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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1931)
life 8 Pages Today Klamath's Dream of a Rait Center Comet True Associated Press and United Press Telegraph Service Herald Advertisers Appreciate -Your Trade Irice Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1931 Number 7403 o) o) mm ,. i THOUGHTS We've Been THINKING . Ford ea Dishonesty f Diietln. Off Hie Hlielva 1 '"Hiilr of Tha HiMHl" Senator N orris By RRVCE. DENNIS polltl un there are so many dtauoneat peopla la the coun try that bard UroM r needed to make them honest. That It now war of reaaonlng tar many o( ui thought that money bad been eaay ao lonf, Ita tightening sow la lha eauee of aoma people taking abort cut to (at mosey. WHETHER Henry rord la right on that or not la not ot Importance, But ho la right when be eaya thaao ara Dot really "hard tlmea." Aa ona who went through the nlattr work Ink aa a Journeyman printer know Ford la right. In those dye a printer's ea from 17.60 to ft. 00 a woek. Foodetuff waa vary llttlo cheaper then than now. Egg ranged around ton and twelve and a halt centa a doirn, mutton waa about Ilk tt la now, beef waa a llltla lower and flour waa keeping step with the price of today. No bard tlmea yet, but they may come. Happily, lha Ameri can people can adjuat themaelvea to almoat anything and tt tbe time come when a fire cent cigar la a real treat and ona can only bar ona after dinner In the evening, well, that wilt b the cuatom, e e 10 adjuat bualnean to eloaa money tlmea la a Jlula hard after tba rollrktng time busi ness baa enjoyed for yeare and years. But It ran be done. Ford' advice to dual off the ahelvea and gooda and begin to ay It "with prli-ea" la tbe ean eat thing tha old chap baa aald since ha ordered tha Model T to tha ecrap heap and put a gear ehlft In tha Ford car. llualneaa baa to meet condi tion!. Because a atork ot gooda waa bought high I do reaaon that It will high. Tha live merchant senses thla and cleana out hla high eoet atutt and goea merrily on. Another thing Ford say that la a great truth: Therea plenty of work to do If poople will do It." Ksay money tlmea makee many people helpteaa. They have proven that fact. ' Ford uttara a, lot of hunk but ba also htti upon anme farts and (Continued on Paga Four) Safe Crackers Are Taken at Silverton SALEM. March' 21, (AP) L, E, Parklni, about 28, and Lawrence Cead, about 28, were In tha Marlon county Jail today awaiting grand Jury action fol lowing their arreat slnglo-hand- ad aarty, yesterday mornliig at Hllverton, by night officer Ivor- aon, 'of Stlverton, wno caught them a tliey were about to crH' k open a anfe In a pool hall. 'lt.a off(.-er, who curried n ki to the place, found the two men hiding behind the safe when he went Into the building to gut a drink ot water. A quantity ot tools were acattered about, Darklns, or Dorkenf, la aatd to have been a former Inmata ot Han Quenlln penitentiary, In Cali fornia, The Nightly AUNT HET By Robert Quillen Pa ain't lot ma -cut hla hair llnce the time he made ma ner vous talkln' about my fnlka an' that ploco (ot snipped out ot hla ear,'! , mm IS FACINU oiinrmnr onuniMbc Federal Income 1 a x e Are Falling Far Below 1930 Volume ONLY TWO COURSES AWAY FROM DEFICIT Mutt Lot Public Debt Rid or Practice Strict Economy WASHINGTON, March 21. (A. P.) The handwriting of niiillona of taxpayer warned treasury of- rirlala today that the government Income for thla year would ba found wanting. Income tax paymenla ahrank far below the lota la for the aame period of last year. Ileaplle tbe Inflow ot cullfM-tlona, the treasury deficit remained above tha 100,- ooo, woo mark. Hlirlnltaan la Illg. The total coMectlona for the)' month have bean 1239,123.