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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1930)
An Enviable Record PLYMOUTH. Eng., ag. II. (L'PI Engineer W. II. Hunaey haa retired fr SO yeara of sew on th (IrMt Wmiri rail way without mlehap. 8 Pages Today a vv i n -r l t e ' i J u aj...! a 1 V t 1 . Associated Press ' .ted Press Telegraph Service Herald Advertisers Appreciate Your Trade .v. .-s Jfy ' ' XLAMATH FALLS, QUE., THUKSDAY, AUGUST 21. 1930 ,V Price' Klve t'.'iita Number 7227 JU SECOND IN OF Ruberry Diet Few Hours After Slaying Of Chas. Mulcahy POLICE SEARCH FOR COURCHENE, STEIN Shooting Occurred in Office Of Plumbing Official On High School Job CHICAGO, Aug. 21 (A D Hernurd Ruberry, known to police on a mys terious power in the Chi cago Journeymen numb ers' union, died today from bullet wound suffered late yesterday at the time his union superior, Chns. Mul cahy, was killed. Miilrahy. nationally known la bor figure and business ageut of the l'lumlrs' Cnlon, had font villi Itulirrry to the alt of tho new l.aiie Terhnlrnl lilih school, ostensibly to rail a strike b- tauao of tho failure of a plumb In ronrnctluc company to dla dim Its -UjUlnallUurit. Charles Courrbenc, from th li Ik It achonl Job.. Polk ara seeking Courrhen ami Charles A. Welti, aim of Carl Hlrln, wliii henits the rmitrarllnx rumpnnv employing Cotirrhcn. llrntaniliMl t'onrt'tiene'e IMamUanl The elder Hteln. chairman of tin- arbitration commute of the building construction mpioyra sssoclnllnn. told pollco Mnlrahy and llubrrry ram to hla loop office yesterday and deroaudod that Coiirchcno bo discharged Sti'ln snM ho refusrd to do Ihli and thai Mnlmhy thro threat ened to rail a strike on th rou Contlnud on fa to Eight) BORES FOR OIL According to tbo lltuo Mounlalu Essie, published at Canyon City, tlrant county, Urnaou, nil haa bran an in k urar Benwn, Ura. Whllo drilling lor artesian water, th Oliver brothers discovered oil aoi'plnx throiinh tho watar In a Stu-foot 9-litch holo. It was struck on A il sunt 7. Casing la now being Installed In the wall to shut off thn water, and tho hula will b link several hundred 'OPt 10 de velop an oil district. If ona exists. Tbo striking of oil In Hear val ley wnnld, according to lh Illu Mountain KKe, moke whoopee In (rand Old-Grant. 'The oil boom would in ran that the known coal hods of the. community would be developed aud new timber opera tion set Into motion. The gran ite quarries of tho country would he worked, mlnea put Into opera tion, and lirent county would be come one of tho great boom cen tora of America. It will he aeveral wcoks before fhe amoiiut of the flow can be de termined. The Nightly AUNT HET By Robert Quillen "I mads mtstnkea raisin' my children, but when the' dead arise on the last day they won't do lay thlngi a-huntln' for their tunalls." VICTIM GANGS GUNS GRANT CUT Lipton Welcomed in New York 1 I, lJ Jl SSUJSI.U. ' m . . I ., y v K.'C .'i" $k mm Hack In I h la country for hla Cup. aymbollc of lutcrtiitlunal yachting aupremacy, 8lr Thomaa l.lpton her la ahown. left, ith New Turk's welromer. Cirorer Whalen, aa he waa officially reld. The gallant old aportaman. who haa apent aeraral mllllona In (rylng to capture "The Old Mug," recelred an anthaalaatlc oration upon his arrival. K.U.H.S. BAND (Scores LEADER HIRED; : Today J. N. Kleffman To Have Charge) of Both Band . And Orchestra V Paul' T. Jaokaon, principal of Klamath I'nlon high achonl. haa Juat completed arrRHKmenl with J. N. . Kleffman. widely known mualral director and teacher, to take chars of the on-hentra and band of the Klam ath t'nlon high arlutol for the naulugj year. Mr. Kleffman will au.ceed K. H. Derry, who haa bad tho band (or the past two yeara. Mr. Kleffman. the saw mnslc InntruMor, haa been Identified with Chicago mualcal acttrltlee for many yeara having acted aa orrheatral conductor and band mauler for many Chicago organl latlona. While acting aa in-etru.