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Kl'OENB. ORB. .1 Hhe Klamath Wews Yesterday Today and Tomorrow Two Sections Twelve iPages United Newt and United Press Telegraph Service Vol. 3, No. 112. (Every Morning Except Monday) KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1926 Price Five Cents TALK KTOI'H Lightning strurk In ! yards ol lb Pelican Hay Lumbar company on Tburiday afternoon during the electric disturbance which ffetd Ibis district. No damage resulted from lha boll and no on waa hurt. Several workman wars closa by and dumfounded. NO WORK NO PAY Klamath Falls has passed through tha month of April without alnile (Ira loaa. according to Fir Chief Kalth Ambrose. Although tb month haa baan tha dryeat April In tha history of local wool her observ ation. Klamath'a highly officiant de partment baa not baan called upon at any time to rata local property owners from lots. j THKY'LL VNDKKHTAM) Two long-aared mule, with tha freedom of Klamath'a rangea still vivid In tbelr ulnda. war placed In a truck and bound for Bacrameato to enter the service of a road con tractor for wbom they will work I hours a day on California aoll. Tb mule were aent eouth by J. Prank Adama to Harry Ogden of Rucramento, mad contractor. They brought a price of 1200,' according to Adams. ' ' IOVIK COM KM IN Loul Polio, Cblloquln represent ative of tb News, and live mer chant In that community, waa In town Friday. II had time to tell of his plans to attend tha world's series baseball next fall. WE W IS t TP. To Klamath Falls club of Rotary International goes tha second prise, a silver loving cup, for tb aeennd largest attendance during the Vic toria conference this month, . W. K. Lamm, president of the Klamath Falls luncheon club, pre sented tha cup during the meeting yesterday noon. "Klamath Falls .had an 11 per cent attendance and her members (raveled 777 miles to tb conven tion. She waa cloaa to Cranbrook. 71. C. which led all clubs with en attendance of I out of 2$ members," said Lamm yesterday. The next meeting of Rotary will ae Jack Kimball, president-elect. In the chair. Other officer will be P. 0. Landry, secretary, and Arthur Wilson, treasurer. A new board of directors, alx In all. will also take Office. ' Rl.VGNIDK : Tom Waiters, referee her In the daya when local boxing waa In Its Infancy, will be third man In the ring next Tuesday night, Joe Shirk wishing to take a layoff and watch at least on fight from the vantage point of ringside seat. According to local fana the work of Tom Walters ha always com aa near satisfaction aa It la possible for a ring arbiter to attain. Grasshopper, reported Infesting the wheat fields of Klamath ranch ers, have not mad any headway In Oregon, but ranchers of northern Modoc county are aufferlng heavily by the peata, according to W. C Dalton. large land owner of both Klamath and Modoc counties. "None of my land has yet been Infested by hoppers," said Dalton yostorday, "but land leased by Carr Dalton In the Tule Lake govern ment section la thick with the pests. "I don't ithlnk hoppers will get my land, however, as they are driv ing straight south and will probably go clear of my fields," Dalton said. Remember EVERYBODY LIKES CANDY We have delicious fresh candies in attractive packages Priced from 50c to $4.00 Currins for Drugs i ' INC -Klamath Falls, Ore. Con 9th and Main. Line Rebuilds Weed Route to Klamath Falls Making ready for fje great vol ume of traffic that la expected to flow over the Klamath line with Ihe completion of the Natron cut off wllhln a few months' time, 700 luborera are being distributed be tween Chelsea elation and (Jraes lake, 1 mile by the Southern Pa cific company, to rush lha laying of 10-pound steel In li place' of the 70 and 10-pound rails that are now used on the line. From Chelsea, which la a couple of mile south of Klamath Kails, north through the local yarda and over tb cutoff, uniform heavy ateel la used, and tb completed line will be the best ballasted, best equipped, and one of tb mnjt substantial In the west, according to 8. P. offi cials. With the completion of the Gram Lak Dells cutoff on the new main line of the S. P., It Is the Inten tion of the railway company to acrap the present makeshift line Into Weed. Application along this line haa already been made to the Interstate commerce commission by the 8. P., It la understood. On complication which may re sult from the abandonment I the certain Isolation of sand deposits along the abandoned aectlon. A great deal of this sand flnda Its way Into Klamath at the preaent time.. Louie Polin Sits Pretty on Big Series Louie Polin of Chiloquln, has hi seat engsged In advance at all the gamea to be played In