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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1926)
7 1.. Of The Klamath News it Register Now! It Is Important thutull vot em vote on "City Manager IMun" fur Klumath Falls. Election May 21. RegisterNow! , Every man and woman in Klamath County should reg ister AT ONCE. ' ; i J Last day to register is April 21. United Neva and United Press .Telegraph Services Vol. 3, No. 101. (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALL&, ORE., SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1926 Price Five Cents '.V COQLIDGE STAMPS HIS APPROVAL ON MARKETING PLAN Federal Board for Selling Surplus TO SOLIDIFY CONGRESS Secretary Jardine Endorses Idea of Board to sell Surplus Crops WASHINGTON. April 17. (Unit ed News) President Cmilldge has given his tacit approval to Ilia farm relief propo.nl aettlnK UP a federal board to aid In marketing surpluses, and bellevee It haa a good rhanre of aucreeaa In congress. , The nresldenl's aovroval mad known at the White House today ramee after a prolonged bombard- ment by weatern farm k-adera who went on a rampage auveral weeka ago. It la espeectod to solidify ad ministration forrea In congress, which have been aplit seversl waya on agricultural relief and had Juat recently agreed to let the propoaed draatlr meaaurea dlo after talking about II for weeka. Hope of aucceeaa among farm leadera were revived a few daya ago. when Secretary of Agriculture Jardlno endoraed the general Idea of a federal board to help Market aurplua cropa, and on that day the eenate agricultural committee re ported bill following the general line he laid down. Thla waa fol lowed by Introduction In the house of almltar bill by Representative Tlncher, Kansas Republican. It waa thla, bill which waa dlarueaed Fri day by the president'? spokesmen, who inalated algnlflcantly that It did not Involve the government In buying and nailing, or filing prices which the president haa opposed al though the board will be financed by the government. Thla la con trary to the opinion of othera who held It la more or lesa a price fix ing measure. Officers Raid an Alleged Bar Pat Folkina, a new arrival from Oak Itldge, was holding forth last night with an Improvised bar In room 3 of tho Wilton lloomlng House, at Ninth and Main, accord ing to officer 1 L. MclVrldo. who led in assault on the alleged dis tributor of "moon." A pitcher containing about half gallon of thn contraband was grabbed and Folkina lodged In Jail, probably to come up Monday before Judge Emmltt for 'hear ing. L. L. McDrlde. C. McCroedle, and Geo. Pierce took part In the raid. TO VISIT HOME. Norman Taylor, with the Klam ath Falls plant of the Standard Oil company, la leaving today for his home In Muskogee to visit with oSinnds and relntlves throughout Oklahoma. This Is Taylor's first visit to his home In six years. He will go by way of Sacramento, I.os Angoles and southern cities. He will return In a fortnight. Try Washing By Telephone You just gather up all the clothe; and telephone. About fifteen minutes of your time and the work of washday is over. We'll wash and finish your clothes in the way you like ; and put new freshness and life into them. Begin this week to enjoy freedom from washday wor ries. Telephone and we will have our representative call immediately. Troy Laundry Phone 666 SPECIAL CALL FACESVOTERS Referendum on Street Clos ing May Call for a Special Election Petitions appeared on the streets of Klamath Kail yesterday de manding that certain streets and slliys closed by order of the coun cil at a recent meeting, be declar ed open and the ordinance passed by the council be made null and void. The petition la being circu lated by Individuals who have In terested Ihemanlvea through various reasons. The streets affected are those below Klamath avenue In the block adjacent to Ihe Klamath Heating company's plant owned and operated by tho Lorent company. The mayor In his veto message a week ago Monday took the coun cil to task, accusing the aldermen of catering to a corporation enter prise and disregarding the Interests of the public. If petitioner obtain sufficient signatures, the referndum may be placed on the ballots of the May primaries, but if the circulators are loo late, whlrh la probably the case, then It is rumored, a special elec tion will be called for at an early date following the primaries.. This election will give cltlsens a chance .to uphold Ihe stand taken by the