The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, April 13, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextLocal Forecast Fair; moderate. , . High 75; Low 43. OREGON: Partially cloudy, ' , cooler east. HERALD SERVICE Herald subscribers who full to rocolvo tliolr paper by OHIO p. in. are reuuuated tu call (lie Herald business office, phono 11)00, and a paper will b eon by apodal carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Number 6092 I Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FKIDAY, APItIL 13, 1934 cloud D Editorials On the Day's News in a -4 xy, IfulD I I I I I I I "I 511 t 1 lly PRANK JKNK1NM SAM INHULL, after trying for ycura to run out on hl trou bloa, Is finally headed back to tbo United Btntea to facs tbo wuale, 1'oor fiaml Ho la learning, much amilnat hla will, tho old, old loaaun Hint It'a en'1"' 11,0 long run to fuco your troubloa tbau to try to run away from tbein. i . A TRAIN at Miami properly pronounced Moo-ati-moo nar rowly mlnaea an automobile and trailer containing General Hugh 8, Johnaoa and a lot of other big ahota. Bo the headlines flare all oror the United Slntaa. It It had boon you or I, no at tention would have boon paid to IU Tho bigger tbo people con corned the bigger the newa. WHYT NOT becauao the newapapera are engagod In a conspiracy to pay attention only to big people. That lan't It at all. It la becauao more of ua know about the big people than about (he llttlo onoa; ao newa about big people tnteroaia more readera. The Job of the newapapera la to lntoreal'tho largoat poialblo number of tliolr readera. WR HEAR from Waahlngton again that the Chicago board of trado nccde rogulatlng. Poanllily It doea. Aa to that, th la writer doean't poae aa an authority, nut thla much la certain aa we know from experience during the pat year: If the grain and produce oxchangos nro regulated to the point where they can no longer function the romilt will be aerloua derangement of the graltrand produce' markets.1-'"" THE atock market haa certain gambling features. Hut It servos a uieful purpoao In tbo financing of Induatry. Tho grain and produce mar kola have' Certain gambling fea turea. But tboy too, eorvo a uie ful purpoao In the marketing of tho country'i grain and produco. If wo regulate the atock mar kot and tho grain and produce markots to the point whore thoy can no longer function efficiently, WB shall bo the principal suf forors. . e TJJ7E HAVE regulated the rail 1" roada to tho point where thoy can no longer run tholr OWN bualneia. lioforo thoy can ninko a more, they bavo to ask lome government agency for pormls alon. Tho roault hna boon STEADILY INCREASING railroad ratoa. Regulation la all right up to a certain point, but DBYOND that point It ISN'T all right. Regulation Un't a euro for everything. PltOHIIIITION LIFTED ' WASHINGTON, April IS (JP) Prealdent Rooaovolt todny signed a bill repealing the pro hibition lawa In Alaska. SANTA MONICA, April 13, Editor The Evening Hornld: We got tho moving picture theatre ownora out horo on a big convention. Thoy all re port business much bottor all over. Now what bottor bnrom ator can you got than thorn. Tholr oonvontlon hna In formed tho producors tlint aa about everything In tho way of box hnd boon produced, and thnt tho audlonce didn't cure to aoo It over again, thoy iug goatod that tor a ohango thoy' would llko to boo just nn old fnshloned movlo, And thoy i.Ibo wnnt to otlmlnato tho son antlonnl and auggoatlvo adver tising uaod for plcturos. You can't mnko a picture n bad aa tho ads lead you to bollove It Is. ' Yours, K ROGERS Serious Disorders Trouble Strikers Clash in Philadelphia; Walkouts Feared CO Demonstrators Taken By Police After Rioting. TWO COMPANIES INCREASE WAGES East Coast, Midwest, Scenes of Business Turmoil. WASHINGTON. Anrll IS. (JPl Horvey C. Fromlng. prealdent of the International ABiocmuuii of 01) Field. Qaa Well and -He-finery Workora of Amorlca, told roportora today a atrlke Involv ing 100,000 memuera 01 ine or ganisation will be called "within lit hAtim If wim itlffurentlala prepared by tho planning and co ordination committee of the oil code authority are aaopiea. lly Aaaorintrd Pros Now dladrdora clouded the In duatrlal acene today, caualng the arrcat of alxty poraona In Phila delphia. ..