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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1934
Number 6022
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Editorials
On the
Day's News
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lly HUNK JKNKINH
SK! NATO It CAUTKIt CLASH, of
Virginia, pruolalms thut tlio
llooiivolt dnilur devaluation kill
1 unconstitutional.
As to llmt. of courso, tho su
promo court will decide, but tlio
cynical reaction of a lot of poo
plo to Senator (linns contention
will be: "Well, what's tho con
stitution. nmoiiK f rloiuln. it n
pravents u from doliiK what ot
the moment wo WANT to noi-
TN CASH) you are Intoroiilod I
tha oulnlon of thli humlilo
wrltor. who ! nil for kIvIiik n
' honest and unliuiuporod trial to
tbo new deal, hero It l:
If tho ninmben of tho tupromo
court of Ilia United States, who
ars able, honest, ulncero and pa
trlotlo men. carrying upon tholr
shoulders ono ot tho greatest ro
poniilblllllna In tho world, dccldo
aftor mature deliberation that
tho dollar devaluation bill, or
any other phaso of tho new dual.
la unconstitutional, wo ahould ac
cent their decision and ay: "If
It la against tho eonatltutlon. wo
DON'T WANT IT."
Constitutions, at times, may
provont us from doing what at
the moment wo think wo want
to do, but they are mlKhly handy
things to havo around, Just tho
samo.
TJKHB IN OREGON, so far as
practical results aro concern
ed, wo havo no suite constitution,
for wo amend It Just as oaslly,
Just as quickly and with Just aa
llulo thought as wo pass a new
law.
This situation Is out ono to bo
particularly proud of.
A t BMITI1, wo read, baa lost
favor with Tnmninny'Hall.
Mention of his naiuo ot tho
annual banquet ot Tammany's
speakers buroau tha other night,
New . York dispatches toll
brought boos and hisses, Instead
ot tha npplnuie It formerly called
forth.
It thnt Is true, put another
credit mark on Al's rocord.
fALlKOHNlA newspaper pule
llshurs, assembled In annual
convention In Santa Ilitrkara, toll
each otlior thoy think Hollywood
li sotting too big a play In tho
nation's nows.
And Almoo Somplo Mrl'herson
and her singing husband, thoy
add, all fired up with tho (orvor
that grips nowspapor men whon
thoy get togethor and tell each
other what ought to bo dono
about everything, aro gottlng
spaco that should go to hop-
ponlngs In tho smnllor towns of
tho stnto,
TyELL, If that Is truo, why
don't thoy throw Hollywood
out of tholr papors and forget
nil abont Almoo and David and
their carryings onf
Thoy aro tho boasoB. Thoy
can and do. Incidentally print
what thoy llko. Thoy aro doing
(Contlnuod on Pago Four)
WILL
ROGERS
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IIEVEULY HILLS, Jan. 20.
Editor Tho Evonlng Horald:
I am stilt trying to stay off
writing about tho 00-cont dol
lar. It looks llko tho argu
ment Is protty wall taken enro
of without nny oxport aid
from mo. Wo got Franco
senrod, bo tho oxporlment him
nlroady paid for Itself. Cuba
klnilor nosed in on tho front
pago todny, with a now Prosl
dont, but Its gottlng so that's
not nows.
Bo about two mora Prosl
dontB and thoy will bo back
with tho want ads as nows.
Tammany Mall had tho big
gest qitnko Its had In yonrs.
A Mr. Flynn, a vory tililo man
and friond of our ProBldont,
who horotofora only had ono
district, Iiub tnkon ovor tho
wholo thing. Tammany doatha,
howovor, aro nlwnys tompor
nry. Yours,
Ciz
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PRICE MOVES
TO SI. SO
1800 Carloads Here De
pend on Future
Conditions.
CONTINUED RISE
MAY BE RECORDED
Tendency of Growers To
Hold Has Strength
ening Effect.
