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1 eratt HERALD SERVICE Harold subscribers' who fall to recelv their paper by diliu p. di. are requeued to call the llerald business office, phono 1UOO, and paper, will be sent pf pedal carrier. Local Forecast Fair and cooL High 40; Low 17. OREGON: Increasing cloudiness, v ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS irmnnm wwwwWpinnnnHri-rn-iv--i-i-"--rrrrr-i-r-r""- Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1934 Number 6040 CUM IS 151 15) vi JUL Editorials On the Day!s News ML M lly rilANK JKNK1NH yOU road In thl newspapers "Two Importont doals In pota to land, Involving about 160,000, Imvo boon eonuminnlod boro In tho punt fow days. A flurry of liitareal In Klamath furm land, particularly potato aoroago, la reported. KLAMATH potato land la good preporty. Ita owners, In the paat crop year, gonorally speak ing, have mado good monoy. Tbay nover hare loat much money, even In tho wont yoan. Property with a rooord like that la bound to be In good de mand Juat aa soon ss condition! return to aomethlng llko normal. npilIB writer, for one, speaking A for himself alono and not trying to apeak for anybody elao, bopea wo don't get a boom that will carry prlcoa of potato land aliova the point at which avorage production and averuito prlcea will allow a fair roturn on the In Yoatmont, It that ahould happon, wa will auffer soveroly In tho long run. TOWA la an outatandlng example of what happona when land speculation runs wild. Juat aftar tho war, a specula tlva boom In Iowa land, which bad been exceedingly profitable under war-time price conditions, got undur way. Thla wrltor knowa of one good ploce of Iowa farm land that sold bofora the boom for $11? an acre, and aold again at tba peak of the boom for $800 an acre. Thla, romembor, was corn land. Somewhere around 50 bushels to tho acre Is a fair avorags corn yield, oven In Iowa, the loading corn auto, and 75 centa per buahol Is certainly a higher than avorngo price on the farm. Fifty bushels of corn at 75 cents per bushel means an aver age gross yield por acre of $37.50, which Is certainly no Justification for a price of $800 an acre. e AS mattor of fact, this land boom In Iowa along In 191$. which was exactly similar to the stock gambling boom In 1028 and 1980, almost rulnod the stats. v-LAMATII potato land Is mlgh- JX ty good proporty. Wo all bo- llovo that. It pleases us to boo a market for Klamath potato land dovolop Ing. There aro Interesting rumors, for example, of Idaho potato farmers coming down horo In the Klamath, country and looking us over, with the Idea of romovlng to a mora profitable location. Let thorn come. Wa have plenty of .room for them, Wa have op portunities for potato growers from oilier districts wbo know their buslnosa thoroughly. But lot's hops wa don't got a boom that will carry prices above the point whore Klamath potato (Continued on Page Pour) WILL ROGERS 9rnJC a . SANTA MONICA, Fob. 9 Editor Tho Evonlng Horold. All we road In tho papers to day out horo Is riots In Paris, and taxi cab riots In Now York. Wo know what they aro fighting over In New York.. Thoy are fighting 'ovor a nlcklo, but nobody , (ovon In Franco) knows oxactly what they aro fighting over. Franca has got moro dlf toront political parties than any nation on oarth. Thoro Is ovor 80 dlfforont pnrtlos rop rosontod In' tho Homo ot Deputies. Now In a fight on tho strootv thoro la not that many , dlf foront kind of bndgon to wonr. Well, now It's good . to soo Franoo soro nt somobody bo Bldoa us, : YourBi , . III ill SENDMffl DEVELOPING LEAGUE HEAD FILE PAPERS Formal Charges AgainBt Four County Officers on Petitions. . COURT, ATTORNEY GAINING SUPPORT Reports From Outside Communities Pre- ' diet Battle. r B MALCOLM EI'LKT A reaction agalnat the effort to recall four Kiamatn count? otflclala was apparonl In reports from both city end county Satur day, whllo John Irwin, lax leaguo president, propared to file the tormal recall petitions with Coun ty Clerk Mao K. Short and Bee retary of Stato P. J. 8tsdolman. From Mulln, Morrill, Chlloquln and Bonanza cams Informal re ports of antl-rocnll sontlment. In one . or two Instancos expreeaod emphatically at meetings. Indi cations of similar fooling about the matter wero to be found on tho streets hero, although Presi dent Irwin of the tax loagua said the rocallera also are receiving aaaurancos of support and ha Is confident