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SB. The Klamath -"4T Another "News" Feature The Wednesday Food rage. Menus and Tested Recipes. Two Sections Ten Pages United News and United Press Telegraph Services Vol. 3, No. 75. (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1926 Price Five Cent Hews ROOF THE LIMIT IN SENATE'S TAX CliniNGJIESTA Extra $100,000,000 Is Lopped Off NOW BELOW MINIMUM Inheritance, Admission and Automobile Sales Tax ' Wiped Out WABIIINliTON. Krb. 10. U'nlled Newa) In an otiy of lax cutting the cnate. In quirk sufcosalnn lain Wednesday, wiped out completely taxes nit Inheritances, admissions and automobile mien mil $100,000, 000 was cut from III ln bill which the administration leaders had ex pected la set through. The senate bill. a II now stand, would rauio f 129.UUO.UUO leM mi limn t ha hnuait measure which Sec retary Mellon said waa Iho bed rock minimum that would Insure meeting all government obligations. Itnpeul of the Inherltunco lux waa by a volo of 49 to 3d. Repeal of tlin admission tax wan by a vote of 3 to 34. Repeal of the automobile sulcs ta waa by a vole of 4 2 lo 21. When house lender beard Ihe senate bad repealed Ihn Inheritance taxea they announeed that they would flKht Ihui In conference anil endeavor lo reatoro II. With Ihe rllmlna.limi of three big cluaaca of taxea Ihe aenulc practically haa completed Ha revlelnu of Ihn house revenue bill. An attempt will lie mad lo reverse Ihe decision on re- peeling the admhtalon taxea whlrli waa accomplished by n margin of only two vole. Kliwl Arllon. Final anion by Ihe aennte pnrted Tburadny or Friday. Then the bill goes Inlo ronferenre where a delegation from the Ikiuko and ouo from Iho sennlo will meet In aocret seaalon lo enmposn the dif. fernncea in Ihn two hills. Aflnr trading and compromising liuve re sulted In an agreement the bill will bo brought hack for speedy approval In both houses. Ilepeal of Ihn automobile and ad mission taxes came awlftly and sur prisingly. Tho Republican-Democratic combination which had with stood auccessfully nil efforla lo change, the hill mnlerlnlly hniku up oil theao two laaues, Democrula go ing over lo Iho opposition in lurgu numbers. The senate voted Ihe extra JKIO. 000.000 or slightly larger reduction within thn spucc of two hours. The total lax cut now will be slightly moro llinn $4S0. 000,000 Inalead of 2323,000.000 voted by thn house and $352,000,000 provided In the senate, committee's bill. I'ON.I KF.I.KAKKI). JACKSONVILLE Fin.. Feb. 10. (United News) Charles I'onxl and his wife wero released under bond Wc'dnesduy following their arrest on charges of violating a state law In tho financial wlxnrd's laud opera tion In Florida. I'onxl's bonds were fixed nt 50()0 and his wife's nt $ul)0. Thry were furnished by friends of Ihu little Italian financier. Organized buying with intelligent personal drug store serv ice delivered by us is sat isfying many Klamath Falls Drug store patrons. Currins for Drugs INC. Klamath Falls, Ore. Cor. 9th and Main. SPRAGUE RIVER OPENED BY COM. Former Action on Klamath Fishing It Rescinded Officially PORTLAND, Feb. 10. (Culled Newl The Oregon alula fish com mission hua gone on reeord definite ly opposing the dump I UK of sewage Inlo stream. The colnuili.iilon Tuosduy Ionic uc Hull supporting the atutu itume com mlsalon In forhldilliiK Ihe conslruc llon of a proposed aewer at Mllwau- kle. Ore., which waa mil designed on miliary linen. The Kama fuminisiiliiti made Mime rhungea In the recently laaued eillcta closing number of nt renin to flah- I n k throuKh the ntnle. Home of the chuiiKea Included: Klamath county Flah and Mai- du lukes cloned until April 15, 1929; Kcvcn-Mlln creek cloaed un til April IS, for ten yearn; North Fork of Kpruguc river and trlbu lltrlea reopened. AIRPLANE LINKS SPAIN AND S. A. Intrepid Spanish Flyer Com pletes 6,239 Mile Trans-Ocean Hop M'KNOS AIRES, Feb. 10. (Unit i.il 'p'.l A fired. Hiill-hluekened pilot brought hi. hydroplane to w- ter off Ihla dellrloiialy enthusiastic' city Wedneaduy and Spain's amhl lloua dream lo link her ahnrca with South America by airplane waa realized. Hamuli Franco, pilot of Ihe Ne llu. Ultra, a.epped aboard 111 ml iiiiiiicii nun iinuii; mm in-u foot to Argentine soil Immediately lo he overwhelmed by an avalanche of welcoming men and women. The women fought for the nlr mun's enibrncea and kiaaes. In Franco's train were Captain Hull d'Alda unil F.nalgn Hurun. who nccoiupnnled him on bin flight. Hundreds' of