The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942, September 11, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE KLM5ATH NEWS United Neva and United Yes Telegraph Service, No. 255. (Every Morning Except Monday) No KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.,- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 Price Five ( mil )T ATVT1? "Ervr mfrO nDrnf to ALIVE NGINE BEL CHE S STEAM; 3 INJURED WIRE FLASHES ORNING FINDS FRANK WAY JURY IN DEADLOCK Jgineer Blinded By JURY STILL OUT team Grasps Brake i I HIS MUKNINli IN Knd Stops Log Train! fKM WAY CASE leer, Fireman And Foreman Terribly Scalded' In omotive Accident Near Shaw-Bertram Lumber np; Heroic Action Of Engineer Who Is Believed slly Burned Saved Train From "Running Wild" Nude Body Found BAN FRANCISCO The nude body of a young woman, dis covered Thursday on the ocean beach south of San Francisco brought to light another mys tery. It was regarded as possible that the same person or persons who killed Bessie Loren Kerau- By Attorneys; r Frank Way son, the ki cerrito swamp victim. na iw ICItpuHni'HD 1U1 1I0 win murder. Multllation of the body occurred In both cases. "Hung Jury" Is Predicted, foroe men are lyinif in their beds in Shaw Bertrnm lum- mp, near here, their bodies Hwuthed in bandajreH, o scalded, their removal to Klamath Falls hospitals could accomplished last r.iKht. lie men were scalded by steam escaping from the loco- in which they were, riding yesterday morning. The of the logging train was running too low on water, ac- K to J. It. Shnw, of the Shaw Bertram company. The sheet blew out stay bolts in the boiler, causing steam to brth into the engine cab, where the three were riding, tporls that the locomotive was blown to pieces were by Mr. Shaw. . he injured : . . liKineer W. H. Holt, (perhaps fatally.) South, fireman, badly scalded on head, arms, legs and pr. . . .. . fe Potter, son of" Camp Superintendent Potter, badly I over body. igineer Holt, by his heroism, saved the train from "run- Id," crashing down a hill, dashing the train to bits, and y killing of loggers, when the cab filled with flesh iK steam. Groping blindly, he found the throttle, stop- e engine, and jumped through the cab window. bin was about 3 miles out I Is Calmly Awaiting Fate; Three Possible Verdicts By Instructions ' lamp making Its morning 1 logs when the accident oc- It was going up a four trade on nil power, and was top of the summit from takes a down-grade cnur.te. and physicians were rush- Kl(math Fulls hospitals to lierimii. Clio serious coudi- i lie Injured men' rendered It i bring them lo local bospl-; i i Ih no bhimo allnched to Mr. Shaw declnred yestor-1 P'lin actions of the Iruln crew ' steam poured forth is noiiKh as to their bravery inclining." j VIVIANI GIVEN I PRESSIVE FUNERAL WiH Block Attempt To Save Boy Slayer NEWARK. N. J., Sept. 9. (United News) .Any attempt lo save Harrison Noel, confessed slayer of six-year-old Mary Duly, from Ihe death penalty by ap pointing u commission of allen IhIs to pass on his sanity, will be blocked." Prosecutor J. Victor d'Alolu has announced. Supporting his claim Ihal Noel was sane at the limn of the slay ing of Mary and Raymond Pierce, the colored laxl driver. d'Aloia pointed out that the youth had demunded money from the Dow ers, a wenllhy family of Mont rlair. The defendant, he said, had devised an Intricate plot. Sept. 10. Rene Vivlnnn, premier when the Oormnns 'r Purls In 1914. was bur- irMtluy, without benefit of '"' I'lo funeral procession lirough the rurul streets of Reu. about 40 kilometers, rls without the pomp or which might have been to mark the last passing firmer head of the govern- iki one of the greatest of nrutors. Vlvlanl was burled 'Us wife over whose grave prostrate In 1923. He Tovered from the shock of th. socialistic, free thinking f'ivlanl did not believe In the clergy wn not repre 1 his grave, A fow ora- "e made and the ceremony r' fy 1914, Vlvlnnl withdrew "th troops ten kilometers the Franco-German frontier 'ndlratlon that France did Plwiir. Iter kills big h AT JENNY CREEK Mnellenberg, a salesman of ' among the flrsi to bag ,ln Klamnth yesterday morn- e shot a blir hiieb itnnr near r'r,,ek nbotit 9 o'clock yes- ""'1 proudly brought It to Other Miraculous Plane Rescues At Sea Are Recalled The rescue of tho crew of the PX-lt-l recalls olbrr thrilling res mm at son of nlrincn believed lost. Harry Hawker, Kngllsli nlr man, was forced to dmrrnd nt sen while attempting a non-stop flUtht from w Kounillund Ireland. He was picked up by Hie steamer Moil, unequipped with