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Newspaper Page Texti THE KLAMATH NEWS United News and United Press Telegraph Services p9oT (Every Morning Except Monday) , ; EXPECTED ) Wit wu JrtOIL Mill MUIUU.I KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1925. Price Five Centi K.F. Library To Be Conspicuous "By Originality This L . To Jury After Many W Argumem Juo 15. (Unlud h ot William D. upscted to to to Ibt luit'i Attorney. Rob till conclud hi arga during lb day. L ibtt Shspberd bang. miIom or in triai L to drffDM argument Smit Stewart and W. Horner, for th ae- Llcilsd lb cbarg that ..rf.red Hilly Mcl'lln- LSosalr wrd. by ad- typhoid fovr germs. lilt session war Li tk court adjourned Lr boor. lurlidtd th dsfons Lu a atlrrlnai appaat to nlira Shepherd to hla Lf h1 cleared ot any L M aama. gareU t'onllna Mlfia tbat tbla man froa Infancy, aaw all LiUrloui boyhood tricka Liel lis bat and run and ten. through II yeara. urder In cold blood?" a roar duly to tbat of e tlmea b la called mi to (hoot and kill, tut kill kla own brotbar. M li called upon to do :ty. Tour duly i now Utsier to bla family." to ttU, was an Innocant sua. wata kaa suffered under k'sj ea bla character. W. "Ton can vr ro le tk( dimity of bearing fl Bat you can reetor M Irtedom." Wnk Evidence In Ue ariument, O'Brien H mother tone. He fSihlnn against Shepherd aunatnlal bunk." li 'i4h Harry Oleon, ot Iba wirt, who had puebed taint Shepherd ll 8wede took th atand tours In th papera", w. H "Dr." C. C. Falmnn, rmwd him of receiving, Jk from the proaacutlon fH to teitlfy. Homey Crow baa In- w ill concluding argument P Ulk aa long ai Stewart n grimly. 'Tin going t tke murder, not about br." Ultude, when ha ad- " Jury. was that of rea- faced with rather iroblem, and attamntln. ' U poaelble, to dlapoae h that Shopherd coldly nrm murder ot tha boy Stewart eald, entirely P Mired that tha atate'a I Ntlbll.h hl. u.a "'n br iwi.i k. .. ... r" of ovldence lodged Pherd. r hang msn because r ii toiler aon'a will? L hn a man because pr ' -- n" that Shepherd acted lj w.Tennnt tno death-bed reg on Pun Tma Coteboom InUructed Draw Up Plant Subject To Council Approval U. S. IMPATIENT AWAITING DEBT A apeclal meeting ot th coun ell waa held last night at lha city io aeciue on the plana and atyla of building for the new 150,000 library building to be erected on the Melbaaa property at Fifth and Klamath. j Councilman Cofer, Roberta, Stuc key and Hatalgrr met with archi tect C. S. 'Cuatboom and officers uf tha library club. Hesldt the original plane as aulimltted by Coieboom a griat number of plc turea of varioue etylea of buildings were aubmllled for consideration. It waa the general conivneua of opinion thai ihe Klamath library hinild nut be a stereotype box building along the line of the uiual Clrnegle library bulldlnga. but hould be original In deelgn and built to refleot aome Individuality. Out of number of plcturea of atlractlva building type aubmitted by Mra. Jack Kimball, president of the library club. Coeeboom waa In- atrucled to go ahead and draw up plana vthlib ara In reality a "blend" of different atytea of bulldlnga. According to the expressions of tha councllmen, acceptance of sull- ahle plana, calling for hid, and the final letting of the contract for the new public building, at the beat poealble apeed will take approxi mately 60 dayi, making it Heptem- ber 1, before actual construction could start on the building'. Coun cilman Cofer aaid It might be poe alblo to get the 4utldlng up thla tall and roofod over but' comple tion could not poealhly be reached before tha middle of next year. Some of the councllmen fell that It waa entirely within Ihe realm of poMlbllliy that conatruction on the building would not atari at all be fore next aprlng . Bowne of Bonanza School Board Head Francla J. Bowne of Bonania wai re-named chairman of the county achool board yeatorday afternoon when membere of tha tward met in the ofllcei of County School Sup erintendent Fred reteraon for a builneaa acaelon and adjuatment of the new board. Following a abort builneM meet ing the a-roup Impeded Henley, Merrill