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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934
Number 6061
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EL TO
Editorials
On the
Day's News
01
F.
mm,
lly FRANK JKNKINH
GHKAT IIIUTAIN announces
tilf naval building program,
.niiin for construction ot IT
now battloshlus.
The now program, If carried
through, will increase tho por-
lonnol ot tbo Drltlih flool by
1,038 man, bringing tbo total to
01,381 effective.
IT THEY aro offootlvo In koop
Ing Drltaln out ot war, they
will be worth many tlmei what
they eoit.
War ! more exponslvo than
ANYTHING KLSB.
DOES a big fighting force keep
nation out of war, or does
It got them Into It?
Detore attempting to aniwor
that queatlon, perhaps you would
better have a try at thli one
Which camo tint tho ben or
the egg?
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pnANCE, we read, li again eon'
sldoring tno question ot man
Ing a payment on 111 debt to the
United Blate.
The French are thrifty. Per
hnpi they hare noted that with
our new devalued dollar they can
got about a 40 per cent dlicount
If they pay up.
AT THAT, though, we'd be
fJLAD to discount their dobt
40 per oent It thoy'd pay It In
full.
We could uao tho money.
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rvEATH again rldei the newi.
Four are killed In an airplane
crash In Illlnola, tbo death Hit
being comparatively email bo?
cause tho liner that eraihod wai
runuina iu
Tllot and passongers were all
Killed, a la uaually tho case
when a plane fall out ot the air,
"THE cauie ot the craab u a
.. itorm that cauaed Ice to eol
loct on tha plane, making It
heavy and unmanageable.
That la one ot the peril of
the air that can't yet be guarded
against.
e
U8T outside Moicow, In Russia,
J It aro killed and SI Injured
In a collision betwoen two subur-
ban pauongor train. Tho tragedy
I attributed to negllgonco and
lack of dliclpllne.
That I BAD, Unavoidable eo-
eldont are traglo enough. Those
that aro avoidable are doubly
tragic
e e e '
rON'T forget, though, that thl
' toll ot IV doad and 62 Injured
In a Ruaalan railroad accldont I
Ignlflcant when compared with
our annual toll of tome 83,000
killed In automobile accldont,
MOST ot which are due to lome-
body'i careleainea.
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CTRANOEST, of all, In theee
" modern day, I tho death ot
Mary Elvira Temple, of Harnoy
county, hero In Orogon, who was
killed In a horse-and-buggy run
away tha other day.
Accldont of that sort were
once common enough, but have
bocome rare with the practical
disappearance ot tho horse and
buggy.
e e
flETTim back for the momont
to war dobt, thoro I a rumor
(Contlnuod on Page Four)
BEVERLY HILLS, March 5.
Editor The Evening Herald:
Missed ' President Roosevelt'
speech. (It was at 8 o'oldck
here.) Yob, I was up In time,
but hero I tho oko on me, I
hadn't read It In the paper.
Now I will have to read It,
but there I a groat difference
botweon him talking nnd thon
you Just reading It. Ho la the
king ot the air. Courso ho
ha the advantage ot tho rest
of us. He don't come on the
air until ho ha something to
ay, and the rest of us, wo
havo to come on whon we
have nothing to any.
Not changing tho aubjoct
too soon, but I toe) kinder
sorry 'for that woman horlff
In Indiana. She thought (he
wa surrounded by mon. '
Your,
TsWlLL
y ROGERS
. .tw"-1
G O
TEN PER CENT
Johnson Will Make Plea
Before Authorities
Tonight
SOME INDUSTRIES
MAY BE EXEMPTED
Blanket Agreement Will
Be Instituted by
General.
WASHINGTON. March 7. UPt
Tho aasembled NRA code u
thorlllc will be appealed to by
Hugh 8. Johnson tonight for tup
port of a ton por cent reduction
or code working Hours in all in-
dUBtrloa that can Hand It.