thouaand of persona crowded the streets and pressed to ward Ihn wuter front when news paper bulletins announced that Franco had taken off from Montc- video. Uruguay, for Buenos Aires. Tim welcome began with a bed- , i... i.... .ki.,1... .,,i noises as Ihn No Plus 1'ltra hurtled Inlo view flying low up river. After one fulao stnrt in Monte video took off at 12:17 p. m , and arrived hero at 12:20; owing to an hour's difference In time between I Ihe two capllul.1, Franco's flying time was not Iho three minutes It would seem lo have been. Kltico January 23, when be took off shortly after dawn from Iluolva Spain, for Las Pnlmas. Canary 11-1 units. r rancn bus flown C329 mile over land and water on a diagonally southerly course. Motorists Weary Over License Row PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 10. I United Newa I If the . motor license Jungle keeps up. drivers will bo so weary of all Iho fuss Iho next year they will prnvldo themselves with licenses before, they lay In Christ mas presents. After ntuto offlcors had bnled 99 Into district court, Captain Frank krvln's men spent Wednesday rounding up .18 more, who were or dered to appear in Judgo Stadter'a court Thuraday morning. Tho round up by police will continue un til there urn no more yellow plates In evidence, Captnln Krvln snld. Three motorists woro taken be fore Municipal Judgo Stndlcr early Wednesday on license charge. Water Situation Causing Concern The wuter situation Is nothing over which lo grow optimistic, ac cording to .lull n Doyle, local man ager of the California Oregon Power company, who returned yesterday from a two-day trip through tho Klamath watershed. v "There I no snow In tho Klam ulh basin." said Ilnylej Thero had been moro precipita tion at Cltlloqnln yesterday thnn nt Klnmuth Fulls. E.5 Inches a com pared with 4.44. Ilnyle was not able lo go beyond Ft. Klamath yesterday, the roads j being In poor shnpn, he snld. PROPIKF S T U I K F iiiuiuuLiiiniiiu LAW TO CONTROL ALL COAL MININfi Permits President to Call Board RESULT OF DEADLOCK Democrats to Hold Caucus And May Endorse Pro posed Coal Bill WASHINGTON. Feb. 10 (United Newa) Hope Increaaea hero that mint national good may yet come out of Iho anthraclto atrlke lo offaet the great economic Inaa and human Buffering of one of the moat bitter wura In Induatrlnl blatory. The aenate education and lubor committee meeta Thuraday to eon alder Iho roal bill Introduced by Senator llnblnaon. Arkanaaa Demo crat and minority leader. Thia bill conforma cloaoly lo Ihe recommenda tion of the late United States coal commlaaion, which' haa been rcpeat- I edly endoraed by President Coolidge. " ' mart rao,1t ln "omo ,re apecta than the coal commlaaion ! plan. 1'rincipally It would authorize the I prealdenl to declare a national I emergency In any coal atrlke and call Into operation a board of In duatrlnl adjustments lo mediate, en ur,1(p ar,ratlon and recommend sleps to protect consumers from ex tortion. rultllclly lo Knforcc. Hot It hard and soft coal strikes would be subject to this treatment. No force Is authorized, only full publicity of all facts, ruhllc opin ion would he allownd lo do the rest. One other bill Introduced by Sena tor Od ill". Nevadn Republican Is moro drastic, providing for actual government control of distribution in time of emergency and perman ent control of tho coal Industry by tho department of commerce re sembling that exercised over the railroads by Ihe Interstate com- inerce commission. This bill conforms lo Ihe coal cnmmlaaion recommendations also. It has been referred to Sarrotary of Commerce Hoover for study. Be- l cause of Its more sweeping nature. lis chances seem lean than thoso of Robinson's bill. Not content with rostlug on tho senate's request for a While House cool conference, Representative 11 in in m. Pennsylvania Republican, ad,0d his voice to tho demand I ,. .,, iU . w . j nil uiui-i tt.i'iiii(-n til iiufm mi a I settlement lire cloaed and only tho president remains to save tho Indus try;" ho said. " Houao Democrats nro considering a party caucus on coal. They prob ably will endorse tho Robinson bill. Fred Biiesing Near Death of. Influenza Fred Ilueslng, prominent Klamath insurance and realty man is dnngcr oiiHiy in at his homo here rrom In testinal flu, and at n late rjour last night he was reported to bo passing through a, llfo or death crisis. II l.i family physician reported however, that Rucslng had better than an even chanco for recovery. Ills many Klamath