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KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1928
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'BIG PLAN!
STARTS UP
ILL TODA1
Two Shifts Employed by
Pelican Bay Lumber
Company
CLOSED DOWN SINCE
MIDDLE DECEMBER
Machinery unit Hulpmciil Oi re
ditu led I) u r I u ic luim Shut
Down; 1.10 Meet Knipluyrtl
With RcoN-ulng of tat-gmt
Mill; II. I). Munrnwn Here.
Idlo it i nee December 15,
tliu I c 1 1 c a n liuy Lumber
mill tlio lilt-Kent line o
cration in Klamnth resum
ed operation this morning
with two shifts.
Approximately 110 nirn v-nt
on iba lumber compauy pay roll
wllh reaumpllou of manufactur
ing. ,
Official of the mill aald that
111 the neighborhood of 300.000
foet for the two ablfla, or 110.
00U fool rut per ahirt, would be
the production. Tho average
dally cut lint year wu about
300,000 fiat dally for two ahlfla.
II. D. Mortonaon, president of
the Pelican Hay Lumber com
pany, recently arrived In Klam
ath to supervise renewal of oper
ation. The box factory haa been
operating- one shift throUKhout
winter mouiha and will continue.
Wllh the opening up of the
lariteat mill In Klamath, tho
Klamath lumber Industry la
anln In full swing.
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SNIPERS
OPEN
PI ON
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MANAfil'A, Nlcarosua, March
1. (A") An American marine
piano In Mcaraitua loday beura
two bullet hole aa Indication of
tho prexrnco of Nnndlno rebel
banda In northeast Nucva So.
govla. ; -
Lieutenant Frank II. (.unixou
Hrrlbner. Vrlillo flying ovt'r Hie
mouiilaln region formerly held
by , August luo I Snndino, rebel
chieftain, was fired in yealcrdtiy
by snipers hlildcn In tho rough
K country nml two bullet pene
trated hla ship. Una bullet
struck bo in I) which the piano
waa rarryliiK but n explosion
took place and the American fly
er waa able to rclallam quickly
by dropping 11 bomb over tliu
JuiikIu land.
DISH RATTLING
TEMBLOR FELT
: I1KAWI.BY. Cnllf.. March 19.
OP) A dish rattling temhlor waa
lelt here at t:30 thla morning.
No damage waa reportod.
Poor Pa
"Our new preticlier la from
the country uu' he rooms out
of place because he dan't
Know much nboul city re-IlKlon."
EARLY ENTRY
LAKE O' WOODS
ANTICIPATED
Proml-r of an early ctitruiice
lo l.ako O' llii Wood. on4 of
Klunialh'a 11101 popular summer
resorts where many fumlUe from
this section liava auininrr home.
assured In a letter from J.
I', Oswald, roiuker, written to
K. II. Hull of tliii Hotel Hall.
Will Id tin; pant few d.tys ho
been rainy, tliu lea la slowly niell
Iiik bul Id mill about It inches
thick. Tliu water level la Jul
slightly aboro what It ih a
year alio at this lime, according
to Oswald.
Oil I ho oast xlde of the lake
shorn tint anow la 23 liu-ho deep.
"I'ro had a buity tlmn killing
rula during tliu punt low week
and have more tliun a luo lo
my record at tills time," Oswald
wrote.
"Despite the ralu and anow, I
am expecting an early irpnn bo
causo of the mild weather. A
few day of warm sunshine will
aid greatly In melting the anow
which remalna," ho concluded.
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rnmpletlon of tho fireat North
ern railroad draw apan on Kwsu
ha lake the laxl construction
unit of the 1100 fool Ircxtlu will
be effected br March 27, It waa
estimated by F. Hill Hunter, pres
ident cf tho Saw Mill KnainocrliiK
and Conxtructlon company, to
whom t lit contract for the build
ing of tbo project waa let. -.
