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

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Newspaper Page TextTHE KLMSATH NEWS Pages Actions Twenty Pages Three Sections United Neva and United Press Telegraph Service 1. (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1925 Price Five Cento BILLED, 6 HURT IN U. P. WRECK ) FATE JED BY MISSION to Change .tecess :n forces 1 SUte Body ive Wedge Railways MrDONAI.O indent f The I News) It 10. Upon tho . ion public service bardment before I .It), director ft fi ll O, C. ronti Ilia fnlo rail development. ' pant week the c. I and Northern U -4 Ilka two small til bin randy ran itk. The Northern m4 their ran. Tho tie will rait Monday 9t ft vice president, I witness land with terlon of dealing k logged rail bulld t' ren to Imperaan f, Jim Mill. In bar tin, to pro I appllcattona for railroad construc ts of broadgaug Aructton centered aliment londay afternoon . new alignment, ethern Ultra will I alnsl the state of e wrvice runinilaaion) isaptlng to drive a I the two big systems nth Injection of a I Wat-wont lino run t deaert country, hut legruphlral heart of TCUte thoy clulm beat bile of Oregon. It l on Page Hit) in Winner come Honor D. Duller hna come t Ointlncllnn of being be arraigned In a f alleged failure to Hie headlight on a jlnce Ilia new light jffect. fecnrdlng lo Acting Ponce Hd Kendall, td In J list lee court He waa arrested by Officer Knowlaa. a nppaar Mondny for law violations are t n speeding; a. 3. on a highway, nnd ( for npoartlng an 'a void foreign II- Hchor of tlie Pelican hna decided that,' In hi will exordia caro . when she allows n 1st lo furnish her t e, opposed to the i lows, the Instructor f a mnchlne to bring p Fulls when a ninn hotor car. I asked, "give you t docldort that the ho stepped Into lit Jte. In turn, stopped orator, ono hut a short dls- mnn spoke, accord-'teacher. Date Sought To! Allocate Water In River Basin Conservation Director Sends Notice Asking Advice ' For Meeting OI.YMI'IA, Wash.. Oct. 10.- No tleea have been aent mil by Krlo J. Ilurnna, director of conservation, lo rcpreacntattvea of Iho atalea Inter ested, asking If Ilia hint week of Oc tober or the find week of Novem ber will be aultnbla llino In call a meeting of the committee lo allocate the walera of the Columbia biiKlii project, aa between the various alntea. Idiiho. Montana, Oregon nud the federul governmenl. an well an Wanhlnglon, will nend reprcscnta llvea. The mealing will bo called by llnrnen an aoon an he hears from j tho committeemen, regarding the date. It; K. Tlffnny. Washington's representative. In thu alate siipcr vlnor of hydraullca. The committee will bo called to meet In Spokane. A meeting wan held hint year, but on nrc-niint ofj Innufflrlent data, waa adjourned until thin full. IS FREE OF Jury Clears Husband For Kill ing Friend Whom Ho Al leges Wrecked His Home TUCSON. Arlr.. Oct. 10. Alfred Shackloford waa declared not guilty of the murder of Jumee Dndson this afternoon In Iho Pin county crim inal court, where he haa been on trial alnce Mondny. The Jury deliberated one hour before arriving at the verdict. Shackloford. a railroad clerk, waa ncruned of the murder of a former friend, Jnmea Iiodnon, head of the Benedict Itealty company, Tucson. Kvldence adduced, brought out the fact that Dodnon had eloped from I .on Angelea with Sharklo ford'a wife, Mrs, Agnea Shackloford. and the couple bad lived aa man and wife at Sun Jone, 8anta Crux and other ptarea. Wealthy Tobacco Man Is Called By Death NEW YORK. Oct. 10. James It. Duke, millionaire tobacco manufac turer died at hln home here thin evening. The millionaire known through out tho country for hla financial anil phlliintrcplc eccentricities, had been 111 for 11 weeks, beginning with a nervous breakdown, which ho flittered while, at Newport.' 11. I. HT.tTK HKSTH CASK, SALEM, Oct. 10. The state rent ed lta cane todny against Tom Mur ray, convict, accused of murdering John Sweeney, prison guard, In the sensational prison break August 12. INTLEMAN OFFERED SCHOOL TEACHER CITY THEN AS POLITELY INFORMS HIS IR HE IS A FIRST CLASS BOOTLEGGER "Do you know whnt my occupa tion la?" he asked. The school teacher confessed oho didn't. "I," ho suld, "in a bootlegger." Tho pedant opened her mouth. Then she closed It. Tho mnnoeuver with the opening to the ornl cnvlty was repented several times. Yet she didn't say anything. Tho driver was extremely court eous. And, at the edge of Klam ath Palls, ho deposited his pas senger nt a point where ho wished to alight. "Ho wns very nlro." the school lonelier ohservod Inter. "Yes, ho was very nice. And yet " As has been said', tho school tonrnnr hna tletormlned. to exer cise enrpful Judgment In Iho future SENATORS WREST SEW VICTORY Pirates Defeated in Wintry Gale, 4-3 FANS SHIVER IN COLD Sam Rica Pulls Sensation Stunt Saving Game By Phenominal Catch