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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1934)
r Local Forecast 'y Fair, moderate. , , I High 65; Low 39. ( & JfJJ OREGON t . P& C Fair tonight and UT l Thursday. 0 J? HERALD SERVICE IJornld subscribers who fall to re coin their paper by SiOO p. m. axe requested to call the Herald builnMa office, phone 1000, anil a paper, will ha sent by special carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934 Number 6072 MJIO "WNMIHIM I f"" .IIVO.) A II Villi 11 A.IIHMMW.. I 1 Editorials On the Day's News 0 Hy TIU.NK JHNKINH YOU'VM hoard, of courso, thli talo tho park ruiigurs lull of the lioan that coma furtively, llko tho wild things llioy are, up to tho boundary of Crutor Lake park, and tho moment thoy itnp ovor It Into tho safety ot Vnclo Sam's protection bocome nonchal ant, assured and eaay of manner. W. W, Wllsou, ot Portland, telli thli wrltor . another hear tale that Is at leant worth ro- poutlng, Jl, WILSON'S fathor and 1 mother ware tho tlmt white couplo to be married In Klamath Falla, which then wai Llnkvlllo, and ilnce In that early day It wot In 1871 Jacksonville waa the county teat, he had to go over to Jacksonville to get bti marriage llcoiiso. Jacksonville, In thoso dnyi, Isn't much ot a jaunt. Ono slops , Into a car, pushes down on the gas, cusses a road hoi or so, jior . haps, and the tint thing he know It there. Hut In those dnyi It was quite different. It wai qulto a Jaunt And besides, In 1871, tho Modoci wero on tho prod. e ANYWA, Mr. Wilson his name waa Simpson Wilson arose bright and early one morn ing and. with a companion, lot off on horseback for tho county seat. Romowhero beyond Keno, hl eon doosn't know exactly where, the road forked, and by chance they took the right fork. Look; ing acrou to the other fork a little later, they bohold a war parly of Modoci, 80 luck was with them at the itart, you soo, ' They kept on at a lively pace, and by night they reached a ipot aomewhero to tho woit of what Is bow Lincoln. Here they made camp for tho night, , e e THEY turned their horses loose to graio, cooked a frugal sup por and In tho courae ot time turned In for tho night, removing their panti and ihlrte and going to bed In tholr undorwoar whether red flannel or hot, Mr. Wilson dooan't know. Having good consclonoos, tlioy went Immediately to aloop, but ome time along In tho night Mr. Wllaon awoko, and In tho flick ering light ot the dying fire ho behold almost ' upon him, It aoomed a boar that appoarod to bo about tho alio of Mt. Pitt. Ho lot off a itartlod whoop. and tnado a wild loap for tho nenroat troo and ah I nned up It exportly. His companion follow ed with equal skill. rpHE!Y got as far as tho flrat 1 limb, and there thoy perched. By thli time, thoy romombered tholr guni qulto elenrly, although In that atartlod moment of Booing tho boar thoy'd forgotten them entlroly. But the guns woro loaning op agalntt another troo, at quite a dlatnnco, and thoro was tho boar, looking dark, and lll-hurnqrod (Coutlnuod 00 Page Four) HOLLYWOOD, Maroh 2J, . Editor Tho Evening Horald: Talk about Russia with hor flvo-yoar plan, Muaaollnl just saw tholr flvo and raised 'em fifty-flvo, Itnly Is out now with a alxty-yoar plan, smart guy, that Mussolini. Ho laid out a plan whoro It It provod at tho end that It wouldn't work thoy couldn't find him. A tow things ovon wo could do with a sixty-year plnn, Ev erybody could got their oodo signed up. Louisiana could catch up with Huoy Long, got the Mr mall stralghtonod out, got the . bonus sottlad. Voto on romonotlslng sllvor and sond a dologatlon to the dis armament conforonoo.' YourB, ' ' ' PORTION DF CITY LOST Death Toll May Mount Past Thousand Mark ; Many Hurt. HAKODATE PEOPLE REPORTED FLEEING Tokyo Harbor Vessels Pick Up Wireless' Story of Fire. TOKYO. March 21. UP) The Rengo (Japenoto) now! agency correapondont at Hakodate re ported today that ono thouaand persona are foared to have died In a fire which doatroyed the greater part of Hakodate, The conflagration was said to have originated when chimneys roll during a severe wind storm. Up 10 a late hour tonight buildings were reported still burn' Ing, with tho blue spreading to auuurbau areas. Hakodate Is the' principal port In the island of Hokkaido, and nas a population of zo.ovo. Dlapatcboa said 80 por cent ot Hukodato was destroyed. Includ ing all Important publio build ings. Communication linos ' wore savored . and tho only nowa of tho disaster reaching tho oulsldo world waa by wireless mosaagoa from vessels In the harbor. The lilnio began at 6:30 o'clock this evening, ; TUX BILL VOTED WASHINGTON. March SI, (API A $300,000,000 tax bill was approvod today by tho sen ato flim 11 co commUloo and Chair man Harrison (D Miss.), said he expected