(91. For the aame period laat year they were UH.SS3.42. The treaaury deficit tor laet Thure dar, the aame day for whtrb the collertlnna were reported, atood t IS2S.70I.K1. On tha aame day laat year, the treasury had a anrplua ot $22,370,70. Two patha have been Indicated bv financial atu.lt at aa couraea which would be neceaaary to lead the government away front tbe deficit aide of the ledger, Two tiorac Open. Th ona call for a reduction in lha rate ot retirement of tba public debt. President Hoover baa aald "tha admlniatratlon la opposed to any encroachment up (Contlnura na I'aito Two) U. fl. GIRLIS KILLED TODAY rORMKd. rallf.. March 21 (AP) An unidentified girl atu- dent ot tha University ot Oregon at Eugene waa instantly killed; MIm Rernice Wllllama. IK. of Berkeley, waa Injured, and Wil liam F. Heed. 21. and William K. Johnaon, Jr.. 25, bolh of San Franrlaco. eeenned Injury today when an automobile In which ihey wero riding overturned on thn highway two mllei aoulh ot Corning. . PORTLAND. Ore.. March 21 f AP) Mis Helen Fsnalsrosehrr. t'nlverally of Oregon student, left Kuaene yesterday In the com- nsny of Mla llrrnlre Williamson, who waa Injured In an automobile wreck near Corning today In which an unidentified girl waa killed, tt waa believed hero the dead girl waa Mtaa Fenalmu acher. , All members ot tha. party were Oregon University aludenta, en route to San Francisco and Berkeley to apend tha Easter va cation. - Questioning ot Read. and. John aon by the authorlttea In Corning brought varying atortee trom the youths. At flrat they aald. the two glrla wore hltch-Ulkers they had "picked up" along tha high way. Later they changed, their story and aald tha gtrlt were both University of Oregon alu denta. llotlt Tteed and' Johnson per alated that whlla they knew the Injured girl waa Bernlra Wll- llamann, that her aga waa 19, and that ahn realded In Berkeley, they did not know tha aurname ot the dead girl. Argument POOR PA By Claude Cattail "Lottie was goln' to glva her brown suit to charity, but aba read that brown would be good this season, so aba decided to wait au' jlvS a o eharltj; latar,'! Right Face! ' 1 ftlmnem for VnitmHy f Arkn K. O. T. i . mrn nlnt Mt liHty Toln, ilil of KdUra Uun il(Miirf Km befn r!rft rrmrnlnl pBMrr Hiie. from Kort Hmith. . . ASK TRANSFER ER PERMIT APPLICATIONS SALEM, March 21. (AP) Ap- ptlcatlona for .water permit now on (lie with tba all anglaaer, approximately ahnut 1(0, will be transferred o tha saw atata hydro-electric oommlaaloD. tor coo- alderatlon only when tha appli cant reQueei auch a, tranafer, tt waa decided at the oraautaation meeting of tba new commtaaton here Friday afternoon. Where applicant do not re- jqueat aura a tranater tha appllca- uona win pe niuFneu wi m, . B. Strlcklln. atnta engineer and aocretary-member of- lha commis sion, announced. Included among tbe applica tion aublect to thla ruling are several filed with tha engineer by the California Oregon Power com pany applying for. water for their proposed 4,&0tt,00 power devel opment project on tha Klamath river. Special legislation to preserve the priority of these particular ap- nllcationa waa aonght nunng ine recent session of the legislature In senate bill No. SIS, which passes both house but waa vetoed by the governor. Baker, Jefferson Are Eliminated In Consolation Play S.M.EM. March 21. (AP Jefferson high echool of Port land and Baker high achool, two tournament basketball teams who were favored to land either in the finals or conaolallon run- nera-up, wero dropped from the final nlght'a Play today. Aator- ia, 1930 champions, eliminated. Jetfcraon by a score of 38 to IS, whtl' Bauson high school defeat ed Baker by a score of 28 to 15. In tha consolation aenil-ftnuts thla morning. The contests- were between teams tired from strenuous schedules during tha past three days. Baker having played In four previous contests, all of them hard tlghu, whlla the others have already plsyed In three games. Portland wlllba re presented In the night program. Benson playing Astoria tor championship runners ttp. - Pen- illeton plays Salem for the chum ptonsblp. both teams compara tively fresh, each baring, played but two contest ao far. Weather Tha C'yclo-Stormagraph' at l?n derwood'a Pharmacy shows that llltla change In barometrlo con dlliona has taken place during the last 24 hours, rne present storm la rather freakish inasmuch as It At raining with the- atmospheric pressure high. Indications favor a continuance of unsettled weath er unless winds shift to the north, In which event the skies will clear. Tha Tyccs recording tharmonr eter registered maximum and minimum temperatures today as follows: High ..............,.....,..,.,... 