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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1925)
DAI LY III . j rirrulation Lr 2800 TTir.S. (Every Morning Kxccpt Monday) IE KLAMATH United News and United Prest Telegraph Services NEWS Official Paper of Clty o KLAMATH FALLS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1925. Price Five Cent V FdRIl MAY Sheriff Uncovers SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAY HAVE I UU Ifnf Trull nf T-inlrn MHCT CITVCIIItTr. nirm v n t,. I. on lirPPri O'' .. i.ivyij OUilOIHlM'i DU1 i. r. litiLUUUO HDD VtOOtLO, and Hall At Auburn' JUS, OOVT-H'r; if: jTanko and Floyd May 13.- Whul of ih hottest h hunt fur Jon Hull, wii being DON'T SHOW IT; GAIN THIS SEASON t . . (Investigated hum tonight by Sheriff Would Amouni ()um aod , ))U4d of ,0 dpu, I Billion; Mar hperate Ship a la ireparea 10 11117 (Jtira, returning from Investigation of a cabin lur Culf. where the Hen gunnlin fugitive bd been re porled... wee informed tint two stranger bad been seen In but on Rock CrMk Bear here. Pieces of mull, stolen from the ship from the uoilea ; cranllevllle trurk Inst week, and LpiuK board u tnw inv ipniTuiou taaea irom a store near k, laiotnoLiia meouiac-tLonai, were round Wltbla tun cabin. Lit In an Interview Wed-j As Tanko and Mall bad brrg con- .0iin. netted arllb bulb of theaa robberies. Intercut ho would hava! Sheriff Gutu declared himself pol a, ( h x'rl would be Wive that (hit report of a nun ac cidentally discharged by a deputy bad enabled the fugitives lu again inake tbulr rcape. ,m. Kird declared. i.iai were built during waa The when every one ibu.it " In said. .. . ' f n li i I ihfin r too amaii ior wregon ruonc .service .O.lll HI" - I have awfully jnil ethers i !n Ih.'ln " lu.Ued that merely to pucci f "crapping the: Id !n linlf cort liOO.-' May Be Asked To Make New Oregon Rail Probe Who aabl Iax Angeles kail nn.iv auuahhui Uwn Klamath Fail.'' Hcu! Ilaawd on tlx r-epwrl of bant jmr and tlu aunny prosma Klamath a making hl year the lxx Ang 4m chamber of romaae-rce junt won't daia ta dump one) and a half rent etanapa by the. train load on a lot of envelopes bearing . mliuMarra(4itd propa ganda about the "land of Uut roacrntratod abunilnnt aun- Klamath Palb with .18 lia had 1H nnre entirely clear and eunaliUiy ilaya ao far tlile yeiir titan up to thin tint butt year, ae well a 117 ilaya more of only pnrlliil rlouilllieita. I a4 year lm Anicrlee had !5-'tJ all-KiuuililiH fluye a rom inr-i wlili 'M lu KUinath I'alb. uiinnlliiK to record of tho I'. H. rot-tarnation eerrtre liire. Thua far thta year, how ever, KUniath Kalla la ID daya alu-ad of It'a lat ynar'a total of rlear U)a at ttila tun and bid fair, to outrlaaa Um Oil. (arnla metropolla by a Urn marKla providing Um woathmr maa doraa't turn an abnormal amount of rain Into' Klamath country during tbe remainder of I be. year. But ertthaa, Klanurh'a preclptutlou waa mora than , that of Loa Anjce lea and aUl It larked but d daya of tying that city for the . eunnhiuo record. KUunath Palla aliould Rain coiiaMerulily, too, oa Han Krn cUco ami Minlford for the aua ny day record 'Chia year. Laat year Han KrancWo had 1INI ull-nunuy daya and Mrdford but LIQUORPIRATES INFESTING WEST COAST STOP RUM Fish Ladder In Link River, To GoUpAtOnce The old' flab ladder controreray which has agitated Klamath aporta- I A t I i j . : men antl-aportamen erer alnca Large Amount Landed At th. ot the Llnk , Evinced By Drop In Liquor Price LOS ANGELES, May 13. Hearlly armed liquor plratea, . preying on abore-bound craft laden with.' rum, have temporarily atopped the ac tivities of the huge dam. appeara to bare reached happy aolutlon through the vlait here yeaterday of Wm. Hadley, repre aeatlog the atate gam commlaalon. Yeaterday Hadley . waa accompanied by Vance Hutcbina. Mark Howard, j Nate Otterbeln, Marlon Barnea, and John Boyle up to the widely dla- cuaaea . dam, where meaanremanta 1 ! were made, and laat. nivht Hniia. , , t . . " , vooz7 liewi uuw uoverioa un. uj southern California coast. Revenue officers today reported drew up a aet of plana, aatlafactory to the California Oregon Power company, and all concerned, and It that the liquor armada, which had ,, agreed by Ue powef jomp8ny planned a concerted attack for some hat ,he !,,.,,, will m.de aay mis weea, is now lunug wen al 0Dce 1. ..... I !. .. , 1 1 n aha uWA1oca TO,u,m ui. ua x-. a Tt. t I. h. U- . ll.i.