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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1928)
Saturday, Novpudior ft, ifeS THE HVKNIMO HKKAU), KLAMATH VMA&, OREGON VANDALS REST PREPARATION j no i we .r wnit n INi imw I I . I i v l"l'nuii i:n;,Tiy till ttliy f CP ,u, Two Special Train Will i Carry Idahount to j Conflict ! MOHCOW, lilit , Nov, 3. (Al'l I Tim 'lilnliu vuiidiilu Indiiy were resting nfli r llm ili'" r wenk ut training In . pri'purulloii fur lh "lilic gitnw" - lh trnilllliiliul hornet-timing iluy iniiliol whli Wunhinitluu Hlulu cnlli'KU here Hfclurduy iiflcrinmii a a Iliiul Hrlml, Cone h I ' liurl In Hrh i-lil hl huskies UKuliml III" r'renhmaii 1,'Hiii In full mini" yesterday liiriiiin ami liU imtlimk ufinr tin, st-rliiuiinx was lirlKhl. Il , fi'll that hi thoroughly renouit eif leant ami a lirmul m-w offen sive iIhii would win from Hi" Cnft Krn, ! KiiIhtIhiiii iirulmlily will cull slsiiaU Hut ii nln -. wlili Hill Kir shlsnlk ui fullliiiik uml orvllle Hull uml I'iiul Hud lilmm ul the halve ClareiM IIIiiiiiuii, sen sutlnuul sophomore end win, made his debut IumI Suliiriluy. will start ul unit. Iilnlil uml "Kul" Humpler, win, 'hooted (tin field gnul In II" Hi" sinre ut llitei-ull. with Ml. Mury's lusl s"aon. will play lm kin; llrlui- f 0.S.C JILL FACE NTANI MONTANA TEAM hull uinl Martin, guards, jiiul Klrkpulrlik, renter. lllllll UlllMIK hith lliut 12.0UO person, the lurK"Nt fiiiitluill rruwil In l)i" hlwtory of the I'lllVlTHlly Kill llltl'llil l hi- kii III". Two speilul trains Iiiivii h""ti I'liurtereil liy fuiiM, ( Oil VAI.I.IM, Or,.., Nov. 3 (Al'l llnwnril Muple, (Iri'KDii Hluto rulli'Kii liiple-lhreul quart' erhnik who In) his t ,-u ill to vli tory ovnr Hi" I'nlversily of Wunli lllllloil flinlllllll li'lllll Vi lo 'I In ul Kultirday, will open Hi" kiiiii" iiKiiliml Mon I ii mi hi'ru Hiiliiriluy. ('mill I'a ii I J, Krhlsaliir wilil hint iillilil hit will li " I Ik, suiiiii hurk-fli-lil lo stun llm kii in" Hint lust wui-k rolled up Vi iiolnl wllhlu 3U iiiliiuli'ii. Hrlil'slt r U taking no illumes, Im lil, uml will ulurl bit him! outfit III llm kii mi, . Maples. Klierwni.il uml Thompson will u III llm huikfleld, with murh Hi" same, line u luit week. It U possible ihul MeKullp will ha substituted for Whillork ut nnl. uml Hi-hell m ii y no In ut tui kit. In plui-e of Hlniil, Scout Medals Awarded Boys I Twelve hjiys of Mum. i'Ii (null- i .ly Hoy Hioul Ironpi rueelved pro-1 iiioiIoii-i ul ii i-oiiit of honor held ' ul Hi" t'ily lllir.i, x I" I uldil. II. (iroi-'li"' k pre-ibled tiicr Ih"' tiii'iilliill uml llii-m with lulk by 1 1 f4ii y I'l-rkliiK. J. V. (ioodrlih uml N. II liP'W. ; Til m followlnii promotloiia wi re iiiihI": Troitp Id, li-Milirdint. Jin k V. Kloyil, Lynn I'roput, Koy illluku; Troop 4, tinil"rfool, IW'uyiio I'l'i-ry. im-r it IiuiIku; Troop Z, Kulph I'l-ylon, bird nt inly, 'lookliiK. ri-iiilli-n; Cn-i-r l)n-w. i ItfuNuvInu: Troop 11. - Unhurt OFFICER IB 10 , DIG STILL If l Ik HnrNl liujUM-ini, IIiom h my 4i'0 fnr Htorku lltut mr (1 m r ifiit on pur mil re llr' (ii lilt Rwutttp I cH they iMiititUt In Klnrldu a ftw ium H. WORK SILENT ON ACCUSATION WAHIIINIiTON, Nov. 3. (Al'l - ('liHlrtiiuii Work of. Ihn ri'puhll- "Ull llllllollitl f'llllllllltl,.-, M-1"(J toiluy lo hit quotci! It, uuy uiiiii n i-r on Hi" i-liurK" uf Chulruian Kunkrth of tint ili-nioi-rutle ruin mlti". that Kfiiutor Mo" of N"w HuinpHhlri, wuh unIiik r"llKl unu propuKniiilu III th" riliul,lli'un tumpttlKn. Ilulhluny, wooil rurrlux, wlm-1 minx: Troop 15. Wllllum It nark,, Iruthcr rruft. Ii-nlhi-r workliiK. : piirmniul hi-ulih, poultry rllnK; Kurl Jui-oliHi,ll, publlr hfttltll, pi'inoum healili: Kumu-II liurlliiK. ; lilnl Mimly, (In inmmlilp: HurolU Vun liukcii, llrr-imiiililp. flmt aid uml rlvh-K. Klrt eluu. Troop 11, Itlilianl Kill : Troop Kurl Jui-obHOii: Troop 15, lur, Hurolil Vim ,ukin, I llitrr I1I'Viim, etitrutlvif ucout-uiuNi,-r. will 1,'hvh Kumluy niorn liiK for Ki-iiii, wh"ro plmiu for orKiiulr-liiK u m-oiit itroop will : Imi