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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1934)
HERALD SERVICE llarald I 1)trlliur who full to rutnlvi Uiclr papev by OiUU p. in. art ratiumlod Co cull (lit llarald bualnoai office, phone IIMIO, null a papar will b sent by apodal currier. Local Forcast Generally fair, cool. High 31; Low 21. OREGON: Cloudy; mow in moun ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRtiSS tain. Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1934 Number 6011 COLO DA lo) WW mT9aP AD fit B Editorials On the Day's News 0 lly FRANK JK.NKIKM MILK alrlko hill ClilrnRO. Vlo lonco flares ovor hundred mil ro lu dalrymon's war against low prices. Milk price below cont of pro duction aro bud. Out vlulonco won't mako thorn any bailor. Only roatoratlon of the bulanco botwcon supply nd domuud can do that. PARAGUAYAN army occupies thro abandoned Bolivian (oru following expiration of tbo Christmas armistice. The ocoupled foroata are locat ed In the demo and tracklou Chaco forest, which lan't worth ny part of tho fighting that h been dono over It. Whichever nation finally wlni It will won. dor what to do with It wben.lt fete It. Moat wnri are Just ai foollih ai that. rjRANCB agrees to Increase THREEFOLD the quoin, on American producta aa announced the firm of the year. la Prance making friendly gos turea toward thla country? Not at all. She merely wanta to tell more wins In the United Statca. Whatever the French do baa a coldly eelflih motive back of R. a nARLOVS tlmaa thoae, for men of wealth, and everybody reeognliea It "If I bad a million dollara," a young man laid to thla writer yeaterday. 'I'd worry myaett alck trying to bold onto It I bavs no worrlea, became I have nothing to loie." Thero'a phlloiophy tor you. 'TJOW'8 tbo potato mnrkot?" thla writer aeked a potato buyer yeaterday. "Ch,- aomewhera from 5 eonta to a dollar." waa tbe an wer. "Pretty low for January of a abort crop year, lan't It?" thla writer put In. "Yo," waa the anawer, "but thero la no SPECULATIVE BUY ING at all thla year to bring tho price up: la spite of the abort crop." see NO BPKCULATIVH buying, so the prloe stave low In aplto of a ahort erop over the country. We need to hear speculation thundered at aa a cures, yot here we are told that LACK of ipoou lotlve buying l holding down prlcea In a ahort erop yoar. We're reaming a lot thoae daya. see WHAT la epoculallon, arywayt Why, It Is buying low In tho hope of selling high. Juat that and nothing else. rjonornlly apeaklng, It roproaenta the host Judgment of ahrowd men who know conditions of supply and demand or think thoy do. Roally, K lan't bnlf as bad aa domagoguot have boon trying for years to make aa bellovo. e TN THIS column, a ahort time back, some cauatlo remark! were Indulged In about young mon who habitually talk with a (Continued on Page Four) Will ROGERS SU( I BEVERLY HILLS, Jan. 8 Editor The Evening Horaldi Poor old Franco and Japan are about In tho same fix. Franco doesn't know whothor It would be bettor to jump on Germany and lick 'om now which thoy enn, or "will I alt horo nnd wnlt till ' they are ready to pounoe oh ma?" Japan Is on the tame spot. Thoy fool thoy can lick Rus sia now; or, will alio wait till RusBla la able to come pounc ing on thorn? Thla thing of living In nn ambitious nation la not what It Is orackod up to be. We are certnlnly glad Mr. Roose velt announced that we had about all the country we wantod. In foot, he suggested that If we could got a deoont offor he would lot some of It go. Yours, ?U fa 0' U. S.A1RMAIL SCAJMOAL RISES FROM INQUIRY Walter F. Brown, Post master for Hoover, Involved. CONTRACTS HELD LET WITHOUT BID Ex-Cabinet Man Accused of Burning Letters; Denial Issued. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. UP) Senate Investigators received tes timony today that tho postmaster general In the Hoover adminis tration, Wullur F. Brown of Ohio, had awarded aomo airmail contracts wltiiout oompotltlve bidding, althouKh ho lacked au thority, and that portions of his correspondence had beon de stroyed just bofuro he loft of fice. Evidence Presented, Paul lltmnorson, assistant poatmamor gunural under Brown, said contructs covorlug 5.000 miles of air routes were nwardod from 1U30 to 1032 undor a pro vision of tho McNary-Wotora act of 1030, permitting the postmas ter general to make "extensions and consolidations" of air linos. Previously tho cotnmlttoo had renjved ovldunce from a post- otrico omploye that Brown's sec retary had all hie correspond ence, official and personal, burn od Just boforo March 4 except that which Brown took with him. Closely quoatlonod by moinbcra of tho spoclnl InvcBtluating com mittee, Ilondnrsou . said the Mc-Nnry-Watnra law was drawn In Drown a offlco, giving him the r Ik lit to award air mall contrncU without conipctlllvo bidding, but thla provlnlon whs stricken from the bill by congress. llltOW.N HAH DKMAL NEW YORK, Jnn. 9. (IPS Former Postmnstor Uouorul Wal ter Drown today declared that no official corroapondonco from his files had boon destroyed prior to hla leaving office Inst March. , , At a acsslon today of a aanato commlttoo Investigating air and ocean mnll contracts, Jamoa Muhor tcstlflod that a day or two boforo Prosldont ltoosovolt's Inauguration ho had burned, at the diroctlon of Konnath Mnc Pherson, Brown's socrotnry, some correspondence, both official and personal, from tho postmastor gonornl'a flics. Brown aald: "No activities of tho poHtottlce dopnrtmont during my four years aa Its head war rant any criticism. "All official correspondence In my flloa waa luft Intact nt the ond of my tonuro of office." TO BE IN SALEM SALEM, Jan. 9, (AP) Stating that "the Knox law Bpocltically provides that tho Offices of tho Htato liquor commission shall bo In Sulom," Governor Julius L. Moier told momhers of a commlt too from tho chnmbor bf com morco horo yoBtbrduy that hoiul quurtors for tho commission would bo OBtnlilUhod nnd main tained In Salom. PORTLAND, Jnn, 9, (AP) No ono will bo employed In tho stnto liquor control systoin until the Oregon Btiproma oourt has passed on tho validity of the Knox lnw, It was snld horo by George SammlB, ndmlnlBtrator of tho liquor control board. FOURTEEN SLAIN KABUL, A.'ghnnlntnn,, Jnn. 9. (AP) Fourteen person. wore executod today for alleged Impli cation In a conspiracy resulting lr tbo. aBBnBBlnntlon ot King Nndlr Shah Inst November, The exooutlons took place In the prosonce of Shah Mahmud, minister of war. A apodal oourt onnvlotod the defendants and tholr HontcucoB were uphold by King Znhlr Hlmli, who Buoceoded his slain father, -aft'' .'1 ' . . A ..aura's Prince Flees Writs And Reporters; Romance Beset By Troubles k 1$ & f ' V ? ..7? w V i The palatini honeymoon cruise to Jnpan from San Francisco, planned by llnrbara Hutton, Wuolworth holrons, and Prince Alexis Mdlvanl, bus boon charmed because ot California procoss servers seeking her husband as a witness In hla brothers' oil operations In Los Angeles. Tho prince left their private car In Reno and set out for Seattle by plane to catch a b team or for Hawaii in time to connoct with the Ttusula Maru, on which bla bride bas tbo royal suite engaged. SEATTLE. Jan. (AP) Prlnco Alexis Mdlvanl reached Seattle by automobllo and went to a leading hotel shortly before noon today. Ho docllnod to re veal hut plana and It was an nounced ho was wearied by tho drive from Cliehalls, halfway be tween Seattle and Portland. CHEIIALIS, Wash., Jan. 9. (AP) Wrathful because a couple of newspaper photographers wore haunting the corridors of their hotel whon thoy awakened here this muruliig, Prince Alexis Mdl vanl and bis party left for an un announced destination toward tbe Rudy Vallee Sued For Divorce by Actress; Answer Pending. LOS ANGELES. Jan. 9. (VP) An array of startling charites em bracing Infldullty. vicious tom per, vllo language, character as sassination plots and niggardly financial aettlomonta wore heap ed upon Iludy Vnlloo today by his actroBB-wlto. tho former Fay Wobb. In a suit for separate maintenance. Tbe browing marital storm bo tweon the popular