WASHINGTON. OH. 10. With the help of a stout fighting heart and some luck tho Washington Senators came from behind here this afternoon and defeated tho Pitts burgh Pirates, 4 to 3 In the third game of the world aeries. With more than 30.000 heavily clad spectators shivering in the atandn. and corning a wintry gale thnt blew through the Griffith atad lum, the two major league chum plons put on one of the weirdest games that has ever been played a world aerlca. Practically every play thnt can be recorded In baseball waa pulled, and aeveral times the veterans nerving aa the official arorers wore not cer tain what had happened, and how. 8am TUe, the star Washington out fielder, furnished a stunt that saved the game, and gave the Senators a t to I lead In the aerlea. After big "Flrpo" Mar berry had fanned Vrlght and (Irantham, In the eighth Inlng. "Oil" Smith, the talk ative Pittsburgh catcher, got hold of a faat ball and drove it on a line toward the rlghtfteld bleachers. Hlce sprinted bark to Hie fence, leaped high Into the air nnd fell over Into Iho crowd. He waa out of sight for aeveral seconds and came up with the ball In hla hands. The Pittsburgh playera protested vehemently thnt Rice had failed lo mnke the catch, maintaining that one of the fans had slipped iho ball to lilm. Umpire Rlgler of tho Na tional leaguo, who waa on second bono, ruled that it won a fair catch, (Continued on Pago Six) HOTEL STICK-UPS TO HANG DEC. II CHICAGO. Oct. 10. (United I'rens) Joseph W. Hoi men and Jnmea Wilson, two of Iho bandits who participated In the spectacular Drake hotel hold-up here two months ago, In which a clerk was slain, must hang December Judge Jacob Hopkins decreed 11. late todny. A jury found them guilty of mur der In tha first degree. Attorneys for the men made a motion for a new trial when the prisoners were brought In for sen tence todny. The motion wns de nied and the dnte of execution waa set for December 11. nefore sentence wns pronounced tho two bnndlla made one last plea tor mercy, hut the words sending them lo tho gnllows werorecelvod stoically. "Have yon anything lo say before nenteuro Is pronounced?" Judge Hopkins nuked. Holmes growled: "I didn't hnve a fair trial : It was nil a frame-up." During the lea hour at the ex clusive hostelry, the five men, giddy from bootleg, entered from the rear and leveled guns on all they chanced to meet. While Iho guests were nt bay, tho bnndlla Invaded the lux urious office nnd held up the em ployes. John rindkey, a clerk, wna among the number. He wns seated quietly at a desk. A mild protest from lilm mined Holmes to whirl nrnunn and fire. The bullet killed the cashier. "aklng $3,000, the bandits ran out of the hotel Just ns police arrived. Move To Strike Obey From Law Passed By Body Episcopal House of Deputies Favors Ridding Women of Odious Pledge NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 10. A vote to strike out of the marriage ceremony the pledge of obedience by woman to man, and the arrange ments for that most dramatic event In church formula the sentencing of a heretic marked Saturday'a aennlon of the 41th triennlul con vention of the Pfotentant Episcopal church of the United States. The house of 'deputies, or lower body of that convention, voted by dioceses lo eliminate "obey" In the marriage service. Bcforo Iho question la settled by the church, however, the bouse of bishops' upper body must ratify the action of the deputes. The expectation that there would be a hot debate over tha question waa not fulfilled. MILLION IN TIMBER TS SQLD TO KANSAS FIRM Forest Interests Purchase Vast Holdings of Shevlin-Hixon In Klamath District S. Ah forecasted In The Klamnlli News of Heptrmhcr 2S, the Forest LumlNT company, then negotiat ing for Inrgv timber holding lias completed lis ileal, according to advices received in Klamath Kalis Inst night In the following dis patch. "Three-hundred million feet of timber In the North marsh dlatrict of Klamath county, comprising the Shevlln-Hixon holdings In the Klamath Indian reservation, which would have to be cut soon under government contract, has been pur chased by the Forest Lumber com pany, according to an announce ment late yesterday authorised by R. B. White cf Kansaa City, presi dent of the Forest Lumber com pany. The Forest Lumber company, one of the largest operators of the country, recently entered the Klam ath region with the purchase of the Modoc Pine cr.mpany and la estub Ilshlng a mill with a capacity of 100,000,000 feet annually at Pine Ridge, near Chlloquln, 35 miles north of Klamath Falls. The Forest mill, located on the Southorn Pacific company's Nntron cut-off, which by the middle of next year will give direct railroad service to Portland, has a ten year cut in sight. The timber holdings thus far acquired by the Forest Lumber company aggregated one billion feet of limber. It la there fore thought