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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1921)
ffijj laittttuj IteraUi 0 ' -f Member of the Associated Press. as riflomidi Year. No. 0030. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY, S31, 1021. Prloo Five Ocnta BEST CORN CROP I IN HISTORY WIS I CROHN 1820 (Hy Associated ProsB) WASHINGTON, Jnn. 21. 1920 was tho greatest com your In tho J.lBtory of tho country according to .tho records of tho department of ag riculture Resides growing a record crop of 3,232,307,000 bushels, tho farmers established a now record for Avaragu ylald ior aero, with 30.9 bushels, tho socond tlmo In history that tho country's nvorago yield wont post 30 bushols. Tho nroa planted to corn last yoar wm 104,601,000 acres which was smaller than tho nroa planted In olght other years hortoforo and 1, 400,000 acres smallor than tho area which producod tho provlous record crop of 3,124,746,000 btiahols In 1912. Last year's crop was tho third to exceed 3,000,000,000 bushels. Iowa, tho country's grvutest corn producing stato, mado an average, of 46 bushels to tho aero for tho first tluio In Its history. Tho highest uv orago aero ylold of any stato was that of Vermont with 47 bushols. Maine In 1019 had tho highest nvorago aero ylold with 60 bushols. In tho ten yoars previous to that yoar tho high est nvorago ncro-ylold has boon nrndn by ono of tho Now England states. Connecticut had highest ylold In six of tho ten yoars, Massachusetts In two, Now Hampshire In ono, and Ver mont and Massachusetts tying In ono. Hut corn, king of crops, produced an nvorago only $20.03 an aero to farmers basod on Docombor 1 farm prices while hops producod $486il0 an aero, according to averages for the country as a wholo. The valuo per aero of hops In 1919 was $874.70, while, corn's nvorago valuo per aero was $38.49. With tho oxcoptlon or ryo, cranborrlcs, soy beans and norghum sirup tho avorago valuo por ncro Inst year showed heavy reduc tions from 1919 because of tho de clines In prices. Wldo variation In shown In tho val uo per aero of tho various crops whllo tho averages for different states show a broad range for each crop. Tho avorago farm valuo per acre of tho Important farm crops as estimated by tho department of ag riculture tor last year and for 1919 follews: Crop 1920 1919 Hops $"486.10 $874.75 Cranborrlcs 213.37 184.96 Tobacco 168.0B 296.68 Potatoes 127.C1 144.CS Swoet Potatoes .... 116.71 135.03 Sorghum sirup .... 97.C6 90.93 Soy Denns 48.42 48.74 Ollce 47.75 104.55 Toanuts 38.68 05.06 Boons 31.94 59.93 Hay 27.87 32.64 Cotton 25.14 60.62 Buckwheat 24.41 30.31 Oruln sorghums .. 24.36 32.80 Winter whoat 22.83 31.33 Broom corn 21.40 29.72 Cowpoas : 21.25 17.80 Clovor seed 21.25 42.16 Corn 20.93 38.49 Barloy 17.68 27.13 Ilyo i 17.57 10.48 Oats 10.01 21.04 Spring whoat 14.08 20.38 TIOKKTS SELLING FAST FOR GODOWSKY CONCERT Tho Musical Study club announcos that those doslrlng tickets for the Oodowsky concert, to bo given at tho Scandinavian hall, January 27, should procuro them Immediately. There Is such a domnnd for Boats that "tho members of tho Musical Study club fear thoro will not bo en ough' tlckots for all who wish to hear the great pianist. Tho seating capacity of tho hall Is estimated nt botwoon 600 and 700. LUTI1ERAN PASTOR TO PREACH AT MONTAGUE ' Tho Reverend Karl Mathlos, of the Lutheran church, has returned from la visit at tho ranch homo of Walter Zetman, and left this morning fo Montaguo where ho will hold sorvlcos. Prom Montaguo ho will go to Gold Kill where bo will conduct a sorvlco Sunday morning. Thero will be no Lutheran church services In this city until Sunday, January 30. White Thinks U. S. Should Go "Heeled" Until Others Disarm WABHINaTON, Jun. 21 Tho staggering burdons of taxation re sulting from tho world war havo caused nil nations to favor a world agroomont for disarmament, Henry White, former ambassador to Franco and a tnombor of tho Amorlcan poaco commission to Paris, doclarcd today boforo tho houso nnval com mlltoo holding hoarlngs on tho sub ject: "I think tho world Is crying for somo agroomont," Whlto said, "hut do not favor tho United States being tho only nation to disarm." BUSINESS MEN'S Tho business mon's association of this city has boon dissolved, but the objoct of tho association and Its ac tivities will contlnuo to live and en joy robust health, according to ac tion takon by tho mombers of tho 'asBoclntlon at a mooting held In tho chamber of commorco rooms last night. Most of tho representative firms of tho city wero represented at tho mooting. Affiliation with tho chambor of commorco was suggostod, and utter thorough discussions, the mooting reachod tho conclusion that thero woro many advantages to bo galnod by such affiliation, the