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Klamath News The Klamath News Official Paper City .of Klamath Falls The Khmsth News Official Paper County of KlamatK 'THROW AWAY YOUR HAMMER-GET OUT YOUR HORN' Vol. C, No. 138 Price F ' "In. KLAMATH FALLS, ORE.; TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928 (Every Morning Except Monday) FARMERS. ENCOURAGE HOOVER The Hope For Rockford Fliers Is Declining Coast Guard Cutter on Search Finds No Trace of Lost Air men. NEW YORK. Aug. 20. (U D Radio, meiwaites recclv-i-d tonight'fiorp the United States const guard cutter Marion, which i. Hying the water of Davis trait be tween Labrador and Green land, indicated there was only slight probability that Hert Haiwell and Parker Cramer, who attempted a Uockford-Stockholm flight via Greenland, were Htill alive. Marlon lli'Mn IVsallliUtlr . The mesaagea were recelred h; W. A. .MrCllntock. who orates a at-orl avo radio station wu New Tor. ,!t wss MrCllntm-k who dellvoicd nril. r (rain the roust guard service In Washlng lun la III Murlcin, Instruct lnic ii m In search (i.r llnwll ami Cramer tthil lliKlr plane, w'.ilch hat beeu nlrjitug aluce early Hunday. wheti. It reported flylug nar the Laliradur '! and heading (or .Greenland. v Thar waa 0 rt,1ftntrtbwiist gute Punday and If the piano landvd on the eilfr tho chances are lif liilvtmlmnl Uret It cuu.d nave remained afluat more than a few hours, rogardleaa i.f Its construction. " uno mesago Jrorn the Marinn intd. . . Nope llnve Hcar.i The crew of the coast guard It'otiflnn.! nm Page Klglit) FIRE BURNSTaT CASCADE LOCKS CASCADE LOCKS. Ore.. Aug. to L'Pl Timely arrival of fire lighting equipment (rum Cort land and llond Hlvcr waa bcHev ed Monday nght to have prevent ed a srriuua conflagration frini destroying the town of I'lacad Locks sifter the blast hud awept out of control and dcatroyed a aeoro of residence and the Wind Itlvor lumlier mill properly. The fire, hollovvd In have horn alerted by apnrka from a li:omo tlvo. rapidly ftepl IhroUKh tho lumber property and epread to nearhy rcaldencea. All available fire (iKhtlnK ap paralua waa ruahed to the arene of the blnie but It had gained groat headway. Rfforla to rou tine Hie blase to tho mill .alru? ture proved fin Ho and when It spread acrosa the hlKhway . lo houana. goneral alarm waa Bounded. The tiro waa atlll burning tier ed y at a late hour and the loss tentatively waa placed at moro Hum $76,000. ' The town la not In Immediate danger because of a atrong weat wind but a ehlft In tho wind might seriously threaten hun dreds of other biilldlnga. Man Rents Car, Now It's Gone A stranger needed a ear, badly ao ho aald. aud waa will ing to rout It. Lonia W" Hene'tloUl of Port Klamath had a car and docldcd ho could tine a check, ao they traded. Yesterday Bonrflcld report ed at the aherlffa .office thnt hia car, which Is a Ford tour ing, hud been ato'.en, lleno field had wulted in vain lor the return of hia runted car. And lo make muUera worao the check which the atranger had written wns no good. The llcenae number waa not known by Henefleld but the motor number la 12438969. COUNCIL LETS SEWER JOB AT SHORT SESSION Nineteen llultillnK Permits. To ullnjl Jl.na.l, fimnlrd To I'rgn Prrwuli-al t iMillilgo lu Art In Threatening HallnMul Klrlke Hllvallon. One of the shortest meetings whlrb the city council baa held during tha.hlatury of their ses sions look place laat night when the regular Mondiy night moot lug laated only about au hour. A teller ' waa preaented and read from the Southern, Pacific railroad regarding the atrlke which la now threatening, among conductora giul trainmen. Mat tera were elated ae they now atand alnca the two medlatlona, auggeatcd were turned down. The .