iiiuiIi. II" will ha unm1iii-i1 hy Hurolil Ahl"y, prim-ipiil of th" lilKh hcIiooI. A ,-ourt of honor In ' lo he "lalillrln il In Chlloiiulll III Ihi Iit-ar future, lit uruVr that the l li lii ii In troopu n uy ulna he at ford"d the advantage whii-tt the troopn of tliU -liy eujuy. It wua Ntuted IuhI iiiKht hy Hlerena. Gkiama, Badata Indicate Deiiro To Plead Guilty , ... V)j' ii joe iiiinimiu ami AnK'-l" lludiizii, tMith HpunlurdM, looki-'d up from wuli-hliiK u lOU-Kiillon lupni'lty Ml I ii turuliiK out moon a h 1 no. Iln-y Kauid Into the ateely eye of a (iurman Luini-r and made no attempt whatever to ue u Willi hexler rlflti MuudiuK m ur hy, olfl'i-n titlil I. i-i lilt M when liny ri-liirniil with tint "inn" Th" nIIII w:m loruti.'d on lint forini-r (ii-ori;'! Mi-tz pl.tre, Juki Ix youd I'lilliiiu ( liy. In uilillliou to Iho alill and a aumll quunllty of inwimhiiie Hit, offirera (ot 27 (ilty-Kullon liarriU of tiiuxh. i-iiuukIi to run mont of llm win ter. If 1,'itili .MiH-lli-r, d"puty ahi-r-Ifr, uml N-lxh A kt-riiiuii. atuln prohibition offln-r, hudn't InttT ffrcd. liuMumii mid Hudiiiua Im,i1i wnlri-tl pn-llinlmiry heurlnx. In-dh-uted thut they would plead Kiillly, and are held pending the arrival of federal ofMieri. Bad aru paid a 3Zo fine In 127 for poiiaeMaion of lutoxleatlnK liquor un the linlliiu rmrrvatloii, otfl- A'lTOH K V II. I. I rOHTl.ASH, Or,.,, Nov. . (A Tli" mil, wiii riiiifiiiiiiiil l'i !... ii s.ilij i' I,..,, ..it .v .. . i 1 1 - proinliii'iit In J"lli t iri leu, H" i reported loilny aerlounly ill at For rtaulti uju Herald CU.n Ai hl lioui". the ai.iin. MOVING If you plan to move make reservation now with the City Transfer and Storage Co. We are known for our efficient, xpecdy and absolute dependability. We carry in Stock Piano, Phonograph and Packing Boxes "Piano Moving a Specialty" City Transfer 8C Storage Co. Phone 433 820 Klamath Ave. OPEN ALL NIGHT for Election Returns Only! at the Waldorf Sport Headquarters 610 Main Street PHONE 342 3E DE - BUNKING E. J. MURRAY L. J. Murray, former cdilor of The Herald, has gone out of his way to attack mo once more, in an ad. in this paper, which forces me to keep my promise, lo inform the public of the real reason for Mur ray's opposition lo me, as County Commissioner. Murray stated in his first ad. that he was opposing me, because I had raised Ihe timber cruise in the county too high, for taxation purposes. I answered, that timber taxation was only a sham reason with Murray. I pointed out, that Murray had never been friendly to the timber interests, when he lived here, and I also pointed out, that Murray was running ads. against Fred Cofer for Mayor, because Fred had favored the tintbermnn, while he was running ads against me, be cause I had not favored tho timbermen. I warned Murray to bo careful, that he might lose his whole ticket, if he tried to beat too many men. I have learned since that Murray will probably come out before election day against some other candidates, so Cofer and I won't need to feel so lonesome. Now, I am not going to let Murray get me into an argument with the lumbermen. A number of them are good friends of mine, and I have had chance in the past to do them many favors. Murray would like to get me and the timbermen to saying things about each other, that would be hard to forget. But, we will not do that, because the lumbermen and I have our homes, and property, and business here, and we are going to have to live together, and get along together, long after this campaign is ended, while Murray will slip out, the day before election, to go back to Coos Bay to vote, and that will be all we will hear from him, until the next election, or until he wants something else from somebody over here, as I will explain later. But I would like to point out briefly the bunk in Murray's argu ment against th timber cruise. Murray tries to make two points, and ' they are both Simon-pure bunk, as everyone will now see. Murray says, First, that I ahould not have voted for the money to make the