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KLAMATH FALLS
"An Empire Awakening"
AID THE COMMUNITY
CHEST; IT DESERVES
YOUR WARM SUPPORT
Associated Press Leased Wire
igjitec
nth Year Number 6700
KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1925
PRICE FIVE CENTS
RECORDS BROKEN
AS BUYERS HERE
THRONG STORES
Sugarman's, Pilclicrs', Falls
Mercantile Have Phe
nomenal Saturday
OTHERS REPORT GAINS
Snowfall Causes Shoppers to
Begin Buying Spurt that
Surprises Merchants
Thl lollinrK y (lint Memed to have
gripped tlii (ti riHtniKM buying rr
the )t two week" was miililouty
dropped Haturiluy ami ill.- -tl.
of (In) city mill county turned In
with ii vim that made new high-
water marks in tin- buelnasi record)
ot tin' city. K. KiiKarmaii was
wearing ii imllo today that iiniUui
ml in' "Ain't Mm) m Nobody," Sat
urday's IntviiiK paaaad ine
hlKlu'iit io r k of tin- li previous
yi'nm by mora than iuuo. Almost
froin Urn opening or tin' doom of his
store until oloslqi time, there was
It ntmiily stream of buyer, until
the flKurim mounted ' B point
iimt passed tbs wartime reoord by
almost four figures.
Tlli Falls Mi'rruntlli' i iillliinv,
paused nil records in tbs history pfl
thn oodosrn'.
The same report comes from
Hector's wbtrs tbs buyers found I
Iho thliir.ii they wore nli.-r In nbun-!
dnnri', ho much ho thai nil sales flg-i
urrn tit this stare WaftB panned.
Thii hurpriHu of tho bnsjneai dl
irlct, however, In tbo It A. Plleborl
company, whose store eras crowdad
from sarly taornfni until closing
time. Thn unusual ftatnra of thn
raaord made by this firm lies in
tin' fact (tint it him bean opened
imruty nix weeks und Uh business
frutii tho start linn not only union
Inliml IIh manager. A. A. McDonald,
hut iini itumhfoiindi'il th.. entire
l'llohor orgunUutlon. Saturday Was
tbi' banner dny with thin firm.
mil"! stores reporting phenomenal
it ii i tin won tin- stur I'm : company,
whom business for at unlay Is
"away nhend of lam year, us In
true with nil of December," Currld'i
Kor Drugs, whore Saturday's bui
notiH was "double that of any ordi
nary Saturday and a satisfactory
Incronno over n year ago:" fndor
wood'n Drug ntoro says that "Sit
unlay showed, tbs old-time Ohrlat-
man buyliiK Spirit, t!in people seem
i in: to realise that there ih no need
for slaying al bona," Along With
those woro dloyd Uyan, The Mnti
fltoru and Tho Toggery.
Tim time i" at band when it i
noenHHary tu nt up doltiK your Chrllt-
man shopping. Oot busy und 80
your Christmas BUYING.
wool, mux To MKKT
I'lONDLF.TON. DSC, 21. The 20th
annual convention of tho proton
Wool Growers' Association win be
ihoiii in Pendleton, January II IS,
according to an announcement made
by m.ic Hoke, secretary. The moot
ing will follow the National Asso
ciation's convention In BolSO, Janu
ury 18-20,
Mitchell Verdict To Be
Used As Club On Officers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (AP) Colonel William
Mitchell had another opportunity today to tell of his
knowledge of the crash last September' of the dirigible
Shenandoah, the naval court of inquiry reconvening to
day to hear the air officer, now suspended from the
service for five years, before winding up its affairs.
Meanwhile, Secretary Davis of the war department was
represented as planning means of emphasizing to any
other dissenting individuals or units within the army the
significance of the verdict of the Mitchell court martial.
The colonel had something else to think about today,
a proposal to Mayor Elect Walker of New York, that he
be appointed police commissioner of that city. Dis
patches from New York, however indicated that Colonel
Mitchell has little chance for the post; one of the prime
requirements fixed by the mayor elect is that the police
commissioner be a resident of New York and the col
onel is not. Mitchell himself had only a chuckle as
comment on the proposal; which was made last night by
Representative Bloom, democrat, New York, in a mes
sage to Mr. Walker. ,
The Mitchell case also cropped up in Chicago over tho
week end, Representative Reid, republican, Illinois, Mit
chell's chief counsel, declaring that his client is a modern
John Brown and that his ideas will go marching on.
