The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942, August 25, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE KL AMATH UP. (Every Morning Except Monday) p WILL ILL SITE M REPORT Move: Council htt Spur And ;ng Permit Wing bid let n I n W..t Of Link River Be Improved Ukn Dn cot ?any mv L tamt soon. Lor mtt t nail u th. opinion of prom- La, who lt night hoard .uirll. M regular meet- ptrmlwlon (o the box roniirurl a railroad apur Ena, arrosa Willow Plum street. L..ty'i ninva. II be- mi init It may rnango luirter. from lla present tlhe 8. P. tracka at Sixth ik ilrect, between Socond It ureet.. Officials of tba 1 j id not verify llio roport. rtn Construction company iu .warded paving bid. la itrei'l, tl3.24U.20. itre.1. lin.3ng.lo. Vtoa itrrel. $10,308.10. bit. H ami IE will ho Im- cent of ll.tHl.no. m repairing of a number of slut night referred to the snmlltee. nidrH fifty (Inllara wa. It ibi council for lbs pur- piirlsi tho toad ,on the of Link river, after C. A. Ed deary and Andy Col. rwnled a petition. It la tal further work will bo NEWS United Neva and United Preu Telet rath Services ' KLAMATH FALLS. ORE.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 25 iqqkT" . " . . . , mn rive utynn Lafollettc Jr. Fires Loud Gun Vociferously Attacks Bis Money Interests And Askt Lower Tnxe WATER FLOWINGlGov'tEmployes Seek Pay Raise LAKE MAIN CANAL K. F. Engineer Responsible For Success Of Big $360,000 Project 1 WaNT Iri rtowfnff In the main vtnn Is Leader, and ;'0bey" Must in Ceremony . KTOIKIHTON. Win., Ana.' 24.' (United New.l With , fHh and fire of oratory displayed by lit ftimoua father. Itobort M. l.nKollrt to, Jr., luunched hli rumpalitn bore Monday night for election to the et In the I'nlled Slate, senate made vacant bv tlm iimi. ..i n..i. "rt M. LsFolletle. Sr.. bin Ruber. 1' "' til,,n,"or ' Irrigation pro Voung LnFollotle openc.: hi. .pnei h f Apparent victory crown, a with an attack on the great monoy ""1" vMrh beRan ,hre0 year "K0 power, which he declared seek, to- "eemea to De Insuper- lower laxc. for the rich which i",'le "'lcl"' I,"ard board of meana higher taxc. for the' poor i""Kln",'r" "'l salvage the Rum Uui.hlv ,min , ., ., . n"'r dam after Its break under aaa.n I the mon. v . . , T' - "'U "r"1 ""ef ",t or hi. fa her. .Illng f h ,,lea. hi. bond,a d()bt , ,300i000i 1" , Were " --ib county engineer, who. m.1." ma lted the care of hi. father in the ;a(lvll.e of m.ny pert national cap.,.. br.n,n up ,h. ... ld .. could be done and proved u.l h TT; " e,',""n""! ,h8 I'"- own .kill and aba.lty. .land hi. father look regard!., Ilmken Oull.t them. .. When, three year. aao. the Irrlaa IJtKollrttc nrx! cipiiir.-d his plat lion work, of Hummer lek froJc, form, e.plulnlnx fully the l.nue. of at the north end of Lake county! which It I. built. Ho .aid. he waajhad been built and water wa. turned flnt and primarily for the reduction 'on from aprlna. which flow 130 of tho federal laxe.. and for .trlct jecond feet, and become the nource economy In every branch of the pub- of Anna river, the dam .lipped on lie .ervuo. lonna LaPol elle an. It. clav base. An nnllnl hrk. i Federation Of Employes To Wage Stiff Battle For Bigger Minimum .ailed the prenent republican admin istration, from the b:.:he.t to the lowe.l. the aaa. K.caplna water aucked out a holo in the dam Into which a large dwelling hou.e might hvo been dropped. With money exhausted, Rl7l.4l. II 1J Ipwplo or the dl.lrlct felt the can ( Klamath Holdups m i. i.oPeie... u ... decided t fnilirorl Wrtan FlJira M,aK) one mo "orU The taak V r. o w, nut ln tlle bands of Hhea Lnper. Ol Car RPIIIS Sfnn """5 enxlneer. J. II. Maon of San ""riKrunclsco, repro.entlnK Iho bond holders, havina raised the money. The cost was reduced from a first eatlmnte of 1130,000 to $10,000. Parley IMnrnl In Clmrjjo C'T., Darley of Klamath Kails, wa. put h cbaran of 'construction, fork, were aerlonsly Injured late Z ,V , ..iT . " Sunday nlKht when the motorist d"T '."'7' " h ""Per- ..nit,,,, nag iiuiie L. No other project like Summer luke exists. Tho (rrlsablo land, aro Two my.terlou. men, In an at tempt to hold u; a passing mntor iat on The Dalle.