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ft Local Forecast C-g Fair and moderate. SL High 56; Low 43. ' "nL OREGON t ZFL Cloudy; rain In west QtnJj Cooler. " i'i-rrr,,,.,u ml9 BnaaanaHnaMMnamaHHal HERALD SERVICE ra Herald subscribers who fall to receive Uialr paps by fliBO p, m. ore requested to call lb llerald basinets off lot, pbons I0U0, and paper, will be sen! Pi special carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS MHMMmmMMMWMWMNMl Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1934 Number 6057 Editorials On the Day's News JUU X IF mm lly FRANK JENKINS TUB Klwunl club on Thursday evontng wni host to the ionlor boyi ot Klamath Union huh school. The mooting was In charge ot the club's vocational guldunco comintttoo, and It pur uoio wai to bolp the young foi lowi find their propor place lu lllo. A worthy purpoio, eorlalnly. Nothing Is mora Important to a young man than finding bli prop- r pluco In Ufa. NOTIIINO, for that mattor. Is more Important to a MATURB man than finding hit proper place In life. Doing the thing you LI KB to do la on of the greatcit pieces ot good fortune that can coma to you, and bolng compellod to do the thlngi you DON'T like to do It probably the wortt of all mis- fortune. If all young poople could be guided Into doing work they EN JOY doing, thore would be a lot more bapplne In thlt world. HENRY PKRKINS tpokt for tbt law, one of the learned professions. He did a good job ot It, pointing out that In th pro fusion ot law there It room at the top, regirdlsst of the crowd at the bottom, but that the only way to get to the uncrowded top I by hard work. That I ound philosophy. Talk all you will about luck and good "break," thoto who get to the top art usually thoie who are willing to work bard. Ktpoclally If they have pertonal charm, at well at wllllngnett to work hard. Pertonal charm bolpt a lot. You nay think of lawyers at people whote butlneu It It to got other people Into trouble. It you're erer got Into a Jam, through no conscious fault or In tentional slip of your own as a lot of people do end some good, bonett, capable lawyer OETS YOU OUT, you won't think that any more. Good lawyert are mighty use ful eltltent In tblt dty and age. GKOROB ADLER told bit young hoarert of the medical pro fession. There are doctors and doctors, tome better, of course, than oth ers, but It you're erer beon sick enough to look death In the face and some good doctor hat pulled you out and put you on 'your foot again, you won't need to be told bow. much the medical pro foaalon moans In thlt world. IT YOU'VE road hlttory. you know what the groat plague cholora, the "black doatb," etc meant In the anclont world. In enlightened countrlo, where the profession ot medicine be boon able to make headway, the great plague have disappeared. That I something the doctor bare done. ' e e "ryJTCH" GOEHUINQ tpoko J'' for the plain, common, un adulterated butlnoss man and (Contlnuod on Page Throe) WILL 'Rogers r$gys: NEW YORK, March I. Editor The Evening Hornld: Landing In Nowark from Washington, the pilot put u In the back end ot the plane o It would keop her tall down when we hit the deop mow, Otve you an tdoa bow many thousand men clonrlng the treots in Now York, thoy have misplaced 51,000 and can't find 'em. , Soven below In Washington this morning and mow a foot doop. Lobby ists standing froton to doath outside congressmen' homos. A lobbyist ba nothing ' to koop him warm but hi brief enso, The hotel of Washington should erect a monument to Goneral Hugh Johnson. Thoy have been coming on pilgrim ago by the thousands sines last July, to make a oode, change code or ouii a cods. Washington, D.O, "dam code," .Youra, Raj ROSEBURG KILLER SENT TO I0WS HELD SOLVED; TRIAL WAIVED Rollin C. Johnson Pleads Guilty in Douglas County Case. STRANGE AFFAIR COMES TO CLOSE Farmer Believed Respon sible for Killing in California. ROSEBURO. Ore.. March I. (JPt Pleading guilty to a formal cnarie of second degree murder, Rollin C. Johnson was this morn ing tentenced In the circuit court to life Imprisonment In the Ore- ton, ttato nenltontlsry. therobr doting one of the most unusual eases In the crime record of Douglas county. Accuted by a dlttrlct attor ney'! Information ot the slaying. February 7, of David Marshall Williams, eldarly Rice vallov formal, Mt ntarett uulgubor and cioae friend, Johnson agreed be fore the court - to 'the waiver of grand Jury Investigation and asked for Immedlato sentonce. Mental Kspert Called, The alleged tlayer. who bat been under obtervatlon for the past week by mental expertt, freoly conferred with otflcert re garding hit cote. It It reported. Dlttrlct Attornoy Guy Cordon tinted that Johnson had asked he be kept In restraint, declar ing that he wai tatlttled In his own mind that