likely that further acquisitions of timber will follow those already made by the com pany. . The Foroet Lumber company bids fair to be one of the most Import ant operators In tha Klamath baslp, as the capacity of Its mill now being established la greater than that of any single operator now In the district. The deal Just closed fcT tho ac quisition of the Shevlln-Htxnn hnld (tontiiiued on I "age Mix) Youthful Murderer Sentenced to Life SEDALIA. Mo., Oct. 10. Im prisonment tor Ufa waa the sen tence given Everett Adams, 17, Wllmlngtonj, Ohio,- school . bey, shortly before midnight. He con fessed killing bis "good snmnrl tnn" Adam R. Clnwson, Lodl, N. Y., school teacher. The Jury was out five hours. It's only question was to fix tho punishment for the youthful murderer. DUCKS DYING DYBus Operators THOUSANDS HELD; DANGEROUS FOOD Public Warned Not Eat Game Fowl BOTULINUS SUSPECTED Specimens Are Being Sent Biological Experts to Get Diagnosis Inimiinffimpnt (lint thuUFflD(In of ducks In Klamath county are dying Present gasoline tax la . - . , , ,.. -,,'manded. 1 1 1) 111 K UIKBI 1 . u - . hvh. w. which has not been determined, and a warning to Klamath county resl-j dents that they ought not to eat duck until a thorough Investigation has been made, were Issued yester day afternoon by Dr. O. S. Newsom, county health officer. Countless birds were found dead and many at the point of death-, by county officials who visited Tule lake yesterday morning. Eight live ducks, in various stages of the dis ease, were captured, and were brought to Klamath Falls. Specimens are to be sent to the biological bureau at Washington. D. C. to tbe state board of health, and to the state laboratory at the Oregon Agricultural college. It was announced. - Botulinus poisoning Is suspected. according. to Dr. Newsom,. .who folds' that no person ahoaUl chaxtee sating the birds until it has beca conclu sively proved that It la ssfe to do so. Dead ducks. In various stages of decomposition, were found by the county officers. Air Probe Resumes Session on Monday WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. (United News) Tbe president's air Inquiry and the naval board Investigating the Shenandoah disaster will rccon- . . 1 . - .!. .... -... . .1 vent muiiuay lu mivu up uch aiiu , Important phases of the national ! aviation controversies. It was said authoritatively tonight mai me ooara ia cousiueruia: a sum mons for Captain G. S. Lincoln, di rector naval ship movements. It was also learned that Admiral F. W. Eberle, chief of naval operations, has Indicatod to a member of the board his desire to testify personally. In the light of Mrs, Zachary Lans downe's testimony. Princess Bertha Is Now Just Mrs. Smith WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. (United Tress) Princess Bertha, daughter of Princess Michael Cantacusene Spornnsky, took tbe name of Smith In an Informal wedding at the home of the brtde'a grandmother, Mrs. Fred Erick Dent Crant. this afternoon Tho princess' marriage to Brnce Smith, Louisville, Ky., was severe In its simplicity. Only members of the Immediate family were present. Woman Charges Man With Attempted Fraud A charge that Karl Brown passed a check on her establishment when he had no funds In the bank to cover It, was filed yesterday In the local justice court by Mrs. Bee Be gin, proprietor of a local store for women. The check, acimling lo the rcmplnlnt on which Brown last night waa arrested In Marshfleld. was for 200 and was on the First National bank of Klamath Falls. Brown, It wns said, will be re turned to Klamath Falls to stand trlnl. 2,000 JOI.X NK.IIM'H DUBOIS, Pa., Oct. 10. Two thousand volunteers will begin an extensive search of the dense wood ed area southwest of Dubois to morrow in an effort to locate Chns. H. Ames, missing air pilot. Seek To Annul State Gas Tax Injunction Sought to Quash Authority of Secretary To Collect Levy PORTLAND, Oct. 10. (United Preaa) Nullification of the Oregon state gasoline tax la sought by a group tit automobile 'relght bju operators n a suit flitd In th- United States district court here today. An Injunction is asked to pre vent the secretary of state from further enforcement of the law. A refund of approximately 16.000.000 collected by tbe state under the la de- I The auto bus men take the posi tion that inasmuch as they must pay the fax to operate it Is really a tolj. A congressional act which prohibits the collection of tolls on highways built with federal aid, they'claira. makes the state tax Il legal. They hold that federal funds have been applied to the construc tion of many state highways. Outcome of the fae here will affect the gascline taxes of a num ber of otber states. Including Washington and California, it was said. GAS OPERATOR IS HELD UP BY THUG Masked Bandit Sticlcs-Up Agent of Oil Co., 6th and Klamath, Secures $200 Melvin Buell. a