4 S Low ,.. ....m..i.k.4t Forecast for next 24 hours: . . Unsettled, with moderate tern peraturea. OREGON: Fatr toniRht and Rnnday;' moderate temperature. Moderate west and northwest winds offshore. a L- IT HUNDREDS UNABLE TO VIEW SHOW First Annual Exhibition of Fashions Attracts Record Crowd BEAU TY PERVADES ENTIRE SHOWING Audieoca Marvels At The Wide Variety Of Mode Shown Buifacaa women and' mer chants were hoela to hundreds of fanhlna-loviag Klamath Falls people at the first na nus! spring Mylet how at tbe VYIUarti Hotel Ut evening-. Toe crowd waa ao much great er than) anticipated that hun dreds nf men and women were turned away since only a Hin--tied number of table and - were available. The show, however was a derided Bttcemea, ao roiorfat and saet rofwlltan was It la presenta tion. The program waa flawless, Charmin- airutata tvhn ti.r-.t- ad - thrntifc fhm -Jla- n.i U tba stage displayed costumes for rourmug, sports .wear, beach, matinee, Sunday evening, loung ing and. for formal occasions,. . A flower, of Beauty That hntit twHnu. - - w.wu, i tiauo- rormed Into a bower of beauty far Ihm -v-nr l.v K .. . . i 1 - ot ferns and palms. Chandeliers were similarly decorated, and the tea table waa graced with beflnttfut anrtn-r fin-... -w . nta Crn art- exhibit, which ami nang on toe walls, gave an added touch. Shoulder corsages of daffodils and ferns were worn by each of tbe committee mem- tveBiraaca on rage Two) BLAME PRISON JOLfET. 'Ill' March tl fij Charges by both the Protestant and Catholic chaplains of the state penitentiaries, here that un- "i auiung .iaa inmates was due to the altitude of tbe state parole board. Interrupted the legislative Inquiry at noon today while the committee wired summons to the parole hoard rbairman n nd tea members to appear. Hue to haw disclosures' bv the Catholic chaplain, the Bev. Eligias W-1 r the commtttAA Ian uuml ed the scops 6t J(s Investigation io luciuoe ine souinern Illinois penitentiary at Chester, and the Illinois state reformatory at Pon-tlca.- Father Weir Ml!f!j.f hm, nt 16 war (m nrl jnn-rt with hint. ened criminals, antt ht t th Istata reformatory, built for way- "ia youtas. mare were men oi 30. There were Insane criminals In Jottat, be said, who should be In tha aavtum for criminal Insane tvt Menard. Church Council Gives Approval to Birth Control Representatives of 22,000,000 Protestants Endorse "Careful and Restrained , ; - Use of Contraceptives," NEW YORK, March 21 careful and restrained use ried people" la approved by tenure tws or Christ. Rrprr-aentlnft approximately 22,000,000 members of ST Protes tant denominations In America, a majority of the enmmtttm nn mar riage aad the homo published today a report saying; such practice "vami ana moral. Tha report, approved by the ad ministrative; committee, was sign ed by SI of tba 18 members of the sub-commltiee. Three dissented in soma respects and three voiced no opinion. Those approving taeiaded Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., a mem ber of the national board ot the Young Woman's Christian associ ation; George W, Wickershanu chairman ot the commission on law enforcement, and Mrs, John Fergnson, president ot the Nation al Council or Federated' Church Women, i- Thoie) taking some xcenttont It Cost War Vet a Lot To Go Out Yoo-Hooing SAN FRASriSOO, March 11, (API Frank Lowtber, it. war veteran, who yesterday received I77S aa a bonus loan and start ed out to