-Callfornia hlgn- war, four miles north of tho fill ing station on the Port Klamath snuggled under a mountainous rim which tower, more than 3000 feet nhovo. Although the altitude of the VultK. Aug. 24. (Unit I The himliunH nl fuihA. ' "M.itatu. a. an army cap- lownmcnt In ills homo. Ix'lng Peako John.on. ihop of Colorado declare. ck on the proposal to tbe word "obey" from 'tt lervlc. of tho Kpiaco r It. trlonnlul general H New Orleans Octobor Wr h a Coriinrullnti " ha.0D ..y. "rUhnr M,o lk hid or It I. presided wmmtttce of two. which ft of determining a tna- Mt by an endurance a,l min tho head of tho It la his duty to Protect. Defining tho ' l the service as mean- 'f la tlin h.,... .ll,. ' kd to 0. ,i. . ,, F e'. uilcrly not ,. W. I It? Whnn . -,.!. f " captali, ho docs not DI" manhitn.l ,(,.. v t' ' womanhood, then, la nut h.t.. ' -nnn womon are a.k ,!llr ihtiHlinnds. 'y In women's rights rn the family t fulled lo atop tho car. striking tho alleged ImnJIts to the ground. Ilr. K. Dletscho and Dr. K. Hurch- ardl were roused from their beds at a late hour and called to tho men. Who placed the call, It was' ke a 4000 feet, It grow, melons, unnoio to no ascertained. j peache. and apricot., with unending Arriving at the scene, nix otberi profusion of garden product, and car. wero parked mysteriously I apples. Other projects not so pro along tho roud unable to assist the looted are limited lo hay, grain and Injured men. It I. claimed by onn. products not killed by summer of the men that they wero signalling frosts. to tho motorist . to stop n ordorl Plans are made by Dean D. Harv to' help them move their car from rls, .eiir K. Elder and Jamn. Small, the aldo of tho bank. The six cars, directors, and E. F. McKoe. secre and their occupants, companion, of tary of tho district, to take aggresa the others, would give no explana-jlvo measure, for colonliation and tlon a. to the part they played In; tho development of the project to not animating the car In righting realization of what they believe are itself. . I It. unusual prospects. WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. (United News) President Coolldge's econ omy program Is under fire from an other quarter. Government em ploye, are seeking a raise In pay, asking a minimum salary of $1500 a year. This would Increase Uncle Ham's annual payroll by several mil lion dollars. Many salaries now are under I $1000. The average pay of 75 per cent of government employee here I In the capital Is $1325 a yoar, and i there are several times more work I era In the field ' service than here, I with about the 'same salary range. There are 44,000 government em ployes ln Washington. iMnt hi Two Weeks The campaign for higher wages will be taken before the annual con tention of the National Federation I of Federal Employes In Boston, be ginning September 7. This feder ation Is the unjon of government employes. Tbe luorwuM ftsked would mean aroand $5,000,004 a year among em ployes here in the capital, and sev eral million more among the field employes, who are scattered through out the country, aerving In one ca pacity or another Kmployes Dropped Off Several weeka ago, there was un easiness In huge government build ings here,' when It was indicated that many employe, would be drop ped In carrying out the economy pro gram. It was said that the govern ment payroll would be lowered by a million dollars dtiring the year through reducing forces at the ship ping board. The number of employe. In Wash ington, however, mis remained prac tically, the same --through replace ments' and Increases'" in "other bu reaus. '"" v - The federation, apparently, is tak ing things now in Its own hands, and will force tbe battle for the thousands of government workers, whom It represents, before another move comes from tho other direction. One of tho men Is suffering from' a fracture of tho akull. Internal in-! Coitf n flona DlVian Jurle. and bruises, while the otherl 3tIJld .US "j wa. unable to walk or assist him- ii,arly IvUSlI UrderS aelf, due to flesh wounds when " the passing car atruck him into the gravel on the road. ' KANSAS CITY. Aug. 24. (Unlt- Both men refused to divulgo!cd n0wb1 Douglas Mlloy, of Del- thelr name, or to accept medical ( pna!li Ka3 0ther ta gomewhat of a attention. i practical