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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
OAKLAND CRASH
KILLS AND MAINS
SACRAMENTO SHORT LINE TRAIN
TELESCOPES HEAVY
STREET TRAIN
Early Morning Passengers are PIowed
to Death as Train WaIts
Signal to Proceed
on Way

Oakland, Cal.,-Eight persons wer'
killed and approximately forty in
4 jured on the Key Route system wher
a train from Sacramento crashed into
the rear of a crowded electric train
bound from Twelfth street, Oakland
to San Francisco with early morning
commuters. The cause of the acct
dent has not been determined. Five
of the injured are believed to be dy-
ing.
One of the dead was identified as
C. C. O'Loughlin, 45 second street,
San Francisco.
Another of the dead was identified
as Fred ]. Gibson, 65, marine en-
gineer, living on Goat island in San
Francisco bay. He died in the Oak
land emergency hospital.
The accident happened few min
utes after o'clock. The three-car
Key system train included what is
known as the Broadway Special and
the Twelfth street local. These cars
were crowded with commuters bound
for San Francisco. The train had
stopped on block signal about mid
way on the three mile Oakland pier.
1t had hardly paused when the Sac
ramento Short Line train, empty ex-
cept for the trainmen, crashed full
speed into the rear of the commuters
train.
The Short Line train, containing a
single car, had been running few
hundred yards behind tire Key Route
train. 1t telescoped the rear Key
Route car for about half its length.
The front end of the Short Line car
was demolished It's conductor and
motorman had not been accounted for
several hours after the collision.
The Key Route train had the type
known as "side door cars" or those
without front or rear exits. Hence
t was necessary to break way with
axes to rescue the passengers. The
,egular exits had been closed for the
rip across the pier.
Some victims were flung bodily |
rom the train and were found lying |
IN the ground of the fill beside the
rack. Others were pinned in hope
essly until the rescuers reached them.
None of the cars of the Twelfth
treet train was derailed. Soon after
he accident the two front cars were
etached from the rear car that was
and were started for the
nole The motorman tainted soon af-
err the train began to move and pas
engers ran into the motorman's room
nd stopped the train.
The motorman soon was revived
nd took the train into the mole.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Our country wants no pre-
lenses; it wants no vagaries. 1t is
determined to advance in an orderly
and sound and common sense way. 1t
does not propose to abandon the
theory of the declaration that the peo-
pie have inalienable rights which no
majority and no power of government
can destroy. l am convinced that it
will be impossible for the people to
provide their own government unless
they continue to own their own prop
erty."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

ppment into womanhood an
strengthened me during the trying
months of expectancy. Celia
Cheeseman, Box 100, Route 2.
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nearest dealer, tablets or liquid
Send l0c to DR.. Pierce, Buffalo,
NY, for trial pkg. tablets.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Il want the people of all the earth
to see in the American flag the SYM
Dol of a government which intends no
oppression at home and no aggression
abroad, which in the spirit of COM
mon brotherhood provides assistance
in time of distress"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

IF we will but apply ourselves in
dustriously and honestly we have
ample powers with which to meet our
problems and provide for their speedy
solution"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

w 4 I II III /.
Pierre e Fa-
vorite Prescrip-
ton. l must say
il is the finest
tonic a n d ner-
vine for women
that / have ever
known. It re-
lieved m { o e
pains FIR o m
which l h a d
suffered at times
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The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
DEMAND "BAYER" ASPIRIN
Aspirin Marked With "Bayer croes"
Has Been Proved Safe by Millions.