Rain And Snow Cover Coast;
Roosevelt Highway Flooded
Portland Han Heaviest Rain in Four Yearn,
Nearly Three Inches in 24 Hours;
Logs Cover Highway Near
Seaside
While dropping temperatures were reported -from
eastern States and' other sections of Oregon reported
heavy rain or snowfall during the night Klamath Falls
may 'he regarded as having gotten off easily during the
general storms prevailing.
A heavy rain was reported in Ashland yesterday,
with a heavy snowfall at the summit of Green Springs
mountain on the Ashland-Klamath Falls highway. An-
' s othor foot 1m reported lb have fal-
n I I J 1
Store KODDfa as
Woman Looks On
a QRBSHAM, tro. Dec II.
(I'l -Two burglars robbed
a the clothing More of Alysworth
anil Martin Iimt nlKlit anil made
oft with merchandise sa(d to ba
worth aboul r.ou. They were
a wuiebad al work by s woman
riinlauraiil proprlntroiui omnia
a the way, but sho believed them
0 to in- oustomars1 Doing Served
by the pVoprlatbrs bl Ine More.
The 1 tlnad entrance to the
a building through a Jimmied
a window 111 the roar. Tin y than
a opened tin. trout doors and car-
a rieii the stolen goods lb thalr
a coupe, parked in from ol the
place.
Prohibition Officer ie Ar
raigned Before Judge
A. L. Leavitt
WAS IN BEND, OREGON
Accused of Shooting Leslie
Congo and Striking Frank
Pecholt Over Head
William Cole, state pi'uhlbtinn of
ficer, returned 10 Klamath Falls this
mornlnt le answer to two Indict
ments ea:'h eburjtliiK him with na
saultntlth a danniOU) uoapon.
Ho was arraigned before Judge
A. it, Leavltl early thli aliernoon,
and asked and win granted more
time t.i enter plea to the two
chargos.
Pole was Indicted at the las:
meeting of the grabd Jury, Ope In
dlcfmant ehargad him with scooting
Leslie Congo with u revolver and
the SSeond Indictment with striking
anil heating Frank PeoUOll ovor tho
head.
Co)e has bean in Band. He re
lumed to Klamath Kails voluntarily,
according to officora.
COLE INDICTE
ON 1 CHARGES
RETURNS TOOAt
! mi tho Dalles-California IiIkIi
way at the aunimli of t be
above F n Klamath.
in iiinialn
I-DUTI.AMl, Ore, Dor. 21. (P)
The honvlcit ruin storm in four
years vixitoii Portland and rtctntti
yesterday, the weather bureau re
inriiiiit! a precipitation of 2 77 I11
chas for the Iimt 24 Ilium. Today
the 1 ky Is ovorciiHt and more rain
h predicted.
1 THE DALM9B, Orb-, Dor ii. Iff)
Beginning Sunday inornlUK the
first snow uf the seasop, coyartng
depth of tour and a half Inches, foil
In The liallon and vti-lnliy. Moder
ate wouthor pravats today with a
maximum temperature of 0 do
sreo aDil a minimum jf 31.
LA ORANDS, Ore.. Hoc. 21. Iff)
Bcvon baches of snow fell 'neru
lasl nlf-ht practically assuring Union
county of a iwhlle Chiratmnn.
8EASII1K. Oro.. Dec. 21. (Pi
Orerflowlng its banks south of here
tho Necanlcum river yualerday cov
ered tho Hoosevolt hlRhway. making
travel Impossible. It will probably
bo several days before tho highway
Is attain opened, f r although t'.ie
waters have receded, logs are scal-
(CMttniwu On Paare pix)
fll
E!
Scores taken in Pre-Holiday
Raids on Spokane Booze
Selling Joints
30 FEDERAL OFFICERS
Police and Sheriff's Offices
i Kept in Ignorance of
Elaborate Plan
I SPOKANE, Wnsh., Doc. 21. (JP)
Unaided by police or sheriffs de
puties, more than ,K) federal prohi
bition enforcement officers from
' various parts of the state conducted
a series of surprise raids of sus
I pectott liquor establishments here at
I noun today, and arrested scoros of
alleged prolilbtlon violators.
