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WW an i ''naMMaf re HERALD SERVICE llorald uberlbrs who (all Co receive their paper by SlUU p. m. are requested to call th Herald business office, plion 1000.' and a paper will bs sent by special carrier. Editorials On the Day's News Ily FRANK JENKINS 'COLDIBHB l'atrol Parli." Bo 3 reeds the bis hoadllno of th day. I Mounted republican guard abarsa and dlaperae a crowd of 1,000 war vetorans datnoualrallug gainst the fovernmont Id front t the Elyaoo palaba In tba French capital. e mHAT'B a long way o((. Not JL much ot a thrill. But thoro'd be a lot o( tbrllla b. it tr It were happening In Washington. It would concern US then, and lows that ooncerni US Is a lot mora Important than newt that ooneerm the other fellow. C PEAKING of Fronch nowi, you i - j ,.B rflinatnh may nave ru - the other day: 'Royaltala riot In Pari aialnat tha RADICAL BOCIALIBT gov- ernment, whoe member are ao- cuaed of belns mixti up too much with the Btavlaky bank failure." e THAT la to aay. tha exlremo eonasrvetlve OUTS accuie tba radical socialist INS of dolus the very thlnis tho radical outa bare been aceualns the conservative Ins ot dolus all these msny year Humsn nature I human na ture. Isn't UT e a OUT anougtt ot this Ions dla- tancs, world politic now. You're probably fd op with It Thla writer certainly Is. , Let's It closer home. BUCK WIL.I.IAMB poi po tba fellow who soes around scratching matchoa on the walls ot good looking buildings. He was all burned up. for ample, over match scratchos that appeared on the beautiful First National bank building within a day or so after It completion And he'a by no means plesaed with a lot mora af the same on tha Williams building. , ; TT"6 AM odd freak of vandalism that loads poople mostly men to scratch matches on handsome walls, Isn't It? But men aren't tha only at' fenders. Boslde the mlrrora In the wo men's rest rooms st tho Pelican theatre, one of the most attract ive theatre buildings on the Pa clflo coast, a civic monumont ot whloh everybody ought to be. and noarly everybody Is, proud, appear red streaks where womon after applying their lipstick war paint, have wiped tha surplus from their fingers on the wall. KJOTB: This Is hearsay. This lv wrltor, who smokes a pipe and wears trousors,' Isn't In the habit of frequenting womon'a rost rooms In thontros.) A ND somebody, whothor man or woman not known, delib erately took a knlfo or rasor blade sevoral months ago and (Continued on Page Four) ROME, Feb. 6 (IP) An Amor lean - woman, her Italian, hus band and tholr baby daughter wore found smothorod to donth by snow today nftor an ava lonoho swept over tholr winter ports lodge near Bolognola, Tho woman was tho former Miss Holon Hawkins ot Lob An golos, the daughtor of Rex Hawkins of New York and his fllvorcod wife, Mrs, Rose Payne of Hollywood, Calif. The Dalles Man Killed in Mishap PORTLAND, Ore., Fob. 6 (IP) 0. N. Johnson of The Dallas was killed some time during the Sight when his heavy oil trii.k and trailer dropped over an 804 foot . cliff from the Columbia River highway1 near Crown Point, His body was reoovered today. Price Unknown rein SUPREME Reported Killed; S c o re s W o u n d e d American Embassy Spattered by Bullets; Ministry of Marine Building Fired by Rioters - PARIS, Feb. 6. (AP) An Ministry of Marine building, near the United States Embassy, on the Place de la had fired on the battling crowd. The mob stormed tho ministry presumably to get arms with which to reply to the police fusillade. Tho fire was extinguished after half an hour but the mob, shouting defiance, still milled across the Rue Royale which separates the ministry from the Hotel Crillon. The Embassy iuelf. next to the hotel, was spattered by the police bullets which were known to have killed at least one man, probably mortally wounded a girl and injured 80 more. The mob set fire to tho build' Ing In Its second assault, after It had been drlvon back from an attempted attack on the chamber ot deputies acroas the river Beln on the far aid of the Place de la Concorde. Police Guards Broken Pollco and mounted guards succeodod In repulsing the first mad drive but, defiant ot the heavy elubs ot the authorities, the