THE KLAMATH NEWS
United News and United Press Telegraph Services
.No. 254 (Eveiy Morning Except Monti.,,.
1F.S
e Province Aidt Checking
Threatening Flames
Many Ecape Death
SET BY RADICALS
Lrjacki Dissatisfied At
ing To Work Labor Day;
lole Towns Threatened
10,000
TIMBER
S Things Too Hot
FIREOSL8
HiioonotLiongo
KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1925
Price Five Cent
Cole Reported To Departed
City After Receiving
Severe Slugging
NAVY SECRETARY
ON AIR MISHAPS
M. Cole has ,,ft Klumulh
Shenandoah Disaster Was Due
To Tornado Squall and
Was Unavoidable .
rTAWA, Ont.. Sept. 9.
ed News) Fifty million
bf lumber, valued at be
h $3,000,000 and $4,000,
w.
Fulls.
The mnn who. l10 potion say,
shot ,i.llo Conen. ir.n il i-
"Ircot. followhiK a abort rhiino In'
an automobile, has qUt tho clly. I
.mo inn Aran, he has folded his -Authorized Hawaiian r light on
DENIES ANY POLITICS
Int., .1 .11 . 1 - . .
uuU Biirimy stolen away.
This, according to reputable local
officers.
Advice of Admiral Moffett
That Time Was Ripe
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (Unit
ed News) Formal denial that the
Cole, they say. left tho city In
company with State Prohibition Of
ficer Mcllrido yestorday afternoon.
Mcllrldo, they say. found l nprna.
ary to leavo Klamath Kalis on ac-' Shcnandrah disaster caused by re-
count of tho lllneia nf hi mifa ductlon of helium escape valves on
whirh n fnw tinntu v0,u "turn Is not ulu '"nni wa maae vveanesaay
wniin H IIW noun agO'known : nlEht bv Snrrntnrv nr tha Kavv Wll.
bart of the choicest stand-l cole. Tuesday m.hi. .i ur.
mber in Canadn. is a mn In the head bv an i,ni,i,.niiriH .! Wilbur Issued a statement
Radio Causes Decline
In Marriage Rate For
More Reasons Than 1
LOS ANGHLES. Sept. 9.
(United News) Radio is tho
greatost boon to single blessed
ness man bus ever devised. It
Is largely responsible for the
decline In the marriago rate.
It takes the placo of any wo
man, anywhere, any time.
Because, It Is louder than
most women, less expensive, eas
ier to stop and Inexhaustible
In gossip.
Mothers and fathers who want
love struck youths home several
years longer should buy them
radio outfits on the theory that
s good receiver In a boy's room
keeps the girls alone and knit
ting at other houses.
Waldo Tupper, drector of the
third annual radio trades exposi
tion bere and poosslbly the only
radio man who never credited
Eve wltb being the first loud
ipeaker. Is responsible for the
pointed paragraphs above.
.P.
OF RATE INCREASE
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i Lengthy Testimony Given By
Rail Chief Showing Road's
Impossible Condition
; FARMERS FIGHT RAISE
Government Ownership Only
Solution If Freight Rate
Is Not Increased
rty of the HawkeHbury
it company, was saved
the wind veered sudden-
muses and lumber mills
at $5,000,000 were
only by strenuous bat-
houlderinir ashes, who, with J. O'Connor, ho was at-
t.iirnino- iirnn in a ,1.. lR1PHnk to-take to the police sta
)UrninK ; area in adense : ,,. yesterday O'Connor profess-
P" ""- om Ullawa.led Ignorance of the other mans
brought Under control Identity and. after being fined, was
kesday night after draper- u"''1 y 5lunllJ"' Jud Oagha-
iui ia vy IIUJIUIUUH OI VOI
I r. ..ui . .
si niu iiKiuiTH, against a 'men to the station after they had
fg forest fire. been arruscd of creating a dlstur-
town of Hawkcsbliry l",ni'e ,n ,0',,' Chinese restaurant.
il,:,. . i '. ' () the way the unidentified man
outskirts ho but 300 ,i,ii .,rllrk ,, ,,, r.i .,h
pom tho big island on 'escaped In the darkness. O'Connor
the fire destroyed much I ur cio until Patrolman
Mines arrived and took mm into
rualody.
