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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1926)
"sassy . i The Klamath N Register Today Every man and woman in Klamath County should reg ister AT ONCE. ; ' - Last day to register is April 21. Register Today It I important that nil vot ers voto on "City Msnairur Nun" for Klumuth Fulls. Election May 21. United News and United Prets Telegraph Services EW 3, No. 100. (Every Morning Except Monday) POVER STRIPPED OF HIS POWER TO REGULM RADIO uvciiiiuciii lias iMt . Air Control CONFUSION THREATEN uture Depend Upon Im mediate Needed Leg illa tion by Congress HIICAdO. April . (United News) Secretary of Commiiit Her bert Hoover haa been at ripped of hli powora to regulate rndlu broad casting by a federal court ruling In the government's "lr piracy" lull against the Zenith lladlo corpora tion. The declalon may plunge Ilia en- llra broadraatlni Industry Into chaoa ua It meana that te government now exerrlaes no control ovar tha lime programs may la put on the air or over the uaa ot ware lengths. The principal hope of broadcast ing atatlona and their mllllona of llatenere la that the chaoa will hit eongreaa before It hit the air. If congreaa acta promptly to put teeth In the lawa governing radio the Im mediate threat of general "conges tion" of the air lanca may be avoid ed. Secretary lloorer recently eall mated that a declalon euch aa that handed down Friday by Judge Jamea II. Wllkeraon would render uaeleaa to thouaanda of American famlllea approximately $500,000,000 worth of radio receiving aeta. No Itcatrlctlona, " lla pointed out that regularly li cenced broedcaslers could go on the air at any time and on any ware length and that the government would be powerleaa to restrain thorn. Judge Wllkeraon held In effect that Secretary lloorer did not have the power to enlarge the acta ot congress. WASHINGTON. April 1 (Unit ed New) -The declalon ot Judge Jamea II. Wllkeraon at Chicago, holding In effect that Secrolary of Commerce Hoover baa no authority to aaalgn wave lengths or time to radio broadcastera, makea It almost Imperative that congreaa enact leg islation firmly establishing federal control, If utlor confusion la to be prevented. Thla la the opinion here ot the doclslon In favor ot the Zenith It a. dlo corporation, which wne sued by the government on the ground that It had "uraurped" the wave longtha of five Canadian atatlona at hours not aaalgnod to WJAZ, Tha fu ture would seem to depend entirely upon the attitude of congress to ward legislation and Ita determina tion aa to whether or not foderal control ot the illuation shall be continued," as Id Judge Stephen II Davis, solicitor of the commerce de partment, commenting on the decl alon. Hero from Fort Hay Looaloy, pn,'nlncnt rancher of the Fort Klamath country, was In the city Friday afternoon to look Into busl- nosa affairs. Co-operative Buying and distributing or 'collective buying and distributing in the modern way of handling mer chandise. We buy co-opera'' tively with 15 of Portland's leading drug stores. Insuring fresh merchandise at best possible prices. Currins for Drugs ' INC Klamath Falls, Ore. Cor. 9th and Main. CLEAN WINDOWS THIEF'S FORTE Officers Identify Finger Print in $40,000 Jew el Robbery NEW YOltK, April J. tUulted m.kii itMiiMiivM anKklna to re- rovrr the 140,000 In Jewess which were stolen from the I'ark avenue apartment of Mlsa Muriel II. Wurli- Dundaa are searching for an expert gem thief who plica Ilia trade regu larly In the guise of a window cleaner. The society leader's Jewela disappeared Wednesday with the audtlen loave-taklng of a man who had been hired to wash the wln dowa. Thla man. whoae name they know and whoae description and finger prlnta they have, gota about $100. 