chamber, it was stated, having nilvancod to a stago In public llfo horo whore It Is abld to adjust freight rates, and save money through freight checking audits, and numerous pther ways. Tho business man's association was organized Ax yoars ago, and was vory octlvo during tho war In taking somo of tho duties that would ordinarily bolong to tho chambor of commerce. Fred Houston, Ed Vannlco, and Will Daldwln, aro among organizers of tho association and they hnvo boon Instrumental In keeping It nllvo during tho six years of Its exist- onco. Tho oiflcors of tho association, who pass out of offlco with tho dis solution of tho organization, aro Lob Ila Itogcrs, presldont; M. P. Evans, vico president, and W. C. Van Emon, socretary. Among thoso who discussed tho dissolution and proposod subsequent affiliation with tho chamber of com morco at laBt night's mooting woro T. L. Stanley, J. T. Porklns, Ed Van nlco, II. N, Moo, nnd C. rtoborts. CAL REDWOODS SACRAMENTO, Cnl Jan. 21. Appropriation of $300,000 by tho stato for purchaso of tracts of rod- wood troos along tho stato highway In Humboldt county would bo pro vided by bills Introduced into tho son ato hero by Sonator H. C. Nelson and Into tho assembly by Assemblyman Frank J. Cummlngs. Tho powor to purchaso tho tracts would be placod by tho bills In tho hands of the stato board of forestry and that body would be given tho control of tho tlmbored lands pur chased. It would also havo tho pow or of omlnont domain In acquiring tho lands by condemnation. Activo support of tho Savo tho Red woods loaguo, a national organiza tion of conservation, has boon glvon to tho bill. Tho Grand Parlor of tho Native Sons of tho (loldon West and the California department of tho Amorlcan Legion havo endorsed tho project and Governor W. D. Ste phens has assured proponents of the moasuro that tho stato administra tion will support any practical plan for saving tho last of tho great red wood trees. MAIL STEAMER PULITZER SAFE; HAD LOST RUDDER SEWAItp, Unalaska, Jan. 21. The mall steamer, Pulltzor, formerly a Columbia river pilot boat, which has boen missing slnco 'December 15, is safe at Chlgnlc, 300 miles west of Kodlak, according to a report re ceived here, Tho vessel driven out of her course aftor losing her rud der in a storm. ASS 'N DISSOLVED HT T T THE LOCAL FIELD Miss Lydla Frlcko, rocently en gaged as county nurso for Klamath county, arrived horo from Portland Inst night with Miss Cecil Schroyor, assistant superintendent .of tho stato 'board of nursing ,and nftor a con- toronco with tho executive board of tho local Hod Cross chapter. In tho Chambor of Commorco rooms this aftornoon, will tako activo and Im- modlato chargo of her dopartmont. Miss Frlcko will havo pormanent offices In tho Chambor of Commorco quartors. Coming horo with a splondld rec ord for public sorvlco in St. Louis, hor homo city, and in other places, Miss Frlcko takes up hor dutlos horo with practically a virgin field for opportunity, and with tho hoarty support of tho various civic organ izations of tho county, and If tho pooplo of thn county support hor unrosorvodly, as tho public organ izations aro going to do, sho can ac complish a world of good horo. Miss Frlcko will bo at tho dis posal of any porson or organization that presents a legitimate claim upon hor sorvlcos, and will work un dor tho co-oporatlvo Intluenco of tho Rod Cross. As In most counties of tho state, sho will hold school In spectlons, and wherovcr pupils op poor to do in need or medical or surgical attontlon, or need hygonlc supervision, It will como within hor Jurisdiction to seo that tho noedod correctlvo remedies aro applied. At the meeting In tho Chamber of Commorco rooms this aftornoon, an effort will be mado to outllno Miss Fricko's activities, and doflnlto news In that regard, and other de tails of public Interest, will bo nn nounccd at onco. Bend Mill Resumes Work 110 Employed IDENI), Or., aJn. 21 Tho Rrooks- Scanlon Lumber company resumed production Tuesday following com pletion of overhauling equipment and nlso began logging at camp No. 1, whoro operations wore suspended be fore closing of tho plant horo. There aro now 110 omployod on tho one shift at tho mill, Including team sters. A feature of tha system used by tho Brooks-Scanlon Lumber company is tho alternating of tho men on the night and day shifts. Whllo only shift production is going on, this splits up, the employment and allows part-tlmo work for doublo the num ber of mon actually required at the Plant. Weather Probabilities Tho Cyclo-Stormograph, at Underwood's pharmacy has registered a sharply rising baro metric pressure for tho past 48 hours and conditions aro moro favorablo for settled woathor than they havo been for soveral weeks. A continuation