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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 9, 1931)
Today's News Today II tli uuws of the Klamalh llneln, fur nlehvd dully liy spatial uirreapondnla and competent staff of local reporters. Na tional, alula ami world new by Aaaoclalad l'raa,nd United Press leased wires. Final City Edition Herald euhacrlber who fall lo receive their papara by 4:30 p. ni. ara requests t to ral Ih ilerald business office, Ptaona 100, and a pager will be sent at one by ape clal csrrlrr. I'rico Five Cent KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1931 Number 6751 mm ..n "'. ,m " mm 0) n urn k. 3 (fin Editorials on th Day's News liy HIANK JEKINb) A MRHICAN nawapapar eorre. pondanu Id Kurop raport Ibat Russia will aiport no mora whaat. alihar thl yar or int Thta la flatly denied br repre aantallraa of Iba soviet, who say that Ruaala caa and WIIX aiport nor whaat. Bo, one aialn. It la proved that too can't ballara ANYTHINO 700 baar about Huaal. a a TF you ara a abrawd tblnkar, you will aay lo youraalf: "Ruaala'a (am la to kaap th world SCARED of bar. Dumping ot commodities. Including wbaat. baa been ona ot bar loatrumtiU ot fear. It Ih world la pernH tad lo believe that Ruaala baa bo mora whaat to dump It nay Jump lo th conclusion thai aha la ahort on othar commodities to dump, and ao II faar of bar will decline. That wouldn't ba good for tha aoTlat'a purpose, If you aald that, Ih chancaa ara yon wouldn't b far wrong, a a a ryHK big aaw In Ik paper A Ibaa days la Ih rlalng price ot whaat. Tha price la rlalng because buyer bailer th ac cumulated aupply th carryorer. to uae the technical marketing term la declining and Ibat In tha not dtaaaJit fatur demand will again tsarance aupply. If that la Ira, better daya are la eliht for wheat grower, e a pAU.ROADS In Oregon want mora gaaollne and oil tonnage, which haa been ge'nc In large volant lo tha trucks, ao they redao Ih rate la order to gal it Rallroada all oyer tha country applied aom time ago to the Interatat com mere commlaalon for permlaaloa to rale all freight ratea a flat II par cent, and a( tar long and careful considera tion the commlaalon DENIED Ih requested lacrosse. Probably It reaaoned, Juat aa th Oregon rail llnea raaann, that th way lo get more tonnage for th rallroada 1 to keep th ratea down lo th competltlr level, a a e A CANDLK factory In Mlra, In Italy, burned th other night, and w read In the paper that th aky for mile around was lighted op by th flame from th million ot candle stored la th factory. Million ot candle. In on fac tory. In far-off Italy and this la spit of th fact that for years th former plac of th candle aa aa lllumlnant ha been taken by th electric light. see TPHE statistician tell us that mora randies ara horned to day. In spit of th universal us of th eloctrlo lamp, than wer burned a half century ago. BEFORE th electric light cam Into general us. It San't true, you see, that new thing DESTROY th old. e e THE motor truck, moving over Improved highways built by th Duhlk. Is new. It I carry ing a vast volume ot short-haul traffic thai formerly wa carried hy tha railroads. But It Isn't necessarily true that th short-haul competition of th motor truck will destroy th railroads. Th competition of th electric (Continued on rag Thre) 27 Extra Postal Workers To Be Hired to Handle Xqias Mail Twenty-seven extra temporary postal workers will b employed to assist In the handling of Christmas mall In Klamath Kalis. Postmaster John McL'all alnted Monriny. There has been ap propriated 1,087.01 for this pur pone. No applications for the tempor ary position of 1J clorks and 16 carriers will be received until November 17 and Postmnstor Mc Call stales that none will prob ably ho put to work before Dec ember 10. In addition the regular em ployes and tha substitute car riers and clerks will receive ex tra money In the form of pay tor overtime work put In during the hnlldny mail, Th monthly payroll fc( th 36 Per Cent Slash InK.U.H.S.Budget For Year Ordered All Salaried Employet to Get 10 Per Cent Cut; Board Takes Drastic Action. Slashing right and left throughout the budget, but cutting deepest in the salary and personal service area, the budget committee and board of the Klamath Union High school district have achieved a 86 per cent reduc tion in the 1932-33 voluntary levy aa compared with that of 1931-32. The changes, which make material reductions also against the first budget announced and printed a few days ago, have been virtually decided upon and remain only to be confirmed at a meeting tonight of the budget committee as whole. A ten per cent reduction in pay for teachers, administrators, and all other paid employes Is a certainty. T Viit of Novelist to Coal Fields Leads to Scan ' dal Reports. PINKV1LLK. Ky.. Nov. , ) Circuit