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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 3, 1928)
City Edition The Old Home Paper TIIK WF.ATIIET1 ' Oregon: Fair and cold tonight and Tuesday, rruk easterly wind oo the coast; Associated Press and United Press Telegraph Service Herald Advertisers Appreciate Your Trade Trice Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1928 Number G206 in BY rui mr KB i IN m FAST S. P. T Many Injured At Shasta Is Partially Wrecked In Oregon Yesterday LOCOMOTIVE UPRIGHT IN STAYS CRASH I'ssarnuer t'onclirr Topple (Sirr Inln Ditch Id'fiire Y.yen of Mull) Kmidny Motorists; No KrHoiia la juries Are ('miimiI Hy Aril- dent V or I'avaulea, ItOKI III IKJ. Ore.. Dec. .1, iAI Six ram of the Hlinsla Limited lay beside the Mont hern Pnrlflr track near Wilbur north if here, today, reminder of a wreck which ori-iirrrd yesterday afternoon when I lie irnln was derailed. An emergency I r a r k aa set up arcund the wreck, and traffic was rapidly bring restored In normal. Of nearly a score of passengers Injured In I ho wrerk, only five remained In tho hospital hrtj this morning and nil except two were lo b discharged brfor,i )..gllt. . inn in II1V- Mt tllli morning were: Mr. It. M. Jack- on ci Sana mini, mnnn. om vi il. ' .-i1m hnitfl aittl ahiu k ; Horn Howell, I Portland, the moat aarloiixly hurt, tufferlna from broken arm. hriile and shock; l.ura Lynch, of Medforil. mluor briilaea; Alice llnnaen. Medford. apralned ankle, mln-r lOlHlenr.l i,n Tae T" Dr. Hurry 8. Klnno of Lake- view Lodge, lult delivered an Improaalvo addreaa bfore nioro than 21X1 nu-mbera of the Klka lodge and their friend I a it eve ning at Klka" Temple at Ihn an nual memorial acrvlro. ... - ' .' t.i .i- iue apeaacr umii wi ou parting membera, who hove pa aed on alnro the tail memorial, o year ago. A filling musical program was given by KIiiiiiiiiIi Kulls musi cians. The Jack llowrlng or rheatra rendered the Introductory March. llev. J. Ilmiry Thmnn.i deliver ed the lleueillcllon. t year are: J. P. Hreit. Dee. !. 1 ! 2 7 : J. W. CummliiKa. March 17, 1A2K: II. V.. Momyer, April . 102X; II. L. Swift. June 21), 1 fl 28 ; C. M. Mutually, July r, 1A2N: Wm. L. Tlngley. July 17. 1!28: Chaa. I). Oley, July 28, 19 28; W. II. A. Uenner, Septem ber 5.1, 19 28; II. I). L. Stewart. October 24, 1928; Kdword A. Sheldon, November 11, 19 28. v Poor Pa "Ma says she thinks our son Jim ought t) get a big ger apartment, so he could tnkn earn of ihn rest of his wife's people." RAIN 0 INTO DOCTOR AKS BEFORE LODGE MEXICAN SHOT ! THROUGH LEG IN LOG CAMP JiMoph Fuguern, Mexican borer, Ilea In Ihe Klamnlti V lioHpltnl. seriously wounde I ho log following a shnotln fruy In Ivllinn Hay ramp, north of f 'lilloiinln. thin mornliiK. Frank Irwin, straw boss, l alleged lo have fired llm idiot, lint authorities hud not definite ly ascertained thn dclnlls and ?refitu'd In fill' a rnmptnliil i agnlust Irwin until ihey had I learned mom anmit the raw. , Just how serious the wimnd in Kiiiuanr. lea. wu. not known ' hy Ihn district attorney's offlre Tim bullet rnlered the lltnh Just J tielow the knee. Kugiioro was runlied to Ihe hoaiHinl. A .Mcx.can apiH'areii ut Iliel'T'Ypp jdlMrlcl ntlorney'a offl, a rarl) I 1 I this afleriioon and asked pen I mission In file a complaint against Irwin. Iiepuly District Atlnrney T. It. (illlenwntera refuaeil to lake any action iniill leiiii Irwin mid Kit gucro had been Interviewed. De tall of the shooting were lai'k ilng. allliough It U underalnod that It occurred during an al tvrrallon ner work. GLIDER FLIGHT ! 