Iteports that 11.60 a sack
bolnif offered for potatoes here.
after a rapid rlso In tho last few
days, brought a flurry of optl
mlMlc Inn-rout In tho potato mar-
kui situation here Saturday.
iviiu ihuu carloads still on
hand and at stuko on futuro mar
ket condition, the Klamath
country Is vitally Imorestod In tho
question whether tho tnnrkat will
niuliituln Us present show of
strength and will continue to rlso,
IUm May Contlnuo
Knrllor In tlio weok. It was ra-
portca tho price generally offor-
eo uoro was 11.26 and bags
which amounts to about si. 30
Friday, tho price offered ran up
to as high as 11.60 for Fobru-
n ry delivery, with aomo salea.
Spot market offers aro at 11.26
and $1.30.
Tho tendency of growora not to
sell on a rising murkot was h liv
ing Us effect, and there wus con
siderable belief that prices will
ooiitlnnn to strengthen. Two
days ago at Kan Francisco tho
price quoted was $1.00, and Sat
urday it was quoted at $2.00 with
no sales, Indicative ot an expecta
tion of further rise.
Nlilpmrnls Increasa
Ono buyer hero offered tho
opinion that the price has reach
ed a temporary level, and will
amy at that point for some time,
possibly weakening a little. Ho
said Kohruary 1 will toll tho
story, when tho estlmato of sup
plies on hand in tbo country, as
of Junuury 1, Is announced.
Factors which tond to Indlcato
strength In tho markot Include
the report thnt In aplto of the
fact this year's crop is estimated
t 40,000,000 bushels uudor last
year, shipments to dnto ars 20.-
200 cars mora than last year.
Added buying powor with pjen
oral Improvement In economic
conditions, and speculative buy-
ng Induced by tho presidents
money announcements, aro othor
factors In tho rising prices.
Jnnunry thus far has soon some
of tho heaviest Bhipplng In tho
history of tho potato Induatry
hero. County Agent C. A. Hend
erson mild that In the first 15
dnys of tha month, shipments
totaled 22 carloads a day, Includ-
ng Sundays. Una dny the ship
ments ran to 32 carloada. On
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PORT ALRERNI, B. 0 Jnn.
20, (AP) Authorities snld toduy
thov foorcd tho dreuded Orlontnl
dlacnso, Borl-Ilorl, acourge of tho
rico-ontors of China, had brokon
nut among Chlnosd at Canoo
Camp nenr horo, ob nine man
fought for llfo In a hospital horo,
suffering from a mysterious ma
lady that nlrontly lias cnusoa two
deaths.
Driver Arrested,
Fined For Hitting
Highway Marker
Vome P, Millar ot Lakovlow
has learned thnt dnmnglng a
highway sign post can prove seri
ous.
Mlllor was nrrentod by stale
police, chnrgnd with mutilating
highway property, and tnkon bo
foro Justice Duko at Lnkovlnw.
The officers snld he rnn over a
ign post, and fnllod to report.
Jutlgo Dnko nHHosnod no flno,
and snld ho would hold the case
open until Miller can show a re
ceipt for repairing the damagoB,
Tho motorist paid $2.50 cost
bill In court. I
PER HUNDRED
BACK TO PRISON
Tho moat-hunted woman In the
country," Mrs. Irene McCann,
weary of dodging the law, Is pic
tured aftor alio walked Into a
Chicago pollco station and gavo
up. asking to bo sent back to
Missouri state prison, from
whoro sho escaped the second
time In Dec. 1932. Mrs. Mc
Cann was given 10 years In 1931
far aiding hor husband In mur
der of a Joplin. Mo., Jailor.
DRENCHES CITY
More Settled Conditions
Expected Here With
Lower Mercury.
Predlctlona of more settled
weather conditions wltb lower
temporaturea wore Issued by tho
local weatherman as a result of
steadying barometric pressure.
Friday s rainfall up until 5:00
o clock netted tho city .18 of an
Inch of moisture, bringing the
tolnl procipltatlon to dnte up to
4.91 Inches. Ions than an Inch bo-
low normal, and nearly double
tho amount registered at the
samo tlmo Inst year.