Colo Buffered a gash In tho head.
Cole Is said to havo been the
man who shot Congo after, It was
charged, Congo had thrown two
Jugs from his automobile. Congo
denim tbat he had any liquor In
his car. and further savs that he
apparatus and volunteer !"" not speeding at tho time the
from Ottawa, played a vital mnn I'egan to shoot at him.
bringing to a hall a I.I,..,.
threatened for a tlmo to be I IP O PrOOTTl WratWM
'"n"" min ill in, iiih
t Canadian lumbering. Thoro
Imost nilraculous oscunoa
ilh.
fire ia hellnved to have been
try. Kmployea of the lum-
Incern wore forced to work
lior Day, which caused somo
ifaitlon.
Timn I'hmIi' HI Hi ken
was thrown Into llnwkea-
hen the great draft from
:lng fire carried hugo. burn-
inks as high as 300 feet In
snd fur long distancos. j
town of Croenvllln, on tho
of tho Ottawa river was
d with embors and ashes.
nllahlc fire apparatus was
fom Ottawa to help tho Hawk-
Lumber company, which hns
'illlons of feet of valuable
and timber.
ex
plaining that the alteration In the
escape valves had nothing to do
with the accident.
"The Shenandoah," Wilbur said,
"struck a small unanticipated tor
nado or line squall which she could
uot avoid.
Cole attempted to take the two I. " !
r i-
1 WIRE FLASHES
i
1 -
Collides With Big
Plate Glass Front
fch Lady Mother
po Poor To Give
pon School Books
broken tones a mother, who
for a living, yestorday call-
Thero Ih a holo In ono of tho
windows of tho Paattmo pool hall
today.
In that bnln, so to speak, there
Is a story. It tolls of men who
last night acuttorcd behind pool
tal.les and tho safe and chairs and
other things which might servo to
protect ono from a bullet. Hut tho
holo
"I," announced an Inebriated In
dividual at the pool hall last night,
"wish to play cards."
Tho cxproaalon of tho desire was
accompanied by a grandiose gesture
In keeping with the Importance of
the statement.
"Nope." rulod an attendant. "Out
you go."
And out ha went. ,
The Intoxicated man was outrag
ed. Through the alcoholic hate
loomed the plate glass window a
nice shiny plato glass window with
pretty lettering on It.
There was an 1ce cream freezer
nearby. On the Ice cream freeier
was a top. The temptation provea
too much.
There was a crash. And the
habltuos of tho poolroom scattored
cipsl Paul Jackson of Kin
Iks school and explained that
In his second year of
Was not nlnvlns hnnnttv. tin
d school the opening day. i "ere, there and other places,
n learning he must have his
to start study yesterday he
not come thore was no
in the honnn.
boy had' worked nil summer,
look his earnings and that
mother to feed other hungry
m the famllv.
M the boy to school nt once."
ackson sympntjilrod. Moan
he learned that the boy had
good grades last year, was
nd resourceful. Ho was oiit-
"y Mr. Jackann and vnstor-
fiernoon was hard at his stu-'
n full sot of books.
p MEET TONIGHT;
PITIATION OCT. 1ST
Klamath Kalis lodge of Elks
tonight at 8: on n. m. for
F'fpoao of transacting regular
PS. Thla ! a ,nffi,ap muni.
'nR die mnnlhl nf Anirii,! and
P'er there Is only one meet-
'"onin, hut beginning Thurs-
l , regular weeKiy
will be held every Thurs-
h J
" the dlannnltlm nf rno-ntnr
(' tonight the next Initiation
rlnss will he October ,1
Four New Cases Of "
Whooping Cough Are
Reported .Yesterday
1 Tho whooping cough epidemic
Is not had In Klamath Falls.
Parents will do well to sond
their children to school.
