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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1926)
I'M'- Yesterday. Today and, Tomorrow HIIK AMMt HKHVKH Boon after W. A. Wle.l, deputy district attorney, mt out lor Wash Intlon, I). (.'., little Hilly A. Wlesl, Jr., tit 6, wti taken III with pneu monia, Alto, listen Wleat. a tiny l-year-old. tu tick with tonsllltls. Wleat wu on t quest for 15,000, 000 that Oregon and Klamalh coun ty tblnka ihould be repsyed, alnca tht government took bark lbs O, and C. land iranla, and tlia counties lost talat tht Southern 1'aclflo would buvo paid. Hut during tba aarloua daya ot Billy, Jr.'t lllnaat (ho la bailor and It can ba told now) Mra. Wlaat, mother, walchtd by hia badalda. if lltllt Billy did not racorar bla fath tr would ntrar forgive bar for not wiling to bring blm bomt. Hba fought It out alone, nuralng both youngatar. and allowing tht fathar undisturbed to complain bla public work. someone' baa wrlttrn that In Klamath women art woman. HOI'I'KKH HOI'I'KI) Wray Lawrence, recently gradu ated from Oregon Agricultural col legt. arrlvtd In Klamath Kails yea tarday to serve aa assistant county agriculturalist working with C. A. Henderson. Yeaterday Lawrence and Hendereon, aoon altar tht new assistant's arrival In Klamath, left for tht Tula Lake country, where they will enter Into a concentrated war upon tht 'hoppera In tht wheat field there. FANT HMILKRH A. ft. Howie amlled broadly yea terday whan he returned from bull osas In Portland and aaw n carload of tplck and apan Chryslers being unloaded for tht Howie garage. Three tncloaed models and one ' roadster ware Included In tha smile. LIBRARY DKLAY According lo the latest plana of tha city library board tht contract for tbt ntw ItO.OOO library and rest room will probably be let during the present month and tha building should bo Tom pie tfd by lata sum mer. Numerous delaya and chaugea In plana have held up the work to a considerable tztaot up until thla time. . TAXI l-Oll F1K1I Cal Crews local taxi Una owner la' leaving for tba Diamond laka resort today to confer with the ownera of that popular fishing ground, on tha establishment of a regular three-day-a-week state Una to operate during tht balance of the season. STALK HIGH Pearl Davla, I man and not a woman aa the name mlgt Imply, en tared plea of guilty to angling t In Diamond laka without a license before Judge It. A. Kmmltt yester day. Davla la a Myrtle Creek resi dent and may have figured that Klamath la too primitive to demand a license for fishing In her takea and streams. Ha paid a fine of IIS. nninoKH iHKKi'L -Two new bridge acroaa Lost riv er, ona near tha eourea and ont ntar tht mouth art nearlng comple tion, according to County Engineer , Joseph Janaon. ' Tha bridge near tha mouth of Lost river will be of great aervict to tha farmers In tha Tula lakt tec- ' tlon and also for duck hunters next fall, who before hava abandon ed machines nnd wadtd tha deep treani to reach desired shooting founds. Hero From t'hiloquin L. Ki Sam ple! la Included In tha out of town business visitors transacting affairs In tht court house. Samples la a resident of Chlloquln. llAUrlOBM, TR0lLty . Pack Your Troubles in a Washbag Soiled clothes Toprosont drud gery it you wash them yourself. But If we' launder them we take the rirudgory with us and never return It. We have many eervcles to of fer. Rough-dry, welwash, flat pieces Ironed, and others that a call win bring you full Informa tion on. Troy Laundry .J Phona 686 i t r.rrn: The Klamath News Vol. 3, No. 113. Price Five Lie Bared By Filing Petitions Foes of Efficiency in City Fight Off Charter Vote TUB POLITICAL GADFLY Tha Kvenlng Herald and Ita mayor revealed themselves yester day whei) It became known that on Friday petillonn were filed with lbs city clerk, calling for a referendum on the closing of Walnut street. Tha petitions called for submission of lbs matter to the people on November it. During Ihe controversy that baa arisen when tba mayor, at the be hest of Ed Murray, sought . to block a vote of the people on tba new charter. May tl, their one arg ument hat been that the atraet closing petitions would ba filed shortly. And that these matters would be put before the people at a special election In June. At the same time they were cir culating their petitions calling for the atreer closing to ba brought before the people next November IT at the general election. In hla veto measure by which the mayor sought to block tha le gal rights or tho people, Ihe mayor said: At Ihe present time- two Peti tions am being rlrrulatnl railing for a special rlrrtloa la amend the city charter, one relative to vaca tion of afreets. Tfiewe petition call for a special election at an early date. ' In tha