Tim draw apan chunnel will
be 110 feet wide and tbo lift draw
will be up at all tlniM except
when tralna are croHlnx. Aa a
train approach" the draw apan.
a conductor will K"t out of the
train, walk ahead of the l.onio
the. turn a awilch lowering- Hie
apan. return to hla train which
ill then proceed acroHH tho
apan. After It la on. the other
aide, the conductor attain Jumpi
off the train and thrown awltch
Hrilnc the apan to the required
helnht.
BUSINESS MAN
FOUND GUILTY
VICECHARGES
roitTI.ANO. March 19. Ml -Sentence
of Clarence Hratell,
found gullly lute Saturday on a
vice churge will bo Imposed Wed
nesday. Hla attorney today hid
not Indicated whether there
would be an appeal.
7it WOMKN -M:lMiK
TIIKMNKIA'KH Tt) OrTTON
I'll AUIjOTTK. N. ('. .Mar.
19. (A.'.) To restoro old
king cotton to his throno
73 women hero hnvo foro-
suken silk slocking and
underwear.
In a pledge to tho John-
txton Manufacturing eompiiny,
nmkers of cotton yarn, by
whom they am employed,
tho women, many of them
young too, have aworn out
of loyalty to their employ-
era to wear only hose and
underwear mado of cotton.
IRK
SPAN
NEAKING GLBS
Modoc Northern Rumor ;
Explodes in Thin Air
What al flrxt appeured to bo
preliminary work on the Modoc
Northern railroad nnd which
ut oiixod Interest nnd excitement
In ninny quarters, turned out to
he merely tho Southern Pacific
ritllroiid's move to obtain dirt fur
tho establishing of a rnllr.iud
grade on that part of tho (ireut
Northern lino which passes over
Southern rariflc. proporty, it dev
eloped todiiy.
A sleuni shovel ho been at
work on the south xld.i of tho
main lino In tho Shaw-llertratn
Lumber company district, sculp
ing out dirt from a high ground
mar the rullrjad track. .
The work was located between
tho two altsronlive uurvoys of tu
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Fiery Senator Opens Up
Verbal Guns on
Secretary
BLAMES TREASURER
FOR BEING SILENT
Hold Tlwt lllxli om.li.l hbould
Hate Itrvcalnl Ilia Kuaplcl.ma
of I nilcrliandnl Work ( on.
nectet with the Sinclair I loud
iHal.
WASIII.NOTON. March IS. iA't
The realxnatlcn of Secretary
Millon waa on kid In the aenule
n.day by Senator He-d of Ml
aourl. aa deinocrata aHnalled the
republican parly'a acceptance of
bonda from Harry K. himlulr,
leaaea of teapot dome.
"Mr. Mill n iHn't roIuk to re
alKn.'.' Heiiator Heed aaid after de
clarlnx all admlubitratlcn ot(l
clala connected with the Sinclair
Irannactlon ahould quit "but ho
ouKht to be aked to realm."
' Hu muat have known aomo
thliif waa wrong with deal
when a Inrgo aura like 150,000
la peddled lo hlin for refunding
to llui parly." Heed colitiuucd. "If
nulling waa wrong with It why
the tranaactlon In aoeret?"
"Why didn't thla cabinet offi
cer adx'lau tho aenate committee
which waa then trying to run
down thla Inlqultuoua bulnea?"
Heed was referring to tho ac
tion of V. II. Ha-ya In turning
over J.'iO.OOO In Sinclair bonds
lo Mellon and axklng for a 160.
000 aulmcrlptlon from the aecro
tury In Its place.
Tho aecretnry declined ta ac
cept tho bonda but did later con
tribute 130,000.
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FELT IN N. y.
AIJIANV. N. V.. March 19. (I1)
Itexldenls of northeastern New
York wero recounting detail of
the earth xhncks which yester
day Jolted points as widely sep
arated aa Ma lone, rinltsburgh
a. id I. like tleorge.
Tito tremors were felt In Siir
anac lake, Miilone. I.akj l'.nclil.
riuttxburgh. Lake Oeorno nnd j
ed also as having been fell cn j
I the Canadian sldo of tho, St.
