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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1920-10-30

House?
An.wer-TIiE PEOPLE; and IL. Supreme Court .p-
proved their decision.
WHO started the Main street Court House?
him, and jsSss Asnsea no e s <. e;cs2s cs. s'ess cos
says the people Uers risht.
SHALL Il we fini'h and occupy h. Ho. sprins. Court
Answer-TllE PEOPLE voted for the Ho. Spring.
Court House. The klamath Developuent Co.
offered ate Of five acres now worth $4,000.
We get title 70 il if the County b,ilds and occu-
6fHERwsE e;fi i1s v1sa sprns' Court House. But NOT
..a iss ss d 1s1: .:S ;s:; lat sss,:s
the Hot Syringe site If they abandon the building?
Answer ON YOUR LIFE!
Did the Evening Herald have any authority whatever
fer The :t:tement TIA. The Kls@ash Dsvelopment
Co. would give that site to the County?
Answer-NO The Evening Herald has no authority
County, and ssrt.inly noshins belonging to h.
IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE TElAT-Ask klamath De-
velopment Co.
The Evening Herald says will take $175000 to fish
Hot Sprinss Court House. 10 that true?
Answer it i not true. There is money enough in
the Court House fund right now to finish Hot
Sprinss Court House without calling on the tax
payers for another dollar for court house pur-
poses.
CAN you take that money, levied and collected for
Hot Syringe Court House, and divert it and use It
for roads schools, or any other specific pur-
pose, - urged and promised In the Evening
Herald?
An.wer-No; YOU CAN NOT unle.. the Judge and
Commissioners of the County Court who follow
that advice 60 to jail pay fine.
Here Is the law: Sec 3675 Lords Oregon Laws:
"When any moneys shall have been collected
"or received by any officer for any distinct and
specified object portion of them shall be paid
"or applied to any other object purpose,
"but shall be kept separate fund for such speci
"fied objects and any officer failing to comply.
with the provisions Of this section shall be liable
ito fine not exceeding $500, to imprisonment
"in the county jail not exceeding six month";"
Evening star., 1920-12-05
81, 800 Looked So Big.
Boy Took It and Blew

NEW YORK, December 4 (by the
Associated Press).-Arrested here
tonight after he had bought
ticket for San Francisco, Elliott
Michner. fifteen-year-old Philadel-
phia Office boy. told police the
story Of a weeks travel and 'ad-
venture that followed his disap-
pearance from the Baldwin Ldco-
motive Works November 26 with
$4,000 of the cornpany's money.
Officers found $4,000 Of the money
in his suit case.
The 500 that was missing had
gone. he admitted. in the pur-
chase Of new clothes--suits with
long trousers-for So meals in the
best hotels In Philadelphia, New
York and Chicago. for 81 tips to
walters and for berths in Pullman
cars. There were movies also. and
other entertainment,
He was helping pay on employees
in the company's ONCE when he
took the money--"just drew a cou-
pie of years salary in ADVANCE"
he told the police.
who wouldn't?" he asked II
was getting So a week as an ONCE
boy in the Baldwin works. They
hand me -t4,3o0S. ] ,ha0teceunt4t<
Evening star., 1920-12-05
FOES IN SENATE
PREDICT EARLY
FALL OFLEACUE

Opponents of the Paris league
of nations in the Senate, COM
menting last night upon the re-
port from Geneva that Argentina
had Withdrawn from the league,
declared that such action was to
be expected on the part of the
nations, and predicted that Ar
gentina's action was only fore
runner of what was to come.
"The inevitable disintegration Of
the league of nations has begun"
Senator Knox of Pennsylvania said.
TT comes a little earlier than I
had expected" Senator Knox
added.
Some nations represented in the
league seem to be beginning to
find the same objections to it that
the republicans raised two years
ago, said Senator Lodge, chair
man of the foreign relations COM
mittee.
II am very much interested in
the reports from Geneva" he said,
''but we do not know enough to
pass judgment. 1t seems to me
that some of the nations repre-
sented are beginning to find OBJ
jections that we discovered nearly
two years ago."
Senator Borah of Idaho. ire
concilable foe of the league, said:
Argentina has started the
stampede. All except Great Bri-
tain will follow in due course"
Senator Moses of New Hamp-
shire, another of the leagues op-
ponents, said:
"The Argentine republic has
now discovered what the Senate
irreconcilables have always known.
namely, that the covenant Of the
league of nations is a strait.
jacket too narrow to contain a
great and independent people"
Senator Ashurst Of Arizona, dem
ocrat. said:
"Sic transit gloria mundi"
Evening star., 1920-12-05