tba recall will go through. Itcslstance Looms It was apparent there will be a dotormluod effort made to pre vent signing of tho recall peti tions when they are circulated. Failure to get 1491 names will kocp tba recall oft the ballot In May. Irwin tnled Ihnt ha. lnstesd of F. W. Van Busklrlf, will set as riiil tent nf the rocall move ment, to receive and maka pub- Mo rocords oi coniriouiions. no aald be hoped to file with the xntintv ftlnrir anmn time Saturday aftornoon the potltlons In the coses of Commiaaioners w. i. a. (Contlnuod on rags Tnreej START FOR U. S. OHEnnouna. France. Feb. 10 m Gold valued at 830,000.000 francs (about $13,800,000) In 341 boxes was shipped to the United Btatos foderal reserve aboard the liner Europa toaay, i.ivinpnni,. Fnta. 10. Wl Mora than $18,000,000 worth of gold was snippoa toaay ruiu l.lvernnnl and Glassow tor the Unltod states. WASHINGTON, Feb, 10. P) Tha ffnvfirnmant's Sold BUDDly continued to ollmb today to a now high of $7,038,581,441. Thla figure for tihe oloao of buslnosa Foruary 8 oompnred witn 030,1)28,685 tho preceding day. II THEI DALLES, Ore., Fob. 10 (mTlio doath toll In to trnin accident In DoBchutoa canyon Fob, 5, was Incroased to three today with the doath bf A. T. llnuor, of Portland, engineer. Dnuer,. hurtled from the cab by tho force of the boiler : ex plosion, dlod In a hospital hero from savors scalds oaused by oscnplng stanm. , Father Murders Two, Kills Self BYEItS, Colo.Fob, 10, UP) Th r eo wore dond today ana an-, other lying wounded In a Don ver hospital after a bloody even ing In which Bmll Btopputtus, 68, allegedly slow hla dnughtor, IOlsn, 18, her. husband, Elmo, 81, woundod his son, Walter, and then killed hlmaolf, PREPARES TO The Man of t" '! fix r With the resignation ot Edouard Paris looked to 70-yoir-old Qaston to handle tbe grave problems of living Jn reljrement In the south , , , icaa too caoiaot ot Willamette -Valley. Town Seeks to Prohibit State Stores. CORVALLIS. Ore.. . Feb. 10, (AP) Thla city, whoao chief "Industry" Is Orogon State Col lege, does not rcllab the Idea ot having a state liquor store estab lished In Ha traditionally dry ter ritory, and tho Corvallls city council last night dispatched a letter to the .Oregon liquor con trol board making this position plain. The formal request that no' li quor store or. agency be estab lished either In Corvallls or the Immediate vicinity was sent last night by Mayor P.- M. Brandt to the liquor control commission In Salem, the mayor announced to day. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10, (AP) Cloorge L. Sammls, ad ministrator of Oregon's liquor sontrol system, said today his of fice had not yet received from the Corvallls city council a com munication stating the city does not want a liquor store. Sammls eald, however, that the commission has no Intention of establishing a store or agency in cltios In which they are not wanted. A provision to thlB ef fect 1b Included In tho Knox law. EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 10, (AP) It residents ot Corvallls wish to keep tholr city dry they must hold a special eloation to vote upon tho matter, It was inaicatoa horo today by Goorge H. Mc Mornn. chairman of the state li quor commission, when Informed that tho mayor of tho Benton eountv citv had Bont a letter to the commission protesting the establishment of a stato liquor store in that olty. no NEW YORK, Feb, 10, (AP) Cnncellntlon of the air mall con. tracts promptod honvy. Belling ot aircraft snares in me early aoni' ing In tho Now York Btock ox changa today. Douglas Aircraft opened with a nolo of-3,000 BhnraB at $19.87, off 13.75: 11.600 .North Amerl can aviation sold at $4.12, off $2.02; Ourtlsa Wright ' opened with a tranafor ot 15,000 shares at $4, oft 85 cents. Tho list steadied a little after Aviation Corp., opened with a 20,000 shares block at 15.37, on $3.12, the Hour, p t Daladler as premier of France, Doumergue. a former president. government. Doumergue had been ot Franco when he was called to "emor siaiesmen." . . LEAD PARFS BIDT City Calmed After Night of Street Fighting; Many Wounded PARIS, Feb. 10, (AP) Com- muniat bands wbloh had created a night of terror were cleared from mllea of riot-ridden streets Juat before dawn today. Unconfirmed reports' told ' ot several fatalities. Shots were freely exchanged. There was hand-to-hand fighting, and pitched battles across burn ing barricades. : Police