young entor talnor and tho dnughtor ot the police chlof of Santa Monica, Calif., about which warning sig nals havo been flying latoly, broke In tho form of a 21-page oomplnint, which was scaled by court ordor for a tlmo nftor be ing filed In tho auporlor court here yestordny. At Valloo'a own Insistence, the nnnin wore hrokon and tho charges becamo public. After he had rond thom, mo curiy-noaaoa singer, actor and orchestra lend er, a rocent arrival In Hollywood to innko a motion picture, drop ped a hint that nn antl-cllmax to this Initial aonsation was In the offing. COMMITS SUICIDE ROSELLB PARK, N. J., Jan. ft, (AP) Edward F. Smith, 61, retired business man of Altadona, Calif., today shot and killod his wlto, Nolllo, nnd fatally wounded hlniBolt. The Bhootlng ocottrred In the Smith's bedroom In tho home ot Mr. nnd Mrs. Herbert Wells, about 7:20 a. m. Mra. Wells, who was sleeping on tho third floor, hurrlod downBtnlro, after k...li,i, alinta nii.l fnuiiH tmr nlntnr lying on the bed, a bullot hole nbovo hor right onr. Smith was lying on the floor. Ho bad shot hlimtolf through the head, Uo movod to St. EUr.nunth'a boBpltnl, 110 died nt 111 o oiock. Motorist Killed in Road Accident OHEOON CITY, Ore., Jan. 9, (AP) Leo Shaver, 86, Mnlalla warehouso operator, was - killod near Olnlrmont tndny when his automobile collldod with a trunk driven by Gus Johnson of Clnlr mont. Shaver's neck was broken and hla chest was crushed. STARTLING CHARGES IA1RPLAIV1ES CARRY INVOLVE CROONER MILK TO CHICAGO Charming north at 8:20 a. m. Mombors of the prince's entour age protested vehemently to the hotel management when they dis covered the cameramen, demand ing that the police bo called to clear tbe building. - Alexis and party left Portland by motor late yesterday, presum ably for Seattle. They reached here late Inst night. The wealthy bride, meanwhile, was In San Francisco from where tbo wedding party bad planned to Bail Thursday on a round-the-world honeymoon.' She Intimated nlm inlKht loin tbe Prince at Seat- ' tie. Efforts Made to Break Four-Day Blockade At Metropolis. CHICAGO, Jan. 9. (AP) Regular shipments ot milk Into Chicago by airplane were started today as tbe fourth day of the city's milk blockade brought an acute shortage to the metropolis. The first shipment, 1,000 quarts, was consigned to the Wagner Dairy company. Offi cials announced additional con signments would arrive hourly. The Wagner company Is one ot tho largest Independent dealers In tbe city. ORGANIZER SHOT LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9. (AP) Hope tor an amicable settle ment ot differences between (Continued on Page Three) READY FOR TRIP SAN DIEGO, Calif., Jnn. 9, (AP) Plane 10-P-l ot the Bnundron of six giant seaplanes which will attempt a non-stop flight from San Francisco, to Hawaii took off from San Diego bay today for San Francisco. Aboard was Admiral David F. Sellers, eommander-ln-chlof of the United States fleet. The first piano was followed throo minutes Inter by plane 10-P-6. Plane 10-P-B then took the air. WEATHER Tim rtveln-RtnrmnirrRnh at Un derwood's Pharmacy shows that the tinrometrio pressure iook a alight dip Monday afternoon since which time there has been no variation. Dospito cloudy skies there Ib yet no Indication of any major change In wentber condi tions. Aside from possible fog ani cloudiness k will continue plensnnt. Tho Tycos recording thermom otor rcglatored maximum and minimum temperatures today as follows ; High 31; Low 21. Forecast for next 24 bours: Generally fair and Cool, Thfl United Htntnn wrmthor hu- roau reports no precipitation for tne 24 nours enaing tuonany at 5 p. in.; 4.16 for the season to date: ' 6.09 normal; 2.66 last yoar.' , NINE EVENTS ON SCHEDULE FOR PI IN Marshall Dana, Regional Director, Visits City Wednesday. CHAMBER FORUM DAY'S HIGHLIGHT Discussion of Klamath's Public Work's Pro gram Set. By Malcolm Epley . A busy day ot speech-making and interviews lies ahead ot Marshall Dana, regional public works advisor, when he comes to Klamath Falls Wednesday. Both before and after bis ad dress at tbe chamber ot com merce forum, scheduled for noon at tbe Willard hotel, Dana will confer with various groups and individuals regarding public works attain affecting tbe Klam ath country. Conferences Kunierous At thla time, bis program for the day looks like this: 7:00 a. m. arrive and break fast arranged by chamber. 