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KLAMATH FALLS, QUE., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 10 1925
itnr w tru-si , .
III II i v llllllll air at ai a . .
AsnRovBrlOKT LAW ATTACK M macadam-
llfn r-nr..m. waja. KJXU
!
L for Increase
I Enforcement
U for '26
In
i;TP. Dec H'llllKll
mriUa picture of mo
, duirlal altuatlon
.ii( t'onlldgn In hla
L.ui lo cougreaa. Ad-
!m M rei-iMpla and ex-
Liki fm-al year begin-
llriia a prohablo sur-
:..
UilH ask a '"r ""' ""
U U lac reaa" of $160,-
n Ihin ana appro-
tai, but I lila Im rrnar
,tvtM ru-il during I ho
Lb pa Incrnawa and
ksu, to Hint lhi net
Liul'd for H'" coming
us r pumlhly plight
l if tta rurrenl year.
U kilit. Increased an-
art rtqucated for nvla-
nkitiilon enforcement.
Uil ladliat.il that he
t rlHifJ villi l lip lax I
ika ilia honao waya
Film Folk. Skeptical About
Story of Big Contract
Given Grange
HOLLYWOOD, r.llf.. iie ,
Whether le I300.OUO ll.rold
IIkI" Orange haa ok reed lo ar-
uir merely starring In a film
la In paper or real money la a dla
lurhlng quoallon In Hollywood.
Opinion lan't evenly divided. Bcv.
enlhy-flve per cut of I ho who's
who In flliulanil consider "Itcde"
acting abllttr worth fir, a week
and hla name worth $loo,ouo a
your at a.ho very moal.
Hed'e rt-piTI. 1 anury looma aa
hi aa.a silver dollar In a collec
lion box, compared lo the mlaer
ly. but authentic salary of (u.
dolph Vuli'tillno, Tom Ml, (iloria
8 wan sun and several olhor under
paid arreea folk, who mako only
I lo.ooo a week.
In purely irnfi-aalonnl parlance,
llrda venture In tho mnvlo field
la known a "blah." a word thai
can ! uaed only In Jho derogatory
ecnao.
"I am all for Red Orange,"
ahnuta lleeho Danlela. "I hops ho
ft. In thn game for (nod and
shows tha aam pop and ulililly
that made him fanioiia In fool
I-r 11- I hop ha niakra a million."
IN WASHINGTON!
State Commission Order
630 Miles Treated Dur
ing Coming Year
Hill of Maryland Is
Leader of Wets .
CONGRESS. CHANGING
Leader of Dry Lay Plans
To Tighten Weak Spots
In Prohi Law
It. I'. Sihulberg, executive of
famoua Players. l.aaky, la not atiro ,
of flratiee'a rnrntr. a'nm "nnlv thn !
future ran glvo the referee's dccl
rlon." Reginald Denny lii-lloves that III
red-hesd'a football plcturo will
hava no itrrui aii;nlfirance In thn
Indu'lry. nropt aa a novelly.
Ijiura Laplanta la aura ho will
mak a rrry Inirrfailna alar.
ln Him ik-hnlii iIia iirtNlnrrarr of I
... ... .. , . , )llin pvr
tha Tiini rapiiai win pn'fi umiiRr
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Two
powerful oritanliallona labored
Wednclay to change tha Volalcul
law. One (ought to atrtnathen It;
the other In weaken It.
While, dry leadera of lha board
of temperance, prohibition and pub
lic morula aat In all day aeaalon
cnnalilerinic meana of checking the
leaka In ih law, wot conitreaamen
unk alepi to ornanlie tha mo.at
powerful mullfleatlon bloc, which
haa 1'pcn formed alnco thu Volstead
law wan paaaed.
Ueprearniiillve John I'hll'.lp Hill.
Maryland, republican, announced
thai an unofficial houao commlt-
r of (lu wet repreaeniatlvea would
meet wlihln a few days to atari tha
lone looked for attack upon the I
dry law.
"Conditions are Infinitely more
fiivorablo to modi.lcntlcin this year
before." Hill told the
I'nllid N'ewa. "Borne aort of modl-
1-uitrL.ANU. Uec. . Six hnn
dred and thirty mlloe of macadam
road will be oiled next aprlnx by
Iho atate highway crnnmlsalon in
Ita work of maintenance. Thla la
an Incroaae of 400 milea over, the
prevent year. The estimated coat
la In the neighborhood of $460,000.
The amount of oil to bo aprcad
will approximate 10.000 barrels.