-nunrll will lake no aide In the matter, but If waa decided to wire Kamuel Wlnalow asking blm td urge the prealdent to appoint a finding commission lo meet and try to arbitrate the atrlke before It la railed. , I'laua for the new city average ayatem which ahould have been here several weeka ago have been delayed. Mayor T. II. Wat I era waa Instructed to wire C. C. Kennedy, engineer on the project, to find out thu reaauu fur the delay. t Tho contract (or the comple- (I'nullnueal on Page. Klglil) Railroads Show j Testimony Before Commission POItTLANIi. Ore.. Aug. So". I C Pl-'The railroads toduy took up their fight In earnc.l againat the : proposed croaa-etate railroad lino, niihiiilitlng a muaa of lasilmony before liie Intorafjilo tfoiurnnrce" rntninlfalon ' bearing to anppnrt their contrntlon that a rail tine ! arrou tho atale from east to Ihej wont waa not a public ueeeaalty. 1 The w.irk-end varalbm anpur c illy bad cooled off the ardor wrought up by propellents and opponents of the proJ:rtcd rail lino during tbe early part of Init week, and the bearing developed ; Into a more or leu tame dlacus- slen irii whom the task of build- i lug Ihe rrnaa-slitte railroad. If anv. would furl. j The moat Important witneaa for railroads today waa It. W. i Plckard. genernl freight agent tat the Spokane, Portland and . Seattle railroad. I Ptrkard. who made an tnvratl-1 gat'en which ahowed bow un-' nereary waa the extenalon of. the Hill llnoa aerobe Ihe atale aouth.lo Klamath, told the hear-, Ing thut traffic waa an limited cast of tlend that It could hardly be takon into conaldoratlon In re git rd to Buppsrt of tho projected railroad. Lumbermen of Ihe Wlllamitlte valley woiilsl havo tho aamo uc eeaa to lunrketa over Iho crosa Kiato 1 no. an they now onjoy, Plckard anid. V. P. Klllr, a wltnoaH for the elate, Interrupted Plrkard'a testi mony to tell tho commerce com mission tnat It' would be tho Kama as hpforo the Great North ern waa extended to Klamath, i "Then." Plckard r e B u m e d , "there avero no through rntoa northward from Klamath. There was no rata via Portland." i Tills bit of testimony waa con sidered a roveolltig light why It waa ao Important for the Klam ath country to have the. outlet afforded by tho (Ireat Northern. Other wllnesacj tor the rail road inrluded II. B Goodwin .01 Salt like. general freight agenh for tho Oregon Short Line: llar voy K. I.oiiuahiiry, general freight agent of tho 0,-W. II. NV. and il. A. (Illlla or Rend, traffic man ager of tho Western Pino Manu facture aaoclatlnn. Ship Stranded r n . n i PARIS, Aug. 20 (UP) The Queaaunt wtrelcaj atatlon today Inten.'pptcd a aorlea of 6. O. 8. calls from Ihe German ship Itra ga, which reported thnt It was Btrandud at latitude 02:42 north, and longitude 6 cast. The position given by tho Bhip Ib approximately 120 miles north of Uergen off the weat coast .of Norway. The only ahlp In Lloyd's register by the name of Driigd Is one of 5.801) tons owned by the Compagnle Franrnlae de NNuvlgntlon a vaper. Colonel George Harvey Passes Late Amfaassador to Great Britain, Editor, Dies After Illness Prominent in Politics. DUBLIN. N. II., Aug. 20, (UP) Col. George Harvey, famous editor, publicist and ambawtador to great Brit ain under the Harding ad miniHtration, and notnetimes called maker and breaker of premdenU, died suddenly at hi home today. Death came suddenly after a recent illness. Mrs. Harvey and the family phyalrlra were at the bedalde. llbteovrriMl Wltaon Born In Ike village of Peach am, VI.. 64 yarn ago. Col. Har vey became one of tho moat pow erful and Influential (Igurea In polltlca of the last !0 yeara. He la credited with having dis covered the presidential poaal dilutee in Woodrow ,WI!aou. then at Princeton. Harvey'a astute knowledge of publicity methods and bia connveilona In -the puo llshliig aud financial world are aald by some hliturlana of tbe period to hive been largely re- sponalblo for bulldlug Wilson np lulo a. national i figure -atrong enough to break the majority (or Champ C'lurk at the HaUlmure (I'-unilnaH-il on Page Kujint) LEGION TO MEET ELECT TONIGHT Klamath Pont No. 8 of the 'American Leelou will htd ltn fRtilRr monthly mcet'tiK tonight In Is-enlon hull. H wan announced liuit nlnlit. orricors of tlfb pant for the roifllng year will be elect ed, and Wlllium Cannnx and O. 1). Mutthewa, di-lexatmi, will fclv.e a ropurt of the State Legion con- vontlr.n recently held In Medford. HetlrinK offlcvm are: Lnu's K. 1orter. commander; Oosue TnlV vice-commander: (leorico Mt-Intyre, finance