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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1926)
i AnvtWntt tn RaII The Klamath Another "News' f or Trade? A News Want Xd Will Do the Trick. Feature v The Wednesday Food Page. Menus and Tested Recipes. United News and United Press Telegraph Services Vol 3. No. 96 (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON, APRIL 13, 1926. Price Five Cents . News WOMEN HAVE DAY AT WASHINGTON LIQUOR JEARING Delegates to Con ference Testify SEN. REED IRKS WOMEN Chairman Says Women Stand for Strongest Laws and Weakest Liquor WASHINGTON, Apr. 11 (United News) Prohibition, which appeared lo be a somewhat friendless Inmtl lullon during In week 4f wot tes timony. wa warmly defended when a throne of woman opened the dry cam before the aenate judiciary eub commlliee Monday. Mora enfnrrement and no modi fication waa Insisted upon. Tba women, who filled the whole committee room, delivered a volley of one-minute testimonials, which gave a ramp meeting fcrver to the session, and engaged In several tilta with the lone wet on the committee, SVnator Keed of Missouri. Moat of lb womi'n aa delegate to the Women'a National Confer ence for Law Enforcement, and after they finished at the rnpttol. they returued In their conference, and proceeded to urge Iho delegate lo let no wet candidate eacnpe with hia political life during the coming campaign. Meanwhile Secretary Androwa ap peared before the home Judiciary committee and nrged a consolidation of border patroli to conduct Joint activities against smuggling of liq uor and alien and dutiable com modities. k Itcrtl Irk Women Women were considerably Irrit ated at Reed's qucntlona. "I wlah you Would mako It clear that all of our time waa taken up by uaeleaa crone questioning," aaid the head of the dclcgnllun, Mrs. Henry Pcabndy, when "he walked over to the press table to oxpreaa her disgust at Iteed'a performance aa unfrlendlyNlnterlocutor. Thla battle of a lone man, the acknowledged manor of repartee In the aenate, with the roomful of In dignant women, many of whom had fought him ferociously In the old suffrage fight, kept the aesitlon at high tension. Heed disconcerted several women wltneasea by asking - If since men were going to drink anyway. It It wouldn't be better for them to have government supervision Instead of doing It In apeak-eaalea. . Finally ha put tha question to Mrs. Herbert J. Ouerney of Mas aachusetta. Prefers Speak Ka alra "We would do better to have, apeak-easlea," ahe ahot back. "They nra against the law and I think we can cope with them." Thla brought an outburst of ap plause. Heed protested and naked Chairman Walsh to auppresa dem onstrations. The alxty-fivo who were prepared to leatlfy were aworn In a mans. After several wllncsaea testified, women . in the spectators' chairs (Continued m l'age Two) What They . Say Marvelous. "Never heard such wonderful reproduction from records." "MoBt lifelike I have ever heard." "Why I thought it was an Improved phono fraph but how different." "I didn't know you sold them on such easy terms.!' "There is certainly volume and quality together." These are some of tho remarks made by people who hear the panatrope. ,Wo are glad to demonstrate it. Currins for Drugs ING Klamath Falls, Ore. Cor. 9th and Main. WORK STARTED ONNEVORIDGE State and Federal Govern ment Building Concrete Viaduct Over S. P. According to t liar lea Mar tin, county coiiiiiiIj loner, work started yesterday a few miles uirtli of lb-aver Mann on the big concrete overhead crossing over the Moutliern I'aclflc Kit-geoe-klauialti line on Tlie lal-Irs-t'allfurnla highway. The new viaduct, will probab ly not he compliant for aev rral month. Martin thought, oh Ina; to the ronlrau-tor faring a difficult tak of uabllshlng hla "footing" nine feet below the track level In lcp pum lee cut at the crowilng alte. Then, too, h aaml fur tho concrete- must be shipped In from Maryevllle. Calif., owing to there having hern some -question about the quality of the Hory station aand. Crush ed rock la bring; obtained with in a couple nillea of tho Job. This viaduct la being finan ced by the state and the feder al guvemmemt. Martin sudd, rx-iiiat a Ulr highway In the foreat reaerve. GEN. BUTLER TELLS OF PARTY Officer Testifies at Court- Martial of His Host Col. Alex Williams RAN DIKCt), Cal.. April IS I'nlted Newsl llrlgadler General Binedley I). Butler, commander of the I'nlted States marine corps baae today appeared before the court-martial board trying