too. you know. and they tell ma
to take it to. the paymaster. It
was more money than I ever 1ai1
eyes on before. It looked awful
big and it felt awful, big. had
the feel of it right in may hand
when / saw an open door. Well,
blew. Who wouldn't?'
First he went to Camden, N. T.
bought clothes there, and then
came to New York. He intended to
60 west and loaf bit." but he
read in the papers he was believed
to have gone to Spokane, where
his father was reported dying, So
he went only as far as Chicago.
Life there palled and he came
back to New York and then went
to Philadelphia. No one recognised
him there, SO he returned to. New
York last night and decided to
chance the west. AS he bought his
ticket a detective arrested him.
After first telling the detective
that he had been visiting friends
here and was going to the Pacific
coast to see relatives, he later ad-
mitted the theft and told his story.
He was placed in charge OF the So
ciety for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Evening star., 1920-12-05
Mrs. Hamon Would
Acquit Miss Smith

ARDMoRE, Okla, December
(by the Associated Press).-The
mystery surrounding the shooting
of Jake L. Hamon, republican ma
tional committeeman from Okla
homa and millionaire railroad and
oil man, tonight was no nearer
public solution.
Three outstanding events marked
the resumption today Of the in
vestigation of the death Of Mr.. Ha-
mon, which occurred November 26,
after he was shot November 21.
Russell r. Brown, county attor-
ney, announced that a warrant
would be taken out for any person
that evidence showed was instru-
mental in the spiriting from Ard
more of Miss Clara Smith. against
whom a charge of assault with in
tent to kill had been placed.
A statement was made by Mrs.
Hamon, the politician-oilman's
widow, that she did not believe
Miss Smith fired the bullet which
killed Mr.. Hamon, and that she
would not prosecute Miss Smith
should she be apprehended and re-
turned to Afdmore.
Another statement by Mrs. Hamon
was that she would gladly become
her husbands successor as nation
al committeeman if the honor were
offered to her.
The clothing worn by Mr.. Hamon
when he was shot and the weapon
from which the bullet was fired
had not been placed in the hands
Of County Attorney Brown tonight.
following his request to Sherif1
Evening star., 1920-12-05
THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES.
8O9, 500, 900 COINS,
MIlNTS' OUTPUT;
WORLD RECORD

The mints established a record in
coinage during the last fiscal year.
according to the annual report of
Director Roy Baker, made public
last night. A total of sos, 5000
coins were executed, which. Mr..
Baker declares, is a world record.
The figures show an increase of
446 per cent in coinage over 1915,
the last normal year.
Public demand for smaller coins.
particularly pennies, is reflected in
the report, which discloses that
more than 512.500.000 coins in the
record output were one-cent pieces.
Mr.. Baker said much modern
equipment had been installed in all
mints during the year, including
an electric furnace Of 1000 pounds
capacity at Philadelphia mint and
a similar plant at San Francisco.
The worlds gold production in
1919. Estimated at sse5,lse,eQes by
Difsctor Baker. was = decrease of
about s1s,soo. 300. ..s.,s....:,..s i;
Productioa ia the United States
was $eo,3a3,o00, Mr.. Baker said, or
,.sbout 5000. 600 below production
in 1918. II: f,
The monetary stocks OF gold OF
the principal countries of the world
were estimated at $s,3ss.1S5.000 at
the end of 1919, and silver stocks
at about 1851, 900.
Evening star., 1920-12-05