Lnwremo river.
Tho tremor lasted several ace-1
ends In most of the tewns. out'
Malono reported tho disturbance '
continued for half a minute.
.iTltl AKKIVKM
CAIHO. Kgypl. March 19. ()
Lady Mary Ilalley now on a
solo flight from England to Cape
town, South Africa, arrived today.
Modoc Northern railroad. Tho
two surveys ure two pilnt on
the main line ut-one of which
tun Modoc N-rthern will leiivo the
main line.
'Inquiry today revealed Unit lliu
dirt Was being moved by ' the
Southern Pacific, to establish the
railroad's truckage over S. P. pro
perty. According to tho agree
ment with tho Southern Pacific
the (irtnt Northern Is paying rent
tint only on the 8. P. Main linn
but al on that seetlou of the
S. P. property over which
(irent Northern must paaa
reach Its own property In
Inside Industrial district.
the
to
the'
Ac
curding to the agreement, the 8.
P. must Lulld the spur over this
section,
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RESIGN
QUAKE
I
Raised
Yields
6 Trapped Sailors
IIOSTON. March 19. (At Th
bodies of the six members of tb4
crew of the submarine 8-4 who)!
were imprisoned In the torpedo
compartment when the vessel was '
sunk by tho roast guard de
atroycr I'auldlng on December 17'
Inst were viewed by a naval,
board of Investigation thla after-,
noon alter the submarine bad
been placed In the dry dock at'
the navy yard. In tho first thrca.
quarters of an hour of their ex-,
auilnatlon tho board found no
mcssago or other written record. '
The board entered the submarine,
shortly after 1 o'clock and thr;
quarters of an' hour later on of
Ita members atatloncd at a tclo-
phono lualde tho vessel sent up
word of It progress.
He said that the position, of
tho six bodies Indicated that all
the men had died In their bunka
and that later their bodies bad
been waxbed out. The body of
Lleutonant Jrahara Newell Filch
S. P. BOX CURS
ON FIRE TODAY
nnninge or i"i,(MKI bail ul
rewly been auMulncd, ln ax tmA
car riit vililrli luul totally r
slroycfl elttht Southern I'uclflr :
rallivail box earn anil which wax,
llirmlenlnic tho Kwnmut llox
company mill this afternoon. ,
The klnmath Falls fire ili'mrt- !
nionl rulicl to altl vuluntn-r fire
flKliter In flitbllng the big; btaxc
ovation of the blare about ,
2.TO south of the Soutliern I'a-;
etfle viaduct.
At n lulei hour this afternoon, ;
iifflcbil of the Southern I'arlflc
could not Male wrliat, IT anj tiling
wna In the box cars, j
Tulea on ellliiT side of the!
track were In flame.
Origin of tho hbiae' was not
known. A suspicion won enter,
talneil In some Miurrm tluit It Ix t
nn lncenllar Idaxe. Volunt4i-r
cr-w and tho Khimuth Falls :
fire ileportment wee roncentrat- j
lK to prevent fljlng cool from
allifhtlnK In tho Knauiut llox
roiununy mill and starting a fire
hi I lie blR pliint.
Within less than four hours.
tho flro department had answer-1
ed threo flro alarm calls today,
with tho first alarm comlug In
from the Holland House at 1340
Main street whero a bonfire In
tho rear of tho building had
caught flro to tho building. Slight
damage was done.
The second cull come from 41! .
North Eleventh which was caused j
by a defect Ivo chimney. Tho In
xuranee risk was S30U0 with no
dumago reported.
On Sunday morning tho do
partment .waa raited to 1865
Academy street to the residence 1
of Charles Dnlton. Tho Insur
ance risk on thla property waa
stiuo. i
STORK LEAVES
BOY TO ELLER
FAMILY SUNDAY
Mr. and Mrs. R. I). Eller. I
kell known couple of this city
are receiving congratulations
upon tho arrival of a son, born
on Sttndiiy afternoon at tho
Klamath (ienernl hnxpltnl. The
bully, tho first, child born t
Mr. and Mrs. Kllor. weighed 7 Vj
pounds. Tho youngster hu been
named "lleorgo Koynnr. Mr. Sl
ier Is a mum her of tho nrlxeoll
Insurnnco company firm and Mr.
