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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1928)
City Edition The Old Home Paper THE WKATtlKH EI OREGON: Cloud r on coast and fair In the inieVlor tonight and Halurday; no citang In taw peratur ur humidity. Moder ata wind mostly northwest. Associated Press and United Press Telegraph Service Herald Advertisers Appreciate Your Trade Trice Five Cents (TWELVE PAGES) KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1928 Number 638C r? , TELEVISION EXPERIMENT IS SUCCESS .Stepa Toward Practical Improvements Aro Undertaken DAY N EARING WHEN IT WILL BE USED fir 1 1 Telephone Kimlnoer l.abar In Inrnw Kffrrtlvene of In vention anil to Cut Uinta Kx prase to I'uliil Where II Han II I'anl riHTll)'. i NEW YORK. July 13, (A P) New domormlrutlon of television wan regarded to day a a step forward to ward the time when it will be possible for one to nit at home and witness great porting-, event or other spectacles. Television baa rum out of lha laboratory and InCii Ih aunllght. .n lha roof of the Hell tele phone company building In West street a man served a lentils ball, hosed with a roinianlun, drove a Rolf ball, and went through other motions, will In three (lour below a Wile group eat In a darkened room and aaw the action In ev (Conllnuoa on pag 4) Oiling operatlona on The Dalles California highway will close Hai ti relay and Sunday, tha state highway oiling crew will move to Ihe Green Hprlnga mountain Sunday, and oiling operations" on lha Keene Creek-I'aclfla highway auction of the Ashland-Klamath Kalis highway will begin Mon-j day or Turadar. ! Approximately 94 miles of highway wa re-olled on The Dalles-California highway be tween La I'ine and Modoc Point. Owing to Ihe fact that resurfac ing operatlona on The- Dslles California highway aouth and the Ashland-Klamath Fall highway weat, are under way. no re-oillng on Ihoae two aecliona of road ; was possible. , , ' AIRPLANE GOES INTO DIVE; 4 ; DIE IN CRASH C HOY DON. July IS. (AP) Two women and two man were burned to death In the crash of an airplane at Purley. Kngland. today. One of the men was A Hall, aeronautical Inspector of, the Croydon airdrome. Tha pilot waa Injured arid sent to a hospital while another pas . senger escaped with alight hurts. Poor Pa "Yesterday Ma found Ihe piece of silk that aba' been aayln" he hadn't seen since my lister Nell was here." H UNDAY LARGE PtfAT FIRE BURNS ON LAKE BED A fir which may burn until now film, tin broken out In tha Pent land of Lower Klamath lake. Column of smoke arising from lbs affactad soctlon Juat arroaa tha Oregon-California Una can bo clearly seen .In Klamath Fall, and lha air la heavy with the amok of tha alow but gradually apreadlng fir. Origin of tlin- blot waa not determined. The -mouldering fir la locat ed outh and want of Merrill, In Ih aouth end of tha lower lake In Ih section of land under leaa by lha Ldwer Klamath lake ('rating association. The blare la burrowing ateadlly underground and Ita scop grad ually apreadlng. At times. In the next few weeka. It will die down, and Inexperlenrod obser ver will believe It baa burned It-Hilf out. Then will com a wind, Ilia (mouldering ember will re um activity, and again column of amoke will arlae from the area. NOT SO WE t'oniwratlverv aueaklnc. lourlal hordes have nol Invaded Diamond . lake aa much thla year aa last. At least Ihut la Ih Impression of Marlon J. Hemes, district game warden, who haa Juat re turned from a trip in lha north ern end of the uounty.., ... "However, about th last day I wa up In that part of th country, th tourist began to come In and It looked like a good day for the concession and a poor one for the fish," th game official said. Homethlng. he didn't know jwhat, atopped th fish biting, said Barnes. "Probably h change Mn Ihe moon. In Crescent lake they're beginning lo . catch Loch I.even trout ubout 14 Inrhee long. The fish were planted there aeveral yeara ago. "The trout are beautiful and put op a- gam acrap. A small spoon with a red fly attached aeema to have been lha beat lure for these fish." UN FIGHTS KOLYOKK, Mt.. July 13. (AP). Warning the ruling polit ical "gang" of the fate that be fell the 10.000 Philistine who were caught napping and smitten by Ihe S00 righteous Gideons, Mr. Elisabeth Towne, iioiyoae first woman alderman and an or dalnod minister ot lha New Thought movement, ha declared herself a candidate. for mayor on JOB CROP RULING GANG a polio- ot "a now and a uare;HOLD MAN ON deal all around, "Even lha lienor Interest win .