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I'NIVKKHITV OF OJtK. 1-22 IS l.lHIlARY ETOENrl. OHK The Klamath Hews The Klamath News Official Paper County of Klamath The Klamath News Official Paper City of Klamath Fall ' UntUd Ntvm and United Press Telegraph Services Vol. 3, No. 171 Price Five New Fire Reported From Two Sections Swan Lake and Jenny Creek District Are Affected; -Men Sent to Assume Charge With Kcno and Aspen Luke forest fires under control word was brought into Klamath Falls yesterday afternoon of the breaking out of fresh fires in the Swan Lake and Jenny Creek district. Ilolh sections, according to Jeik oo K. Kimball, head of Ihe Klam ath Forest Protective association, arc heavily wooded, specially the Hwan Lake district where heavy growtha of pin am found on Edge wood mountalna. Two men hare been dispatched lo Swan Lake to keep ins outalds office In touch llh condltlona and their prog reea. Six men ara busy tUhlln f la men t Jenny Creek and a large mill crow la available at the OeArmond mill there. How many men In the crew, Jackaon was unable to elate. i "Tbe humldliy haa been very low today and the flrea will travel faat." elated Kimball yraterday afternoon ahortly after he had re ceived word of the new outbreak. "Fortunately there la verv. Utile Wind anil Ida ft.Mu -t...l.l foully put under control." School Program Of Building Is 'Well Under Way The flrat week In .July ac tit the building progrnVrnf 'the Klumalh Falls publts schools well undt'ri way, arcordlng to J. Percy Well, who yeeteruy atated that construe tlon would atart soon on the two alory addition and auditorium of Mllla acbool, repairing and terrac ing the property back of the F'e mont achool aul . other propt sed Improvementa, Although the contract calling for work totaling 180.000. haa not been let for the Mllla Addition School, bid will bo called for again. ,llda woro opened Monday nig' t during a mcollng of the achool ,loard. but they exrocdod Ihn fundu put aside for tho work on Mills achool. according to Wolla. , F, It. Olda was awarded Ihe -contract for kalaomlnlng and tint ing the Interior ot Falrrluw, Pell 'cuit City and Klvoralda schools. rOlda' bid amounted to (1200,. ', The Klamath Falla l'lpe and Concrete company'a bid of 16100 for terracing, Improving and grail. Ing the properly .In the rear of Fremont achool, waa accepted and wrgjk atartcd Immediately. ' "Although this doca not com ploto the summer program of work," aald Wells yeaterday, "it embraces tho heaviest plana of construction." First of All We Are Druggists ; Wo of necsesity carry many and varied sundry items In ( our stocks. But your, drug .' and prescricption wants are ' always cared for by com petent and capable Pharm acists. , Your prescription is safe in our hands. , Currins for Drugs INC. Klamath Falla, Ore. I Cor. 9th and Main. Cent BIGGEST TEA IN HISTORY SOCIETY OCCURS SATURDAY NF.WIfillT, It. I., Jul) I'l olMbl) I In- bluKi'H H'e III ao rlrty'e Malory will he lirlil ai The lii-rakcrs Saturday, nlin tirn rial ami Mrs. Cornelius Yainlrr hilt, will be host to 2,000 per aViiia, tm lulling I.JOO mlitxlilp. men from h navnl bao here anil many nnuitM"rs of the auni mrr colony. Bids Awarded For 25 Blocks Paving In Klamath Falls Expenditure Will Total More Than a Hundred Thouaand Dollara and Work to , be Hurried to Completion lllda were ncrciH-rd Inat nljcltt by the city council for Improv Inn; nro-(tuiat.'ly 2.1 paving blurka In the city limit at a ruat of (I IO,n7H.iHI, one of Ihn largest expenditure at any om slugle time for many yinm. WarreJi Construction company, Dunn and llaker, and He) del & Company of Cortland were success ful blddcra on the five Improvement uulta that were accepted. With Ihe awarding of tbe blda. work will be put under way with in SO daya and ahould enhance the value of property on those Improve ment unlta. For tbe paal throe yeara, or aluce many of thoae unlia have been opened up from sagebrush landa to realdenllal sections, property own era have been handicapped In Im proving their land by the lack of faclllllea for winter, with mud and aluah, and found Ihe property al moat Inacccaalble by automobile. Warren Construction company waa tbe successful bidder for Im provement Unit No: 'it, embracing Sixth street project!. Their con tract prlcnwas ).s;.45. The bid calla for a four-Inch baae, two-Inch top, Warrcnlle bittilllhlc. Dunn A Baker, with a bid ot IH.U8.S5 were the auroeaaful bid dera on the Lincoln atreet pro ject from Third to Fifth atrceta. The contract calla for Type A con crete. Dunn A llaker received the con tract of Wordcn avenuo projoct. Improvement I' nit No. 62. which calla for $11,015.70. Typo A con crete. Seydol A Company of Portland wcro the aucreHaful blddcra on Croarcnt avenue and were awarded contract at $34.673. 