Should such support be forth
coming, the administration la ex-
pectod to Institute such a blanket
reduction with allowance of hear
Inns for Industrie allegedly un
ablo to comply. Exemptions will
be allowed it claims ot us. let-
Uf are found Justified. ,
Ut'ncml liuls reared.
Thl wa mad known today
by Hugh S. Johnson, In address
ing the aaaembly of NRA lcador
at work on labor problem. In
explaining plan for his evening
address.
Uoorge Sloan, head of tne cot
ton toxtllo code authority, naa
aid that unquestionably many
Industries could take a runner
hour shortening, but that he con.
ilderod It would bo a grave mis
take to make a flat rule a he
understood was advocated by
Johnson, bocauso It would raise
false bopo In the breasta of
evory American working man In
evorv home. ' -
jobnion replied mat witn mm
wa a cholco of method bo
tweon tho goneral rule and tak
ing up each of the coo codes in'
dlvldually "an Impossible meth-
od."
Aareement Htudlrd.
"Dut." he went on. "I hope
that nothing the president baa
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MOSCOW, March
7. (P)
Cracking lea added
new peril
today to dangor confronting 89
mon marooned on an ice floe in
the Bering ea.
A radio message received by
the govornmont rollet commis
sion said that a newly orocted
woodon barracks wa split In
two by the cracking Ice in sub-
toro woather.
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TO SIT JUNE
PORTLAND, March 7. (AP) .
All five of tho Oregon coast
bridges will be undor construction
contracts by Juno 7 as tha result
of action taken by the state high
way commission in special session
horo last night. Final prcpara-
on In the signing ot the 15,102,-
000 contract with the federal
govornmont tor tho construction
ot thoso span was going ahead
at Snlam today and tt was expect
ed the documents would be en
routo to the national capital for
tho last signatures by tonight.
CWAWorkers Storm
Portland Council
PORTLAND. March 7. (AP)
Indignant CWA workers late yes
terday stormed the city council
ohnmbors, filled It to overflowing
and orentod such an uproar tho
onuncll had to adjourn, a they
aired tholr protest against tt wngo
out, effocttvo March 1, which re
duced CWA pay from '60 to 40
aonts an hour, or from $12 a
wook to f 0.00.
CODE SLASHES
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Crime Claims
Leading Role
on News Pages
8 U IS UN. Calif. Masked
bandit with cub-machine gun
bind four employes at Sulsun
bank and escupo with $15,396.
HUNT8VILLB. Tox. Throe
of five prisoners attempting
escape wounded whon guards
frustrated plot.
CHICAGO, 111. Frankle
Pope, gambler and gangster,
hot and killed In hotol room.
SIOUX FALLS. 8. D. Au
thorities employ airplane to
bunt down bandit who robbed
Bloux Fall bank ot $46,000
yesterday.
CHICAGO, 111. Police push
earch tor Outlaw John Dll
llnger, fugitive from- the
Crown Point. Ind county Jail.
SEEK PWA HELP
Grants Pass Mayor Pro
poses Organization
to Aid Needs.
PORTLAND. Ore., March 7 UP)
Declaring: that It Is essential,
If Montana Is to take part In tho
national recovery program, tnai
a wator conservation program In
that state be carried out. James
8. James, Montana representative
on the I'aemo nonnwesi yu-
nlng board, today -sabmitud--innr
ran re nlan for hi region.
Koooru from Oregon. Wash'
Ington and Idaho are Incomplete
but were expected to bo present
ed later today.
PORTLAND, March 7 UP)
DaclarliiK the smaller municipal
ities "havo been lost In the
shuffle." at the Pacific north-
west roglonal planning confer
ence bolng held bore tor the
purpose of outlining work to be
undertaken ovor a period ot
yoars, Mayor W. W. 8tockwoll of
(iranta Pass Is going to band
these cltloa togother in a tor-
ward-looklnc program.
Through no fault of the PWA
advisors and officials. Mayor
Stockwoll said, many ot the
smaller clllos, and particularly
those In southorn Oregon, have
been lost sight of as discussions
turn to project embracing great
areas.