wireless and for days the world believed hhn lost until Iho Moil put Into Scotch port. Tho NC-1, Vnllcd Stales nnvnl senplnne, was forced down off the Asorcs In attempting a trnns. nllnnllc flight, but came Into port soon, under her own power. Meat. Lrljcli Wnile, world flier, was forced to descend nt sen, off the Faroe Islands, north of Hoot Intnl. He was picked tip by llrlslol trawler, after being; ndrlft several hours. .. Antonio Lorntclll, Italian avui lor who nccompniilcd the Vnlteil Mates' round the world filers on their hop from Iceland to tJreen la nil. It was three days licfnro l.ociilelll nnd the three niemlieni of his crew were picked up by the V. H. 8. Richmond, but. the Italian airmen lind suffered lit tle except from exhaustion. Early this morning while Klamath Falls lay quietly asleep, lights shone brightly from windows on the second floor of the courthouse, where, in one of the rooms, 12 men were attempting to decide whether George F. (Frank) Way shall walk from his cell a free man, or shall swing by the neck until dead. And, in another part of the courthouse, there sat quietly the young sheepman, whose fate they held in their hands. Apparently unmoved he wait ed late for the word 'which would tell him whether or not he must mount the 13 steps which lead to the gallows in the death-chamber at Salem. Wuy, son of a wealthy family of cenlral Oregon alockmcn, was on trlul in CJrcuit Judge Leavilt's court for the murder of Timothy T. Mur phy. Klamath sheepman, following a quarrel over the possession of a black sheep. The state contended that Way had brutally beaten Mur phy to death, while Ihe defense held that, If Way was In any way respon sible, it was because he lawfully en gaged Murphy In a fulr fist fight. The Jury retired al 9:26 o'clock last night, after it had received Its Instructions. At 3 o'clock this morn ing it was still out, and predictions of a "hung" Jury wore made. Three possible vordlcts were made possible by the instruction of Judge Leavltt murder In the first degree, murder in the second degree, and manslaughter, nnd for n long time after the Jury had retired to con sldcr the evidence which had been I n l rod moil, crowds lingered about Ihe corridors of Iho courthouse. For nearly two hours from 7 o'clock until nearly 9 o'clock Hor ace Manning, special prosecntor. who closed for the state, held the Jury nnd a packed courtroom while he nleadcd for Justice. It was an elo quent plea with the facts, as they had been brought out by witnesses, driven home, one after one, In their Inglcnl sequence. Closing Argument "It Is true." Mnnning said, "that I was engaged as a special prose cutor by the brother of the deceased Tim Murphy and I feel, that any brother, tinder the circumstances, would have been Justified in hiring counsel who would endeavor to do (Continued on I'ago Seven) Leonard Wood Jr. Broke NEW YORK Financial misfor tune has befallen another son of (leneral Leonard Wood, governor of the Philippines. Leonard Wood, Jr., filed bankruptcy here today, and listed his liabilities as $14,685 ant his assets as 1842. . j Coolldge s Is Rack f, D. C.-r-P WASHINGTON,, D. C.-r-Preai-dent Coolldge came back borne to the capital Thursday from his 11 week vacation In Swampscott, Mass., and found little difficulty In getting back into the white house harness. French .Morality PARIS The tens of thousands ot , Illegitimate French children may yet bear . a name! Senator Louis Pasquet, purposes to intro duce n bill Into the French par liament to legtlmize French chlld dren, who are born out ot wed lock. It la estimated that one out of every five French babies come Into the world fatherless before the law. , Riff War Gets Hot TIRED, SEATOSSED HEROES TELL OF BITTER JIARDSHIP Men Cold And Drenched By Slapping Waves Had Hope With Every Sunrise And Disappointment As Night Fell On High Seas SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10. (United Newt) Stories aflame with romance, yet stories of hardships, suffering- and ex haustion, stories of hope that rose with dawn and sank with sunset, came from' the five members aboard the submarine R-4 following their belated rescue, 10 days after that never-to-be-forgotten, radio message was flashed by Com mander Rodgers: "We. can't make it; running out of gas fast: Submarine Rescues Crew After 10 Day Float On Open Sea Crew Found Clinging To Intact Plane Near Little Hawaiian Isle; Torpedo Boat Dis- patched With Doctors; Men Near Ex haustion; Honolulu Is Wild. .