46. The con tract calla for four-Inch baae, two Inch top, Warrcnlto bltullthlc. Seydel A Company were awarded the contract on the Sargent ave nue project, Improvement Unit No. 97. The contract of 314.524.55 calls for four-Inch baae, two inch top of Warronltu bltullthlc- Lack of Sympathy Prohibition Law Retards Justice NEW YOIIK. July 9. (Unlled News) Lack of sympathy with tho pro ii i im ion taw naa become ao great In New York City that It took three full dnys' to find a Jury which would listen Impartially to the evl donce In the trial ot eleven men charged with conspiracy to violate the law and accused of operating a $25,000,000 rum running ring. Only after Judge Julian . Mack bad personally questioned a panel of 25 veniremen waa the Jttry sel ected. Heads of Pacific T. & T. Co. Pay Visit to City Offlclula of the Pacific Telephone St Telegraph company are pleased with the ndvancea made by Klam nth Falls during the past five years and stopped to visit with the local office yesterday for a short time. They are enrotito to their homes In Portland, after n brief vncatlon and Inspection t'p throughout Crater lake and southern Oregon. A. 11. Cirlswold, president of the company and C. F,. Hickman, gen eral manager of Oregon and west ern Idaho, wern In the. parly. WK.ATIIKH KOItlH AHT Southern Oregon Continued warm, with rising temperature. KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, July Claim Of Minister Believed Exploded Preiidente Agua Prieta Says Mrs. McPher son's Story Is With out Foundation. .DOUGLAS, Ariz., July 9. (United News) Ernesto Bou bion, president of Agua Prieta, today disclosed a chain of ev idence which he claims con clusively explodes the kidnap ing claims of Aimce Semple McPherson. In addition ' Itotiboln personally earorted tha United News corres pondent and other newapapermen over the territory covered by Mra. McPherson. He ' explained every point In hta statement, which he claims provea that the evangelist waa never held prisoner In Mexico, and that no part ot her "shack" atory can be substantiated by re liable evldeuce. Bouboln related to tbe corres pondents that the Inveatlgatora. headed by Bllverlo Villa, chief of police, had positively established the fact that Mra. McPherson had not been more than seven miles from Agua Prieta at eny time. The presldente expecta to appear be fore tha Los Angelea county Jury. "We are firmly convinced that (Continued on Page Four) Representative of ' I Fflni mpany Looking Over City The great Klamath country haa been chosen In the past lor Ha scenic beauty to grace the movie acreen and from all appearancea Its grace and' loveliness, the beauty of the lakes and streams, the tlsh erman's paradise, will again be thrown before the eyes ot the great Amorlcan public. C. J. -Cowley, . representative of! F.ducatlonal Films that throw light on everything from the buahmen ot Australia to comedies, is here for a few days, paasing through en route to Portland by way of the Klamath I.ako country and Crater Lake. With Crowley was Mrs, Crowley and Mrs. John Stone who la en Joying the northern trip with them. Last night when Interviewed, both Mr. and Mrs. Crowley ex pressed Interest In the filming pros pects of Klamath Falla from the educational ss well as advertising atandpolnt for fishing and hunting and motoring, "I am awed with the beauty of your country." aald Mrs. Crowley last night," and I am sure that Mr. Crowley wishes to return here Inter to film some of the loveliness you have In store tor the American public." Prisoners Mutiny And Hold Guards In Bottom Mine STATE PENITENTIARY, Lan sing, Kas., July 9. -(United News) Fifteen prison guards were