-Further, atrlkag threatened In Connecticut, and glove euttera In (Jlovorevllle. N. Y.. are prepared to go on atrlke unlvaa their wage domanda ara mot lato today. , Many Can Htoned The Philadelphia arreita were niuilo when atrlkora' pickets and police clashed In front of two knitting mllla. Automoblloa woro atoned near one plauU l'lcketa wore on duty at the VUcoae company plant In Lowia town, Pa., aa tho "lunch period" atrlko aproad- through tho force of 4.000 em ploy 01. Lou than (Contlnuod on Pago Eight) The Rov. Theodore Smith, local Presbytery pnator, la to be hon ored Juno 6 at the commence ment oxerclBoa of Albany, college by having tho degree .of Doctor of Divinity conforrod on him. Somo tlmd ago, Dr". BlUh, the proatdnnt nollfed Mr. Smith of tho action of the board of trus tor to- thla effect. Yeatorday, Dr. lllbh proaentcd the ronuost of tho faculty and the graduat ing clnaa of Albany college, auk lug Mr. Smith to preach the bnccalnuronte Bornion on Sunday, Juno 3, and arrangements aro being made to comply with the request. Mr. Smith has already In years past rocolvod not only the bach olor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, but nlso tho do greo of mnator of science from tho Bitmo Institution. Ho has nlBo taken addltlonnl postgrart unte work at the University of Indiana. It la probnblo that a dologatlon from the local church win nttond the commencement oxorclsos In Albany. In thla connoctlon It Is under stood that tho local pastor has been OBkod to dollvor the com mencement nddroBS on May 10, at tho graduating oxorclsos of Chlloquln high school. DEATHS NOW FIVE SEDAWA, Mo., April 18. (JP) Flvo donthB todny marked tho oxploslotiB of an Improvised stoam tnblo which turnod B happy an niversary hnnquot Into tragedy. Tho victims, nil womon, woro shownrod with boiling wator and acnldlng stnain Wednesday night whon tho tnblo exploded In a tom norarv kltohon at tho Missouri Pnclflo Bhops. In anothor part ot tho building, approximately i.nou persons woro waiting to bo served a dlnnor In connoctlon with nn nnnlvoranry oolobrntlon. Nineteen womon nro In a hos pital, two ot thorn In a critical condition. Twelfth Day of Any Month Has Bad Record Lloyd L. Low, sheriff of Kla math county, would just aa aoon the 12th. day of every month were omitted. Sheriff Low pointed out Friday that anme ot the recent major tragedies In tho county bad oc curred on thnt date. He waa too posalmiatlc to acarch for further evidence of misfortune on the 12th. Audrea Mardclle and Dorle Sparka wore killed on Novem ber 12 and their bodies were fount) on April 12. Enicat Nitechelm and Wsl lor Wood, duck huntera, wore drowned In Agency lake on De cember 12. i t Stalo Kepreaentatlve Ralph W. lloran waa ahot to death on February 12. t And to top the excitement ot April 12, George W. Lulls was killed In an automobllo acci dent near Fort Klamath. The auggeatlon automatical ly follows to be wary of the 12th day of any month. ACCIDENT FATAL George' Luiza Killed ' in Crash Thursday Near Fort Klamath. FORT KLAMATH. Ore., April IS. George W. Leulsa, 36. ot Klamath Falls was killed two n, Una limit h of r-ra on a market highway Thursday afternoon, whon his machine loft the rond and turned ovor In a ditch. Lou Iza waa pinned beneath the car In two-feet of wator. Tho accldont, unwuneasea, apparently occurred about 2:30 tn thi nftnrnaon aa the victim wna returning from a fishing trip. " Tho pocullnr circumstances 01 tho crash provontod lndontlfica tlon until lato last night, Edna . Hill, resident ot the Wood river district, passod the spot where