council majority or to nullify Ihe ordinance. Primary purpose for the closure of the street and alleys was V1 give way to Industrial development for the Lorens company. WIEST ANSWERS GAGHAGEN WIRE! Promises to Exert Every Effort to Get Federal Building Here The following wire was received by Judge Lein l. Ceghsgen yester day from W. A. Wlent, local altor ney. who la In Washington, D. C, at the present time on the 0. A C. tax refund drive In which Klamath la co-operating with pther Oregon counties, and Is an answer to a wire forewarded Friday by the Judge to Wleat advising him to bend every effort at the present time toward inducing the government to estab lish a federal building In Klamath Falls. Washington, April 17, 1926. I.em 1,. Oaghagen, City Hall. Klamath Kails, Ore. Your wire rocoived. Tho public buildings bill hss pnssod the house and was debated In the eenate to day, likely to receive senate vote Monday. I shall watch. BUI pro' vides one hundred million dollars for constructions outside this city, not yet started or designated, there fore our efforts must be executed on the departments after the passage of the bill. The 8tanfiold bill intro duced for a federal building In Klamath Falls Is still pending. W. A. WIK8T. THE WEATHER. Oregon: .Unsettled Sunday and Monday, probably rain In west por- lion; normal humidity. NEW SANDWICH SHOP ON MAIN STREET APPROPRIATELY NAMED drey geoso go singing their way over the city night and day, their honking causing many a hunter Ho look longingly Into the sky end long for Ihe coming hours In field and marsh. Othor grey geese axo winging their way In tho clty'( though (hoy remain forever still. Imprisoned In plcturo form on the tables of one of the city's newest and smartest restaurant. And as all of its who were brought up to the . rhymes of Mother (loose cannot think of geese without thinking of children, per haps It was not unnatural for the Inquisitive reporter, poking an impertinent nose Into cleverly des igned booths and attractive kitch ens,, should look for the child In the caso. And ho wasn't, hard to find Indeed ho would have been hard to overlook ensconed 'In a place M'Jiaollnl Ihlmself wouldn't have dared to usurp, the very renter of the kitchen. Just under the eye of his mother. An autocrat he is. whose merry smile and graving FOR LANU OFFER Acre Cost Same as Rent in Calif. INVESTMENT IS LOW Langell Valley Offers Land at from $20 to $40 per Acre Under Ditch That great possibilities for the development of Klamath county lie In educating ranchers and dairymen In districts where lend value are high' as to tho merits of the low priced land In this neighborhood. Is the contention of J. D. Reed, of the firm or Head Itoed. real lot, gam l. Head, his psrtner, hss spent large amounts of time and money In traveling through tho Owens Valley country and other districts of California In pursuit of this work, with gratifying results in Interesting their resident In lo cating here. .end at Kent Cost Values In some of the highly dev eloped California districts run from 1360 an acre to 00 dollars, with rents as high as $40 and ISO an acre, according to Mr. Reed. This fact, of course, entails a heavy bur den on many a. small rancher or dairyman with small capital, who must work under terrific pressure to make good In the face of auch severe financial demands. Here there Is lsnd equally suited to bis purpose at a price per acre about equal to the rent paid for one year's nse In some tf the more ex pensive districts. Here, by paying the ssme amount, one becomes bis own landlord, owning his own land and keeping the rent for himself. There he Is confronted each suc ceeding year with the necessity of paying rent. And the best part of the local proposition is that the amount due does not have to be paid all In one year as In the case of rent, but Is spread out over a number of years, making the fl nancial burden to tho buyer much easier than to the renter In other districts. Mr. Head has been res ponsible for Ihe location of a con siderable number of families on ranches In the neighborhood under such circumstances, and report thst they are happy and prosperous, Government Generous The land In the Langell Irriga tion Projects, according to Mr Head, is one of the groatost bonan ta propositions ever given the pub lic by a generous government. The soil varies from a sandy loam which Is sultablo for such crops as potatoes and alfalfa, to a heav ier and darker soil which Is re