The accona 4o be oiled ore the
main traraled ones and Includo the
following:
i;c?iumi?ia Kiver highway and Old
Oregon Trail from The Dalles to
Ontario.
The Dnlloa-Callfornia hinhway
The Dallee to Dufur. Redmond to
liend. Lava Butte to LaPlne. Modoc
Point 40 Klamath Kails, Klamath
Kulis to Junction 'Lakevle-w road.
A.ihland-Klamath Falla highway.
Klamath Falls to Keno.
Ochoco hlchvay, Kcdmond to
Prlnevllto.
Crater Lake lilrhway, Itcdford to
Trail.
C'ooe Bay-nosobnrg highway.
Myrtle Point to CCqnllle.
Corvallln-Newport highway, New
port to Toledo.
Tlllamoook highway. All unpaved
aertlons between Wlllamlna and
Tillamook city.
Mt. Hood loop, full length.
(Sherman highway, lllggs to Was
co.
LaOrandc-Joscph highway; Island
City to Elgin.
Oregon - Washington ' highway;
Pendleton to aicruy nam
I flcstlrn la Inevltalile and I believe
hecMet has drafted toiwlih open arm, hut they do hope
J(. h win not maiai on exaKa-r...o (lm(, u (n,t approll.nlng
.1 mutt somewhat I hia aniaiy. u it nui uema """" . i, wiii be effected
aiatat In amount and 'nowadays. ,.Th. v.. nana the creates!
poaalhle change In the attitude of
cmgretamen curing tne last lew
months. During tht Tih congresa.
great many wouldn't recognlto
the posalbltlty of modification. Pur-
t the CSth. more became eon-
inced.
"At the present time there Is a
fa. rat alth routlnulng
astray In the federal
k :aiutat!on lo bust
it mult from tax re-
- . i. a
bs i ran niitao lur-i
11
ARMY TURNS 0N:
SSrsj FIERY. CfllONEiS
budget.'
c isnual
fttalimuled that ro-
pl!l. 61ii. 000; ex-
la!j;,vgo: aurulua.
current flacal
W M.gso.Tlt.ooo:
f fclT.5M.000; aur-
Tijai.
faSdtt sees tho bene
'rftiloua tax reilue-
M receipts, which
" l!i).lio.ooo more
r ''' Two)
Wm. Mitchell Critieiied For
Hit Conduct During
World War
DEFENSE
IVT0GO TO
T COURTS
t. Ikc. a Ti. a..
P I ..ulnt Inn ease
"o Iho aupremn ronrt
r J lalB u decision.
Fj Olarencn Marrow.
Xa nnn m,,A i.. i.. ii
f"Wlo trial, said Wedi
P "Hoonccment llnvns
K f4.'" r default
H-gul comiillca-
VtT "rt of Ten
17" In dndcln i.
, .J 'h' decision l
i federal courts."
us.
nf Inlenllnn -I 1..
Lh ."I""." Hid Kor-
lZ ."J nf . Amnr-
im a, """,n wh eh
"M "'reeled tho Scopes
of the Great
Country in the
38 humanly in
Haihath
serially
The
News
WASIIINCTON. Dec. 9. (United
News) The army turned the tables
on Col. Wllllsm. Mitchell Wetlncs.
dBr and laid on his doorstep direct
criticisms of personal command dur
lug the World war.
Answering the court mnrtlalled
officer's charge that aviators wero
ordered to fly unnecessarily undur
extra hatardoua conditions, the
arnry. through t spt. It. M. Knth. re
serve officer, and los Angeles
broker, told Mitchell's Jurors that
Mitchell, during tho Han Mlhlel
World war offensive, had ordered
a flying group trained for day fly
ing, to mako n night wirlle. with
disastrous results.
Again It atlncked the Mitchell
ramparts with Mai. On. Mason M.
Patrick, head of the army nlr eor
rlce. Patrick testified that Mitchell
had approved tho army keeping De
llnvllnnd planes, which ho has
branded as "flying coffins."
During this testimony another of
the many flare-ups. which hnvc
marked tho court martini proceed
ings, occurred. Ilrlgsdler Oenernl
King, author of tho "tin urn rot" In
cident, which earlier threatened his
place on the court, attacked tho de
fense cross-exnininiitlon of I'apl.
Hath, after Math had refuted Mit
chell's charge that nttarg oi anu-
nlrrruft gunfire was inerroruvc
was scoffed by avlitlors.
and
DEFENSE CALLED
IN BEN GAY CASE
Tosttrylng ThaT-.!! distiller,
which ho Is charged with having op
erated, was found, not on his prop
erty, but on land fully a half mile
from his land. Men Ony. on trial In
Circuit Jtidgo A. L. Leavltl s court,
yeaterdny nfternoou took the stand
in hla own defense.