Thero ' nil children who show
symptoms of the malady will be
quickly found and retired to their
homos. -
Ho doclarcd Dr. 0. S. Nowsom,
dlroctor of the coiionty health "nit.
yostorday. Ho said that Klnmath
Falls parents have nothing to worry
about
for the failure of the Pacific coast
Hawaiian flight. Ills statement
was Issued following an extended
conference here with Rear Admiral
W. A. Moffett, chief of the bureau
of aeronautics and Capt. C. W.
Steele, cemmandunt of the Lake-
hurst air station.
I'linvoblnblo IliaaNter
"It Is manifest," Wilbur said
"that the accident to the Shenan
doah was In no wise duo to the
change in tho escape valveB. The
igas bag did nt explode and was
intact at the time the SRcnandouh
brokevup."
Explaining-" the Issuance of his
statement, wunur sain.
"It seems wise without waiting
for the termination of the formal
inquiry to correct certain mislead
ing statements that are being pub
lished."
Wilbur announced that be had
directed the chief of tho bureau of
navigation to select "fivo of tho
most competent and learned offl
cera of the navy," to conduct a full
investigation of tho Shenandoah
crash.
No Ijinsriowlif IVotest
"Tho orders tssued for the Shen
andoah's flight wero issued by the
departmental officers as are all or
dorg for ships movements, as pro
vided by law and regulation.
"There was nothing political
whatever In the flight. Tho flight
was determined upon last Juno and
had no relation to tho polar flight
or the Hawaiian flight.
"Commander Lansdowno novor
protested against the flight In per
son or by communication to me or
any one in tho department and on
the contrary expressed his satistac
Cortliiucd On l ago Two
Four new coses wore discovered , witnesses.
yostcrdny, ho said, and tne cnuuren
Immediately wore taken caro of.
Slayer Of Girl
Six Is Indicted
20-Year-Old Demented Boy
Charged With Murder
In Six Minutes
NEWARK, N. J . Sopt. 0. Har
rison Noel, the 20-yoar-old victim
of demntla praccox, who confessed
murdering six-year-old Mary Oaly
and Raymond Pierce, a negro taxi
driver, was indicted late Wednesday
for the kidnaping of the little girl
and tho first degree murder of
Plerco.
Authorities of Essex county pre
sented their caso agninHt young Nool
to tho August grand Jury beforo It
ended Its tenure.
Hut six minutes were required to
present the evidence against Nool,
a captain of police detectives and
the county physician being the only
September 9.
VAIiKN'TINO IN.ICREO
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Rudolph
Valentino, screen sheik, narrowly
escaped Berlous injury Wednesday
when a runaway horso knocked
him down during the filming of
a picture near Lankershfm.
Valentino was knocked down In
an attempt to stop the horse,
frightened by a large mob of extras.
. KAKTHgUAKK SCARE
MURPHYSBOItO. 111. Insur
ance agencies here are swamped
with business ns a result of the
prediction by Professor Ruppel of
St. Louis university, of the pos
sibility of a severe earthquake in
the middlewest.
GIRLS MADE SLAVES
GENEVA. Seizure and enslave
ment of young tjtirl visitors to the
Mohammedan holy places of the
Arabian peninsula have become
so flagrantly practised that the
league of nations has investigated
and plans to abolish tho evil.
VP TO CONORESS
WASHINGTON That congress
should determine once and for all
the question of utility of the dir
glble as a military weapon. Sena
tor King of Utah, democrat, de
clared In making public the draft
of a resolution he will introduce
asking an. Investigation of the
Shenandoah and other disasters.
SLAIN BY BOOTLEGGERS
VINTON, Ia. Testimony from
16 witnesses at the coroner's In
quest Into the murder of Mrs. C.
B. Cook, W. C. T. U. official, has
indicated that the militant tem
perance leader had many enemies
in Iowa's bootleg clans, who had
reason to wish to halt her activi
ties. MASKED MAS CREATES TERROR
NASHVILLE, Tenn. A black
masked man In a Jot black suit
who, in a two weeks' reign of ter
ror, has attacked almost a score
of women, may be hunted by the
national guard It Jio continues to
elude the police. .