"So." he said, "I'm going to
got them together when the
league of Oregon cities moots In
Eugene March IS to 24.
Odell Olson of the Audloy
apartment wa beaten and rob
bed early Tuesday morning whon
ho was returning home from
work. Olson Is a drummer In a
local orchostrn. -
According to reports filed by
investigating officers, the young
man was going to tho Audloy
about 1:00 o clock In the morn
ing, when he was accosted by
two mon. Ono asked him tor a
dime, and the other asked him
for a match. Olson gave him a
match from a paper containor
bearing his Initial, and at the
same time one of tho men hit
him ovor the bond stunning him
Olson told police that he be
lieved that he succeeded In Hit
ting one ot hi assailants, bnt
that ho was too stunned to re-
monibor properly, ,
He finally succeodnd in reach
ing hi home, and getting to bed,
although he does not remember
doing so, he stated.
When ho failed to awaken
early Tuesday afternoon, his
mothor went In to Investigate,
and found him virtually uncon
scious. It wns Into Tuesday eve
ning before the young man could
talk to officers.
He bollevod that bo had been
truck over the head with a sap.
A purse containing $7.00 ha
boon stolen by tho thugs.
The paper container ot matches
woro found Inter by police at the
scone of tho holdup. ;
Man Drowned in
Willamette River
PORTLAND, Ore., March 7. (TP)
Melvln Johnston, 86, of Port
land, wa drowned and throe ot
his companions hnd narrow es
capes when tholr ennoo struck
a snag and onpBlnod in the Wil
lamette river hare last night.
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BANK BANDITS
TAKE II 5,000
Black-Masked Robbers
Threaten Workers
With Gun.
TEXAS PRISON
BREAK HALTED
Airplanes Mustered
Join Search for
. Dakota Gang.
to
8UI8UN, Solano County, Calif.,
March 7, OP) Two black-masked
robber, threatening death with
a sub-machine gun. held up and
bound four employe ot the Sul
sun bank today, and escaped with
$15,896, Including negotiable
chocks amounting to $7,100.
A third robber drove an auto
mobile In which the men escaped.
Janitor Bound
Apparently concealing them
selves In the bank building, two
mon suddenly confronted the
Janitor, A1 MoOeorge, as ho ar
rived at 6:30 a.m. He wa
bound and then the robbers wait
ed tor the bank officials to ar
rive. The two men carried a sub
machine gun, McGeorge said, and
threatened to kill Charles E.
Torp. assistant cashier, who ar
rived at 7:46 a.m., unless he
opened both valuta In the bank.
Torp opened one vault, but
told the robber the other had a
time ' lock which he could not
open. They threatened to kin
him, but be finally convinced
them be was telling the truth.
The robbers apparently knew
the bank officials, Torp said.
BREAK FRUSTRATED
HUNTS VILLE, Texas, March 7,
(IP) Guard Howard Bass yelled
as a convict thrust a knife to
his throat, and an attempted es
cape of five men from the Texas
state penitentiary was frustrated
before dawn today.
Three ot the five prisoners
were shot and wounded by
guards. The other two surren
dered. Physicians said the
wounded men would recover, bar
ring complications, i
As Bass shouted. Ous Gray,
guard, tired, wounding Pete
Finch, who held the knife. The
others dashed tor two ladders
against the wall.
Charley Frasler, who led an
unsuccessful dash for liberty sev
eral weeks ago, and Edward Mo
Arthur were shot down from the
ladders. Fraxlor was serving two
lite sentences for robbery with
firearms. McArthur and Finch
were convicted of burglary.
Robert Hill, serving. 99 years
for robbery, and Roy Thornton,
serving 60 years, also for robbery,
oscaped the tire of the guards.
(Continued on Page Tbree).
SUIIU IN HOTEL
CHICAGO, , March 7, UP)
West Side Frankle" Pope, gam
bler, was shot and killed today
In a hotel at 768 west Jackson
boulevard. He was struck six
tlmos In the head and body.