8 AN PIKnO. fnllf.. Oee. J. (J) What a tn hara bwn the ' flrat puhlle demnnalratinn of a Clliler flight In local aviation 1 hlalory. falleil Hunday and K. I. Khoudy. : year eld aviator, who deslgnml and Iniill III pownrleaa eraft. wn almoat Inalantly killed " - - nivu at an aiiiiiina oi , a leei and rraahed near llnnltn. ten in I lea aouth of here. The tragedy wna wlinenaed bv a largo crowd. Including the young fller'a wife and Iwn children. Shouily la aaid lo have mnde a auccivaful flight In Ihe early to. rnlng houra over ihe hilla In the vlelnliy of rhiila Viaia. in hia (Mldrr, which haa a wlng aprelut Of -111 'eel. Kern Morley. nllaa Fern Pig. wna formally charged with aee ond di'greo murder today, follow ing the deuili Krldny night of J. II. Knuilnll. Morley la al leged lo have hi rin k Haiidnll a fiatul blow across the side nf the bend Willi n lienvy board be hind Ihn new hole! at Illy. Complaining witness Louis Mueller., deputy sheriff. .Morley Is In Jail. Ho was arrested Sat urday In tjikevlew and brought lo Ihe Klainnlh county Jail, li:i'.XItTMr:T AN'SWKltS I A LSI-: I'lllK A I. A It M A false alarm at 2:1.1 o'clock tills afternoon railed the fire department out lo thn corner of Fulton nn Lookout avenues, The department, upon reaching Ihe location found no sign of fire, ol her thnn a man looking over n lion fire which was burn ing In Ihe back yard. ENDS FATALLY CHARGE MORLEY m MURDER Murder Of A. Rothstein Still Remains Mystery Hy MAX ItCCKINIIHAM United Press Staff Correspondent NF.W YOltK. Pec. 3. (UP) Arnold Itolhateln'e murder re mulns one of tho city's greatest mysteries. Since the duy that his pre decessor In great gambling, Her man Rosenthal was killed, no other rase has been so highly charged wilh potential dynnmlto. Yet four weeks hnvo passed rlnco Itolhaleln was shot nod there has been no explosion. These four weeks hnve been nn Interlude In tho life of this met ropolis In whlrh every one won dered what was going lo happen. DEATH ENDS; i nun i irr II l I IH. i :. LUMU LIIL OF PIONEER . . ' j Ezra Meeker Blaze Last. . g ' 1 ' Trail of Colorful Career )n Xhe Wett i REPRESENTED HIGH OF AMERICAN .Ife lnlndl)H Away I'min Waal' eil I'raine of Katmnia Covered Wagon riloi; fareer Itepre. enled I'auea In Malory of Wenti ra Development BKATTl.K, Wnih.. Dee. J, I") Kira lliiker, t". una of th IkM of the aiirvlvor of the ri of ! the covered wagon, died hera thla I morning after aoverul montha I r'ra .Meeker, nlm nni im Ihe firtt few hundred lo rrnaa Ihe Meeker rlung lenacloualy lo . paillll , '. If Ic roaal, nnit w ho hna made numeroua iranaeon llfa until the end. holding on by I iioeiilal irlpa alnre Including one hi- airplane taa-rd away early aheer ll power after phyalrlam today In Heal Mr. Ilia IIH yenra ' wi-ixhed loo heavily on the fnninua 'anil relailvea had alven him un. old trail Idnjar and he roiild nm n-lat Ihe ravase of the diaeaae Thn pioneer had been at the point I of death In a Detroit hoapllal 'for two montha before returning i here eight weeka ago. Ilu had I I groan gradually weaker and I a hen hl rendition became alarm- ling II him to waa Impnaalhle lo 'movs I hoapllal. Illanppolntetl waa bitterly dlanppolnted hia lllneaa In Detroit had lie borauii prevented him from returning , hero Jii time to regM.'r for the fl'oiititiiiO en Paaa Bll) CONSERVATION Tfn nr nnnPTrn' w"nl hl" brother was in III Ml MIIIIS I L I I ;inuhle reached Thnnmaon back III nr nillllllrll 111 ""' nioalna. 2.1 miles out I U UL UUUU I l-U',,, rw wi.ro he was slopping In an attempt tn get the con centrated program on forest conservation before schools and civic groups of Klamath Fnila, W. V. Fuller of the stale forea-1 try department at Snlein plans j to visit this section In the near j future. i The forestry dopartmenl has been sponsoring a conservation ! program throughout the state for the pant three years. At ihla time of yenr. when I thoiiHnml upou thousands of' trees nro rut down (or Chrlatmna. j Ihe program Is thought lo. be I doubly Important. ! M-- - G. P. GRIFFITH PASSES AWAY 8ALKM, Ore.. Dec. 3, (AIM George P.' tlrlffllh, who was de- pilly state treasurer during tho first two years of Ihe present ad- J ministration (who served nf T. II. Kaf, und i term aa slate com mander of Ihe American 1-onlou. died here Inst night after a Imu Illness. He was 49 years