Streets Slippery
A falling morcury lato Friday
evening changed rain to sleot and
snow, and turned pavements to
slippery glnrea of Ice. Driving
was dangerous until mild morn
ing temperatures melted tha Ice.
The forecast tor the coming
weok for far western states has
boon Issued as follows:
"Normal tomperaturo and con
siderable cloudiness with fre
quent rains over Oregon and
Washington In the latter part of
the week ovor northern Califor
nia and light rnjn or snow in the
nnrthorn plntoitu region."
RAINFALL HEAVY
SEATTLE, Jan. 20, (JPi
Weather bureau forecasts today
ot continued heavy ralnB tonight
and Sunday brought further dan
ger of damaging earth slides In
the Pacific northwest. The bu
reau snld no rellot from tho ab
normal rains bb yet in sight.
Botweon 5 p. m. Thursday and
5 a. m. todny tho buroau report
ed 1.79 Inches of rain foil here.
bringing January's total rainfall
to 4.01 Inches compared with a
normal of 3.40 Inches.
However, rivers In the area
atnrtod to fall, alleviating fears
ot now floods. Snow was forecast
for tho Cascadoa.
Two families wore driven from
tholr homos on the brink of a hill
Inst night whon slides threatened
to enrry the structures down.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, ()
Prealdont Itoosovolt , todny or
dered the tedornl trade commis
sion to sorve as judge In casos
of complaint by small morchnntB
ot monopolistic practices under
the national recovery not.
Tho ItooBovolt ordor provides
that whon a complainant 1b dis
satisfied with the disposition ot
his case by any agency of the
government, oxcopt tho depart
ment ot. Justice, he may press
his caso before tho trade , com-
misBton.
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CHEERS
50 Per Cent Cost
Reduction Shown
In Highway Work
Report of Engineer Re
veals Economies
Since 1925.
HIGH STANDARDS
WELL MAINTAINED
Retrenchments, New Type
Of Road Responsible
For Savings.
SALEM, Jan. 20, 0P) Oregon
in 1933 maintained 4.214 miles
of state highways for less money
than was required to keep 2574
miles In condition during 1925,
the annual report of maintenance
operations Issued today by K. H.
Baldock, chlof engineer, showed.
Among other features disclosed
In the report were:
That the per mile cost of main
tenance was reduced from $794.
43 In 1928 to $399.85 In 1933,
a reduction of nearly 50 percent,
while nt the samo time standards
of maintenance woro drastically
Increased. .. --.vr
Milliona Saved '
That a total saving of $5,300,
000 was accomplished in main
tenance expenditures In the five-
year period from 1928 to isjs.
Inclusive without taking Into
consideration the economics ef
fected by largely eliminating the
execssivo cost of renewing gravel
surfacing on heavily travelled
roads.
Thnt tho percentage of gravel
roadB in the state highway sys
tem has boon reduced from 66
percent in 1925 to 25 percent in
1933, whllo the mileage oi oiiea
macadam has Increased from 6
nercent to 47 percent in tno
same period.
Costs Reduced
Tha savings listed represent
nnlv the retrenchment In expendi
tures for maintenance maae irom
license fees, gasoline taxes and
other revenues collected by the
stnte directly from the operators
of private and commercial motor
vehicles. They take Into consid
eration none ot tho economies
incident to cheaper automobile
operation over smoother, dustless
roads savings in gusuuue, uu,
tires and general depreciation
due to wear and tear.
While imoortant economies
havo been affected in the cost of
maintenance througn reaucuons
in salaries and personnel, snop
retrenchment, standardliation oi
equipment and tho lengthening of
patrol districts, development ot
more efficient typos of oiled ma
cadam surfaces and the greatly
extonded use of this type is chlef-
(Contlnued on Page Three)
LONO BEACH. Calif., Jan. 20
(IP a moderately strong earth-
auake, tho second heaviest here
slnco the March 10 dlsastorous
shock, was telt here at 1:18 p.
m., today. The movement was
cast-west and It appeared to last
10 seconds.