Warning Unless you see the name
"Bayer" on package or on tablets you
are not getting the genuine Bayer
Aspirin proved safe by millions and
prescribed by physicians for % years.
Say 'Bayer" when you buy Aspirin.
limitations may prove dangerous.-Adv.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
TELEGRAPH|C TALES
FOR BUSY READERS.
q RESUME OF THE WEEKS
ooiNcs IN THIS AND OTHER
COUNTRIES
important Events Of the Last seven
Days Reported by Wire and Pre-
pared for the Benefit Of the
Busy Reader
WESTERN

Western members of congress
found when, on looking over the in.
terror department appropriation bill
as reported, they discovered the bill
provided for abolishing thirty-nine
local land offices and consolidating
the positions of registrar and receiver
at those offices which remain. They
further on find that the bill abolishes
the office Of surveyor general in each
of the states. Among the land offices
which the bill abolished outright on
July l, 1925, are those at Vernal,
Utah, Blackfoot, Haley and Couer
d'Alene, Idaho, and Cheyenne and
Newcastle, Wyo. The bill also pro-
poses doing away with the job of re-
ceiver and leaving only registrar
at Salt Lake City, Utah, Boise and
Lewiston, Idaho, and at Buffalo,
Douglas, Evanston and Lander, Wyo.
Should these changes be sanctioned by
congress, all land office business in
Utah would be handled by the one
land officer at Salt Lake City, save
such business as can even now be
transacted before United States com
missioners.
Allan r. Morford, former mayor of
St Joseph, Mich, was received into
the state prison at San Quentin, Cali
fornia, from San Diego to serve
sentence imposed upon his conviction
of robber burglary and grand larceny.
de was given the number 40140.
Three masked men held up the Ho-
tel Barbara, at Los Angeles, owned
by Heavyweight Champion Jack
Dempsey, taking 1929 in cash and
Jewelry valued at several thousand
dollars that had been deposited with
the clerk for safe keeping through
the night. Three employees were
backed against the wall while the
masked men rifled the safe and es-
capped with the jewels and holiday re-
,eipts.
Overcome by heat in the mot ,
,oom" of the baths of which he was
proprietor, Andrew Soloos of Tacoma. !
Wash, was cooked to death after fall ;
ng unconscious to the hot floor, ac- I
ording to local physician who in /
'estIgated. The body was in the "hot 9
DOM" several hours before being )
ound. 1t is believed he was rendered !
unconscious when he fell face for
ard to the cement floor and was kill
by intense heat. &
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
Epidemic Takes Old Soldiers

Beauvoir, Miss.,-Five Confederate
veterans, inmates Of the old soldiers
home here, died during the last nine
days from an epidemic which has moi
been diagnosed. One other is ex
pected to die from the disease, which
effects the stomachs of the patients.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
koretx Sent to Prison

Chicago, Leo Koretz, master swim
der, was sentenced to prison for from
one to ten years on the. charge Of
larceny, the first of four charges to
which he pleaded guilty.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

ANYBODY can reduce taxes. but it
is not SO easy to stand in the gap and
resist passage of increasing appropri-
alton bills which would make tax re-
duction impossible"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

AT no period in the past twelve
years have our foreign relations been
in such satisfactory condition as
they are at the present time"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Everyone knows that the great
need of the farmer is markets. The
country is not suffering on the side of
production. Almost the entire diff
Guilty is on the side of distribution. {"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
ANNUAL MESSAGE IS
GIVEN To CONGRESS
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE OUT
LINES POLICIES HE BE-
LIEVES ARE NECESSARY
Expresses Disapproval of Publicity
of Income Tax on Ground That
Such Policy Will Reduce
Revenues
HIGHLIGHTS AND EXCERPTS
BY Calvin Coolidge

THE nation holds position unsur-
passed in all former human exper-
fence"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Consolidation (of railroads) will
assure not only greater element of
competition as to service, but it will
afford economy of operation, greater
stability in railway earnings and more
economical financing"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
&Sa:|$E71
COMPOUND

Don't take chances OF your horses or mules
kcinx laid up with Distemper, Influenza,
Pink Eye, Laryngitis, Hcsves, Coughs or
Colds. Give "SPOHN's" to both the sick
and the well ones. Tho standard remedy
for so years. Give ~sPOHN'S" for Dog Dis
temper. 80 cents and s120 at drug stores.
sPOHN MEDICAL co. GOSHEN. IND.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
The Woman Who Knows