put it into circula tion bad lU of It left today and It was la escrow as bail for himself and alt friends, at city prison. Lowlher attracted attention whan he got a bunch of hla aioney changed Into quarters and started ta give It away to Jobless men la Chinatown. Later It Is al leged be was joined by six per sons who went riding, it Is al leged they later dashed about Iowa "yoo-booing' policemen. They were arrested and must ex plain In municipal court. OUTS MADE IN PUMPING ISTE Payment of 42,271.7S to the government of tba United State was authorised by the directors of the Klamath Irrigation Dis trict today at their regular meet ing today. Thia amount con stitutes the total of deferred op eration and maintainance charges owned by tbe Klamath Irrigation District, and must be paid before Irrigation water will be turned Into the government ditches, Farmera believe, that nntesa pre sent showers continue, water for tha first irrigation wtlt.be need ed on April I.. J. ' C. Boyle, assistant genera! manager of tbe California Ore gon Power company announced ta tha executive board ot tbe K. L D. today that this company has granted Ttreat redactions fa the minimum charge on pumps ot less than 19a horsepower fa the district. Reductions .on pumps operated for five years or more will be 7 S per cent and on pumps operat ed for less than five years, SO per cent. These reductions will take effect in the Irrigating sea son o 19SI, according to- Mr, Boyle. The tremendous reduction In operation costs for small pumps will encourage farmers In the Klamath Irrigation District to la stall many more pumps, and many have signified their inten tion ot placing these pumps at once. . .... Since January first, the execu tive board of the district and re- Sresentattves et the California regon Power company have been negotiating for the reduc tions in minimum rates for small pumps. Both the district nnd the power inrrests are gratified by today's anno'incemeut. BANK C!K!mRS - ' t.KT A DtVIDESD SALEM. March It, (API A. A. Schramm, state bank superin tendent, has been authorised by a court order, signed by. Circuit Judge George Stapleton ot Mult nomah county, to pay a tbird dividend of 7 per cent to claim ants In the savings department of the ban St of Kenton. Insolvent. Approximately luoo checks, ag gregating - .,21.591 were mailed to depositors last sight. (AP) Birth control through of contraceptives by mar the federal council of, he were tha Rev. Dr. Howard Chand ler Rabbins, chairmen ot tha com mittee; Mrs. Robert E.. Speer, president ot the national board ot tba V. W. C. A., and Mrs, Orrln ft. Judd, president ot tha Council at Women for Home Missions. Those remaining neutral were the Right Rev. Charles K. Gilbert, suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese ot New York the Rev. Br. Ben R. Lacy, presi dent of Union Theological Semi nary at Richmond, va., and Mrs. Coutlnncd on Page Xwej, Capt, Dollar on Aa happy aa fie was SQ yer luas health, Capt, Hubert Hollar, dean of American skipping and head of the Dollar ijinea, ia sfeown above aa be greetetl his UT(b htrfhday. Rrsmtar hahita and hard: work are tbe two dominating feet area in bapptneaa and iongetvily, he says. VINDICATION OF WALKER IS NOT UNLIKELY NEW YORK, March SI, (AP Newspapers today Indicated there waa belief in ttrlest smar ter that Governor Roosevelt would not nave Mayor Walker's official ' acta Investigated. " '.' Tbe New York American said It had learned on unimpeachable authority that tha - Governor would not order aa Investigation harrase he did not consider tbe accusations of nonfeasance made by the city aisairs commutes ex plicit enough or supported suf ficiently by specifications. The Governor will si't the evi dence over tbe week end at his home In Hyde Park, tbe paper said, and announce bis decision early next week, possibly Mon day. The New York Herald Tribune published a dispatch from Its staff correspondent at Palm Snrings. Calif., to