bo- lug held captives 700 feet below tho surface of the - earth In the coal mine of the state penitentiary hero tonight by 367 angry convict min ers, who' mutinied more than 13 hours before and have steadfastly refused to surrender. Although the mutiny occurred shortly before noon Friday, prison authorities kept It secret nntll lute tonight. The prison mine is lo cated within the walls ot the In stitution. According to Warden Mnckley. the convicts overpowered their guards about 10 o'clock. Led by Frank Nnrrla, serving a life sen tence for a murder commuted In Leavenworth, Kansas, the mutineers took completo uossesslon of the vast underground caverns, Jammed the cage leading to the mine and then Informed the authorities by telephone of what they had done, i NO CONTROL RADIO SAYS DEPARTMENT OF U. S. JUSTICE WAMIIIKUTOX, July O. (I nl led Xrw) Hi'iiv-lary of Com-' nirrre Hoover appealed today lo all radio breadraatrrs fur "volun. lary arlf regulation wldiln the Industry llarif," an a rewull of the opiate of th depart nwnl of Juatlco that lie baa no power of rrfrulailon. Tha opinion waa wrrlitm In Hie lU-ciabm In the Zenith Itadlo cor poration raar, which tlie depart ment sustained. . . , . Ilroadcaatrre now can use any wave length they dralro. . . Portland Planning To Entertain 1000 Visitors Buyera' Week Will Draw Many from All Sections of This State; Klamath Falb Will be Represented IDR.Tf.AXIx, Ore.;' (Hpectal). July . Forty-five ifhouaaad In vitation have bera sent to the merrhanta of the fourlera Went rrn states, . (nrludlng Alaska and llrilUh Columbia, to take part In thn Fourteenth Annual Buyers' Week to be held (n Portland Au gust 8-7. ; One of the mostj unique pro grams ever staged In any Pacific Coast city for the entertainment of visiting merchants ' has been per fected by the executives of Port land's 130 leading Jobbers and man ufacturers. The merchants of the above territory have' been Invited aa the guests of these Jobbers and manufacturera for an entire week. Konnd-trlp railroad fare will be refunded to all merchants who at tend, provided their combined pur chases amount to tiOt or more taom the Jobbers and rnanufsctar- era who will be the-, hosts during that week. The railroads are planning spe cial car movementa from the vari ous points. From Klamath Falla there will be a large number of merchants In attendance who have already made requests for hotel reservations and pdvlaed that they expect to be in Portland during Buyers' Week to take In all of the events planned for merchants. Pelican Mill Is Saved From Ruin By Prompt Action Sprinkling Syatem Works to Perfection and ' Blaze is Promptly Subdued by Quick Action of Volunteers The Pelican Bay Lumber com pany's 1,000,000 milling plant, located a short distance north of the corporate limits of Klam ath Falls, was threatened n-tth destruction by fire yesterday 'morning ahortly after lo o'clock, but prompt work on the part of the volunteer firefighters In the employ of the company, held the dainngo down lo a nominal fig ure. The blaxe was discovered la the sorters' bin, and had Its origin from sparks flying from the en gine room. Aa soon as dlscov ered the alarm was sounded and In what soemed almost Instantly the sprinkling system waa brought (Continued on Page Klvo) Today The Orpheus . PRISCILLA DEAN in "The Storm Daughter" A melodramatic thunderbolt. Tremendous and thrilling are the mighty scenes of howl ing storm and shipwreck in this greatest of all melodra matic sea thrillers. It's a Universal-Jewel, also Two comedies that will make you laugh. Matinee 1 to 5 p. m. Night 7 to 11, p. m. Adults 25c Children. 