- -. T . . 7 . . . . . canoes because of! " umj uume nigneat point In tbe cKy'a hts- , visit Ilia Cnva I . "'"' Him near tory; totalling close to fhre million HERE REACH NEW PEAK IN HISTORY Bank Official. At Lot To . Understand High Peak At Tku Time Of Year; Resources $4,718,558 .' ' , - ... The moat reliable barometer- of good busineaa and prosperity,' that of a commanity'a bank ' reaerrea, took an upward course to new high levels thta spring, when,' through an announcement yesterday by the First National . bank -and the American National bank of Klamath' Fella, it became known that . the combined resources of the two banks reached to land tbeir ,tbe pirates. ATHLETIC COACH j FOR KLAMATH HI Police School For Women Drivers Is I'DllTI.AMi. M.iy 13. The Inter stale con. mere nHiimliniun. alilrb I has received llw iipiillcntlon of the j northern llnet, fur authority to cx- ;nTnN. May II Accept- tlnl aouihwuni. will order lieiir- !. nry r nr, of III pro- , , 1(.,1)r,nK , Wuali- he ahippiiiK hoard to H , i,Kiu a.lvlcea to t!u Orriou Jour- Dwiffht French. Ore. Uni live ri-i ol nearly i" nal. I i n e, ar ul.l niean the biggest i, i exnei-li it Hint Him iiiiinI i.' f OOlDftll tjtar lioilicu In martlme hlatory. tm will be followed, and thnt the T V D'Connor of the ',, pull((. wrr(.e commlaalon will ;,ord haa been conducting delegated the duty of taking the M iiersmiully with rord evidence Hun ciiiiimlilo!'"r hero. I cljrlH If Carer, rounael for the L.fJ litnoranre of tne pro-i nnea. haa Junt returned from h.n told of O'Connor a, Washington, n. r. He filed the mnt at liuffulo Wdn- application with the Interstate eom- merce rommlaalen for ' the Great pp'.ng h"nl has been try- j Northern and Northern Pacific rall- t(ie ol lta amps roaas in tne name of w. r. Turner, . war hut baa been , only 'president of tho S. P r 8. It . la nrceaf ill. understood that he pressed for an (too Avnilulile I early hearing.' ihliiplu! board has 00 , rh are available or ran be LorenZ Company Low - Chlloquin, to Investigate the short comings of that obstruction to the hasty meeting today ' ,UrP;"ream .omt of .pawnIg and decided to employ gunmen to I " ward off the whisky freebooters., " . '.. Information supplied enforcement i agents here revealed that the smug glers held a dollars, 14,718,568, to be exact. J. A. Gordon, president of tha First National, and E. M. Bubb, president of the American National, are both at a loss to understand, why, during the slack months .of Klamath's financial year, namely. liable fur forelitn trade. aid here recently. , "All trim ure for sale at bar- Bidder On Equipment Formed In Portland 'now believed to number at least liT""," ".p. wnaiever rem a ui'ucu 111 uuuu edy or pans are ite outgrowtn of ecuio. . , -. . .... ,.k. .M.rehih.. nlnved' mu" m UDne to tnejthe first five months of the year. k . Th i,Ln. m reciti... de laamD comn"8ion for action, since i resources should be the highest in ahout the heavens In reckless de-tne IU8tBl,atlon ig ,ocate(1 on tne!nlstory -i.iamatn reservation and were used to guide purcnasing boats to the rum fleet an- For Next Year Dwight A. French of F.ugene, Unl- POUTI.AND. May 13. A police school for women automobile driv ers has bene started here. Capuin Frank Krvin of the Portland traffic squad conceived the Idea In an effort to lessen the number of accidents. speed chored off the harbor According to Roy S. Adams, field of the big intakes for local Irriga- At the First National, resource Other Changes January 2. of this year were $2,- Also the party will visit a number m'965'07- a compared with IJ.- Incront In rhnrep nf nrohibltlon forces, tion ditches where lack of suitable I don't agree with the opinion ... -.,., Boiice are! screens are carrying the young that a woman at the wheel of an ; automobile is a meuace to the varsity of Oregon athlete, will be community. fcrwin said tactfully head coach and director of phy-'ln addressing the opening. session, aical education at the Klamath attended voluntarily by more than county high achool next year. County i 0 feminine drivers." School Superintendent Fred Peter- ; ' .nnt.nnced veaterdav on receipt I Rockefeller s Dauehter of a telegram from Mr. French, ac-j f, J0 Be -Mariied Today cepung inepoamoii. . f Mr; French, who has specialized . In nhvaical education work throughr-L NEW YORK, May U Abby, out bis college career, .and . whose! the daughter of the . Rokefellers, name has been identified with Lnl-1 be nlarrled Thursday in the verslty of Oregon athletics for tbei .. " i Rockefeller mansion off Fifth r...p Mar, wlir cntliA tn K I ft III- For Central School, , with high recommendations of 8"""8 nfore " """ banked with 1 1,1. canacltv as not only coach, but ! dogwood blossoms from hte Rocke- ,!. cosl the government! 