same Issue of the news paper In which the veto appeared commending the mayor tor bta veto, Murray wrote: Inasmuch aa I hero will be a ape rial election h-M In June, no ad vantage will bo lost to those who want to change the fiarm of city government U the charter la sub mitted then. " On Friday, the very day on which the petitlona, carrying tha Novem ber t date were filed, a direct etatement by the mayor, appeared In the evening paper, aa follows: "At the tUno In quest low I knew that there wa In preparation ret (Continued On rage Two) Drawing It Fine, How Will They Go to Reckon It Up LOB ANOELE9, May 1. (United Press) Short dresses and transpar ent boalery will be taboo tor the girl grade ot Lot Angelei high schools this year, . Principals'" of local high schools have decided that each girl gradu ate must wear a modest frock of arbitrary length. The texture of her hose will also be restricted. The frocks must not be more than 15 Inches from the floor, and there cannot be more than four lnchea ot cheat exposed below the neck line. Hose may be ot silk, but chiffon will be forbidden. Each girl will be limited to an ex penditure of $60 for all graduation expenses, Including clothes. COMMISSION-MANAGER PLAN The Plan Is Very Similar In Principle To The Management of The School System By BEN H. STEVENSON The principle of the commission-manager plan aa em bodied in the new charter to be voted on by the people of Klamath Falls on May 21st is the name as the principle under which the high school system of the city is man- abed. In the high school aged. In the high school board of several responsi ble citizens elected at large vested with tho responsibility of caring for the system. These men, capable and intelligent Cents A Crisis Usually The People Can Be Trusted (An Editorial) . There could be an honest difference of opin ion as to the merits of a new charter for Klam ath Falls. But the unscrupulous crew who have set themselves in opposition to the new charter have, by , their contemptible and hypocritical methods, foresworn all consideration of honesty of intention. Every hook and crook that men who are ut terly devoid of principle and civic.conscientious nesa could bring into play is now being used to defeat the will of the people,'ahd to prevent a VOTE BY THE PEOPLE. Attorneys are be ing hired to give judicial opinions, downright lies are. being told, all the arts of petty politi cians are being invoked and to what end? Merely that an expression by the people may be prevented. And why? The answer is that the Murrays, the God dards and the Powells of this community are at the end of their rope. They fear THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. They know that they have earned the contempt of the community, and now seek to escape the penalty at the polls. There can be no respect for men who will say a new charter is all right in June, but not in May. Such men create suspicion by sudfv arguments. And men who will pay for a legal opinion, rather than ask an attorney to test a purely legal question out in the courts also lay themselves open to suspicion. If there is any question as to the legality of proceedure it should be. presented to the courts. But legal questions have no place here! The wile of politicians who would create issues, then cloud them, a time-worn affliction of Klamath Falls, is now the consideration. Goddard was elected to be mayor. He has failed to effect, or even to suggest, one con structive project. His every action since he has been in office has been to keep his ear ready for the orders of a man who has formed a life long , habit of tearing down, instead of building up; a man who has a fanatical love for arousing. the: passions of the gullible, and for befuddling them at the polls. ' There has been doubtful evidence that God gave Goddard any bulging brain, how ever, so he is to be pitied rather than despised. Even now he is having his own political bones broken and does not know it. - s . The representative men and women who have placed the commission-manager form of (Continued on Page Four) , representatives of the city's ing done in a more or less less not sufficient time apart from their business affairs to see to actual administration of the affairs of the schools, qualified in a technical way Neither are they sufficiently for intimate administration of school affairs. . So, very properly, they hire a professional superintendent, a man who has had long and expensive training, who is giv ing his life to the business of administering schools Buch as we have here, a member of United Neva and United Prea Telegraph KLAMATH. FAILS, ORE., SUNDAY, MAY 2, 1926 the highly respected profes sion of school administrators. 