10c 10, 1926 Millions Of Feet Of Timber Salvaged Weyerhaeuser Timber Company Plans Con struction of Portable Mills to Handle Same Complete salvage of the millions of feet of virgin tim ber which suffered in the re cent Keno and Aspen Lake! forest fires, may be. under taken by the Weyerhaeuser Timber company, according to announcement made yes terday by- J. F. Kimball, lo cal representative of the com pany. There is over 6,000,000 feet of timber in Ihe Aspen Lake district alone that can be aalvaged. accord ing to Jackson. In this event port able mllla will be erected to han dle the timber. F. R. Titcomb and Mlnot Davis. Weyerhaeuser men from Tacoma, have been In Klamath county for the past two days, together with representatives of the Long Bell Lumber company. In consultation with Kimball, . to Investigate the recent fires which have occurred In the holdings of these companies In the Aspen Lake territory. ' Both Titcomb and Davis expressed- themselves aa greatly re (Coatlnued on Page Four) Paving Program , io Lost sHw,UUU Meets Approval Members of the city council last night In special session approved the report of the city engineer, E. B. Henry, who submitted the five Im provement units which will cost more than $155,000 to put in 31 paving blocks. According to Lem L. Gaghagen. city clerk, the council will call for bids within the next 30 days. With I the exception ot Spring and Wall streets, the paving units will em brace in tbe majority residential districts. i improvement unit No. (2, em bracing Fourth atreet from Walnut avenue to Oak avenue. j Improvement unit No. 61, em. bracing Rose street to Ninth street, from Prospect to Rose street. Improvement No. S3, embracing Spring street from Main street to Esplanade and Wall streets and from Spring to Broad streets. Improvement unit No. 58, embrac ing California from Conger to the northerly line of Delta street: Delta to the easterly lino ot California avenue to Siskiyou street; Siskiyou street to the northerly line ot Delta street to the southerly Hne of Ore gon avenue. Improvement unit No, CO, embrac ing East street from the present terminus of pavement to Upham: from East street to Johnson atreet: Johnson street from Upham to Don ald streets. Power Workers To Join Transit Men in Walkout NEW YORK. July 9. (United News) Ot 882 powerhouse work ers employed by the Interborough Rapid Transit company 17S will go on strike at 10 Saturday 1n aympa thy with the striking motormen and switchmen. According to J. F. Walsh, presi dent of a brotherhood local having Jurisdiction over some . ot these men, the walkout would tie up com pletely all elevated and subway lines and some of the Now York and Ilrooklyn surface lines. James ' L. Qttarkenhttsh, counsel of Ihe company, when told . of Walsh's assertion that service would he suspended when the pow er men walked out. claimed new men were ready to take the places store room on Seventh street; Mrs. of tho disaffected workers, and that W. U. Smith, 81500 house on Eb power and service would be main-! erlcln atreet; William L. Carter, talned. 1)1900 bouse on Manianlta. (Every SHARK'S STOMACH IS FOUND TO CONTAIN BIG HORN OF GOA1 ZAK.t, Italy, July . (Tailed New) Ktshmnru have brought anhore a shark caught la Dal matian waters whoae atomarh contained a icoat'e horn, a ran of condensed milk, a metal cigarette case with ten clgarettea, a pair of women'a ahoea, a box of mairhra. Home rope, sail cloth and other objrrU. Lamm Discusses Causes of Fire In Our Forests Rotarians Informtl Causes At tributed to Man-Set or In cendiary, i Lightning and Careletaneaa There are three . vratfi la I which forest flrea are atartcd. man-set or Incendiary, rarelraw neaa, and lightning, ami It at the flrat and second 'causes that lumbermen of Klamath county must . stamp out," aald YV. E. Lamm, president of the Lamm Lumber company, who spoke be fore Itotarlans yesterday In con nection with tlie Mop Fi Flrea Campaign. Lamm la the director in charge of the StoD Forest Fira commli-l tee appointed by the chamber of ' com mere. Olh.r mmW. r th. Other members of the committee Include Jackson Kimball, Merle West, Buryl Blevena and A. M. Worden. "Damacea of tha two foreat flrea at Keno and clor., nr Aa. i.k. i .mnn.,. - iimmi , aisn.l'tx men aboard the B-61 at tbe 000, Lamm atated. "Exact fig ures cannot be given until a crnlse la made this Call. It cost . the Klamath Forest protective assocla- tion from SS.000 to T,000 to fight! IM IUUU IllC lUU L I U 111 ,1,,VVV to 111.000 to fight the Aspen lake forest fire." '".i..:Bothvthe Keno 'and Aspett lake flrea Were . the result' of-" Improper caution, according to Lamm, ' who stated that Individual carelessness, and In perhaps a few cases Incen diarism, caused the tlamea that destroyed millions ot feet ot stand ing virgin timber In the Klamath country. The