9:00 a. m. Conference with Klamath county armory commit tee on armory project. 9:30 a. m. Conference with representatives of Southern Ore gon railroad on Bonanza railroad project. 12:00 m. Chamber of com merce forum speech. . 1:90, p. m.'"" Conference with regard to releasing funds from PWA for continuing Tulelake rec lamation development. 2:00 p. m. Conference wltb League of Women Voters on ca nal coverage. 3:00 p. m. Conference with city council regarding proposed municipal water system. 6:00 p. m. Dinner with city council and Mayor Mnhoney. 7:00 p. m. Radio address. This program, indicative of the extent of Klamath's varied Inter ests in the public works admin istration, may be adjusted and filled in by tho time Dana arrives. At any rate, it appears that the public works advisor, president of the reclamation congress, and associate editor of tbe Oregon Journal, isn't going to have a great deal ot time to himself on his Klamath visit. Hockloy Expected C. C. Hockley, engineer for the (Continued on Page Three) E J. C. Cleghorn, Klamath engi neer, bas bapn appointed district engineer tor CWA nnd PWA projects In Klamath and Lake counties. Cleghorn's appointment was announced by C. C. Hockley, PWA engineer, but It Is under stood his instructions call for weekly visits at all CWA proj ects in the two counties. Numerous additional projects are expected to be proposed at Wednesday's meeting of the county relief committee. . B. E. Hayden, superintendent ot the reclamation project, may have proposals for work on the Klam ath Irrigation district, In addi tion to others already announced. Fl WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, (AP) President Roosevelt today by executive order continued tho 15 per cent reduction ot pay of fed eral employees lor anotnor biz months. In bis budget messngo, the president asked that the author ity to out bo changed from 16 to 10 per cent, thus congresB will ing assuring restoration ot one third ot the pay cut beginning July 1, tbe Btnrt of the fiscal year. The president acted today upon tho findings ot tho department ot labor on the local cost of living, as provided by law. NOVELIST PASSES DAVENPORT, Ia Jan. 9. (AP) MIbb Alice French, au thor, who wrote many novels undor the pen name of "Octave Thanet," died at her home today nftor a long Illness. She would have been 84 in March, Stavisky's Death Signal For Riots In Paris Streets PARIS, Jan. 9, (JP) Royalists, swinging canes as weapons, at tacked police repeatedly today for over a square mile area around the chamber of deputies In a domonstratlon against the gov ernment because of the alleged suicide of Serge Stavisky. pawn shop bond operator. Police Accused The royalist newspaper Action Francaise has called for a pop ular demonstration, asserting Stavisky had not died by bis own band, but bad been shot down by police In order to keep him from testifying as to what he knew of speculations which cost tbe pub lic 40.000.000. Lamposts were broken from their foundations and strewn across the streets, blocking traf fic; iron grills were torn from tbe trees which they protected. Women Arretted The police, massed in the Place Bourbon held their ground, taking into custody scores of demonstrators, Including women, whom they loaded into busses and carried to police stations, af ter which they were released. All streets leading to the chamber were blocked oft by massed patrol wagons. Tbe socialist newspaper. Popu late, and the communist Human lte were other newspapers at tacking the police version. Cabinet Revamped Premier Chautemps lost no time In revamping bis endan gered cabinet as a result ot the midnight resignation of Colonial Minister Albert Dalimier, accused by police of Indirect Implication in tbe Bayonne scandal.