4 Co Wtre iet I also Instructor. feller estate up the Hudson. il fiirtuni. ! bidders for the I'tumlilng and heat-1 Mr. French majored in physical! John D. Rockefeller, Sr. will be ul appropriation made by . iog of (he nRW central school education at the university, and in there. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rocke tor the shipping "" ! house, and W. D. Ilutler, emergency fleet corpora-, Unk Klver Klec,r,c Vo.t they were created in patrolling roads to prevent ship ments reaching the interior. The officers have been given authority to search suspicious cars. Evidence that considerable liquor baa already landed here la seen in the (10 drop in the price of case goods within the past tew days. THE NEWS PRIZE YET; GET IN NOW game fish down into shallow lateral ditches where they are marooned and die by the thousands, accord ing to the game wardens. Klamath county Is now receiving a generous share of young trout, in' its many streams, it Is pointed out, and the sportsmen want these little . fel lows to grow up to a size to enable them to tear up lots of fishing tackle instead of permiting them to be consigned to fertilizer on some irrigated field.. - - i! it'tllf I electric lat wiring. ii ;i.S'ja.i.ru.i.B aim"" , ,M-,i. French debt. . ..hoot hoard laat nlcht. An Inter- of the 'that field elicited the praise from feller. Jr., tne orme s parents win on the! hi. Inatructora. I be there as will members of the became known 018,558 yesterday. This represents a gain ot 1529,692.93 since the first I of the year. At the American Na tional a like increase in percentage of resources is noted. On January 2 the resources amounted to $1,490, 000, as compared with $1,700,009 yesterday. -.' "During the first five months, in previous years," said Mr. Gordon, "during the period before lumbering operations get fully, underway, we hare been losing from 10 Ho IS per cent 6n our normal resources. How ever, this year our gain has been around the 25 per cent mark during the off-seasonal period.- "Not only have our large e posits Increased, but our' savings ac counts, representing earnings of the laboring class, largely, have increas ed from the $450,000 average in A number of traffic violators, other rears, to s.t'o nnn ihi .... mostly speeders, arrested during the! p...M..t n.,hk r ,k. a m oast few days bv County Traffic I voiinnni n,,i. ni, i Is your name in the published list, 0fflcer R. E. Knowles were fined i savinas denoslta TRAFFIC VIOLATORS FINED IN CHILOQUIN Dialritt No. 1 nr u lit nope, oi rea-m-. MUn( lMlure of thl, ,,,, contract n a fratilim of that hugei. . i-,,.!!..,,,. . mMter clock fnaiKe ships had to be built I ....... ed wUh . room C0CK, ' to his knee the first season he play lurry during tho war. money j thrullKhout ,ho i.uildlng. and the.ed. his playing throughout was unfit niierever nocesaary. i . , ..i,..m,,1.,i nh heatlv and conststoni. uasn n- ( arccr Viraatil- j other family, a few Intimate friends Ills career as an athlete: at the and of course the groom, David university rovers three years on the Meriwether Milton. It Is to be a varsity football team, playing In thelsimple wedding, backfleld. Despite a serious injury of contestants todayT u not, sena in tne court of iuatCe of the Peace in your nomination today and Setjsplnk at Chlloquin yesterday. started before It is loo late ins contestants are starting out with the pr.ue lime, the government n ii be ureal difficulty in un til; i-inergency fleet. pe;ik tin government own- II v,.,,t,. About 1.000 n ili.:i il nf nt whatever ' ou'l he obtained. I.oiiii slill owned by the !:wnt barely 3T.0 are In ac- "railun ami others could lie 'o service with little recon H expense should occasion It. M'imi niui Sum d"finite mice Is nliiced on 'I anil the Ford I Individual telephones for each class ; Hams, Hue coach for the University of Oregon, cieciarea in a recommen dation to the county high school board, that French would have been a logical candidate for all-coast half back had It not been for the injury. French also played baseball In the Infield, basketball for several years, wrestled for the varsity team one room. The board decided lo Install a good woven wire fence around tho lawn at the Mills Addition school and alio to ask the architect to prepare specifications for finishing up another class room for this school. Unusual But True (Over Last Night's Leased Wire) determination to win one of the big prizes. Now is the time , to get . . . 