Garrett that these articles be sub
mitted for an examination.
Sheriff Garrett was away from
Ardmore last night and until this
evening in connection with some
minor trouble in the oil fields. On
his return this afternoon he issued
statement denying that he ever
had the clothing or the pistol in
his possession and characterizing
as Infamous" published state
ments which, the sheriff said, tend
ed to indicate that he purposely
was Withholding the bullet pierced
garments and the pistol.
In her verbal statement TODAY
Mrs. Hamon expressed implicit
confidence in Mr.. Hamon. She ex-
pressed herself as being satisfied
by conversation with him while he
lay sn the hospital here that Miss
Smith did not shoot him and that
the shooting was accidental.
Divorced In 1917.
WEATHERFORD, Tex, Decem-
Der Clara Barton Smith Hamon,
who is being sought in connection
with the shooting Of Jake Hamon,
republican committeeman, tn Ard
more. Okla. November 81, was
granted a divorce from Frank
Louis Hamon. nephew Of Jake Ha-
mon, in district court here on May
%, 1917, according to court rec
ords. The petition for divorce.
filed on April 23,. 1917. by Frank
Louis Hamon, alleges that plaintiff
and defendant were married in Ell
Paso. Tex. on February II, 1917,
and separated on the same day, not
having lived together since.
Evening star., 1920-12-05
SAYS nation NEEDS
NEWbUS|NESSCO
Gov. Coolidge Urges Better
Moral Standards and FIays
Record of Democrats.

NEW YORK, December 4 (by the
Associated Press).-The necessity Of
observing the laws Of morality in
business was emphasized here to-
night by Gov. Coolidge of Massa-
chusetts, Vice President in an
address before the Business Mems
Republican Association.
Gov. Coolidge cited recent whole
sale cancellation Of orders for mer-
chandise as an example of improper
business methods. This course, he
said, resulted from extravagant IDEAS
assimil&ted during the prosperity Of
r6eebtsyears. ..-,ss sz,. s = g -, z
From 1915 to 1920 Americans have
believed themselves in easy circurn-
stances" he sid. True. prices were
high, but the rewards Of effort seemed
higher still. All seemed SO easy that
people carae to a condition where
they did not care. This meant that
people were not insisting on or meet
Ing their obligations. Such a condi-
ton could have but one result"
The result experienced, the governor
said, has been disastrous"
Econsnie structure DisaFfanged.
I'VE are in an era Of defation and
the public is trying to put all the bur-
den Of it on the producer by refusing
to carry out its bargains" he de-
clared.
The worst manifestation of this is
the cancellation Of orders, he said; !;
cancelled mot because it was sup
posed their cost could not be met, but
because it was thought it would not
be profitable to meet such cost"
'It was not the result of inability
to act, but failure because action
might cost something" he continued
"Our whole economic structure has
been disarranged.
1--WE have sought in our economic
false freedom. Men are not and can
not be an any Of the relations of life
independent Of the moral laws. The
only freedom men can ever enjoy is
self-direction in doing right"
OF the Wilson administration. Gov.
Coolidge said: ,4
"It failed because it did not meet
the moral requirements Of the Amer
ican people. It has gone now. Iwould
be the last to cavil at it. But it's les
sons must be remembered. 1t asked
in the first place that America disre-
gard its obligations because it was
more profitable to do SO. No wonder
the country felt duped when in the
end it had to do its duty at additional
cost OF perish"
He quoted what Roosevelt declared
he would have done when the Ger
mans invaded Belgium and added:
"The administration said it kept the
peace. What America should have re-
quired was not the keeping Of the
peace. but the keeping OF its soul. 1t
was the process. not the result, that
counted. Nathan Hale and Joseph
Warren did not keep the peace. Nor
did Washington or Lincoln. But they
kept the faith. "a
"The great lesson Of economic and
political experience is that people and
parties and nations must observe the
moral standards. They have been
disregarded in business with disaster.
in politics with defeat and by the ma
tion with resulting war"
Evening star., 1920-12-05
DESIRE SECRETARY
Of STATE Who HAS
FINANCIAL ABILITY
Nations Big interests Of
Opinion Diplomacy Is Sec
ondary Qualification.
NJ n. o. MESSENGER.