the world'a baseball championship series next October, no matter where they are played or which team cornea up aa champion of the American and Na tional leagues. ...This Is by reason of an. Invitation to attend xtndV ed to Polin by Otto Kioto, famous sport writer and owner of the Denver Post. Sixteen years ago Polin was Iden tified with the staging of tha Jef-frles-Jnhnson heavyweight fight at Reno, Nevada, and while there made Floto'a acquaintance and lasting friendship and also that of Jack Curley for the past decade ctar of the wrestling game. Polin will have his flourishing business In such shape that he will be able to attend, be la aura. GOODBYE GEESE, . HOPE YOU CHOKE Tule lake farmers are In ecstasy over the movement north of the great flocks of wild geese which wintered there. With a hankering for the tendor shoots of newly sprouted grain and an extraordniary capacity for that provender, the gees hare created damage In the lake country and one farmer ald ha had KO acrea of growing crop wiped out. . Owing to the vast area In the lake bed attempting to frighten the geese off the fields would be Im practical and the only hope for the worried farmers Is the summer heat which drives the hungry birds away to the chill of the northern marsh lands. SCHOOL CLASSES PARADE STREETS Over a thousand children from the five Klnmnth grade schools par tlcipatod In a colorful march up Main street yesterday afternoon, the occasion being a county health display demonstration. Many attractive banners design ed by the students of Ihe different schools played up the health move ment Idea. American flags were also promlnont' In the display. Tho parade extended over six blocks In length with the boys and girls marching In orderly 'double rank. The local police force was .scattered along the Una of march and directed traffic away from Main street as effectively as pos sible while the parade was passing. LltlllT FOOTED " NEW BEDFORD, Mass., April 30. Everott Crossley and Mrs. Edith 811 va put on newly dyed shoea. Within a short time both pairs turned blue. When Ihe shoes were removed they returned to tholr original complexion. Political War Halts Gang Sift Chicago Split Over Control of Action for Murder War By KARL JOHNHON CIIICAOO, April 100. 0-M United Nswa) Politics, which has been blamed for the amailng freedom with which outlaws roam the atreets of Chicago, ha bobbed up to delay Investigation of she gang land beer war la which 41 men, in cluding a district attorney s assist ant, have been killed her. All angle of tb probe excepting the work of detective and police cam to a halt Friday while State's Attorney Robert E. Crowe, the presa and civic leader clashed over how the prosecution of the latest gang outbreak ahould be conducted. Forestalling the attempts of op ponent to take the caae out of bis handa Crowe went before the crim inal court and obtained an order for a special grand Jury to meet Monday to alft the elaylng of William H. McSwIggln. the banging prosecutor. and two of hla underworld compan ions by beer runners In Clcera last Tuesday night. Crowe said he would take per sonal command of the prosecution Harry E. Kelley. president of, the Union Leagu club,, and Chicago newspapers had demanded vigorous ly that tb affair be placed In the handa of a apecial prosecutor. Cor oner Oscar Wolff hid challenged Crowe's right to carry on In the probe became of bla political affil iations. : , , . . April Permits Reveal Lively Building Pace Although April building permits, aggregating $171,190 do not come up to March permlta of $175.(53, the past month surpasses the past three years' permits, according to figures compiled yeaterday In the city clerk's office. ' Of the (4 permits Issued this month. 61 were for new buildings, amounting to $15.800; $3 permlta for alterations amounting to $3(0. In the majority the new permits are for homos. ' In April of 1925, 69 permlta were Issued for new 'buildings, 21 for al terations, aggregating $99,815. Permits Issued during April, 1924, amounted to $60,425 with 86, per mlta for new buildings and seven alterations., During Aprld, 1122, only 5 new building permlta, and five building alteration, permlta were issued, amounting to $11,760. "Spring building haa alackened a bit," stated Lem ' L. Gaghagen, city clerk, yesterday, "but I atlll hope we have a chance to retain our third place among Oregon cities In building. .. Permits were Issued yesterday to Olat Johnson, 300 bouse on Want land avenue; E. Yennlttl. $700 house on Laguna street and H. L. West, $1900 house of Lavey street. FANS HAVE WAY. UMPS REACH JAIL OAKLAND, April 30. (United News) Two Pacific Coast league umpire's have completed a night In