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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1931)
LAGRANDE GUN BANDITS CAPTURED NEAR GIBBON Today's News Today All lb nsw ot lb Klsmstn Basin, fur nished dslly by spcll oiirrwpouilanti and t competent alaff of local reporters. Na tional, alala aud world nawa by Associated Hraaa ami Unllad Praia laaaad wlraa. Final City Edition Harald aubaorlbara who (all lu rciv their papers by 1:10 p. m. ara requested (a call tba Herald business offlc, rhona 1900. and papar will b sent at one by apv clal earner. KLAMAfH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1931 Price Five Cents Number 6734 mm Editorials on th$ Day's News FRANK JENKIM nrilB Lagu ot Nation! talla Japan to fat bar arrued (orraa oat ot China, Immediately. Than It talla DOTII Japan and Cblna to gat toialbar and aatlla their difference br negotiation. Wa ara about to a history made, but at I hit moment no on ran aay Jut what kind ot history It will b. r-pIUS murh CAN ha aald: It tba Japan heed tba com mand ot Ih league to get out ot china, and It Japan and Cblna than get together and aettl tbalr difference without war, lha taint beglnolnge ot lha dawn ot a naw and mora hopeful day In world a I (a Ira will ha apparent a pnESIDKNT HOOVER, on hla war to tha Yorklown victory eolehratlon, paue at Fortress Monro and mat, speech. In which ha sayti "Thla nation passed through Valley Fora and cam to York town." A lot of gloomy people ar trying to tell ua that thla coun try la In terrible war right now. la It In any mora terrible way, do you suppose, than during tha wlntor ot Valley 'org? Ot cours not. e AS tha President says, thla nation paaaad through Va.ll Forgo and tamo to Yorktown. Sometime In tha next tew monlha It will paai out of th dark Talley of aconomlo dleron tent and Into th bright aunabln of aound prosperity. a a a TJERB la a rather lntereatlng aaggeatlon made to thla hopeleaa optlmlit by another hopeless optlnlat tba other dar: "I boar n lot of talk about Impending distress bar In Ore gon thla winter. But aa I look about by neighborhood, where I know all th people, I don't seem to ae many mora THAN VHUAL who aren't going to hare enough to aaL "Of court har will be un fortunate thla winter. But I aaani to remember that bark In HIT and 1121, which w look upon now aa tremendously pro- paroua, there wore ALSO un fortunate! who didn't hare enough to tat and wear." a ryUIS man may be an exception. Ilia neighborhood mar be an unusually fortunate neighbor hood. Hut suppose you look round YOUR neighborhood. Bee bow much more real distress you find than In normal, avorng ears, rememborlng that In ALL (Continued on Page Three) Music Lovers Give Support To Community Concert Plans A group ot about ISO lovers ot the host In music gathered at a banquet at the lintel Wlllard Wednesday evening to pledgo co operation Id launching tho cam paign tor membership In the Klamath Community Concert as eoclatlon. Tho purposo ot tho organisation la to aocure a per manent series ot concerts, pre sented by th world' artists, In tho city ot Klamiitu Falls. Miss Dorothy Granville, ropro cnlntivn of tho Columbia Con cert association, who has charge ot tho campaign, was th chlof speaker of tho evening, outlining the, purpose ot Community Con cert associations, which ro be ing orgaulicd all over tho United Tonight and Tomorrow Afford Last Chance to SPECIFIC RATE GAIN REQUESTS ARE SUGGESTED Flat Jump Is Denied by I. C. C, But Alternative Plan Is Advanced. Large List of Products Exempted From Gains in Proposal. WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. UP) Tha Interstate commerce eommls- alon today denied the railroad ! request fur a flat IS per cent In crease. In freight rates, but sug gested lha roads might apply for specific Increase on designated commodities upon certain condi tion". Th auggeated eperlfla raise would be for limited period, and would be primarily to enable th roads "to meet their filed In terest paymente aa they mature." Tha commission attached to a Hat ot products suggested for lu- eraneea a condition that In no event ahould the Increase Inrled on any carload be In exreaa of 10 per