The officers, armpd with federal
soaiv.i warrants, woro under the
personal direction of II, S. Me
("lure, federal piolilbtlun adtulnlstra
I tor for this stale, and were prompt
ed, the office said, by reported
I ''wide open" conditions hero as re
i girds prohlhilon enforcement,
j They wove mainly on Main and
Trent avenues, the former bar room
I district of the city. D.'Ziuis of ar
j rests wore made on various Liquor
charges,
Klamath Indians
Lose in LL S. Court
POItTLAND. Oro., DOC. 21. (P)
' BeoaUSO the president of the Unlt
ed States had not proclaimed cer
tain (thdS In (be Klamath Indian
reservation open to allotment. Judge
Bean today refused the plea of Ho
jSOttb Crawford, Klamath Indian wo-
' man, to compel the radoral aulhbrl-
! tie's to grant her claim to I'oscrvn
itlon lands on which sho has filed.
Judge Bean hold that no matter what
action has been taken by other gnv-
rbrn'fnbflt Officials, the law clearly says
Unit "the authority to dealgliatu the
lands to lie allotted Is vested In tho
president. This decision also affects
live others filed In the federal court
by Klamath Indians,
innninr i in nn
mrm uyoun
RAIDERS DESCEND
ON RUM RESORTS
I N ROBBING
0. S. TIRE USERS
t
Openly Proclaiming Rubber
Monopoly Enables it to
Rob Motorists
BAD FAITH IS ALLEGED
Four Billion Dollar Goal of
Manipulators, Enough to
Pay War Debt
WASH I N't i'l i IX, Dec. 21.
(A.P.I Investigation of tin :tl
leged manipulation by tho I5rit
isli colonial government of the
lrice of ci tnle rubber anil other
raw materials was ordered to-
clay iiv l lie nsnst.
A resolution directing the
house commerce committee to
condiicLiihc inquiry was adopt
ed without a roii call after Rep
resentative Hull of Tennessee;
former chairman of the eiuo
cratic national committee, had
charged. Grjsflt llrit.iin with
"acting in bad faith" in the mat
ter. "The Uritish government is
laughing out joud at us," Mr.
Hull said. "It i- openly pro
claiming that it intends to col
lect four billion dollars from its
in increased rubber prices to
pay its war debt.
"Europe is laughing up its
sleeve a, the wiy we are being
held up (or rubber.'"
The resolution was introduc
ed by Representative Tilson of
Connecticut', the republican
leader, after a .conference with
Secretary 1 Inovcr.
Representative Tilson Sup
ported Mr. Hull's position de
claring tlje British hoped tq pay
their war debt by the increase!
prices before this country con! !
develop a source of supply, ii r
the crude products.
Besides inquiring into the sit
uation facing this country in
the rubber problem, the coins
mittcc also will inquire into ihe
situation with respect t" n ir. t
es, potash, quinine, iotlinei t it",
sisal, quicksilver, wood ptil and
other important raw materials.
BOISE, ld.ili-, Dec. 21. Ifl'J
llolse was given parity rates with
Twin Kails and Pocatollo Into the
Shoshone and Brady districts by
order of tho Idaho public Utilities
commission today.
t.
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SUOPPING
DAVS
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CHARGE II ROUS
pen Homes To Prohi Sleuths,
New Demand Of Dry Crusaders
Valuable Prohibition Records Stolen While Dry
Work Out Plans to Give Greater
Power to Liquor-Hunting
Officers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. (AP) Prohibition head
quarters searched today for government records stolen
I from its files, while dry
more easily opening the doors of suspected private homes
to prohibition agents.
The missing records concerned the much discussed
Mayflower hotel liquor case, in which an agent spent
nearly $1,000 in trresting two men, who were subse
quently acquitted and which was the subject of a long
address in the house Saturday by Representative Gal
livan, democrat, Massachusetts.