recruise, because the same result could have been ac complished by simply raising the assessment ten cents per thousand on timber. Now, everybody knows that the County Commissioner has noth ing to do with assessments. That is all in the hands of County Assessor Lee, and, since he wouldn't raise the assessment to a point, which the county court thought was fair, considering the low cruise on which-the assessment was based, the only thing left to do, was to sk for a new cruise, so that the exact millions of feet of timber rould be put on the tax roll and fairly assessed, before too much of it was cut off, and removed frpm the county. And that is exactly what I, and the other members of the county court did, with the result that $1,500,000 was added to the tax roll and a reduction, to that extent, made possible, in favor of the business men, the homeowners, the farmers and the stockmen of the county, who previously had been paying more than their share of the taxes, at least to that amount. And, mind you, in that action, I was joined by the unanimous vote of two county courts. Former County Judge Bunnell voted for the rruise, former Commissioner Charles Martin, a leading business man of Klamath Falls, voted for it, the present County Judge Coddard voted for it, and Commissioner Horace Dunlap voted for it. So, if I was wrong, in asking for fair taxation of the timber of the county, all of these other county court members were wrong also. Point Number Two in Murray's article is, that if the timber had to be cruised, why did I not accept the eight cent bid? Now, the eight cent bid was made by the timbermen, and if Murray 1iadn't(put his name to such a question, 1 could hardly be lieve that he wrote it, for, whatever else might be said about Mur ray, when ho lived here, he was bright then. Let the timbermen cruise their own timber! What a proposal from this self confessed expert on tax matters. Let the timbermen cruise their own timber! Why not let the railroads levy their own taxes and the power company make its own assessment ? Did anybody ever suggent, that it would be all right for the farmers and other small taxpayers to determine their own taxes? Well, you must say this about King Edward. When he comes to His Provinces, to give out the laws, he takes no half way measures. When he regulates timber taxation, he puts it in the hands of the timber men themselves. We can only laugh off the remedy of this tax dotlor from Coos Bay. We can do nothing else. In t harily, I ran only imagine, that . the plan to have the timbermen make their own cruise for taxation purposes was conceived in a brain that finds taxation questions extremely difficult, even the simplest kind. But, I do not intend to dismiss Murray's article with only a laugh. By Burrell Short Buried in tho heart of the article, I find some personal reflections on my conduct of county affairs, particularly, the handling of county money, and I don't intend to let this gentleman, now of Coos Bay, get away with these statements. I don't know if Murray intended to charge me with official misconduct. I would not be surprised, if that was his intention, as he is a character assasnin, by nature. Many's the better man than Murray, who had lo submit to his unbridled abuse, when Murray ran a paper here, the friends of Judge Leavitt will not soon forget the contemptible nature of the attacks Murray made on the Judge, when the la Iter's recall was attempted. The host of friends Lloyd Low has, remember -how Murray hounded Lloyd out after his first term of office. Further back, the o'd timers recall Murray's unjust crucifixion of Alva Lewis. But, Judge Leavitt is apparently as strong in the esteem of bis many friends, as ever, despite Murray's attacks. The Judge still resides in Klamath Falls while Murray has folded his tent and gone to other parts. And 1 note that Lloyd Low's many friends gave him their party nomination again this spring, as an expression of their continued friendship and confidence, while I