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ElCENB. OBH .Kla News The Klamath News Official Paper City of Klamath Falls The KlamathNews Official Paper County ' of Klamath HE MATH United News and United Press Telegraph Services Vol. 8. No. 181 Price Five Cento KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY. JULY 22, 1926 (Every Morning Except Monday) 2-DAY GOVERNMENT EXPLODE Intense Wave of Heat i sj Broken! Middle West Get, Relief ; But New York Still I. Sweltering, With Nu ;j merous Deaths j CHICAGO, July 21. (Uni ted News) A Hudden tthift in the wind brought relief to the middle wrst toniitht from the intense wave of heat which ha claimed GO lives since Monday. Ilnln began falling In Nebraska. Ipwa, Illinois, Mlaeourl and Kan im and lbs weather bureau pre dicted that the coollng-off process would extend over the entire Chi cago forecast area before Thurs day night, 'Temperatures whlrh had been hovering around 100 fur throe days dropped from five - to twenty do greea aa noon aa the cool wind be gan taking effect. NEW YOltlT July SI. The moat devastating hea( wave envel ope the Kant and threatens to take many Uvea heforo It I dispelled with cooler woather Thursday. . Kitty persona already are report ed dead In the scorched middle west and about-thirty In states eaat of Indiana, aa direct or Indirect re .nulla of temperature which In mauy localities are setting records, j Whol (toast Hufft-r I.Ike a hot, wet blanket, the sis-; illnit heat eitenda to the northern) exodus of the New England coast, j An exodus of arorched apartment ' and tenement dweller. seeking! parka, roof tops and sidewalks la' la progress In eaatorn cltlea. I The humidity along the Atlantic coast waa running over 70 Wodnes-i (Continued on Pao Knur) ' Geology Students j To Visit Crater j Lake For Study, About SS gcploglrul students! from 1'rlnccton I'nlvonilly are ex-! poctcd to urrlvo In thla city next t Saturday afternoon, following a day i apent studying the geologkul forma-1 .lon of Crater Lake. Tho party. In j charge of Professor Diehard M. Field of the Geology department of Princeton, la en route to Merced , from whoru a aide-trip of threo doya' duration will be made Into Yosemlte National park. The budding geologists are milk ing a Miminor tour of varloua In tereallng polnta throughout the Uni ted Stutos for an Intonnlve study of phenomenal at rata, Thoy will ar rive In Modford today from Port land, and will make- the trip to Crater hike by motor buna. Tho eaaternora plan to leave Klamath Falls Sunday morning. The Funny Papers and Joknsmltlis dollght In as suming that the modern drug store Is a plaro where anything from tire pumps to T-hono steaks may be 'bought. We operate mod ern drug stores but we have neith er forgotten or neglectod our lilen- tity os g drug store. Nor have wo allowed our professional re quirements to be neglected. Com petent people always take care of your drug and prescription wunts In our stores, Currins for Drugs INC Klamath Falls, Ore. Cor. 9th and Main. HELEN WOMG HONG, MISTRESS OF TROY, NAME CHINESE BABY Tlie beautiful name uf Helen, mlaU'CM of Troy, line been given In the little daughter of l.e Wong Hong, proprietor of Hie (H-li'iitst Csfn on Mnln street. Arronllug to ulirali'lniis thla la I he firat Chlnnm baby born In Hlmuntli Falls. Mlaa Wong Hong nuiile her nilxnt Into Hie buy world of today lit 0 o'clock ' lenlay iiii.rnliig nt the family liomr. Thla la llielr fourth child. Prohibition Head On Coast Facing Grand Jury Probe Colonel Green's Office ia Charged With Miaconduct, Protecting Bootleggers and Illegal Transfers KAN FHANCIHCO. July SI. (lulled New) A federal grand Jury will be called Into session MouiUy to inveallgnle the regime of Colonel Neil M. (irwn, proliibl lion ndniiniatnitor for northern California, anil Nevadn, t'nltnl Htatee Attorney (ieorge Hatfield announced today. Chargea againat GreeVs office were aald lo Include allegations of miaconduct of office, protection of bootleggers and Illegal tranaters of aelxed liquors. I'nlted States deputy inarshala have beguu the service of 35 sub poenaa, naming several of Oreen'a aides snd employes of downtown