-' v. ' . ' mailer wnai uioi m j - to grab off or from anybody else In ifower now or In tha future." he 'aay In her declaration of war on the "gang". In tha aaddl that haa ridden roughshod 'through every admlnlatratlon.' i . 4 I'F.IHIY JOYt'K I'LANH . TO THY ONCK AtlAIN !4 y D K A V V I L L K. France. I July 1.1. A) Peggy Hop- kin Joyce, four times mar- rled aclreaa, revealed today that alio and the young !4 Lord Northesk, hnslmnd of the ' former Jessica Hrown of Buffalo, intend to marry although "not yet awhile." 4 The couple have been bathing, dancing and play- a. ing baccarat together. I. When seen today? they were 4lu swimming. BolK are : staying at the Normandy 4 hotel and dining together regularly. U la understood 4 that Mlaa Joyce la prepar- j. Ing to make a movl. . POISON NG HOPPERS mm Work in Controlling In fettation on Tule Lake FinUhed REPORTS OF HEAVY LOSS EXAGGERATED Survey of Huge, Fertile Ilaaln HlMiwa 14,000 Acre of Grain. 4,000 Acre of Grain Hay, and AikllUonal 4,00(1 Acrea ot a lllfe-li Ortwle Alfalfa. What la believed to be Ih moat extensive graaahopper pol- annlng campaign aver undertak en In the weat. hi Juat been completed on the reclaimed lake bed of Tule Lake, lying Juat over the Oregon line In northern Mo. doc and Siskiyou counties, Call' fornla. Tbla area la annually leased by tha Government in large acreages and I an Ideal for graaahopper propogatlon Inaamurb aa but a small perreutage of Ihe I"d la cultivated each year. The I bottom district comprise ; 90.000 acre, of which only 000 acrea are now covered wHh water,, the balance I used for patlure land aud the . sub-Irrigated portion near the lake I-cropped ro grain. This section I known a tha "bread basket of Ihe Klamath Baain." Grasshopper started hatching (Continued oa pac five) . n.TPEll NEW YORK. July 13. (VT) Alexander It. Peacock, on of An drew Carnegie "y o u n g men" whom Ih steel king led lo for tune In tha nineties, I dead. Pneumonia prove'd fatal at St Vincent' hospital yesterday. He wa 64 years old. Th rapidity with which Pea cock, Charles M. Schwab and other early associates of Car negie made their millions rauaed many legend to spring up about them. Stories about Peacock painted him aa probably Ih most eccentric of the early Pittsburgh millionaire, but hi associates say most ot these stories are un true. It la generally admitted, how aver, that Ihe Scotch burr on the tongue of th young linen clerk In a Plttaburgh stor attracted the attention of Mr. Carnegie and led to Peacock' association with- th ateol king. i SERIOUS COUNT Field pending further Investiga tion, Jose Ramlao la In the city Jail. Itamlso waa arrested Thurs day night by officer on a charge ot assault with a dangerou wea pon. Until further Investigation I mad by Chief of Police Keith Ambrose, Ramlso la held,, unable to furnish bail ot $100. Joe Kelley was released from the clly Jail on Thuradey when relatives paid a fine ot S100 1m posed by''JndRo Oaghagen. Kel ley was charged with driving an automobile while Intoxicated, LUMBER DROPS PASSES m IN EARLY JULY NEW YORK, July 13. (AP) Both softwood and hardwood branches ot the lumber Industry showed seasonal declines In the week ended July 7. New busi ness for the week compared sat isfactorily with th week before, when orders amounted to 350, 629,000 trot, the national lum ber manufacturers association re port. - t . . : - Ice Breaker Krassin Rescues Five More From Arctic Horror (Copyright, 1918. by, Ih Asso-.of Ih Italia safely aboard, the elated Press) . Kraasln Immediately turned Ita MOSCOW, July 1J- (AP) attention to picking up aeveral Spurring on relentlealy In whatjreacua group wblcb have become now appear to be a winning fight agalnat tb Arctic, the pow erful Kuaalan Icebreaker Kraaeln haa rescued five more of the crew of Ih dirigible Italia and waa pounding on today to make further reacuea. Jml m few hour after the brilliant rescue of Captain Al berto Mariano and Fillppo Zap pi, member cf the Italia'a walk ing party, lha Kraaaln crashed through the Ice floea to reach the Vlgllerl group which for 48 day had been atranded near Foyn Inland off Northoaat Land. With seven ,( the sixteen men Seven Pay Supreme Penalty , In Death House of Kentucky EDDYVILLE, Ky., July 1 J. (AP). Seven men, convicted murderer all. were electrocuted between midnight and L;SO ' clock thl morning at the state penitentiary here. v Seven wooden, coffins later to day were placed on trestle near he 9rltou t awaiting dlspo- l.