and otner acnooi um i vv of Poe Valley, where they noted all needa of th county achooia ior no ' jt .mh.M nreient were F. J. Bowne of Bonania. Bay Looeley of Fort Klamath, Koy nemoo ' Worden and Oeorge Offleld ot Mer rill. MOVIE BAD MAN IS FVIDENTLY A DEVIL LOS ANOKLK8. Juno SB. Ell Htanton ta a mean. mu.Uche wlrl- ... . thai an r A All. Dill ne doean't alwaV conHn. hi. naught- tneaa to film wor, youthful Peggy K.thbunn. who charge. Ell lured her to a room after proml-lng her fame and wealth In th movie". , . Now Ell curl. hi. black mu.tache in Jail and gna.he. hi. teeth, ac ordlng to the popular .tylo. ecreon tocnniciue. Mellon And Kellogg With Immediate Settlement From Italy Whitey Fuller Still At Large In Washington Etcaped Convict Implicated In Klamath Murder Nearly Caught But Maket Daring Etcape From Guard WA8HINQTON, June SB. Italian Ambaaaador da Martlno, with a la conic admiaalon that Secretary of Plate Kellogg and Becretary of Treaiury Mellon had told blm tbat tha aooner Italy began paying off her debt tha better, appeared be fore the American debt-funding com mlaaion today and began dlacuaalon of hla country' capacity to pay. In the opening exchange of view., both .Idea agreed that thla capacity to pay muat be th baila of th ar tangemant for repaying the SS.OOO. 000. 000 Italian war debt. Accept ance of thla principle by the United Stalea la regarded aa a algnificant feature of th new aerlea of nogo llatlona. which are juat beginning. Marked empha.la waa given to It In the formal exchange ot vlewa. It la expected thla will have a alutory enact In Including France and other lagging debtor! to come forward promptly and enter formal dlacuaalon by ahowlng them that Ihe United Stalea wanta to distrib ute the burden ot repayment only lthln the economic limits of the debtor natlor.a. While the principle wai applied, In the case of Great Britain, even In disregard of the debt funding terma laid down pre vioualy by congreaa, the renewed emphaala on thla point Just now waa regarded aa Important. W MAMA KILLS HERDADDY" "DADDY" FINDS BETTER HOME ky 1 ,un SB. (United" Mar' Cunningham, iv pretty red hot cr,' iMt ki... - 4 , J. Jaia mu.lclan s" l0T"1 bel,or na he died In Mra, hospital from bullet wound. Infllct- Mra. cunning....... . He wa going i no w " . . r.,,nnlnlham mother woman. . v a ,0,d pallet. ,,. good by Kk ' for,." I .hot liitn no " "" . de. At . hogplfU f""h Uh, ranger fend th. woman .aylnf Ld entered th. apartment and had ahot him. MAN OVERCOME BY HEAT IS IMPROVED Lacey Omohnnrinr an employe of the Pelican Bay Lumber company, who wa overcome by heat while working In the bailer rooma yea trday, la aaid to be allghtly im proved over bla condition ot laat night, according to hoapital at tendant! at the Klamath General hoapital. Omohundro waa aaid to Jiave been repairing ahoea at the time of tbe heart anack, Livu coupled with extreme heat, da aaid to have been the direct cause of the at tack. According to attendanta he waa not auffering from a fractured skull aa reported yesterday and al though he la Improving, hla condi tion 1. not past the danger point yet. Business Man Leaps 5 Stories To Death SAN FRANCISCO, Juna 26. Olla H. Harrod, prominent Sioux City, Iowa, business man, died in a hoa pital here Thursday afternoon af ter leaping from th fifth atory win dow of the Manx hotel. Accompanied by bia wife and daughter, Harrad came to San Francisco in an effort to regain hi. health following a break down in Sioux City. Thursday afternoon hla wife re turned from a .hopping tour and found her husband slashing -Jila throat with u raior. When h at tempted to prevent him, he leaped trom the window to the atreet below. Civil War Veteran Challenges Doc Noel RIVERSIDE, Calif., Jun 25. L. W. Dunham. 