San Leandro, Calif.--" In my per-
sonal experience Of thirty-two years
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
GENERAL

Congress has started work on the
appropriation bills authorizing ex-
penditures and providing funds fol-
the various departments to keep the
vast government machine running for
the next fiscal year. AS the bills come
from the budget bureau, they provide
In the aggregate for appropriations
of nearly $2,000,0O0,0 Members of
congress are hoping they can trim
those estimates perceptibly without
seriously affecting the efficiency. of
the federal bureaus and commissions.
The senior circuit judges of the
country, with Chief Justice Taft Join
ing, and the opinion of federal dis
trict judges reflected in their posi-
ton, have thrown their support be-
hind the movement for a transfer
bodily of the prohibition unit from
the treasury department to the de
partment of justicee.
Alice B. Jones Rhinelander is de
PENDANT in suit brought by her husl
band, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a |
member of one of New York's Oldest
and wealthiest families, for the an
nulrnent of their marriage. The ac
ton is based on the contention that
the wife fraudulently represented her
self to be white and denied she had
any negro blood.
The Boulder dam bill, which is
to be taken up again next week by
the house committee on irrigation.
viii not pass congress during the
short session if Representative E. o.
Leatherwood can prevent it. The
Utah congressman, who exposed the
inquities of this bill during the hear
ings last session, showed wherein that
bill might operate to impair the
rights of Utah and other states of the
upper Colorado river basin, returned
to Washington determined to carry
mn from the point where he left off
when this legislation was sidetracked !
last June. {
Koretz, promoter of fake oil
schemes in which relatives and t
friends invested 100000, brought v
back to Chicago recently from Hall +
AK, N. s., to face his victims, wants p
to get it over with as soon as pos 2
ible," and was sentenced.
Fifteen persons were injured in a
torn which buffeted the steamship d.
-eviathan throughout most of her b.
passage across the Atlantic, it was to
earned when the big liner arrived in
rom Southampton twenty four hours Il
ver1rs dl
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Frank w. Hills, comptroller of the
American Smelling & Refining com
pany, died at his home in New York.
Mr.. Hills, who was 81 years old, was
also a director of the First National
bank of Mount Vernon, N. Y, and a
director in several other organiza-
tions. He was auditor of the Oregon
Short Line railroad and was assist
ant auditor of the Union Pacific at
one time.
The Democratic national committee
filed with the clerk of the house of
congress a report showing total cam
paign contributions of $845,520 from
July l to November 20, inclusive.
Stewart & Co., bond brokers of
New York, reported to the police that
a messenger boy named Harris had
disappeared with 100000 in securities.
The messenger was employed few
days ago.
Earnings of the Atchison, Topeka
u Santa Fe Railway company will not
be as large this year as in 1923, ac-
cording to w. B. Storey, president.
President Coolidge informed con-
gress that present estimates point to
surplus of revenues over expendi-
lures of $685., 489 for the present
fiscal year and of 1878, 743,714 for the
fiscal year 1926, but he advised
against any further tax reduction un-
Ill definite results from the present
AK law are known.
General Smedley d. Butler will re-
main the head of the Philadelphia
police and fire departments for the
lext three years, if his leave from
he marine corps is extended 1t is
announced by Major Kendrick and
General Butler.
A suit to break the will of Oscar
:. McNabb, filed in district court at
les Moines, Iowa, revealed that the
ged man, who died several months
go, had an estate valued at about
10000, although he had received in
ne past few years from the overseer
the poor financial aid totaling
500. In his will most of the prop
rty was bequeathed to the Humane
'ciety, the Salvation Army, the Red
ross and other organizations Three
ephews, who were left $40 each, are
seking to break the will.
One of three unidentified men try
g to enter a Piggy Wiggly grocery
ore in Omaha, Neb., was shot and
He'd by two policemen with whom
icy engaged in pistol fight. His
70 companions escaped.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Any nation undertaking to main
tain military establishment with ag-
gressive and imperialistic designs will
find itself severely handicapped in the
economic development of the world. :"
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