Judge I). C. Jones today directed Ike Hell county grand Jury In open court to Investigate aworn char gee that Theodore Dreiser and a young woman were guilty of misconduct while the writer waa bare with a committee of Inquiry In th Eastern Ken tucky coal flelda. Judge Jonea In bis charge lo the grand Jury, meeting In reg ular aeaalon. aald wltneeaea swore to a warrant that Drealer and a young woman lived together open ly while hera. Th warrant was not tarred. "If theaa facts ar true." the Judge aald, "I auggeat that tha grand Jury Indict them." Judge Jonea did not mention tha natna ot tha woman to whom ha referred. He aald ha waa told a number of speeches on radical ism were mad while tha Drelaer committee was In the coal fields. II urged th Jurors to Investigate to aee It the stale criminal am dlcallam ststut was violated and (Continued on Pag Eight) U.S. WASHINGTON, No.' I, OP) t3.000.UOO federal road program waa proponed today by Benator Norrla, of Nehraaka, a leader ot the Republican Independents, to meet unemployment. Th Nebrankan would raise the funds through a long term gov ernment bond laane, and pay off theae by Increased ratea on the higher hrarketa ot Income and eslate taiea. Ha propoae tha gigantic road program In plac of charity, but aaya If charity la neceaaary, the federal government should meet Ita share. Norrla aald tha people of th middle weat were cheered aome whnt by tha good crops this year and th recent Hue In price, hut ho aald ther was "very much dissatisfaction , with President Hoover." post otflc clerks and urrler In thla city Is now about IM00 a month, McCall atatea, while In the neighborhood of $8000 will probably be paid out In the mon.'h of December. Strict selection and aupervlslon will be used In employing th extra holiday help, McCall stated, after receiving orders from the post master general In Washing Ion, I). O. It Is not neceaaary for tha poatmaater to employ thos on the civil aervlre Hat although thla may be done It they com under the other regulation. Th workers must be between the ages of 18 and 4B, have depend ents, he phyalrally strong and able to do the strenuous work, (Coutiuuod On l'aga Five). MISCONDUC PROBE FACED BY DREISER The total amount of tha volun tary, or operation coat budget for th coming year la 131,054 Is. while that of laat year was 151. 110, providing a cut of $11, 16 51. School officials atated that while th drastic reductions a re a poaltlv danger to the school. In that they may break up peraonnel and make full-year operation difficult, they believe they are In keeping with the desire of th taxpayer. Tha board rut the original bud get (or the comlug year by $ 11. 740, Because ot the revisions In (he budget, the election can not be held on November 18 and a data will be selected later. tlmated expense of running the d lutein thla year Is set at $n7.44o, wllh eatlmated receipts at $64. 56.44. In addition tha mandatory levy for bonda and bond interest thla comlug year totals 36, 6U0, giving a total amount to he ralaed by taxation on the budget .for the school flaral year, beginning the third Monday In June list and ending the third Monday In June 1933, of $, 664. 3. Th arhool board and Principal Jackson met Saturday night and reduced th budget aa prepared by the budget committee f the district by 111.740. The amounts of th aavlnga made by the board and Principal Jarkaon over the budget com mittee's figures with the amounts which will be ralaed for each Item of the budget thla coming year follow: General control, 1120 aavlng, $140; budgeted Instruc tlnn (aupervlalnn) 1410 aavlng. $4690 budgeted: Instruction (teaching), 15310 saving: $49. 445 budgeted: Operation of plant, $995, aavlng; $7,966: Mainten ance and Henalra. $300, $1700; Auxiliary agendas, $426. $8500; Fixed charges, no rut, $760; Capi tal outlays, $4000, $1000 needed: Kmergenry, no cut, $4000, Total aavlng over original budget $11. 740; total voluntary lory $87,440, lesa estimated receipts $54. 386.(4, balance to be ralaed by taxation $33,064.36. Debt aervlre budgeted for the year, principal on bonds $16,000, Intereat on bonda $21,500, total $34,600. Total Indebtedness $470,614.3$. Offlrlala of Klamath Falls achool Dlatrlat No. 1 on Monday announced voluntary tax reduc tions to a point within th six per rent limitation. Fly making a ten per rent cut In all aalarlea and personal aerv lre Items, and hy knocking off $1050 for rent, the board cut th tax figure In the recently an nounced budget down to $00,395 from $77,000. The mandatory debt aervlre figure la $43,000. leaving a voluntary tax ot $18, 896. This 1 almost within th alx per rent limitation, and the board expected to make a few allces to bring It within Ihst figure. No election will be necessary, al though a achool hearing will be