cent of tha carload charge hlch would b assessed In the absenc ot th Increase. Th auggeated plan of the com mission provide for exemption from any Increasea of wheat, corn, barley and rye, rice, grains not otherwise specified, flour and meal of all kinds, bay, straw and allalfa, cotton In balea, cotton llniera, nolle and reglna, cotton seed, fresh apple, freed berries. fresh grape, fresh pearhea. po tatoes other than aweet, dried pea and beans, flaiaeed. an tar beeta, livestock of all kinds, logs, wood for fuel, railroad Ilea and wood eicelslor and sawdust. Member of th city budget committee have been called to meet for the first time Thursday venlng at 7:30 o'clock In the council chamhera of the city hall Th committee will meet with the council and the mayor. The bndgot will b discussed and plana will be outlined for the work of the council and commit' to at future sessions. Tha meet Ing la not expected to b long, aa only preliminary work enn be done at thla time. Members of th budget com' mltte are Dr, George Merryman W. O. Smith, James Blair. J. A. (lordon, M. H.- West and Elmer nnlslger. They will alt with Mayor Fred Cofor and Council men J. E. Van Camp, Ed Vnnnlce, James II. Drlsroll, Andy Moore and James Bailey. Eugene 8 Kelty, publisher of Th Herald and News, haa been Invited to at tend the meetings. Slates. Dlfforlng materially from tho old mothod of concert man agement, In which t email group of muslo lovers sponsored nn artist, guaranteeing concert foes. and making up a deficit If Bitch resulted, the now movement guarantee a aeries ot concerta without donianda upon a com' munlty. 400 Sought A minimum ot 400 members must bo secured during the week'a campaign, or th associa tion cannot function. It tho minimum membership, or over, Is gained, a aerica of concortn Is presented In th city. Members (Continued on rag Two) aILOKI Italian Leader Another foreign government leader who will come to Wash ington to discuss disarmament problema la Dlno (irandl, above. foreign minister of Italy. He will aall for th United Slat on November T, shortly after lha forthcoming visit to this country of Premier Laval of France. Identical Notes Sent To 2 Nations; Manchurian Independence Talked. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. f America today Joined In Invoking th Kcllogit-llriand anil-war pact In Manchuria. Secretary Stlmson dispatched Identical notea to China and Ja pan, reminding them ot their ob ligations under the treaty to re nounce war aa an Instrument of national policy and to settle all dlsputea peaceably. The action followed that taken by five European natlona. Taking the lead In Invoking the pact. Great Britain, France. Italy, Spain and Uermany sent notes to both countrlos calling attention to the pact, INDEPENDENCE TALKED lly Associated lres Launching of a virile move ment for Manchurian Independ ence from China waa reported (Continued on Pag Two) Washing Machine Sales Leap Ahead CHICAGO, Oct. 10. UP) Th biggest month's sale In three years waa reported today by tine Amerlran Washing Machine Manufacturers' association. Tho September sales exceeded th best month of It! by a per cent and the beat month ot 193) by per cent. They wero 11.5 por cent above September 1930 and 18.9 greator than In August 1931. Graf Zeppelin Is In Brazil rERNAMBUCO, Brnill. Oct. 20 (IP) Tho Graf Zeppelin, Ger man dlrtslbl.N. was In Hraill to day for the third tlmo this year. Tho giant shin Innded last night after another nonstop flight from Frledrlchshafon. Germany. Th previous trips wero ma'e In August alt September. All threw have been devoted to com mercial traffic. Including passen ger, freight and mall carriage. Vi' V p ' I j v ) mm DEMAND IDE FOR MILK RULE T Dr. E. D. Lamb Resigns Health Post; Council Hears Discussion. Inability to Have Control Over Inspection Is Reason. A promise ot rigid enforce ment of the city milk ordinance waa exacted from the city coun cil last night by aom 20 prod ucers and distributor, following a lively session featured by heated argument and .repeated charge that th ordinance baa But lMU Sir idly enforced. Following the discussion, tha resignation of Dr. K. U. Lamb aa clly health