service station operator for the Union Oil company, at the corner of Sixth and Klam ath streets, was held up by a masked bandit shortly before mid night laat night and relieved c-f approximately J200 In cash, accord ing to his story to the police. The hold-up took place near the home of Buell, who resides at 1344 Munzaneta nlreet. Knell aecnritlnr , nU( gtorjr to, ,he ha8 been In the habit of carrying home the money taken In on hlg shift and. on occasion, the receipts have amounted to as high as (400. Very few words were uttered by the stick-up man who, Buell be lieves, followed him some distance before approaching him. The rob ber merely commanded Buell to "stick 'em up."' removed Buell's hat from his bead, placed the sack containing the money In the hat, and disappeared In the darkness. Tho victim expressed the belief that the robber had acquainted him self with Buell's habits, and police hold It possible that the thief may be apprehended. Tbere will bo further Investigations today. It was from Union Oil company men that Buell's name was learn ed, as' police who investigated fall- " t0 d'acover the identity of the victim. SHERIFF AfiD PRCHI OFFICERS RAID HOME BAG STILL AND ALL THE FIXIN'S ALONG WITH FIFTY GALLONS OF PEACH AND CORN TANGLEFOOT When representatives of the sher iff's office last night raided the home of a man who gave his name as Arthur Brown, In Shlpplngton, they said they found him with a gallon container of whisky In one hand, a large still In his home, ap proximately CO gallons of Intoxicat ing liquor, and eight barrels of peach and corn mash. The man was Jailed nnd may be faced, according to officers, with several charges He may be accused of operating a still, with possession of liquor, wlth possession of mash, nnd with owning, a moonshine still. Tho "lay-out," officers declared, was one of the most complete ever fojind In the. vicinity of Klamath Falls, and Brown, they say, was producing a fairly good grade of IS DERAILED AT DLALOCK, OREGON Fireman Crushed As Engine Overturns MESSENGER IS MISSING Injured Suffer From Cuts As Coaches Leave Rails On Striking Rockslide POItTLAND, Oct. 10. (United Press) One nienilxr of the engine crew of the rant hound Union Pacific, continnental lim- . ited was killed, the baggageman U missing, six persons seriously Injured and a score were rut and brutoed late Saturday night, when the crack train was de railed by a rock elide a mile east of BUIock, Ore. The deed man was reported to be R. H. Lee, fireman, Portland. Running at regular speed, the passenger train crashed Into a big rock slide, which had fallen from high bluffa paralleling one side cl the track. There was a grinding crash, and the powerful locomotive was thrown over on, Its side, rolling completely I over. It was reported to be a mass j of wreckage. Lee wss reported at the Pert- : land office of the Union Pacific t? have, been.-: Instantly killed,'.- H mangled body waa found under the ruins of the smashed , locomotive. C. M. Wall. Portland, engineer' waa badly bruised snd scalded and hln ennriltlnn wna rsnnHarf ru h. critical. In the tangled wreckage of the express car was beleived to be the body of the express messenger as passengers reported they did not see how. he could escape. The missing messenger wn Clyde H. Hamilton, Portland. Railroad officials said no trace of him had been reported up to 11:30 p. m. Wires wore broken by the acci dent, which accounted tor the tact that a full account of the wreck was not available. Before doctors snd nurses had arrived It was reported that five passengers were suffering broken bones and bad cuts and bruises. It was believed that all these were In the forward car. Immediately after advice of the wreck, arrangements were made to detour local train No. 24 over the S. P. S. to eastern Oregon. LINER STANDING BY VESSEL IN DISTRESS NEW YORK, Oct. 10. The Cunard liner Cameronla Is stand ing by an unknown vessel In dis tress about 300 miles off New York, according to message picked up by the Independent Radio corporation late tonight. The message read: "Standing by unknown veasel In distress. Latitude 40:28 N., longi tude 71:07 W. (signed) master." liquor. Along with the still they confiscated a rectifier. It was about 6:30 o'clock when tour officers swooped down on the 'Brown residence and the arrested man was taken by surprise. . He offered no resistance, they said, and had no comment to make regarding his alleged activities. The still, according to the depu ties, would produce about 20 gal lons of whisky a day. It was re moved to tbe courthouse. No hall had been sot by Justice of the Peace Kendall . last night. Those who participated In tbe raid ,,. U . .. ... TtrnMltltlnfl nrfleaw Ma- Brldo, Deputy Sheriffs Moneymaker and Tracey, and Patrolman Brown. Brown probably will be arraigned In Justice court Tuesday morning. Ho Is about 45 yearn of age.