-tor of aereral big h school benda In tha Windy City h car ried away a rarh prlie of SSOO In thn National High. Pcbnol Rand content. Ho was alao di rector of the well known Chi cago Hoard of Education baud' Continued on Tag right) PLANE - OFFERED AS RELIEF SHIP POINT P.AHHOW. Alaaka. Aug 1. (AP) Relief waa. felt today with th offer of Tllot Dorbnndt to fly from Anchorago, 700 miles aoulh of here, and transport food auppllea from tha sailing achoon er ('. 8. Holmes off shore. The Holmes has been swatted rrniiy duys snd tho Arctic Icepack locked to ahora by the westerly wind, may prevent Ita landing. Food supplies have become short, but tha situation Is not yet ser ious. Dorbsndt's message eald: "Ot ter services our seaplane thou sand pounds capacity - gratis to transport cargo from ships to lakes nonr llnrrow." Argument POOR PA By Claude Callan "Our daughtor Betty Is awful sorry about tho wsy she treated Bob. She broke date with htm before ahe heard about him havln' a new sport roadster."- fifth attempt to win tbo America'! i 1 NATIONAL H. II. E. New York : IS Ik 1 Chicago II S Halterlea: Walker, Praett and O'Parrell: lllake, Teachout, Shea ly and Hartnstt. Boston at Pittsburgh, no game; wet grounds. Brooklyn at Cincinnati. . poat poned, rain; double-header Satur lay. AMERICAN R. IT. E. SI. Louis 1 S 1 Washington ..... S S 0 Haiterles: Collins and Terrell; Jones and Spencer. P. n. E Chicago t 4 t Boston 4 10 t Thomaa and Tate; Llacnbee snd Derry, B. H. S. rtetrolt 7 11 Philadelphia Si: 0 L'hle, Wyatt and Pesautcls; Shores, W'alberg and Cochrane. F. H. E. Cleveland 11 New York S IS 1 (13 Innings) Sbnffnor, Harder. Dean. Miller and L. Sewoll. Myatt: Uetls. Johnson and Oca gnugh, Dl.'key. ' L WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. SI. Twenty-five of 36 counties In Oregon have gained In popula tion sine 1920 census, accord ing to preliminary population figures for all countlea and prin cipal cities la the state announc ed today by tb census bureau. Whllo - the -state a . population haa Increased from 783, S89 to 952,69 1. or 21.6 per rent, and that of Portland from 25S.388 to 301.890. or 17 per cent, Klnmath county has grown from 11,413 to 32,365, or J53.6 per cent,' ana the city of Klamath Falls from 4801 to 16,053, or 234.4. per cent, ranking among the fastest growing municipalities In the en tire country, . Eugene'a populntlon haa In creased from 10,593 to 13.893, or 78.4 per cent, and Medford from 6756 to ' 10.847, ' or ' 83.4 per cent, while Snlem has grown from 17,679 to 18,299, or 3 per cent. Fastest growing' counties next (Continued on Pag Eight) . Weather Tho Tycoa recording thermo meter at Undorwood's registered maximum and minimum temper atures today as follows: . High 78 ' Low 48 Forecast for next 24 hours: Fair snd warmer. OREGON: Fair tonight and Friday; temporatures above nor mal In the Interior, toga on the coast, flentle to moderate north west winds cohora. COUNTY EDS STATE GROWTH .T .J t . . x ' ' ' ' rj rfi rj rj fi rfi J "T -( aaaB saaBMwalalHHHMIIHBMaaMMaaMalMnMM GOVERNOR UN FAG I Admits Playing Politic In Appointment of Portland Man CREDITS CLIFFORD WITH GREAT WORK Says Warden Solred Open Irrigation Ditch and Other Problems - SALEM, Ore., Aug. 21 (AP) Governor Norblad will make no changes in the personnel of the state game commission for the purpose of having Harold Clifford and Ed Clark reinstated as state game warden and deputy warden respectively. The governor made this plain in a long statement today. The statement ' expressed full confidence In tb Integrity and ability of Messrs. Clifford and Clark, tho governor declaring that In his opinion, their removal would not solve the difficulties In the administration ot the gam de partment. . "On tb other