demonstralora aucceeded on tholr rush In getting Into the building far enough to aet tha woodwork ablase. . Firemen, held In readiness on riot duty, smsshed through the mob and auccoodod In their fight against tha blase. The mob. boaten baok, swirled up against the vory side ot the bu dine- wnicn nouaos tne uunr- anty Trust company of New York. The American bank building lies flush sgalnat th back ot the Hotel Crillon on the Rue Royale. Hundreds Injured Inside the chamber of depu' tloa, whore police and troops wore mobilised, It was reported that on guardsman had beon killed and 200 persons Injured. More than 3,000 persons riot ed sgalnst the authorities In the jtroat square where once . stood me guillotine oi me rrencu revo lution. But there was another mob outbreak also at the city hall. Thst building was tilled with soldiers called out to reinforce the police who were overwhelmed (Continued on Page Three) y WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (IP) grand Jury Investigation of alleged activities ot Josoph Sil verman, a Washington and New York dealer In army surpluses, was begun today with Harry H Woodrlng, assistant secretary of war, among the witnesses,. The Inquiry followed an order Issued last night by Woodrlng barring Bllvorman from doing buslnesa with the war dopart- mont. It was understood that another wltnoss would he J. B. Woodslde, who Is connectod with General Motors and formerly was assist ant to Comptroller Genoral J. R, MoCarl, Suspect to Visit Scenes of Wreck VANCOUVER, Wash.. Feb. 6. (IP) Convinced that Frank Hoyt, ni. a fnim hnn.1 urn a lnntt.il.. mental In causing he wreck of a Spokane, Portland ft Seattle freight train near . Wlshram, August 18, 0. EJ. Sullivan, special agent for the road, and other officials were today preparing to take Hoyt to the soene of the wreck and have him re-enaot his movements ot that day, ,. Assa mho 'siNMona Five ( ' Aimiuri Number enraged mob set fire to the Concorde today after police Thousands Expect Pardon Under New Federal Provisions. WASHINGTON, Fob. S. (P) Many ot tho 7,500 federal prohi bition prisoners were hopeful to day they aoon would receive iree dom. They found encouragement In a atatement to newspaper men last night by Attorney General Cummlngs that "very ravoraoie consideration would be given to appllcatlona for leniency from prlaonors whose only orlme wss violation of tho liquor law. Pardon Plca Increase Cummlngs received reporters after the aupreme court had ruled that all pending federal pronlbl (Continued on Page Three) CAPITAL COVERED BY WASHINGTON. Feb. S (fP) More snow blanketed tne capital today, causing automobllista and pedestrlana plenty ot skidding trouble, while hundreds Includ Ing President Roosovelt, nursed colds. Washington was Just about dug out of one ot Its heaviest snows of the winter when more descended yesterday and a bit more early today. Tho president's cold was not serious, but on the advice of nis physician, he stayed away from the executive offices yesterday to catch up on his correspondence. The doctor said ho could go back to the office today, If he oared to. SEATTLE, TACQMA FEEL EARTHQUAKE SEATTLE, Feb. 6 (IP) A slight enrthquako shook at 5:20 a. m. today waB reported by sev eral residents of Seattle districts, particularly Queen - Anne Hill. Distinct shocks, lasting several minutes, were reported by some persons. ' The University of Washington seismograph had not been cheek ed this .morning, but officials said the apparatus "seldom reg isters slight local quakes." TACOMA, Fob. 6 (IP) An earthquake sharp enough to awaken many persona was felt at 5:16 o'clock this morning. No damage was done. The quake was also felt In Gig Harbor and on Henderson Bay, Pill PRISONERS HOPE FOR RELEASE xiHiiaAiMnFALLS 0RE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, HEARS AIR FUTURE OF HELD BRIGHT Marshall Hoppin, Region al Advisor, Views Prospects. EAST-MOUNTAIN ROUTE PRAISED Development of Alterna tive Airway Believed . Possible. Klamath Is on Its way to a place of Importance on tbe avla tlon man. in the onlnioo ot Marshall. JioppUi. , regional ad visor of the aeronautical divi sion of the D. 8. department ot commerce. 