Colonel Alex Williams on charges of Intoxi cation and told how, on March I, He veftteed vlrlnks-Dffeied by Colonel Williams at the tatter's home, and how. Inter he had aeen hla brother officer of H years acquaintance taken from the Hotel del Coronado, staggering from what he declared to be Intoxication. tleneral Holler was preceded on the witness aland by three others, two of whom admitted under sev ere examination by the Judge ad vocate that they thought Colonel Williams to be under tha influence of Intoxicating liquor at the Hotel del Coronado and that drinks con taining "a certain amount of liquor" were nerved at Colonel Williams home during the evening when the Intter waa giving a dinner In hon (.Continued on Pago Five) Building Permits Start With Rush The month of April bids fair to equal, or aurpaas, the record month of March In the amount of building permits and their aggregate value, according to the city clerk's office, Yesterday permits totaling $11.- S25.00 were Issued by Judge L. L. Onghagen, the majority for homes to be put under construction, or already under construction, In the city. J. J. Slmonda will build a tt.000 house on Broad street; W. W. Little $1,200 house on Orchard) Norman Skelton, $25 garage on Blxth street; Owen L. Rosenkrant, $25 garage on Dolores; O, J. McCoy, $4500 stucco house on Huron street; Alon io Rnntler. $25 woodshed on Wal nut: Harry R. nrlsblno, $1800 attic co house: George I.. Meti, $2,600 house on E. Main; Milo M. Holllster, $250 garage on Mitchell street; Hub Tiro company by Nollle Troiity, $600 repairs, Sixth street. KLAMATH RESIDENTS HURT IN ACCIDENT OLYMPIA, Wash., April 12. Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Itea of Klnmnth Fulls were Injured on the Pacific highway near Tu in water this county, shortly after noon Sunday, when their car was struck by another machine, said to have been driven on tho wrong sldo of Iho read. Tho name of the driver of the other car was not learned. Tho Hens were taken lo fit. Peter's hospital, Olympla, where II was found Mr. lion's Injuries con sisted of a broken right fore arm and some frnrlured rlbn on the right side. His condition la not ronald eerd serious. Mrs. Ilea suffered a rut Hp and n rut knee, hut her In juries were not aevero. IMMEDIATE WORK ON OREGON AVE. To Use County 'Cat' and 'Scarifier' ORDER CRUSHED ROCK Paving Proposition Appears to Be Practically Out of Question Oregon avenue la to get Immed lata attention. Accepting tha offer of tha county court to loan their big caterpillar angina and "scarifier." the city council last night voted to begin work Immediately to tear up the disgraceful atrip of nearly lmpas- aat.le roadway. . ... Aa considerable crashed rock will be needed to bind tho road founda tion which will fee rooted out by tha "scarifier." Councilman Dalslger moved that the street commissioner be empowered to purrhaae a maxi mum or 200 yarda of fine rock fur a .top dreaalng on thla repair Job. The financing of the repaired road must come out of funds to be turned over to the city from the county court, being the city 50 per rent of the tax levy within the city limits, which according to a new law, la to ba expended within the city limits on streets leading to a direct connection with the main county highways. Thla sum will aggregate between ilx and aeven thousand dollars, when tho taxes are nil collected, It waa pointed out It waa thought possible that some of tha money would ba available by May I. . Tho permanent paving of Oregon avenue Is mill a long way off, ac cording to the aentlmenta express ed last night. A representative of tt)e Oregon avenue property owners was present and atated that the proposed paving cost aa estimated by the city engineer, waa clear out of the queatlon, amounting to prac- tlcally aa much aa tha coat of the average lot along the atreet. Also Judge Gaghagen explained to the council, there Is no possible chance of getting an Improvement bond measure auch aa would be re quired on Oregon avenue, on the May ballot, because of the late date which the matter haa been permit ted to drag along. Three Fined After Sunday NightRaid State and county men combined In a raid Sunday night on 421 Oak street, and arrested Harvey O'Brien, charged with possession of liquor. O'Brien paid a tine of $250 and costa In Justice Splnk'a court yes terday. Aa Officer McMllla and his men ascended the stops to the O'Brien home, a "customer" gave the warn Ing which Is "dump" or "pour" as the case may be. A woman poured the liquor down the hath tub, but McMllla managed to enve a quart of the evidence to produce In court. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith were also arrested at the O'Brien cstab llshment, charged with being drunk. They were both fined $35, which they paid. . "Vags" Turn Out to Be Well to Do Seven men picked up Saturday night, charged with vagrancy and classed In the sheriff's annals as "vags" were not, In ' the opinion of Judge R. A. Emm It t, since each ol the men provided their own cash bond of $25. "Romothin'a fishy or else those guys would have been setting out Jielr 12 dnya in Jail and not fork, Ing over my desk that cash bond,' sollloqnlied Judge Kmniltt yester day. . INFANT ltKOWNH RAKER. Ore., April 12. (United Newsl Paul Karl Darlington, 3 wan drowned here Sunday after noon when he fell into a alough on the west sldo of tinker. LONG-BELL HAS A FAMILY ROW R. A. Long and Former President of Co. Clash Over Stock Disposal KANSAS CITY. Mo., April 12 (United Newa) The quo warranto proceedings agaluat tha Long-Bell Lumber company will not be filed until next week, It waa Indicated here Monday. Attorney. General Gentry, who waa acheduled to appear In Kansas City Monday Instead, sent an as sistant. It la conceded that tbe friction between F. J. .Bannister, former president of the lumber com pany and K. A. Long grew out of disagreement over the disposal of tha stockholdings of Banniater and hia wife. The queatlon of the price to be paid caused a deadlock. Long contended In- a atatement Saturday that the Bannlslere sought an exorbitant price of $200 a ahare for their holdings. Bannister la aald to have asserted that an attempt waa being made to (tfeaUaaed oat rage Five) ' 'CURRENT EVENTS' Co pco Movie Man to Hold Ten Engagements in Klamath Section Horace L.f Bromley of Medtord, movie operator, aasoeiated with the California Oregon Power company. will arrive In Klamath Falls to morrow morning to open an Hen. ary that haa been arranged for him hers of . three days Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and Includes 10 engagement.' Wednesday, April H Chamber of commerce, noon. Wednesday April 14 Merrill high achool, 2:30 p. m. Wednesday, April 14 Longfel low's club, chamber of commerce, 8:30 p. m. Thursday. April 15 Malin high achool, 9:00 a. m. Thursday, April .15 Kiwanla club. White Pelican hotel, noon. Thursday, April 15 Elka lodge, 1:30 p. m. Friday, April 16 Henley achool. 9:00 a. m. Friday, April 16 Rotary club, chamber of commerce, noon. Friday, April 16 Klamath county high achool, 2:00 p. m. Friday, April IS I. O. O. F. 8:30 p. m. (Klamath Scenes Among the moat prominent pic turea thai Mr. Bromley will exhibit, and which will be of interest to Klamath county audlencea Include, tha recent activities of tha Universal (Continued on Paye Fire) BAND TO MAKE BOW ON MAY 30 Local Musicians to Appear . in Memorial Day Con cert Program Klamath Falls is going to have a real band, not Bfngville band, but a syncopating, rythmatlc group of musicians who are now being whipped Into ahape by F. A. Selak director, to make their formal de but on Memorial day In connection with. the ex-soldiers patriotic pro gram. The. men have been practicing Monday evenings although, accord ing to Selak, If mors turn out prac tice will be hold twice a week. The members were measured for their uniforms last night, which are being purchased by the city. 1 ' Headed by Selak, who la band master as well aa clarinet player, the personnel of the organisation Is as follows: . Coronets, H. L. Kellla, M. F.' Ellison, It. Adamson, J. S. McLaughlin, A. Liles, L, Drake, Foreat Colsor, Frank Foster, and A. La Fresh; clarinets, Fred Bruce, C. Darling and Kenton Hamaker; baas horns, F, C. Nlms, Earl Root and John Stoelhammer; baritone, Gert Cooley, W. K. Bodge; trombone, Marlon' Rarnea, R, Kellar, Geo. Cruie and Barney Kropp; horn, Charlea Hale, George May and Fred Glover; saxaphone, Charles Eaton, Roy L. Patrick, C. Taylor and C. Rulledge; drums, Ernest Benton and G. W. Taylor. RULING AFFECTS L0CA10FFICERS Reservation Indians Free from Arrest 2 COURTS AFFECTED Judge Rules State and Co. Officers Powerless on Klamath Reservation State and county officers will be barred In tbe future from arresting Klamath Indiana within tha confines of tbe Klamath reservation. Thla was the decision handed down Monday morning by Jndge A. L. Leavltt of the circuit court, fol lowing the petition of Guy Schon- chin. of Beatty, for a release from tba Klamath county jail on a writ of