Eller U ono of the popular young
matrons of thin city.
SAFE CRACKERS
LOOT STATION
PORTLAND, March 19. !)
Snfn cruvkcrs Inst night, stole
(750 In rash from tho gasoline
stution of Georgo II. tinge com-
pnny, ou the UDntoD roud.:
ubmarine
odies Of
was lying under a work bench on
the starboard side near the tor
pedo tube. It was Identified by
bis naval academy ring and naval
academy sweater.
Three bodies were at the foot
of a ladder and two in tho after
part of tho torpedo room under
bunks. All the bodies were cov
ered with mud.
There were no shoes on airy of
the bodies.
All the torpedo tube doors
were closed. Indicating that the
men had made no attempt to es
cape through them. The tor
pedo room door Into the battery
room waa tightly closed and
"dome d" down and further
wedged down with a lead maul
and large pinch bar.
The port hole In this door evi
dently had leaked as It had Iv-en
revered over with rubber held in
place by wooden blorka.
There was evidence that the
men bad nsed gas masks In the
room.
CHOKER - HOUSE.
N Y. ATTACHED
PORTLAND, Ore.. Mar. 19. (A.
P.) Claiming to represent more
than one hundred creditors of
the defunct brokerage house of
Overbeck and Cooke. J. O. Ar
nold, attorney, today obtained a
writ of attachment against Logan
and llryan, contending that the
New York house which acted as
correspondents' of the Portland
firm, should make good some of
tho losses.
All property here of Ixgan
and Bryan was attached and a
keeper put In charge of their
local office pending posting of
bonds effecting a release.
The attachment proceedings
were taken because all defend
ants In the Arnold suits are non
residents ar.d Arnold moved to
keep the assets in tho Jurisdic
tion of tho local courts.
LOGGING LINE
SURVEY TO BE
STARTED SOON
Within tho next week surveys
for the new Khaw-Hertrum Lum
ber company logging railroad
which will tap tho Siper-Wheeler
tract and tliu Corral Spring
tract purchased by that concern,
will bo made and within CO days
construction on approximately lo
miles of logging roud will be un
der way. -according to J. Royal
Shaw, president of tho lumber
company.
The concern expects to be lg
glng In the northern Klamath
timber tracts hy August 1. The
logging line will leavu the South
ern Pacific main lino In the vic
inity of Chemult.
PUBLIC SCHOOL
TEACHER SLAIN;
NEGRO SOUGHT
NEW YORK, Mar. 19. (AP)
Mrs. Helen Klrabal. 30. a public
school teacher ond wifo of an
assistant principal of a Brooklyn
school, was found shot lo death
on the . floor of her Brooklyn
homo today.
The police broadcast a genernl
utarm for a recently discharged
negro Janitor they believed to
have gained access to tho apart
ment by holtitlng himself from
tho ctilir In a dumb waiter.
GIRLS FAIL TO
HOP FROM SHIP
I IIREMER1I AVEN. Germany.
,.Mnr. 19. (AP) Miss Mildred
j Johnson of Philadelphia who hud
planned to take oft from tho
i steamship Columbus when tho
' liner was several hundred mllos
i out to sea, arrived aboard the
I Columbus today, having boon
.torsvd to pompous jijo vvnuro,
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DIE FRIDAY
Last Minute Effort Made
to Save Doris McDon
ald From Gallows
HER HUSBAND SAYS
HE KILLED DRIVER
Confession of I'. K. Woman Who
Must Die at the Hands of Knp;
lish Jufttkre Is Repudiated by
Her Male Who Also Mast Pay!
Sopreme Penalty for Hoinl-.iile.