'Hoppin, whose supervision cov ers all the western ststes, came to Klamath Falls, Tuesday, witb E. T. Sullivan, department of commerce engineer, on a trip to Inspect the line at intermediate airports eaat of the Cascades now under development as CWA projects. ... Future Held Bright "I would say unqualifiedly that the east-mountain airway baa excellent chances tor devel opment as an Important alternate route." said Hoppin. "The de partment ot commerce has be come vitally interested In the possibilities over here, and the CWA program came along Just at a time to translate that Interest Into actual construction ot air ports." Hoppin has a peculiar Interest In th Klamath Falls municipal airport because, ns airport spe cialist tor the department ot commerce in the late 'twenties. he came here to select the sit for the field out of several pro posed locations. Location Ideal "In its municipal airport. Klamath Falls has one ot tha finest sot-ups in this part of the country," said Hoppin. "From every standpoint, the location is Ideal. With proper development (Continued on Page Three) DREHER CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER Emll Dreher, a democrat, ob tained petitions at the county clerk's office Monday and Indi cated his Intention of circulating them to place his name on the primary ballot for nomination as county commissioner. Another new name hi com missioner talk is Ed Dunham, a tax leaguer, and republican. Considerable Interest is evinc ed both north and south ot the city In the possible candidacy of Ed Crawford, Merrill . business man. for republican nomination as commissioner. Crawford is frequently .mentioned by those who feol the out-of-town territory deserves representation on tha county court. Political Interest Tuesday was dlrectod toward the meeting call ed for the courthouse at 7:30 o'clock tonight for consideration of recnll of members of the court and the district attorney. , This la a publlo gathering. Death of Secretary Closes Off tees Here Word of the death of Secre tary Hal Hobs resulted In im mediate olOBlng ot the operators" license examining bursas here Tuesday morning. Ward McReynolda, . In charge ot the office here, received orders to proceed to headquarters. There will be no examinations here this week as ' previously sched uled. ' KLAMATH WW UYI Doug Named in Divorce FAIRBANKS, BR., Co-RESPOXD-EXT IX BRITISH COURT SUIT LONDON, Feb. P) Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., American film star, waa served . notice today that he baa been named as co respondent in a divorce action Instituted by young Lord Ashley agalnat tfae doll-like Lady Ash ley. The law firm of Gordon, Dadda and company announced the service of the notice and Imme diately Lady Ashley, who once played the heroine's rote In the play "The Whole Town'a Talk ing" had all London town talk ing again. , Declines Comment She herself, however, - sepa rated from her husband and re siding in the Mayfalr district, flatly declined to make any com ment on the ease. Fairbanks maintained a "dig nified silence" even as he did during bis marital trouble with Mary PIckford. his equally fa mous wife wboae divorce action still is pending In California. Doug .In Heclnslon , - 1 Ho was- seclude- today in-'a stately country home near Lon don. His London representative declined to reveal the where abouts of filmland's most famous actor ot swashbuckling roles, saying such revelation would be "unfair to th friends be Is vis iting." SOVIET BUILDING Siberian Frontier Scene of Military Activity; Army Pay Up, MOSCOW, Feb. . (AP) Further stops to strengthen East ern Siberia were taken by the soviet government today. Substantial pay increases were decreed for red army soldiers, engineers, workers, teacher and professional men in the region. Peasants were ordered exempt ed from regulations for the de livery of agricultural produce, Morale Developed : The moves are in furtherance ot a policy ot strengthening thin ly populated districts In the Far East and building up military morale in the face ot Increasingly tense Russo-Japanese relations. Exemptions ot from three to six years from delivering grain to the government will be grant ed peasants In 23 districts of tbe area. Provisions also wore made to reduce allotments