Late yosterdny afternoon the state
rested Its case and. today, the de
fense will continue with its wit
nesses, (lay vi' arrested some time
ago.
generally prevalent fetling among
those In the house that modifica
tion will come shortly."
However, whllo Representative
Hill was speaking optimistically of
the chances for modification, lead
ers of one vt the most powerful
dry organisations were laying plans
for further tightening of the weak
spou In the prohibition law.
Geologist Claims
Equator Shifting
NKW YORK, Dec. S. The equa
tor Is shifting, thn Northern Am
erican coast Is sinking and the
const of South America Is rising.
This la tho substance of geologi
cal Information brought back !by
Dr. J. Harding, a geologist em
ployed by the Anaconda Copper
company, who has apent tho last
ten years In tho Andes mountains
In South America, making observa
tions. After a study of volcanic con
ditions, Dr. Harding Is convlncod.
although not yet In position to
prove thxt tha equator Is shifting.
In an effort to provo his theory.
Dr. Harding will spend alx months
at the Ynlo observatory, where ho
will hulltl n concrete sphoro, hav
ing a rim speed of three miles a
minutes for demonstration pur
puses, w
NORTHERN LINE
OFFICIALS PAY
YlSlTTOfeioBAijsfi:
Price Five Cents
SENATE TAnlGlWife Puts Blame Oh
City Officials For
Husbands Condition
UP AIR PROBLEM
AT EARLY DATE
Committee to Study
Measure
FIGHT MITCHELL PLAN
Regulation Urged As First
Necessary Step By
Air Experts -
CLAIMS POLICE
CHIEF COLLIDED
. WITH HIS CAR
Lumbermen Accompany . Rail
Men and Look Over
Marthfield Mill
POISON I'AXIIV TASK
JKItSKY CITY. N. lw. 9
Ernest Herman, a real estate solcs
mnn and Mrs. Jennlo Hartman were
arrested Wednesday and charged
with' conspiracy to kill Otto Hart
man, husband of Mrs. Hartman, with
poisoned candy. Hartman hod
enough vitality loft after eating
twlco from tho box of eweots to go
to the pollco aletlon, whore he col
lapsed. Horman and Mrs. Hartman have
persisted In denials of the charge
It Is alleged that Hartman received
the condy anonymously by mall.
TI1K WKATIIKR
Oregon: Cloudy with rnln north
wnst, moderate temperature; south
winds.
A sure euro
for Hinliilny worries
. ...uililii nan starch
We wish your W'fT""', stocking., bath
whero It l necessary, .
. ler.nur and similar arttcifs,
ROUGH DRY
woolens,
. ..iiclea. and Iron every
knll underwear nun n. - .
"Thc'ro I" ou'T.Tew P-cce. of westing appare. .eft for you
...rpre. .'hone s now and ask at U.
TROY LAUNDRY Phone 656
MAKSHFIELD. Dec. 9. A party
of Northern Pacific railroad offi
cials and blg lumber men were on
their way today In a Northern Pa
cific private car leaving behind a
number of rumors relative to the
sale or re-organltatlon of the Pacific
S:atea Lumber company and of plans
for the extension of the Hill linos
to Coos Day. Included In the party
which spent three days here were
M. J. Scan Ion. Minneapolis and
Rend, Ore., lumber operator; four
members of 'the Pacific stales Lum
ber company's 'bond holders pro
tective association; Alexander Os
trom, Minneapolis: David Winton,
Minneapolis: N. V. Wagner, . Mil
waukee; C. T. MacNeltl, Chicago,
and F. H. Fogarty of Portland, as
siatant general freight agent of
the Northern Taclfic.
" C. A. Smith, former hoad of the
Pacific Slates Lumber company and
still heavily Interested, , died In
Berkeley this morning.
Destination of the party leaving
hero was given both as Bend.Ore..
and Ran Francisco. Scnnlon's name
Is most prominently identified vlth
tho purchase of the Pacific States
company.
PORTLAND. Dec. 9. Northern
line officials In 'Portland admitted
mdav that the eastern heads of
theao rull companies are maintain
ing an interest in Coos Day ana
othor sections of western trrogon
and are anxious to continue mo
friendly relations built up there in
recent months.
As far as tho iourney of the
Northorn Pacific prlvnto car 10
Marshfleld is concerned local om-
cials said this was courtesy shown
the midwest ttmDermen.