friends aro nnx lously awnitlng word that the stricken man is out of dangor. Fred Ilueslng and his brother August came to tho Klnmuth country from (llenwood, Minnesota, 23 years ago, and ho has been successful as a furmer, livery atnhlo proprietor and realty dealer during his long residence hero. OI'IHWK LA.XDIH NEW YORK. Feb. 10. (United Nows) American leuguo club own ore will oppose tho National league In Its first more lo continue the Landis regime of organized base ball under a new contract extend ing to 19.17, It wn learned today. The American league magnates wish It to be mndo dear that they have no fuitlt to find with the ad ministration of the commissioner, but they feel that It would not lie wiso to establish the government of the game bo far Into the future. FIRST HOPPERS MAKE A DEBUT Klamath Has Whole Colony To Offset Frozen Speci men of Bend's '. A. Henderson, county agent, had better grab his aolutlon of ar senic and banana oil for the exter mination of granhopper ln the Klamalh section and pane Bend! A neat of luaty hoppera haa put In Its appearance) In Tula Lake, K K. Million, Justice of Ihe peace of Tula Lake and "Little" Shuck, prominent cattleman have aworn lo thn statement wilneaaed by W. C. Dallon that grhopper are now flitting from blade to Made In the Tule Lake country. In Klamulh county Kraaahoppera do not uaually pat In their appear ance until May. It Juat .Isn't done In grasshopper etiquette. Accordlna- lo the county agent' office the hatching of eggs begins In "Who ' president of the Klam u .nrf i.ndn Inii. June The ath irrigation district Eberleln or exact tlmo varies greatly with the season and the altitude. Altlmttffh the frmuhnnnori Jn 1 Klamath county have been looked upon ae peata there haa been but one serloua outbreak of the Insects since 1918. which was Ihe spring of 1920. During '14 and '15 the state experiment station assiated the farmers. Oregon Agricultural col lege lent assistance In '18, and In '20 a government expert aasisted the local county agent. Since that tinge the county agent has been in charge of the situation. TIA JUANA JAIL A PALACE OF SIN Mexican Chief of Police Accused of Preying On U. S. Women SAN DIKOO. Ciillf., Feb. 10.- (United News) A -conspiracy by Tin Juana officials to lure Amor- lean girls inlo the Mexican city Jail on false arrests and then at tack them was sensationally dis closed hero by the arrest of Chief of Police Llanos Wednesday. Llanos, accordng.to San DIogo officials, proved on pretty American girls and was directly responsible! for tho "shamo euiclde" pact, which last Saturday blotted out the Uvea of Audry and Clydo Petoet and their mother and father. The gtrln, It I claimed, had keen compelled to accompany a Mexican police officer to the jail on manu factured charges" and then wire sub jected to Indignities hy Llanos. Tho Tia Juana Jail, aecordleg to government and San Diego city of ficials. Is a "palace of sin." to which drugged American women arc taken to be outraged and later thrown to the mercies of Mexican gambler and vulture. The arrest of Llanos came as tho result of Governor of Lower Cali fornia Ahelardo Rodrlgucx' hurried trip to Tia Juuna to take personal chargo ot tho Investigation. He promised an immediate cleanup ot Tia Juana. CHARGE OF FRAME UP ENLIVENS U. S. COURT PORTLAND, Feb. 10. (United News) Charges that .government witnesses were behind a partly opened door, taking notes, and insln uationa of a framo-up contributed toward an exciting session In tho caso against Arthur Chrlstensen Robert and A. C. Smith, former dry agents, hero today. Defense Attorney Elton Watklns furnished Iho crowded rourtroom thrill when ho accused Iho prosecu tion ot having witnesses behind partly closed door taking notes. An Investigation revealed that a rear door was ajar. United States District Attorney Stern Immediately challenged Wat kins to produca witnossea to sup port his charge. The argument wa abruptly ended when Judge Wolver ton ordered tho trial to proceed. A CORRECTION. Tho official monthly' dairy report ot Dr. E. D. Lamb shows that tho Bradley, rremium and Lone Pine dairies' milk Is distributed through the Klamath Falls creamery. Through printer' error no menilcn waa made ot the creamery ln the published iep;iri. EBERLEIN'S BOMB SHELL HAS DIRT that haa reached- Klamath Fall " yesterday as to the condition of Wn nia in ftfrinw Wfin ittie K- X' Kait. former peace TraillS IU IVIIUYt TYalUl0fficer wno WM injured by bullet Heads District SOLONS GET EAR