offieer, aud Wlllium Canton, adjutant. , . Well Fkbt It Out MANY PROMINENT EASTERNERS HERE ON SPECIAL TRAIN In the Southern Pacific yards boars eajoylug nature's greatest stands a train whlrb Is a treat (gem. Dick Price baa special ac and a privilege for a westerner commodallons tor this party at lo enmlns. Composed of eight the Crater Lake Inn and tbelr modern steel coaches the train stay will be marked br the weat provldea all In the way of luxury : era hospitality of Mr. Price which that the most dla-rlmluatiag la a feature of a visit to the lake. traveler could demand. Moat of the care contain Bleep- Ing compartments wbleb are lil ted out for comfort and conveni ence. One car which la- known as tbe bedroom Pullman has beds , the circuit sponsored by tbe Kay In tbe compartmenta, also a wall jmond-Whltcomb company, bed. a bunk and a private bath Tn. topt , f OB tn. trp with ahower. Another car la '-; iBCud, New York, Chicago. Colo en over to recreation conUlna a . n&a Sprlntll Estes Park dance floor, radio, viclrola nd ,nd norky Mountain National moving picture apparatus. On p.rk . k rll v.iin-. jibe back of tbe twin la a targe j,,,,,,, N.UoB., Plrki Z1m NIoB. obM-rratlon car. luxuriously fur-! (Comtlmra on p. Vomr) I nlahed. One feature oj the train . Is a gymnasium furnished with air. . - ww . every sort of apparatu. from j Wile nlUUer, HOI punching baga to rlnga. I - rp '1 r Promlnept people from Phlla-I Un iTail UOmeS I delphla, Chicago, Boston and New I rp fra '.a -i as j York arrived Monday morning la ; 10 IVIamatn JT 3I1S a palatial train on tbe Bmihera j .Pacific railroad and . were taken Roy. Drake, Qtilney.. Calif.. yes i to Crater lake by tbe Price ape- terday talked with Klamath Falls rid huaaea to spend twenty-tour police officers, searching torclnea 1 of his wife and daughter and a !n M -mm rf 'lumber camp worker, William amiin lllaV UIVC aris a. f ' rirst LauiDaitrn - C9 ' Speech in Oregon N ! ALBANY. N. YO . Aug. 10. U Klamath Falls, found that they P) Gov. Alfred K. ' Smith' left bere In a car, atlhoagh they peaking campaign tentatively ' had none when they arrived, and calls for about 20 set speeches. II '" searching now (or the party j was learned officially tonight. jho sold them a car on Anguat .The first Is scheduled to be de. j llvorcd In Portland. Ors.-on tho t west eo wit. two ot her; -ueeBeBfesrr'n luni) ne nnaa me pariiea. ! probably will ' be mado in SnniSnd left the police-station mul ,1'rauiljco and Los Angeles. It;terlng curses against the alleged , wua believed probable changes . "wife robber" and atatlng that It I would be made in the tentative ' "will be too bad when I get my ' plans, however. hands on him." It waa learned from railroad 1 sources here Ibat the. governor' QL'IN'CY. Calif.. Aug. 20. (TP) will travel by special -train from Hoy Drake today waa on what j Ail-any dlrecly lo Portland. '. ho tormed "trail ot vengeance." Other cities Included In Ihe i He left hare in search ot hia tentative schedule were In south-: lS-pound wife, w hom ho aasert ern or mldweatern states. It was Ud eloped with William Titus, Probably one speech will be made In Texan, with Sail Antonio under consideration, and anither one In some Oklahoma or Arkan - ana city. It was expected h i would speak a Denver about the mtddlo of October and later In Minneapolis and probably Louts ivllle. Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleve land and St. Louis were cousid - 'ercd as reasonably certain to be on the list. On This Line If It Tbla la another of Raymond- Wbltcomb La"nd Crulaea ao auc- cessfully bandied by that firm and lbs apeelal train left Ne York City on July 8th to make ; Titus., who is supposed to have an 'r vl,n ner- urage totu ' that hs w, took ilsoo .In .h with h.f mA tk.i T-l, ... Ho had traced them aa far as . ' or S. He plans to 'continue hia lumber camp worker. Drake, be- ; fore lea I nit, declared he laat heard of the couple In Klamath 1 Falls, but added Ue expected tn ' find them In one ot the lumber camps or mills of northern Call- torn a or Oregon, i daughter. Mildred rjrake's small waa believed to be with her mother, A 11-year-old son was lef. i-i Cjiilncy ; by Ihe father when l.o started his search for his wife. Young Drake la without funda. . Takes All Summer! Al Smith Answers Kansan's Charges Each Part of Record Cited; by White Is Explained by New L York Governor. ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 21. J (UP) Gov. Alfred Smith of New York, an swering recent charges made against him by Wil liam Allen White, Emporia, Kansas, editor, tonight promised mai in ni apeecti accepting the democratic presidential nomination he would "define in no uncer tain terms" his attitude "to the public saloon." White charged that Smith, while a member of the New York state legislature, voted to pro fect the saloon, gambling and prostitution. .!. I. 1.1.1 , 11.111. f-i White's attack upon him on tbe.if; RflilrOad Meet . - . looa up ire questions upon wiihii 1 a", a .;, dent of the Amertcan .National , record on acj. and added that,b prominent UvMtoch !rT"W." of Muthern Klamath. m ,.iM ' . .. - cnsslon ofjhese. jnatters. t.. O.-P. Committee ' J Smith recite, that White 't (toetlned on Pago Fonr) niFinTTinn m w-i n m DUoLNEjCS Jjlllilj 1 ; PROGRAM 0UToon.fcta "p p ... . . ' , No phase of modern bus ne aa conouc.eajn v today baa been tbe subject of more acrimonious discussion und : more extended investigation than th auhlact nt credit The I foundation of present-day mer - .rhanrilaln eennrallv .ereed' to be one of the reasons for me nnt.t.nill-nrv entnmerelHl aunrfl - macy ot our nation, credit grant ing wl'l be the subject of one of the addresses by Prof. E. P. Bosworth of Oregon Stile Col lege at '-.the coming Klamath County Business Institute to.be! held' Thursday, and Vrlday, .Au-! ,. "t- atil 9A mt Xthm fMlv'll. ! brary. - Prof. Bosworth. has bad nit h practical experience as a credit and collection' man and what he h to say on this subject should prove 'of much interest to the I merchants of this county. - I ' DaTl" ws to haTe been haI,ge1 .-Merchant of the ' city ' were j FrldIJr- solicited Monday and Tuesday by The appeal, which probably chamber of commerce teams ask- wl" 09 heard during the Novem lng them to register. The ra-1 oer ,ern of the circuit court of suits were very gratifying, und ;PPeals. was filed by Joseph H. a large number of city merchants j Helgerson. Tbo appeal was hare also purchased tickets for!Sne' Saturday by Federal their employes. A large number ; Judge John McNary. - ' ot merchants are expected .to be j In the event the higher court present at the banquet which will j upholds the present sentence, the be he'.d at the Pelicon Grill j case may be carried to the Unit Thursday evening at 6:30 when ed States supreme court, defense (Continued on Page Five) attorneys have indicated. Goebel Describes Cross Continent Record Air Hop NEW YORK, Aug. 20 (VP) Yankee Doodle came to town to day. The plane so nsmed. an all white Lockhed-Vega monoplane j piloted by Art Goebel, mado it In two mhuitcs loss than f9 I hours from Los Angeles without any stops enrotito. I The flight) not only clipped 7 hours and 52 minutes from the mark set by lieutenants James A. Macllendy and Oakley Kelly In 1!I23, but It was the first east ward non-stop transcontinental flight ever made. Set rlpcnl rtivonl In addition, Goebel. winner of the Dole Hawaiian race last year, and his companion and backer. Harry Tucker, Santa Monica, Cal ifornia sportsman, sot another record. They left Mines field. Los Angeles, at 12:10 p. m., I'a- GOEBEL'S AIR TEACHER DIES FROM SHOCK Ton Much tiood News Ceases Drain of A. W. Urigca, Cap tain who Taught Transconti nental Hero to fly. Collapses at News. LOS ANGELES. Aag. 29 (UP) The gallant heart ot Captain A. W. Brlggs, the man who help ed leach Art Coebel to fly. stop ped beating todiy Just a few minutea after Goebel had com pleted bis record-breaking flight from Los Angeles to New Tork. Brlggs was a member of the La(ayette Escadrllle In the early days ot tbe World war. Then he Joined the Canadian air foreea and later designed and helped i bui'.d seaplanes for the United Slates. . He taught Korea of pilots how to handle air craft. , Shortly