Jokester or a very cautious kid. In either case, hi. lack of In- Wakefield And Mather ! Wtlve Is not to be questioned. On August 17, wttn a pard ton pencil grippod in ono band, he wrote:. "Dear Santa Claus: "How are you? Wo are all Are Fined $200 Each JiiBtlto of tho Peace Kd Kendall stiff flno. for nlleged liquor pos session. Kd. Wakefield and Kd. Mather, charged with the unlawful posses sion of whiskey, entered pleas of Tho letter, the first of Its kind guilty. ' ' received Mils year, was turned over .' .. It ...III l. They wero each fined J'.'OO ami. in Mayor uaicu. ... cost.. steam engine. Cleo wants a doll and a carpet sweeper. I can't think of anything moro so will say good bye. Instant alloutlon In about four CELEBRATES WEED VICTORY; I ONCE AGAIN IS UNPOPULAR months. tinned on u,o streets il iiiriii wnen 'all tm arrived 'h News special, to- Militant "in L,nf 11,6 ylKlnry- It ' Klamath Falls folk, b,,, UeI" the game. ,,, " 8. P. dopot , ' klltoa 'r0lU lln Kvon Mayor Ooddard. who rem onstrated upon the crowd's arrival In Klamath Falls, against the boys ii nil girls having a little fun. much lo his unpopuiailty, roul!! not be restrained, and the merry makers continued their peaceable, but exhtiberant celebrating. On the wny back, the baggage car of the special train was thrown open and used a. a dance hall while the train was enroute to Klnmnlh Fnlls. COL. HARVEY BREAKS OLD SOCIAL KtWKU SWAMPSCOTT, Mass.. Aug. 24. A social world record wont gllm morlng Monday when Col. George Harvey, former ambassador to Oreat HHtsln. passed tho 48-hour mark as a guest at While Court, summer white houso, and prepared to spend another night. The colonel alteady had beaten tho duration record of the most per sistent previous guest by many hours. He hn not given any hint as lo the nature of hi. discussions. WO IN NEW BUNGALOWS ARE TO RISE SHORTLY Weekly Building Permits Soar To $113,390 At Council Session E. J. 'Murray, local newspaperman, is to spend $58,000. in bungalow courts to be constructed between the reclamation canal and the Southern Pacific tracks on Espla nade street, according to a build ing permit approved -by the city council at it. regular meeting last night. :Other building permits Included: Helen W. Powell, garage, $376; P. C. Eayrs. dwelling, $2200: H. C. Cleveland, dwelling, $1200; T. P. Henderson, dwelling, $3000; Mrs. Daisy Osborn, garage, $25; C. C. Healy, dwelling. $376; U. E. Wattenhurg, garage, $1000; War rent Hunt, addition to hospital, $40,000; Mrs. Zcm Yearsley, struc ture, $400: Mrs. Maud Kllensnor, structure, $B00; T. C. Bechdoldt, structure, $300; Allen B. Jones, garage, $100: George Earlandson. dwelling, $2500; Arthur Oberg, gar ago, $40; J. C. Peck, dwelling, $26; E. Qulltitch, living rooms, $5,000, and E. II. Balsiger, dwelling, $260. 7 GUARDSMEN ARE KILLED, 14 HURT AS GUN EXPLODES Trench Mortar Explodes In Maneuvers Mowing Its Victims Down CAMP GRANT, III., Aug. 24. Seven national guardsmen were kill ed lata Monday, when a trench mor tar exploded during firing practice here. Fourteen other persons, in cluding a number of spectators of the drill, are injured. Five of the Injured are In a serious condition. The dead soldiers were members of the Eighth regiment, thirty-third division, Illinois national guard, en camped here for summer training maneuvers. All wero Chlcagoans, of a unit recruited on the south side. For the past week Camp Grant, a World war mobilization and train ing center, has re-llved war days In the colorful maneuvers. Battle con ditions have been Imitated and the countryside has rung with roar of field pieces and howitzers on the firing range. -Flame Belches Forth The gun crew was grouped close In service of the piece with live shell, when the explosion occurred today. A roaring sheet of flame shot from the muzzle, the breech splintered and .hrapnel-like frag ments of metal mowed down (Ha crew and bystanders. Six men were killed iDBlantly. Hospital units rushed wounded to Rockford, III., where one soldier died later In a hospital. Brig. Gen. Milton Fore man, commanding officer of the camp, has begun an investigation of the tragedy, to determine whether faulty construction of the mortar or faulty service of the