Russia was asked in a reso lution drawn uj today by Repre sentative Burger, socialist, Wiscon sin, who said he would ask for public hearings by a house commit tee. In a statement Burger refer red indirectly to the recent banquet of American bankers and Russian industrialists In New York, and said the government may as well recognize what the bankers and business men have long since recog nized, namely, "that the soviet gov ernment is here to stay for a con siderable time at least." "Our policy with respect to Rus sia has been unsuccessful and stu pid," ho continued, "when it was clear to all the world the Russian government was ns solid as any government can be, our government Ftill entertained the hope induced by the extensive propaganda which nro-CzuriBt agents conducted in the United States that the Soviet gov ernment would be overthrown." tiOIXti, GOING, GONE I DES MOINES. Iowa. Dec. 17. 0PI Mrs. Lottie Fitch, wife of Fred V. Fitch, millionaire hair tonic manufacturer, was granted a divorce in district court here today. TO RKCESH BERLIN. Dec. 17 (fl) The Reichstag has decided to recess un til January 12. RUSSIA HIED I? 1C0N1 II House Republicans Called "Petty And Small" For Act In Penalizing Insurgents WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (AP) Relegation of the in surgent members to minor committees by house republi cans was described today by Representative Frear of Wisconsin, chairman of the insurgent group as "Petty, small and humiliating." Mr. Frear replied in a house address to remarks by Representative Garrett, Tennessee, the minority leader, who yesterday offered sympathy to the insurgents. He read an editorial which declared the democratic party in the house had done everything possible in one week to efface itself by its stand on the "gag rule" and surtaxes. Mr. Garrett argued that the democrats had fought ad option of the "gag rule" and "admired the independ ence and courage" of the insurgents. Army Heads Flayed By Mitchell Closes Case; Says U. S. Has But One Good Standard Plane W ASHINGTON, pee 17. ( .1Y) Colonel William Mit chell tolil tile- army conn inar- rial today that his trial was "the culniinnt ion of the efforts of the general staff of the army anil the general hoard of the navy to deprecate the value of air power." The air' crusader said he had directed his counsel "to entire ly close out part of the proceed ings without arguments.'" Colonel Mitchell's statement to the court follows: "My trial before this court martini is the culmination of the efforts of the general staff of the army and. the general board of the naVy to de precate the value of the air power and to keep it in an auxiliary posi tion which absolutely imperils our whole system of national defense. "The truth of every statement which I have made has been proved by good and sufficient evidence be fore the court, not by men who gain their knowledge of aviation by stay ing on the ground and having their statements prepared by a numerous staff to bolster up their predetermin ed ideas, but by actual filers who have ?aln'ed Their knowledge first hand in war and in peace. "I wish to Invite particular atten tion to the letter of former Secretary Weeks to the president of the United States asking that I be not reappoint ed as assistant chief of tho air ser vice on account of the evidence given by me to a congressional committee. "I testifiod that the air service had only 19 modern airplanes, tit for war, and that all others were obsolete and many dangerous. The evidence before this court bears out these facts In their entirety. It has been shown thai at present we have only one standard plane in the service. "Secretary Weeks and indirectly the president were wrongly and un truthfully informed as to the condi tion of our aviation and our national defense by the persons furnishing tho data on which his letter was based. "This court has refrained from rul ing whether the truth In this case constitutes an absoluto defense or not. "To proceed further with the case ji would serve no useful purpose. "I havo therefore directed my counsel to entirely close our part of the proceedings without argument. 15,000 In Liquor Funds Is Stolen WINNIPEG, Man., Dec. 17. (P) Two armed men beat Thomas Nut tal, cashier in a warehouse of the Manitcba Liquor Commission on the head today, as he was going to a bank here. The assailants tied In an auto with $15,000 taken from Nuttal. The prov.inco sells liquor through the commission.