The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, February 17, 1926, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texttfiilvcmity Library Comii,' kiiijcne, Oregon toe PubllHhcd Daily at KLAMATH FALLS "An Empire Awakening" LET US MAKE 192G THE BANNER YEAR FOR THIS SECTION' r ftVVWAVVVWWWUWVW.I Associated Press Leased Wire Eighteenth Your Number 5759 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1926 Expect Rail Decision In Short Time Corey Looks for Action on Transportation Fight in 60 Days BALB.M, Ore. Fob, . 17.- (!') H. II. Corey, rhnlrmnn of (hit public service commission expects n duels Ion of dm Infurslnta Commerce Com mlMlon within (0 tiny on iho ennr trul Oregon railroad hearing. Al though uo assurnuco wun given hy Iho I. U. C. that un early decision would ho handed down, Mr. Corny bolluvo Iho Importance of (ho ense will causa tho commission to hurry It along. "Ai sure at the Hill lines build from n.ind Into Klamath Falls, an they wish to do," said Mr. Corev, "the Woyerhaouser Interests will build largo lumber mill near Klnni ath Falls. We are also hoping that Iho Union raclflc will build mi from C'rano to conmirt with the line from llond nouth and with the Nat ron cut-off. . "Chattel Moron and associate will atandardlie tho narrow gaugo lino from Nevada to 1-akevlew, Hint la alrvady dacldud." OVERCROWDING AT III SCHOOL FORUM SUBJECT Principal Paul T. Jackson Tells of Handicap Under Which Students Labor Need of a uew high school In Klamath Fulla to rellove concei ted conditions In the present school building and to prepare for In created enrollment of next year and jyeara to come win emphasised by apeakora at tho chamber of com merce forum luncheou this noon. "If wo can't do something, and do it quick, tv foctlfy that situation at the high school, wo ought to bej ashamed of oursolvos," It. C. lrooi beck, local lawyer, declurod. "Whutl wo noed Is speedy action 3 that seat year will not bo a ropllca of Ibis yoar." Paul T. Jackson, principal of Klamath County high school outlin ed problomi of overcrowding thai face tho school authorities. "Tho building mas orocted In 1905," he .said. "There wore 11 atudonta tho J I rut jroar and a gradu ating olasi of throo. This year we have an enrollment of 375 and next year we look for an curollmont of "lllght now toa:hlng Is 'sorloualy ' Impeded by congestion. We wore actually forced to disband ono class two wooks ago becauso of no room, tpuao. Sixty four studonts now Hike tho typewriting course, Ono hund red pupils m ould on roll In tho courso If thoy oould, but It Is Impossible becauso of room, We hava tho host manual training equipment In south ern Oregon, but llttlo opneo to dike advantago of tho machinery. Stu donts, during ono porlod, o-.in not use the library bocause Unit spuco must bo utllliod by ,the Sociology (Continued On J'ago Eight) Helen Wills, Tired By Hard V Match With Suzanne Lenglen, Takes Day Off To Get Rest NICE, France, Feb. 17. (AP) Helen Wills today re quested that her first round singles match against Miss Lilly Hammerton in the Beaulieu lawn tennis tournament be postponed until tomorrow afternoon. She said she was tired from her exertions in yesterday's match against Suzanne Lenglen. - Miss Wills' incapacity is only momentary she. insists and she will play tomorrow. ',.," . . , Answering insinuations in the French papers that she was not willing to compete further in singles play on the Riviera, she said she would carry out her program as priginally scheduled., ' ' , , ' ' ' ' , ' Round-The-World Flyers To Resign From Army And Seek New Lands In Arctic Circle Lieutenant Leigh Wade and H. H. Ogden Will Head Expedition Which Gets Financial Backing From Universities NEW YORK, Feb. 17. (AP) Lieutenants Leigh Wade and H. H. Ogden, crack American fliers who circled the globe for the army, now are to undertake a civilian trans-Polar flight seeking new territory to claim for the United States. Coincident with the resignation from the army