tho accident was dis covered at 2:00 o'clock. A halt hour lator, as she returned from Fort Klamnth, she camo upon the ovorturnod car. There was no Immediate evl donco the passengor was In the wreck. Miss Hill Immediatoly notified William Page at a garage In Fort Klamath. The wrookor wont out to romovo tho battered car from (Continued on Pago Eight) T Mrs. F. E. Ware, mother of Audrea Mnrdelle, one of the vic tims of the Sand Creek auto trngody, Friday made a state ment expressing appreciation of the efforts of Klamath county, Oregon and Crutor park authori ties In tho finding nnd recovery of the bodlos ot Miss Mardolls and Doris Sparks. Mr. nnd Mrs. Wnro were horo Friday from Borkoloy, Cnl. In tholr statoment thoy nnmed Chief Ranger Dnvld Cnnflold nnd Rnngora Bornlo Hughes and C. H. Slmson, Dr. Goorgo H. Adler, coroner, and his deputy. State Police Sergeant Marlon Barnes and hlB men, and especially Sheriff L. L. Low, Deputy R. D. Davis, and othor doputles. They' said thoy wtshod also to speak for the Sparks family In the Bame manner. 1 Jeweler Confesses , t Murdering Woman LOUISVILLE, Ky April IS. (fF) James William Thomas, Jr., 36, a Jeweler, confessed today, snld Dunlnp . Wakaflold, satoty director, thnt ho shot nnd killed his Bwaothoart, Almn Knight, 24, dlvoreee, and stuttod her body In a oloset of his apartmont Tues day. - , CRATER LAKE AUTD VICTIMS BROUGHT HERE Audrea Mardelle's Body Will Be Taken to Berkeley. FUNERAL SERVICE SET FOR SATURDAY Officials Await W o r d From Relatives of Doris Sparks. The bodies of Andrea Mar dclle and Do. Sparka. crashed and broken by the terrific drop into the nit ot Sand Creek can yon five montha ago, rested in a funeral home here today. Officers late yesterday after noon removed the bodies of the young women from the creek bed with block nnd tackle. They had been there since November 12 when their car crashed over the side on the snow-covered east entrance highway to Crater Lake National park. Funeral at Berkeley - -Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Ware ar- tlved.ln. Jtlaniath Fall Frld Bromine to take charge of Miss Mardelle's body. ' Mrs. Ware la the victims mother. The body will be forwarded to Borkeloy tonight by the Klam ath Funeral Home. Services will be held In the caitiornia itv Knturdnv afternoon at 2:00 o'clock at the Chapel ot , the Flowers. Relatives of Miss Sparks have been informed of the November tragedy and are expected to com municate with Klamath officials either tonight or Saturday. It Is believed MIbs Sparks' body will be sent to Sacramento for burial. . . . The search and the mystery ended simultaneously Thursday (Continued on Page Six) The best chamber of commerce on the Pacific coast. That is the way T. L. 8tanley, manager of tho Shasta-Caacade Wonderland association, described the Klamath county chamber of commerce Friday. Discussing the chamber's plans for a membership campaign April 18, Stanley, on a visit here from California, declared that Klamath peoplo can support the local chambor of commerce and know they aro getting something tor their efforts. "I know of no chamber that tlea Into community problems and really renders service as does tho Klamath organlxatlon," said Stan loy. "I am In a position to ob serve the work ot chambers ot' oommorco up and down the coast and I do not hesitate to describe tho Klamath chamber as the best on tho coast." Discussing chamber of com merce work In general, Stanley said: ' . ' ' "Tho business man who doesn t appreciate the fact It pays to sup port the chamber ot commerce with time and monoy is simply not up with tho trends of the times. For Instance, tho cham bers ot commorce have been try ing for years to Induce- business pooplo to do tho things which the govornmont, In tho extremities of tho depression, finally forced up on them through the NRA. Plans tor the chamber drive, designed to bring in 100 new members, continue to shape up. Tho whole campaign will be con centrated into one day, next Wed nesday. , , Candidates Pay Big Filing Fees SALEM, April IS (iP) Filing fees received at tho state depart ment from tho 375 candidates for nomination at the primary election, totalod $8,150, Secre tary of Stnto P, J. Stndelman an nounced today. The offico nlso collected $6,640 as pnymont for space In the votors' pamphlet which will be seat out to all registered votors. College Lads Uphold Peace BTCDENTS I.V ALL PARTS OP COUNTUV STAGE DEMONSTRATION'. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 13 (JP) Flying grapefruit and on ions today turned an anti-war meeting of Harvard students In to a burlesque battle. 1 The clash was between more than 2,000 atudents gathered In the Harvard yard for the anti war conclave, called by the Na tional Student League and the Student League for Industrial Domocracy, and members of the Michael MuIiinB Chowder club and Marching Club ot Harvard. Vegetables tilled the air. No one was hurt. This phase of the meeting might have been more widespread and longer had not yard police confiscated a consid erable quantity of grapefruit be fore the hostilities began. NEW YORK, April 13 (JP) A cry "Strike Against War" re sounded on many campuses to day, summoning students to drop books at 11 a. m. and demon strate for peace. Even before the movement got - officially under way It resulted In bruises for about 20 persons. A riot launched the peace drive in Brooklyn last night. About 600 students of an eve ning high school Joined 2.000 other persons In trying to per suade 1,500 remaining students to join their ranks. BALTIMORE. April 13 (JP) An anti-war demonstration by liberal students - ot the Johna illonkina university. toia- turned ont to be anytning nut peaceiui, Five minutes after the dom onstratlon opened In a Hopkins assembly hall, the air was filled with oratory, catcalls, overripe tomatoes end eggs of undeter mined age. F. B. TO OPPOSE E President Not in Favor of Paying Deposits in v Closed Banks. WASHINGTON, April 13 (P) Indication was given at the White House toddy that Presi dent Roosevelt is not inclined to favor the McLeod bill to pay oft depositors in closed banks. At his press conference Mr. Roosevelt Inquired into the terms ot the bill by Represent ative McLeod (R-Mlch.) He observed that he had lost $300 in a bank In 1921; that some members ot his family had suffered losses In the panic of 1947 and that his father had lBt mnnao In tha nnnta nf 1893 and he wondered It Lll theses losses would be paid off under the legislation. A barn on the Calvin Craig farm southeast- ot Merrill was destroyed by fire Friday after noon. The total loss was esti mated at over $2,000, A tractoi, general farm ma chinery and 15 tons ot hay were lost In the tiro. The hay - be- I longed to Lloyd Cold. Several drums ot gasoline and oil also were destroyed. The fire broko out in the shin: gles and Bprond quickly. A cabin noar the barn was saved. P .REDDING, Calif., April IS, (AP) James G. Moffntt, 88, was killed nnd his bride of six hours, Dortha, 20, and two other persons were seriously Injured In an automobllo accldont 30 miles north of horo Inst night. . Tho othors Injured woro Mrs. Motfntt's brothor, Albert H. 011 phant, 82, nnd Mrs. May Blasor, 19. Mrs. Blaaor's 14-month-old son escaped without . Injury, GREAT THRONG GREETS F. D. R. UPON RETURN Two Hundred Members of Congress Welcome Chief Home. ROOSEVELT IN HAPPY HUMOR Jocular Speech Made At Railroad Station in Washington. WASHINGTON, April 13. (JP) President Roosevelt was wel comed back from his Florida va cation today by some 200 mem bers ot congress. , "I can't be truthful and say l am glad to be back. I'm sorry," be told them Jocularly when cheering subsided. "While I've had a wonderful time. I gather that both houses of congress have also had a wonder ful time.' Garner, Ralney Head Parade. Laughter greeted his sallies. The congressional