WEATHER
The Cyclo-Stormagraph at Un
derwood a Phnrmaoy registered a
rapid rlBo In baromctrio pressure
Friday night and saturaay morn
ing, and more sottlod weather
with lowor temporaturea 1b the
outlook tor the Immediate fu
ture. Squalls and brlBk . winds
are probable.
The Tycos rooordlng thermom
eter registered maximum and
minimum temperatures Saturday
aa follows:
High, 32; Low, 27.
Forecast for next 24 hours:
Generally fair and cool.
The United States weather bu
roau roports .18 of precipitation
for tho 24 hours ending Friday
nt 6 p. m.; 4.91 for the season
to date; 6.79 normal; 2.95 last
year.' '
KL
Beef And Butter
Brought To City
For Distribution
Beef, butter and cod liver
oil have arrived for distribu
tion among families on relief
here.
The beef totals 1300
pounds, and the butter 21
cases. The food is being given
out on requisitions.
Local relief authorities ask
ed permission to buy- their
own supplies here, but It was
explained tbat the shipments
received are Oregon products
and their use for relief will
help the Oregon market situa
tion generally.
The cod liver oil Is being
given out to persons on relief
on recommendation of tbo
school or county nurses or a
private physician.
OiLJRApE CODE
Marketing Program For
: Stabilizing' Industry
' Put in Effect
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (P)
Secretary Ickes, acting as the
oil code administrator, today
gave modified approval to. the
purchase and marketing agree
ments submitted to him as a
plan for stabilizing the Industry.
The agreements. submitted
originally by 24 companies as
an alternative to a proposed
price-finding schedule, become
effective immediately.
The secretary approved an
order making a violation of the
agreements also a violation of
the oil code and subject to a
fine of $500 per day tor each
day of violation, or six months
Imprisonment.
In his modifications, the sec
retary entirely disapproved sec
tion 4 of the marketing agree
ment which provided for unusu
ally severe penalties tor those
violating the marketing agree
ment. SEM ELECTED
Henry Semon was elected
chairman of the Klamath farm
adjustment committee recently
appointed by the governor in an
organization mooting held Satur
day morning at the office of
County Agent C. A. Honderson.
Other members of the commit
tee are: A. R. Campbell, Hugh
O uonnor, u. m. Keener, j. w
Kerns and C. A. Henderson who
acts as secretary for the organi
zation. These farm adjustment com
mittees aDDolnted from all coun
ties In the state have, for their
primary purpose the adjustment
ot farm mortgages, particularly
those held up by the federal land
banks.
The entire Klamath county
committee will go to Medtord on
Monday, January 29, to meet with
the similar committees from
Curry, Coos, Jnckson, Josephine
and Lake counties. The state
chairman ot the farm adjustment
organization, O. M. Plummer, and
L. R. Brithnupt, state secretary,
will attend the meeting, and out
line Immediate procedures of the
county committees.
Police Continue
License Checking
State police are conducting
further road checks to determine
the oxtent of ownership of oper
ators' licenses among motorists
In this area.
Friday they stopped cars at
the Lakovlow junction. Sergeant
Marlon Barnes said the license
situation was shown to be con
siderably improved.
Ward McKeynolds, license ex
aminer, will be here on January
22,. 23 and 24.
POTATO
U.S. CONTROL
T
Federal Coordinator De
livers Report To
Congress.
EVENTUAL PUBLIC
OWNERSHIP URGED
Cost of Change Regarded
Too Great For
. Present
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, (JPj
Answering the first ot a series
of questions asked him by con
gress,, Joseph B. Eastman fed
eral coordinator of transportation
held today the time was not
ripe for either nationwide con
solidation of railroads or govern
ment ownership.
