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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1947)
Diinsie Siegel. One-Time Public Enemy, Killed By Gangland Slayer In Home BEVERLY HILLS. Calif.. June 21 MV-Gangland bullets lnle lust nlRhl emitted out the lite of Benjamin (Bugale) BlPKel, 41 -year-old gambler and one-time public enemy, as he sat quietly In a home here reading a newspaper. Police Capt. William W. White 'aald an unidentified gunman sneaked up to an open window shortly alter biegel and a party of friends re turned from dlnlna at an Ocein Park beach, and fired through the cur tains. At least four shots entered the, body of Slegcl as he sat reading the She May Win , " js " : 'V.' " , n 3f " . Rota Ann Oss. Leoat candidate for the honor of representing this city aa Mis Klamath Falls, is brown-haired, blue-eyed and Is II year old. She like sports, espe cially swimming. Chinese Troops Falling Back MANKIND. June 31 Wt The kov eminent was reported today to have vn-tuaiiy abandoned szeplngKal, and observers predicted Changchun, Manchurlan capital city to the northeast, might fall easy prey to a strong red assault. Mukden dispatches said 6000 Chi nese communisU were battling gov ernment defenders In downtown Saepingkal, vital rail hub midway between Changchun and Mukden. Observers here said Chanschun as faced with a shortage of men and munitions. The main burden of defense there is In the hands of the new first army, which has had few replacements of men or equip ment since It was transferred to Manchuria from Burma. , .Dispatches reported government capture of two railroad towns south of Halcheng, 90 miles southwest of Mukden, itself beset on three sides by red forces. Fair Building Plans Examined . ALTDRAS. June 21 Master plans i of uie erection oi ouuaings ana other facilities necessary, are now being prepared by the Modoc coun ty fair directors. They are being assisted by E. W. Hampton and E. A. Snider, directors from the of fice of the state agricultural fairs. Many improvements are planned before the opening of the fair this year, but owing to the shortage of material. It will be impossible to complete all the work planned be fore next year's show. NOW AVAILABLE f . " G. E. ' ' Tobla Model Automatic Combination. . Radio and . Record Players Fyock-Moon Incorporated -121-125 So. 9th Phone 5400 i T paper on a divan. Beside him sat one of the guests. Allen Smiley, well known sporting world figure here. Glass Scattered "I heard the glass scattering and I ducked." Capt. White quoted Smiley. "I don't know how many shots were fired, but when I looked at Slesel I could see he had taken most of them." White said the shots pinned 8leel to the divan. When officers arrived thev found his body still erect, the newspaper lying In his lap, smeared with blood. Siegel who, White said, had been active in the sportmg. world in this area for about ten years, once was designated a "public enemy" by Governor Thomas . Dewey of New York while the latter was district attorney there. The slain man was a witness be fore a New York grand Jury that investigated former public enemy No. 1. Louis tLepkei Buchalter, racketeer and erstwhile head of New York' Murder. Inc.. who later was elec trocuted at Sing Sing prison. Once Questioned Siegel also was once questioned In the slaying of Harry Oreenberg. former New York gangster who was slain in Hollywood in 1939. White said that In the room with Siegel, owner of the fabulous Fla mingo gambling club In Las Vegas. Nev., and Smiley, were a man and woman he Identified as Charles Hill and Miss Jerry Mason. The officer said Smiley told him that upon the party's return from dining he and Siegel sat down on the divan to read the newspapers. "I sat down on the other side of the sofa." the officer quoted Smiley. "When the first shot was fired, I hit the floor. I don't know how many shots were fired." ONPA Men To Visit Lake LA GRANDE. June 21 Ore-' gon newspaper publishers boarded a special train today