markably well adapted to grain growing. Tho United Stato gov ernment will have a charge around $40 per acre to cover the actual (Continued m Page Two) arms exerclso more power ovor the hearts of his subjocts than ever a king possessed. Black hair' and eyes bo has, and a baby frame of such promising . proportions that when be comes to be a man well, Jf he keeps up the same growth for the next 20 years that he has made in the first five months, he'll be some man. Seven and a half pounds he weighed at birth, 21 and a half pounds he weighs today. If he continue to triple bis weight every fire months of his life, how much will he weigh? We pause aghast Rt euch proportions. Her culean would be no name for It. So slow up bit. Baby Richard, we were fed up on supermen In the last war. And who Is he? Why Baby Richard Acres, to be sure. And whore does his king act during the day? In the Grey Goose Sandwich Shop, which his papa and mama, Mr, and Mr. W, M. Acres, and A. L. Beatty, all formerly of the University of Kansas, openou yos torday morning on Main stroet. CITY MANAGER PLAN City Manager Form of Government Is Democratic Because It Is More Responsive to Public Will (Shortcomings of Klamath Falls' form of government are retarding city progress, in the opinion of students of local politics. With the idea of finding remedies, this newspaper is now studying the city manager plan, re ported as operating successfully in several hundred cities In the United States. The article below, the fifth of a series, deals with the "democracy" of the city manager plan.) The firit-thought objection to the city manager plan of government is that it is "undemocratic." ' This criticism is based on the fact that it makes its most important single official appointive instead of "directly responsible to the people by election." According to advocates of the plan, however, democ ' racy consists in controlling public officers, not necessairly in electing them, and that way is most democratic which gives the people the surest control. The most effective way for the people to get a firm grip on the neck of the government organization, it is . urged, is by sending a representative group of citizens down to the city hall to see what the executive is doing, with power to fire him and get another any day of the week if he is unsatisfactory or insubordinate. It is further contended that vigorous effective execu tion of policies is essential to true democracy. Jelly-fish Inefficiency in execution defeats the realization of pol icies voted by the people as often as open opposition to them. " Administration by a trained manager is therefore more democratic that is. more obedient than by Tom, Dick, or Harry. Many of the evils of municipal government have aris en, according to advocates of city managership, from a mistaken view of "democracy." A generation ago reformers exercised their wits to de vise complications of government machinery to prevent "bad government." And they made government so roundabout and complex that none but the professional politicians could operate it, and the rank and file of the citizenship were left almost helpless spectators. The result was government by a compact ruling class, variously called "the ring," "the machine," and "the poli ticians.'.'lJJlJh, government was oligarchy. '. -a .t It was' intended- to be "democratic,", but, to coin a slang phrase, it didn't "democ." 1 CAR SMASHES 3 ON MAIN ST. Woman Loses Control of Big Car in Front of Hall Hotel 3 Jammed Three cars were badly wrecked and a fourth suffered bent fenders and broken lights when Miss Char lotte Grover, driving a car belong ing to Guy J. Shear of the Hall hotel, crashed Into the cars owned by C. M. Reid, Mrs. C. C. Beely and another large touring car, the owner of which was not known. Miss Grover had atopped In front of ihe Hall hotel parking parallel to the curb. She put the car In low, then seemed to lose control, sending the heavy touring car Into three others parked diagonally. Fenders, lights, radiators and tire racks went Into a Jam as the -three heavy cars were crashed into one after another by the car driven by Miss Grover. This Is the second tlmo within a week that Mrs. Seely has been the victim of an automobile wreck, both times cars doing considerable damage to her machine. M-X.KO PAYS KINK E. Lockwood, negro, alleged hit-and-run motorist, paid a tine of 150 In Judge Emmltt's court, chsrged with reckless driving and a failure to report an accident. According to police, Lockwood, with" another negro friend, H. Blrdwell, smashed Into the car driven ,'by J. & Bailey of Macdotf on the Ashland-Klamath Falls highway late Friday afternoon. One wheel " was brokon and a fonder of the Bailey car torn off, accord ing to, Bailey. SPORTSMEN WILL MEET ON MONDAY i The regular meeting of the Klamath Sportsmen's associ ation Is scheduled for Monday night at 7:30 o'clock at the chamber of commerce, accord ing to Secretary Nate Otter bcln. , A number of Important matters in connection with Klamath fish and game condl. tlons are to be threshed out at this meeting. 