: President Harding IL to be urged
~ gDoEazAA An9deis2 snset1sn- t6 l1n,z
slider in the se3sction Of his Secretary u
State the appointee's familiarity with
International financial broblens, accord
ing to information which reaches WASH
ington. The diplomatic training Of the
next American premier is regarded by
these financiers to b.. secondary. indsed
in importance to his ability to grasp
and deal with the great questions OF
credit and money relations with foreign
nations. which are acute.
In point Of fact, the opinion is held in
high financial quarters that it is as es-
sential that the Secretary Of State shall
be equipped with financial ability as
that the Secretary Of the Treasury shall
be eminently 80 fitted. The problems
of International finance are regarded as
having a profound bearing upon the do
mestic Industrial and monetary situa-
ton.
Prfnciple, Not Candidate.
The first question pumped at the
conveyors Of this information was who
has big business in mind for the Secre-
taryship Of State? The answer was
that there is no particular individual
under discussion and that the sugges-
ton is not by way Of propaganda in be-
half of any one person. but In earnest
insistence upon the selection Of a type.
With that assurance. to wit, that it is
not movement to put a previously de-
termined-upon person in this Office. the
proponents say they feel they can dis
cuss the proposition all the more freely
with the President-elect and argue for
a principle and not a candidate.
This movement. which is to take def
mite shape at once. lends a new angle to
the talk about prospective candidates
for the secretaryship. Up to this time
the demand has been voiced for the Sc
lection of man of pronounced diplo-
1Continued on Pare 5, Column ~
Evening star., 1920-12-05
FAv0RS 5 PER CENT LOANS

ATLANTA. December %-United
States Senator Harris Of Georgia an
nounced here tonight that he would
introduce bill in the Senate Monday
to require federal reserve banks to
lend money at five per cent and also
to make longtime loans.
Both Of these measures. Mr.. Harris
said, would be Of great aid to south
ern farmers in handling their crops.
The federal reserve banks were not
created to make money" Senator Har-
ris continued. "but to meet conditions
confronting the country, and the only
way to meet the conditions existing
teaaysAs-A.1eWeE1At4spet4utegeotH
Evening star., 1920-12-05
FALL
in PITCHED BATTLE
Nine Captured in Kentucky
Hills After 1000 Shots
Are Fired.

LEXINGTON. KY, December A.
Nine moonshiners were captured and
a number Of others are believed to
have been killed or wounded in a bat
tie between thirty moonshiners and
fourteen United States revenue off,
GERS in the southern part of Bell
county, near the Tennessee border, ac-
cording to reports received here to-
night by Chief Prohibition Agent U.
G. Mcfarland.
None of the government officers was
injured, although more than 1000
shots were fired. Five stills were de-
stroyed. The government forces were
headed by Prohibition Agents Steve
Cornett and Charles Winfrey. The
prisoners will be taken to Pineville.
The scene Of the battle is in one
of the widest sections of the eastern
Kentucky mountains. First reports
of the fighting came in a dispatch
from Pineville, which said that heavy
firing had been heard in the southern
who escaped fed into the mountains
with 1ederal agents IN pursuit. The
government agents left Holden, Tenn,
the nearest railway point, Friday
morning.
+ Plans for the raid were made dur
ing the term Of circuit court, which
closed in London, KY, a week ago.
For more than two years the moon
sinners Of that section of the state,
known to residents as South Amer
ica,' have been growing bolder in
their operations. Chief Prohibition
Agent Mcfarland stated tonight when
informed of the battle. No raids had
been made in that section in several
years, and it was decided at the Lon
don conference to break up the traffic
there.n
Evening star., 1920-12-05
BA[L0UD|SC[0SES
SCHOOL HAND|CAPS
Presents First Report in
Campaign to Secure
Better Facilities.

Outlining in detail the conditions and
needs of the seventeen schools in the
first division. Supt. Frank w. Ballou
opened his campaign last night to re-
veal to members Of Congress and the
parents Of $1,000 school children the
actual state of Washington's public
educational system. Facts and figures
indicating clearly the handicap under
which the schools in the first district
are being operated are contained in
the initial instailment Of DR.. Rallou'a
comprehensive report dealing with
information pertaining to the schools.
Additionalssect&pns Of the iengthy dos.
ument viii be made public from time
to time until existing conditions II,
every school building have been ais
closed.
Salient facts relative to the schools
in the first district are summarized in
the superntendent's report, as fol-
lows:
Eighteen additional classrooms are
Immediately needed to relieve conges-
ton; there is not vacant room in
ssAy W SAO SSSSASCSh oSuOO4
overcrowding has resulted. in classes
altogether too large for satisfactory
school work: there are no rooms in
any of the buildings which are not
used full day.
Classes ON Part Time.
The report also pointed out that
three rooms in the John Eaton school
now used for classroom purposes were
not built for such purpose. They are
two Office rooms which are used for a
kindergarten class and one hall room
which is used twice a week for sew
ing classes.
Additional undesirable conditions as
stipulated by the report are the seven
frame portable structures in use in
this division, the Tenley School annex
and rented quarters. One of the port
ables is located at the E. v. Brown
School, four at the Eaton, one at the
Force and another at the Tenley.
In this division, it is stated, there
are six. classes on part-time courses,
Continued on Page S, Column IL
Evening star., 1920-12-05
Mountaineers, Set
Free for Harvest,
Return to Jail