for a trip to scenic Wallowa lake and a visit to the grave of young Chief Joseph, noted Nez Perce Indian leader. The annual Publishers' associa tion meeting will end tomorrow .with a golf tournament at the La Grande Country blub. The publishers elected O. O. Crawford, publisher of the Heppner Gazette Times, president, yesterday. Frank Jenkins, publisher of the Klamath Falls Herald and News, was named vice president, and Rob ert E. Pollock, editor of the St. Helena Sentinel-Mist and co-publisher of the Ontario Observer, treasurer. Named directors were Merle Chessman. Astoria; Walter. May. Oregon City: R. M. Havden. Teba non; Bud Forrester. North Bend: Giles French. Mora, ' and Frank Shiro, La Grande. - m t 1 Water Stored For Thlnty Fields I 1 This refreshing pond Is located above Maloue dam on Lost river. The water stored here ts from the drainage area below Clear Lake dam and la used for irritation purpose in Langrll and for valleys. When Boundary dam la built this water will reach the toe of the new dam., Missing Girl Found Safe BROOKINGS. Ore., June 21 UP) Sixteen-year-old Darlene Hogan, daughter of a blind goat rancher, la in a Gold Beach, Ore., hospital today recovering from the effects at eight daysr exposure In the rugged Southwest Oregon moun tains. Hiree ' searchers, whose barking dog drew their attention to a clump of bushes, found the girl within them yesterday. During the time she was lost she Had plenty of water but had eaten nothing. A widespread ground and aerial search had been under way since her father, Bob Hogan, reported she had not returned home elgnt days ago after taking a herd of goats to pasture in a mountain meadow of the Chetco creek coun try. . : BULLETIN WASHINGTON, June 21 fPV-An agreement to delay until Monday a vote on President Truman's veto of the labor bill today ended the continuous day and night session of the senate after 28 and one-half hours. The hour of voting was fixed at 11 a. m. (PST) Monday.' The break In the bitter argu ment about when the senate should try to override Mr. Truman's vigor ous veto of the union-curbing legis lation came while Senator Morse (R-Ore.) was continuing .a weary talk against the measure and lead era of his party. Swimmers Flock To Pool Here As the first week of the summer swimming program closed, figures indicated that over 2000 swimmers have used the high school pool. High spot of the week came Friday when 5j3 swimmers appeared at recreation classes or took advantage of the open plunge in the evening. City Recreation Director Samuel Smith said that swimming classes are filled almost to capacity with classes numbering from 50 to 120 participants. Because of the great number of youngsters turning out for the classes. It has been neces sary to revise the swimming sched ule. The swimming schedule for Mon day, Wednesday and Friday follows: 9 to 10 a. m. beginning swimmers, 13 years and over. 10 to 11 a. m. swimmers, 10 to 12 years. 11 to 12, noon beginners, 7 to 9 years. 1 to 2 p. m. beginners, 10 to 12 years. 2 to 3 p. m. beginners, T to I years. 3 to 4 p. m. swimmers, 13 ana over. The swimming program for Tues day, Thursday and Friday is: 9 to 10 a. m. swimmers. 13 years and over. 10 to 11 a. m. beginners, 10 to 12 years. 11 a. m. ' to 12 noon beginners, 7 to 9 years. 1 to 2 p. m. swimmers, 10 to 12 years. 2 to 3 p. m. beginners, 7 to 9 years. 3 to 4 p. m. beginners, 7 to 9 years. All' classes carry a'. 