tires throughout Klamath county are all under control re ported Lamm and extra caution is to be taken during the remainder ot the forest fire season to quell all possible tires that many threat en Klamath timber. There waa a large attendance at the Rotary meeting at noon yes terday, Jackson Kimball, presiding. A number ot tourists, visitors In Klamath Falls, were among rhe guests. Flannery Given Six Months' Jail Term at Portland PORTLAND, July 9. (United News) After pleading to ' main tenance of a common nuisance in Klamath Falls and ot possession and ate of Intoxicating liquor, Jim Flnnhery was sentenced to six months Imprisonment and fined 8500 by Federal Judge Wolver ton. Flanhery was charged by the United States attorneys with op. eratlng a shack on Commercial street In Klamath Falls from which numerous sales of liquor had been made to Indians. Flanhery was not charged with sales to .Indians, but this was brought out In explaining the nature of the establishment. He did admit the charges in the local courts In Klamath Falls In volving liquor deals. Arthur Worth and Bert Bailey were fined $500 each for posses sion of property In Klamath Falls designed for the . manufacture of intoxicating liquor. They pleaded guilty to the charge ot possession ot two copper stills and a pressure tank. IU'II.DIVG l'KUMITS AKK STILL SHOWING IIVSIXKHS The following building permits were Issued from the office ot Lem L. Gah-agen yesterday, adding steadily to the figures which will total heavily for the month ot July: Mrs. T. W. Plcard, 3100 garage on Division street: J. N. McNeil. 350 Morning Except Monday) Bodies Of; Lost Sea Comrades- Removed Eighteen Bodies Taken From Reclaimed Subj -S-51 ; Perils of Service . Are Most Manifest f NAVY YARD, ' Brooklyn July 9. (United News) Ten submarine Bailors, wearing black oilskins and black rub: ber boots, like so many marine undertakers, crawled into , the interior of the reclaimed S-6l today and learned first han,d the perils of submarine ser vice as they found and re moved the bodies of their com rades trapped last September in a collision with the -City of Rome off Block island. r Eighteen bodies had been ' to-' e"tea "Ithia the S-Sl at : wbea me searcn was aisconiraueo- for the night, and It waa believed tHat no more would be found. One body remained to be taken - out lately and if no more are found Wheo operations are resumed tomorrow time of tbe crash will rematn 6o accounted for. . ;,'.'( I'The stifling heat of the innmi'f ajbst torrid ray : added aiscoaMorj " ' .. ' ? ( Interior Viewed ' v $ , Newspapermen late in the af ternoon were, permuted -to-Ttevr -the ' - Interior of the submarine;Toniy,.a handful braved, the -scenes :-'tTha' ' were led aft where' they,' . san, IhA i seventeenth body,- In ': 'jl '.. posttloo" (Continued on Page Flvai;, ; Woman Charged ; Running Rum iit : National Capital r WASHINGTON,-July 9. (United News) An attractive young -wife appeared in police court today -aa the first woman ever charged nerei with running rum. ' She waa ac rested within a few hours after federal prohibition officials had said that women were taking' up bootlegging In large numbers be cause ot the big money and MHo ease with which they escape detec. tlon. , '! Mrs. Cecilia Miller, S6. of Phila delphia, was arrested In her car by officers of the local liquor sqnad. They told her they suspected she' was carrying liquor and aald,' they would get a search warrant If she, demanded It. . ' "'' II That's all right." she' replied: "I don't demand It." ''.' ' Police claim to hare found ea gallons ot alcohol and five plats ot whiskey hidden in her cat. .She was arrested and charged wfth transporting liquor. At the, poUce station she telephoned - to a well known busnesa man Shortly, pro- tesslonal bondsmen appeared . .anrd she was released on 3500 bond. She pleaded not guilty to the charge f and explained that she was -going to a party. Women's Novelty Sport Sweaters':-) and Jackets' Wool and'Silkv . These are in the latest solid colors and combinations. Smart and new, a fine addition,'. lib every young woman's ; .sport; turnout. A'l .. ' , w if v aj.ij.h'Mi.r.iaJ IJaLfclp-yjajjlj ' '"""J KLAMATH V? fALLl ' ? Center ot Shopping DUtriot