Prohibition Commissioner llaynes
revealed that the papcra hail been i-v t y
Btolea Juat prior to the trial of the j UOnt VJlVe liim
two men. Wayne B Wheeler, gen- j Cane for Christmas
oral counsel for the anti-saloon i
league, at&o knew, be said. Ian j
nlKht, that the record! had vanlsh-l BOSTON, Dec. 21. tip)
ed. but he declined to name thoi Cant "y- once a Boston
one or two men to whom ho said, has one thc of !,llk
suspicion was directed.
In flic course cf a reply to Itep
lesentatlvc QaUlran, Mr. Wheeler
wondered why the matter had not
attracted the congrcismiin't atten
tion. Scarcely had Mr. Wheeler added
hU contribution to the week end
prohlbtbn argument before' Mis or
ganization and other dry agencies
were aua.nea .rom anoiaer pao -
er. Representative Burger, social -
ist. Wisconsin.
In
statement
charged the drys iwlth "creating a
.series of evils greater than th-i on3 1
tbey Intended to remove." He '
rapped certain legislators also for I
permitting "fanatics and the anti
salmon league to create a situation
In which drunkenness is mora gen
eral than ever." As a happy medium
Mr. Uerger has introduced a hill to
legalize four percent beer und 12
percent wine.
GIVEN SENTENCE
OF YEAR IN PEN
"Oldest Moonshiner," W. K.
Davidson, Sentenced To
day by Judge Leavitt
ARRESTED 1 YEAR AGO
Changes Mind Many Times
but Finally Enters Guilty
Plea in Court
Seventy-five years old and a term
in the state penitentiary.
This Is what confronts W. K.
..., .u. proo.H0,y mo oiuesi moJU-
hiner in Oregon if n-.it in t ie west.
Mr. Davidson was sentenced this
morning to serve one year in the
state penitentiary by Judge A. L.
Leavitt. He had entered a plea of
guilty before Judge Leavitt Friday
afternoon.
Davidson stands ovor six feet tall. !
.His face Is matted with long whisk-!
ers hut through them one can detect '
a pleasant expression. His eyes are
'keen and bright.
MOONSHINER. 75
Davidson was 74 years old when , crown has toppled. It is that of King Ali of the Hed
he was first, arrested tor violating j jaz a territory lying partly along the Red Sea in Arabia,
the prohihtion l;,v in Klamath. His i' un 1 j n -i i i i. i. u
case was a aggravated offense b.u ! kn0 as the land of pdgnmage and which embraces
owing to his age. t ie justice court the Holy City of Mecca. Ali, like his father, King
magistrate let him oft on a luminal HllSSeill, has abdicated.
Kl',m",ce' 1 Since Ali ascended the throne in October of last year
&XiS iT-rS'S If6 has been, sorely beset by Ibn Saoud, head of the Sul
turned to bis old homestead ranch i tante. ot NeJcl 111 warfare that has been almost contmu
in (ho .MaMn tltstrlct. Uut n yoar ous since 1919. The Wahabi tribesmen frequently made
later, prohibtion offi.crs hoard rum-1 attacks against which the Hedjaz warriors were unable
ors "that he was at it again." , in ennp Whilo Htwspin riH uns nn tho ihrnna Mowi
They decide.l M invostlgat
and
their raid oa t he Davidson place not
ted a sizable still.
what ti
Davidson . did not knew
do about his situation. He toid or-1 pan plans for the invasion of Jedda. The Wahabis made
ticert he iy.uKV ..lea i guilty:, jho,the town a target for ferocjous attacks and finally, last
Sudgee'i,eavitt Friday Ifte?uoon ho Friday, the defenses virtually collapsed and Ali abdi-,
changed his mind ami entered a pica cated the throne he had occupied for little more than
or not guilty, on his way out of ! a year.
Ihe court room ho again changed '
his mind and returned to enter a LONDON, Dec. 21. (AP) Doubt is Cast Upon tile
final pica of guilty, report from Port Sudan of the abdication of Kintf AH of
T.,e ancient mnnutaetitrer ,.r n.,.jth R dj j dispatches received here. The Baity
or iwill be taken to the state penl- .,, J. 1 , , e . . . v
tentiary within the next few days. I Mail's Cairo correspondent, referring to the report Shyn
whore he will begin to servo hisi it is contradicted from trustworthy sources. Another
sentence. ) Cairo dispatch also suggests it is doubtful. r .
advocates planned means of
Hats, inutile breasted trees
coats, round cuffs and mutton
chop whiskers.
a A canvass of local habbr- a
dasherics has disclosed that
that most of them have canes
only for display purposes.