of Lieutenant Ogden in Washington yes terday, Lieut. Wade announced, he too, was about to resign and that the two of them, would make the flight. . I aincarr. vase Causes Davis To Lose Jaunt Labor Secretary Stays Home t o Study Question WASHINGTON. Feb. 17. (Pi--Rocrulary Davis postponed bin de parture for Florida, on a vacation trip today. In order to give further personal attention to the rate of the Countnas of Cut heart, who ha ap pealed from tho doclalnn of immigra tion officer at Now York barring her from the United States. .Mr. Davis had firm planned to lunvo for Florida early today but he decided title morning to tuy In tho city until tonight to wrestle -with problems described aa of a "seml logal natttro," Involved In hi .duel Ion concerning the countess who h been excluded on moral turpitude groutuU In connection with her elopement several yours ago with tho Karl of Craven. , - JERSEY TROOPER SHOT TO DEATH IN HOTEL LOBBY Slaying Occurs When Com panion Leaves to Tele phone for Aid MOVNTAIM VIEW. N. J., Feb. 17. (At Churles Ulrlch. a state trooper, was shot and killed at a hotel hero . today while gathering evidence and bis companion. Math ow McMnnus, was severely 'beaten. Snmuel Alcsl, hotel proprietor, was believed to bo dying from a bullet wound. Ulrlch and McMnnus, In : plain clothes, wore recognised after they had spent throo hours sitting around In tho hotol. Pulling their guns they covered four men, and McMnnus went to k phono to summon help. , Whilo ho was gona ono at tho four moil began shooting nnd Ul rlch dropped, nftor putting two bal lots In Alesl. Three omployos of the hotol who took Alosla to tho hospital wore de tained by Pntorson police. Police said, that tho ' hotel had been raided twice ns n disorderly house nnd "that Alosi wan nt liberty In 10,00 ball on charges of con ducting such a plnco. A curious thing about this world Is poopla who have no right to be cheerful aro our cheerful people. i.ictitunnm vtauo win lean mo cxpuilitlnn and Lieutenant Ogden will bo his assistant. Other army filers uro expected to Jolt) them, but tlielr n a in oh uro withheld until their resignations become certain. Lleii tenunt Wudu denied that his own withdrawal from tho army was prompted hy tho suspension and resignation of Colonel Vllllum Mitchell. The flight is to ho known as tho American University Alumni Expe dition nnd is backed by alumni of llurvard, Yulq Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. One of its primary objects will be the location of land 'near the polo as a possible airplane base for the L'nlted States. To somo extent this object par allels that of another trans-polar expedition sponsored by the Detroit Aviation Society and now mobilizing In. Alnska under tho direction of Captain (Jeorgo Wllklns. Lieutenant Wade's plans, however, are concern ed more with tho acquisition nnd limitation of territory than tho De troit expedition, which has been an nounced, as chiefly for scientific ex ploration. Lieutenant Wado has no doubt that land exists In the ice floos and thnt an aviation bnso can be estab lished on II. ' '. PLAN OPEN HOUSE FRIDAY Local Man Is Held In Night Liquor Search Prohi Officers Raid Place on Esplanade . Street A bJltod dosr proved no obstacle to $ group of deputy sheriffs and prohibition officers who broke into bouse on Esplanade street lato lust night nnd placed George Hyland under arrost on a charge of posses sion of Intoxlcntlng liquor. A man who gnvo his nnmo as Freeley Mor ris, was urrested on charge of vas 'tuncy. According to raiding officers, Hy land was interrupted In the act of pouring alleged moomshlne whiskey into n receptacle. One gallon and a flialf of the allcgod "moon" was confiscated. Hyland and Morris wore taken before Justlco of tho Po:ico R. C. Spink nt Chllonuin this morulnij. Morris was fined $15. Hyland had not colored a plea. Il'urtlclptiting In tho raid woro State prohibition' Offi cers L. L. Metritis and W. M. Mn Mills, nnd Duputy Sheriff