Participate Thousands of nollce participat ed in the' drive against the riot ers. ' At dawn, the nollce held the place Da La Republique a Com munist rendexvous. Earlier, col umns of rjoters bad' split Into small bands. There wero a hun dred or more hot fights simul taneously over an era a mile square In northeast Paris. While the night-long fighting rased. Premier Doumergue or dered proclamations posted call ing upon all rrenenmen to lio (Contlnuod on Page Three) HORSESTEALERS ' Two years each In the state penitentiary constuuiea ine seni-en,-B Imnoaed by Circuit Judge W, M. Duncan Saturday on William Reay and Doinert uriggs, con teased horse thieves. Tho two men were sought last Sunday by sheriff's officers In southern Klamath ' county and northorn California. Later they were arroated by; tho sheriff of Modoo county and returned here, where they pleaded guilt? to stealing a horse- belonging to T. F. Andoraon of Olene. They -were also reported to have stolon a horse' belonging to Fred Robertson of Malln, but the Anderson incident, was made the baala ot the prosecution. Officers Probe v ' Robbery Motive R08EBURQ. Ore.': Fob. 10. UP) Tho theory that robbery was the motive for tho slaying Wed nesday ot David M. Williams, Rica valley farmer, whose body, with the skull horribly . crushed, was found .by. searchers Thursday morning,- was advanced here to day. , Tl I 1 CLEARED OFF BY THIEVES Kansas Man Reports Un usual Incident At Hildebrand. STATE FORESTERS TO PROBE THEFT Oregon Officials Hold Session Here on Saturday. Disclosure of the theft of tim ber from 80 acres ot land north ot Hildebrand owned by William McN'ally. ot Kansas City, was an interesting feature of a hearing held at the courthouse Saturday by the state foresters depart ment In connection with reforest ation ot cut-over lands. McNally, according to the story, owned the Umber land tor years, and several times refused to take advantage oi cnances to sell it. He hoped some day to realize enough on the property to help take care oi him in ms oia age,., -','AMWtH w jumoan - About. 60 days ago. . McNally received a notice from the state that his land was In cut-over class. Apparently, the timber bad been taken off without his knowledge, prior to 1928. He wrote to Jack Kimball, Klamath tlmberraan about the matter, and Kimball turned his letter over to the forestry department at Sat urday's bearing. An Investiga tion will nrobably be made. In all the years l nave oeen dealing In timberlands, I never came actually In contact with such an incident until now," said Kimball. "Stories of tho kind are often told, but things like that don't often happen. Officials Present Present for the hearing here were Sam Miller, In charge of re forestation In too state loroster s offii-n: Dean Q. W. feavy oi Ore gon State college; George A. Pal- miter. memDer oi we loresiry board, and Porter King, assistant state forester. ' Representatives ot the large (Continued on rag mreej ESCAPES DEATH TirA virnvTT.T.m Pnllf.. Feb, 10 (Falling 150 feet from the top OI a DIUll near uwo . Ma rimiria rnriv. 9-vear-old i t r.nAv fit Klam- BUU Ul ' 7 " ath Falls, was alive toaay to ion of hlB experience and physicians said tney oeiievea wo wwuiu cover. The boy tumbled ovor tna oiuu Thursday and men passing by v. a)i1m in thA tree. After Bin ... u -"-- - hours of work, a man was low ered and the Doy puuau to enfoty. ' . The child was unconscious and suffered from shock - and chill after being nearly drowned, the - in which he fell being near a waterrau. AS 1A SPEAKER TinnTT A vn TToh 10. (SA Ad vised from Washington, D. C, to discontinue hla work. Dr. Fred erick Vlnlng Fisher, national NRA speaker and field representative, was visiting friends here today after hlB schedule or speecnes in the state ot Washington had been Fisher denied here that ho had resigned, Ho o b s e r t e d that "Washington is evidently dis pleased ' with what happened at Eugene." It was at Eugene that three clergymen took exception to what they described as Dr.' Fisher's "rabble-rousing technique," and his reputed likening, ot the NRA movement to the religion ot Christ. Gold Wave Claims 40 Lives In East; Florida Has Snow Housewives Rush To Beat Strike Called In Paris PARIS, Feb. 10, (AP) Paris ian housewives hurried to market today to : buy food supplies for over tho weekend and through the general strike called by labor organizations tor Monday. Undeterred by the fact