hotels. Summons for 72 grand Jury talesman nave Deen issueu. Business Man of Chiloquin Gives Genuine Surprise Ixiule Polln, energetic business nian snd original booster of Chilo quin, accompanied ' by his sister, Mrs. 8. J. lloaenatein.'snd the lat ter 'a two daughters. Misses Harsh and Ituby Koscnateln. wero .visitors to Ktsinaih Kalis yesterday. Tho ladles are from Oakland and are at Chiloquin for a visit of two weeks, and Louie Is making It a pornt to see that thoy do not miss anything In the line of excltoment and scenery while sojourning In this neck of tho woods. Mrs. Hosensteln snd daughters are to be favored with a view of Crater Lake today, and the depart ure for that famed resort will be made promptly nt daylight, with the return so late that thoy will no longer bu able to see tho sights of the lake and the surrounding country. 1'olin Is remodeling Ills place -of business at Chiloquin, and as an Initial Improvement is putting In a new front. Ho Is making ready to Install a three-Ion Ice plant to supply the wants of the residents of his home town. Fishing Season Is j Reported Best in Years by Warden! Klahtng In Klamath county Is better than It has boen nt any time during tho pust seven years, ac cording to Marlon J. Barnes, dep uty district gnmo warden, who has recently made a tour of Inspection of lakes snd streams in the county. "Fishing Is still good in all the streams, including .Williamson river, which seems to bo the best," said Barnes Inst night. "Tho lake trout aro also showing up fine and biting nearly as well as they did the first of the season." , Barnes also predicts an excellent deer eeason as the deer seem plen tiful In Klninnth county, and ac cording to oilier reports received hero, exceptionally promising In all of southern Oregon. "I was talking with Illy sheep men yesterday," stated Barnes, "and thoy reported more doer than ever before seen In the Bly mountain country. In ths majority mute doer, this season, There are a lot of deer reported In tho Crescent coun try nnd nenrly every mun driving a car at night along the highways sees deer In the brush or crossing tho roadway." Cascade it o Open Aug. 19th Tentative Date I Set For September 1; Much Ballasting Remains to Be Done PORTLAND, June 21. (United News) Indefinite postponement of the opening of the Southern Pacific's cut off, announced for August 19 was ordered today by officials of the company, following a conference in San Francisco. Engineering and construction reasons were advanced for the delay, it was explained that the roadbed is not yet ready to be traversed by heavy pow er trains. It became known here that the engineering department, which has charge of construction has rofuaed to accept renponilblllty should trslus be operated over the rails un til tho ballasting and permanent line alignment are completed. Construction of this abort line I between the Willamette valley and California through Klamath Falls hss been hastened 'and every known short cut to completion hss been taken advantage of as a meana of hastening the Job. For light traf fic and work trains the line now is safe enough, ft was said, but not for heavy passenger or freight ser vice. The traffic department of the company is Issuing a freight tariff to cover the new line which be comes effective September 1, and It was declared that it was not planned at any time to start this scrvlco before that date. Some little trouble waa found In ono of the tunnels but this has been remedied. It was explained, and this was not the reason for ! the delsy In opening. The actual dato for opening the (Continued on Pago Four) Bank of France In Bad Way; May Drop Payments NKW YORK. July II. (United News) The stock market, which had successfully repulsed the at tacks of bearish traders to force prices down gsve way sudden y. ' . . , . , . . ' , . garage through a window In or Just before the final gong today " t . . , on the announcement that French Finance Minister do Monxle had in formed the chamber of deputies, that the Bank of France probably would have to suspend payments! to the government Friday. Leading Industrial stocks, such as fienoral