FRANKFORT, ny. December
Am old adage that Kentucky
mountaineers are COED as their
word was borne out today. when
Albert Ballard Of Menifee cOun-
ty and D1llard Sparks and StOrt
Horton Of Estill county vOlun-
tarily returned to the county
Jail to serve sentences for al
le1ed mOOnahining.
They were convicted In fed
eral court Last September, but
were allowed freedom upon
their request and pledge to re-
turn after harvest OF crops.
Evening star., 1920-12-05
ALL IN READINESS
FOR LAST SESSION
Of 66TH CONGRESS
Repeal of War Laws and I'M
migration Given Prece.
dence in House.


All is in readiness for the opening
of the last session of the Sixty-sixth
Congress, which will end on the day
President-elect Harding is to be in
augurated.
The Union station and hotel lobbies
were busy scenes yesterday and last
night as the late arrivals of con-
gressmen. their families, secretaries
and other employees came in. Probably
one-third Of the entire membership
reached the city during the past week.
while some few will not come to the
capital until today or tomorrow morn
ing.
Leaders OF the Senate and House
yesterday held conferences arranging
the details for the opening of their
respective branches, while committees
planned for legislative program that
would expedite essential measures and
leave others until the Harding ad-
ministration comes into complete con-
troll Of the government.
Favers RevokinE War Laws.
Repeal Of wartime legislation and
passage Of the immigration bill will
take precedence in the House, the re-
publican steering committee decided
yesterday, when considering the legis.
lative program.
House leaders are in favor Of re-
voking wartime laws Independent OF
action on a separate peace resolution
Seven new members were chosen to,
stbe House appropriations cemmittee b
the republican committee on committees
lite yestefdsy. and decision VA
reached to allow the democrats a like
number. In, compliance with a Ifesolu4
tion passed by the House ii, the last ses
sion. the appropriations committee is te
be enlarged from twenty -one to thirty.
five members, and intrusted with the
framing Of all appropriation measures
taking over the appropriation work Of
seven other House committeea The de.
cision to allow the democrats seven Of
the new members was reached in order
that both republicans and democrats
might take one man each for the en-.
larged appropriations committee from
each of the seven other committees.
The committee will be composed of
twenty republicans and fifteen demo-
Gratis.
Personnel Of Committee.
The republicans selected for the ap-
propriations committee-and who it is
intended shall be chairmen of subcom-
mittees handling the various appropri-
alton bills previously handled by the
committees from which these seven men
were chosen-are Representatives Mar
tin B. Madden of Illinois, from the COM
mittee on post Offices and post roads
Daniel r. Anthony Of Kansas, from mill
tary affairs; Sidney Y. Anderson of
Minnesota, from the agricultural COM
mittee; Patrick H Kelley of Michigan,
from the naval affairs committee; John
J. Rogers of Massachusetts,, from the
foreign affairs committee; John A. Els
Continued on Page Q. Column s.
Evening star., 1920-12-05
10o-YEAR WINE FOUND.
Case Unearthed " Excavating in
Ruins Of Old Building.

PORT ST. JOE, Fla, December A.
A case Of choice. wine. believed buried
over 100 years ago. was excavated
today by workmen engaged in, dis
mantling the ruins of an old building
in Port st. Joseph. near here, which
was deserted in. 1870. following q
virulent yellow fever epidemic.
The wine was buried in what had
been~the-cellar-of.&he.house,
Evening star., 1920-12-05
WEATHER.

Rain today. probably followed by
clearing; somewhat colder this after
noon and tonight: tomorrow fair.
Temperature for twenty-two hours
ending 10 pm. last night: Highest.
5s: lowest, 90 Full report on page IS.
Evening star., 1920-12-05

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