1 . . C.kM.lnllnn starieo io rat .... mrnin . . i,-rin R mucu; , - . .. O. A. Pago, of Ft. Klamath, pick ed up for operating a truck for hire without a public service per mit Is to appear In Spink'a court MAYOR OFFICIALLY VETOES FRANCHISE year, played uasaeiouu on mo j. S. marines team during the war, and was active on the track. As Indicated by Mayor (ioddard deal Monday night, the aec.ir.d passing. Ill tin resiil! of negotiation lot the exclusive frnnci.ise pcrmlt- esiimaic of the amount Hlng the Strahorn road to cross final transaction could be! Sixth atreet was' vetoed by the Hie recent sale of the! mayor yesterday morning. I" his sh class president type pas- message to council, the mayor "ti'1s lo the Dollar inter- set forth the same objections as he xiverninent received alleht. dl.1 Monday evening before the e Hii'n J.-.u deadweight ton. council direct and reiterated his Price on n,,, remainder of stntemenla regarding security for l,le ""el would figure $141,-j the Strahorn bonds, bought by the "'"nilniici on PaKe H ! city of Klamath Falls. CK" HARTHELMESS SEPARATES k . villi WIFE PRORARLY FOR KEEPS i W YoitK, ,ljli"lni,.t. M"y May. 11,11 ''"mp.inv May 13.Rch tln screen star, his wife hnve peaceahly. and llril,:.n I, (,"" ';,ri""m agrement" Ar. ""ol'mj"' "'"' f'-r M. 'W,',.?11""""'- W"lnes- . """ng each to live ,nd mmri o. i u . -- . .in VHCU ""d no dlvnrea nc. r ''rond nor In this " contvuiplated by r ligl, "' "the "ntry Ilroad- during the either parly." Marv liny, who his been danc ing nt Clro's, one of wnv'a night rlulis. winter, will leave for Europe nt nnco . to fill an cngwiucnt, Hays said. Darthelmesa will remain In this country for Hko reasons. Mary, the only child l 10 remain In America with he' father until her mother returns and then will spend six months of every year with efh of hor pareuta, the ngroomenl provides. MRS. SHEPHERD FREED FROM POISON CHARGE IN M'CLINTOCK CASE By OTIS PKABODY SWIFT CHICAGO. May 13. Mrs. Julie G. Shepherd, wife of the Kenllworth attorney, tinder Indictment for" the murder of millionaire Billy McClln tock. by administration of typhoid fever germs, has been cleared ot the charge thnt she was "criminally aware" of an alleged plot on the part of her husband to slay the youth and his mother. Mrs. Emma MePllnttick. Tho Cook county grand Jury late ,lny voted no bill against Mrs. i.-.i .-hen It considered the roconiinondntlon of n coroners Jury that she bo Indicted in connection with the alleged murders. No for mal stntement was Issued, but It was mado known that the grand jury felt that thore was "not a shred of evidence" on which to hold Mrs. Shepherd. The Jury made no decision In the case of William D. Shepherd. The attorney, in cell 13 In the county jail was enthusiastic when Informed that his wife's name had been cleared. The recommendation that Mrs. Shepherd be Indicted had followed (Continued on Page 8) NEW YORK. May 13. "Guess there ain't nothin' in here but these old sacks of potatoes," said two policemen to each other af ter seeing a rouple of burglars enter a grocery store and search ing for them Inside for 15 min utes . Then one kicked one of the sacks, cussing the luck. "Ouch!" yelled Louis Wenbarg, age 12. and the cop also pinched Louie Fuente, 16. Both boys had hidden In empty potato sacks an posed as potatoes when the . officers came in. MONTREAL, Que., May 13. An advertisement appeared in a Montreal paper Wednesday in which the Lee Corporation com pany of Louisville. Ky., offers for sale the equipment of the1 Ken tucky distillery. CHICAGO, May 13. The loss ot a Jewel studded watch valued at $1,000, was reported to police Wednesday. the CHICAGO, May 13. Six news paper camera men waited as five months old Robert Anthony Coo gan, brother of Jnckle Coogan, young film actor, arrived in Chi cago, with his parents Wednes day. Robert Anthony looked upon them with a cold, bored eye, and fell asleep before they could snap his picture. M ANSON. Iowa, May 13. Au thorities are hunting for persona who stretched tarbed wire across a highway here. . Ross Johnson of Cherokee, was dan gerously Injured when he drove his car Into the wire. payments couui to. .....