-iamUB 0f relative of the executed, STAGESERV1GE PLAN, RUMOR - Persistent , rumors that Ihe Halting a hat .factory In thl city. Creat Northern railroad haa tak-j Mrs. Peterson formerly oper en an option on .the Klamath jated a large hat factory In Fres-Falla-Bend atago line and that no and sold out her Interest re the stage Una will be operated j cently. She waa attracted to the between the two cltlea In lieu . Klamath territory by constant To ot passenger service, have pre-'port of growth and expansion In vailed in this city for the past three days, Klamath official of the Creat Northern system could not be lo cated today to verity or den the reports. According to the current re port, the Great Northern system plans to Inaugurate a system In cluding palatial equipment. The good will ot the local stage line will be purchased, not equipment. It Is understood that the con cern operating the stage line will be a subsidiary company of the Great Northern. Full announcement of the plan will be made within the next few day, It I reported. $i fit- . rr C ia-" law.JW ' '! 1 -g" MtM. HJCTWW I ' mm Ami h.re I. the end nf a snomlug over Svdney for the 1,-1 ii. Picture n. taken from f ; v 4!w'i ,Msr .. mi th business district. In th background li sydne y Heaua, entranca to tna aaroor. stranded themselves, and kept a abarp lookout for the mlaalng group of Captain Roald Amund sen in Ih hope that the great drama of the Arctic which ha been In progress for tb past aeven weeka might reach It cli max In cna full swoop. Tha Viglleri group rescued yes terday, waa made op of Lieuten ant Alfredo Vlgllerl, Prof. F. Behounek. ' Oulseppl Blogl, Fll Ippo Trolano and Natale Cee cloul. These men were in the gondola of the Italia when the north pole dirigible crashed on (Continued on page five) 'ones whose bodies. In death bona garment, rested within tha nn cushioned boxes. Four white men. three ot them very young, and three . negroes i made up the seven whose death I in the electric chair set a record for Kentucky. Sullen, defiant aud prayerful by turns and dur- ( Continued on page six) FRESNO WOMAN . CITY VISITOR Mrs. Freda Peterson, former prominent . buslne woman . of Fresno, Calif., la In Klamath Falls for' several weeks Investi gating the possibilities of eatab- thl city. HUMIDITY LOW; MERCURY RISES Continued heat seemed the or der of the day on Friday, the 13th. a the mercury nt Under wood's cyclo atormagraph climbed to tt degree early this. after noon and did not manifest any disposition to come down tor Th. fir.' danger was -at "u.i '1 " the ot?Her 1tnln worst t.g. thl summer thl. j mke " ,oe1 cmD "lte afternoon when xthe humidity) Thl will be the third annual sank to ,23 degree 4 Below. J5tummer camp of tha Klamath i danger. '. I (Continued on pas six I END OF EPIC HOP -i perfect trans-Pad fit flight the last atop of Ita evontful flight from the too of the Hotel Australia, and XT - U . a R i m E FOR THIRD LOST PARTY Reports in Moscow Indi cate Group of Six Have Been Located , . WERE CARRIED AWAY IN DIRIGIBLE BAG Belief That Roald Amundsen, Famous Explorer, la With (AU j lesaandri" Party Is Revived With' Unconfirmed He port of .Further Rescue la Arctic. MOSCOW. July 1J. (AP) Hopa for the party of alx men carried off In tha bag of th dirigible Italia on May 25 and since given up for lost baa, been revived by reports reaching Mos cow Indicating that th location of the group Is known. General Umberto Nobile, now at Kings Bay, haa sent a message to the rescue ablp Krassin stat ing that th group, referred to aa the , "Alessandrl" party was aou far . from the present loca tion cf the Krassin. . : Latest Teporta received In Mos cow indicated that tha men were at a paint 80.45 north latitude and 30 31 east longitude. Thla would 'placethem' northeast of Foyn island, near which the Vlg llerl gronp waa rescued. . With these reports. which were not confirmed, came a re ( Continued on par atx) LAKE 0' WOODS Announcement was made to day that the United State For est Service haa given the Klam ath County Council ot Boy Scouts permlslon to again use last year' site at Lake" of the Woods tor their (ummer camp. A more Ideal location could not be found anywhere In Klamath. There I a wonderful beach slop ing gradually out Into the lake. beautiful tree, good drinking wat- I V nwf . , ...a: i . giant monoplane Southern Croa Oakland, via Hawaii and the show the 'plan coming across RISES CAMP ASSURED aawae'.. K. .' ''"-- D: STONE BLACK CATS; TODAY'S . FRIDAY, 13TH Today I tha third "bang man' day," or "unlucky day" or call It what you will. At all events today 1 Friday the thirteenth, than which, ac cording to tha eeer and the prophet and tb mystic minded, there la no day so unlucky. If a black cat threatens today to cross your road, atona him lest ha accomplish hi purpose. If it Is easier to walk under a ladder than around It, choose