old. Mr. (Irtrrtth resigned his office in tho state treasury because nf bis phyairnl breakdown. ' Mysterious persons have been ex amined and rushed nut of offi cial offices. (Irand Jury Indict ments hnve been promised. Lalo this afternoon District Attorney Jonh llnnlon announced j that E. C, "Tllanllr" Thompson, one of the gamesters held under 1 100,000 hall as a material wit ness "had told all." "Whnl was nil" the district atlnrney would not divulge. He added that Ihe gnmbler had made Ihe statement nl the behest of Mrs. Thompson. One prominent attorney re marked t hat If. tho full story of ' .(Continued on Pag 8U) EZRA MEEKER DIES 4i I Mr- y which finn'lv Louis Thomason, Hurries to Aid of ' His Brother I.nuia Thomaion. prominent: ratileman of Drew. Oregon, and chief of the South Umpqua In- dlntin, arrived In Klamath Falla thla morning to render any poa- ialble aaalatnnce lo hia brother, j Hill Thomaann. who la allvged I to have allot Duck Prnraon. t When the two brother ex I changed greetlnga. they met for 'ihe flrat (I me In 25 yeara. ai one of his mining claims. In order to reach Drew, where he could get transportation for Kla- math Fulls, he waa forced to; wade in' snow two feet deep. Fatigued from biking more lhan 2. miles through the snow, 2 Representing rortliind capital. F. P. Carson. Portland contractor, has nrrlved In Klamath Falla to supervise Ihe construction of two rosMoiiccs III Hot Snrillcs nil- Idiiloii. j Mr- Carson Is established at Hie Hull hotel. Ho said today i Ihnt In his first two Jobs and i lhl" ' subsequent projects, he would undertake. Insofar ns was possible to hiro only locul labor. The I n o homes In Hot Springs wll represent nil Investment of I10.0HU. APPLICATIONS FOR LICENSES. ASKED BY HOSS SALEM, Ore.. Dec. 3. (API Secretary of Slato Hoss, an nounces that his department will il.cgln assigning 1929 llcensa plates to motor vehicle owners j about December 10. Application I blanks have been mailed. As usual, car owners arc nrg Icd to file their applications as lenrly as possible so that conges tion or work may he avoided as ;far ns possible around t.ie first of the yenr. Up In December 1, Hoss snid, the 1928 registration totaled 253.373. while license and other fees aggregated $6.9uS.049.9S. ll Is estimnted that by the end of Ihe year the fees will totnl $8,980,000. for Hoss predicts that the lotnl number of vehicles reg istered will not be less .thnn 265,000. G0STRUCT1 HOUSES PLAN w rbilind lilm. Indian Chief, with not one minutes Bleep since Saturday afternoon, -when he first learned of his brother be ing In trouble, Lou la Thomason hurried tn tho county jail short ly afier eight o'clock this morn ing to greet his older brother. Another brother, the eldest of the three Thomason boys, la de puty sheriff at Drew. Oregon. Ho rvmalued at the cattle ranch of the two brothers. "We are direct decendanta of the Duniel Boone family. This Is the flrat time In my life that li ran recall any of our family having trouble," Tbomaaon told a Herald reporter this morulng. "Our father, who passed away mauy years ago was a graduate of Weat Point. My parents were married In The Dalles in 1858." , BELL Held on five counts alleging violation of the federal prohibi tion net, James Bell and R. Ro bert I were to hnvo appeared this nflernoon nt a preliminary hear ing before United States Com missioner Bert C. Thomas. ' Tho pair woro arrested late last week hy Frank Rogers, now head of law enforcement on the reservation. Specifically they are accused of sale of liquor, transportation of liquor, sale to an Indian, introduction of liquor on to the reservation, and, last , but not least, conspiracy to vio late tho federal prohibition act. BOTH PARENTS MALIN WOMAN LOST IN WEEK With the passing of Mrs. Alice Shcrt at Portersvllle. California, on last Friday. Mrs. Edith R. Newton of Malln has lost both of her parents In less than a week's time. Her father, Joseph Ohed Short, passed away the