Those of the trad? who look
a back mournfully at the days a
a when callers from Beacon
Hill were never without their
u (.2nc5 adm,t ,nat notnlng shor, 4
1 A , ..,.
i O the return of the fad.
Many Donate
Articles To
Chest Fund
More Needed, State
ment of Local
Officials
With hut three days remtiulng
In which people can donate anything
from wearing apparel t eataliles.
Community Cheat headquarters is
today being swamped with dona
tions from the people of Klamat.l
Falls for the needy of this community.
"We ore going over the tap in Price of tis city,
sfiendid sh:.j'."!." declared CAalrnrm Mr. and Mrs. Price were return
Savidge who with Miss Lydla I ing to Klamath Fells from the
Frickc and Mrs. Vance are busily 'Rogue River valley. They wur-;
icngeged in sorting the article-; which
will be delivered within tile next
few days.
Farmer's produce is needed
the farmers, of this community, are
asked to give anthiu; from can-
nod i?ond In no'atnes Thee mo-
ducts an be ,!ellTer0 , ,0 ucati -
uar,ers in t-,e Slui(h batidirig and
,v3rkers wll! sol.t miu w M to as.
su.e ,hejr beng sen( u , m5t
needy families. Anyone having do -
nations can reach headquarters by
calling SSS.
Another Crown Topples As
Egyptian Ruler Abdicates
PORT SUDAN, Egypt,
u.. i.u cn
vo ictivcu uv me itJiiuvveiB
! Medina and when that town
Ibn Saoud continued relentlessly and immediately be-
CRUISE BUTTLE
Timber Owners' Represen
tative Appears Before
Budget Committee
TO ATTACK ACTION
Lumbermen Claim re-Cruise
of Klamath Timber it
.Needless Expense
Forces were lining op on opposite
sides over the Klamath county tim
ber re-crulse battle this afternoon In
the countx court rooms.
On one side of tho fence was tho
county budget committee, composed
of the three members of tbe county
court and three other citizens and J.
K. Culllson, a member of the timber
cruising firm which re-cmlsod 100,
000 acres of Klamath timber lund
last year. On thc other was Jackson
Kimball, representing ine Klamath
Forest Protective association, Del
Kujrkendall. representing the Woyef
haousor interests. Judge O. V. Stone,
representing Itichard Hovey, and
Alei Hay, a representative of the
I-ong-Bell Lumber company.
Thc bono of contention Is tho pro
vision madb by the. county budget
committee for continuation of tbe
county re:culse on tbe same plan as
last year. Timbcrmcn state that It Is
needless" and useless. They hold that
the re-crnlso of the 100,000 acres
last year showed such a small In
crease In timber over the original
county cruise, that there Is no use in
spending thousands of dollars In con
tinuing the re-cruise.
The budget committee will en
deavor to show to the satisfaction of
thc timbcrmen and the public In gen
eral that the re-cruise of 1 9 2 r. did
show sufficient loeroase to justify a
ro-crulso of tho entire county.
KLAMATH COUPLE
IN AUTO CRASH,
ASHLAND ROAD
A badly smashed up car and per
haps serlaus injury was barely avert
ed last night by a stroke ot good
fortune for Mr. and Mrs. Ros:; H.
! driving east on the Ashland-Klam-
nth Falls highway and had Just
passed Hayden creek when they met
another car coming west. The west.
bsund cur refused to give room on
thc road. Price steered to tho side,
tits earevau ennirht In the defln snow
J and in a trice skidded across the
i highway and perched on the brink
1 0, de(Jp faH.
Ar(?r con8lderable dlfficulty the
'car was rescued from the deep
snow and proceeded to
i Falls.
Klamath
Dec. 21. (AP) Still another
c n o 1 mi ' l i
ui tun oauuti, Jii went, w
fell he proceeded to Jedda,
UP O H OVER