he had killed Williams while suffering from a lapse of comcloui mental con trol, although he maintained that he bad no knowledge ot the to luol clrcumttancot of the slaying. Ho spent noarly all ot yester day In conference with hit wife. and during the tftornoon re- quotled tho off Icon to bring In two of hit frlondt who spent sov era! hours talking with him. Pol lowing tho conforonce the prls oner announcod to Bhorltt Percy Wobb and District Attorney Cor don that bo would waive Investi gation by the grand Jury and further mental observation, and would nload guilty to a charge of second degree murdor. Pica Accepted. He tinned a wrltlon waiver ot grand jury examination before Judge James T. Brand, who lm- posod a life sontonce following tho accoptanc ot a piea 01 guilty. Johnson tovoral days ago nlncod In the bands of the offlcors a statemont In his own bandwrlt- lnx In which, tboy report, ho de clared be Is satisfied In bis own mind that be killed Williams and that ha was also responsible tor the slaying at San Jacinto, Cali fornia, In 1931, ot bis father-in-law, P. J. Zlmmorman. Ho based this belief, the officers stated, upon tho tact that fol lowing both killing he was In an lutonsoly nervous condition, and particularly following the Williams case had a horror and foar of the spot where the trag edy occurred. E IT WASHINGTON, March i. (IP) I'roBldont Roosovolt today ask ed congress to rovlvo the Hnwes Outtlng Philippine Independence law with an nmendmont for re linquishment of the military bnse whon the Islands beoome Inde pondont and provisions for "ultl mnto aottlomont" of the dispo sition of the naval bases. . Midwestern Doctor Dies From Exposure CINCINNATI, March 2. (IP) Wandering away from a sanitar ium where he had gone to re cuperate from a norvons break down, Dr. Rogor 8. MorrlB, 67, head of the medical department of tho Oollogo of Mcdlolne ot tho University of Cincinnati, col lnpaod and died ot exhaustion, and exposure during the night) Deadly Fungi Fatal to 15 ROLPH'B ILLNESS PARTLY ATTRIBUTED TO MUSH ROOM DINNER BAN FRANCISCO, March t (R) Deadly fungi bad taken a toll ot 16 lives In California to day and was blamed partly for the Illness of Uovornor James Rolph, Jr. Tbe latest victim wtt Mrt. Herman Olotcbltger of Kawcah, who died In Woodlake hospital today after eating toadttoolt which the believed were mush roomt. She bad been HI elnce Monday. Twelve death! had occurred at San Luis OMipo, whore 22 Fili pino) and two white men tat down at a death feast ot tbe fungi. ' Phyalclant tsld they hoped to tave the llvet ot the other men, Two children alto were vic tims of totdttool poltonlng. They were Oeraldlne Kberioll, 6 years old, and Betty Prater, I, and their parent were seriously UI at Salinas. Governor Rolph, making a speaking tour, mined two meals and then partook of mushrooms. Although ba Is suffering from other causes, physicians ascribed part of his Illnett to the "mush rooms." Tbe governor spent a "peaceful night" at St Francis hospital here. Andrew Ryan, 88, Passes At Home in Spring Lake Region. . Andrew Ryan, 88, who march ed with Sherman to tbe oa, died Friday morning at his home In the Spring Lake district whore he had lived for 48 years. Born In Ontario, Canada, he came to the United Statoa when 14 yeart old. He enlisted In the northern army, and waa assign or! to a battery of light Ohio ar tlllory. Ho wat a soldier In ac tive combat service when the civil war endod. Ryan was an honorary mom- bor at Horbert Applogato camp, No. 25, United Spanish War Vot- orans, and was well known to member! ot othor tervlce organi zations. Surviving are one brother, John Ryan, ot Canada, ono nephew, Mike Galarneau, Merrill, and five nloces, Mrs. F. R, Matt, Mrs. Stove Horllhy, Mrs. Millie Fol eom. Mrt. Josle Matney and Mrs. Agno Richardson. Funeral services will be held at Sacred Heart church at 8:30 a. m. Arrangements are undor the direction ot Earl Whltlock funeral home. THREE MEN DEAD BRITANNIA BEACH, B. C. March 2. UP) As her engineer, stricken by a hoart attack, drop pod deadjtt the throttle, a mine locomotive ran wild last night and plunged 800 feet down a haft ot the Britannia Mining company, crushing an levator and killing two other mon. Mine officials tnld thoy be lieved Forklns suftorod a hoart attack while operating the loco motive, which ran on uncon trolled, broke through tho pro tection block and tha Iron Bhnft gato, and "plunged approximately 600 foet down tho shaft. Suicide Attempt Fails to Cheat State's Demand MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., March 2, (AP) Hnrloy Edwards, a wlto klllor who "couldn't stand tho thought ot going to the eloctrlo chair," went there today at 12:06 a. m. Three mlnutos later he was dead. He bad trlod to escape It by suicide, and