Jail aa the . result of a atreet dis turbance In which the men figur ed. According to police reports, Wil liam Burnslde and Jack Carroll, the "umpa," were picked up by of ficers outside the Burnslde home. It waa explained that Carroll had been a guest there, and that Burn- side's wife had objected to the two men leaving togother. She had fired a gun at her husband's automobile to frighten them and prevent their departure, it waa said. Carroll and Burnslde were re leased Friday when no charge -were preferred. OAS 114 HIGH. COLUMBU8. O., April S0.J-Ed ward Davis, 8, of Cadis, Ohio, made a five-hour trip on his scooter to see hla mother In Wheeling, W. Vs., 25 miles away. Veto Is if It Were Not Little Joke Yesterday our friend. Judge Stone, woo admits fee la hu morist, and who dearly love to ' watch - Um mob squabble, every now ana then tossing them a bone, paayed a seasonable Joke, He gave Ed Murray, another JokesMr, who love to teas tb public, tha benefit of a back handed opinion. . Judge Stone said In effect that in hi opinion something waa. If something els wasn't. What wun't It 'simply a question of veracity, the -benefit of tb doubt belonging to the city clerk. Obscured Ills Cause of Orin Dadmun's Death Orin Dadmnn, age 10, yard su perintendent of the Rig Lake Box company, died suddenly at Ike Oood Samaritan hospital at Portland at midnight Thursday, telegraphic word having been received here early yeaterday from Mrs. Dorothy Dad- mun, hi wife, who had accompa nied him there. While working -about hi new home at 615 Lincoln atreet, April II. Dadmun was aoddenly stricken by a leaion of a blood vessel In bla brain. He became speechless for a time. Not realising his serioua con dition he worked for part of the following week. ' Dr. E. D. John son waa called and he ordered Dad mun to Portland Immediately, where he could be put under the tare of Dra. Bean and Calhey, specialists. fhe doctors derided, following a consultation, that the rupture dt the blood!' .vessel waa due to soma form of poisoning, and not entirely the result of. a leaion due to .(train. A telegram aent aa a. night letter to friends her, by Mre.-J"dpan,,;told of the report of -th. .-doctors, and aaid that her hnsband Awas reeling easily. When the end ('ante she aent a straight message whlrb 1 was re ceived simultaneously with the more hopeful message. '' i Dadmun had Just completed build ing hla new home, much of the work having been done by himself during hi spsre time. It Is ' re garded a one of the show places of Klamath Falls. He waa working at terracing the lawn when strick en. . He was a graduate, of the Oregon Agricultural college with the claas of 1919, and a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He waa married five years ago, and had been a resident of Klamath Falls for three years. He waa born in Montana, but bla par ents, Mr. and Mrs. .H. F. Dadmun, are now realdenta of Independence, Oregon. The funeral will be held on Sat urday from the Edward Holman A Bona' undertaking parlor In Port land. . Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Sabln and Thomaa Deltell left yesterday to at tend the funeral. QUIET IN WOOL , BUYING, REPORT PORTLAND. April 80. (United News) Lack of activity Is Indi cated la the "market for wool at Pacific Northwest primary points. Practically all local operators have returned from the Inland em pire and report their Inability to secure aupplies at a price they can hid. Opinions continue to diffor as to the relative Tain of wool. With the domestic trade the cheapest in the world appearances Indicate that little, if any, reaction can be forced This opinion is by no means shar ed by all of the leading operators. Rome of them feel that one cent to two centa reduction la likely. TUNF.S ARE CATCHY The music-memory, contest at Henley school Thursday night was a success, and 400 people were en tertained, according 40 the report. This mimical event will be an an nual affair, It Is planned. Nl'KRK.NDKR LOS ANGELES, April 30. After furling a white flag over his front porch, August Zeltlera, 51, entered house and killed himself with a shotgun. The body waa discovered Friday. Police believe tile suicide accttrrod two days ago. Mayfield Road Bill Is Killed Fails to Get Out of Committee an d Dies Is Message PORTLAND. April $0. (United News! The bouse interstate and foreign commerce committee ha voted not to consider the Mayfield bill, which, if passed, would permit Immediate railroad development Inj Oregon, according to a telegram re ceived Friday from Washington by Ihe Oregon Journal. j Chance were alender for congre-! sional Indorsement of tb Mayfield bill, which would permit railroads to make line extensions