Already more than 600 patrol
men and detectives have been de
tailed to the case, and a six o'clock
curfew law has been established.
CHICAGO Sept. 9 (United News)
The hearing of the proposed 5
per cent in freight rates on 74 west
ern railroads continued here Thurs
day bofore the special session of the
I Interstate commerce commission.
1 Charles Donnelly president of the
Northern Pacific' railroad, one of
the witnesses told Clyde B. Aitch-
icu, chairman of the commission.
that In no year since the passage
of the transportation act has the
Northern Pacific railroad earned a
fair return on its Investment.
"At the end of 1924 the company's
Investment in road equipment, mat
erial and supplies and working capi
tal amounted to J 688,000.000,"
Donnelly said. "Upon this .invest
ment, it had a return for the year
1924 of 3.38 per cent. Its return
on Investment for the four preceding
years was 1.44 In 1920: 1.93
in 1921; 3.47 in 1922 and 2.93 In
1923." ' ,
Roads Economizing
Donnelly Bald It was unnecessary
to prove the Inadequacy of this re
turn and that there could be no
charge of extravagenct maintenance
costs. The freight rates, be said,
were simply too low.
Similar testimony regarding the
situation of the Chicago & North
western railroad was " presented by
Fred W. Sergeant, new president of
the road. The Northwestern rail
road has been giving thebest pos
sible transportation he said, and has
not been permitted to earn a fair
return. -
Mr. Donnelly was under cross-examination
most of the day by John
F. Benton, general counsel for the
National Association of Public Util
ity and Railroad Commissions. In
response to a question,' the railroad
president declared tbat "under exist
ing conditions," a rate increase
would not cause a depression of ag
ricultural products.
' Can't Compete In West
Mr. Benton elicited from him the
statement that the American wheat
grower is placed at a disadvantage
measured by the difference in rates
in his competition with Canadian
growers for the world market.
Mr. Donnelly said ho did not favor
the St. Paul plan as made public,
and declared he did not know
whether that method would give his
road a larger amount. "The theory
of It," said the witness, "is explain
ed with reference to the net oper
ating Income of the lines for 1924.
It is scarcely conceivable that it
could be applied rigorously to . a
Continued On Page Twj
CHAMP FAKER DIES
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. "Old
Tobey" side-show owner and fol
lower for 35 years, prince of cir
cus fakers, ono-tlme "wild man of
Borneo," inventor of pink lemon
ade, contemporary and ardent dis
ciple of P. T. Itanium, and the
greatest exponent of the now his
toric Cardiff giant, has passed on.
Evidence In Way
Murder Trial To
Be Over Tonight
Defense Will Contend Today Murphy Was Killed In Fair
v Fist Fight; Prosecution Introduces Broken Revolver
Butt As Evidence Of Foul Play; Way Expected. To
Take Witness Stand Today; Brilliant Final Arguments
Expected '
(By PAUL FARRINGTON)
"He said" '
, The witness, a grave-faced Irish youth, paused to clear
his throat. Lean, he was, and straight, and he was appear
ing yesterday, in Circuit Judge Leavitt's court as a character
in the final chapter of a tale of the Klamath country; a tale
of the desolate, wind-swept regions of Devil's Garden ; a tale
of two men who worked and rested and hated and fought
and of one who died.
"Yes?" ; ;
It was Horace Manning, special prosecutor, who was ques
tioning, and the tall youth was Ben Murphy, brother of Tim
othy T. Murphy, sheepman, who, the state of Oregon has said,
was murdered by George F. (Frank) Way, son of a wealthy
family of central Oregon sheepmen. Murphy, according to
the prosecution, was beaten to death on May 23, 1925.
The defendant, sdolld, black-
Americans Arrested
For Organizing Ku
Kluxers in Berlin
haired, well-groomed, evinced . no
emotion as the tale, slowly, was
unfolded.