Hl'RVKY AIK HOITK
EUOENE, Ore., Dec. 9. Verne
C. Oorst, North Bend, ore., ana
It. B Patterson, Santa Crux, Calif..
. . th
ere making n air survey oi
proposed air mail route from scat
tie to Los Angeles. Oorst ex
pects to be successful on the bid
k. submitted to tha postofflce de
partment. The- pair flying from j
tho north, arrived by airplane late
I yesterday.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. The
senate wilt go Into the much agi
tated aviation question at once. .It
will take up as ita first Important
piece of legislation this session
tho measure of Senator Bingham
of Connecticut for regulation of
commercial aviation by the depart
ment of commerce. Bingham was
a memtcr of the president's air
craft board.
Senator Jones of Washington,
chairman of the commerce com
mittee said Wednesday that his
committee would take up the bill
Friday and expected to report It
out. He intends to ask consider
ation by the senate Monday to
which Senator Curtis of Kansas,
republican floor leader. Is agree
able. It the bill gets right of way
Monday, Jones said, it should be
passed before Wednesday, when the
world court debate will begin.
' Introduction of this legislation
Into the senste la expectod to open
the whole controversial subject,
upon which there are so many div
ers views. Democrats are talking
of t ng a unified air service one
'incipal points of their pro-
season, and while they
Chief of Police Harry Loucks last
night refused to. comment on an ac
cident In which an automobile he
was said to be driving collided with
and damaged a car piloted by Har
old Wlmer.
Facts regarding the story were
difficult to secure, due to the silence
of Chief Loucks. Tho crash occur
red at the corner of Fifth and Klam
ath streets, and the left, rear fen
der and running board were said to
have been torn from the Wimer car.
Wlmer is a garage owner at Fort
Klamath.
DELEGATE GETS
COLD SHOULDER
Fred Hendrick Gets Teeble
Response In His Quest
For Travel Funds
"Me for the reservation. I'm
going to hide away like a bear."
This from Fred Hendrick. Indian,
who had just given up a trip to
Washington In quest of J5, 000,000
for his tribes folk.
He blamed tho chamber of com
merce for not having gotten behind
his search tor (500 expense
money, with which to make the
trip. The merchants of Klamath
Falla were apathetic. Hendrick
says. All Hendrick could raise was
$160 and he Is now engaged In re
mitting that to the donors. .
Pecholt Thrown in
City Jail
NO MEDICAL ATTENTON
Says Believes Husband Was
Considered An Enemy -Of
Administration
Levi Walker, another Indian del-
force the question at this I egate to Washington tor the same
b la ib'i iuni. -,i ai'.ii.uTTO hiicdv, una ilia iv. ?'ir
of1, Ihe lead'oVS i!f Tiftc""4ca?i.aitcHi :d;alrScpaetwtortaWll
of this opportunity to stir up tne
issue. The administration, of course
Is flatly opposod to a unified air
service advocated so strenuc-j3ly
by Col. Mitchell and democrats are
not unanimous In favoring the rad
ical change.
COUNT SALM WILL SUE
HEIRESS FOR DIVORCE
NEW YORK, Dec. 9. Count
Ludwlg Salm von Hoogatraetcn has
announced his intention of suing
his wife Mlllicent Rogers for sep
aration.
Since Mlllicent slipped away to
Palm Beach a fow days before
Saim's arrival here, the Austrian
tennis player with the. Belgian
title will chaTge abandonment.
Through his ault, the count will
seek to take from the $40,000.
000 Rogers heiress the child she
.bore him, which he never has
seen. Tho infant is with its mother
In Florida.
Salm will allege also that Mllll
cent's affoctlons have been alien
ated by her friends and advisors.
CAR SANS OWNER
CALLSON NEWS
A car owned by J. L. Jacob, mem
ber of the district irrigation "board,
but driven by O. L. Konyon, made
a call on The News yesterday.
While parking the car jumped the
curb and tumped Into tho iron rail
ing and cement casing around tho
stairway. , Fred Bueslng, business
nirent of the I. O. O. F. building.
talked it over with Kenyon and col
lected $10.. Fred Coter, of corer
Bros., estimated the damages t
that amount.
HEIM'IILU'AXS WIX
SAN JOSE. Costa Rica. Dec. 9.
Latest reports covering the elec
tion In Costa Rica indicate tnat
the republicans have been victor
ious, having elected 16 out of 21
deputies. All the republicans elect
ed are prominent .men In Costa
Rlca. In view of the apparent re
sult of the election the republican
party will be the majority In the
next congress.