band." be adds. "I do not conscientiously believe tbst the reinstatement of Clifford and Clark through the removal of som ot tha present commission will relieve tha sltasMon and offer a solution - to the varlng prob lems of tb game commission." Studies Case Seriously The governor states that he has given serious .thought to the let ters ot protest against and ap prover of the commission for ths ouster; and read all evidence tak en at the hearing. "I am" passing up entirely my own personal judgment of these men ai to their conduct In the of fice." be says, "and also. In the light ot my decision, I am not (Continued On, rage Eight) -T0- AGAiN IN AIR PORTLAND. Aug. Jl, (AP) Th orange-winged monoplane, On-to-Oregoh',' piloted by Tex and Dick Rankin, rounded out Us first night In Its seoond attempt to break the world'a sustained flight record today without trouble. Three .contacts with the refuel ing ship hsd been msde slue 7 o'clock last night, when th air men atarted their second attempt to beat tho record held by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Brine. St. Louis. .Notes dropped by Tex Ran kin to hla brother Dud. who re mained Below aa a member ot the ground crow. Indicated th fif teenth hour had been passed with out mlstflp. ', Western Airships Hop Off on Derby PORTLAND. Aug. 21, (AP) Four airplanes arrived herb be tween 11 a. m. and noon today, completing tho ' first lap ot i Seattle, .to . Cblcsgn air derby in connection with the National air races. A fifth plane, piloted by Floyd Kcadle, Portland, waa ex pected later In ' the nftnrnoon. . The planes piloted by John Blnro. Nick Mamer, Frank Ham mer and Bert -Routt, flew from Seattle- 153 -miles distant, ar riving at various Intervals. They expected to leave for Spokane. 378 miles away, at 2:30 p. in. wher they will spend th night. ONS Mrs. O'Donnell Gains Another Lap In Derby LUBBOCK, Texaa, Aug. 11. (AP) Mrs. Oladya O'Donnell Long Beach entrant fn tha wo men national air derby, won another lap today when ah landed at tb municipal airport her st 11:01:41. after taking off from rtoswell, S. M at :01 a. ra. (MST) an elapsed thn ot 1 hour, S minute and 41 seconds. Mrs. O'Donnell's tlm from Long Beach to Lubbock was seven hours, 24 mlautes and 41 second'. Maror! Dolg. holding aecono plac In tb derby, landed here at 11:04:18, making th flight from Roswell In on hour, 2 minutes and IS seconds. Her lapsed tlm to . Lubbock was seven, boars, 10 minutes, 1 sec onds. A I M E E AGAIN AB00TJ0R1L Evangelist Proposes To ' Occupy Pulpit at V . ' Temple Sunday LOS ANGELES, Aag 21. (AP) With Almee SempI Mcpherson well enough to consider returning to her pulpit next Sunday, th latest difficulties to beset the gov erning powers ot Angelus Temple today had resulted in another def inite break between th noted evangelist and her mother, Mrs. ulnnl Kennedy. . ...... Reporters Interviewing the evangelist at tb Mallbu Beach cottage, where she 1 ataylng. quoted her as saying she wanted her mother to go away and let bar alone. . "All I ask of mother." she waa qnoted, "la that she go away and let m alone. She talks of com ing back. I don't want her back." Dldnt Strike Mother Mrs.. McPherson, terming bar- self "Just a sick girl." denied am phatlcally she struck her mother. Mrs. Kennedy, however. reDealed her assertions she suffered brok en nose In a fistic encounter with her daughter snd announced Isst night she 'would start for "the mountains" ss soon as she was able to leave the sanitarium where she is staying. Mrs. Kennedy said she later might go to Olympls. Wash- here-sbe recently dedicated a church. Shs declared she never would return to th tempi as long Mrs. McPherson s secretary, Ma Waldron, remained. . . Dr. Edward H. Williams an nounced Mrs. McPherson probably would be able to resume her pul pit Sunday. He said the evangel ist