His answer to the query "Is
there need for a radical or major
change In the organisation, eon-
duet, and regulation ot the rail
road Industry which can be ac
complished by federal legisla
tion?" was transmitted to Preal-
dent Roosevelt - and- 'the ' hour
and senate by the Interstate com
merce commission, which the law
requires to stndy and comment
on his findings.
No Action Taken
The commission submitted the
report with a synopsis ot East
man's studies, but called atten
tion to the fact that It neither
approved nor disapproved the
findings.
Eastman concluded:
"The ultimate solution of the
railroad problem Is public own
ership and operation. The conn-
try is not now In a condition to
stand the financial strain ot ac
quisition of these great proper
ties. A grand consolidation plan
is Impractical at this time be
cause the country is not in con
dition to stand a forced consolid
ation."
He reported that legal stric
tures placed on the coordinator
of transportation forbidding re
duction of employment through
coordinator orders "have pre
vented much actual accomplish
ment in the elimination of
waste."
Savings Doubtful
He suggested continuation for
another year by executive order
ot the office ot the coordinator
and the possibility that later it
be made a permanent establish'
ment with a small and flexible
staff.
He submitted a tentative plan
for public operation which he
said "Is intended only as a sug
gestion ot some of the possibili
ties." He found that the Prince plan
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HAVANA, Jan. 20, (P A
physician was killed and a phar
macist wounded In medical strike
disorders today.
The strike itself, which began
In a controversy between Cuban
and Spanish medical factions, was
in process ot arbitration under
the specific watch ot President
Carlos Mendleta.
E,
CALCUTTA. Jan. 80. fAP
Unofficial estimates ot the death
toll of last Monday's earthquake
were raised to 16,000 today.
Workers are laboring day and
night at the task of gathering the
bodies ot the dead and dumping
them Into the Ganges river.
Bihar Province was hardest hit.
the damage there being estimated
at 240,000,000.
Many buildings In Mutaffarpur
sank five feet Into the ground In
the course of the tremors.
OF RAILROADS
ADVISED
7 Criminals
Elude Police
KANSAS STATE CONVICTS
FREE TEACHER TAKEN
AS HOSTAGE
LANSING, Kas., Jan. 20 (JF)
uint.-i wiaenea tneir sesren to
day for the seven convicts who
broke out of the Kansas state
prison yesterday as Lewis Dres
ser, rural school teacher ab
ducted by two of them, was re
leased unharmed at Pawhuska,
Okla.
Dresser was freed after ' Jim
Clark and another convict be
lieved to be Bob Brady, leaders
of the break, made a successful
dash In the teacher's car to
reach an outlaw hideout in the
hills of northern Oklahoma.
QtJINCY, 111., Jan. 20 (P)
Five Chicago youths, objects of
an all-day southern and western
Illinois hunt in which a posse of
250 men trapped them in a
woods, were in jail at Carthage,
111., today, and approximately
3,460 of the money taken in a
robbery ot the State Bank of
Girard, 111., was recovered.
Action Pushed Through
On Dollar Devalu-'
atidn BUI. ' '
WASHINGTON. Jan. 20, (AP)
The house late today approved,
without amendment, the section
of the president's dollar devalue.
tion bill transferring to the gov
ernment title to gold now held
by federal reserve banks.
It rejected an amendment to
require that the treasury certi
ficates to be Issued to banks for
ine gom, near on their faces a
stipulation that they be redeem
ed In gold or a value equivalent
An amendment by Representa
tive Patman . (D-Tex.) to forbid
the transfer of the nationalized
gold to an International bank
was defeated 170 to 133.
Meanwhile, the senate banking
committee voted to close hear
ings on the money bill until Mon
day, despite the protests of re
publicans. -
Chairman Fletcher announced
that among the witnesses Monday
would be Owen D. Young ot New
York and George F. Warren,
President Roosevelt's financial
adviser.
TOTALS $80,000
Civil works payrolls In Klam
ath county, excluding this week's
figures, have thus tar totaled
S74.077.87. and with another
$13,000 going out Saturday, the
total will run close to $90,000.