Motors, Hudson, U. S. Steel and -others, tumbled from two to four points, a considerable loss In so short a period of trading. The .floor of the exchange was a milling mass of traders, all attempt ing at one time to get their sell ing orders In before. the end of the session. Tickers, which hod been speed ed up latoly wore flooded with fast changing quotations, and the word was not printed on the tape until 12 minutes after tho closing time. WITHERS HOME TO COST OVER $6000 Charles D. Withers was granted a building permit from the office of Lent L. Gaghagen, city clerk, to construct a duplex house on Karl street. Withers gave the es timated cost as $81)00. It will be a frame structure, according to the permit. Mrs. Frank N. Campbell was also given a pftrmff ' yesterday to con struct a ,$200 'garage on Owens street. ........ ' .... .... GIANT ELK FOUND DEAD; MAY HAVE BEEN POISONED A giant elk, king of the forest, j was discovered 'trrtla y near Fort Hlutuatb, deed. The animal waa found in (larllng'a field near Anna C'retak Ijuiulier company. Murlon 1. Barnes, game war den, left Immediately for Fort Klamath and Investigated the cauM of the animal's death. 'lle waa possibly poisoned by wild paranlp that cnuaed tlie death of a number tt deer last year' aald Barnes, "The elk ws) one of the niost beautiful apecfanena I bare ever seen. acvra-polutrr, and he would bare weighed more than 1200 pounda." Poincare Accepts i Task of Forming i French Ministry; Former President Will Try and Bring Order Out of Chaos in the Disgruntled Country j PARIS, July 21. (United News) Thursday Raymond Poincare, president of France at the close of the world war, has acoepted. In principle, an Invitation from Presi dent Douraergue to form a cabinet. Immediately following his confer ence with Doumergue, Poincare went to the parliament and con ferred with the president of the senate. He will begin conversations look ing to the formation of a govern ment at 8 o'clock this morning. Mystery Af Fire In County Garage Is Still Unsolved ..' That the fire which occurred on July 6 In the Klamath county gar age on Willows street was the work of Incendiaries, is the belief of W. A. Wlest. assistant district attorney, and Keith Ambrose, fire chief, who have been working Into the case for the past three weeks in order to make, definite charges. According to Wiest last night there was a pile of clothing and papers found under truck No. 6 of the county highway fleet, from which 25 gallons of gas had' beon stolen. During the week following the fire three men. Walter Ksdes. James Brackett and Tom Smith, were questioned by the district at torney's office snd they all three admitted being in the building Just 10 minutes before the tire broke out. They denied any charges in connection with the fire,, however, snd were released after the ex amination toy Wtest. Hades claimed, during the ques- i l ,tt fen . kMba Intn the I ploye of the county who was to I have met him there at an appolnt-i ed hour. "We have not dropped the case by any moans," said Wlest last night. "We have a few rumors snd tips to run down and then we will be able to locate the men who made an attempt to destroy coun ty property by covering up their own theft." Plot of Convicts To Rob Uncle Sam Fully Uncovered F E D B n A L PENITENTIARY, Fort Leavenworth, Kas., July 21. (United News) Convicts working in the office of the warden of the penitentiary here have admitted be ing the authors of a conspiracy to swindle the government out of ap proximately $150,000. Warden W. I. Biddle announced late today that the men plotted to get payment for fake Invoices, forged nnd inserted among bills given him to approve. W, II. Dav enport, head of the secret service here, unearthed the plot after one chock for $791.98 had gone through the regular channels and was being held for collection by hank In rtolllDsvlllo, Colo. ' Lakeyiew District Fire Is Unabated Conflagration Is' Said to Be Worst of Recent Years; Conditions Are Watched Carefully At an early hour this morn ing no abatement of the dev astating forest fire , which broke away at 2:00 o'clock yesterday in the Lakeview dis trict, had