Il believe thoroughly in the army
and navy, in adequate defense and
preparation. But I am opposed to
any policy of competition in building
and maintaining land or sea arma-
ments."
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
FOREIGN

"The council of ministers Of Egypt,
bowling to necessity and impelled by
great desire for paciication ana
good will, accepts the condition in
tegrally and without reserve" is the
reply which Ziwar Pasha, the Egyp-
tian premier, made to Viscount AL
lenby when the British high commits
sioner enumerated in writing the Bri-
fish conditions for the evacuation of
the Alexandria customs.
The Brazilian consul has notified
the Japanese government that he has
been instructed to suspend the grant
ing of visas for intending emigrants
to Brazil. The foreign office, taken
by surprise, has instructed the Jap
anese minister to Brazil to make a
report on the matter Immediately. Mr..
Akamatsu, chief of the immigration
section of the foreign office, SAID.
IF this notice heralds an exclusion
policy against the Japanese, the sit
uation presents itself in a decidedly
serious aspect to the Japanese nation.
Twenty Communist leaders in the
Reval Finland revolt were shot after
l court martial, according to reports
rom that city.
The Anglo-German commercial
reaty has been signed. Foreign Sec
'etary Chamberlain and Lord d'Aber-
ION, British ambassador to Berlin,
igned for England, and DR.. Friedrich |
'thamer, German ambassador to En-
land, and DIR. Won Schubert, repre-
enting the German finance ministry
igned for Germany.
Carlos and Alexandra Greene, rebel
enerals and brothers, have been kill
near Villa Hermosa, in the state
Tebasco, according to a report re.
sived by the war office.
The first conference, of the confer.
ice on smoking opium" has been
llled at Geneva. Switzerland. This
cans that Sir Malcolm Delevingne,
lairman of the British delegation,
rs heard from London regarding the
odified Japanese proposal on the i'm
'rt certificate plan, the question on
hich the first conference was threat
led with shipwreck. 1t is believed
reat Britain win accept Japan.s
rms.
Eamonn de Valera, the republican
ader who, on November 1, was SEN
need to one months imprisonment
ter entering Ulster territory in de
nee of warning from the authori-
IS, has been released. He was
aced on a train for Dublin and es- /,
rted to the border.
A weekly mail Zeppelin service be- T
cen the United States ana Europe :
j be started soon, according to DR..
lgo Eckener, director of the Yep
in company, who had charge of the
-3's transatlantic flight. 4
Stephen Horthy, son of Admiral :
rthy, the Hungarian regent, stu
It in the Polytechnic school, has
n sentenced by the criminal court =
four days Imprisonment for duel =
Young Horthy's adversary was n
en- a sentence of two days. Tho
was the result OF an argument. r.
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
RAILWAY PROBLEMS

The railways during the past year
have made still further progress in
recuperation from the war, with large
gains in efficiency and ability expe-
ditiously to handle the traffic of the
country We have now passed
through several periods of peak traf-
fic without the car shortages which
SO frequently in the past hare brought
havoc to our agriculture and indus
tries The condition of many of our
great freight terminals is still one OF
difficulty and results in imposing
large costs on the public for inward
bound freight. Owing to the growth
OF our large cities and the great in
crease in the volume of traffis. par
ticularly in perishablcs, the problem
is not only difficult of solution, but
in some cases not wholly solvable by
railway action alone.
In my message last year. / empha-
sized the necessity for further legisla-
tion with view to expediting the
consolidation of our railways into
larger systems. The principle of
government control of rates and pro-
fits, now thoroughly Embedded in our
attitude toward natural
such as the railways, at
once eliminates the need of COMPETE
ton by small units as method of
rate adjustment Competition must
De preserved as a stimulus to service,
put this Will exist and can be increas-
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12
CONDITIONS