without necessity of obtaining interstate com merce commission permit, according to advice received Friday from the Washington bureau. . - j Although the measure waa passed without a, roll call In the senate, following Introduction of Senator1 Mayfield, rough sailing waa Indicat ed for it In the house, where the committee of Interstate and foreign commerce haa voted not to consider It, and has laid on the shelf a simi lar boose bill by Jonea of Texas. The opinion waa expressed at the national capital that the bill proba bly will apply in such a situation aa tlul Oregon Trunk, which now haa ah application pending for permis sion to extend its line from Bend jto Klamath Falls. I Officials of the Oregon Trunk and all other railroads Interested In cen tral Oregon territory gave careful attention to the bill and Its possi bilities. Five Years Is Church Pastor Record Service . Next Sunday will mark the close of the fifth year of service for the Rev,. Arthur L. Rice In the First Presbyterian church of this -city. Mr. Rice came to Klamath Falls In 1931, succeeding the Rev. E. P. Lawrence, who Is now the pastor of the Medtord Presbyterian church. Klamath Falls has not been noted for long paatoratea, and the present records of the Presbyter ian church, reaching back tor near ly 20 years of the 41 years of the church's life, disclose the fact that this haa been the longest pastor ate the church haa known. Leadership - In other Klamath Falls churches has changed , rap idly ao that Mr.' Rice became sen ior pastor in point of service 18 months after he-had arrived. Rev. A. F. Simmons, pastor of the First Baptist church, came to take up bia work only a few weeks later than Mr. Rice, and haa remained In that pulpit for now nearly five years. In all the other churches, however, there have been changes, with the total number of successive ministers being as many aa three or four In some cases. CONTRACTS LET FOR RQAD WORK . PORTLAND, April 30. (United News) Contracts tor grading and surfacing 20 miles of roadway at an estimated cost of $1(7,000 were awarded by the state highway com mission Friday. They Include: Klamath county Surfacing 13.45 miles of Bly Mountain-Beatty sec tion of Klamath Falls-Lakevtew highway, R. W. Stevenson, $76, 700. . On th Lakevlew-Klamath Falls highway, the commlssiAi decided to advertise for contract at the May meeting tor the grading of a 10 mile section between Beatty and Bly. ONLY GASSING CARSON CITY. Nev.. April 30. A Jury will examine the mental con dition of Guadalupe Acosta, con demned alayer, who believes himself a "spirit" Immune to the effects of lethal gas. Attorney General M. A. Dlsktn will ask that Acosta be exe cuted on the ground that his un natural behavior Is merely reaction from fear of Impending death. Strange Bloom j From Holy Land Holds Interest Attracting a great deal of Inter est elnc ka Installation In tb win dow of tb Flower basket floral shop at 1026 Mala atreet, I a pe culiar plant of the cactus species known as the Crown of Thorns or Crucifixion Cactus. Tb plant is owned by Mrs. Martha Grimm of 925 Rose street, and is said to be from a plant brought direct from the Holy Land. Bunding about two feet In height, and bearing sharp cactus needle, the plant I la the ahape of a erosa. At the top of tb main stem blos soms of blood color have appeared, and thee are said at time to ap pear on the other point of the cross, corresponding to tb bleeding of tbe head and handa of Christ on the cross. This plant was brought by Mrs. Grimm from Bemldji, Minne sota two year ago, and was obtain ed by her as a slip from a large plant. There are few If any other plants of thla kind existing In the country at tbe time. It is said. Mrs. Grimm would not part with her plant for money, she averred. Father Loiter examined It with interest, remarking - that he had heard of the plant before and had long wanted to see on. Users Argue ' New and Old Water Rights The old daya are clashing with the new In tha Spragne river water adjudication case which have taken up the past three weeks' time of a score of witnesses and a squad of attorneys at the Klamath county court honse. According to state wa ter board authority., under, whose Jurisdiction the hearing la held, an other week or tea daya will be re talrad to clean, op the. -thirty odd potential law suits In the present ac tion of the Sprague settlers. ... Old FaunUie. Against three families, the Wells, Walkers and Parkers, who claim to hold the oldest water rights in tbe valley, are arrayed over thirty late settlers who have Buffered the pinch of a water famine on one or two occasions,- and -who attribute their misfortunes to the fact that the aforementioned