held at i p. m. on November SO. A local Cnglernck plane, pilot ed by Bill Van Buaklrk, made a safe landing on an old lak bed between Dorrla and Klamath Fall Sunday night, after the motor hnd gone dead. Clarence Hnodgrnaa was In the plane with Van Busklrk at the time, but neither ho nor the pilot waa Injured, and the plane was only slightly damaged. AH Is Ready for Bieber Celebration Marking Joining of Rails of Two Systems --4r" "' af na - tm. saw lawati a7.r,'fa. ..jag A new transcontinental route and cisco, and Portland, Ore., will be sions being built by the Western Pacific and Great Northern In northern California are linked at B'.eber. (11 Junction of the 200 mlle "link" with th Western Pacific's main line between San Francisco and Bait Lake. (8) wer created by construction BUDGET COMMITTEE HEARSROAD WMS Numerous Projects Come up; Ticknor Presents Five Resolutions. Petitions for road construction snd betterment work from resi dents of outlying districts con sumed most of the opening ses sion of the county budget com mute at the courthouse Monday morning. The board will con tinue until It hears all proposals In connection with th 1933 budget. A. M. Motschenbacher. repre senting cltlxens of Merrill and the Lower Klamath Lake dis trict, asked' the budget commu te to consider a road from Mer rill to Midland, following the old shore line of Lower Klamath Lake. R. E. Alexander asked for construction work on a section sbout two miles In length on the Rock Creek road on the west side of I'pper Klamath Lake. According to County Judge Fred R. Goddard. Alexander has cooperated with the county court during past winters, keeping the Rock Creek road open at his own expense many times. C. D. Long, member of the governor's relief committee, and In behalf of the Central Labor Council, petitioned the county budget committee for an appro priation to alleviate unemploy ment, recommending especially the construction of an armory. Jerry McCartle, ot Bonansa, aaka for Improvement work o i a thre mile section ot a road running east from the town of Ilonanta. McCartle atated that there waa considerable aettle ment In this vicinity, and that the achool bua la carrying 37 children over this road Into the town of Bonansa. Karl Krown (Continued oa Pag Eight) Temperature Hits Lowest Point of Year During Night The lowest temperature of the year waa recorded Monday morn ing when the mercury dropped to 26 degrees Above aero. Hnrdy flowers which have withstood light treexea ot early autumn, succumbed Monday, and the few leaves remaining on the trees fluttered to the ground. Icy streets made driving pre carious, and irutorlsta proceeded wllh caution to avoid accidents. WEATHER The Cyclo-Rtormagraph at Un derwood's pharmacy ehowa a slight downward trend in baro metric pressure today, and a con tinuance of nnaettled weather Is probable. The Tyeoe recording thermom eter registered maximum and minimum temperatures today as follows: High. 55 Low, IS Forecast for the next 24 hours: Cloudy and warmer tonight. Con ditions favorable for rain or snow. OREGON: Vnsetted tonight and Tuesday probably rains west and showers east portions; slight ly warmer east portion tonight; fresh southwest to weat winds offshore. 7l i? 31 !'""" " - . a aecond line between Ban Fran opened Tuesday, when the exten Map showing bow new rail route of comparatively small mileage. Leading Rail i i Arrive Today for Chamber Banquet, Bieber Ceremony This evening at ( o'clock Arthur Curtlsa James, chairman of the board of directors ot the Western Pacific and large stockholder In the Great Northern. President Ralph Budd of the Great Northern and a Uige party of other prominent officials of railroads will ar r'v at the Great Northern depot from St. Paul via Spokane and Bend. " " They will attend a Chamber of Commerce and Service clubs banquet at th Hotel Wlllard this evening at 4:30 o'clock and to morrow will take part in the celebration at Bieber when the Great Northern and Western Pacific railroads will be Joined, completing the 2oo-mlle Klamath Falls-Keddie, Calif., extensions of the two railroads and giving the Pacific Coast another north and south transcontinental railroad. CHICAGO. Nov. 9, (yp) Excit ed by reports ot fresh war com plications In Manchuria and of huge crop shortage In Russia, grain traders bought furiously at times today, and swept prices to new record heights for wheat, corn, oata and rye. Wheat show ed 24 cents a bushel rise from recent low levels, and rye ad vanced 25 cents within a month. Enlarged selling pressure caus ed setbacks In the late dealings. Wheat closed nervoua 2 cents under the day's top. and unchang ed to S cent lower than Satur day's finish, corn unchanged to Soft, oats !