for many other products. i The order relating to farming becomes effective February 16. as does the salary Increase of from 10 per cent for office employes to 30 per cent for miners and mining engineers. Soldiers will receive a pay ts- orease retroactive to January I. It will amount to 50 per cent for Junior officers and regular troons and 20 per cent tor nan of higher rank. GITY OF DANZIG FRBB CITY OF DANZIG, Feb. UPi Danilg went Nasi today whan tha Nasl-domlnated senate appointed a state commissioner to take aver tha funotlong l the oKy oonneM. ,, I f f AMENDMENT FAVORE) WASHINGTON, Feb. tfPyr- The senate agricultural conwtsV ta today favorably reported MMs amending the mining laws 1 ap plicable to the Mount Hood na tional forest In Oregon and .'add ing certain lands to the toreet, UNITED PRESS 1934 Number FA 15) 1ft STATE, CITY OPEN BUTTLE L Elton Watkins, Klamath Representative, In . vokes Home Rule. CRIMINAL STATUS , OF LAW DISPUTED Hearing Appealed From Marion County Bench : Gets Underway.. ' SALEM, Feb. 6 OP) Review ing tor the second.- time their original arguments on the legis lative liquor . control act. attor neys for the otty ot luamatn Falls and the state liquor com mission today presented their case to the Oregon supreme court for final decision on the constitutionality of the statute. Attorneys, allowed 45 minutes each for the appellants and respondents, again stressed the home rule provisions ot . the constitution around which feature the test case that was brought by tbe city ot Klamath Falls. Tha case was appealed from the Marion . county circuit court where Judge L. G. Lewelling held the act valid. Defense Challenged Elton Watkins, arguing on his brief tor Klamath Falls, chal lenged the defense contention that the act was a criminal statute and therefore takes prec edence over the home rule amendment in the constitution. Section 2 of article 11, known as the home rule amendment, would give the exclusive right to regu late liquor to cities, subject to the constitution and criminal laws ot the state. .Watkins told the court that it would first have to prove the statute as a criminal . measure, and second that the act makes the sale and licensing ot liquor unlawful, otherwise the criminal law would not apply. He stated that act was "revenue measure pure and simple." The act, he argued, was passed not as a criminal measure, but (Continued on Page Three) IT EVANGELIST HEARD LOS ANGELES. Feb. . (Pi- Judgment ot $5,900 - against Almee Semple McPherson-Hutton, evangelist, was awarded today to assignees ot J. Roy Stewart, late motion picture director, because ot her failure to carry out a c in- tract he had with her to make a movie based on her life. . Attorney to Seek ' -; Martin s Office PORTLAND, Feb. . (iP) Harry M. Kenin, Portland at torney and member ot the school board here, today announced he Is a candidate, as a "Proci'esalve Republican," for the nomination as congressman from the third Oregon district, to succeed Rep. Charles H. Martin who will re tire to seek the governorship of Oregon. Cadet Fatally Hurt in Crash SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. . fP) Cadet Harold L. Wells, 21, ot Baldwin Park, calif., was in jured fatally when the plane la which he was flying with cadet Lawrence S. Warner, 24, Holll- dnysburg, Pa., crashed near Randolph Field today. FOB T l w Vr' a I i ui Cai Unsettled; moderate. High 52; Low 34. OREGON: Generally - Unsettled; moderate. 6036 Appointments Not Released LIQtTOB COMMISSION EX PECTED TO ACT LATE THIS AFTERNOON. PORTLAND, Feb. 6. OP) The Oregon liquor control commission said at 1 p.m. today that because ot the necessity of rechecklng lists of agencies and of store per sonnel, na announcement ot names or locations could be made an til late this afternoon. The board said names ot store employes will be announced locally in the cities In which they will work, and store locations will be made public at the same time. The list- of state agencies will be announced through the Portland office at the commis sion. SENATE EXAMINES MAILMI1CT5 Solons Push Investigation 1 '" Into Air 'Maft-r ' " ' Affairs. ; WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (IP) More United ' Aircraft millions