tho satiate would tako It up early next wook. Aftor approving a capital stock and excess profits lovy to take otroct July 1, 10.1&, and esti mated to bring In 105,000,000 a year, tho committee votod 8 to 7 to broadon tho house pro vision for a tnx on Imported coconnut or sosnmo oil by includ ing palm, unslowcr, fish, and whalo oils, but the lovy was re duced from 6 to 3 cents a pound. BERLIN, March 21, , (AP) A bomb explosion at . first rum orod to be an attompt against the life of Promlor Hermann Wll holm flooring of PrusBla was in dicated Inter today by certain substantial evldonce to have boon dlrectod at David Oliver, a prom inent Jowlsh owner ot a motion ploturo tlieiitro. Police rovonlod nrtor dlBplny- Ing extraordinary reticence Unit It was 01 Ivor's prlvato mo tor ear aud not a taxi, as at first' reported, which was wreck ed near tho lntoraoctlon ot tho ruinous Doulovard Untor Don Llndon land the Wllholnistrnsse. PORTLAND, March 21, AP) Advocating tho "lloonnlng ot evory farm ot gambling under a 10cm plan, with atricr soguintion and heavy penalties for viola tion." Bam M. Wllllnms ot Port land today announced 1 ho Is a onndldnto for the domocratlo nomination as kovornor. Wllllnms, prosldent ot Port land far 26 yonrs, two yonrs ago was tho domncratle nonilneo for shorlft of Multuomah county. DISASTER IMS Seven Killed In N. Y. Fire TENEMENT DEATH TOLL IN GOTHAM REACHES TWKNTY-I'IVE NEW YORK, March 21. (IP) Seven porsons perished today In a tonoinont house fire on tiie up per east sldo, bringing to 25 the number of deaths from similar tiros In the last six weeks. Tho fire swept through tho three upper floors of an "old law" tenement at 1909 Second avenue and trapped a mother and hor daughter, a fathor and his son and three othors la tho build ing. As firemen, wore taking tho flrat two bodies of the victims from the building, Fire Marshal Thomas P. Uropliy noticed a thin. short man, hatloss and without au overcoat, following them. Drophy questioned tba man who first said bla name waa "John Smith," but later acknowledged bo waa Raymond Muntealno, 27, unemployed, and lias a wife and two children. Taken to a police (Continued on Page Eight) Mutual Peace Messages - Received by Great - ..'., Powers. WIOTTIMfiTrtV March SI The United States and Japan today snoor. nanus acruaa 1 Pacific"' in a significant exchange of notes mutuully pledging peace. Uokl Hlrota, foreign minister of Japan, In a formal nolo to tnnu&wnlt ilmlnlHtrntlon dlulo- mallo chiofs bore asserted tho Nippon government "nas no in tention whatever to provoke and mako trouble with any other powor." Hull States Position - oMMln, Tlttll. Avldnntlv SCAn- nlng roportod war clouds In the' Far East, basoa on sirninea re lations botwoon Japan and Soviet Russia, replied: "1 am glad to take this op portunity to state categorically that tho United States on its part baa no desire to create any Issuea and no Intention to Initi ate any conflict in Us relations with other countries." Tho Hlrota-Hull exchange was the first such passage of good will notes since President Roose velt took office more than a year ago. LONDON, March 21 (IP) An authorltatlvo British source said today that Great Britain would wolcomo any preliminary Amerl-can-Japanoso naval conference which might result from the ex change ot goodwill notes be tween tho governments at Wash ington and Tokyo. Official circles hare say thoy believe the dangor of a naval armaments race llos primarily between the United States and Japan, with Croat Britain in volved Indlroetly. . "All Indications," the author itative source said, "are that Japan moet certainly will make Immediate demands tor naval parity with the Unttod States once the subject Is opened. "The probability that this also would moan naval parity with Grout Britain Is apparently more or loss Incidental to the Japa nese." ' PARIS, Maroh 21. UP) Tho government today ordered a now autopsy porformod on tho body of Sorgo "Handsome Alox" Stn vlsky to dotermlno whethor he committed suicide or was killed January 0. The order followed a showing ot motion pictures ot the dontli scone botoro tho parliamentary Investigating 'commlttoe which soeks to ' dotormlno the story be hind the notorious Stavlsky swin dles. ' Tho police, ever since thoy sur rounded the dosortod villa at Chamontx whoro Stnvlsky was In hiding, havo oontondod that hand somo Alox shot hlmsolt to avoid arrest, mm U.