almost succeeded. With pieces ot lensea from his broken eyoglaaaos he slit both wrists, Ho hnd lost much blood when guards found him on tho floor of his coll oarly yesterday morning. counn PIONEER ' DIES ON FRIDAY Johnson Answers Governor's Wife For NRA Attack WASHINGTON, March J, UP) In tho final session of NRA's roundup of criticism Hugh 8. Johnson thanked the critics for what be railed a major contribu tion to his program, but rapped Mrs. Gilford Plnchot, wife of the Pennsylvania governor, for the attack the bat made. "I wat torry I couldn't wel come Mrt. Plncbot and dltcuit hor statemont," said Johnson. "Apparently she Idd not know tbe labor caaos for which the held ut responsible - are before the national labor board, which bat done lit utmott to compose them. "When she neld ua responsible for tbe Pennsylvania towns which, would not allow ber to speak, l would like to atk her who It governor ot Pennsylvania.." (Copyright, 1824 by th Associ ated Preasl ' ? WASHINGTON. March 2, (TP) President Roosevelt will reorgan ize NRA as a permanent .force In tbe national life ''next' Monday by Investing hit address to a bug assembly of code autborittes with all the solemnity of a state occa sion. ' V ' Juletly an array of officials ex ceeded only by that gathered tor the opening of congrett hat been summoned to flank tbe cblet ex ecutive. ... . ' From the platform' of Consti tution hall be will propound new Ideal to more than 8,000 business men elected by their fel lowt to rule over code-controlled industries. The entire cabinet waa called to attend, along with the chief government emergency director!, the leaden ot congrett, demo- (Continued on Page Six) . WASHINGTON, March 2, UP) President Rooaerelt gave the word to congressional leaders to day to speed action on legisla tion to bar political lawyers from practicing before government de partments. Tbe genoral outline! ot com prehensive legislation to prohibit national committeemen and mem bers ot congress from handling cases against the government wat gone over by the president with members of congress. T Charles Flack. 44, ot Kennett, Calif., waa killed in a tilde at Kegg cinder pit near Mt Hebron, Calif., about 8:30 o'clock Thurs day afternoon while loading bal last for the Southern Pacific railroad. In addition to Flack, another worker was burled up to his neck In the slide, and there were only two other , men to rescue the trapped men, ' They were unable to help Flack, and telephoned tor help. By tho time a crew and a phy sician arrived, however, Flack had been burled under the cinder slide for some time, and efforts to resuscitate ' him proved un availing. WEATHER The Cyclo-Stormngraph at Un derwood's pharmacy show a slight rise In bnrometrlo pressure and a continuance ot pleasant weather conditions seems prob able. Temperatures slightly coolor. . Th Tyco recording thermom etor registered maximum and minimum temperatures today a follows: . High, 66 Low, 48 Forecast for next 24 hours: Generally fair; moderate tem peratures. .' The United State weather bu reau roports no precipitation tor the 24 hours ending Wednesday at 6 p. m.; 6.11 for the season to date; 7.87 normal; 6.06 last year. Opinion Upholds Salary Payments in Liquor Stores SALEM, March 2. UP) Payment ot vouchers for ex penses and salaries of the state liquor' commission will proceed today as the result of an opinion banded down by Attorney General I. H. Van Winkle that the administra tion costs should be paid out of proceeds from liquor sales before the fund Is placed to the credit of unemployment relief. Tbe state treasurer's office to date had withheld payment ot any money pending the opinion. . IT. y Program Will be Dropped Completely in Many ; Regions-'-'- WASHINGTON. March 2, (AP) The civil works program will be terminated Monday in several rural states and substantial re ductions were ordered today in tbe number of employes. Harry L. Hopkins, civil works administrator, Bald today a num ber of states In which there are no large cities had Informed tbe administration they wished to start Immediately on the new re llof program announced by Pres ident RooBevelL He declined to name them, say ing "the states themselves know about It." Hopkins made public order to civil works administrators in all 48 states directing a reduction In ' the number employed to 1, 606,600 on March 30. E SANTIAGO, Chile, March 2 () a severe earthquake which shook an area ranging 1,000 miles along the Chilean coast wss' reported today to have wrought extensive damage. The quake, felt for two and one-half minutes late yesterday, got In Its most damaging blows at Valdlvla, Temuco and Puerto Montt, No casualties were reported. A church and many bouses were partly destroyed by the quake at Naclmlento. An extreme beat wave preceded the shocks there. $60,000 IN LOOT RICHMOND. Va., March 2, (IP) Six armed bandits today held up a guard of the State-Planters Bank and Trust company, and robbed blm ot $60,000 In cur rency. Officials said that the robbery occurred presumably while : the guard, William H. Cogbill, was on his way from the fedsral re serve bank. ; He was held up at the entrance to an alley, by six men In a black sedan. Deputy Sheriff Resigns Office Sheriff Lloyd Low, on Friday announced the resignation ot Deputy Ross Brown and tbe for mal appointment of R. D. Davis to succeed Brown as chief crim inal doputy. . . .. i ... Brown resigned to take np farming on his place near Hen ley, where ho has been living for some time. 