'To him is delegated much of the actual business of buying, hiring, and administering the affairs of the school. So much is this so that the board acts largely upon his recommenda tions, and merely see to it that the community gets what it needs and wants in a gen eral way, . so far as the ad ministration of the schools is concerned. The administration of the city at the present time is be best citizens, have neverthe Services Hit Run Driver ! Leaves Victims l on Main Street Murderoua In hit acta throughout a bit and run driver knocked down Henry Lander and la wife at Ninth and Main streets last night and left thtm lying to be 'picked up by others. - Lander and bit wife were Imme diately removed to a hospital where examination disclosed that Lander bad several broken ribs, was cut and bruised about the body, and may have auffered Internal Injuries. Mrs. Lander was bruised and over coma by the shock, but was not seriously bur. Neither of tht victims were able to get the number of the car In which tha driver aped away without taking the trouble to find out If his victims were alive or dead. Lan der has a vague description of the wildly driven machine which bore down upon blm and hla wife with near fatal results. The Landers had Just come Into Klamalh Falls from Algoma, where they live. The car which atrurk them down disappeared In the direction of Klamath avenue. Ewauna Box Co. in Fast Moves, Adds New Kilns Keeping up the steady march of progress the Ewauna Box company last week closed a deal with the Northwest Blower and Kiln com pany of Portland for nine new dry kilns for the big Klamath Falls plant. Louis K. Porter, local con tractor, will have charge ot the In stallation and baa already started pouring concrete for the founda tion. With the additional nine the Ewauna, plant will he A 'ofh 14 kilns with an approximate ca pacity ot 4.000,000 feet. Their present battery ot fifteen kilns has a capacity ot approximately 2,600, 000 feet, according to Secretary Fred Schallock, While figures for comparison with other planta were not available last night, the Ewanua people . are thought far In the lead ot Klam ath mills In kiln facilities. This meana the Ewauna plant haa the ad vantage of the rapid delivery ca pacity for their upper grades of lumber, practically all of which Is ahlpped out to eastern and middle western retailers and re-manufac turers. The cost ot this latest develop ment, at the Ewauna plant Is about $90,000. The work will be complet ed by July, according to Louis K. Porter. Lewis Might Not tay to Collect Juan Lewis who sued Sheriff Hawkins, and District Attorney El liott for alleged false Imprisonment on a recent county Jail trip la now In trouble himself. . . Yeaterday before V. S. Commis sioner Bert C. Thomaa Lewis was charged as responsible for the theft of an auto tire from a car of the U. S. Park Service, driven by Roger Wells, chief ranger. Lewis waa Jailed pending giving bond and It, the bond la not re ceived Monday, Thomaa stated that Lewis will be sent to Portland for trial on a federal warrant. haphazard fashion by a group of men, who, however honest and capable they may be, have nevertheless their own busi ness affairs to attend to, and cannot give the time necessary for 'the supervision of such an! important business as that of governing our city. Nor have they the expert training neces sary for the scientific man agement of the city's business in these modern times. That! is why it is desirable to turnj the business affairs of the city i over to a trained business (Every Jingle, Jingle, Old Horse Car's Day Comes Back Remember tha old Jingling horse car which "ran" from the railroad station np the sickle curve of Msln street to the canal and then "ran" back again. That Is unless someone said to the management In charge "Come on, let's have one," when tha reins were wound round the shining brake handle and time schedules might go hang. Running waa uncertain at best. All this comes back with the re turn of C. S, Adams to town, for Adams waa many years engineer In charge of the rolling stock. He went down today and looked over the rolling stock as It sets mourn fully on a rusty switch line Just where he unhooked his team from It a decade ago. That but trip was memorable. Adams aald. He kept the ear roll ing np to the final minute after decision was made to pull np the tracks, and when be came back from ont end about fifty yards of rail had been torn np by un seeing laborers. Nothing remained but to pull the car over the street surface and this Adams pat np to bla willing team. Adama aald the car was purchased In San Francisco off the old Sutter street car line after the fire of 1904. Horse can were oa Market street In the coast city np to IS years ago. Adams recalled. He is contracting through