doubt if there is a single man in Klamath county that Murray can call by the magic name, "Friend." And now Mr. Murray, you have come back to crucify Fred Cofer and me and perhaps others, yet to be named, for refusing to bow to your yoke. I have no doubt that you have held back, for the closing days of the campaign, vicious and libelous matter to be directed against both Cofer and me, which you will print when it is too late to be answered. That was always your style. For my part, I challenge you to open the vials of your hate and wrath. I only warn my friends of what to expect. My life in Klamath county is an open book, I gladly submit it for comparison with yours. I have lived my life here, raised my children here, seen them grow up, and be married here, supported them at the graves of their loved ones, and 1 hope to die here. What have you to say for yourself in comparison, except that you made a fortune here, out of the heartaches you caused your fellowmen, and out of the tears shed by women and children, behind the closed doors of the homes you singled out for attacks conceived by your vicious mentality. You made a fortune that's all and then you sought greener pastures. ' But not so green as you thought, for when you got to Coos Bay you doubted if you had made a good move by going there, and you reflected on the fat days that you had had in Klamath Falls, which brings me to the reason of why you are attacking me now, the reason I promised to give, at the opening of this article. THE REASON You want to drive me out of office if you can, because I have kept your long arm out of the five hundred thousand dollar road fund, voted by the people of Klamath County, You were long interested in sand and gravel in this county, and 1 have been told, and believe it to be true, that you are now interested with certain road contractors, who have been making every effort to get road contracts on terms, that would allow them an unconscionable profit. I have stopped this raid on the treasury, and in so doing, have thwarted you. You have made big money out of the newspaper business. You are a rich man now. You own the Murray building of Eighth street, you own the new building on Main street, where the Woolworth store ' is going in. You have a big interest in the Central hotel and you have a great deal of other property and assets. I think you did very well in Klamath Falls, but it spoiled you for Coos Bay, or any other place, which has only a moderate growth, for when you got over to Coos Bay, among the crabs and clams, and looked back across the hills, that shut you off from Klamath Falls, and when you read of the millions, that were being- spent here in public improvements, on nrcount of this town's phenomenal growth, you wondered if you had not sold your newspaper too soon. The fleshpots of Egypt got into your nostrils. Pickings have not been so good on Coos Bay and three hundred miles is not too far for you to scent something ripe and juicy. . ' So, you decided, in the delusion nf your importance, that you could still keep your interests in Coos Bay, and that you could also, occasionally return to Klamath Falls and get some more "easy money." Well, Mr. Murray. I make a pledge now My pledge is, that, if re-elected, as I expect to be, I will keep vzzzrzzrzi-zz you as far from the treasury' of Klamath county, as Coos Bay is from Klamath Falls, and 1 have no doubt if Fred Cofer is elected, ho' will also see that you are driven from the public crib of Klamath Falls. I could easily answer the questions you ask about the timber cruise, but its pretty thoroughly demonstrated by now, that the tim ber cruise was only the excuse for you to make a personal attack on me. One point alone, is sufficient answer to all you say about the cruise. Out of five hundred thousand acres cruised in the county, you picked out, in your first ad. one timber claim and said it had been cruised at 3,000,000 feet, whereas a check showed only 300,000 feet. In your second article, you