-SL Air System Regarded Below World Standard General Mitchell Testifies Before Airmail Probers. ARMY AVIATORS SAID CAPABLE Money Interest Described As Strangling De velopment WASHINGTON, Msrch 21. (IP) Urigadler-General William Mit chell told the house postofflce commlttoe today American avia tion was "hopeless" compared with that of the rest ot the world because "it Is In the hands ot this gsng that had control of the airmail." Mitchell, testifying on the ad ministration's new airmail bill, don led vigorously that assigning tho army to carry the malls was "localized murder." He attrib uted deaths to "poor equipment. no flying experience, bad weath er," .rsductd' 'appropriations and "bonchcadedncas." IK-fenso Hold Weak. "Slnco 1926," be testified, "the development of aviation bos fall en largely Into the hands of the commercial Interests. Our air craft today is hopeless so far as war Is concerned. "ir the military fliers with the equipment thoy have can't fly tho mail, our air corps might as well disband. That mail flying Is premier stuff." - Mitchell said unless aviation was put under one agency "It will again fall Into the hands ot these money fellows, and they will con tinue to do what they have done." Cancellation Defended. Further Indication that demo crats are willing to accept the airmail contract cancellation as a political Issue If It Is presented as such, was given today by Rep resentative Bulwlnkle, demo, N. C defending cancellation as tbe "only thing" that could have been done. Bulwlnklo's speech to tbe house followed Postmaster General Far ley's defense of cancellation last qight at a Delaware political rally, and denunciation In the Benate yesterday by Robinson, (Continued on Page Eight) Klamath county is on a cash basis in all funds. This was announced Wednes day by County Treasurer George P. Taylor, who said he believed this the first county in the state to go on a cash basis this year. Taylor said heavy payments of current taxes as a result of the now law undoubtedly was respon sible for the Improved financial condition of the county at this time. Ho called all warrants up to date Wednesday. Tho treasurer said he can see daylight tor a considerable dis tance ahoad In view ot reports from tho tax colloctor that large turnovers are yot to be expect od for tho first payments. The county. Taylor said, had made excellent' progress In clear ing up its dob'.B in tho past year. Inherited from 1982 was about 820.000 In county road warrants and otbor road obligations. About $5000 was oarriod ovor In cur rent expense fund obligations. These have now been cleared up, and in' addition the county has rotlred 332.000 in bonds above actual maturities and has 32.- 000 more In tho sinking fund that It had at ,the beginning of 1933. :', '. Negro Bishop Sent to Prison BROOKLYN, N. Y March 21. (AP) Bishop Charles Manuel Grace, negro, head ot the House of Prayor for 'all Peonlo, a sect olntmlng a membership of 200,- uuu, was sontjnccd to a year and n day In prison by Federal Judge flinrcus u. uampnou today on a conviction ot violation ot the Manu act, Chicago Club Papers Walls With "Bonds" CHICAGO, March 21. VP) Paperhsngers started plaster ing a million dollars worth ot headache on tbe walls of the Union League club , today. The follies ot 1929 lived again In memory as the work men pasted stocks, bonds, mortgages and a tasty array of Insull securities on the club's "million dollar room," dedi cated to the insanity ot the big boom. Amid the brushes and paste was paper once thought as good as gold and the only question asked about it was: "Will It weor?" It would, said a paperhanger. Recent Amendments for '. Aodelill. Be DisK cussed. WASHINGTON, March 21. (JP) The national recovery adminis tration has called a public hear ing here March 27 on recent amendments to the lumber code. Tbe amendments, 49 to 67 Inclu sive, embody practically all of the code changes approved by the code authority at recent meet ings. A statement by tbe code au thority said export trade is par ticularly affected by amendments 49 .to 64, the former permitting the divisions and subdivisions to establish cost-protection prices tor export sales and to revise and modify such schedules upon 48 hours' notice. The other amendment would give the administrative agency three options for relaxing pro duction control in order to en courage cutting for export, The first option provides that no per son would be considered to have exceeded his allotment for .any period if the excess'' did not ex ceed 60 per cent of his proven exports. The second would give any operator, willing to forego a specified proportion ot bis reg ular allotment, an export allot ment twice the size ot the domes tic reduction. The third method would be the designation by. ad ministrative agencies ot certain qualities or items ot lumber and timber products tor export with permission to operators to pro duce these items in excess ot al lotments, provided satisfactory evidence was submitted that thoy have actually been exported. The question ot code fees and reports is affected by amendment 60, which would permit the de nial of an allotment to any