Zlmmor mnn nnd County Truffle. Officer R. E. Knowlcs. .. . ; ' TO SWITCH Jl'IMJES - . SALEM, Ore., Feb. 17. (P) Indications are 4hnt somo circuit Judge outside of tho Marion-Linn county district will try tho case of the stnto against John Andrews, Les ter Dixon nnd Henry Johnson, accus ed of manufacturing liquor In n largo still confiscated noarly n year ago nenr Mt. Angef, The dofeiiRo filed an affidavit of prejudice .against Porcy R. Kelly, nnd It Is understpod that. Kelly has accordingly undor the law requested Chief Justlco Mcllrido of thg supremo court to assign ano ther Judge to nho enso. Tl. JUANA HKPOUT MADK SAN YSIDERO, Calif., Fob. 17.- (P) UositltB of an Investigation Into events lending upMo tho suicide Df tho Potoot family in San Diego nnd tho resulting International Invest I Ration woro sent to Soc.rotnry of mil IllOO Ol CTUU XBIUUrU CllUUIUtJl Ul oommorco, 1 Many Dead In Utah Slide Fifteen Bodies Taken From Church; Hunt More Victims SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 17. (A.P.) At noon fifteen bodies had been taken from the ruins of several buildings including the Methodist church, which were buried under a snowslide in Sap Gulch, 18 miles southwest of here this morning. Estimates of those entombed 'In tho avalanche of enow, rock and brush that slid down the mountain side, range between SO and 100. Lit tle hope Is held out for their rescue ollvo. Fire, burning In the buildings which were crushed under hundreds of tons of 'debris, imperiled those who have may have escaped Instant death when their homes were crush ed. The snow, the heaviest fall In this section in several years, gave way without warning and swept every thing in its path, inclnding the Meth odist church, two large boarding bouses and several glomes. The buildings, all of which were heated by stoves, soon caught fire from tho live embers, as they were crushed undor the avalanche of snow, rocks nnd small trees, which started scvoral hundred feet nbove on the mountninsidol Most.cf the (Continued Oil Hoo F.iglit) i p I GIVEN APPROVAL AT BOARD MEET Formal Acceptance at Meet ing Yesterday afternoon Following Inspection OPEN HOUSE PLANNED Friday Afternoon and' Even ing Set Aside for Bene fit of Visitors . Fremont school, ono of the largest school buildings In southern Ore gon and representing a public in vestment of J150.000, vrns formally accepted Into yesterday afternoon by tho city school bonrd. ' '. FIvO upper clniwes and a part of tho three lower classes of Central school and throe classes from thrse other city schools will be moved into the new building next Monday. One division in each of tho three lower classes In 'Central school will-be kept at the old bullcltug on. Main street it was announced today. 1 Friday nftenvoon and Friday night will ho open house nt tho new build ing. From 3 p. m. to B:30 p. m. and from 7 p. ni. to 9 p. m. the pub lic Is invited to personally Inspect tho building which It has paid for. through a bond ltsue. From 4 p. m. to 5 p. m. Friday thero. will bo an approprlnto program, nccordlus to Mrs. Lesllo Honors, chairman, of tho committee on nrrangemonts. In addition to moving tho children from Central school,' it Is plnnned to trunsfe'r the eighth grades of Fair view, Mills addition and Pelican City schools to the now structure, relievo- 'congestion In tho three schools. According to this arrange mont, cnuuren mum suu mumi'm ih from tho Pollcan City' district to and from tho now school. ... .' Tho now structure, Avhlch is lo cated on High st root botwoon Sev enth nnd Eighth streets is n brick building, constructed along; the tnost modern plans of school buildings. Us facade oxtonds n.wholo block, from Suventh to Eighth, and It la j (Continued ou Pago Two) FHEMDHT.SGHDD Salem Prison Riot Quelled As Guards Wound Nine In Revolt; Strict Rules Thought Cause - Signal Given at Supper Table Followed by General Uprising; Prompt Action of Guards Stops Move at Beginning SALEM, Ore.,' Feb. 17. (AP) "All