that the demonstration is to last only one day, tney bought all tney could carry. "This Is Inst like the war." was frequently heard. T MacCracken Successfully Avoids Arrest for Contempt WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (ff) The senate decided to postpone until next Tuesday final action In lbe trial, qt three aviation jpf- flclals for contempt. , WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. (VP Mrs. William P. MacCracken In dicated today she was In the same position as the senate so far as knowledge of the where abouts of . her husband was con cerned. Asked by reporters where her husband was, she replied: 1 haven t any idea. WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. (P)-r- Slttlng as a court for one ot the tew times in history, tne senate today approached a verdict in its contempt trial of three avia tion company officials while it awaited the arrest ot a fourth defendant William P. Mac Cracken, former assistant secre tary ot commerce for air. Apprehension of MacCracken, who refused to appear with the other three before the senate yes terday to show cause why he should not be held in contempt, was expected momentarily. Facing the senators, Frederick P. Lee, MacCracken's law part ner,, told of a visit to his office by L. H. Brittin, vice president ot Northwest Airways, to see the air mall files in possession of MacCracken. Brittin was one ot those on trial in connection with the re moval ot airmail records which bad been subpoenaed by the sen ate airmail Investigating com mittee. The others were Harris M. Hanshue, president, and Gil bert L. Giwin, Washington rep resentative ot Western Air Ex press. STATE SALES TAX The state sales tax was taking a lambasting In Klamath county Saturday with' Ray GUI, master ot the state grange, here to at tend a Keno session of the coun ty Pomona grange. . George Pal miter, former master ot the grange, was with Gill. At Williamson river - Friday night, GUI attacked the sales tax measure and the Williamson river grange unanimously ap proved his stand. Fort Klamath grangers were present, but did not act at that time, saying a vote of their grange will be tak en in a separate meeting later. Gill spent tbe night In the county and was to be chief speak er at the county grange meeting at Keno, where Mastor Earl Mack presided. The keynote of Gill's argument against the sales tax is that It provides a aaving to the big property owner to the detriment ot the small. It tvas explained that Gill's attack on, the BaloB tax was re quired of h)m by a vote ot the state grange at" Pendleton, when a unanimous ballot was taken against any and all sales taxes. The national grange, It was aald, has followed such a policy for yeara. OVER , By The Associated Preaa . A slowly climbing mercury eased suffering over much of the United States today but the weather, even after ' record smashing frigid wave, did not feel exactly balmy. Five states reported 40 deaths. Warmer weather spread from the Rockies east to the north Atlantic coast, and as far sonth aa Virginia and northwest Texas. Many of the south Atlantic states grew colder. , - . Sfany Deaths Reported The weather bureau announced the coldest officially recorded spots In the country lsst night were Canton, N. Y., and North-field,- Vt, with . 18 below aero. However. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., reported an unofficial 41 be low xero. New York state feared large damage to its fruit crop. In New. York City, the lowest temperature reading was z be low zero, Dnt that was 12 de grees warmer than yesterday's record cold. In Boston, where three men have been frozen and several died of ailments due to the cold, the. temperature was rising. Over a large part of Pennsyl vania, where 14 deatna were at tributed directly or Indirectly to cold weather, zero or near-zero weather still prevailed this morn ing. - , . - ; " STORM STRIKES WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Feb. 10 (JP) The town of Stuart was struck today by a , violent hail storm which shattered win dows, pnt leaks in roofs and filled streets for a time with sleet to a depth bf six inches. J. W. Pegram, of the Western Union Telegraph company at Stuart, said hall stones arose every window in some buildings. FLORIDA HAS SNOW - JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 10 (P Snow most foreign ot the elements in Florida was re ported today tor the first