habeas corpus. Sconcbln obtain ed his release Monday. . Judge Leavltt holds that by vir tue of a treaty enacted between the Indians and tha federal government. Klamath Indiana are chargea of the United 8tatea. and that aa auch they are solely under the jurisdic tion of federal authority. The ruling handed down yester day by Judge Leavltt will revolu tionize law enforcement on tbe res ervation In the opinion of local au thorities. The way the ruling now stands, Indians may be arrested off the reservation by state and county men i white men may be arrested on the-reseTvattonk.y eta and cooety men; but neither state nor county officers have legal right to arrest an Indian In hla own domain. . Affects Two Court Two prominent courts of justice will be vitally affected by thla new decision. They are Judge R. C. Spink'a court at Chlloquln, and Judge A. C. Olson's court at Beatty. It Is understood that Indiana now serving sentences In tbe Klamath county jail will be released as soon as their attorneys present petitions for a writ of habeas corpus. According to Sheriff Burt Haw. kina last night, there are eight full blood Klamath and Modoc Indians In the county Jail. There la also a half-blood taken from the reserva tion, who will be Included In the state rule. Excerpa from Judge Leavltt'a de cision, tending to ahow the line of legal reasoning he followed in reach ing the important decision,- follows: No Federal Dk-Islon "There la no decision by a federal court that I have been afble to find, holding that a state can, even In tne absence or a restriction In a treaty, or In the act admitting; the (Continued on Page) Two) To Complete Road to California Line Klamath Falls will have another outlet to the Pacific highway ucd naturally a shorter cut to San Fran Cisco when the county court will advents today calling tor bids on the grading of the Calor aectlon of the Klamath Falls-Weed highway, The project Is three miles long and extends from the aouthern end of lower Klamath lake to Calor on the state line. According to Joseph Jenson. county engineer, the road will be completed at a cost of ap proximately $20,000. It la rumored that Siskiyou officials are consider ing the completion of the stretch from the state line to Weed, Hawkins Insures His Whole Family It Is certain that Burt E. Haw kins parki a gun. But his whole family are not protected from the fenders of automobiles, Careless drivers or speed maniacs. Aa an extra caution, tine sheriff took out Insurance pollelea Monday tor his entire family through The Klamath Newa offer. The policy holders, aa sinned up. Include Furt E. Hawkins, Anna Hawkins. Dor othea Hawkins, Dohlla Hawkins, James and John Hawkins. BIG RAIL YARN FINALLY BLOWS Croesbeck Tells Council Sproule and Shoup Are Re-elected The greatest "bunk" story which ever broke la Klamath waa exploded before the city i council bt night wbea R. C. Groeebeck, local attorney, rep resenting tbe Bouthera Pacific, let fall the casual remark that the) Hoathera Pacific antici pated co tinned and moat friendly relations with the city owing to the fact that Was. Hproalo had beea re-elected presldeat of his great railway system and Paul Hbonp re elected executive manager. Thea and there tho old dope bucket was spill i. Local newspaper readers r member a few ' months ago whrn the evening paper bally hoord to the world that Mr. Hproole and Mr. Hboup had made a mews of tbe Klamath altaation and were elated for aumauury dUacbargo. "A pow erful director who owned 29 miles of Mexican railroad had signed their "walking papers' ,1a Wall street." Help! PARTIES MAKE LAVA BED TRIP Capt Applegate Guides One v Party From Chiloquin; Hotel Party There Sunday two . parties, left from Klamath Falls ' early to spend the dsy In the lava beds, the first par ties of the season. .. , Captain O. C. Applegate, who per haps knows the lava bed country better "IBar ariyman"in Klamath county, or Modoc either, .guided a party of Chlloquln residents through the Intricacies of caves and laby rlnthlan walls. The roads to the lava beds were found to be in excellent condition. except the aectlon on the Lookout road from Timber mountain to Cor nell, where late rains had caused deep mud holes. Those led by Captain Applegate were Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Prime, Wen dell and John Prime, Mr. and Mrs. D. Crambtett. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolf. Gerald Wolf. Mr. and Mrs. Lea Manquidt.. Miss Gladys Man- quidt. Mr. and Mrs. "A. M. Hum phrey. Francis Humphrey. Mr. and Mrs. George Flury. Roy Gelnger, Bend Blackman, Mr. Eaton. Mr. and Mra. L. A. Ervln, Mtsa Winnie Mc- Connell, Roy Beck ley. Miss Helen Malloy. Mlsa Fay Tncker and Marlon Hedrlck. Mlsa Inex Thackara of the White Pelican hotel waa hostess to a party who spent Sunday In the lava beds with J. B. Howard aa guide. In the party was Miss Thackara, W. C. B. Taylor, O. L. Baughn. Sally Folsom, Henry Mueller. Helen Jonea, H. N. Jones, Creasy Tilly, Clara Jarvie, Freeman Smith, J. E. Hibbert and Anita Shaffer. The party lunched at the Indian well, at the mouth of Mushpot cave. Irrigating Roads Tabooed by Jensen Careless use of water by many Klamath farmers will be prohibit ed thla year according to a atate ment made yeaterday . toy Joseph Jenson. county engineer. : "County roads must be protected from Irrigation water which la al lowed to accumulate In barrow pits and overflow the Toads," County Engineer Jenson atated. "Farmers will he warned, and their co-opera. Uon requested. If the warning Is disregarded the county, acting un der state statute, will dig ditches to divert the seepage waters Into prop er channels, and the farmer will be forced to foot the bill. That la, a lien will be created ty the county clerk and placed against tha prop erty affected." . DR. JOHNSON OUT : Dr. E. D. Johnson, . prominent Klamath Falls physician, was able to be on the streets yesterday for the first time In 10 days. ' Dr, Jotinson haa been a patient In the Klamath General hospital suffering from an attack of Influents which tor a time, threatened to prove serious. KLAMATH VOTERS TO PASS ON CITY MANAGERJN HAY Committee Toils In dustriously 5 POWELL SHOWS HAND Railroad Park Sale Is Fin ally Closed Up Shows to Face Big License ' " By action of tha city council last night. Klamath Falla will vote oa the commission . and managerial form of government at tha regular spring election to be held May tt. In order to have tba matter corns up at the time of tha regular also tlon, an emergency waa declared to be In existence by all eoaaellmee with tha exception of Powell, aad the measure waa passed to the third and. final reading aad adoption, Powell also voted bo against the, adoption of tha resolution. - '. - Explanation of tha new form of city government . aa proposed, aa made by Wilson 8. Wiley ' sad w. u. smun, waa aa follows: rtva commissioners shall ba elected son partissnally at large, ona of which ahall bo aeleoted as mayor by tha five, tha mayor not to have power of veto. Tha manager of tha city's departmental ' organisation, will bo hired by the commission. All leg islative and executive power shall rest In the commission. - - -- While no formal comment was forthcoming , last- night ' from , tho council, laudatory expressions were freely made by Interested attend ants at the meeting with regard to the splendid manner In which tha difficult task of preparing the maaa of data for the proposed commission form of government in Klamath, had been handled by aha committee of five responsible for shaping np this material. Ed Dutfey, Central Labor, Wilson S. Wiley, Rotary, W. O. Smith, chamber of commerce. R. E. Crego. Kiwanla. and Ma Dixon, Business Women'a club ap pointees, have burned the midnight oil most Industriously In rushing the preparation through In time to place the measure on the May ballot. Tbe final formalities In connec tion with the sals of Riverside park to the Oregon Trunk and the Central Pacific were duty co nan mated last night with but little discussion. In cidental to- thla tha city haa agreed to purchase from the Central Pacific a plot of ground two' hundred and ten feet square for the purpose of a sewage disposal plant below th park grounds to. serve Riverside addition. The new ordinance regulating (ha taxes on tent shows and carnivals waa passed last night. Tba Dew feea which tent shows, meaning theatrical organisations, tt they want to come In. will be $30 each and every day, and no permit to bo granted for a longer time than 14 days in any three months period. This does not Include Chautauqua entertainments. Carnivals, ctrcusea and such shall pay $100 per day. and extraa of $10 per day for each aide ahow, and $S for each peanut, candy, toft drink atand or other vendor. Powell voted no. The Parisienne '" and YOU Are both planning your spring summer Wardrobes. The Par isienne's first choice is ut terick Patterns including Del tor. .i..,. ' . ; .' Visit Our.":,.:'r BUTTERICK DEPT.. Today' ""''..fll ' "ALLS Cntr oC Shopping Dlftrtot