Inspector, wa read. Dr. l.amb, according to hla statement, resigned because of hla "Inability to have com plete control of dairy Inspec tions." There waa no dlacua alou by the council ot hla re signation, which waa accepted with instructions that he be sent a letter expressing appreciation of bis work. Dr. Lamb, It waa reported following the meeting, baa not been aatlatied with the dairy Inspection operations. Dr. I.amb Indicated Tuesday that It condition were made satisfactory be would resume the work and continue to serve In the office. The authority necea- aary to carry out the responsi bility of the office must. Bow ever, be given, if he Is to con tinue aa city health officer. Dr. Lamb explained. It wa understood that Dr. Lamb, In - hla official rapacity, had Issued certain order which had not been carried out. Permit Withheld Th argument developed over the aublect of Inspections and the enforcement of the new city milk ordinance, adopted In Jan uary of laf year. The Immedi ate cause of hostilities, as Indi cated at the council meeting, waa the allege Operation ot a dairy here by Carl L. Stone without a elty permit and, allegedly with- (Continued on I'age Two) T SUITED IN RAMSER DEATH Inquest Into the death of Ernest E. Ramser who died Mon day morning In a Klamath hos pital following his being struck by a car owned .Dy cianae it. Davis and driven by Henry Grimes, Jr., Sunday night near tho Klamath-Lakevlew junction on The Dallea-Clltornla high way, will be held tonight at 7 o'clock at th Earl Whltlock Funeral Horn. It. G. Rusk, companion ot Ram ser. and Claude H. Davis and Henry Grimes, Jr., occupants ot the car which struck Ramser, with Dr. J. Randolph Bnrr, who arrived at th seen ot the acci dent a tew minutes after it hap pened, and Lieut. O. O. Nichols ot the state police who Investi gated th case will be th prin cipal witnesses. District Attorney T. R. Glllcrv wators will represent the state aud Coroner Karl Whltlock will preside. The autopsy was per formed today. The autopsy physician, Dr. Paul Sharp, who attended Ram sor In th hospital before death, found that Ramser died ot in tornnl injuries, hemorrhage ot th brain, shock, and two frac tured lega. Members of tho coroner's Jury are James Swansea, Bert Cook, A. E. Whitman. Henry Lorens, E. B. Henry .and Frod Houston. ENFORGEMEN Many Luscious Dishes Feature Cooking Event Ethel M. Hall Conducts Sessions Tonight, Tomorrow. 1'IKK.ftAM Tuesday. p. ni. Beauty chat. Make-up and facial dem onstrations. Hallowe'en sug gestions and cocktail break fast. Wednesday, 2 p. m. Brldg luncheons, proper table aerr lc and bridge aet-ups. Proper preparation of meat, fish and fowl. Orange and creamed pes com bined, tasty cocktails for the holiday season, proper prepara tion and aluffing for turkey, something new and different for brldg luncheon thorn are only a few ot the thlnga that Mrs. Ethel M. Hall, bom economist, will Illustrate during the laat two eesslona ot Tha Evening Her ald and Th Klamath' Newa free cooking school, being held In the h!ih cnoet-ruaittirlnm.'- At this evening a aeaaion, which will start at a'clock. Mrs. Hall haa arranged a holiday program on of th most Interesting of th curriculum. Urauljr Chat Planned A beauty chat, together with aa actual demonstration ot make up methods and facials, will be given by Mr. Hall tonight. Hal (Continued on Page Two) New Building Will Put Into Use on Wednesday. Be Unci Sam's 1:00,000 head quarters in Klamath Fall, the new federal building, will be dedicated at ceremonies which start at 2 o'clock tomorrow af ternoon. Postmaster John McCall, cus todian. Invites sll tba cltlsen of th Klamath Empire to attend the dedication and to Inspect the three-story, granite, marble and brick building. Captain C. P. Nelson, United States Navy, coordinator for the Seventh Area, will be her from bl headquarters In Seattle to give the dedicatory address and E. B. Hall will be master ot cere monies and will Introduce the speaker. Th Kismatn union high (Continued on Pag Two) Oregon . State Is On Fordham s Schedule NEW YO '.K, Oct. 20. (VP) Fordham university today an nounced Ha football schedule tor 1932, listing three