-, . K,,.,n ,,. . now as they will during the last , fl "period" of the contest One dol- from lnr collected now Is worth as muchi ' to you In votes as two dollars will , be at the last of the contest. So'. . nAv WII I DC you see It Is to your advantage to Jf 1 W li-l- CL get started In the contest now. OBSERVED BY ELKS The free vote coupon Is only Later on this DOUBLE SHIFT AT BIG LAKES LUMBER CO. STARTS SUNDAY worth 25 votes now coupon will not be published at all. The fastest way to get votes is to collect subscription payments from both old and new subscribers. v, t (..!..... n .n virth twletf ... ----- thelr mceUng ,ast n,ght as manv votes as old ones. But when you find a person taking the The Bik Lakes Lumber company will increase its force 25 men by adding a night shift either next Sunday night or early next week, it became known today. The out put of the outfit will be doubled in capacity, since the new shift at night is an exact duplication tn num bers to that ot the present single shift working days. A double shift As is a universal custom of the will be kept at work as long as the ia Flug day celebration on Sunday. June 14, this year, according to the I decision of the lodge members at The speaker for the day has not by company officials. paper now. they will be glad to re- vet been selected, but Invitations new their subscription in order to! will be extended to several eminent give you the credit. Get busy now. outside, orators who hold the repu Soe your friends first, they would Ration of excelling In their line. LUMBERMAN INSPECTS j W. H. Stephens of Shannon, Ore., a 8mall lumbering town - west.; of Eugene, left here yesterday for : his Lane county home after a . week spent In investigating Klamath tim ber and saw milling operations. ' rather give their subscription to The ceremonies will probably be! Mr. Stephens recently sold out bis you than to some one they are not held in the evening this year In Lane county holdings, and it is un acquainted with. order thaf there wfll be no conflict! derstood that he is Interested in'ac Contestants, watch the published ' with the Klamath-Siskiyou baseball' quiring extensive lumbering Inter standing which will appear In the ' league, which has an important! ests . in this section. He plans to paper daily. You will see how you j game scheduled here on that same! return here within ten days or two stand in comparison with the stand ing ot other contestants. It only takes a few subscriptions to put yourself In the lead. Don't think, you haven't any chauce to win be cause someone else has a few more votes than you have. It should make you work all the harder tn or der that you can head the list to morrow. If there is any question that you want to ask or anything that you are in doubt about regarding the contest, nsk the contest manager. He will be glad to help you at any time. Either call Into the office or phone 877 and ask for the con test manager. date. weeks. SERIOUS TROUBLE FEARED TODAY WITH STRIKING W. VA. COAL MINERS MOTION PICTl'IlK STARS TO WKO LOS ANGELES, May 13. Bert Lytell and Claire Windsor, motion picture stars, are to be married at Juarez, Mexico, Thursday morning. FAIRMONT, W. Va., May 13. The striking union coal min ers in the Fairmont fields have been ordered to assemblo before one ot the mines Thursday morning in direct defiance of court rulings, which caused the arrest of 137 picketing miners Wednesday morning, "We are ready for them," de clared Sheriff John Rlgglna, who Is backed by a court in junction. The 137 men arrested nearly 100 of whom are still In jail and denied the prlvilese of see ing any members of their fam ilies are charged with "inti midation" and the mass meeting before the Grant Town mine of the New England Fuel & Trans portation company is Intended as a protest against the wholesale arrests. Orders for the demonstration were telephoned here by Van A. Bltner, international representa tive for this district who is now in Indianapolis, at Union Mine Workers' headquarters.