been reported to Jackson Kimball, head of the Klamath Forest Protective as sociation. Lower humidity snd the wind predicted by the U. 8. Weather Bureau for : yesterday and today, aerred to make tire conditions in creasingly bad. but in spite of the unfsrorable elements, the few re maining fires In the Klamath dis trict were still under full control. The Lakeview fire, reported to Kimball yesterdsy by the U. S. for est supervisor ut Lakeview, to 4e the worst fire of the season In southern Oregon, had swept over 10.000 acres of National forest and was endangering large tracts of private timber at dusk Wednes day evening. The ISO mea fight ing the Lakeview blaze, succeeded in surrounding the terrific flames, but with the humidity lowering and a possible east wind threatening. It was expectedthat the work of the men so far might be rendered value less. ' L The heavy cloud which obscured the sun here after five o'clock yes terday, may have been partly smoke from the Bogus mountain fire, which continues to rage beyond control of fire fighters, but con trary to opinions expressed by msny local citizens on the streets. Mr. Kimball believed tho cloud to be simply the omen of a thunder storm. Robinson, Tharp Aerial Passengers From Los Angeles Using a plane, the same model of motor which Commander Frederick Byrd made the initial air trip 'to the North Pole. Franklin Young, pilot, accompanied by Tom Robin son of the liobinson Tractor com pany and II. S. Tharp, owner of the Klamath air field, arrived in Klamath Falls Wednesday morning In a monoplane with a Wrlght- Wblrlwlnd 200 horse power mo tor. The trip was made from Keno Nevada, to Klamath Falls, a dis tance of more than 200 miles, in two hours and 10 minutes, by air line. The men bsd previously flown from Glendale to Reno, where they spent Tuesday night. Pilot Young will fly the ships that the Klamath air field will keep In stock. He drove a Douglas plane in the war with Company L of the American Expeditionary Forces In Franco. He is also a commissioned officor in tho Naval Squad V. T. 40. Reserves. According to R. A. Shelton, busi ness manager of the Klamath Air Service, Young will be affiliated with the company aud will make several aerial flights todsy. E. J. HYATT, YOUR RELATIVES ARE ILL A telegram waa rewired in Klamath Falls yesterday by the sheriff's office stating that Mrs. E. J. Hyatt of Springfield, near Eug ene. Is desirous of getting In touch with her husband, E. J. ; Hyatt, who is thought to be working in Klamath mills. Hyatt's sister - and father were seriously Injured In a recent auto mobile accident, according to tho wire, and they are calling for him. THUNDERSTORM IS . COSTLY TO CREATOR SAYS STATISTICIAN IIKUI.I.V, July 21. (United News) "A single Uiundn-storni costs our Creator 67,000,000 gold marks" BI0.173.O0O, says a Krr lin newspapers. The paper's sia llstlrlan calculates that each stroke ' of lightning represent a 2H.0O0 kilowatt hours or S1.400. Tlie grand total Is based on tho number of lighting bolts in an average thunder storm. Pacific Terrace To Dolores Street Will Be Surfaced . With Extension of Sewers andj Building of Sidewalks Hill aide Addition Promises to Crow in Popularity . Co-operating in assuring the growth of Klamath Falls to meet the demand for desirable home sites, tho city council Monday night turned over to the. city en gineer the work of preparing pre liminary estimates for hard sur facing PaclMc Terrace to Dolores street, with proposed extension of sewers and construction of sidewalks In HilHride addition. To supplement this development the Klamath Development company will gravel Painter and Lawrence streets from Pacific Terrace to the city limits. This improvement, with the ex tension of water mains and electric light lines Into Hillside addition (Continued on Page Four) Several Realty "Deals Concluded In Klamath Falls Klamath Falls in the near future will have several more new homes added to Its rapidly Increasing total. as an outgrowth of two or three real estate deals transacted through the Tri-State Realty company here yesterday. M. J. Porter., for the past six months a resident of this clty.s