Intersections! battles with Michlgaan State, 8U Mary's of California and Oregon Stat. The latter gam will be played In New York Nor. 19. WEATHER The Cyclo-Stormagraph at Un derwood's Pharmacy has been slowly rising since last night and Indications are tor clearing weum er and cooler. The Tyco recording thermo meter registered maximum ana minimum temperatures as fol lows: High .. - 68 Low 35 Forecast for next 24 hours: Cloudy and unsettled this after noon and tonight. Generally fair tomorrow, probably cooler. OREGON: . Fair tonight; cool er In north portion Wednesday: fair, followed by rain northwest portion; fresh north and north west winds backing to southerly Wodneeduy. Attend Herald -News Home Economics School mm 2 IN TAKEN E Sheriffs, State Police Participate in Capture. Widespread Search by Posses in Hills Is Ended. PENDLETON. Or.. Oct- 20 (TP) John Owens and Keith Cross- wyth. sought for th shooting ot Amoa Helms, stat policeman, at La Grande Sunday, wr captured Shortly afternoon today near Gibbon. They confessed, officers said. to bav shot Amoa Halms, state policeman, hero Sunday. Helm aa. critically wounded. A mob gathered around tha county Jail during the afternoon but there wa no indication of possible violence. . The men were anrprised. and had no chanc to resist. The cap ture was made by Jesse Br vhears. sheriff of Union county; Dick Robertson ot state police, and Tom Guardane, Umatilla county sheriff. Escaped Sunday Owens, 19. and Cross wyth. 20, scaped Sunday after ahooting and critically wounding Officer Helms. A 1 .-year-old girl. Or lean Wood house, of Idaho Falls, was with them. She was taken into custody after ah left their company, and Is held at La a material witness. Helma waa ahot as he and Cap tain Lee No of stat police at tempted to question the men af ter receiving word they wer wanted at Idaho Falls for rob bery. Gibson Is 25 miles directly east of Pendleton on the Umatilla riv er. The bandits, after deserting their stolen car at Kamala. near the summit of tha Blue moun tains, apparently continued down the north aide ot the slope, fol lowing a creek to the junction ot the streams at Gibbon. 'S T WEST ORANGE. N. J., Oct. 20 (JP) To their comrade. Thomas A. Edison, who turned his In ventive genius to his nation's problems ot national defense dur ing the World war, members ot the American Legion and Vet erans ot Foreign Wars paid tribnte today. Thirty representatives of both organliatlons filed through the softly lighted library where th dead Inventor lay In state, stood at attention, and saluted as two ot their number draped th casket with an American flag. The Inventor will be buried In West Orange tomorrow. Final arrangements bar not been an' nounced, but It was thought that tha Rev. Arthur H. Brown, pas tor of tha Methodist Episcopal church ot Orange, would offi ciate. Final service will be at the crave In Rosednlo cemetery here. Tho funeral service hour Is 2:30 p. m. President Hoover was still un decided today on his plan to at tend the funeral. It was Indi cated by the White House secre tary that Mr. Hoover would reach a decision by tonight. Meanwhile, a public demand for a national tribute to Mr. Edl son's memory has swept the coun try. . ' (TTIIUKRT PIER PORTLAND, Oct. 20 (IP) Herbert Cuthbert, 66, well known as Jormer msnager ot the ad' rertlsing and promotion depart ment ot he chamber of commerce here, died at bis home Monday, Bl 0 Like Eugenie Bonnie Connelly ot Barnsdall Okla., who waa named a the co-ed at Oklahoma A. and M bearing the cloaeat resemblance to tha real Empress Eugenie, is in tha pose she consider th most trnlr representative of th real empress. Policemen and Firemen On Eligible Lists Announced. Policemen and firemen will be under civil service appointments ithin a few day, it waa re vealed Tuesday when the eligible lists made up by the city civil service commission were an nounced by Roy Fouch, police judge and clerk of th commis sion. AH firemen now having perm anent jobs and all policemen with the exception ot S. M. Reed. motorcycle traffic officer, who had taken the examination passed It and are named on the eligible list. Reed did not take the examination. Police