81 year old civil war veteran, who give th. scales a giggle every ltm. h. put hla lzo pounds upon them, la. a father for Ihe 20th time. Fifteen of tho children are llr- inff. Including a .on 49 year, old and weighing SUO touuJii, ' nrn ntlclna law in Cleveland. Ohio "rirand children? Gee. I must have a tralnload of them," he chuckled Thursday on receiving congratulation ot friend.., Man Killed Chating Cow Off Track; Cow It Safe TACOMA, June 6. Whlla cbs Ing hi. cow ott th railroad tracks near here, H. l E. Dutcher, 64, a rancher, waa etruck and killed by a train. Th cow aacapetf uninjured I TACOMA. June 26. Whitey Full er, alias Morton Hansen whose con nection with a recent murder at Klamath Falls, la known, and who scaped from 4he federal peniten tiary on McNeil Island, waa still at liberty lata Thursday night. Fuller, who escaped from the pen itentiary three days ago came face to face with a prison guard early Thursday but outwitted the guard, while under cover of the officer's gun. Ordered to surrender Fuller raised hla hands and stepped In side tbe door of the machine shop. where he bad encountered the guard. Aa he entered th building th convict lunged back againat th door and plunged outside. Aa he disappeared the guard opened tire but apparently without effect. A close patrol of the Island la being maintained to prevent tha es caped prisoner from reaching the mainland. ' BIG AVALANCHE DAMS UP RIVER TO FORM LAKE Many Cattle Killed When Peculiar Trick Of Nature Throwt Mountain Down In Wyoming Valley Atkint Set At Liberty When Father-In-Law It Unwilling To Protecute Sam Huated, who received severe injuries In a fight, alleged to have occurred between himself and his son-in-law, Hank Asklna, la aaid to be out of danger .at the. Klamath General hoapital last night and all danger of apinal meningitis is past According to hospital attendanta, Huated will be able to be moved from the hospital bo the Bunnell camp grounds the latter part of the week. When It was learned that HuBt- ed was out of danger Ihe case was dismissed and Asklna set ut llbertiy, Huated not wishing to prosecute his son-in-law. Stop Forest Fires Campaign To Start Opens Monday With Local Boy Scoutt And Camp Fire Girlt Aiding On Monday morning. June 29. at the chamber of commerce, the drive for the Stop Foreat Flrea campaign will open with various troop, of Klamath Falls boy acout and the three group, of camptir girls en terlng Into a contest obtaining the largest number ot subscriptions. The campaign Is atate wide, epon sored by the Oregon atate chamber ot commerce and from 12 to 15 chambers of commerce throughout the state have taken ' up the Idea and In some manner or form car rled on ,the contest idea llnuusU the medium ot the boy scouts or ganization or through business bouses. Pledge will be carried with the scout, and campflre girls and the scout or girl obtaining the largest number will receive the first prise of (10. Other prise, include S5 $3, SI and SI. These prltes are given by the Stop Forest Fire, as sociation. The campaign will con tinue all through the week. AU acout masters are urged to be at the chamber of commerce on Mon day to add to the Interest ot the boya and girls who are entering !fl.t? tbn work. Judges will be members ot the central dommlttee tor Klamath county and Include: G. B. Hall, president; Lynn P. Sabln, secretary, and the following representatives, R. H. Bunnell, Dr. W. R. Boyd, Mis. Francea Bcatty, A. M. Collier, R. E. Crego, Mrs. R. E. Geary, Dr. F. R. Goddard, J. F. Kimball, W. E. Lamm, Jullu Mueller; Franol R. Old., U. E. Reeder, Rev. A. L.' Rice, Mr.. A. L- Rica. B. H. Stev enson, Frank' W: Sexton, M. S. West and E. J. Murray. JACKSON. Wyo., Jun 26. 'United News) Gross Ventre can- on, known aa the "Jackson bole" country where decade ago train banana, came rusners ana rosa agents had their rendetvoua, has become the basin for an artificial lake, which, when It reaches Its Maximum circumference, will be seven miles long, a mile wide and uore than 600 feet in depth. ' Tbe lake waa created by nature, wboae latent whim In rearranging her topography baa been to pick up a mountain weighing innumerable ions, shove It Into the Groa Ventre river, completely damming that atream, laying bar acrea ot tbe 'Irgln Teton national forests, and Inundated tbree rancbea tbat, until Wednesday, nestled In the pictures que canyon. The avalanche, which ahook the countryside, splintering forest and burying everything In