Pope has boen reputed a mil
lionaire boss of gambling rack
et In Chicago. . -
A maid, passing the room occu
pied, said she heard a woman
cry out, "Don't do that." .
A moment Inter the shot
blasted out Pope's life. The
maid, terrified, flod ,- without
watching for the killer. Two re
volvers were found on the floor
noar his body. . 1
ARRAMfl GETS SI'PPORT -SALEM,
Mnrch 7 (VP) In sup
port ot the candidacy of Colonel
Carlo Abrams for secretary of
stnto, a group of Salem cltliens
last night formed an Abrams-for-
Seorotary-of-Stnta club, with the
expectntlon that branches will be
organised In other counties of
the state.
IN SOUTHLAND
R mm
Dr. Wyhelcoop
Found Guilty
DOCTOR SENTENCED
25-YEAK TERM FOR
MURDER
TO
CHICAGO. March 7, (AP)
Only a higher court, or death It
self, can save Dr. Alice Wynekoop
from the penitentiary now.
A Jury convicted her last night
of slaying her daughter-in-law.
Rbeta, In the "operating table"
murder that horrified the nation.
It fixed her sentence at 25 years
Imprisonment In the penitentiary.
Only two ballots were taken.
The murder drama that began
whon Rheta's body was found, a
bullet In the back, on Dr. Wyne
koop' operating table last No
vember 21, kept Its Interest in
rushing crescendo to the last.
With the Jury In Its place.
ready to report Its verdict, Jndge
Harry B Miller summoned the
Jail physician to stand by the
63-year-old woman, and be ready
to administer strong heart stim
ulants, lest the shock of the ver
dict strike her dead
She did not need his ministra
tions. She heard the verdict as
she sat in her wheel chair with
out sign of a quiver
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Federal Instructions Place
State Rates ' At 7
" 40 Cents.
PORTLAND, March 7, UP)
C. C. Hockley, state CWA engin
eer, today announced that he has
recommended that a reduction of
CWA workers wages from 60
cents an hour to 40 cents be re
considered, and that the higher
rate be ordered.
A request to state CWA head
Quarters for permission to pay 45
cents an hour for unskilled CWA
labor, Instead of 40 cents as or
dered, was reported to the coun
ty relief committee Wednesday
by Manager Will Baldwin of the
county civil works administra
tion.
Replying to Baldwin's tele
gram, V. D. Carlson ot the state
CWA stated that 40 cents an
hour was the scale ordered tor
the entire state under instruc
tions from federal headquarters
with which compliance is neces
sary.
i Meeting Called.
Baldwin, In his telegram
stated that common labor in this
district is getting 45 cents an
hour for work in sawmils and
logging camps, and 42 cents
an hour for work In the box fac
tories. Members ot the relief com
mittee cointed out that the com
mittee and local civil works ad
ministrators are working under
rigid instructions from Portland
and Washington and are not au
thorised to deviate from those
instructions in any way.
The committee received an In
vitation to "defend Itself" at a
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LOSS TO BURGLAR
i certain burglar spent a. most
unprofitable night Tuesday as ho
not only failed to gather any
profitable loot, but operated at
a distinct loss, having left bis
coat la ono pines and the belt
for the same article of wearing
appnrol In another,
Police investigated an alleged
robbory ot the Bob Ryan Auto
Ton shoo. Tuesday, evening, and
found the belt to a coat caught
In a niece ot machinery. Al
though the establishment, owned
hv E. M. Hogue. had been ran
sacked, nothing but a few pri
vato papers was taken.
Later in the night the jnnitor
of the Klamath county library
called the police, reporting he
had startled a burglar In the li
brary who had escaped. ' Upon
Investigation, the marauder'
coot was found lying on a table.
An automobile robe was Btolen
from the library. ;
Entrance to the auto shop had
been' made by cutting a canvas
window covering, and at the li
brary by breaking several panes
ot glass In the front door, . ,
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'S
POST BRINGS
OUT CHASTA J N
Democratic Attorney to
Seek Nomination At
Primaries.