FOUR' BITS MAY
SAVE KIDS' IDEA
OF SANTA CLAUS
And could you spare four bits
tor a kid like this?
Her name Is Dorothy. It really
is. It might be any name. Thero
are so many thousands of Dorothys.
But the News betievee The News
hopes Its readers will see that
not so many of them are forgotten
at Christmas time.
Dorothy, who 'Is a very real per
son, is a little shavor with brown
eyes and a. vacant spot In her oral
cavity whore a first tooth has been
dislodged. Like the other little
girls, Dorothy Is not thinking only
of herself.
Doroothy, let It be konwn, was
responsible for the uneven, printed,
hieroglyphics which, when decipher
ed, made It plain that she has been
thinking of others. Formality was
a missing feature in her "My Dear
Ben" letter to the publisher of The
News. No reporters for Dorothy.
She wrote. In a straightforward,
manner, or some manner which
nearly approximated that, to the
editor of The News.
And The News, like its readers,
will not forget tho Dorothys who
believo.
"I am so happy I am to see Santa
Claus tomorrow." she wrote. "I
will like anything he sends me. 1
hope he won't forget you. I will
thank you for telling "him about
one. I nave a nine duu uis
now .
Incoherent, perhaps. But sin
cere. And from one of the thou
sands of Dorothys who believe.
The News has little more to say.
On behalf of a bunch of kids Tho
News asks you to produce 60 cents
on the four-bit day which, soon, is
to be staged.
Mysterious circumstances sur
rounding the serious injury of Frank
Pecholt, proprietor of the Country
club, were yesterday brought to an
official focus by Governor Pierce.
In telegrams to state officers here
the governor advised against their
giving out additional information.
A special session of the grand jury
to probe the matter was promised.
In the meantime Pecholt, the vic
tim, -either of punishment adminis
tered at the hands of a state pro
hibition officer, or of an auto acci
dent at' the moment of his appre
hension, lay at the point of death in
the Klamath Valley hospital.-
Tho grave condition of Pecholt is
the result of inhuman treatment at
the hands of city officials, according
to his wife. She charges that her
husband, after having lain In jail
all night with a fractured skull,
without tho services of a competent
physician, was turned ont the next
day, 8nd arrived home babbling In
coherently with fever.
Put In Jail -
Mrs. Pecholt claims that her hus
band .was not given proper medical
care and that he was then lodged
in jail, because, she believes, he was
known as a political enemy of the
city administration.
,t the time of Pecholt's arrest by
Ibltlon" Officers" Cole-and Mo-
Mills, he had on his person $168. SO.
He was released from jail on Sun
day, November 29, at which time
$20 of this amount was withheld,
presumably as bail.
"They threw me Into jail and
fined me $20," moaned Pecholt
when he arrived home on foot, ac
cording to Mrs. Pecholt. After that
she could get nothing more out ot
him. He talked, she says, of having
taken a couple of baths that morn
ing. His eyes were like pin-points.
Mrs. Pecholt had been ill the night
before . and had retired early. She
did not know her husband had not
been home, and had not aeen him
since three o'clock on the day before
Sends for Doctor
Mrs. Pecholt is a trained nurse.
Immediately on observing her hus
band's condition she sent tor Dr. J.
O. Patterson. She assisted Dr. Pat
terson in removing the bandage,
which, she says, was remarked by
Dr. Patterson, as having been clum
sily applied. - The wound at the back
of his head had not been dressed in
a proper surgical1 manner, Mrs.
Pecholt insisted. '
The whole Btory goes back to the
point where Officers Cole and Mc
Mtlls stopped their car on Spring
street, after having nearly hit a man
who ' poved to be Pecholt. Pecholt
was reeling as would a drunken
man, according to McMHIb, who was
driving the car. Another ' man
named Boyd was In the car, a Flint,
with Colo and McMllls.
Wanted Liquor
Cole had known Pecholt, having
been at the Country club In com
pany with two young girls. Ho tried
to get liquor thero, according to
Mrs. Pecholt, but was told their was
. (Contlnui-d on Pago Klght) :
WHOLESALE
LOS ANOKL.BS,
AHRK8TS
Dec. 9. Sixty !
men and women were arrested here
Tuesday, bringing the total nttm- j
,her of arrests In the "clean up
before Christmas," campaign to
103.
Tho police war against bootleg
gers and pickpockets, was begun
Monday.
GIFTS
Our stock abounds in practical gifts for all.
CURRINS for DRUGS, Inc.
Portland ' Klamath Falls
, In Our
Foot
Health
Days
Today Friday
January Delineator Is Here
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