delegation, led by Vice-President Garner, and Speaker Ralney, had - marched over to Union station from the capitol behind the marine band. Martial mimln Arhned. When the presidential train ar rived Mrs. Roosevelt, accompan ied by her daughter, Mrs. Anna Da 11. her daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Roosevelt, and her son, El liott, Immediately went aboard. A few minutes later the offi cial senate and house committees went into the president a car. F. R- Glad He's Home. The congressional contingent outside shouted and applauded when the president later emerged on the arm of his son, James. The band played "Hail to the Chief." Just after that the president said be was "very glad to see you all'' and thanked the mem bers of congress for coming to welcome him. Continuing, he said he expect ed to get publicity on the fish he caught oft the coast -ot Florida, but there had been too much competition because "you people have been going from worse to (Continued on Page Six) WASHINGTON, April 1$ (JP) Speaker Ralney Issued a state ment today saying he would be glad to see tbe silver groups In coneress nnlte on a bill and promised he would make way for It In the nouse. "There Is an overwhelming sentiment In the house ot repre sentatives, and I think also In the senate, tor silver," he said, "and this sentiment reflects the feeling ot the country generally." Ralney sold whenever the var ious groups unite he 'would do "everything I can to assist In getting the bill the considera tion it ought to have on tne floor ot the house at this ses sion." LOS ANGELES. April IS. (JP) The disappointment In love which Marjorle Whltels said sho suffered when Harry Joe Brown, screen director, married Sally fill ers, film actress, brought her a judgment for 15,000 today from a superior court Jury ot seven women and five men. Miss Whltels, bettor known on the screen as Marjorle Gay, ax pressed through her lawyer, Whit ney Smith, satisfaction with the verdict, although she had sued Drown for $100,000, claiming he Jilted her last fall after a four year romance to marry Miss liners. Industries Instill Ready to Board Ship FUGITIVE ARRIVES TODAY AT SBfTRXA-JFOB TRIP TO AMERICA. SMYRNA, Turkey, April IS, (JP) Samuel Insull Sr. arrived today by train from Pandemia, preparatory to embarking on the S. S. Exllona for the United States. He reached here this evening after a train trip ot 175 miles from Panderma. He left there at 8:45 a. m. On the train with, him was Burton Y. Berry, third secretary ot the United States embassy In Intanbul. Berry is to receive In sull from the Turkish authorities on board the Exllona and accom pany him to the United States, where he Is charged with mall fraud and fraudulent bankruptcy. PANDERMA, Turkey. April IS, (JP) Samuel Insull turned Joke ster today on a little train chug ging toward Smyrna, where a ship waits to return him to the United States for trial. To the surprise of fellow-passengers, he cast off his appear ance of despair during the night voyage by ship from Istanbul to this Marmora seaport. He even joked about the seven-man Turk ish escort. "It Is remarkable," he said in jest, "that I should need an es cort of seven. I'm perfectly harmless.'? That was over the after-dinner (Continued on Page Eight) s E MAY BE CALLED Trouble Anticipated -Selecting Jury For Manning Trial. in In anticipation ot difficulties in selecting a . jury tor the trial ot Horace M. Manning on first degree murder charges, an order has been prepared for the signa ture of Judge Fred S. Wilson calling for the drawing ot a spe cial venire ot 75 names ont of the June jury list. This list would be resorted to if the old panel ot 33 names al ready selected is exhausted in the attempt to get a jury for the trial, which opens Monday morn ing. There has been some ques tion among lawyers as to wheth er the new or the old jury list should be used for selecting the special venire, bat