'Davis was formerly sargont of the stnte police here, and has been on special duty In the sheriff's office tor the past I several weekt. ' iff ARY CI WORKERS E Former High School on North Fifth Street Will Come Down. RELIEF PROJECTS MOVING TO CLOSE Final Approval Received to Complete Work -on Airports. Dismantling ot the old Klam ath county blgh school building on North Fifth, ttreet bill will begin Monday at the last major project of the current CWA pro gram in Klamath Falls. Will Baldwin, local CWA man ager, announced Friday that the atate civil worka authorities had approved the high school project, which Includes the development of a city park and playgrounds on the sit ot the anc!ent struc ture.' - l Airport Approved. , At the same time, Baldwin an nounced final approval of sup plemental work on the Klamath Falls and cniioqum airports, ue slgned to finish current develop ment on these air fields before the present CWA set-np termin ate! May 1. The high school building rax Inr nrolect calls for a total ex penditure ot $13,729. Employ ment of lanor wm do on a trans fer basis, as reduced county CWA quotas will make it impossible to hire new workers. Because of tbe size ot the project and the reduced quota, It will be neces sary to concentrate city work largely on this job, Baldwin said. Imnrovement of the high school property was made pos sible through an agreement work ed out by CWA and school au thorities ana ine cuy, pmuu.ug xommtsslon. whereby the build ing was returned to public own ership by the Masonic lodge. The lodge several years ago under took purchase of the property with the purpose of constructing a Masonic temple tnere. Frontage Received. For its equity, the lodge ac cepted the High street irontage of the high school property. The Masons are expected to iana scape their portion ot the prop erty until it is used for building purposes. The salvage from the dismant ling of the abandoned building (Continued on Page Six) PUBLIC DOMAIN BILL REPORTED WASHINGTON. March 1, (F) The house public lands commit tee reported today the Taylor bill, which would give control of the 173,000.000 acres ot the pub- llo domain to the secretary ot the Interior. Representative Engelbright (R.. Calif.) offered an amendment to the ' bill In committee which would have placed the Jurisdic tion over the publlo domain In the forestry service of the agri cultural department, but after a lengthy discussion the amend ment was defeated. Roosevelt Nears -End of Year in ; Excellent Health WASHINGTON, March 2. (IP) Because Franklin D. Roosevelt can keep smiling he has come through his first year healthier than when be first became presi dent, the White House physician says. . Dr. R. T. Mclntlre, pronounc ing Mr. Roosevelt in "line shape aid today: . i "A a matter ot fact, It has boen a healthy year . for the whole' White House family. Even the Roosevelt grandchildren have had acarcely any ailment." WILL I BUILDING British Suit Creates Stir MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT INVITED TO AID IS MONK'S DEATH LONDON, March . tfp) The defense wound np it case in the "Rasputin libel suit" today In a blaze of. new sensations Includ ing the revelation for the first time by a member of tbe British parliament that he bad been In vited to Join tbe party which poisoned, clubbed and shot to death Raspntin, the Russian Im perial court's "mad monk. It remained for Commander Oliver Locker-Lamson to supply the dramatic climax to the day't testimony In the 12.000,000 libel suit of Princes Irena Youssou poff against producers ot the Him ' Jtaapaun. and the Empress." The testimony alrtady present ed gave Intimate details of the gruesome murder which took place in the cellar of the St. Petersburg palace: Locker-Lamp-son, a member of parliament for 25 years and distinguished for his services during the war, said he bad been asked to join the "murder party" and had taken part in an unsuccessful scheme to tave the Russian royal family (uontinnea orr rage Six) ill Ik. " Wynekoop ' Testifies At Chicago Murder Proceedings. CRIMINAL