9 WILL ATTEND ROTARIAN MEET Delegation from Klamath to Visit Victoria for April Convention Klamath Falls will be well rep resented In Victoria on Vancouver Island, when the first district Ro tary international conference will be held April 22 and 23 in the beau tiful little Canadian city. - Nine Klamath Falls residents will attend the meeting and spend aev eral days on the Island and In Van couver, it was learned yesterday fol lowing the Rotary luncheon. Those who will leave next week for the conference Include Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lamm, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Un derwood. Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Hous ton and It. E. Kauger. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hall will also be in at tendance, although they left for the north a week ago. . According to letters received in Ihe city by Rotariana from Bob Mayhew, conference chairman, a de lightful program has been planned tor the affair. Including tho gov ernor' ball in the Empress hotel. 2 Sprague River Homes Destroyed By Fire Friday Fire destroyed the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Ab McN'air and Elisa Lawver In Sprague River at 8 o'clock Friday afternoon, accord ing to word received In Klamath Falls yesterday. The McNalr home. Including furniture and entire con tents of the house, was burned to the ground. Volunteer firemen managed to save the goods and household articles-belonging to Ellis Lawyer. Loss, was set at $3000. Both buildings were located In the near vicinity of the Sprague River post ' office. POLISH IS IGMTKD. I Polish on the main floor of the new wing of the Klamath Valley hospital was Ignited early Friday afternoon by the friction of wool cloth. . Although a call was placed for the fire department; the blase was extinguished before the truck arrived. No damage was done. 3 ARE ELECTED WITHOUT FIGHT No Opposition to 'Collier, Bur dick and Hamilton In 21st District Denton O. Burdlck of Redmond, R. 8. Hamilton of Bend and A. M. Collier of Klamath Falls, the three representative In the Oregon leg islature from the 21st legislative district, comprising the counties of Crook. Deschutes, Lake, Jefferson and Klamath, are already elected, and only await the formality of tak ing office. According to word from Salom yesterday. The 21st 1 the only district In the slate where there Is no contest for the legislative office. The time for filing having closed Friday, April If. at midnight SALEM. April 17. (United News) A toUl of 2S2 citizens of Oregon had tendered their services to the electorate of the state, as pirants to the 101 state offices to be filled at the general election next fall, when time was called Friday night on filings for the May pri maries by Secretary of Stat Ko ter. ) Of these 252 candidates 195 were of Republican persuasion and 67 are marching under the Democratic banner. Two of the candidates are women. Among the list of candidates for senator on the Democratic ticket is Sergeant K. Brown of Chiloquin. For representative In the legis lature from 21st district (Crook, Deschutes. Jefferson, Klamath. Lake) three to elect are: Republican, Andrew Collier of Klamath Falls, Denton O. Burdlck of Redmond and R. S. Hamilton of Bend. For district attorney from Klam ath county: Republican W, A. Wiest, Klam ath Falls: Democrat. Edward B. Ashnrst. Klamath Falls; W. M. Dun can, Klamath Falls. WORK to start : ON M E. CHURCH New Building Planned for Site of Old Church Tenth and High Another house of worship will soon rise in Klamath Falls with construction starting June 1 on the new Methodist Episcopal church on the site of the present building on Tenth and High streets. This waa the announcement made yesterday afternoon by O. O. Oli ver, vice president of Willamette university, who, with Dr. A. L. Howarth, Dr. Sam Cheyney and