Defense Is Jolted
Bit by bit the story had been
i pieced together as the state's wit
nesses had taken the stand. Dan
'Sullivan, a former employe, had told
of a quarrel which, be said, he
BERLIN, Sept. 9. (United News) ' rhear " twe "?d
Two naturalized Americans ofP"' heo W had lMi"'ed,.th4,t
German extraction, both ministers, ! ''ta,I, heel' wa8 his- Sheriff Burt
have been arrested In Silesia, on a Hawk,n8 bad "J tr
of ..Lin. aping to the defense contenUon
ku klux klan in Berlin.. A third wlien hf Insisted there were but
organiser escaped and Is believed to fflw ' ,cin'tJr .r h
be on h! way to the United States.'
quarrel on which Murphy, falling
.-?". . " "."''AI
to. or ynicago are tne arrestee, pair.
Burton Gray Schein. another son,
who was born at HIllsLoro, 111., es
caped
HIGH SCHOOL GIRL
SUSTAINS INJURY
MIrs Evelyn Francis, student In
Klamath county high school sus
tained a severe Injury yesterday,
when she fell down the steps lead
ing from the high school to the
street breaking her ankle. She Is
et the home of her parents and will
not return to her studies until the
" winter sessions opens, ankle ' is sufficiently honied.
If Noel Is to be Indicted for the
murder of Mary Daly, proceedings
will be token In Mountain View,
near which the killing occurred, and
which Is In another county.
Considerable criticism has been
directed nt Dlx W. Noel, tho youth's
father, and a New York lawyer, for
allowing his son, who was manifest
ly mentally Incapacitated, and had
been an Inmate of two institutions
for the mentally defective, to roam
at large. The elder Noel and of
ficials of tho Overbrook Insane asy
lum have conducted a newspaper ar
gument, each placing the blnmo on
WHITE HOL'HK HOl'NI)
SALEM,' Mass. President and
Mrs. Coolldge, accompanied by
Senator William M. Butler of
Massachusetts, left here on a
special train for Washington at
midnight Wcdnosday. After din
ing with Frank W. Stearns, the
presidential party motored hero
and hoarded tho special train at .
10 o'clock.
2.TO TROOPS KILLED
LONDON Of 1000 Spanish
troops engaged in fighting tho
Iliffians at Fendak Tuesday, 250
were killed, according to the Daily
Mall's correspondent at Tangier.
Tho lllff artillery has bnmbardr
ed tho military hospital at Teutan.
Both sides havo suffered serious
losses.
ItlOIXG IN CHINA
SHANGHAI Three Chinese
wore wounded and a British po
llcemnn bruised during an ex
change of bullets and stones be
tween a sqund nf police nnd n
Chinese mob.
Two Killed In
N. Y. Tong Riot
Furious Outbreak Partially
Checked When Reserves
Rush To Chinatown
NEW YORK, Sept. 9. (United
News) The New York police took
i determined measures Wednesday
night to end the recurrent Chinese
tong war when as two members of
the Hip Sing Tong were murdered
during the evening, they arrested
three principal leaders of the On
Leong tong and charged them as
responsihtle for the murders.
Tho killing and the arrests came
In loss than 36 hours after District
Attorney Ilanton and Police Com
missioner Enrlghf had warned the
two tongs that their leaders, many
of whom ore wealthy Chinese mer
chants would be held accountable
for further outbreaks.
The trio under arrest are Leo
Gee Min, national president of the
On Leong; Henry Moy, national sec
retary of the tong.
They are specifically charged
with causing the murders of Qui
Yee and Woong Hon.
An excited Chinaman rushed to
a patrolman on the border of
Chinatown with the Information
that there was a dead Chinaman In
a restaurant In tho heart nf the Hip
Sing section.
fair fist .fight, might have
iilrnek his head.-"T. fc. Wallao
postmaster at Bly. had explained
to the Jury tbat, Just before the
alleged killing occurred,- Way had
ThJ .n . ..tj . received an automatic and had
Berlin chapter of the'K. K. K. What SD0Wn " t0 hlm'
connection if any the Berlin klan! And Frank Wajr' the d.endant.
have had with the American or- had gated Impassively at the 12 men
ganlsatlon of the same name is not in the Jury box the 18 men who
known. The Berlin chapter had shall determine whether or not he
30 members, who operated as shall be called a murderer and shall
knlghtsof the fiery cross. They pay.
were pledged to fight "J9WS," and! Dying Utterance
other sinister elements." Manning, twisting his . watch
The foreign office reported to chain, gazed up at the state's star
the United States embassy, Wednes- witness. The Hps of the Irish
day, following ' the raid that two youth morved.