COURTS BUILD ING, Chicago, March 2, (AP) Dr. Alice L. Wynekoop, repudiat ing her "confession" of the mur der of her , daughter-in-law, Rheta, testified today that she made it on 'the assurance of po lice that her son, Earle, would be released. CRIMINAL COURTS BUILD ING, Chicago, March 3. JP) Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop testi fied today in a voice choked with emotion that she had found dead on ber operating table her daughter-in-law, Rheta, whom she is charged with slaying. "You saw her face, doctor," said W. W. Smith, defense at (Contlnued on Page Six) AT LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES. March I, (JP) A search for Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, long sought Okla homa bad man, was Intensified today on the positive identifica tion by a Wilshire boulevard clothier of pictures of him as one ot a trio who robbed him ot $155 worth ot clothing and money on February 19. lOCXO MAX SHOT. PORTLAND, March 2. UP) A youth who said he was James Waggener, 23, was shot and ser iously wounded here early today by a special policeman who said he saw Waggener attempting to steal gasoline from ' a parked automobile. LATE PORTLAND, March 2, (AP) Sponsors of tho referendum on the state talcs tax said today they had "upwards of 17,000 signa tures" on petitions, and that the referendum would be filed with tho secretary of state next Wed. nesday. -. . i OAKLAND, Calif., March 2, (AP) The army-may resume air mall service on the Pacific coast from Los Angclc to Seattle in the near future, although no de finite orders hare been received, the army headquarters said here today. ' : " ... . ALBA NT, N. tV March (AI) Lieut. John I. O'Conncll pointed an accusing finger at Man Bey Btrevrl late today and told LIFE Fl SEEKS TOAIDU.S, President Asks Congress for Authority to Bring Change. TRADE DECLINE CHIEF REASON Administration Would Negotiate . Reciprocal ' - ; Agreements. , ' WASHINGTON, March 2, (fly President Roosevelt today atked congress for anthorlty to modify tariff rates in negotiating com mercial agreements with other nations. - ; ' - ' "I am requesting the congrea to authorize th executive," said the president, "to enter Into ex ecutive commercial ' agreements with, foreign nation; and In pursuance, thereof within careful ly guarded limits to modify lsting duties ana Import restric tions in such a way as win bene fit American agriculture' and in dustry." , ;. . . . Decline Described . - ; The president discussed at length the reason! for .asking such power. : ' . . First, he said, world trade has declined to approximately 70 per cent from its' 1920 volume. Sec ond, other governments to an increasing extent are "winning their share of international trad by - negotiating reciprocal trad agreements.", ' . . , ' i -. : Fight ta Prospect . : : "It American agricultural and Industrial interests are to retain their deserved place in this trade," he asserted, "the Amer ican government must be in a position to bargain tor that place with other governments by rapid and decisive negotiation based upon a carefully considered pro gram and to grant with discern ment corresponding opportunities In the American market for for eign products supplementary to our own.", The tariff-bargaining experi ment was proposed to Congress from the democratic leaders ot support but with a bitter partisan debate In prospect on the ancient political issue. (. ; . , ' "I hope for early action," laid Mr. Roosevelt. "The many im mediate situations in the field of International trade that today await our attention can thus be met effectively and with the least possible dalay." - 1 Leaders See Success ' Convinced that this is not the time to seek a world-wide lower ing of tariff walls such as he de sires,' Mr. Roosevelt already ba entered into reciprocal tariff ne gotiations with several nations, principally In South America. Once granted the authority he aBked today, the . president 1 ready to bargain wltb other na tions, including the. major powers. . , , ' ,. : v; "' Congressional leaders express ed confidence of enacting the leg islation without undue delay, and by the middle of May, when ad journment is scheduled. NE WS Jury "that man right ' there" waa one of his kidnaper. ' ,' " NEWPORT, Ore., March ' 8, (AP) The unidentified body of man waa found on the south beach, a mile below the Jetty to day, and it waa believed it might be that of Boyd Caldwell who loat his life off the north Jetty In December. PORTLAND, March 2, (AP) State CWA headquarters aay nonnced today that effective at onee, wages paid employes oa all CWA work will be the prevsiUbg rate of wage paid la each coas inanity for the kind of work per formed. In so case, however, will it be in excess of 80 cent aa boor. . . HST