piece was re. sponsible. Mail Train Is LootedByGang Railway Clerk Near Death! Result Of Holdup Of Santa Fe Flier SANTA ANA, Calif.. Aug. 24. (United News) B. E. Campbell, a government mall clerk, was taken out of a Santa Fe mall car uncon scious and near death shortly af ter the train pulled In here late Monday. Tbe mail section of the 4raln had been rifled of a considerable amount of cash snd registered mall. Tie exact amount of the loss waa not determined because of the confu sion mall manifests had been thrown in by the robber.. Two bandits are believed to have boarded the train between Oceanslde and lifais city. Campbell was severely beaten about the head and may die. -Trainmen were unaware that a roLbery had taken place until they opened the mail car and stumbled over Campbell', prostrate body. The train was enroute from San Diego to Lo. Angeles. Lone Argument Kavors Poor Shippington Road ATLANTIC CITY, X. J., N. J.. Aug. mi. A b"l In tho street saved tho Hfo of Nora Pnuiirr, age 12. An ambulance was rushing her to tho hospital after she hod tried to swallow quar ter and It stuck In her throat. Tlie car hit the depression In the street and tho Jolt jarred, loose the two-hit piece. Cattle Rustling Ring is Uncovered mliend BEND, Aug. 24. (United News) Charges of cattle rustling, re ported to have been done on a largo scale, resulted in the arrest here Monday of P. Robertson and Ralph Whaley. with others exnected to be taken Into custody soon. The evidence is understood to incltide numerous hides of cattle, mutilated so that the brands do not show, and hugo piles of partly burned bones found on a deserted ranch 45 mile, east of Bend. Mother, Slayer Of Illegitimate Babe Must Go On Trial LITTLE HOCK. Ark., Aug. 24. (United News) Physicians here are fighting desperately to save the life of Miss Alma Siler, 18-years-old mother, to bring her to trial for the murder of her Illegitimate child. Arriving here from Judsonta late Sunday, the girl gave birth to the child in an alley, beat It to death with a large stone, and then dragged herself to the home of friends, where she called aa ambulance. "I couldn't stand the disgrace." she sobbed, when taken io a hospital.. Prison Investigators Inspect Salem Prison SALEM, Aug. 24. After devoting more than a day to an Inspection of the state prison here, the committee named by Governor Pierce Saturday adjourned Its labors Monday to a later date as yet undecided upon. Adjournment of the Investigation was prompted, at least In part, by the inability of Col. C. G. Thompson, superintendent of Crater lake na tional park, to continue, as a mem ber of the committee. YOUTH, ATTACKER OF LITTLE GIRL IS NOW AT LIBERTY . m -t i I". . ., v Boy Alleged To Have Mad Confession But Is .. ' ,- , : Turned Loose , ASSAULTED GIRL OF 3 District Attorney ; Claims No Provision In Laws t ' For Jailing Youth- August 24 TWO KILLED IX CRASH MEDFORD, Mass. Two. men were killed, two others are be lleved ' to be dying; and seven were injured seriously when gasoline motor driven two-car possenged train on tho New Hav en, railroad struck a track ln which the 11 were riding at a crossing near here late Monday. - TOXG WAR IX N. Y. TOXG WAR IX K. Y. NEW YORK A renewal of iMtlastawidto' 'Warfare, tiuawea, the, On Leong tong and tbe Hip Sing tong is expected as the result of the slaying of Ho Kee, member of the On Leong faction, who was killed while at work in a basement restaurant in the heart of Chinatown, early this morning. KIXANCIAL HEADH CONFER LONDON Joseph CailUnx and Winston Churchill have begun their discussion, of French pay ment of the debt to Great Bri tain, but no announcement of progress has . been made. The conversations will be continued Tuesday. ; PRECARIOUS POSITION QriNCY. Iir. The Rev. Rob ert Van Meigs, patsor of the First Baptist church of Quincy, will be asked to preach at the funeral of Mrs. May Sellers, 68, whose husband waa killed more than a year ago In a collision With Uie preacher during a game of volley ball. XCX-STOP FLIGHT DELAYED SAX FRAXCISCO Need of additional time to overhaul the three navy esaplanes, which will attempt a non-stop flight to Ha waii has caused a postponement of the hop-off, which now is set