10 cent in struction cost. - Open swimming Is scheduled for evenings, Saturdays hand Sunday afternoons. Open plunge admission for adults Is 50 cents, for children under 12, 25 cents. Thursday evenings are re served for private groups. Correspondent Defends Story AMARILLO, Tex., June 21 i&i Edward Kennedy, managing editor of the Santa Barbara, Calif., News Press, told Texas editors and pub lishers Friday that recent events in dicate that the background of a controversy over his news story of Germany's surrender In 1945 was "definitely appeasement of Russia." SEEKING LION'S SHARE PARIS, June 21 P A lion walked into the food and coal ra tioning office of the town of Jplnal yesterday, causing citizens waiting for ration coupons to leave hastily through the windows. .Some faint ed. Gendarmes and firemen captured the beast, an escapee from a near by circus.. He didn't get any coupons. BRITISH AMERICA ' j On this side of the Atlantic ocean, i England owns Honduras in Central America, and British Guiana In South America, as well as several Islands. These possessions cover' liu.uuu square miles. THE current dividend rate of 2 odds a satisfying number of pennies to every dollar you save here. Dividends payable June 30th. Save for your ambition fund! Save with sofety with FlRSTFEDERALSAVINGS ALOAN ASSOCIATION 540 MAIN STREET Capable Nursing Care for , ' Aged or Convalescent Ambulatory or Bed Cases Even Tide Rest Home lit N. Main Phone 760S Ashland. Ore, Born At Mountain Lodge, Baby Nicknamed 'Cresdella' The babv irl. delivered by a Grevhound bus driver at Cres-Dell lodge Wednesday morning, is do ing okay. So la her mother, 25-vear-old red-haired Mrs. Lorcne Howell of Taconia. Wash. At an early hour this afternoon both mother and daughter were load ed Into a Klamath ambulance and brought to Klamath Valley hjspltal for care. Driver. Harold F, left tor Cres-Dell lodge at 12:30 p.m. to bring the two bark to Klamath Falls. The baby girl weighs 4 ' pounds on the lodge bake house scales, and takes her formula from an eye dropper. ' Wednesday morning Mrs. Howell was a passenger on a northbound bus. driven by Johnny Enrlght of Eugene, that had stopped for a rest period at Cres-Dell lodge on the Willamette pass:- As the bus was about to start on. the passen gers all sealed ana uie motor Ivory Pine Buys Timber E. P. Ivory of the Ivory Pine Mills today announced his firm 'as high bidder on a tract of some 90.000.000 ; feet of virgin pine and fir known as the Ten Mile timber sale unit of the Sequoia national forest lo-; cated. east of Fresno, Calif. This is United States forest service territory. Ivory said the bid totaled approxl- ! mately S578.000. This is the firm's first holdings in the area and plans for a mill are not completed but I are to be projected within the next 12 months, Ivory said this aftfrnoon. 1 Bids on the tract were opened by the regional forester In San Fran cisco at 2 p.m. Friday. I Dr. Auble Honored By Supervisors Dr. E. J. Auble of Alturas. chair- ; man of the Modoc county board of supervisors, was elected Friday, I vice president of the California 1 state supervisors association at the annual convention of the associa-1 tion in San Francisco. Dr. Auble is an uncle of Klamath . County Commissioner Fred Pope, and is well known here. i warmed up. Mrs. Howell went up to Enrlght and told him she didn't think he could beot the stork to Eugene. She was put to bed In a waitress" room at the lodge while William Nolan, operator of Cres-Dell. start ed trying to locate a doctor. The whole staff of the lodge and the passengers of the bus went Into action, bringing pots of boiling water, clean linens and va rious medicines nuo ine room, en right, a former navy pharmacist's , mate, took charge. At 7:32 a. m. Uie ble.vcd event was over and a waitress leaned out of an upstairs window to an-1 nouuee to the world: ' "Its a girl." Finally a doctor arrived from Westflr. and Mrs. Jpffrey Towne, a Eugene Red Cross nurse, came down to care for the mother and child, bringing along a layette. So the little red-head, named Sandra Lee but nirknamed Cres della." slept pearefullv In a dresser drawer at Cres-Dell lodge until her trip to Klamath Falls. I Ticket Sales Booming For Rodeo Here Going, going, going ifre tickets fur Uie July 4, ft and Klnmntli Uuln rodeo. , Tickets, went oil sale at rodro headquarters. Bulslger Motor com pany, on Thursday and already all the boxes are sold with the excep tion of three on the Inst two duys of the show aixLtwo on Uio 4tli. Other grandstand acuta are going like gold claims