WEEK WILL SEE
NEW CANDIDATES
Former County Clerk,
Old-Time Resident,
Back in Fight ' ;
By Malcolm Eplcy
Budding political hopes aro be
ginning to react to the spring
weather, and Wednesday saw an
other candidacy blossom forth
when George Chastaln, local law
yer and former county clerk, an
nounced for the democratic nomi
nation for district attorney
Prospects are that before the
week is over there will be other
new blooms in the political gar
den. One major annonncement is
slated for Thursday or Friday.
Party in Race
Cbastaln's decision keeps the
democratic party In the district
attorney - race, liarry uoivra
leading bourbon prospect for dis
trict attorney during the pre
campalgn period, announced Mon
day that his goal was a place in
the state legislature tor luamatn
county.
Equally unexpected was Cbas
taln's sudden decision to run for
district attorney. . The candidate
has been a resident ot Klamath
county for 45 years, and has
practiced law here since 1918.
He was connty clerk for tour
years before he was defeated by
C. ' R. DeLap, DeLap then hired
blm as chief deputy. Chastaln
served as clerk of the circuit
court for five years. .. ,v
Decision Sodden
The candidate said his decision
to enter the race came about
through Boivin's legislative an
nouncement. He said he had not
considered It seriously until this
week. Chastaln has always been
a democrat.
"I know Klamath county and
have its best interests at heart,"
said Chastaln. "I feel I can give
a satisfactory administration."
Chastaln is married and has
three children, a son and daugh
ter living at Sacramento, Cam..
and the youngest son .living at
home. "
One phase of the political sit
uation that hasn't received much
attention thus far Is the necessity
at the May primaries of electing
members of the republican and
democratic central committees.
Deadline April S
Candidates for committee Jobs
one is permitted tor each party
In each precinct must me before
April 3 it they want their names
on the ballot. Ordinarily there
Is considerable writing-in In con
nection with the committee selec
tions. The old central committees
haven't displayed much activity
recently. -The republicans have
n't had a meeting tor many
months. The democratic commit
tee some time ago gave consid
eration to certain federal appoint
ment matters, but the situation
there has also been quiet for
some time.
COMPLETES TRIP
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands,
Mnrch 7, (AP)- Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt end her party of
friends aboard the airliner Amer
ican Clipper' arrived here at 2:00
m.. E. .8. T.. irom Kan juan,
Puerto Rico, completing a flight
which began yesterday from
Miami. .
British Marquis ".
Dies in Scotland
T A R L A N D, Aberdeenshire,
Scotland. March 7 (P) John
Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, first
marquis of Aberdeen and Temair
and former governor-general of
Canada and lord lieutenant ot
Ireland, died at his home, Cro-
mar, today. He was 87 years
old. - - .
PROSECUTOR
May Testify
Julius Kahn, son of Congress
woman Florence P. Kahn, whose
name has been drawn into Senate
investigation of alleged airmail
lobbying activities in Washing
ton. Mr. Kahn, formerly with
one of the large airmail con
cerns, may testify before the sen
ate committee.
Park Service ' Will Ob-
serve Permits for
I ;. Lava Beds. ; r':
Graxlng In the Lava Beds mon
ument, subject to controversy
and speculation since tne monu
ment's transfer to national park
service jurisdiction, came to the
front at Wednesday's chamber of
commerce directors meeting with
these developments:
1. Arno B. Cammerer, national
park director, sent a letter to
the chamber stating that grax
lng privileges existent at the
time the monument was trans
ferred will be recognised by the
park service.
i. The chamber directors took
cognizance of blasts- that have
been directed this way from Cal
ifornia Woolgrowers' association
over the monument change, and
decided that the association's
chief "blaster" has ' been asleep
tor seven months."
. The latter comment was based
on the fact that the Lava Beds
monument and all national mon
uments, . for that matter were
transferred to the park service
by executive order ot President
Roosevelt on June 10. 1933. .