expressed the desire to do so. . RANGER TALKS TO Don C. Fisher, one ot tha rang er at the Crater Lake national forest, waa a speaker at the Ki- wanls luncheon this noon, and gava a thought-provoking discus sion ot th tourist travel Into Cra ter Lake. Erroneous report that th Green Springs highway haa been torn np nearly all year, baa resulted In the loss ot thousands ot dollars to Klamath county this year through the loss of the ut"V tourist crop, b explained. '. Mr. Fisher and K. II. Dunbar, who talked on the same subject stated that about 90 per cant ot tha traffic Into Crater Lake was going through th Medford route tor that reason. ; Reports Magnified Mr. Fisher stated that a larger percentage ot tha Crater Lake traffic was going through Medford because of the magnified reporta ot tha condition ot the mountain highway, and that It was up to Klamath Falls, after tb construc tion work is completed on th highway, whtcb will be within short time, to advertise the tact that the road is In good shape. Coutinned on Psg Eight) K1ANNAS ENGINEER'S OFEICE IN SPOTLIGHT Luper To Be Questioned Regarding Handling Of Certain Funds OFFICIAL DECLINES TO DISCUSS MATTER Says All Funds Accounted - For In Full Accordance With tha Uw SALEM, Ore., Aug. 21 (AP) Large sums of money handled by Rhea Luper, state engineer, and said by an auditor to have been handled in an irregu lar way, will be mentioned when Luper is summoned before the 'state reclama tion commission ' Tuesday, Aug. 26. Specifically Luper will be asked to account for 81800 in Interest accrning .from bank deposits of the department, and which th auditor's report says bss been re tained by Luper since Ootober. 1928. instead ot being turned over to the state. However. Governor Norblad, as chairman of tb commission, is preparing a list ot questions that he said he will ask Luper, and he Intimated that these would pertain to larger soma that th (Continued On rag Etgnt) SEEK MEANING WASHINGTON, Aug.' 21, (AP) Secretary Mellon and his subor dinates have found a problem in defining forced labor, under the tariff act, forbidding importation of articles so manufactured. They may call upon congress to settle it tor them. ' The view Is held at the treas ury that many articles being im ported from Russia, such as palp wood ana manganese, ao noi com pete directly with American pro ducts, and unless there Is a dis tinct violation of the law involved no barm is done in allowing the imports. Assistant Secretary Lowman Is going to make a thorough exami nation ot tb complaint . ot tha manganese producers association that Russia Is dumping manganese in this country. A bearing will he held here tomorrow. BEND. Ore.. Aug. 31. (AP) I. K. Cramb, Bend chamber of commerce secretary, - today de nied alleged reports several hun dred eastern and central Oregon families would abandon their farms ' unless federal assistance relieved a "dronght condition." . Cramb said be asked Presi dent Hoover and Oregon con gressional members to Insure more adequate water supply tor irrlcatlon districts next year. The secretary said "for a ttnte this summer" Arnold and Lose Pine districts were without water because ot low water conditions. Yesterday Cramb sked Gover nor Norblad to telegraph rresv dent Hoover a request tor fed eral assistance, FORGED LABOR GRAI DENIES DROUTHSTORY Banker. Falls. To Death From Railroad Car LITTLE FALLS. N. T.. Ang 21, (AP) A body believed tn be that of Samuel I. Llpp, Cin cinnati banker, waa found today on th New York Central Rail road tracks near here. Th body was clad In pajamas ore- which wer worn th coal and trousers of a business suit. Papers and cards fit tb pocket indicated th victim waa Llpp. Preliminary' investigation in dicated he fell from the observa tion platform, ot a New York Central train. ' Tapera and documents. Includ ing automobile