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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1931
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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.
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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
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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.
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a aecond line between Ban Fran
opened Tuesday, when the exten
Map showing bow new rail route
of comparatively small mileage.
Leading Rail
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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. -
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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