Nevada, he aald. Traffic Cop Out of Work Fine Ruling While R. E. Knowles,- traffic of ficer, may hereafter ' chase the demon rum, he will no ' longer the RdV.VtmaBa.alca4hi highways and byways of Klamatb county. Yeaterday,- It being- May I, the county court cut off his pay. Recently It was determined the atate law did not provide that the county could retain, any. part of the fines collected from traffic law violators on " the "highways. On county roads it was different, out there were tew fines collected from the said byways. For one reason. the motorists eonld not travel to fast on them Retaining Knowles was held an expense that the county could hot stand. Operating aa state prohibition of ficer recently, Knowlea and Officer McMtlla having made several Im portant arrests by overhauling moonshine under motion. His county car will be taken, togther with hia commission as depot; sher iff, and he and bit brother prohi bition officers will have to make different arrangements. It haa been tbe policy ot the county court to ne used by tbe pro hibition officers on the theory that drunken drivers could be kept eft the ..roads. WATERLESS LANDS ABSORB STEALING BILLINGS. Mont., May 1. (United Press) Mrs. Pearl M Grice. 45, today pleaded guilty be fore Federal Commissioner Ander son to a charge ot embexiling gov ernment funds to the evtent ot $1500 while the was postmistress at Nibble. manager, a man' of force and ability who will be paid en ough to insure that the city will get a really high class administration of its business affairs. Would you be willing to trust the administration of the schools of the city entirely to a man or men elected directly from and by the people here? No, you know that the present plan of placing a professional superintendent at the head is the best. Just so it is with the affairs of the city. Three Sections Twenty Pages Morning Except Monday) Millions May Join Strikers lhe British Crisis Is Deadly Grave; All Work May Stop LONDON'. May I. (United Press) Great Britain tonight faced tba ' greateat industrial crisis in bar his tory. ' . ' . . Appoilmately ' 1.000,000 mine workers struck or were locked ant at midnight. The council of tbe trades aatoa eon great today called a general sympathetic strike effective Monday at midnight, which would involve approximately 4,000,000 additional workers. - ; To meet this grave situation King George proclaimed tha exist ence of a national emergency, thereby- authorising Premier Bald win and tha cabinet to. govern Great Britain without parlaimeat and virtually by martial law. , . Troops Move , . Troops were, moved Into tbe) Scotch, Lancashire and South Walts mining districts to assist tht poUot in maintaining order and protecting property. : , . Baldwin waa empowered to use tbe armed torcet of tba government about 151,000 regular , soldiers and 180.000 territorials or militia men to maintain - essential noble services and utilities- - .. .. . ' The board of trade toinght Issued emergency coal - consumption- or ders prohibiting the display of . Il luminated signs, limiting use ot coat in enups, uuui. .w...v .-. per cent of the average; restrict ing the use ot gat and electricity for industrial purposes, restricting each British household's coal pur chases, and intimating the consum ers soon may oe required to regis ter their names to obtain 'coal ' at all. ' ; '"" - From' Wales It waa reported that he first miners' toup kitchens have been established. ' Charchet Pray r Virtually all British church con gregations tomorrow will offer ape rial prayers tor Industrial peace). . "We are prepared to take over the food', lighting, transport ' and all other services immediately," member of the government said to night, "Food supplies are abso lutely assured. Milk wUl be del ivered every morning." ' Troops were ready In their bar racks to entrain for any place - la Great Britain. Baldwin 'depended upon volunteers to maintain urban traffic and upon military and naval engineers to keep the rallroada co ins. . ' . T HOUSES GO UP , TO START MAY Two homes and two. minor structures will be erected during the month of' May, according to building permits Issued yeaterday from the office ot the city clerk.' The two homes will be put up by E. E. Magee at a cost ot $4000. They will be built on East Main. Fred Barrow will build a 100 structure on Fremont street, and, A. Lawrence will build a 1540 auto' paint ahop on Spring street. - 59 Per Cent Increase mi. i i ' A ! 1 ine volume vi eaiea iu nyiu, 1926, over April, 1925, was produced by Golden Rule Val ues and Quality That Is Ap parent, in Golden Rule Stores in Klamath County.; . .. Thirty-four (34) per cent of this increase was in the Klamath Falls store's business. Cfcnttr oC Shopping Dlftrtat