FULL Senators Say They Will In vestigate Charges of Local Tax Payer A farmer water user came into the office of The Newa laat night. Bridliury!" he dcmioiled to IBw "Huh!" said the reporter ln re- . But the farmer had a clipping with him, in which la explained hia query, as follow: "OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C, Feb. 8. A con gressional investigation of adminis tration of the Klamath project by the bureau ot reclamation will be sought by Charlca W. Eberleln of Klamath Full, president ot the Klamath Irrigation district, who reached Washington today to confer with Senators McNary and Stanfleld regarding alleged Incompetence, Ir regularity and negligence of local federal officials . now . supervising distribution of water on the project. Il4flict on llradbur)'. "Eberleln charges that the heads ot the reclamation bureau in Wash ington attempted to "play politic" and stir up dissension among water users In the Klamath projecet prior to the December election of the Klamath Irrigation district by broad- casting statements reflecting upon the administration ot R. F, Brad bury, ex-president of the district. "The president of the Klamath district alleges that ex-service men were asked to pay S90 an acre for water rights on lands In the old Tule lake bed after a seismic disturbance had raused tbe draining of all the water, preventing most of them from exerclBlng the preferential rights which state and federal gov ernments conferred upon them, he said. Ruining Land. . "He described tho regulation pre scribing educational testa for set tlers as 'un-American' and 'formu lated according to the principles of communistic government.' The operations of tbe California-Oregon power company In Link Viver. he de clared, havo rendered hundreds of acres unproductive through Im pounding ot water.. "The Oregon senators will investi gate his charges and may introduce a resolution for an Investigation ot conditions on the Klamath project." (Editor's Note Eberloln. staunch champion of the rights of tho farm ers, has not been kept informed of the fact that the former secretary of the district insisted on the ex penses of witnesses being paid to Washington, and that later the for mer secretary ot the district, to gether with members ot the board, asked that tho investigation plea bo tabled owing to a charrge In Ihe dis trict's plans.) West on Road to Complete Recovery Merle West, former councilman, is recovering rapidly from an op eration to which ho submitted Mon day In tho St. Francis hospital in San Francisco. This is tho word brought back to Klamath Falls by II. N. Moe. Ac cording to Moe, who was with Mrs. West during the operation. West should bo able to return to Klamath Falls within three months. "When I left West wa coming along wonderfully and his physi cians pronounced him out of dan ger." PETE KILIHKK HHiXKD. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10. (United News) The aiered con tract of Tele Kilduff. for four years tho best fielding second baseman In the Pacific Coast baseball league was received Tuesday at the offices of Ihe San Francisco Seals. KENDALL TAKES I NEWS INSURANCE Former Deputy Shot Up By Bad Men Wants Pro tection About the moat convincing newa from a bunch of bad. men, was word from Portland yesterday. Kendall wanted two of The Newa Insurance policies, $7. C00 for fl.SO. One of them wa for himself and the other for hi wife. "That looks, like Judge Kendall expect to he! up and t m before long or be' wouldn't want any accident Insur ance," waa the word In The News office. , Policies secured yesterday were , a follows: L. C. Fitzgerald. 319 j Chicago U becoming greaUr ln N. 9th.; T. E. Mueller. 419 High; j ieTettti , 0regon Klmnuth vv. b. i-armiy, u ana jviamain, , F. J. wrlgnt. J. Wright, Blackford. Ida.: J. n Vl.n.ih T T 1 r. i.o uu Mttcnaii, az! ft n. vin., ocuu .uv-j Kendree. Merrill. Ore.: Orantj (Continued On Page Two) OPTION EXPIRES ONDARLEYLAND Property Goes Back to J. F. Kimball, Jake Steiger, Fletcher and Darley The Mills Investment company la the title of a new 110.000 corpora tion, the papers ot which are now on file in Salem, to take over the C. T. Darley property, on which Claude McCulloch and C. E. Wharton previ ously had an option. The property was known for a time" as South Klamath Falls, but it had not been platted and this name waa never of ficial. The newly formed company will have another name for it. The four Incorporators are J. F. Kimball, Jake J. Steiger ot Medtord, Fred D. Fletce? . and parley. D. V. Kuykendail uoe not appear a an Incorporator, although he la In terested in the deal. 