tha more difficult course It will pay In tha end. If there are any mirrors on the bureau or hanging on the wall, take them down , and put them In a aafe drawer until this thrice-accursed day la of tha paat. If von are ahont to undertake - Mrilou. task, whether It be second story work, th wooing .of somebody else's (air lady, or a dangerou trip, poatpona It until tomorrow. . So aay the modern "medicine" men. Others perversely declare (hat Friday th 13th la tha luck iest day In tha calendar and so play their hand In that way. Thinking so will make It so. ROM HEARS BHD PRICE Rotarlana ' at their luncheon Friday learned a great deal ot th detail working of Crater Lake National park and heard from Dick Price, proprietor ot Crater Lake Inn figures that pleasantly startled the civic club relative to gains being made each year In the tourist trad of the coast. Mr. Price ' explained to Ko tariana that hla business waa a little different from other lines, tor he planted hla seed in the winter and harvested hla crop la th lummer. During nine month Dick I a busy boy laying ont hi contract, getting his liter ature ints the different channels, arranging with travel bureaus and railroads his schedule. , Then, when the summer comes be la on the spot every moment, taking care ot hla trade. Friday waa the tint day he had left the park since the middle of June. How well he Is' doing his work Is evidenced best by the fact that In 1921 only 18.000' people entered the park during the sea son, while In 1927 there were 87.000 guest at ' Crater, lake. Last year to July 12th 11,800 (Continued on paga 4) T. R. JACKSON"" ACQUITTED ON FIRST BALLOT PORTLAND. July 13. (AP). Five minutes after tha Jury td left the. federal courtroom here late yesterday to determine the fata ot Ted Jackson, Klamath In dian charged with assault with Intent to kill, an acquittal was returned and the many tribesmen who came here to attend the trial climbed Into their automobiles and left for the reservation. Jackson was charged with beating his cousin, Jasper Jack son, during a prolonged drinking spree. The cousin died Apru 23. few days after tbe alleged attack. Jackson took tb witness stand In hla defense and denied any trouble with hit relative. i 1 DIR1GIBLF. 1TALIAH MA3LTOT IS UNHURT '. KINGS BAY. July 13. 1P) . One survivor ot the Italia distaste apparently 1 un- affected by the hardship Buffered In the Arctic await- Ing reecue. 4 ' Tltlna, General Umberto Noblle'i amall dog la fro- licking all over th baa ship Cltta Dl Mllano whila hi maatcr lie below deck slowly recovering from in- Juries suffered In th crash. 4 Tltlna mad th trip over th Pole In the norge with 4 Nobile in 1928 and also was on the lulls when It cam down on May 24 r- 4 turning from th Pole. GAL I ORNIA POSSEMAN SHOT DOWN Deputy Sheriff Killed in Gun Battle With Ban dit Near Eureka TWO BANK ROBBERS SLAIN BY OFFICERS Four Thieve Knter Northern California Community Thla Morning and Carry Off Safa of Store; Poese Hastily OrgaaU ed ausd Gun Battle' Followa. - ' . EUREKA, Calif., July 13, ( AP) Charles Carpenter, 40, a deputy sheriff, and two unidentefied bandits were shot and - killed at Salyer Creek, east of here this morning when four sheriffs deputies and four bandits engaged in a' running gurt fight following the robbery of a store in Willow Creek. Posses led by peace of f lcera from Humboldt, Shasta and Trin ity countlea were nhnntlng for tha three fcaad.Ua who eluded tha deputies after the fight. The four robber in at small automobile appeared suddenly at Willow creek, about 25 miles east , . (continued on paga six) GAIN !TJ JULY . Building permits for the first 13 days ot July reached a total' ot 327.755 according to figures checked at th office ot Judge Lem Gaghagen today. ., , With the exception of a resi dence permit granted to' Ralph Dale for 34,500 and one to Matt Kohn for H.500, ciher permita (or the montn were small. Several small permits for re modelling ot homes and erecting ot small garage buildings were granted. Seventeen permit were granted for the first 13 days.- KELLY CASE IS DISMISSED BY JUSTICE COURT Because ot lack of evidence, a charge ot rcklesa driving against J. Kelly, was dismissed yesterday by Justice ot the Peac W. B. Barnes at the recommendation ot the district attorney's office. - Kelly' car had crashed Into a cluster ot mall boxes near the Swan Lake remanutacturlng plant, and knocked down nine. He was arrested .a short time later by Deputy Sheriff James Hilton. .. , 'Aunt Het "I wouldn't trust my hus band with a woman that don't care how much ahe shows when there' nobody present but women." PERMITS SHOW