000 a year In bla Window cleaning vlalla. Then he uaea the money to mlnglo in Kurope and I'alm Ileach with the aoclety leadera be has robbed, according to atorlea told of him here. For aeveral yeara he has ap peared In Now York In the'aprlng cleaulug aeason. Last year Colonel William llayward's home ylolded him IJ0.0OO In Jewelry and that of Adelaide Phillips 126,000 In dia monds and pearls. The same finger printa which were found on wlndowa at the Hay- ward homo were on wlndowa ot the apartment of Mlsa Wurli-Dundaa. FETE TO MARK REBUILT CITY San Francisco to Mark 20 Years' Progress Follow ing Earthquake SAN Frnnclaco. April It. (United Newa) San Francisco la In gala dresa for Ita celebration of 30 yeara of progress since the earth quuke and fire ot 1S06. Two docadea ago San Francisco was a city of 371.434 Inhabltanta. It waa a city of wooden housea by the tlolden Oale. aarenoly confident of Ita future, taking life aa It came. On the night of April 17, 1800, a Saturday, metropolitan opera stars had been widely acclaimed. Corka were popping at gay restaurant; Chinatown waa aglow with light and life. Tho Ilarbary coast was throng ed with men from tho aqunre rig gers off shore. The Lenten season was past and merry dancea were In progreaa. Tho next morning buildings wore wrecked and torn by an earth tremor of less than a minute's dur ation. Structures craahod to the streets, light and water were cut off, atrcot cars stopped and flames began to lick about the ruins. ' Ilefore the holocaust waa ended. 64 city blocks had been rased, dam age waa placed at $ 600,000,000. There were 408 dead. Market atroet Is draped with flans now. Snh Francisco is again serene ly confident, taking life as It comes. Public functions and . a acoro of dances and entertainments are sched uled for observance ot the anni versary Saturday. Council Talks on Paving Thickness A short apodal meeting of the council waa held In the council chamber last night for the purpose of altering the paving specifications so na to permit concrete bidders to enter competition on a parity with bitultthic. Atter a general discus sion on I ho question of paving thick ness and the desirability of permit ting concrete to be put in of a loss thickness, the mooting adjourned to tho next regular meeting time, Monday evening. The 1028 paving activity will get under way at an early ditto and It Is considered likely that when all the presont projects aro completed along with a number of other districts yet to petition, Klamath will make a greater paving Investment In 1926 than waa made In 1925, when some 28 blocks were surfaced, mostly In the district below Klamath avenue. In from CampMr. and Mrs. Douglas Puckett wero In the city yesterday for the day to visit with friends and shop. They reside at the Puckett Logging ( company where Puckett Is contracting for logs. KLAMATH SECRETARY WORK' TO FRANK-ADAMS Opposed to McNary's $30,000 Bill WORK NOT PERMANENT Since Adam Attempted This Reclamation the Land Haa Gone Back WASHINGTON. April It. (Unit ed Newa) Senator McNary baa received from Secretary Work of the luterior department an unfavorable report on a bill proposing to pay J. Frank Adama 130.000 aa reimburse ment for the conatructlon of dikes at Hank's Marsh on Upper Klamath lake In connection with the Klamath reclamation project. Five hundred acres of govern men land waa Included In a dyking project some -years ago, and In 1919 the government accepted the bid of Adama for reclaiming thla land, ile waa to be paid by proceeds of leasee. The American Legion post at Klam ath Falls entered protest and after much diacuealon the Interior depart ment decided that It had no author ity to make the contract. Spend (RM.OM. Adama went ahead with the dyk ing project, aome ot bla expend! turee being on government land. He claimed he spent 124,966 on It In 1922, It la mated, an Investigation being made In that year. Thoreport held, that the dykes were not up to government standard and only about halt the. necessary work done to make tho reclamation' of thla marsh land permanent. ' ' ' Since the time of Adams' dredg- Ing activity on the Hank's Marsh a good share of the dykee have been leveled from action of the elements and the marah land haa gone back to practically Ita original state, ft la claimed. Valley DeMolays , Visit Last Night Twenty-five Medford young men members of the chapter ot DoMolay, paid Klamath Fails a -visit yeater day to put on the Initiatory degree. The boys In full uniform marched through the streets of Klamath Falls prior to enjoying a banquet hold In tho Masonic Temple In tholr honor. Work was put on after the btyiqupt, followed 1y a danco. 