Dr. A. S. Hlsey, la here In the Interest of the drive to be opened formally today. The building, tor which plans have been drawn and submitted by DeYoung and Roald of Portland church architect, will coat approx Imately 230,000 and ot that sum 110,000 haa been raised 1n a pre vious drive. It Is (he hope of the men to raise $15,000 by tonight In order that the drive may be put well under way before their depart ure for the north. . The church will be larger than the present structure and ot beautiful Spanish architecture. It will cover the two lots which the church owns on Tenth and High streets. The present structure will be torn down (Continued On rage Two) S. P. Officers to Meet Cattle Men Cattle growers and shippers of northern Klamath county and the reservation ranges will meet with Southern Pacific officials the latter part ot the month to discuss bet ter and closer co-operation for tho transportation ot livestock for this season's shipments. This was the announcement made yesterday afternoon by J. J. Miller. According to Miller a plan Is now being discussed whereby shippers from northern Klamath will be served in a more efficient and sim ple manner. Those to meet with prominent cattle men Include J. J. Miller, dis trict freight and passenger agent ot Klamath Falls; J. D. Brennan, assistant superintendent of Duns muir; H. A. Sprague. trainmaster of Klamath Falls, and J. A. Taylor, as sistant engineer, Dunsmuir. The meeting is scheduled for April 27, 1:30 p. m,, In Chiloquin. INDIAN FILES BIG SUIT FOR DAMAGE AGAINST ELLIOTT Claims Libel From News Reports ; ASKS TOTAL OF $65,000 Ashurst Fights Attempt to Get Money from County , Court for Appeal -Claiming E. L. Elliott, district at torney ot Klamath county, to be responsible for slanderous and li belous newspaper article and pub licity having been broadcast during the recent controversy over the le gal status of the local Indians, last night at S o'clock a damage salt was entered In the circuit court by Peter Schonchin, a Klamath and Modoo Indian, who claims general damage of $15,500 and punitive damages of $50,000 from E. L. El liott. , Edward B. Ashurst ia at torney for Schonchin. . The complaint allecea the Klam ath and Modoc Indiana to be peace ful and law-abiding people, against whom the defendant, E. L. Elliott with malic aforethought did libel with premeditated and malletona la tent, when he caused to be attared, circulated and published, certain newspaper article appearing la th Portland daily paper and Klamath evening paper. - And also that the defendant has played upon th pas sions and prejudice ot the' com munity tor the purpose of advancing hi own Interests politically. ; :. - Ask Court to Aid. . . It is further alloc, -that -efwlng to the publication ot these new re port for which it is claimed. the district attorney is responsible, the Indians hare sustained loss and In Jury to their credit .and reputation and have been seriously injured to the extent that a total ot $5,000 damage are claimed. : : As a prelude to the filing of this suit, a few hours earlier In th afternoon Ashnrst appeared . before the Klamath county court, where ha denounced bitterly an attempt which was made before that body to hare $500 appropriated out ot county funds to assist In the financing ot an appeal against the dec Is ion ot Clr cult Judge A. L. Leavitt, In the mat ter ot the Jurisdiction ot county and state officers being annulled on the Klamath reservation. Sensing th Influence of Indian Agent Arnold In this appeal to the court. Ashnrst questioned the ability ot th gov ernment official, . and protested against any payment of county fund for any auch purpose as da sired by Arnold or District Attorney Elliott. .... . The court withheld a decision in the matter until thla week. EAGLES TO ORGANIZE. J. V. Sapp, deputy national or ganiser for F. O., E., stated Isat night that he had lined np 152 men in Klamath Falls for charter mem bers ot the new aerie ot the lodge here. ,. 1 Initiation will be held a week from today, AprU 25. In the Moose hall. Officers and the ritualistic team ot Eugene and the degree) team ot Bend will be here for this Installation. . , Fire Cost , : Was $4.80 -' Per capita in the United States in 1925. Loss to men from not be ing well dressed and not hav Ins pride in appearance was so great it can not be, esti mator! It 'a a fM n o Vi If ed the loss per person. : Let us show you our hard finish worsteds. '., , -, Center ot Shopping SlstrloV