VALLEY P;ELD. Que.. March
19. (Al Efforts to nave 20-year
old Doris Palmer McDonald from
the gallows today had the sup
port of an affidavit by ber hus
band,, (icorge C. McDonald, de
claring her innocent of tbe mur
der of the taxi driver for which
the two have been sentenced to
hang on Friday.
McDonald's affidavit made in
Bordeaux jail In Montreal and
made public by his attorney J.
A. Legault read:
"Thla la- to certify that my
wife D:rls Palmer - McDonald,
now In Jail In Montreal, is In
nocent of tho murder of A. Bou
chard. I swear to this by my
God in heaven. ' She had not one
thing to do In the murder or
helped in any way, and the Den
ver confession Is untrue."
Tho body cf Bouchard was
found last summer along a road
near the international border a
short time after he had been
hired by the McDonalds and a
male companion to drive them
over the boundary. The McDon
alds were arrested In Denver, but
the third member of the trio was
never arrested. Mr. McDonald,
in a confession attributed to her
In Denver., said she fired the
shot which caused Bouchard's
death.
NOTED ACTRESS
PASSES AWI
NEW YORK, Mar. 19. (AIM
Nora Bares, musical comedy nct4 4 4444
tress, died today ill a Brooklyn, a, MERCl'RY CLIMBS TO
hosoital. ! fin IIKfiKKKS SUNDAY
She was taken to a hospital ' -
last Monday for an abdominal
operation. She was thought to.
be on the road to recovery when
sho suffered a relapse last night
from which she did not rally.
Sho was born lu Milwaukeo In;
18S0. She was star on tho stago ,
for moro than 20 year, making
her first appcuranco In vaude -
vllle In New York.
Tho last appearance of Miss
Haves whoso real namo was Dora
Goldbcrgh. only tho day beforoi
sho entered the hospital, was to
sing at two bennf Its. ono for old
friends among tho poor and one!
for crippled children.
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I Big Sucker
Way; Indians Rejoice
! The annual run of suckers Is
j under w ay and Joy reigns su
Jprcme in the ranks of Klamath
I Indians.
I t'p Wllllumson river, up Spra
gue river, tens of thousands of
the jo sluggish fish arc, moving
, while redskins with spears, tri
I pie-nooks and other "snagging"
apparatus are buullug them out
j by hundreds.
Tho annual sucker run Is as
I much of an ovont In Indian land
as tho opening of the duck and
goose season Is to tho white
'man's land. Tho sucker is a sta
iple food artlclo for tho members
'of tho Klamath tribe. Although
I white cxDUQt stomach the- tub
EARLY SPRING
FORESEEN BY
FINE WEATHER
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 19. (A.
P.I Spring weather has come
suddenly to Oregon. From most
of the state reports tell of balmy
weather and high temperatures.
At Portland the maximum yester
day was 11 and the weather bu
reau expected the same figure to
be reached or passed today.
MA R.8H FIELD. Ore., Mjr. 19.
(AP) The highest early spring
temperature since March 13, 1925
was recorded here yesterday
when the thermometer hovered
at S3 for several hours up to
five p. in.
Kl'CiKNE, Ore., Mar. 19. (AP)
Eugene banked In spring sun
light yesterday. In a temperature
of 70 degrees, the warmest since
November 3 of last year.
LA GRANDE, Ore., Mar. 19.
(AP) With spring Just around
the corner. La Grande exper
ienced ita warmest day of 1928
yesterday when the mercury
climbed to 7 above. Today Is
expected to be as warm.
GRANTS PASS. Ore.; Mar. 19.
(AP) Wltb Indications that the
temperature might reach a high
er mark today, mercury soared
to 83 degrees yesterday In the
Kogue valley. This Is only three
degrees under the hottest March
day on record at this point.
INNOCENCE Of
PORTLAND. Ore.. March 19.