1 HUGE DOOR PLACED . FOR SAFETY VAULT A new vault door, weighing 8000 pounds was placed In the American National bank yesterday, forming an entrance to the eafety deposit vault. Four men worked constant ly dUTlng the afternoon hoisting the hoavy donr In place. The old vault door will be used on the second vault which la being placed In the rear of the bank.. According to E. M. Bubb, cann ier of the bank, tho romodollng will bo finished by Jlay 1. - Trout Eggs Taken to Crooked Creek P. W. South wick, superintendent of the CTooked Creek hatchery took 614,300 rainbow trout eggs from tho Spencer Creek hatchery to Crooked Creek, yesterday.. The majority of the fish, when hatched will be planted In Klam ath's lakes and streams. It Is probable . that they will be . libor aled late rtn the tall, according to Southwlck. "I am planning to keep a large number ot the fish and not plant them until next spring." aald Southwlck. "The fish would have hatched In aeveral daya In tho Spencer Creek waters, warmer than the Crooked Creek waters, and so It was necessary to do the trans planting Immediately. Those fish will hatch within the coming week In colder water and I am planning lo hold somo ot them until spring, FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, CITY MANAGER PLAN Government Executive Is Appointed By Council men and Paid Good Salary (In the effort to find out how the shortcomings of Klamath Polls' present form of government may be rem edied, The Klamath News is studying the city manager plan, which has met with wide success in other cities. In this, the fourth of a series of articles on the subject, further 'advantages of hiring a city manager are pre sented.) The city manager is appointed and is responsible entirely to the elective body that engages his services. -Under the typical city manager plan he may be hired from out of town, if the central governing body thinks that course best He is Usually paid a salary compara tive to what some of the large successful private corpora tions offer. As a result, the profession of city management has been steadily growing in the United States, attracting to its ranks some of the best executive material in the country. ' '' Genuine'public service, if it is fairly paid, makes a strong appeal to the finer types of manhood snd woman hood, and since city managership opens the door to such service, it is already the goal on which thousands of youths have set their eyes. Ambitious young America once looked forward to the public platform, to the aren of political debate, as the way to fame. The engineering impulse of the pres ent age supplies a further motive. The satisfaction that comes from understanding and being able to operate and direct mechanism and organization is a factor of increas ing social importance. City managership, basically a matter of mechanism and organization, is thus in harmony with the newer spirit of the age and will experience no difficulty in en listing a high order of recruits. Advocates of the new plan emphasize the fact that the city manager is not necessarily involved in politics or in disputes on matters of general policy and that this per mits comparative permanence in the office of the city's chief executive. ' . This permanence, it is held, is an important thing in developing .a smoothly running mechanism. - -i In all plans involving elective executives, long ten ures of office are too rare, it is contended. - '"'"'"Z If the city manager plan rids our cities of amateur and transient executives and substitutes therefor men ex- , perienced in municipal administration, it is argued, it will ' have done enough to justify its coming. ' ; "For the first time." the National Municipal league says, in a recent pamphlet on city managership, "the peo ple have 'gotten their own corporation into such shape that it can hold ita own with private corporations in com petition for competent executive talent "For the first time it is able to provide these attrac tive conditions: Tenure for as long as the man 'makes good,' chance for advancement and professional reputa tion and a chance to achieve things by straightforward unincumbered business methods." ' ARMY TRIAL IS IN FINAL STAGE Negro Maid Who Served Cocktails to Testify What Drinks Contained U. 8. MARINE BASE. San Diego, Cat. April 18. (United Newa) The court-martial of Colonel Alex-1, ander S. Williams on charges or Intoxication preferred 1 by General Smedley