of clear, cold woather may bo looked tor. Forecast for next 24 hours Gonerally fair weather; proba bly cool, with variable winds. VWVWWWMMMWWVVWAMMWMmMAMAMMMAMMMMMMnWAWAnAAnAA. Now Fight U.S. I PRODUCE TEN BILLIONS, 1920 WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-A11, ffltM irnna r$ ftin SMiit tirAin ifnl.l uti vsisyo Vfc fcllU LUUUIIJ nutD tUI" ued at $10,465,015,000 last year, basod on December 1 prices paid to producors, tho department of agri culture has ostlmatcd. That com pares with $16,035,111,000 In 1919 and $10,156,426,000 tho flvo-year average, 1914 to 1918, Inclusive Toxas malntalnod Its place as a producer of crops of groatest valuo with a total of $727,400,000, which was half a billion dollars less than In 1919. Iowa retalnod second rank with $459,191,000. Illinois, only slightly boklnd Iowa, continued its placo as third, with $459,179,000. California Jumped from tenth Into fourth place, hold in 1919 by North Carolina, with $457,750,000. Now York went Into fifth placo from 14th rank, with $456,507,000. North Carolina dropped Into Blxth placo, with $412,374,000. Pennsylvania wont forward into sovonth placet from 16th rank tho provlous year, with $397,617,000. Kansas dropped from fifth rank into eighth place, with $378,436,000. Ohio droppod from olghth rank into ninth placo, with $369,869,000. Wis consin moved Into 10th placo from 18th rank with $360,270,000. Missouri dropped from ninth rank Into 11th place, with $343,012,000. Georgia dropped from sixth rank to 12th placo, with $323,290,000. Ore gon was In 31st rank, with crops valued nt $110,115,000. Long-BelLCo.Will Close Options on Big Cowlitz Mill Site KELSO, Wash., Jan. 21. Options covorlng moro than 2500 acres of Innd lying west of tho Cowlitz river, at tho confluence of that stream with tho Columbia, and adjacent to this city, will bo taken up within a few days by tho Long-Doll Lumber com pany of Kansas City, nccording to persistent rumors hore. Thoso op tions cover tho 1200-acro Wallace Huntington place, the 700-acro ranch of Frank O. Dames, senator from Cowlitz county, and 650 acres bo longing to tho O.' Olson estate and woro takon sovernl months ago. Somo of them oxplro early In February, and Indications point to completion of tho deals within a few days. Tho land under option Is for use by tho Long-Doll company as a site for tho Immense mills and timber, manufacturing plant which tho Kan sas City company proposes building on tho Columbia river . Early last spring tho Long-Doll company purchased 40,000 acres of cholco timber In Cowlitz and Lewis countlos from tho Woyerhaeusor Tlmbor company, paying moro than $6,000,000 for the tract. r.scouTs brothers body John Dopuy will leavo tomorrow morning with tho body of his broth er James A. Dopuy for Pomoroy, Washington, where burial will tako placo. for Him Episcopal Archdeacon Coming Next Week For Week's Stay Here a, It. Wright, and other Episco palian of this city havo received dof lnlto advlco o tho effect that Arch Deacon Van Waters, of tho dlocoso of Eastorn Oregon, will arrive horo Wednesday, Jnnuary 26, for a week's fnv. nnrl tfint Attrtntr tiln tlll dn '":'" I "," Jl: " ua tho construction of a church horo. Thoro is no Episcopal church nor rosldcnt rector hero, but tho numbor of local members of that denomina tion has grown to such an extent that tho tlrno appears ripe tor tho advent of both. Services will bo conducted In tho Odd Fellows' hall Sunday, October 30, at 11 a. m., and everyono Interest ed Is asked to attend. Dates of meet ings will bo announced after tho ar rival of tho archdeacon. HELP HICI. 13211 (Dy Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Wages of hired mon on farms havo moro than doublod In tho last ten years, tripled In tho last 20 years and woro more than four times hlghor last year than thoy wero in 1879. Thoso shanges aro shown by statistics of the department of agriculture. Wages paid by tho month, without board, avoraged $64.95 for the coun try as a wholo last year, ten years ago they avoragod $27.60 and itr 1879 they wero $10.43. Day labor at harvest tlmo last year avoraged $4.36 without board and at other than-hsrvest tlmo $3.59. Ten years.ago harvest tlmo labor was paid $1.82 and at other than harvest time $1.38. In 1894 harvest tlmo day la bor was paid $1.13 and non-harvest tlmo labor 81 conts a day. California and Nevada farmors paid their labor tho highest prices for labor without board, the avorago in thoso states last yoar having boon $'107 a month. Tho lowest avorago was In Mississippi whoro $41 was paid. Tho average for tho country as a wholo was $64.95, tho Northorn Atlantic states avoraged $75.54, tho South Atlantic $50.56, the Northeast Central states. $70.09, the Northwest Central states, $79.79, the South