tentatively for next Monday, ait S n. m. WASHINGTON Headed south ward after abandoning explora tion beyond the polar sea, the MncMlllnn arctic expedition reach ed Igloo Houndy, 100 miles south of Ktah, in Murchlson sound, early Sunday, Commander Robert E. Byrd, Informed tho navy depart ment Monday In a delayed radio' dispatch. A Klamath Falls tot, a baby girt, was outraged by a 17-year-old youth,; according to a confession alleged-to-hare been obtained yesterday ' by . Deputy Sheriff Joe Kimse. ' And the little glrPs assailant' was' not lodged In jail. On recorfcmen-' datlon of E. L. Elliott,' district at-' torney. the yonth was released on' his own recognizance. - U'.u, Elliott, explaining to newspaper men who demanded to- know , the- rftasiio foj- hi action, saia yesterday that ''there Is no regular place is)' Klamath county for the incarceration of a youth under IS years of age.' Moron At Large . ' 4 Prominent Klamath Falls "attor neys declared last night that it la. absurd to say that a person, accused of a heinous crlae, . could not ' be detained, regardless of" his age".1' "Do you mean to eay" Elliott vjaa asked by a 'reporter, ;'that .there Is. nothing you can do with, a man of the type arrested today that Klam atn. county has no place wherSj h can be kept ?" . ,. .l,a . And the district attorney repljed that, with the. exception of. soma iiMLka-sbJf jufcrters, the communlt provides'. 'no, tfjftee tor-erring youths,' Many Klamath Falls, .cltisensj learning' of the district attorney's .ueaestinn in' thn r'nnvf "ila,fMj1 that some move should be made to provide for characters accused of a crime' of the nature of the 'one brought to light yesterday.'1 - . ... r i Attacked Baby . Qir , -?; A youth, who gave his name as Kenneth North, said to be an an- ploye of a local lumber, company, was alleged by Deputy Sheriff Kln- sey to have admitted the assault on the , three-year-old girl, . . . t ; ' , "It we bad had a India arallahla we would hare dealt with his case Immediately." District Attorney. El liott Insisted. "A. It was Ing to my Interpretation of ' tfte 'aw there was notulng mora., we could, do."; . f J '; t it A number of citizens of Klamath Falls declared last nlrhl Ih.t ' l there Is no place to Jail Individuals who annoy children, one should be arranged tor immediately. ; , il But District Attorney Elliott said he . believed that the 17-t..e-nlrt youth ought not to be placed. up stairs with the other law 'Violator. ALLEGED BANDIT ) ' SLAYER CAPTURED ' I' SAN FRANCISCO,!' Aug. J4. (United News) Edwin Schultz, JT, believed to have been no of the men who tattled the police In the robbery of . tbe Hellmso bank ln Los Angeles last Saturday, was ar retted here late Monday. Schultz was seated In an automo bile, bearing the-flicense .. lumber which Los Angeles officers had tel egraphed here as the one on a rm chlne used ln the Tobbery.,, He was accompanied by a woman, said to be his wife, who also was detain ed. . "' 300 FIRE FIGHTERS BATTLE NEW BLAZE BAiN DIEGO. Calif.. Aug. 24. Three-hundred fire fighters wero battling a fierce new blase here which by Monday night had al ready penetrated Into the tall tim ber of he Cleveland forest reserve. The fire, the most destructive of the season, waa fanned ' by a strong west wind and is heading toward the fertile valley of the San Luis Rey river. SAKES ALIVE! SNAKES ALIVE! TWO HEADED ONE FOUND BY K. F. GIRL Snakes and no snake., there Is at least one girl In Klamath Falls who has no fear of them! One headed or two headed, It makes, no difference (to Feme Koenlg! Miss Koenlg, a young Klamath Falls girl, found a two-headed snake, a young garter. In the rear of her home at Third and Jef ferson streets. There may have been a scream or two little ones but these are not reported by the neighbors who were called , to witness , the find of Miss Koenlg, when she captured the little Siamese snake, and placed It, with a little grass,' In a pink pssteboard box. ' ' A little bread, a fly or two, fad such delicacies, dear to the palate of all Mr.. Snakes, have been placed in the box, but what wor ries Miss Koenlg, should there be two files' for two heads, or what Is the diet for a Mr., Two-Headed-Garter Snake? ' - t .n ..'.