oper ator falling to fulfill his obliga tions under the code. E IN Resignation ot George Sample as purchasing agent for the CWA, and appointment of H, C. Melaas In his place was an nounced at the county relief com mlttoo mooting Wednesday morn ing. Sample is returning to his regular work for the Pelican Bay Lumber compnny. The committee heard Waltor Fernloy, out of the state pur chasing agent's office at Port land, In an explanation ot pres ent policies ot the CWA. Nocesslty for cutting the coun ty quota to 824 men tor -next week resulted in considerable discussion, ' It ' w .s docldod to leave the matter to the discre tion ot Munager Will Baldwin. County Judge Grizzle an nounced the' county court had agreed to pay $160 per month toward the maintenance of the national re-employment, office hero. The court will pay travel ing expenses for the office force, headed by Nelson Reed, and will pay. the salary ot a Bocrotary, . LOIR T County Commissioner in Race for One of Two State Positions. DEFIANCE TO TAX LEAGUE OBSERVED Converts Gather to Ma honey's Ranks in' Klamath Falls. Jack Almeter, Chlloquln jus tice of the peace, Wednesday af ternoon - filed his candidacy for county commissioner on the dem ocratic ticket. Besides being Jus tice ot the peace, Almeter Is a member of the county school board and the county relief com mittee. He is a long-time resi dent of the county. . By Malcolm Epley County Commissioner Charles R. Williams put the republicans in the legislature race, Wednes day. He announced' that ' within a day or two he will file for nomination to one ot the two state representative vacancies to be filled by Klamath county, vot ers this year. The Williams statement ' was tbe outstanding development ot the day as regards Individual candidacies, but there was inter esting news about some of the organizations, particularly tbe young democratic league which called a mass meeting for Monr day evening. Challenge to League Williams' decision to run tor the legislature was more or less ot a challenge to the Klamath Taxpayers league, which is at tempting to recall him along with three other county officers. The white-haired, lanky county commissioner apparently has de cided to place his name before . (Continued on Page Eight) NEW YORK. March 21, (AP) Lllyan Tashnian, motion pic ture actress, died this afternoon at Doctors hospital after an ill ness which had lasted a year and became acute March 16. A. J. Gertenbach, directing manager of the hospital, an nounced that death had been caused by "an advanced tumor ous condition which had neces sitated an emergency operation shortly after she was admitted to the hospital. Hospital records gave her age as 33 years. She leaves her husband, Edmund Lowe, also ot the films. An announcement by the hos pital paid great tribute to Miss Tashman's tenacity In carrying on her moving picture work de spite the seriousness, of her con dition. nr IN FIRST CONTEST Final Ashland 26, Columbia (Port land) 23. SALEM, March 21. (P) In the Initial game ot the annual state basketball tournament here Co- quille high school advanced to the second 1 round by defeating the. team from Mitchell 37 to 21. Conferees Unable to Agree on Vets WASHINGTON, March 21, (AP) Congressional conferees failed to agree at their first meeting today on the controver sial, veterans' berioflts and fed eral' pay questions and the house group prepared to ask the house to Insist on its ' less liberal pro visions. 1 - POST SOUGH BYW LLIAMS Court Exceeds Relief Budget DEMANDS MADE FOR DENTAL AND MEDICAL CARE; COSTS GREATER ' Connty Judge Grizzle, a good cburch member, didn't say it this way, but he indicated the connty court and relief committee is In a situation where they are "damned it they do and damned it they don't." Besieged with demands tor more medical care for persons on relief,, the judge at Wednesday's county relief committee meeting pointed out that medical help is running far over budget allow ances. Situations Converse Before tbe committee at the time, was David Perry, a member of the Relief Workers Protective association, to which Tax League President John Irwin has spoken two or three times In behalf ot the recall. Perry said people ' on relief need more medical and dental help. Tbe Judge cited the fact (Continued on Page Eight) IE9! ALERT TO POLITICS Martin, Mott and. Pierce . Eye- Situation ; From r Washington. WASHINGTON, March 21, (JP) Members of congress, without donbt, are extremely buss par ticipating in tbe ever-changing picture in which they are actors some of them stars but most ot them find a tew moments to discuss "back home" politics dur ing the day. Some are. reluctant to make predictions, hut others, like Rep sentative Martin of Oregon, who is seeking the democratic nomi nation as