-lH up. rye 2H 3 advanced, and provisions 17 30 rents higher. - H! Funeral services for the late Rufus Scudder Moore were held Monday afternoon at the Earl Whltlock Funeral Home, with eeivlces of the First Church of Christ Scientists being read. Honorary pall bearera were Mar lon Hank":, 811ns Obenchaln, Wil liam Baldwin. D. V. Kuykendall, A. 1.. Leavltt and A. M. Collier. The remains will be taken to Oregon City where committment services will be held Tuesday af ternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the graveside. Vault entombment will he made In the family plot. Taxation Subject of Tonight's Meet The Taxpayers Protective asso ciation will meet tonight In the county court room of the court house, according to s. l. O'Neill, chairman of public relations com mittee ot the association. More than 400 taxpayers are expected to attend the meeting which Is held for the purpose of discussing taxation and rela tive matters, Pendleton Voters .. Favor Levee Work PENDLETON, Nor. 9, (P) Overwhelming approval ot a $10, 000 bond measure to provide em ployment for jobless men and Im prove the Umatilla river channel levee, waa given by Pendleton voters here Saturday. The vote was 802 to 199. The levee will be re-streogtDa-ed as a flood protection measure. UIt'.)H.II. ' oa . vy a'-ej,-.vr,-.r' I f4fi'T-V-" . lasM MaLiiltgi , ,a,- v, , yaw , ..f, Cai i.Mp.iiJ JX - i i. tit Great Northern's track laying Main street In picturesque cowtown will be held. (5) (left to right) Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern railway; Arthur Curtiss James, largest stockholder In both great systems, who will Srhumsrher, chairman executive way. Mr. James and Mr. Budd ar Officials to Elmer H. Balslger. present of the chamber ot commerce, will preside at the banquet tonight, and R. C. Groesbeck will act as toastmaster for the occasion. Community ainging will be led by John Houston, with Walter Sheets at the piano. Speakers of the evening will be Arthur Curtiss James, chair man of the board ot directors of the Western Pacific; Ralph Budd, president of the Great Northern: Stephen Baker, chairman of the hoard of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, New York City; F. E. Williamson, president ot the Chi cago, Burlington and Qutncy; Joseph Chapman, director ot the Great Northern and Minneapolis banker. Tomorrow mornlnqaat 8 o'clock a special train will leave Klam ath Falla at the Great Northern depot for Bieber, carrying inter ested Klamath Falls citiiens who wish to attend the celebration In the former cow-town of Califor nia, which has been turned Into a modern city with tha advent of railroads. The train will leave Merrill at 8:30, and Malln at 9 a.m., and will reach Bieber at noon, where a luncheon will be given at the Guthrie company construction camp. A rail In front ot the station site at Bieber has been left un fastened, and will be taken out and respiked at the ceremony with a golden spike donated by the Oroville. Calif.. Rotary club, (Continued on Pag Eight) Jackson Budget Cut Recommended MEDFORD, Ore., Nov. . (Jf) Governor Meier's tax reduction committee and the Medford cham ber of commerce budget commit tee announced today that they have recommended a reduction ot $160,354.86 In tha Jackson county budget. The general road fund would be cut from $165,890 to $48. 6S0, and reductlona would be made In all other departments. The county judgot committee la expected to report on the recom mendations this week. - Bank Shuts Down on Warrant Purchases BEND, Ore., Nov. 8, (X) Pointing to a $100,000 tax short age In Deschutes county, officials ot the Lumberman's National Bank of Bend announced Satur day they will purchase no more county or school warrants or make any further loan to school dlstrlcta. This policy will remain In force nntll delinquent lax pay ments bring county receipts to the level of the past few years, T. S. McOarvox, president of the bank, aald. aaaT ii ir. i x e. i 4 i--lV ' J I , J , ' .1 ' ft t. - . - f. 7 4, hum I JtAJ machine reaching Blebar. (4) where spike-driving celebration drive the golden spike; T. M committee. Western Pacific rail expected In Klamath Falls today, K. I. D. ELECTION SET FOR TUESDAY Elliott and McCulley in Final Race; Polls to Open at 8 a. m. , Land owners ot the Klamath Irrigation district will vote Tues day to elect a director to the board of directors of the district to replace J. L. Jacob, Malln whose term of office will expire In Jsnuary, and to serve-with E. M. Hammond, chairman, and Sam Dehlinger, director. John R. McCulley. Malln. and J. R. Elliott. ML Laki, are the candidates In the order in which their petitions were tiled. Polls In the six voting places of the district will open at 8 a. m. and will close at 6 p. m. Klamath Falls voter may vote at Merrill and catch the Great Northern special train to Bieber there, leaving their cars, it they wish. The