Court Clerk Walter Hannon said that as It stands the order would-affect the new list. Wilson Here Shortly Judge Wilson, who lives at The Dalles, will probably arrive here late Friday or Saturday, and the final decision on the matter rests In his hands. ' In the panel which must first be exhausted before the special (Continued on. Page Six) SOU WASHINGTON. April 13. (JP) The senate today voted to make all Income tax returns subject to public Inspection. The publicity amendment was approved 41 to 34. It adopted an amendment to the revenue bllt by Senator La Follette, republican, Wis., to this end after contentions were made auch a policy would serve to mini mise tax-dodging. LATE ST. PETERSBURG Fin., April 13 (AP) "Rabbit" Mnrranvllle ninilo his first excursion on crutches todny,- going for a brief stroll aronml the piiliii shaded grounds of city, hospital. PORTLAND, Oro., April 18 (AP) A - delegation of brewers and distributors today told Major Joseph K. Cnrson thnt brewers of tills district propose to limit the alcoholic content of beer to S.7S per cent by weight, or 4.8 per cent by volume - ' , BANDIT GANG IBS POLICE Officers Slugged, Bullet. proof Vests, Guns Stolen. POLICEMAN IDEN TIFIES OUTLAW Third Attack in . Mid west Credited to Dillinger. : ' . WARSAW. Ind., April 13, (VP) A man Identified as John Dil linger led a machine gui raid on the Warsaw police station today, slugged a policeman, stole lour bullet-proof vesta and two re volvers and got away. . Jnd Pittinger, the slugged po liceman, said he was 'quite posi tive that one ot the two raiderg was the Indiana "Wooden Gun" desperado. He did not recognize tha other. - Police on Edge , . ' The raid, the third auch foray in. small Indiana .cities credited to Dilllnger'a mob, put police and bank officials on edge,. Similar raids on Auburn and Peru last October preceded bank robberies at Greencastle and East Chicago, , Ind., and Racine, Wis. Pittinger said the two crim inals hit him on the head in an alley near the station. At ma chine gun point, they forced him to walk to the station, on tbe second floor of the fire house. and open the case in which the arms are kept Identity Not Doubted While they were choosing the vests, he said, he broke away and ran. Tbe two pursued him for a short distance, but then returned to their black sedan and roared out of town. Panl Hodges, city fireman, awoke In his quarters down stairs jnst in time to see the Taldera leave. , - There seemed no doubt in Pit finger's mind that the leader ol the bandits was the notorious outlaw whose "wooden gun" es cape from the "escape-proof" Crown Point,. Ind., jail March S amazed the country. - -' The Auburn and Peru police station raids last October came (Continued on Page Six) 1 Hi OPPOSES T INDIANA ROME,' April IS. (") Dele gates from the huge wheat grow ing country of Argentina opposed today the minimum export price plan being debated by the Inter national wheat commission. ' Before the conference Is a pro gram recommended by a suboom- : in It tee to booBt the value ot wbeut t through a minimum export price 'in its details have not beon revealed. The Argentine delegates Ob- Jected strenuously to the plan. It was understood, and were stilt objecting when the meeting ended. " ONE INDUSTRIAL DEATH ;', SALEM, April 13, (AP) The , death of William Lynn, Dexter,.' . a chbkersetter, was- the only fatality listed among casualties in Oregon Industries during the week ending April 12. The re port of the Industrial accident commission shows a total of 456 accidonts during the week. , NEWS ' WASHINGTON, AprU 18 (AP) President .Roosevelt today signed the Johnson bill prohibit ing financial transactions with foreign governments which bate defaulted in their debt obliga tions to tho United States. , : WASHINGTON, April IS (APr President Roosevelt has call-, ed congressional leaders for eon-fereucr-e over tile week-red on the entire legislative situation.