after he had received word that Coebel had successful ly completed the trip. Captain U.I... ,1m liinuil that ha w to re:elve financial backing for a cabin monoplane he planned to enter In the National air races next month. , As. tbe messenger rave him the tidings, the flier collapsed and wis dead when a physician ar rived. . , Klamath Men Will Testify to L C. C. i II. D. Mortenson. president of lithe Pelican Bay Lumber coa- . ... r, - tvi, iUsis today -tor- PoUaa4. wneTe tney-,m repc-ent Kl.nv la,h ,t the Interstate commerce . mMlon Lhm t uke te(UmoDT , , ' against the proposed Cross State nlllrold between Crane add Odell. lua puDiic aerrtco cvmmiSMUB 01 commission to force, the Union -3f((r Unet( ' construcr-the cross state project ..... . ... Mr- Mortenson nd Mr. Dalton I w' outline the effect of the eioaoc norinern ratroaa on i00"18 Oregon traffic and win I Point Out how that project. When i"""""' e"' .tO Klamatn. Klamath Indian's Appeal Granted PORTLAND. Ore.; Aug. 20 (UP) Attorneys for OrsHlle Da vis, youthful Klamath Indian, to- idajr filed an appeal In federal court, staying the execution of i the young slayer, convicted of rjiwr. 1 rifle time Sunday 4:10 p. m. New York daylight saving time) ' and their wheels touched the i ground, here at 11:08 a. m.. to day. The trip was made at an i average speed of approximately j 145 miles an hour a new rec jord for flights of such distance iover land or sea. , I Goebel and Tucker literally made the flight between meals. They bad an ample supply of food( aboard, but so Intent were they on .breaking Bpeedecords that they never touched so much as a sandwich between Los An geles and Curtlss field. Land About 11 a. m. It was a few moments after 11 a. m. that mechanics at Cur tlss field spied a white mono plane of unfamiliar design rac - (Continued oa Page Fire) . Goodwill In Kansas Heartens Nominee Mid-West Leaders Say People Look With Favor on Farm Relief Plan. 1 , ABOARD TRAIN NEAR ING TOPEKA, Kans., Aug. 20, (UP) A triumphal journey across Kansas, the first of the agricultural states, Herbert Hoover reached on his return from the west coast, has hearten. , ed him for the coming, cam. paigu, ' '. . Leaders Board Trans : ' Farm leaden and Republican officials boarded tbe train oa lu atopa la Kansas today and tuld the Republican presidential can didate that farmers look with fa vor to the Hoover plan of farm relief. . . - "I obtain tbe greatest hearten. Ing for this campaign by the evi dence ot good will on thj pert ot so many Kansas." Hoover said 'la a short epeech at Hutehlnwn. An enthusiastic crowd met him at the station. ' ' . - - I CandidrtcT TUjs I "I am glad that you uUe so (Teat., an Interest --In the huues. which we represent." 'Hoover .con tinued. "1 . "wa uonormoiialv.. im pressed with tlie abundant, crops being produced I a Kansas. I can rcmeaibcr the day when -it was ihe. rule to expert! bat one I good crop out of thrcs. . Tho " j farmers, bo-f ever, have revolt- lionized agriculture in Kansas. (Contented oa Page Eight);: CDniJTOTWt'vr ta' EAT OCTOBER 7 At the regular meeting of the Klamath Sportsmen's association held last night in the chamber of commerce rooms, it was dgcMded to hold the association's annual venison barbecue on Octobotf 7 at ' the - Crooked Creek hwtchery grounda. ;j4 Ed Kendall. C. W. Pauley jEd William Humphrey were named aa the ..committee on aran8 ments. . Committee to get tbe venison is: Marian Barnes, Doug las Puckett. Manley . Puckett, Print Puckett, Frank Bryant, ittex ' Lawson. Charles Blankman,, Har ry Morse. Everett Hardenbrook and William Nltschlem. Attention' of rile association was called to the tact that In burning drainage ditches tn late spring many nesting pheasants and quail were destroyed. -A committee composed of O. -H). Matthews'. Dr. George Wrlght.and Marian Barnes were appointed to wait on H. D. Newell, reclama tion manager, to enlist his aid in I having this work completed he- tore ine neBiiuB nine, ur ueiuro April 1. , Flapper Fanny Says: A a'irl Just can't be both foeg fnretl and broad-mlndctl. , . . , . A BV? ' , smaa.aar.err. I V ejisaa av ass aowca. aav t(J