'VVe plan to plat the property al- most Immediately and develop it a little bit at a time. Much of the,ln confidence in his own site will be retained ln a-srtlp along the railroad as an Industrial site. And it has no connection with the Weyerhaeuser interests," said Kim ball yesterday. It was stated by Kimball that the option held by McCulloch and Whar ton had expired. Mann Puts Up Fine of Fifty Dollars Justice R. A. Emmltt scored Yes terday. Martin A. Mann waa before him for sentence, having been found guilty on an assault charge. "I'm a-thinklng I had oughta tine you about ?25 " his Honor waa saying by way of preliminary. "We want a fine so as we can appeal," burst In Attorney Ren ner. "Waal, that being the case I gues we had better make it $50," drawled Emmltt. Which was the limit. That did not sit any too well with Renner. But while he was still talking about appealing Mann's son stepped up and paid the $30. "We've had about enough ot this," he remarked. Drowning Report Is Proven False A report was circulated among the residents on the west shore ot Upper Klamath lake last night ot the loss of Mrs. W. 11. Hatton and baby by drowning. The mys tery was solved at a late hour, how ever when the woman and child wero located In Shlppiuglon by allt ton, local contractor, who waa fran tic with worry ovor tholr fate. The Hatton live at "Shoro Acres" near the Frank McCormlck place and early yesterday afternoon Mrs. Hatton took the baby with her In a row boat and crossed tho lako to visit with Shipplngton friends. About 4 o'clock she started buck homo but the wind was driving the waves on the lake ao high that a Shipplngton boat house resident refused to allow the woman and child to venture forth, according to the report. LOCAL MERCHANT SAYS FINANCIAL EVES ONKLAMATH IL N.Moe Back From Eastern Trip BIG DEAL RESPONSIBLE Jays Invesment ) Grouo of Chicago Has High Re gard for Oregon Fal,,( and aD(mt $20,000,000 f - Chicago capital will be lnreated In Oregon this year, according to H. turned from an eastern trip a far as New York. "Oregon people little appreciate the real significance of the taking over by H. M. Byllesby Co., of the California, Oregon Power com pany. Byllesby & Co., put a great many of their securities on the market. Among them appear the seenrities of the Oregon concern, and investors, as the result, are now busy finding oat all about Oregon," explained Moe. "I met with several bond house representatives," continued Moe. "All of them wanted to find oat what I knew about Oregon and the power company. The Interest la very keen and has been augmented hy the talk about railroad develop ment, which Is, of course, coun'.ry wide. , ' . i-' Know of Klamath . . . "It 1 surprising how many peo ple among the " security " market group I met, together with mer chants., know that Klamath Falls is to be oa a main line railroad thl summer. And they hare an eye on the interstate commerce decision the same a we have out here. "One haa to go to Chicago to I communltT. The investment group there have more confidence In Oregon that in any of the other three coast states. ' It i a confi dence in the stability "of Oregon. And the reason Investment house members give is that they find that the state Is not over-estimating Its value, or telling about anything that It hasn't got In substantial fashion. "And when one finds Klamath Falls regarded ln Chicago as one ot the coming communities in Ore -gon and the west that fact is a (Contlnned On Page Two) Hunsaker Rallies Wednesday Morning Bob Hunsaker, former Klamath Justice, Is holding hi own. . - r f . There has been no change ln his condition in the paat three days. i according to members ot his family last night. Up until a late hour he waa conscious. At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning he rallied and was able to move his arms acd speak to the family.. Members of the family, a nurse, and his physician are with htm con stantly. $1 Features For : TODAY 32 inch 23c yard E and W ging hams in new colors and patterns; only one sulo to a customer. $1 tt yards 36 inch 17c yard fine white bleach ed Hope Muslin, limited quantity? only one sale to a customer. SI H yard - Red Star absorbent diaper cloth, 10 yard bolts, 18, 20, 22 end 27 inch widths, cut 12 diapers to bolt $1.79 to $2.2S RULCCQRPQ In th Center of the Shopping District , .. ... i liletlf Iff J