The chamber's activities, it was
stated, have been devoted to an
attempt to have the control ' of
the lava beds placed in the juris
diction of Crater Lake National
park, rather than Lassen park.- as
was hinted some time ago.' Re
cently, Crater Lake park was as
sured ot the Lava Beds responsibility.-
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Transfer from the forest serv
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FOUR PASSENGERS
DIE IN ACCIDENT
PETERSBURG, 111., March 7.
(JP) A blinding blizzard that
glased its wings with Ice was
blamed today for the crash ot a
St. Louis-Chicago airliner which
coat tour lives last sight.
The plane, an American air
ways craft bound for Chicago,
plunged down through swirling
snow and smashed -Into a deep
drift on a farm near here.
LATE
MARSHFIELD, March 7, (AP)
A circuit court Jury which was
oat but 16 minutes, returned
verdict bf not guilty and reversed
tho city court which had sent
enced County Jurtgo D. P.
Thompson to 80 day in Jail and
a fine of 9 1(H) on a drunk driving
charge. , ,
' PORTLAND, March 7, AP)
Acting on Instructions from the
office of Elmer Cioucly, Oregon
CWA' administrator, tho Multno
mah county relief committee to
day ordered temporary retention
ot OO-cent aa hour wage sche
1 k -v ...
NEGOTIATIONS
GET UNDERWAY
ON CONTRACTS
President Sends Special
Notes to Senate
And House.
PUBLIC INTEREST
WHITE HOUSE AIM
Outlines for Legislation
Contained in Word
to Lawmakers.
WASHINGTON', March . T,
(A1) President Roosevelt today
proposed that new contract
be negotiated with commercial
air carriers "as soon a possi
ble" for carrying the airmail.
The proposal was contained
in a letter be wrote to tha
postofflce committees Of the
senate and the boose.
He recommended contracts ba
let for a period ot not mora
than three years "on full, ope
and fair competitive bidding,
with, a' limitation on the -'rata ot
compensation above which ao
contracts will be awarded."
Public Protection
He proposed new legislation
"to protect the public Interest."
The president said, "obviously
no contracts should be made with
any companies, old or new, any
ot whose officers were parties to
the obtaining of former contracts
nnder circumstances which were
clearly contrary to good faith and
pnbllc policy."
He recommended that new leg
islation prohibit the award ot as
airmail contract "to any company
having connection with subsidi
aries, affiliated, associated, or
holding companies directorates,
interlocking officers, or other
wise, if such subsidiaries," affili
ates.' associates, or holding com
panies are engaged, directly or
indirectly In the operation of
competitive routes or In the man
ufacturing of aircraft, or other
materials or accessories used gen
erally in the aviation Industry."
MOKOAX SALE PROBED '
WASHINGTON, March 7, (P)
Testimony received by thetsenat
banking committee that J. P.
Morgan & Co., sold 4,500 shares
of United Aircraft stock shortly
before government cancellation of
the airmail contracts, was cited
in the senate today by Senator
Robinson (R., Ind.), as evldenc
that the "international banker"
(Continued on Page Three)
FIVE MISSING IN
ATCHISON, Kas., March 7, VP)
A swollen and rampant Mis
souri river. Inundating 10,000
acres ot bottom farm lands, bad
marooned 50 persons thin morn
ing and - five were missing, at
farmers, in increasing numbers,
abandoned the low lands on tb
Kansas-Missouri border. ' - ,
PITTSBURGH, March 7,'W)
The flood scene shifted down the
Ohio river today as Ice from th
Allegheny swopt past Pittsburgh
and waters receded after topping
the 25-foot stage.
NEWS
dule for CWA workers here. .-A
40-cent basis for common labor
was to go into effect as of Kiieh
a, but tliero lias been no payroll
since that dato.
ifVANA, March 7, (AP)
Unidentified persons today tired
with a snb-machlne gun from a
passing automobile at Cosmo De
La TorrlcnCe,' secretary of staU
of Cuba, but missed blm. ' ,
MADRID, March 7, (AP) A
state of alarm, similar bat bk4
qulto so stringent as martial law,
was declared throaghoat fJpala
today.