D. Butler, marine thunder bolt, will adjourn Saturday noon until next Monday morning. This was announced when the court adjourned late Friday after re-bearlng th'e evidence ot aeveral marine officers who attended the Coronado cocktail party given by Colonel Williams in honor of Gen eral Butler'a arrival here to relieve him ot the local marine command. Captain Clifton Cates, staunch friend of Colonel Williams and legal (Continued from Page 1) Wisconsin Man to Head University EUGENE, April 16. (United Nows) Arnold Dennett Hall, head ot the political science) department of the University ot Wisconsin, was elected president .of the University of Oregon here today. The board of regents met In se cret session Friday to consider the educational leader's ability for the position, which was left vacant by the death ot President P. L. Camp bell. Hall waa elected by the unani mous vote of the board, and his salary fixed at 113,000 per year. At the same 'time It. C. Town send, formerly ot Smith college, was elected professor of philosophy at the snlnry of $4000 per year. APRIL 17, 1926 U. S. TO PROBE LAW BREAKING Action Started in Washing ton to Look Into Local Indian Affairs WASHINGTON, April 16. (Unit ed Newa) An Investigation of af M the KamatB Indian reaer- vatlon, where the red men are said to be dofylng local officers, haa been ordered by Commissioner Burk ot the bureau of Indian affairs. Senator McNary ot Oregon con suited with Burk Friday regarding the complaint ot District Attorney Elliott of Klamath county that In dians were drinking and gambling defying local officers because ot lack ot jurisdiction on the reserva tion. Committee Plans City Mgr. Report In accordance with the directors of the chamber ot commorce and the action taken during tho meeting Tuosday at noon, when a member from the chamber was appointed to naaa on the charter recently drawn up by the city planning commit tee. W. E. Lamm of Rotary and Dr. G. A. Massey of Klwanis yes terday appointed members . from their groups. Ben H. Stevenson will represent the Kiwanls club and H. N. Moe will represent Kotary. R. H. Dun bar was appointed by Andrew Col Her last week to appear on the committee for the chamber. The three men will read and dis cuss the charter prior to the dir ector's meeting Tuesday ot this week and report their findings to that body. SHOW NEED FOR ' FEDERAL BLDG. Judge Gaghagen Wires Wiest to Boost for Klam ath's Cause at This Time The present situation arising out of the possible lack of suitable law enforcing agencies on the Klamath Indian reservation Is to be capital ized by the boosters for a federal building and a federal Judge for ths Klamath country. Taking ad vantage of the presence of a Klam ath man In Washington at thai time. Judge Lem I. Oaghagen head of the federal building committee of the chamber of commerce, yes terday forewarded a wire to at torney W. A. Wiest to use every means to promote the cause of Klamath before the national lead era at this time. "The need was never so evi dent snd clearly shown as at this time." according to the judge. "I received a wire from Senator Mc Nary a short time ago that the bill appropriating funda for federal buildings would come op immed iately after the Italian debt set tlement Js disposed of. and that ap pears to be the next business on the congreaa tonal calendar. Some good hard work for Klamath conk ing Just at thia time sbonld re sult In a very material aid to our cause In which merit is "certainly most evident." Mr. Wiest is In Washington at this time in the Interests of Klam ath'a claim in the O. C. grant lands tax loss to this county as well aa many other Oregon counties. LOCAL OFFICERS IN ASSOCIATION Important Meeting of Law Enforcement Body Is Held in Medford Burt E. Hawkins, sheriff of Klamath county, will serve on .the executive committee ot the Southern Oregon Enforcement association which waa formed In Medford Thurs day night with a banquet In the Ho tel Medford. Klamath Falls was well, repre sented with E. V. Kendall, deputy sheriff; E. L. Elliott, district attor ney; Walter A. Foster, state traffic officer, and Joe Klmsey and Len Forncrook, deputy sheriffs, present for the meeting. W. S. Levens and H. K. Newell, heads ot the law and prohibition en forcement departments ot the atate, spoke during the evening, discussing on co-operation between state offi cers and federal workers. - Sheriff Hayes of Josephine coun ty and Sheriff Jennings ot Jack son county were also named to serve on the executive committee with Hawkins. The president of the association is District Attorney Nathan Miller of Granta Pass, and District Attorney Chaney ot Medford Is secretary treasurer. . The meeting next year may be held In Klamath Falls, although no action was taken upon the Invita tion by Kendall. It is planned, it the meeting is held in Klamath, to have Lake and Deschutes county of ficers In attendance. 