- He named Lucien Lamoureux. minister of labor, to replace Dal imier, Merchant Marine Minister Eugene Frot going to labor, and Under-Secretary William Ber--trand ot tbe ministry ot.tho in terior moving into Frot's posi tion. Thus, with Stavisky dead and Dalimier out ot the cabinet with a "certificate of good conduct," Chautemps hoped parliamentary and public Indignation would subside. Meanwhile, the reorganized cabinet was pressing measures to investigate the whole affair and punish the guilty. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (P) Administration officials today hailed privately as a constitu tional victory for the national recovery legislation a close but decisive supreme court decision upholding the validity ot the Minnesota mortgage moratorium law. By a vote ot 6 to 4 the high tribunal ruiea in tavor oi mo ftot nmortrpnev statute nassed either in the state or nation, de fending in broad principle the right of a state to suspenu cou tracts in an emergency. CHINESE REBELS NANKING, China, Jnn. 9. kt M o t 1 n n a 1 crnvprnmnnt forces. In a sweeping advance over Fukien province reDeis, fought their way today within OR n.4Taa nf PnnfhnW. Clinltnl Ot the province, Nanking military leaders ciaunea. All of the rebel ohlefs were in flight, It was said, with the ex ception ot General Tsai Ting Kal, commander of the 19th route army and chairman of the Fukien military council, Ellsworth Reaches Bay of Whales to Find Byrd Quarters WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Jan. 9 (AP) Dr. Lincoln Ells worth, leader of a proposed trans-Atlantic flight expedition has arrived at the Bay of Whales, Antarctica, to find In tact the Richard E. Byrd expe dition headquarters established in 1930. Tbe report ot bis find was re ceived here In a wireless mes sage to the Boar, supply ship ot the prosent Byrd expedition to the Antarctic NURSES ESCAPE FIRE REDWOOD CITY, Cnllf., Jan. 9, (AP) Twelve nurses nnd oth er employes of the Canyon eanl tnrlum escaped when fire of un determined origin destroyed the nurses' quarters early today. Oregon's PWA Program Gets New Set-Back PORTLAND. Jnn. 9, (JP) A special dispatch today to the Journal from Washington said: "Senator McNary'a of fice was advised Monday that there will be no further an nouncement of allotments for non-federal public works In Oregon in the near future, which is understood to mean until additional funds are provided, if they are." "From public works head quarters," the dispatch con tinued, "a circular letter is going out to disappointed ap plicants, advising them they were not reached In time, but If found eligible and it fur ther appropriations are made, they will be considered." TO SI Oi JOB Rumors of Differences With President Re- ported. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. (AP) Lewis Douglas, director of tbe budget, made clear today be in tends to remain In his present office despite rumors that budg etary' differences with President Roosevelt and a recent curtail ment of bis authorities might cause him to resign. ' Tbe budget director told news men he' plans to "remain on the job as long as I can render service." Tbe president yesterday trim med powers only recently hand ed to Douglas for checking on emergency expenditures. He modified a previous order, mak ing budget estimates a prereq uisite for emergency spending, to require in the future only weekly reports to the budget di rector. T PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 9. (AP) In what promised to be a protracted controversy, all subjects of contention between the Oregon public utilities com missioner and the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company were gathered here today Into one consolidated hearing. The first phase of the work will be established ot a rate base valuation for telephone proper ties used by the company in the conduct of its Oregon business, as distinguished from Interstate operation. City Officials Not to Attend Liquor Hearings Neither Mayor Mnhoney nor nitv Attnrnnv T,navitt will at tend the hearing in Salem Wed nesday on the main issues or. too Knox law controversy. A(tninAv T.onvlt.f hRn been' 111 and Mayor Mnhoney will remain here to confer with ftiarsnati Dana, regional PWA advisor. The circuit court hearing will be featured by oral arguments, In which Elton Watklns will represent Klamath Falls. Judge T.nnvltt will submit a brief to Circuit Jadge Lewelllng on the case. LATE THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. 