ear ly part of last week. Both were .claimed hy pneumonia, which tol. ' lowed Influenza. Besides her daughter. Mrs. Newton, twj other children. Judge II. Short ot Crystal. Ore- 1 gon. and Mrs. H. S. Setllft of Arlington, Mass.. are left to mourn her pnsslng. Mrs. Short was a native of Texas. i .More than 40 yrnrs ago, Mr. and Mra. Short came to Callfcr- I nlu, later moving to Oregon. ROBERTI GIVEN HEAR T HOMASON BOUND OVER oy Elderly Cowpuncher Held To InquUatorial Body By Magistrate CHARGE AGAINST R. TICE IS DISMISSED Ilalrirt Attorney Ihvommenda Arrutatloa Agalnat VounK In dlan IJid 1t IU-ing: An Arrea aory lie IHipperl; Hearing; lon durteil Today in Juallro Court Dili Thomason (he U called both Thomason and Thompson, but the former Is the family name) waa bound over to the Klamath county grand Jury on the charge of first degree murder this morning by Justice of the Peace W. 0. Barnea following a perfunctory hearing- In Justice court. The atate called four witnesses and the defense none. In fact. It was a preliminary iklrmlsh between state and defense in which the defendant merely put In an appearance and conducted a desultory cross examination. The big fight of Bill Thomp son's life Is yet to come. Thomason Is charged with having murdered Veloy (Buck) Pearson, swarthy, good looking Indian, Tuesday evening on the main street of Chlloquin. Thoma son shot Pearson because of pur ported attentions paid to Elra (Continued on Pa Two) 'Tllr I inrilPr i I II L I II LLL ; I H I 1111111111 a-IUa-IIUl FROM DRIVER Another drunken driver. C. F. Halle, was brought Into Police .'court this morning, fined tlOO or i SO days in the city Jail. His driv era license was suspended for one I yeaT. I Haile, arrested by city police officers on Sunday evening on the corner of Division and Home avenue, pleaded guilty lo the charge and paid his fine of $100. He waa released from Jail. FAIR BUILDING HEATING PLANT TO BE PLACED " With 12500 appropriated . for tho purpose by the county bud get hoard, the county fair board Is planning to install, in the near future, a suitable four-fan hot air heating system In the main exhibit building on the county fair grounds. The hoard Is anxious to have the Improvement in order that the hall may be rented for vari ous purposes. BARNES Wealthy American Girl Member jOf Royal Family BY SAM LOVE , United Press Staff Correspondent i PLEASANTVILLE. N. Y.. Dec. IS. (UP) Count Folke Berna- done, a thin, medium sited ' young man with taffy-colored bnir. Jovially rumpled the hair of little Jackie Strong, aged 6, and i tosed a plumed blue bat to Prince Sigvard, grandson ot the king of Sweden this afternoon. I A moment later, an American girl who had entered the modest Episcopal church of St. John's as plain Estelle Romalne Mnhvlllc, , heiress to the huge Manville as ;hestos fortune, arose from her 1 knees as the Countess Estello i INJURED ARM PROVES FATAL TO S. MORENO Shoving his right arm through a pane of glasa In the rear door of his neighbor's house. Bam Moreno, at one time a section band on the O. C. tt R. railroad, waa fatally Injured early thla morning with a deep cut which severed a main artery. Moreno and a companion bad been drinking la Moreno's home, police said and finally. Moreno appun ntly staggered ont of hia bouae, across the street to the home of hia friend, Jesus Jara. and tried to break Into the house by smashing the window pane. Jara arose and Immediately saw that Moreno waa seriously Injured. He drove to the police station to report the affair. Mor eno waa left where he had fallen, partly from the effect of the liquor and partly from loss of blood. Police hurried to the scene of the accident and found Moreno prostrate on the ground. lying in a pool of his own blood. Al attempts to check the ap proach of death thla morning proved unavailable. Moreno suc cumbed one half hour after hia entry Into the hospital. . The fatal cut waa Just above the crook of his right arm. Ser