time In years. ' Attorney ' General Gary D. Landls. en route from Jackson ville, telegraphed his office from Madison that "sleet and snow makes it impossible to drive further." The most disagreeable weather of the winter penetrated north and northwest Florida, while Miami was the warmest point in the United States and sun-bathing, swimming and other sum mer sports were the order ot the day. PLEA IN INDIANA CROWN POINT, Ind., Feb. 10. (P) The prologue ot John Dll linger's fight - for his lite was over today, with the Indiana bench giving and asking no quar ter. vta nloa In fthatamant Anil hla petition ; f or a writ of habeas corpus were denied yesteraay ana trial was set tor March 12 in f rpr nf s ranue&t ' hv his attor neys tor a continuance ot 120 days. ' i.sAVRNwnnTH. Kas.. Feb. in mriftrriAn alrnrn. aentenc- ed to life Imprisonment tor the Kidnaping oi uaaries uumixuer, anil, rtanver hroker. arrived here today to begin his term at tbe Leavenworth federal penitential? ARKANSAS CITY. Feb. 10. UP) W. J. Kilpatrlck, who was kid naped by three Danaita wno ron bed the Qoodland State bank ot Goodland, Kas., oi . izuuu yes terday, was released at Cameron, Kas., 14 miles from here at 3:45 a. m. He was unharmed, and the bandits let him keep his motor car. Bieber Pioneer , Buried Friday BIEBER, Calif. Amador Thrasher, a resident ot the Loos out section ot Big Valley for more than halt a century, who died Tuesday In an Alturas hospital, was to be burled at Lookout Friday. He was born in 1878, a son of Nathaniel arid A 1 1'c e Thrasher, pioneer settlers In this valley. He Is lurvlved by his wife. i . COUNTY NIT I EaTE D ABROGATIONS Postal, Army, Commerce Officials Rush Re organizations AVIATION FIRMS OFFER PROTESTS Appeal to Congress for Funds Will Be Made : if Necessary. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. (VP) Postofflce department officials said today an investigation as being made into foreign alf mall . contracts with a view to can cellation similar to that taken on domestic air mail contracts. This statement was made by Harllea Branch, second assistant postmaster general In charge of air mall, who announced aim nltaneonsly that a skeleton air map on which the army will start carrying mall will ba ready with in two days. Efficiency Retained : ; "Th department la working ont what It considers the primary and most essential lines in order to - have them operating- Im mediately when present eon tractors ceaso service, Branca said. - ' He was not ready to Indicate what the primary lines might ba, but they were considered con tinuation of air facilities for the reserve banks was important. Ha added that soon after -a primary service had been established it would be enlarged. 'The volume of mall carried and the territory served will guide our decisions." ha said. "Whan we are completely organized the service will be just as, it not more, comprehensive. Reorganization Essential The department plans to nsa existing civil airports In order to keep employment as high as pos sible, giving preference to the civil port even where army fields are located nearby. Branch said the department saw no cause for giving a hearing to companies whose contracts have been cancelled., since that phase now is ended. Asked whether existing- con tracting companies would ba al lowed to bid in the near future it they reorganize. Branch re plied: I see no reason why a com pany could not reorganize but I believe Postmaster General rar ley would insist on a real reor ganization.' There must be no subterfuge or camouflage about the reorganization." Branch made It plain the gov ernment did not intend carrying tbe air mall permanently. Would Lower Bids "If we open bids again I hope (Continued on Page Three) NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 10, (AP) The fifth United States circuit court ot appeals today is sued an order staying an Injunc tion Issued in the southern dis trict of Florida In which Dlstricl Judge Alexander Akerman in ef fect held the operations of the agricultural administration un constitutional. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, JP trlnal passage of the $960.000,. 000 relief appropriation struck snag today when house and asa ate conference committees fail ed to agree on amendment In serted by the senate. The appropriation 1 n 1 u d a s funds to continue the work of the civil works administratis!, which has ased fill its money.