-;; y;ii. ."We clung . to the wings of j boen Tfcued HONOLULU, Sept 10. (United News) Weakened by ten days of hardship, but still able to carry on with a cheerful grin, Commander John Rodgers and the four men who sailed out over the Pacific with him in the navy seaplane PN-9-1, have been saved from what seemed like certain death. ':;" '"' The submarine R-4, cruising off the coast of the island of Kauai late Thursday afternoon, sighted the plane floating on a choppy sea- After making sure that he had come upon the PN-9-1, and not some other wrecked navy craft, Lieut. D.: R. Osborne, Jr., commander of the underwater ship, radioed navy headquarters here, that Kodgers and his plucky flyers had the plane, we straddled the en gines, hoping always that with each swelling roll, which dumped us roughly in a wave pocket, that we would rise on the swell to see the mast of a speedy American destroyer," caid Commander Rodgers. His story was relayed to Pearl harbor from the submarine- "We slept on watches, one man alwavs on the lookout for thn aiht of craft. We expected to be pick ed up within a few days,. The last FEZ. Morocco Five brigades of French Infantry and artillery with support are driving against Zeroual tribe between MJara and II. . ..V. with tha ilmihla Tllir- pose of subduing the Zerouals and tn "ere hell. We all got testing out the resistance along this front which has been com paratively quiet since June. Tildeq Vpholds Titlo PHILADELPHIA After a thrilling match In which games and sets went many times to deuce, William T. Tilden II.. van quished Jean Borotra ot France in the first match of the Davis cup challenge round at tho Ger mantown cricket club. Troops Hunt Mayers MEXICO CITY Three of the alleged murderers or Robert Maurer, the French agriculturist who was killed by Agrarians, have been arrested by federal troops. Tho troops are close on the trail of others ot the gronp of assassins. "Sparks'" Wife Rrnvc TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Tho young wife of Otis M. Stantz. ra dio operator "on the PN-9-1, never abandoned her faith that her hus band would be found, she said when Informed of the rescue of the seaplane's crew. hallucinations alt frequent Inter vals. We wept tears ot Joy as some one would cry that a ship was sighted, and tears ot disappointment when we found it was' Just that desert-thirst Imagination. . j "We were short of water the last few days. but measured It out in small quantities, drop by drop, hop-1 ing, ever hoping that relief would come. "The nights were cold. We were drenched by each slapping, hissing wave. It was hell." Commander Rodgers fell asleep, exhausted. The exact location ,irt which the J lane, .was siahtad- -wtui . longitude 153:30 west, latitude 24 north. It was IS miles northwest of Nawiliwili Kauai, and 110 miles from Honolulu. HONOLULU GOES WILD ' ' . ' . Taking the wearied aviators aboard, Osborne put 'a 'tow line on the PN-9-1 and headed his craft toward shore.'" Upon the bare flash that .Rodgers had been saved, the city of Honolulu turned into a state of excitement such as it never has witnessed before. Both morning newspapers soon ' put . extra editions on the streets, and the townsfolk, who day ago had gone into mourning for the airmen, turned out in a wild demonstration. : I Streets were transformed In aa Instant to carnival tones, Joy mount ing high as the word was quickly passed along. "That Fine, ThaU Fine" Says Secretary Wilbur WASHINGTON, Sept.ll. Secre tary of the Navy Wilbur said that he was "very happy" when notified early today ot the finding ot the PN-9-1. "I'm delighted and very happy," Wilbur said. He asked eagerly for details of the discovery of the plane, and when told that the crew was In good henlth said repeatedly: "That's fine, that's fine." Men Nimrods of Klamath Falls, Are Nonplussed; Women Here Score Beat When Season Is Opened; , Big Deer Shot, Dragged In From Wilds, By Pair Seasoned male hunters' of this man's country were last night wearing their chins on the top buttons of their respective vests. They had learned that two wo men, iinaccompnnled, had entered the wllrts of the Huckleberry mountain district, 80 miles from here, and had bagged the first doer reported killed In the Klam ath district. The women are Mrs. Alice Ilnmllton and Miss Theresa Sand erson, both of whom are employed nt the Klamath Valley hospital. The deer, a five-point buck, was dragged for a mile and a halt by the two women before they secur ed male assistance In removing it to a waiting automobile Previously, Miss Sanderson, who Is head nurse at the hosplal, had operated on the animal with a potato knife, the only Implement which was