apologized for this as a misstatement. You said the figures should have been 1,725,000 feet, for the cruise of the claim and 550,000 feet shown by the recheck. This inaccuracy and wobbling concerning the cruise shows that you simply don't know what you are talking about on that subject. Somebody has handed you some figures, and you are using them blindly. Even if your figures had been right, picking out 160 acres for criticism out of a total of five hundred thousand acres would brand you as an unfair man, if everybody did not already know about you. To end the discussion about the cruise: County Assessor Lee bitterly opposed the cruise at all times, but he agreed in the Spring of this year, that, if a recheck of three sections, to be picked out, one by each member of the county court showed the cruise to be correct, he would put the cruise on the tax roll this year. What did the recheck show? The cruise to be so deadly accurate, that Lee, and my associates on the County Court, called the recheck off, before it was finished, and Lee immediately put the cruise on the tax rolls, with the result, as I have stated before, that a million and a half dollars of new values were added to the taxable wealth of the county. Now, in closing, I don't want to be unkind with you Mr. Mur ray. You are a stranger within our gates now, and certain courtesies ere due you. I k.now that Klamath Falls probably doesn't seem as familiar ground to you, as when you swaggered, a newspaper bully, up and down its streets. There are many here now, who never heard of you as the great Warwick you were in your day and, consequently, who pay no more attention to what you have to say than any other occasional visitors. They are interested and attentive, but after all, they are running their own affairs here, without outside assistance. Then, there are the old timers that you bullied and brow beat, when you were here. They are not under your spell now. You can no longer ruin them in their business by a poisonous and unjust blast from your newspaper. They feel free to speak their minds and, naturally, you cannot expect them to vote your ticket. So, all in all, with your old time audience diminished, and your following shrunk to one r two, who get crumbs at your tabje, it is hardly just that I address you further. I think I have told you plenty, and I am not unmindful that it is going to be very hard for you to take some of your own medicine. It always is with newspaper bullies. But, since you have come all the way from Coos Bay to tell the people of this city and county how to run their affairs, and since you have singled me out for personal abuse and villification, I want to give you one final thought to take back to Coos Bay with you, when you return there to vote. I want to say to you, that, with all the money you made in Klamath Falls, and all the power that you are attempting to exercise in Coos Bay, and with all the power that you feel you still have here, I know that you are not personally happy. They tell me that you have lost a" your political fights, since you went to Coos Bay. You have been a one hundred per cent loser, and there are no rainbows in the sky for you in that country, where they so often have beautiful rain bows. And, so far as Klamath Falls and Klamath county is con cerned, I don't believe you feel any happier, about your situation here. I don't believe you have any real confidence in your ability to dictate - the city and county ticket for this community. But, unhappy as you must be, I want to tell you, who in my opinion, is unhappiest of all, over your coming back, and the situation you have created for them. It is the lumbermen, that you have jump ed into bed with. The reason they are unhappy, is, because they know from past experience with you, that, after their temporary wedlock with you is ended, and after you are gone, they will find, some place, affixed to their persons, your stinger which you will have left in them. raid AilverliiM-meiit. ' -a- 1 23 a me 4