12 MORE GARAGES TO BE BUILT HERE Klamath Falls motorists will soon have the use of another garage it plans now under way by Mrs. Nel lie- L. Summers materialise. Yes terday afternoon Mrs. Summers ap peared In the city clerk's office and obtained a permit to erect a 12 Unit garage on High street at an approximate cost of 12000. Other permits Issued from the clerk's office were given to U. E. Gets tor a $100 addition to a house on White street: F. McMahan, $400 remodeling to house on Eleventh; Mrs. C. A. Mathlson, $325 garage on Yale street; J. F. Magutre, new glass on business house, Main street. 8 GATHERED IX. Carrying out their threat of "pinching" over-time parkers and triftlc violators In general, the po lice department yeaterday afternoon brought eight law breakers before the city police Judge. . The charges embrsced two-hour parking In a 30-mlnute or 15-mlnute tone and In one case a violator had parked two hours and was without a non-resident permit. Price Five Cents OFFICERS HOP UP GOOD SUPPLY OF ALLEGED LIQUOR!) 1 Man Caught With Bottle Goods - TO CONFISCATE AUTO "Bud" Hodges Pays $500 When Officers Find Se cret Cache in his Home , . Klamath's dry ' sleuths, county and state men aided by federal of ficers mopped np more than $1000 worth ot "Bottled in bond," plain "moon" and imitation liquor yester day afternoon In an assault upon bootleggers and liquor dealers throughout the county. . . , A year ago George Wagonheim ot Ban Francisco brought a carload of . choice Scotch whisky into Klamath Falls. According to Wagonheim the msrket was good and invited a re turn. Yesterday Wagonheim (and badly for he had not , been In Klamath Falla bat an hoar when Officers McMlIIs and Knowles, on . the lookout for his new touring car. located htm in a local garage. In ' the tonnean of the car waa fonnd 30 quarts of alleged Scotch whisky with foreign libels and gold-band--ed necks. , - Wagonheim was taken before R. C. Spink. Justice of tho peacs of Wood river, where he entered a pleat ot guilty. He waa fined $250 on each charge of possession and trans portation. According to Wagoa-i helm, who is now In the county Jail, he will be able to raise his tins within two daya. '.."-I. -.'.-".:. , Hodges Fined. . ; -..:. - Wagonheim 'a car haa beecr con fiscated, according to th sheriff's office. .- . !. r, : "Bud" Hodges, alleged bootlegger, drew a fine of $500 in Justics Splnk'a court late yesterday after noon after he had been arrested charged with possession of 1ft sal Ions of alleged moonshine. Hodges entered a plea of guilty and accept ed the - fine philosophically. He draw a check tor the amount and waa instantly released with an ad monition from atate and federal men. Hodges was arrested yesterday morning in his domicile on Early street in Hot Springe addition. Con cealed in a wall between his kitchen and bathroom waa a tank . holding the 30 gallons of supposed liquor. After searching the house -from top to bottom McMllls disciv ered a screw plate which save evi dence ot frequent usage. The plate was taken from the wall and the -intake ot the tank discovered. Arrests were not only confined to Klamath Falls; bat In Malln federal men working in that district brought R. T. Yardy to court, charged with possession and transportation ot liquor. Yardy had five gallons of moonshine in his car at the time of his arrest. He appeared before Jus tice Spink late yesterday afternoon. Returns from Chiloquln -Jack Alexander has returned to Klam ath Falla after spending some time in Chiloquln on Insurance busi ness. Boys Longies Corduroys and Wool 6 Years Up . Variety of colon, ' patterns, and prices. 1.1 .'lJlnlaT(ysl''.;.i.''-''J-"-9 CfenUr ot Bhopplnr Dlftrtet