These figures were obtained
from Disburser Perry O. DeLap
Saturday, as the local civil
works authorities took stock of
the situation in connection with
Instructions to curtail the pro
gram.
The figures quoted are for
labor exclusively. Thousands of
dollars have been spent for mate
rials and supplies, which Insofar
as possible were purchased here.
The CWA was going along on
a readjusted basis Saturday, All
projects were working, however,
except that at Klamath Union
high school.
LATE
MONTREAL, Jan. 20 (API-
Frank Shields of New York, to
dny defeated George Lott, of
Chicago, in straight sets In the
nil-American final of tho Cana
dian national Indoor tennis
championships to retain the
title he won Inst year for the
first time. Tho scores were
6-8, 6-0, 9-7.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 20 (API-
Twenty employes of the Cudnhy
packing plant at Newport, near
here, were Injured, some seri
ously, today In compressed gai
explosion.
PRODUCERS
POLICE BRA ft
BREMER DEATH
NOTE AS FAKE
Family Fearfrf Wealthy
St. Paul Man Killed
By Kidnapers. ;
STAINED AUTO
BRINGS ALARM
Relatives Prepared T
Pay $200,000 For .
Return.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 20, (AP)
-Branded by police as a
fake, an anonymous note
stating Edward G. Bremer,
wealthy owner , and presi
dent of a St Paul bank, kid
naped for ' $200,000, had
been "bumped eff" was re
ceived by W. G. Robertson,
Minneapolis postmaster , to
day. :. : "'
The authorities state
ment, however, did i not
serve to allay fears of tha
Bremer family, who had
fresh in their minds a threat
of death and the blood
stained automobile of the
37 - year - old Commercial
State Bank head.
Received through .the mall to
day by Robertson, the note was
written' in long hand by a good
penman. It bore no postmark
nor stamp and was addressed to
the Minneapolis poatofflce. The
note said:
"Very sorry, but Edward
Bremer is now resting In
peace. Was by accident bump
ed off. Body near Anoka, .
Minn. - Will not be found
until after the snow goes.
Contact all off. Please - forr
give us. All a mistake by one
of our gang being drunk.
"Please tell Walter Magee,
St. Paul. .
"One of the gang." . . .
Chief of Police Tbomaa Cahlll,
Charles Tierney, inspector of de
tectives, and Werner Hannl, head
of the St. Paul office, United
States bureau of Investigation,
termed the missive the work of
crank and abandoned la
Minneapolis their projected trip
to Anoka.
Brutality indicated '
The missive, coming . three
days after the finding ot the
wealthy 37-year-old bank presi
dent and owner's blood stained
automobile, caused a furore and
heightened alarm the family and
friends have felt for the safety
of the son ot Adolph Bremer,
personal friend of Fresiient
Roosevelt and principal owner
ot the Jacob Schmidt Brewing
company.
Splotched with blood, evidence
in the automobile Indicated
Bremer was brutally slugged
over the head by his captors,
dragged Into the back seat, and
spirited away. f -
Police Confident
Simultaneously, a report was
spread that Bremer had been re
leased near Lake Elmo, ' Minn.,
about 10 miles from hero. This
was promptly denied by Walter
Magee, named In the note re-
celved by the Minneapolis post- ,
master. Magee, wealthy contractor
and friend ot the Bremers, re
ceived a telephone call and a
note from the kidnapers soon
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NEWS
. GREELEY, Colo,, .1 Jan. 00
(AT) Sheriff W. W. Wyatt of
Greeley, today captured La Clrde
Stevens, ' 87, of North Platte,
Neb., who la alleged to bare ,
shot and ' killed his estranged
wife, and futher-ln-law there, -at
a filling station at Kersey, Colo.,
cast of here. ;.
KEARNEY, Neb., ' Jan. . 80
(AP) Five gunmea held a ,
the . Fort Kearney (Mate baa
today, abducted flv persona aed
escaped with 110,000. The
Uvea were released later. ;