district office la mak ing preparations for transporta tion and a number of- citixens who wish to vote and also to at tend the Bieber celebration are planning on voting at Merrill. Both McCulley. war veteran and prominent homesteader-farmer of Malln. and Elliott, pioneer Mt. Lakl farmer, are well known to the voters of the district. Mc Culley'a supporters argue that since Dehlinger la a. resident ot the Mt. Lakl district and Ham mond Is from Merrill thst Malin should be represented. Elliott's supporters. . many of them members or former mem bers of the Klamath Water Us era' ' Protective association of (Continued- on Pag Eight) LONDON, Nov. , (ffy Mahat- ma Gandhi told the Associated Press tonight that the Indian round table conference was doom ed to failure and that he would sail for Bombay November 29. "Only a miracle which we do not expect to happen can save the conference from failure," he said, "and therefore I have de cided to abandon the European tour I Intended to make and will sail for Bombay from Genoa on tha 29th." j LATE NEWS NEW YORK, Nov. 0. (AIM Another vigorous rise In the price of her sliver today carried the price to a new 1U8I high at 8.1 rents an ounce. This waa the fourth consecutive trailing day on which the spot silver quotation has regixtered a new high for the year. Today's advance amounted to a cents an ounce. T PHOEXIT. Arls., Not. 9. OTP) Winnie Rath Jndd, clwirtred with slaying Mrs. Agnr Anne Hot and Miss Heilvlg KamnrlMin, appeared for preliminary hearing today before Justice of the lee Clarence K. Ice. Juxtlre Ice after the amall courtroom had beea filled, ordered the doors locked. No one wa allowed to enter or leave the room. NICK, France, Not. 0. (AP) The Nlam of Hyderabad, reputes) to he (he richest man In the worliL today gave fUMt.mto In rawhl and a million dollars worth of Jewels lo Prince Abdul Medjei Kffendl, former caliph at Istanbul, ami supreme spiritual rater sat MMMMM,0tO MohammrtUas, In return for the aiarrtaa; ot tas former caliph's daughter aad ssleee to the MtaaaaVa two aias. BOMBARDMENT OF JAPANESE One Chinese General Said to Have Formally Aiv nounced War. Gunfire Crackles in Out- skirts of Tienteinf Japs Prepare Note. . (By The Associated PVess) Unconfirmed advices saving th Chines general Mah Chan Shan had declared war on Japan and waa bombarding th Japs nes position at Tahaing. Man churia, atlrred Tokyo today. The Japanese government do- elded to relnforc It troop t th new battle area. It also pre pared a sbarp reply to th latea: League ot Nation not and framed aa answer to th Amer ican government's secret com munication regarding th situa tion. Riots broke out In Tientsin, North China. Chinese charged tb tronM wa lastigated by Japanese, and that the Japanese hsd bombarded the native part ot the city with 40 shells. For eign guard nnlts at Tlentatn, In cluding the Fifteenth United State Infantry, wer called ont to protect tb foreign tectlon. On Japaaea soldier wa re ported killed by a stray bullet Jaaa Hit Saarjreetioti Suggestion that other power withdraw their diplomatic rep resentatives from Tokyo as a means of lending force to th Leagu of Nations' atand were branded by Japanese authorities aa "diplomatic Intimidation" and aa nonaensiral propaganda. Th Japanese note was expected to protest against the suggestlona a coming from circles of the league secretariat and also against th league "becoming a propaganda bureau for the Chinese govern ment." Jspanese sources said th sep- Peace Preservation society would aratist organisation called the set up an Independent Chines provincial government at Mukden tomorrow. AMERICA MAT ACT WASHINGTON. Nov. im Another move In the Manchur lan aituatlon Is being considered by the American government. Secretary stimson eenrerrea (Continued on Page Eight) BATTLE WASHINGTON. Not. , OP) President Hoover' naval policy bore the approval of his special committee today, but that did not remove -the possibility that congress will look Into the matter when it meets In December. Already there have been, grumblings from big navy ad vocates at some ot th cuts th President propose to make la naval expenditures. Chairman Hale, of th senate naval committee, and Representa tive Britten et Illinois, chairman ot the last koase naval committee, have joined In proposing a build ing program which, la outside the bounds ot the President' list ot suggested expenditures. Presumably the next step hi Gardiner and the league's to take, since the chief exeeutive'a five-man board headed by John Hays Hammond Saturday held th league, through lta president, haa uttered "many Inaccuracies, falsa assumptions and erroneous con clusions." It to Oardlner'a turn to act upon President Hoover' demand that be made a "public correction of his mtatatementa and an apology." IS IB It