right, let's go." This signal, shouted by an unidentified convict among 420 prisoners seated at supper in the dining room of the state penitentiary at 5:15 p. m. yesterday, started a riot that raged furiously and savagely, though briefly, and resulted in half a dozen convicts being sent to the hospital and others to their cells with gunshot wounds inflicted by guards. Five unarmed guards in the dining room were at tacked, tables were kicked over, cups, plates and catsup bottles hurled, chairs broken and electric lamps on the ceiling shattered by flying crockery in the two or three minutes before armed guards wjere rushed to the scene. Only brulsns were suffered by the unarmed guards who were at-j tacked. . ' The wounded prisoners are: Albert Corley, negro, received from Multnomah county October 24. 1923 for manslaughter, shot through the. abdomen and expected to die. C. Iti Moor, received from Lano county March 9, 1925. for larceny of an automobile, wouhded 'n shoulder and scalp. Pat Burke. Multnomah county, re ceived October 11, 1921. to serve 10 years toi statutory crime. . II. Smith! received from Mult nomah county, January 18. 1926, to serve two and a half years for as sault and robbery armed with a dangerous .weapon. . .- , J. M. James, received from Was co, county. May 22, 1923, to serve eight years for a statutory crime. Dem'aclo Cadena, received from Klamath county February 2, 192 1. to serve life for murder. , Frank Davis, received from Linn county Docemher 4. 1925, to servo (Continued on Pago Two) AFTERNOON ; : ; - I Davidson Buys Big Farm From George Tramel Pool Room Owner Pays Over $15,000 For Choice Tract R. L. Davidson, part owner of the Eagle Pool Room of Klamath Falls, purchased Yesterday the George Tramel ranch, located six miles south of Klamath Falls, for a con sideration in excess of J 1-6,000, It wns announced today. The farm, said to be one of the most fertile tracts cIobo to Klamath Fulls, comprises slightly under 160 acres. According to report it sold for $100 an acre. It is located just off Tho Dalles California- highway and adjoins the Hilyard ranch on ono' side and tho Short estate ranch on tho other. Mr. Davidson bought tho ranch as an investment, but will, it is un derstood, develop the land in the near future. Grand Jury May ," Submit Report Unless othor mutters aro brought to its attention, tho Klamath county grand jury will report its findings to the circuit court this afternoon, uc cording to prevailing reports at the court house today. The investigative body was deliberating this morning on the last criminal case submitted by tho district attorney's otfido. A IK HILL RKPOIITK1) WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. (IP) Tho house naval committee today rn- nnrti.l n 1,111 t ptTvv mtt Itn new - fko y(?af buiIiUng pt0am for tne naval air service at a cost of nearly $100,000,000. ' JAP CRISIS AVKKTKII TOKYO, Fob. 17. -() Dlssolu tlon of ' tho diet has been nvortod by compromise reached today be tween 'the Japanese gnvornmout nnd tho Solyuhonto (apposition) party concerning tho tax reform mcaBuro Introduced by tho government. Local Men See Guards Squelch Riot In, Prison W. A. Delzell and Hor ace Manning Ring- ' aiders SALEM, Feb. 17. (JP) W. A. Delsell, private secretary to Gover nor Pierce, arrived at the prison with Horace Manning, a ' Klamath Falls attorney, just as the riot started, Manning was gping to see a -convict vbo had been his client. Delzell stored at the entranpe gate" to the prison yard and distributed guns to the guards as thoy were passed to hlm from the new arsenal tiat stands over tha gate. T Ooverncr Fierce was earl on tho sjtfoii.