purchased from H. H. Monroe all of block 91 containing 15 lots. This block Is In the Buena Vista ad dition, and Is said to comprise some very desirable home sites. Roy B. Owsley of Silver Lake bought a lot in the Mills addition from J. II. Styles and will build a house on the property. Mr. Owsley did not state whether he intends to make his home here when the proposed house is completed. The third transaction consisted of the purchase of a tour-room house and one acre of land In Altamont Acres by H. H. Monroe of Pelican City from W. S. Sweets. Submarine Disaster Narrowly Averted; Officers Gassed MONTEREY. Cal., July 21. Uni ted News) Heroic work by officers and men of the U. 8.. submarine 8-9 averted a possible disaster when fire broke out In bilges of the craft while It was cruising, partially submerged, oft the . California coast. Two officers and four en listed men were overcome by fumes of the pyrorene gas used In fight ing the blaxe, which broke out from a motor short circuit in bilge oil and grease, crippling the radio and other electrical equipment. Th e submarine's commander, Lieut. J. B. Cooke, collapsed after rushing Into the bilges to rescue seamen who had fallen there. Members of the crew, donning gss masks which were only par tially effective against the fumes, then braved the deadly vapors snd pulled their companions to safoty. The 8-9 was on a' "shake-down" cruise after being overhauled at the Mare Island yards. The vessel docked here while repairs were made, and alt men who had been overcome were completely recovered tonight. ' ,' . ii j WKATHKU FOllKCANT Fair and. wawuor; possible thund i er showers In southern and west I em Oregon. , .. Her riot G abinet in France Blows Up Falls With . Announce-: ment That Treasury - Is Empty of Cash; No ; . Money Available it'. PARIS, July 21. (United ; News) The two-day old cabe rnet of Edouard Herriott.feU', lomgni, two tiuuia aiver . an announcement that the French -treasury probably ' would rbe empty Thursday. ' .';. ',J The . chamber of deputies.' ad- , vised by Finance Minister Anatole ' de Monxie that the Bank of. Francs probably would suspend advances to the government Friday,, voted 290 to 237 to refuse the government a vote of confidence. ' , '' Resigning " with ths rest of the cabinet. Finance Minister do .Mon tis nevertheless immediately took: nnuanal atena to atsve ' off a' little 1 longer developments which may re sult , in bankruptcy ' of the' French" state. , . ." ' " " ' . t it'- 'i. ; Payments Suspended. .! ''. The chamber was asked to act on de Monzie's projects at an urgent' night session. This unprecedented step by- a temporary finance. asJalea ter, was taken' to. prevent siwsen "' sfon of payments by the Bank' of J France to the government..' As the government .fell on s' motion elf pressing confidence In Its ' f loan-. clal policy it was not likely that tne measures or ae monxie wouia be approved despite the impending catastrophe. , . .. ','. - Dramatic scenes occurred in the chamber throughout the day. Out- -side all Paris took on the appear ance of panic. As the announcement was being made the French tress- , nry was practically broken, republic , . (Continued on Paan Four) , Diamond Robbers ri Arrested; Haul J Thought $400,000 NEW YORK. July Zt. (Unite ' News) The brief but spectacular activities of two men whose crime record is believed to approach that of the notorious Whittemore gang have been halted with the arrest of George Cohen of Chicago and 'Solo mon Brafmsn for the $T5.000 Jewel robbery Monday Inside New York's financial district. ' : Z' . Pnllfo hattovtt III. fi.tr D rn ra. sponsible for a series of daring robberies in the last six months, la which loot totalled $400;000. ' The , Whittemore gang,, with - at least seven members, and headed by Richard Reese Whittemore, who Is now In Maryland penitentiary await ing death August 13 for the mar-, der of a prison guard. Is credited with a haul of $1,250,000 , In . U months. '.'.. i Special Sale of ;..t '.; ' Printed Silks: S1.69 Yard; . -. . i !!.. 11.. vti o op i i lfe''','l,' . Viuuea 4.i IU fa.ltt i WrislMs.sl ' Center of Shopping District ...j. PS