rated edges of the broken glaaa cut like - a razor through the main artery and the man's life blood drained out of the vein on to the ground. County Coroner Earl Whltlock said today there would be no In quest unless some evidence waa Introduced tending to show that somebody had pushed Moreno Into the glasa. PROPOSE SITE WASHINGTON, Dec. J. (AP) The congressional commission of F.ngineers and Geologists appoint ed lo investigate the feasibility of the Colorado River project has recommended that the dam be built at Black Canyon and esti mates the cost at $1(5,000,000. In Its report submitted to con gress today by secretary West, the commission declared to be "basic" the engineering feasibil ity nf the dam acroaa the main stream of the Colorado River at Black Canyon or Boulder Canyon. If no other aite were available, tbe commission reported, the "Boulder Canyon site conld safely be used so far aa geological con ditions are concerned." "In com parison with the Black Canyon site however," it said, "The lat ter ha certain advantages." FORFEITS BAIL OF $200 TODAY Failing to appear In Toliee court Ibis morning to answer Ihe charge of bootlegging. Andy Nel son of 530 South Eighth street, forfeited ball of $200. Noise n was arrested at his residence on Saturday nlghl by Keith Ambrose, chief of police. John Cecil, charged with pos session Is awaiting trial. Cecil was arrested by police officers at 144 Michigan avenue. His bond has been set at $400. j Bcrnadotte, nleco by marriage to the king of Sweden. The wedding of Miss Manville and Count Bernadotte directed the gaze ot two continents to- ward the Junction of Sunny Side avenue and Bedford Road In this obscure village, 30 miles from New York City. ; In front of the small. Ivy grown Gothic Episcopal church of St. Johns, a red and gray stripped entrance tent had been erected. It waa guarded hy the j entire peace force ot Pleasant vllle. reinforced by the fire de partment, specially sworn In as I (Continued on Psg Bis) FOR GREAT DAI CRITICALLY INJURED ON SOUTH RTH Mrs. Barbara O'Neal Suf fer From Double Frac ture Of Skull 1 FIND NO TRACE OF SPEEDING ' MACHINE Woman la Struck Down Am 8ha Trudgea Along; bide ot South HUth Street Cn War To Work At Ulg Lake Box Factor Karly Thla Morainjr; Coaditloai b Serious , Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, Mrs. Barbara O'Neil, resident of Mills Ad dition, aged 34, lies, critic ally injured this afternoon jin the Klamath Valley' hos pital. , Slight hopes are held out for her recovery.'. . ,i i - . , 1 Mrs. O'Noll . U suffering from I a nasal fracture or the skull. i aertmis traalare -ot .the' right shoulder, lovere shock1 and cuts ! and ortrtsesv" ' -- ---.; I The , woman, an . employ . of ! the Big Lakes Bog factory, wm ion her way to work. She waa I struck near , the north end ol ! the viaduct. A small car had emerged from the half-light ot early morn, whined down the Incline ot the viaduct, struck and knocked down the woman, and then, without stopping, con tinued Its headlong flight to warda the center of the city, A group of the woman's co workers who witnessed the to cident but did not think, until (Contlnutd on Page Two) se With the prospect of winter weather definitely stopping all work, the largest county road construction program ever under taken in Klamath la being rush ed to completion this week. Construction forces are con centrating on the surfacing ot the Shasta, Way. road. Miller Is land road and Miller Hill road and are nearly done with the grading of the Bonania-Loreni roud. .In ten. days the grading of the first ten miles of the Sprague River road, north ot Hildebrand, should be complet ed. Projects recently completed Include the base coarse or rock on the Keno-Worden highway ana ine iuiaiaua-caior section OI the Klamath Falls-Weed high way. Aunt Het "Ezra's third wife looked right natural in her coffin, ex cept she didn't have no aewln' In her hands." ROAD PROGRAM NEAR NGCLO