4NO Important QGNClOpllCut
has taken place in the last year than
the beginning of a restoration of ag-
riculture to prosperous condition.
We must permit no division of classes
in this country, with one occupation
striving to secure advantage over an
other. Each must proceed under open
opportunities and with fair prospect
of economic equality. The govern
ment cannot successfully insure pros
perity or fix prices by legislative fiat
Every business has its risk and its
times of depression. 1t is we'll known
that in the long run there will be a
more even prosperity and more sat
isfactory range of prices under the
natural working out of economic laws
than when the government undertakes
the artificial support of markets and
industries. Still we, can so order our
affairs, so protect our own people
from foreign competition, SO arrange
our national finances, so administer
our monetary system, so provide for
the extension of credits, so improve
methods of distribution as to provide
a better working machinery for the
transaction of the business of the ma
ton with the least possible friction |
and loss. The government has been |
constantly increasing its efforts in
these directions for the relief and per-
nanent establishment of agriculture
or sound and equal basis with other
,uc;nacc
The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-12-12

OF the greatest amount of revenue
from large incomes. | am convinced
that the larger incomes of the coun-
try would actually yield more revenue
to the government if the basis of tax
alton were scientifically revised down
ward Moreover, the effect of the
present method of this taxation is to
increase the cost of interest on pro-
ductive enterprise and to increase the
burden of rent. 1t is altogether likely
that such reduction would so encour-
age and stimulate investment that it
would firmly establish our country in
the economic leadership of the world.
Evening star., 1924-10-15
big Three ELEVENS
MUST BE BOLSTERED
BY WALTER CAMP.

Here is a summary of some of
the vital and tender spots in the
anatomy of the big Three" foot
ball, teams as they stand today.
Yale: Has not yet finally settled
upon a quarterback. To the writer S
mind, a far more serious point is
in the lack of development of the
line 1t looked for a time as if their
kicking might be weak with the
amount of protection the rest of the
team provided but Failing seems
now to get distance ami height with
some reasonable assurance despite the
tendency of the line to give way
They also are vulnerable to wide end
running on their defense and their
attack still lacks that drive which it
had last year.
Princeton: The Tiger eleven must
come down to earth with a steady.
dependable center trio on offense and
defense The team is fast and the
forward passing well conceived, but
there still is too much irregularity in
the charge and sometimes in the
passing and an unsteadiness which
will be more noticeable when the
Tigers meet some bigger game. They
are fumbling badly and that, too, in
their best running game.
Harvard: The Crimson still lacks
cohesion between backs and line
Every now and then the line is
moving forward all right when the
backs hit-but not always. And it
certainly does knock the confidence
out of a backfield man to have his
own line coming toward him when
he strikes.
Evening star., 1924-10-15
never HAS PLAYED
ON LOSING ELEVEN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoc ted Press.
CHICAGO, October 1J.-In nearly
two score foot ball games. Herb
Steger of Oak Park. Ill, captain OF
the University of Michigan eleven, has
developed the unique record of never
having played on a losing team.
In next Saturdays game his record
will meet its supreme test when his
team plays the dedicatory game at
the Illinois stadium at Crbana-
Michigan and Illinois tied for the
Western Conference championship
last season, although they did not
face each other.
In the fifteen games Steger has
played with Michigan. the closest call
was sCorcless tie with Vanderbilt
in 1922. He started in the lineup in
only one game that year, the contest
with Illinois. Last year he was a
regular and shared in Michigan's
seven victories. He had aided in two
victories this season.
Under Glen Thistlethwaite. now
coach at Northwestern, the Oak Park
High School ran up long string of
victories in which Steger was one of
the backfield mainstays. Such
string of victories has brought Steger
the title of Coach Yost's mascot"