- "Warden- IJHIa ;and ' Deputy Warden Golden, armed with revolv ers were among the first to' rash Intj the dining room. ' The governor expressed regret at the affair, ' but (was ' pleased with the manner in which the 'riot was quelled. . ' ' BOY CONFESSES Death in " Electric Chair Looms for Farmer Boy" as Result of Deed ' KILLING IS ADMITTED Crime Committeed 2 Hours Before Marriage Was to Have Taken Place WEWOKA, Okla., Feb. 17. (IP) Erman Higdon 22 year old farmer boy in the Semin-olo county Jail here, is today, face vS fuce-wtth tho possibility of, death in the cieatric chair or a life term in prison as A result of a confession that he sh.;t his sweetheart, Rita May Gosa, 17, to death' two Jiours before thoy sere to have been married Sun day. .'He signed a detailed state ment of the shooting late yesterday afternoon after murJcr charges had MI FIANCEE MARRIAGE DA Chinese Army Forces Raid Lutheran Mission, Destroy Property And Kill Worker HANKOW, China, Feb. 17. (AP) John Bly of the Lutheran United Mission in Honan province has been made prisoner by the Kuominchun, or national people's army, at Sinyangchow.' He is charged with spying. ' ' D. Nelson, also of the mission, who was reported yes terday to have been accidentally killed, was hit by a stray bullet February 8, and died from his wounds. . ' The' property of the Luther Mission outside Sinyang chow has been looted by soldiers. Selden Ohapin, Am erican vice consul, at Hankow is going to Sinyangchow to, ascertain the condition of the American missionary community there. Marshal Wu Pei-Fu, commanding the Hope's troops which are invading Honan to the. south, has . promised Mr. Chapin transportation in a special military train with an escort, V m''';' ''. Poor Health Suicide Cause ; Mrs. Pearl G. Sutton, Despondent, Hangs Herself Today Despondent because of ill health, M-H. Penil O. Huttou, AI, vtlfo of Frank Sutton, hnngrd herself nt 7:00 o'clock' this morning In the. bnncment of n general minluinillxe store conducted by her anil her hus band at the junction of Ilu William son Itlvcr bridge mid tho Dalle California highway. Her body was discovered by Mr. Sutton. 1 The couple rose this manning at the accustomed time and Mr. Sut ton busied himself In the front part of tJe building. In ivrhtch the store is conducted. Thinking that Mrs. Sutton had prepared breakfast,- he went to tha .ear,. Into the kltcben. Finding 'no one there -he built the 'kltcheia fire and went upstairs .to. cull -his' wife, believing th-it she bad gona back to bed.'. , ; -. . ' . .'. . Failure lij frni her tJers led htm to extend the search' tj the base ment, where b'e found her body. The Suttons came hire fr.m Ash land a number of yea-.s ago, and for . a time conducted a . general store and service station midway betweeaMod6c Point and the Wil liamson River bridge. - " Late .last year the old location was abandoned and new bulldlaa erected at the Williamson river bridge. - ' ' ' ' .40 ttauujuiz iu iior.swiDiiiu .Jin. Sutton Is survived br two tons, Hub ert Lester and Martin. A brothor and other relatives ere said to' re side In or near Ashalnd. -r uaerai arrangements naa noi been 'made-up bo a late hour this afternoon. It iwas believed t&af 'th?' body would be taken "Ashland for burial. ; ' V "' . -. . ... START CASCEB HURVF.V LA GRANDE. Ore., Fob. 17 (Jp) Members of the state board, 'meet ing at HqI Lake late yesterday, de cided tor launch an immediate can cer survey of the state. . , ' CHINESE EAT ICE -CREAM ' SEATTLE, Feb. 17. (IP) Con quorlng their fear of ice and cold foods, Chinese in Shanghai are con suming an average of 100,000 'ice cream bars dally. ',. .. j . teen filed against him by County Attorney Billingsley. , The killing fallowed tho 'girls ad mission that she anticipated mother hoed, the -confession raid. Hlgdon denied that he was the father of the child and refused to marry her, he said.. When the girl declared that her parents, en their :, return I from church, would force -the maril- age, ho shot itier. - . , -. Higdca's first story was that Miss Gosa was killed after he' had loft her fcr a few minutes. . He then changed his tale to the effect that she shot herself when he iefused to marry :her. The confession follow ed lengthy questioning by dfflcalls. Dato of Hlgdua's arraignment has not been set.