governor of his state, will forecast victory, , . Marching a person can't help marching when swinging along with the white-haired Oregonian, a retired major-general through the subway from the Capitol to the new house office building, Martin predicted "we have a good chance to make it a clean sweep next fall." "But I may get the pants lick ed off of me," he mused, as he reflected on the May and No vember elections. On the pother hand, Oregon's republican. Mott. won't concede a thing as he seeks to return to his seat In the lower house of con gress. "The democrats are go ing to make a Veal .bid for all elective offices at home," he said. . Former Governor Pierce, Ore gon's third representative In con gress, Is 1 making no predictions and no promises, but he "can't see how Oregon could turn away from the administration." OT PORT PORT SAID, Egypt, March 21, (JP) Long range telescopes were trained patiently on the horizon and radio feelers were sent out Intermittently today In Port Said's second afternoon vigil for tho ap pearance of SamUel Insull. A glass capable ot sighting his ancient little tramp of the seas, the Malotls, 21 hours out, was mounted upon one roof. This, however, like other angles of the search, proved fruitless.. Meanwhile, numerous Individ uals and concerns continued un ceasingly their efforts to get In touch with the former American utilities operator by wireless. Martin Would Save , All Indian Relics WASHINGTON, March , 21, (AP) A bill appropriating $4, 000 for salvaging Indian remains of scientific Importance In Ore gon was introduced Tuesday by Representative Martin of Orogon. The purpose Is to prevent loss in the area to he flooded by the Bonneville dam. The bureau ot American ethnology, Smithson ian Institute, would do; the sal vaging. . , . .. IrULo, COORD ATOR OF TAKES HELM Railroad Managers, Em ployes Will Submit ? Differences. ROOSEVELT WORKS ; ON MOTOR CRISIS Labor Chief Restates De J mands for Restoring Old Scale. WASHINGTON, March 21. (IP) An extended conference today between President Roosevelt and representatives of a'atomobila manufacturers apparently failed to produce a settlement of the industry's difficulties which threatened a strike. A White-Honse statement af ter the meeting simply said the situation from the employers' side was "canvassed" and that the president asked for "informa tion on many points." The chief executive will eon far tomorrow afternoon- with rep resentatives of labor organisa tions. Government leaders wero hopeful ot' reaching a settlement.. WASHINGTON, March 21, (JP) Railway managers and employ ers agreed today to submit thefr wage dispute to arbitration hy Joseph B. Eastman; federal rail road co-ordinator, as proposed by President Roosevelt, ' This waa ' made known shortly after Mr. Roosevelt began a conference with automobile man ufacturers In an effort to avert the strike threatened In that In dustry. Solution b Reported Temporary solution ot the rail way wage controversy was rei. ported to President Roosevelt by representatives of the two groups. A. F. Whitney, chairman ot the railway labor executive asso ciation, earlier had accepted the services of Eastman after reject ing suggestions for a continua tion of the existing 10 per cent pay cut agreement. Old Scale Songht A few hours later W. P. Thle hoff, chairman of the conference committee ot railroad managers, told the White House his group was willing to accept the services (Continued on Page Eight) Wednesday marked the offi cial opening of spring, but eltl-. sens of Klamath Falls have be- come accustomed to warn: and springlike temperatures that the day meant little. The weatherman gave maxl-. mum and minimum temperatures at 66 and 39 degrees, virtually the same as have been recorded , most ot the month ot March to; date. ' Up to, and including Wedhes. day, there' have been only four, days In ' the month when the' minimum temperature fell below freezing. 1 Temperatures in March from the 1st to the 20th Inclusive, were much higher than during the same period in 1033. The -mean temperature for this year : was 49.4, 11.2 dogrees higher' than the mean for last March. The mean maximum temperature this month for the 20-day period, was 64.6, or 16.1 degrees bighsr , than .last year, and the mean minimum for this year to data bas been 34.3, 6.6 dogrees higher than in March, 1933. The highest temperature re- ' corded tor this month was 11' degrees, while In the first 2D days in March, 1933, the high mark was 68. ' Tho minimum for this March was recorded at 24 degrees, and in 1983 the low' mark tor the' first 20 days was 17 degrees. This-year's weather proved th groundhog, traditional weather prophet, to be a liar of no mean ' ability, and he is now without honor in this part of tbe country, RAILWAYS