Americans had been arrested on a "Yes?" Manning encouraged.
JV . "rKau',U8 """ -He said." the Irish youth re
technlcal charge is conspiracy. Sev-! : ,' , ,k. .
... A1 isumed atarlng fixedly at the sroup
eral accomplices of the three Am- . '.. ,', .-,. w-
ericans were jailed, the police told
the United News.
Nation's Girl Beauties
Parading Their Charms
ATLANTIC CITY, N.'J., Sept. 9.
United News Atlantic City went
down to the railroad station Tuesday
to "see the train come in."
The crowd wasn't Interested In
the latest thing In locomotives, or
the fall style in coaches. It pushed
and squirmed and jostled to get a
glimpse of the 56 beauties hailing
from every corner of the land here
for. the annual beauty pageant, as
they tripped gracefully down the car
steps.
The good lookers came aboard the
beauty special, one of two unique
trains which run Into Atlantic City
each year. The other is the famous
express which brings the nation's
marble shooting champions for their
annual contest each June.
Senator King Will Ask
For Philippine Liberty
of attorneys, "he said, 'Frank Way
beat me over the head with ,a
gun'."
He was silent. Previously he had
explained how his brother had rid
den toward him on a horse, his
body swaying in the saddle. "Like
this," he said, Indicating. : His
brother, he said, then went to the
edge of the water near-by where he
bathed his face.
"And what," . asked Manning,
"happened then?" '
. Htates Evidence In
In the face of the Irish youth the
muscles became visibly taut. For
a second his glance, long resting
on Manning, roved and settled on
the expressionless face ot . Frank
Way.
"He sank to his knees uncon
scious," the youth said steadily.
Manning put .another question.
"And did your brother did he ever
speak again?"
It was very quiet In the court
room. ,
"No," Murphy answered.
Shortly before court was adjourn
ed the state Tested its case and the
defonse, seeking to disprove certain
statements made by state's witness
es, placed on the stand Charles I.
, I Taylor, Klamath deputy sheriff, who
Wed-.,lTes at BeattT and wno Wtt the
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. (United
News) Senator William H.
nf ITtnh inA ft,. ITnlt.ri
nosday, that he would reintroduce I ""t officer to arrive at the scene
his Philippine independence bm; of the tragedy..
early In the forthcoming session of") Prosecution Cracks ,
congress. He predicted, however, Taylor testified, after much qulb-
tbat the bill would meet strong op-bllng between attorneys for the
position due to the administration s jetate and the dofense, mat ne nan
attitude and he expects an antl- assisted in placing the prostrate
independence propaganda program form ot Tim Murphy Into an auto
to develop with the administration's! mobile in which ho was to ba
approval. rushed to Klamath Falls and that.
'I would net be surprised, how- shortly before he had offered his
ever, to see the administration at-; assistance, Ben Burphy had told
tempt to placate the Filipinos by him a story different from the one
offering some measure to widen the related on the stand,
powers of the Island legislature i Taylor said that young Murphy
and limit the powers of the gover
nor general," said the senator.
S 1,7,10,000 ESTATE
had said, when his brother got oft
hie horso, he didn't know whether
he had fallen or Jumped oft his
horse, and that, shortly hefort Tim
CHICAGO, Sept. 9. The estate of Murphy died, his brother bad mum
Edgar A. Bancroft, late American hied something, the gist of which
ambassador to Japan, Is valued at he had not gathered,
more than $1,760,000, according to Questioned previously on . the
a petition filed here Wednesday. Continued On Page Two