and persons with n preference for a certain section honk! uot delay In ordering their scats as they are selling lit blocks. Kvrn bleacher scuts are already Starting to sell and llu'li Nelson, radio secretary, has her hands full receiving the money and marking off the aectlona as they sell on the grandstand pluta prepared for this purpose. The plats are charts showing every seat In the grandstand and bleachers. There Is a plot tor each dav and as the seats are sold Itiey are marked off on the chart with a stroke from a red pencil. The buyer holds tickets of corresponding num bers to the seats marked off on the chart. Every seat Is reserved and there can be no argument aa to who should alt where. The system sounds simple and la but can become complicated when several people are purchasing tickets at the same time for different num bers of guests on different days, and when they change their minds after the seats have been marked off. This happens all day every day but at the rate tickets are selling, Mrs. Nelson won't be troubled on this score much longer as the red atrokea on the plats are growing and It's getting easier to count the whit spaces left. Bleacher aeats are not reserved and telephoned reservations fur grandstand aeata will not be ac cepted. Classified Ada Bring Results! , Nrs, a 'I- f "'' ""'"P'' "' "' ' ... , I Isf. S . ' V .-k Mm mm i nz&s. .Bin I : i - ' r Mre. Jean Thomas doea hrr shapplng l t o'clock as this plrlui. caught by the early morning pholog ran (ratify. Here she la welihmi out a few fine ears of corn at the Main street Mafrway store. ttXPmlMENTKR them scientifically Nut until modern Hin lam nd 1834. Faraday i metallurgical equipment was devlnt. made many comblnatlnna of Iron I lwrvcr. did alloy iron and slrela with other mclala and examined become commercially possible. Representatives Wanted Well known Hollywood Cosmet ic Company, aupplylng hair foods to the motion picture atari, aeeklng representative (men or women) to handle fast selling cosmetics line. Liberal commission, chance to operate your own business. Write to: N. J. Hpeddlng. Groce Spedding Cosmetic Company ' ' 6671 Knnnet Blvd. Hollywood 28, California A common waterfowl, the North American grebe, eats Its own feathers. I JESUS NAME TABERNACLE 1442 Oragon Av. Sunday School 10 A. M. Devotional Service 11 A. M. Evening Service 7:45 P. M. Wednesday Prayer and Bible Study 7:45 Ray Bllueth, Pastor Phone 7936 atikti A ONE-UNIT HIA1UM9AIOS0TMY0U SCARCELY KNOW YOU'1 wtHKin " 12 BIC ADVANTAGES Here rt M 5 tiM coveon (or cowttUte facts Nw Bullon-Sm.ll "X-Cfll" eulpirformi units I tiffin lit tin. . Xii Ivii'lml Fvll Tonn Rtv Minimum Siit ind WtiM Nil Wi.if.Thm Strl lit Comfoft-Cunr 0tHW i i i H. C. Mllt-h.lt or tl4 Miner ttldr, Ktifene, j U with Jftmtl N. Tafl Bind Asioelatei ef r erf land. They have been earring the hard j ef hearing since 1984. j FREE CLINIC WINEMA HOTEL FRIDAY, JUNE 27 To haar wall it to gar mora plaoiura out of lifa. 1 i SPECIAL MEETINGS Bible Baptist Church 2244 Wiard June 22 - 29' Sundays 11:00 A. M. 7:30 P. M. ; , ; V( I it S , ( Iff -r J . , ) REV. DON SHOGREN Erangellat Waokdoyt 7:30 P. M. REV. EDWIN GOBER Song Leader - Bololat HEAR - SEE - ENJOY THIS FINE TEAM FROM MOODY BIBLE INSTITUTE BAPTIST YOUTH WEEK BEGINS SUNDAY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH North Eighth and Washington Sti. CECIL C. BROWN Poitor t 9:45 a.m. Sunday School For All Ages Nursery For All Services. 11:00 a.m. Morning Worship. 6:15 p.m. Training Union For All Groups. 8:00 p.m. Youth Service Inauguration of Youth Week. Vacation Bible School Continues Next Week June 22-29 ' i. 7:45 P.M. City Library Auditorium 5th I Klamath Avt. V A, If i7 V Harry Moratto . Pat Hombrick Jimmy McGown Miriam Stapp Bob Stopp Students from Hqward Payne College, Brownwood, Texas Life's Vital Problems Presented and Discussed for Young People by Young People Sponiorad by N Calvary Baptist Church PERRY M. JOHNSON, Pastor Open Invitation L 1 No Admiision Chargt