9. (AP) Petitions were being pre pared here today under the di rection of tho Inland Empire Maritime conference, for circula tion throughout the Pacific northwest, requesting sea-locks at the Bonnevlllo dnm large enough to permit passage of ocean-going vessels. NEW YORK, Jan. . (AP) Directors of J. O. Penney Co., today declared an extra dlvi. dend of $1 a share, payable Jan. BO to etock of record Jan. 20. BONANZA ROAD I TO BE FILED Petition Seeks $132,000 to Build 18-Mile -Line. PLAN LISTED AS SELF-LIQUIDATING Economic Advantage Cited in Formal Bid For Approval. Application for S132.600 loan from the public works adminis tration for construction ot an 18 mile railroad from Dairy through Bonanza to a point near the Ger ber reservoir, has been prepared, and will be filed immediately with the PWA. The Southern Oregon Rail road company, a private corpor ation of which R. H. Hovey ot Klamath Falls is president, is making the application on a non grant basis as a self-sustaining project. Would Provide 225 Jobs ' Total cost ot the railroad con struction project would be $265,- 813, and It Is estimated it would provide work for 225 men for five months. It is offered "aa an aid to the conservation and sustained production ot natural and manufactured forest pro ducts and the products of agri culture" in the application pre pared by R. E. Bradbury, who la agent of the company. The proposed railroad would connect with the O. C & E. at Dairy, and extending through Bonanza would provide railroad facilities for the agricultural area surrounding that community. It would then continue into the heavily timbered country beyond, tapping area estimated to have enough standing timber to per mit harvest of from 19 to IE years duration. Rednced Cost Wanted The application points out that 75 per cent of the raw material consisting ot logs in the Klam ath district is transported from the forest to sawmills over rail roads owned either wholly or In part by individual lumber man ufacturing companies. About 25 per cent are dependent upon sources ot log supply from ter ritory without railroad facilities, which entails in many instances long truck hauls, intermittent supply and higher costs. The proposed project, it is pointed out, would provide a de pendable source of log supply for a considerable portion of the raw material requirements of that portion - ot the lumber manu facturing plants that are without their own timber and transporta tion facilities. As to the nnemployment re lief feature, the railroad project is believed to be particularly de sirable at this time. The appli cation gives an exhaustive report on unemployment conditions hare which would be partially relieved by the labor made available through tbe railroad construc tion. Preliminary Steps Taken It is understood- the gootfcecn Oregon Railroad company has al ready taken preliminary step (Continued on Paga Three) E FELT IN SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Jan. 9, (AP) A slight earthquake was felt at 6:11 a. m, today In Southern California. There were no re ports of damage. Tho ahock waa felt in a general direction from Lob Angeles to San Bernardino. NEWS SAXEM, Jan. 0. (AP) With drawal of recall petitions against Governor Julius I. Meier wai announced today by letter to the secretary of state from F. W. Stevens, of Goldson, Oregon, sponsor of the movement, ' NEW YORK, Jon. O. (AP) The wholesale price of popular brands of clgarcttea was ad vanced 60 oenta a thousand to $0.10 a thouaand by leading manufacturers today,, . , AP PLICA 10