its wake. In cluding hundreds of head of llve rtock, raised a gigantic barrier r cross the valley behind which the Groa Ventre, a cascading mountain torrent, Is forming the artificial take. Already tbe waters are 300 feet deep and cover an area estimated at 700 acrea, but no concrted effort will be made to free tbe waters for fear thi lower valley will be devastated. . Although the Groa Ventre la at -flood stage, the ranchers wboae homestead! were . awept away,, aaid it will be several weeks before the hug basin ia filled. Foreigners Flee Canton Isle As Crisis Is Near French And British Sailors Clash On Shameen Isle: Machine Guns Used LONDON, June 2 Virtually all Americana, Japanese and British have fled from Shameen, th Island suburb of Canton, and bave sought nfug In Hong Kong or aboard for eign Vessels In th harbor, accord ing to a Hong Kong dispatch to th Daily Chronicle. On French civilian waa killed, nnd several other Europeana were wounded during the outbreak be tween Chinese soldiers and British end French asilors. Tbe fighting consisted of heavy rifle and machine gun firing, which lasted for 20 min utes, followed by an hour of sniping. Tbe situation la exceedingly grave, and fighting may be resumed at any moment. Th battlo between the Chinese soldiers and French and British bin jacket started while tbe demonstra tion of students, laborers, and sol diers waa passing by Shameen. It Is estimated that nearly 100 Chinese were dead. BOY SCOUT CAMP T00PENMY6 Plans tor the vacation ot Boy of Klamath Falls and Med ford are complete and the camp which will open July t and con tinue until July 16, la In readiness and all plana laid carefully for the success ot the summer's work. The camp Is located at Lake of the Woods. According to Juliua Mueller, one of the scout leaders of Klamath Falls, all registered scouts who have passed the tenderfoot tests are urg ed to file their . applications tor the summer camps if they expect to go. All applications may be turned over to Mueller and should be In not after July 4. Scout executive Cecil A. Cook, who la now spending the month In Medtord In the interests ot the work there, will not be able to he in Klamath Falls before ' th. opening ot the camp but has left all plans in the hands of competent men who will be In charge of scouts on the trip. Cook will be at the camp during the entire summer season. GREEK DISTURBANCE NOW UNDER CONTROL ATHENS, June 25. Gen. Panga loa, the republican leader la In com plete control ot tha revolutionary situation In Greece and haa the backing of the entire personnel of the army and navy In effecting his alma. The soldiers ans sailor officers and men went over to Pangalos in a body after some delay occas ioned by the futile attempt ot for mer Premier Mlchalacopulos, who waa forced, out of office Thursday by a military and naval rebellion. MEXICAN REGULARS PURSUING BRIGANDS - MAGDALENA, Sorono, Mex., June 26. A battalion ot detacto aoldiera arrived her lata Thursday to pur sue Mexican brigands, who early In the morning killed several Chi nes merchants and looted th town. ' The bandlta rid horses Into the village at dawn. Only the Chinese merchant war bestirring them selves. These offered resistenc and wer. shot down. Tables Turned On Fighting Mexican Florentino Navarro, Mexican, ia being held In the county Jail, charg ed with aaaault with a dangerona weapon upon Trinidad Vanrangan when an alleged fight la aaid to have taken place in a cabin In Al goma, lata Wednesday night - , Navarro . la also nursing a badly cut wrist aa a memory ot the af fair.: i . - ? , .-. - ''A warrant waa aworn ' out from th district attorney's office by Nav arro, who claimed that Vanrangan wa. the aggressor In tha case. After both sides of the questions were heard, the table were turned and Navarro found to have been the guilty party.' All. with the excep tion of Navarro, were pirmitted to go free. , The fight was aaid to have start ed from a party held In the cabin when six men and ais wuu.au . the participants. Three of the wo men were eald to bave left and remaining three tbe cause ot the alleged tight. Wealthy New Yorker , Charges Adultery NEW YORK, June 25. Th In criminating tale of Illicit love so braxenly related by tbe luckleas Tal bot W. Chambers waa further bat tered Thursday when Mrs. Ida May Symington, on the stand In her own defense, flatly denied ever hav ing been Intimate or indiscreet with Chambers, who waa named -by her husband aa corespondent in his div orce suit. The young wrte whose faithful ness haa been questioned by her husband, the wealthy Thomas H Symington, told tbe court that on the evening ot March 11. 