Chief Guy Merrill and Fire Chief E. A. Taylor will now send a list ot their appointees to the civil service commission for certification ot appointment by the commission and- the civil service charter amendment, pass ed In 192$, will be in full force and effect. The civil service commission will also certify to the appoint ment ot all firemen and police- continued on Page Two) Calles' Daughter To Wed American MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20, OPr Secretary of War Plutarco Ellas Calles turned temporarily today from thoughts ot state to assist in the marriage of his 17-year-old daughter, Artemtsa, to Dr. Joseph Jordan Filer ot New York. The wedding will be at nine o'clock tonight. A wedding dinner will follow, and the cou ple will leave shortly afterward for New York, from where they will sail for Europe on an ex tended honeymoon. LATE . H ' i ' ' V WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (AP) Onler have been Issued bf the Internal revenue bnrean to place lien for back Income Uxr on the property of Al Caoone, convicted Chicago g;ngcT. LOS AXGKI.KS, Oct. ISO. (AP) An airplane carrying Everett Frank Lindsay, alleged wife slayer, left hero at 10:03 a. m. today for Seattle, where he Is accused of killing; Mrs. Ellxaheth Lindsay. Lindsay was accompanied by two deputy sheriffs. WASHINGTON, Oct, 20. (AP) Secretary Adams today author ised construction of tho airship ZUS-5 and ordered that tho Akron be accepted. MENOMINEE, Wis., Oct, SO. (AP) An assistant eaalilcr and a bandit wero killed today as four machine gun raider looted the Kraft State bank here of an undetermined amount of money. WASHINGTON, Oct. SO. (AP) Mrs. Herbert Hoover will at tend the funeral of Tlioma A. Edison at Orange, X. J., tomorrow and President Hoover will go If possible. Mr. Hoover today sug gratrd that tile people, of tho United Hlatc extinguish light In their home for one minute tomorrow night at 10 o'clock, f.aten Standard time, to honor tlio memory of Hie Inventor. K STUDENT SAYS SISTER SLEW: Positive Statement Is Definite Clue in Sen sational Case. Mrs. Judd Disappears in Traffic; Murder Story Sweeps Country. L08 ANGELES, Oct, 20. UP) An admission that hla sister had confessed to him the killing ot two companions In Phoenix. Arlxona. waa made today to th Associated Press by B. J. McKln nell, Los Angeles University stu dent, and brother of th suspect ed slayer, Mrs. , Winnie Ruth Judd. McKlnnell mad a positive statement after a storm of report had been circulated la which police denied the young mans alleged statement. Tells Story Stopping in a corridor of the homicide bnrean of the police department as detective took him to breakfast. McKlnnell told hi version of the discovery of th bodies ot- Mr. Ague Lerol and Mis Uedvlg Samuelson, em ployes of a Phoenix. Arizona, clinic, in two trunks and a valise at a railroad station her yes terday. A baggage master, who saw blood seeping from on trunk, demanded that it be opened. Mrs. Judd. who had arrived in Loa Angele a abort tim before on another train, cam to the station with McKlnnell to claim th baggage. Eh told th agent that aha did not bar the keyes and would get him. The sus picion of the agent led him to not th license number ot Mc Kinnell's automobile and th student was arrested. Knew Wnat Wa In The T-ualc "I knew what was In those trunks." th young man said. "She told me, I can't understand why she did It. I drove her to Sixth and Broadway and ah got out. I gave her S5 and she dis appeared in the street crowds.'" Dr. W. C. Judd. husband of the woman, who appeared calm and composed under the grilling ot detectives and who was taken Into custody with McKlnnell, said "I believe she was mentally de ranged." Sheafs of letters were selxed by detectives and scanned for lines that might unfold a motive. They were taken from the trunks. Dr. Judd's home and the rooms where McKlnnell. a university student, lived with a friend. Killed Friday A cursory search of their con tents produced nothing that seemed ot major importance. One, written to Dr. Judd from his wife during the week-end, told of her lonesomness and ex ( Continued on Pag Two) NEWS 2 COMPANIONS r