registration cert ificates, showed Llpp waa vice president and attorney ot, the Security Savinga and Loan com pany of Cincinnati. . . ' . CALLrSESSION Action to Withdraw All Public "Power Sites ' . ' Considered. ; .. . SALEM. Ore.. Aug. 21, (AP) Governor Norblad is giving "detailed and profound consid eration." to. the auggesUon that be call a special session of the legislature next month, for the purpose of enacting legislation required to withdraw all public waterpower altes in Oregon from further tilings and appropriation for private exploitation, he ad mitted Thursday. : . ' Beyond that admission and the announcement that he baa re ceived request for sucb a ses sion from four or five different sources during the past two days (Continued on Page Four) Former Matron of Industrial School Passes in Eugene EUGENE. Aug.: 21, (AP) Mrs. Mary McCurry. matron at the Stat Industrial : School tor girla at Salem, died today sud denly at the hor-e of Mrs. K. V. Hlmebaugh. ' She held the matron posttlon' two years. Mrs. McCurry came here Aug' gnst 12 for short visit before going to her borne in St. Paul. Minn. - Relatives satd she was feeling well Wednesday night. The body will be sent to St. Psul for Interment. . LATE ST. PAUL HAS TONG WAR ST PAUL. Miss. Ausr. 21 (AP) Yap Tuan, 25, of ruir.vn member of the day in connection with the his West Duluth, Minn., laundry last night- iwo guna were found beside the body and Chinese knife waa buried in his right side. '. DEATH DEFEATS AIRPLANES tsAtiCAMTO rIif Aur. 21 (AP) Death moved r... th.. anlanea todav 80-year-old step-father of - banker, and founder of the Banks ot itaiy, just sew hours before Giannini was scheduled to arrive after a swift dash from Paris. PATIENT COMMITS SUICIDE SALEM, Ore., Aug. 21 (AP) Mra. Lillian Martin, bt k. .. rinanital for the insane, committed suicide today by hanging strips torn from a pillow cae. She was receiv-a si hospital February 23, this year. Her home was near McMinnville. ' ' ' BLACK'S YACHTING CAP FOUND . -POINT PLEASANT, N. X, Aug. 2 (AP) A yacht ing cap answering the description of that worn by Van Lear Black, Baltimore publuher lost from his yacht elf the New Jersey coast Monday night, has bae foanej by two fishermen. 'A PROVINCIAL TROOPS ON OFFENSIVE Communists Lose . .4,000 People and Orer . . 2,000 Rifles .' NATIONALIST , ARMY. GAINS UPPER HAND o Provincial Victory - Follows Closely Upon Burning, of ) Hupehv Province Town t - . ..." V HANKOW, .Aug. 21 (A P) Slaughter of 4.000 communists . by ' provincial troops in 1 western ' Kiangri province' and the capture of 2,000 red rifles 'there was reported Joday' fn' Cnlnes press dispatches. ' -- i . ' This'' apparently Is vir tually the first crushing de feat administered to the red marauders i who . have been murdering, looting and burning throughout, the Yangtse ' valley for several weeks. . ' ' ' " ' ,' News ot tb provincial victory followed closely word of the burn ing of Wusueb. Hupeh province), by communists, who looted , th city of 6,000 population and ran sacked the countryside. Wnseh is sn Important Yangste rlvar port 2S miles abov Kluklaog. KlangsL Property Abandoned Fearing for their lives. , Inhab itants . ot Wusueh abandoned their property virtually without protest and fled, many going t Kiuklang. where foreign gun boats were anchored. Communist armies . late' ' last month sacked and " destroyed large sections ot Cbangsha. ' Hu nan province capital. Later "tbey threatened Hankow, Wucban'g and Hanyang, sister cliles 600 mile up the Yangtse from -the' sea.. However, the reds apparently wer frightened away by foreign war ships, which were rushed to Han iContlnued on Page Eight) - NEWS Hip Sing Tons, was held to slaying of Tung Yuen, 70, in . ; : and claimed Lorenza Scatena. A. P. Giannini, San Francisco '' AT - herself to a window bar with