rolled by the senate air mail in vestigating committee today aa it turned from contempt citations to its chief business, inquiry int mail contracts. W. E. Boeing, chairman at the united board, told ot receiving 318,076 shares of United Air craft and Transport stock for his Boeing Aircraft and Transport holdings. At the May, 1929, high, these United shares were quoted at $51,528,313, he agreed, as Chairman Black introduced rec ords to that effect. He said the property for which these shares were received was carried at 2487,149, but was worth much more, representing the accumulation ot 19 years' business operations. Chairman Black questioned the witness as to profits ot United subsidiaries from government or ders. . Referring to $2,000,000 of army business in 1931, tho chair man said records showed a profit of 43.31 per cent to the Boeing Airplane r Manufacturing com pany. Pratt A Whitney Aircraft, an other subsidiary, made 81.71 per cent profits on government con tracts in 1930, Black 'said, read ing from the) records. Boeing told the committee that Richard Hoyt, president of Pan American Airways, had sought to obtain with Unlted's assistance, an issuance of 20,000 Pan Amer ican shares below the market price. ' SALEM, Feb. 8. (AP) Em ployes of the state highway de partment were requested to re main out ot politics and those now holding honorary positions were reauested to resign, in an order released today and signed by the three highway commission ers, Leslie si, hcoh, caairman, m. B. Aldrich and Carl G. Wash burne. . Soviet Congress Approves New Plan MOSCOW. Feb. tPr Formal approval at tbe second five-year plan was given today ay tne ism all-union oongress ot the com munist party. Full details of the program oy which Soviet Russia hopes to triple her production and make herself self-reliant tor all nec essities were outlined by Vyach- eslaft Molotoff, president oi me council of commissar. VVlNiK lol IM ALL OREGON OF OFFICIAL Secretary of State Depart, ment Succumbs to f1 Long Illness. : ' PASSING COMES 1 EARLY TUESDAY Illustrious Public Servant Victim of Tuber- eulosis. I SALEM, Feb. . (P) Funer al aervicea for Hal Moaa, secretary f state, who eneal early this morning will be held Tbmrsday February g, a g) pjo. from the CloBgh-Bjurrtok chapel in Salem. . SALEM, Feb. 6. (fP) The de partment ot state In Oregon to day was silent and all door of its various offices closed follow ing the death early this morning ot Hal E. Hoss, chief ot that divi sion ot government for the past six years. Death claimed the secretary of state while he was asleep, short ly before 1 o'clock, and ha slipped Into unconsciousness peaceably, Mrs. Hoss said. She was at bis bedside when tho prominent official silently turned over his duties to ethers and surrendered custody of the seal of the state. State Services Planned vi Unable to come to his offlcs the past few weeks, Hoss at all times kept In close touch with his staff and the affaire ot th government. A few daya ago h issued his last publlo press re lease in which he accounted for the funds taken In for federal gasoline taxes" and added the comment that motorists ot Ore gon' would save more than a mil lion dollars annually :tt the na tional burden were lifted. No arrangements were an nounced today for his burial, but it was indicated his body would be taken to Oregon City where he was engaged in newspaper work for many years and. from which city he came : to assume his political duties in 1928. Serv ices tor Hoss would also be held (Continued on Page Three) WILL ROGER? "ata-sWat - BEVERLY HILLS, Feb. . Editor The Evening Herald 1 Now that the principal thing to gamble In Is money, you watch the Chinamen entering into your brokerage offices. No people in the world can gamble on money exchange like a Chinaman,' the quickest flgurera in their heads of any body. That ' money ' market" to. Shanghai makes the New York stock market look like a wake, and not a pencil In the house. I here and now suggest to Mr. Morgenthau, ' our tressorav, don't monkey with -a Prince ton or Harvard professor when he starts ont with that two billion to stabilise with. ' Can all those professors and got him a Chinaman, ' ' . ,, Tours. , . ' . , , MOURNS LO