1924 ahe had gone to a theatre with her husband and later spent the night with him at the Rlti-Carlton hotel. 3 Killed, 31 Injured , In Jersey Car Crash THEATRE BURNS WITH PROBABLE BIG DEATH TOLL Spectacular Fire Follows Explotion; 2 Firemen Are Killed Fighting Fire; 2 Others In Collision KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 25. (United News) More than 40 persons are buried in the debris of the Gillis theatre, which waa wrecked by a dis astrous explosion here late to night, according to Chief of . Police William A. Shreeve. A score of persons, critically burned and bruised, have been taken from the wreckage and sent to hospitals. Others were inextricably buried under the wreckage, which became, a raging inferno after the ex plosion, Shreeve said.. The theatre was a four- story building, located in the lower Kansas City business district. Fire, which was be lieved to have precipitated the explosion, originated in a small restaurant. The explosion demolished the side of the theatre, bringing- the upper floors crashing down on the heads of the pat rons, according to Shreeve. Two firemen, enroute to the scene, were killed when their fire truck skidded and crashed ' into a retaining wall. .Later two firenien, caught under falling walls, died, bringing the known death toll to five. The number of injured being : taken to hospitals mounted ' steadily as the firemen brought the blaze under control, and general order was restored.' .' Three firemen were injured by falling walls. The blase waa communicated to nrtlnlnln" buildings on th north and destroyed three minor tram struc tures before It waa brought under control. - Flame, ahot a hundreda feet In the air, aa thouaanda ot persona Just leaving the theaters, heard tha explosion, and saw the flamaa shoot heavenward. Fire linea were established and a cordon ot police was placed around the burning area. . Flfteeen men and womeen were known to have been in th. restaur- -rnt at the time of the eezploilon. ' None ot thee, escaped uninjured, firemen fighting their way through the wreckage declare. The Gillis housed a midnight bur lesque and waa playing, to a Jammed house when tha detonation let go. Apparently the fire in the restaur ant ignited escaped gaa fumes trom mains under the building. Many women wer among those reported injured. Tha hospital where many of the injured wer taken announced the Injured war arriving by carloads and probably would exceed 60. This was not confirmed by fire or police officials, ' however. The Olllls waa one ot tha oldest ; theatres In the southweat and in th halcyon ot Ihe Cherry (latere play- JERSEY CITY, N. J., June 25. Three persons were killed and SI injured In a trolley car crash late today during one of the most violent electric and wind atorma which have swept New Jersey and New York ed to Kansas Olty'a moat select aud- In recent years. lences ALL JUNE HEAT RECORDS SMASHED IN PORTLAND BY 101 TEMPERATURE PORTLAND, Ore., June 25. (United News) Two prostrations from heat were the feature. In t'ortland Thursday afternoon ot the heat wave that Is affecting the north- i TtSt. Th official weather bureau heat registration at 1:40 thla afternoon was 101, 'breaking all record Tor heat In Portland In the month ot June. At tour o'clock tha mercury had dropped back to 100. The victims of the unusual high temperature wera Douglas Reld, 27, a Canadian soldier, who was shock ed during the war, who collapsed on the street near a fir boat sta tion. He waa taken Into th fir bouse and revived. An unidentified Japan, alio waa overcome on th river front.