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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1934
Number 6072
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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