tbe effect that Mayor Walker reels Be Bas bose- inr to fear and that ine uover- nor will have no recourse but to vindicate him. ' - . j Walker is of the opinion, the Herald Tribune said, that all the! city departments attacked by the committee are fundamentally sound. The police department particularly, he feels, is honor-1 able In the rank and file. , ! Democratic leaders were repre sented by the Herald Tribune as convinced that the Governor would refuse to entertain the charges and refuse to appoint a commissioner to hear them, in any event, it was said, he would watt until the mayor returns trom his vacation before demand- j lug a formal answer. Filing at additional charges against tbe mayor with the gov ernor was announced by William If, Alien, director the- Insti tute for public service. He said they were designed . to supple ment those already under con sideration. . , "Sick and Broke" Wife Ak Aid In Finding Husband A Pliifal letter received by Chief of Police Stanley Jones tells of a wife who ia "sick and broke" and who Is trying to find her hus band. Leslie Maxwell Dobbs, who left ber In Medtord some time ago. Dobbs told his wife that he was coming to Klamath Falls or Peli can City to look tor work, and she has never beard from htm again. Mrs, Dobbs says that she has tried in every way In her power to locate her husband, and has ap pealed to the police as last re sort. Tha missing man Is de scribed as follows: Weight, 149 pounds: height, five feet two and one-halt inches; slight limp ia left leg, and slightly cross-eyed, Any information la regard to Dobbs may be given to the local police department, and would be greatly appreciated bjr hla wife. who seeds aim. RAIN USHERS IX FIRST SPRtXG DA Rainfall io tba amount ot .S3 tnoh has fallen In Klamath aince early this morning, according to the official report at tha Klamath bureau ot the U, 8- reclamation March ' tt, Is tha first day ot sprint, and farmera are hoping that today's showers area prediction tor more rain throagh- lout tba spring; seataoa. 87th Birthday aga aad appareaUy enjuvitux German Police Club Son of Former Kaiser BERLIN, March tt. (API How ba a Hobeszsllers prince and son of the former Kaiaer waa rudely clubbed by German policemen In. Koentgsberg last ntght was related today by Au gust Wllbeho htmseitr fourth aoa of the ex-emperor on bis arrival from. East Prussia. He and Paul Goebbels, fascist aid, were beaten and braised at tbe Koenigsberg railway station when police broke sp a national socialist demonstration, after the two had been forbidden to speak at a rally of that party. ROMANCE ENDS N A DIVORCE RENO, Nev.; March 21. f AP Wild west romance, which started in a harness shop in Colorado Springs. Colo., ended la the divorce court in Reno yes terday for Barbara Monei! Glass, New York heiress to mil lions, when she secured a decree from Kenneth Wilson Ulaie, Col orado-cowboy arid rodeo rider. Mrs. Glase, a daughter of the late Ambrose Monnett, former president f ;the International Nickel company and other east ern .corporations charged In her divorce complaint that the Jea lousy' ot her cowboy husband was .unreasonable. . . She . charsed that he offered deadly battle with, guns to a man who had danced vrttn. ber during i party at their ranch at Gut ter, Coto He even objected to th visits of an elderly physi cian to their ranch home, she complained. - The courtship of Glase started when the then Barxara Monelt came to . bin Colorado Springs harness . shop . to secure a dog mnzsie. They were married Feb ruary 31, 1928, tbe event being heralded as a union of east and west, and the couple secured tbe blessings of tba bride's mother. LA1TE GOV. ROLPH TO MEDFORB-. Ore.. March SI. of California, will attend tbe annual home product banquet here ta April. An Invitation has been extended to tiovernor Julius 1, Meier Delegation will a! Semi from Yreka, Crescent City, Kureka, Klamain Fails, ana many southern Oregon points, , . , FRKSCH