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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.
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KLAMA1N V 'V- FALLS
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Crater ot Shopping District.
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