(P) -Earl Jones. 19. held at Ore
gon City in connection with an
explosion which wrecked his
home at Boring last Thursday,
resulting In two deaths, was
promised a trip to Portland to
day to visit his father. Robert
B. Jones, in a hospital. Sheriff
A. T. Mass this morning announc
ed the plan for the visit expeci
Ing conversation of father and
son to throw some light on the
case.
Faith In the innocence of Earl
Jones was expressed by his sweet
heart. Miss Irene Sehweltxer, of
Boring, the Portland Telegram
says today. The girl, a pretty
blonde, was emphatic In declar
ing that she was certain that
larl had nothing to do with
causing the explosion of the pow
der which had been placed in a
box beneath the Jones home.
a, !
a, impelled by the searching j
a. hot roys of a spring sun the 4
a, mercury yesterday climbed f
to its highest point this
, season, reaching a maximum
a,
of 66 degrees.
The minimum was 36 de-
a.
ia,
grees. a dally range of 3
degrees during the 24 hours.
a
Continued warm weather
Is indicated by present In-
durations.
Scores of motorists took
a.
advantage of tbe lovely
w e a t h e r to take trips
throughout southorn Oregon.
.
Run Under
without a wry face, the Indians
smoke the fish by the ton and Its
meat provides one of tbo main
Items on their bill of fare
throughout the year.
It Is at tho Sprague River
dam a short distance above tho (
mouth of Sprugue river where i
It empties Into Williamson river!
that tho sucker slaughter Is
tho heaviest, for there It is that
tho toothless, sucking, bottom
scrapers are held up by an In-'
supcrubla obstacle, tho dam.
The greater tho sucker slaugh-,
ter the better the Indians white'
brothers like It, for the suckers.
In their slow way, attack spawn
ing beds of trout and are other-!
wlao a DuisRovo to tiabernen. I
THCLAIED
SKULLS OF
2 VICTIMS
FRACTURED
No Trace Found of Driver
Who Fled From .
Scene
ALTAMONT SCENE OF
SERIOUS ACCIDENT
Man anil Woman Rushed to the
Kbunath Valk'jr Hospital; t'on-
' dition ' of Koch Serious But
WUI Recover If Complication
Do Not Set In. . t
Miss Gladys Gardner,
2440 White avenue, and W.
E. Patterson, a visitor in
Kls.rr.ath Falls, were seri
ously injured early Sunday
morning on .The Dalles-California
highway at Alta
mont when they were struck
down by a hit-and-run driv-
i er. 1 he victims were in tne
'road:in front of the Alta-
mont dance hall when the
accident occurred. . , , . i
Accordrtifto"- witnesses ' Mix
Gardner with her male escort,
and Mr. Patterson with- bis wife,
were on the side of the road, well
out of the-way of automobile
traffic. '
Suddenly' a car, said to have
been going at a rapid pace, apocd
ed toward tbe group. It swerved
In the direction of the peoplo and
struck Miss Gardnor and Mr.
Patterson. '
Both the woman and man were
knocked to the hard surface of
the road with terrific force and
both incurred fractured skulls.
Although no office could be
reached by the press today, it
was reported that no trace of tbe
alleged hit and run driver eonld
be found. , , , ...
Immediately after the accident
the car sped on into the dark
ness and down The Dalles-Call- '
fornia highway.
IS CONTINUED
PORTLAND. Ore.. March, 19,
OP) George H. Wedcnkellor. a
taxi driver, was arrested today
on a charge qf assaulting lull
Atkinson, dollar zone driver ear
ly last Saturday. Bail was sot at
S1500. ,, J
Atkinson, after being culled to
an address, -was badly beaten by
two men and left in the street,
whore a motorist found him. It
was said -tho attack was another
outbreak of the taxi war.
Captain Frank lrvln. who has
temporarily suspended Wodon
kuller's chauffeur permit, said
Atkinson had Identified him.
AuntHet
"Pa Is sociable, an' my no-tl-n
Is he don't like to go visit
In' because he gets rest I ex set
tin' where he cun t put his feet
on the table." ' i .'
T