TEXJCM CHAMP WIXS, SEW YORK, March at- (Ai) Jean Bo rotra, France's thtvia Cup player, Joday defeated Berkeley Bell of Daiia, Teias, for t!ia . American Indoor tennia singles championship, three acta to tvroi -The scorea were a-Ir S-ftV -4, 8-6V e-fe - '. . ' " SHIP PAS8EKQKRS BEACH SAFETY. ' " .. r GLASGOW, Mcotlanrl, March 2i. (API Two hundred paaaen gers wero landed safety on Little Cambrae Island in the Firth of CI j lie today alter the Canadian Pacific liner Montclare, Inward bound for Greenock, waa grounded on a hidden reef on tha north western aide of the bland today; in s dense fog. , , OFFICERS RAI SEATTtB JOISm betti.p Wab.. Marrh at. APi One hundred and ten per sons were being held here today aa a result of raids test night by Sheriff. Clande G. Ilannirk and eight deputies on foor alleged gambling Joint. Twenty-three of the prisoners wero whltua, the remainder being Chinese, negroes and FilSpinoa, , 1 GESE MHAWSX WIS S,00tt. . LA GOHCF. GOLV VOVHSK, Miami Beach, Fta. March St. (. P) I.ittia Gene Sarasen won tS,0OU first money tn the: fourth nual fifteen tlioasand dollar la (force pen today aa he made typical garrison finish to win the tournament wtlb a 78-hote arora of m, three stroke ahead t Tommy Armour, IK-troit, hi aeara eat tuiapctltvri IRIAN GLE AFFAIR IS REVIEWED Spectators Lean Forward to Catch Word of Graphic Story ', MOWERY VIGOROUS IN HIS QUESTIONS TB of Trajie Death Mrs. Bowles in Home of Hts Paramour ) of HttMBQBO, Ore, March -1. AP) Hla votce aa tow that those in tbe crowded: courtroom leanest farward to hear. .Nelson ". liowtcs, young Portland millionaire, today tl.? front the witnesa stand of tiie ftl stabbing of hi wife, with whose murder he ia charged. ' He declared: the attractive society matron stabbed berk self to death tn the apart meat of Mbts irma Louck . Bowles' former secretary, joint ly aecssed of the murder. - . . She did this. Bowles testified. after she had asked bins for a divorce and ba bad replied "it la up to yen," . Tba poise of tbe young eaol- taliat was shaken but once, wheat be spoke of bis two baby daugh ters, Patricia and Sailer "Pat and Hike," he said, they wera called at borne. Bowie era pied the stand duriasr practically all of the ' raontlnar - ares ion, mad daring that -time-she?' eye4o Has';' Loaeka were fixed cn bint front where she sat behind ' tbe battery of defease attor neys. Cross-examination of- Bowles was started Just before the noon reeesav Prosecutor George Mow- framing bis Questions la a vigorous way, Howies, who amdee the ques tioning of his own attorney, . was poised and catnu became slightly antagonistic as Mowry began, Csder direction of John Col lier for tbe defense, Bowies told of his yontb his business ' affairs and bis horns lite, He was born, he said, tn Van couver, Wash., 34 years asOi Ha attended school tn Seattle went. to the University ot Washington, , and later to Dartmouth college. In 1918 he worked for. hht father, tbe late J. C. Bowles, wartime shipbuilder of Seattle. Ha enlisted is the army ana . was stationed at Camp Lewis-, After the war fee engaged la the wholesale plumbing busfsas la Seattle, He came to Portland, ta, 1922. He was Interested Is sev- . era! large companies here. , , He married; itrsv Bowies a r ma, . l. In 19'-l, the defendant tee- tifled, "serious differences" t arose la tbe family- Question . , ; ed aa to where the fault rest- . 1 ed, Bowles said "probably more mine than hers." He aald i ' conditions grew worse as time . went on; he tried to make - things better but waa unsuc cessful: during the past two or three jean ba had been , away from homo a great deal,- ; In tbe summer of 1S30 ha re-', . turned to bis wife la an attempt , ta harmonize their differences, .. be said. He remained boss, ay , 1 week. Ha said neither ba nor , bis wife was happy so fee lefl,V. i Bowles said he gave fcla wlta' i Continued On i'age Jwo, . A 1? NEWS V1HIT MEBFOBD, -' ' (Al'i James Bolnh Jr.. governs i