available. Late Wednesday night the two women left Klamath Falls In a closed car. When they reached the foot of the mountain they stopped and, nntll dawn broke, slept In the machine. At day light they made their Way up a canyon, and it was a short time later, by a "reek, that they saw the first fresh tracks of deer. They followed and, within a few minutes, sighted the big buck across the canyon. Mrs. Camp bell fired and the animal dropped. He got up, however, and it was her second bullet which finished the Job. Across the canyon they drag ged the animal and, until they were exhausted, the two women pulled It toward their machine. When fatigue overcame them, they requested the assistance of men and. triumphantly, the two women returned here yesterday after noon. Although' Mrs. Hamilton has hunted considerably. It was Miss Sanderson's tlrst experience. She declared, however, that she ex pects to make another trip Into the wilds next week. Plane Rescue Heard Over Radio In K. F. E. M. Bubb, cashier ot the Am erican National bank was prob ably the first man in Klamath Falls to hear, over the radio of the rescue ot the PN-9-1 and its crew. Mr. Bubb heard it broad casted from KPO, San Francisco, even before the newspapers were Informed. T. A. Albertson and H. D. Mortensen and Pelican City heard it on the next broadcast from the Los Angeles Examiner. Winter's Jewelery and Jlrlr. Mueller of the Baldwin Hardware, also heard the radio message. $400,000,000 TO BE SLASHED FROM TAXES SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., Sept. 10 A tax bill, slashing the burden on incomes by perhaps (400,000,000 a year, will be passed by the house before Christmas, and the senate will pass It and President Coolldge will sign it before March 15, making the reductions apply on this year's in come. This was the confident pre diction of Nicholas Longworth, speaker-designate of the house, after a conference with President Coolldge this evening. "BRAXTWOOn" FOR SALE LONDON John Ruskin's home is under the hammer of the auctioneer. Known throughout the world as Brantwood House, where the classic author lived from 1871 until his death, the dwelling stands on the wooded slopes of Coniston Lake. NEW SHERIFF IX COOS MARSHFIELD. W. W. Oage. a member ot the county court, assum ed duties yesterday as sheriff of Coos county, following tha recent death of Sheriff Edward Elllngson. WIKK WON'T RELIEVE IT SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11 Mrs. Byron J. Connell, wife of the navi gation officer of the PN-9-1, was In Miami, Fla., when she heard the news of her husband's rescue. She wired Washington for confirmation The flagship of th destroyer . squadrons, the U, 8. S. MacDonough, was dispatched Thursday night to meet the R-4 and. If Lieut. Osborne deemed it advisable, to transfer Rod gers and his companions ' to tha larger vessel. Physicians and medical supplies were sent out on the MacDonough, is honored that the men, al though reported in good health, are In a terribly weakened condition. . uo, are uut expected at Pearl har bor until Friday forenoon.' The PN-9-1, by keeping above tha water since September 1, set a rec ord for seaplane durability, as It Is the longest snch experience known. At Pearl harbor, where th sub marine -was expected to report with its saved men as soon as tha trip can be made, excitement that was checked partially under the restraint of navy regulations, flared high. Rodgers at one time commanded the aviation section at Pearl harbor base, and he has hundreds of friends throughout the Islands. Lieut. Osborne's brief communica tion did not tell of the condition ot the men. except to state that they were' In good health.. The PN-9-1 was picked up mora than 200 miles from the spot where it was thought to have plunged Into tha heavy sea. east of the Island of Maul, on Sep- - tember 1. , Plane Drifter Far ' Submarines, destroyers, mine sweepers and airplanes that have been constantly searching the seas since the plane was forced by lack ot gasoline to abandon Its attempt . to make, the mainland to Honolulu Jump without a stop, must have passed the helpless men, clinging to their plane, time and time again within the last week. . ", The PN-9-1 had drifted. In part Of its Jonrney, through some of tha steamer lanes ot vessels plying be tween America, Hawaii and .the south seas. , It is held her as. al most Inconceivable that one of these ships had not sighted her before. Admiral 8. 8. Robinson, commander-in-chief of the battle fleet, has ordered all ships that have bees an- (Continued ea rage Two)