Cen tral states $51.94 and tho Far West ern statos, $99.43. For harvest tlmo labor without board North Dakota paid tho high est rato with $7.40 cents a day, while at other than harvest time South Da kota paid tho highest rata with $5.90 conts a day. Peter Giana Killed; Resided in This City Dr. A. A. Soule has recelvod In formation concerning tho death of Potor Giana, an Itallaa who former ly lived hor while an employe of the Algoma lumber company. Tho ad vice is that Giana was struck by a street car in Sacramento, a fow days ago, death resulting almost Immed iately. While hero Giana was treated by Dr. Soulo for paralysis finally discharging him as cured, tho pa tlont roturnlng to work. In tho mean time, Giana tried to securo state aid, but tho stato took tho stand that his condition was not subject to com pcnsatlon under tho provision of the statute Tho case mado quite a bit of history in local and stato labor cir cles. Nothing moro relative to tho acci dent which caused Ills doath has bcon learned. He was about 45 years of age, and leaves a family In Italy. SHIPYARD EMPLOYEES VOTE TO ACCEPT WAGE CUT (Dy Associated rress) VANCOUVER, Wash., Jan. 21. Tho Metal Trades council, represent ing 2500 employees of tho Standiter shipyards, voted last night to accept a reduction of pay of from six to olght cents an hour rather than have tho company reduco tho numbor of its employees. CHICAGO, Jan. 21, The central building trades council today voted to continue the present wage sched ule of $1.25 an hour for the next threo years- WAGE FOREARM S N TO .5. SALEM, Jan. 21. Tho house and' sonata today passed a Joint memorial calling on congress to provide a pro tective tariff for poultry products. Tho resolution Is directed particu larly against tho importation of oriental eggs. Tho sonata adoptod Senator Hall's concurrent resolution for tho legis latures of Washington, Oregon and Idaho to confor upon tho subject of uniform automobllo legislation in tho three states. The senato passed bills today reg ulating tho salo of livestock foods, oxtendtng tho terms of county ro cordors from two to four years, and providing that buildings constructed by banks need not be confined to tho oxpondituro of not moro than 50 por cent of tho bank's capitalization. Sonator Donnls yostorday Intro duced a Joint resolution proposing to croato a homo' owners loan fund of approximately $20,000,000. An amendment to tho constitution would bo nocessary to mako tho moasuro effective and tho resolu tion proposes that it be submitted to tho pcoplo for ratification. FOR ELECTIONS IF DILL PASSES SALEM, Jan. 2.1; Doth houses of tho legislature adjourned at noon to day until Monday. A bill embodying proposed many changes In tho state tndustrlal acci dent law was Introduced in tho houso beforo adjournment. In tlio senato a bill was intro duced by Senator Dell providing for a counting board In all election precincts whero thoro are more than 20 registered voters. Tho board would begin counting as soon as 20 votes are cast. The bill contains safeguards against the leak of any Information concerning tho election count. Predatory Animals Cause Big Loss in Livestock Industry Comparod with somo Individual members of the mountain lion, wolf and coyote families, Gulliver's hun gry giants and giantesses were light and dainty eaters. All these animals are classed as predatory, but a few speclmons dovolop exceptional skill and cunning In killing cattle, sheep and colts. They usually acquire equal skill In avoiding traps, poison baits and riflo fire, and often do thousands of dollars' worth of dam- ago beforo thoy are killed. Tho bureau of biological survoy, United Statos department of agricul ture, keeps a staff of expert hunters In tho field for tho express purpose of ridding government rango lands of thoso four-footed putlaws, and thus assist In relieving tho rancher. A government huntor killed a moun tain lion near Roosevelt, Ariz., that had destroyed 60 calves and three colts on a single ranch. One wolf slain by another hunter in New Mex ico had killed 23 calves. Another, in Wyoming, slaughtered 30 head ot cattlo boforo one ot Undo Sam's huntors shot the criminal. A pair ot Wyoming wolves that had learned exceptional cunning and cruelty, ran a yearly board bill amounting to $3,500. Their meal tickets wero canceled by a couple ot well-aimed rifle shots by a government hunter. Two othor wolves, which showed gustatory preforenco for mutton and young horse flesh, In a single month killed 160 sheep and seven colts, but at the end of tho month a hunter collected their pelts, BUILD FLOOD LEVEES DAKERSFIELD, Calif., Jan. 21. Construction ot big levoes along tho Kern river Is being considered as a moans ot preventing floods here In the future. CHINESE I M