ranchers are said to have gobbled up more than their share of water during the late years of restricted flow In the south (Continued Ob fags .Two) FORUM THRESHES CHARTER CHANGE Open forum on the commission manager plan of city government, as embodied In the charter to - be voted May 21, waa held laat evening at the chamber of commerce.. Act ing chairman Andy Collier, mem ber of the budget committee which recommended the new plan laat November, favored It as Including the ' advantageous features of a business corporation. Leslie Rog ers explained how the local school board, hired a superintendent from outside to take charge of school af fairs. He favored the new plan as embodying this principle. Carl Roberts, member of the city council, favored the plan on account ot Its centralisation of authority. He said that the preaent system makes for disharmony and poor administration ot city .busi ness, because ot divisions between mayor and council, and because mayor and councilmen lack time to watch business closely. B. A. Gilkinson outlined main features of the plan, and quoted extensively from the provisions of the new charter. Fred Baker, candidate for county Judge, cited his experience as superintendent ot the Klamath reservation and said centralisation ot appointing and removing power In the city manager Is necessary. Questions were asked that tested the mettle ot the charter propon ents. The experiences of Ashland and Astoria with city managers were cited during the meeting. SPUDS CO BYE BYE Seventeen sacks of potatoes - were stolen from the . cellar of Harry Booth, rancher ot the Midland sec- tion, Thursday night, according to word received in Klamath yester day. This is the third time the spud cellar has been broken Into, according to te report. England's Strike In Full Blow Coal Miners Cease Work and Serious Menace Follows LONDON, May 1. (United News) Paralysis ot th English coal mining Industry and a lock-out of . on million miners began at mid night following th despairing an nouncement . ot Premier , Stanley Baldwin that weeks of negotiations ' between th warring miner and operators had failed. - One-fifth of Great Britain's high ly unionised are now idl and th bulk of tb remainder are subject to possible order for a partial or a general sympathetic strike. Trans port workera throughout England may be called upon to Join In what may develop Into th greatest na tional catastrophe since th war. Th miners asked a fortnight's postponement of the lock-oat with a continuation ot tbe government" subsidy ao aa to permit farther ne gotiations. Th miliar flatly re fused to accept any reduction of wages, whereon Baldwin announced the failure at -the negotiations. v Tbe government Is expected to declare a state of emergency within th next few hours which will glv Premier Baldwin powers making him In effect a dictator. He will ssaume authority under th emer gency act which will enable him to uae the army, navy and air tore) to operate industry, transport ser vices and protect the nation against trouble. If .this power Is given Baldwin It will b the. first Urn in th history ot Great .Britain , that the emergency power act has -ba used. . The entire country Is . orga nized and dlveded Into districts and civil commissions with a staff of volunteers . In readiness . to - lend the premier every assistants. . .,... Baldwin may call upon th army and navy to continue Industry and transport services, and - in 'general to place the entire country under what wuold amount to martial law. The government Is prepared to commandeer radio broadcasting to keep the mine element "silent." Tb mines throughout England are des erted today except for guard who bar been stationed In the pita. . Soma Industrial towns hav a three weeks' supply ot coal on hand, but it tha paralysis of Industry con tinues the country within a few days even barring the possibility ot the strike spreading to other In dustries will begin to feel the ef fects of reduced train service. - SHE CAN PAY ON CAR WITH THIS SANTA ROSA, Calif.. AprH 20 (United News) Mrs. Elizabeth ' Burbank. widow of the late Luther Burbank, has been granted an al lowance of $750 per month from the plant scientist's estate. The action waa taken Friday by Superior Judge R. Ij., Thompson when the Burbank will was admit ted to probate her. '; Mrs. Burbank is the executrix of the estate, which haa been left entirely to her. The allowance wilt continue dnrlng th probate period. It's That Time We Have Them Single And Belted Styles all sizes now V Jantzens, Also ' The Suit that changed bath : ing to swimming. All sizes now. "h ' ilfMlV'sna ViPJgskgsw KLAMA1N V 'V- FALLS -TOO- Crater ot Shopping District. r.-