The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, May 21, 1934, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextLocal Forecast High 74; Low 45. , Fair and Warmer. OREGON: Fair tonight and Tuesday. Warmer east portion. HERALD SERVICE llerald subscribers who lull to rooolva their paper by OHIO p. in. are requested lo call tlio llorald business office, phone 1UU0, and paper will ba stmt by special carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE, MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934 Number 7024 BRIGHT Mlo)A mmm. Editorials On the Mi Day's News lly FRANK JKNKIN8 4 IK KB li an liituroothis stnto " mont: For tlio tint throe month ol 1034, etnas 1 railroad ot the Vnltod Stales showed a not operating Income of 1112,27(1,' 800. In the first three months ot 1033, their not operating In eome wai 134,501,940, Not io bad, A hundred and twolvo million dollar! Ii a lot of mouoy. When we look at that figure, ur first thought la that the railroads hare done very well In deed tor thoitnelvei. But when we read further that the ium ot 1112,170,008 amount! to a roturn at an annual rate of only 1.03 per eent on the rail roaila' properly Investment we reallie that It Isn't so terribly good, aftor all. The rallroada, you soe, have 4 eost a lot of mouey, JJOPINO. OF COUR8B, won't do much good, but at loest let's bopo the railroads do evon better a great deal better, If they can In the last nine months ot 1034 than they did In the first three months. a If the railroads show good profits, thoy will be able to buy more lumber and other products of Orogou, end If tho railroads are ahlo to buy more of our products we shall show an In orease ot prosperity bore In Ore gon. We are all Interested In that. rjON'T GRUDGE fair profits to Industry, . Industry must have fair profits If It Is to pay fair wages to Its labor and fair prices for Its raw materials. ' , e ' ' '. NOTHBIt Intorostlng figure:! During the first four months of 1034, sales of state and muni cipal bonds In the Unltod 8tates amounted to $311,236,015. That Is to aay, the people of this country still bare confidence enough In the solvency ot Its states and cltlos to Invest ap proximately third ot a billion dollars In tholr securities. That If rathor encouraging. e TT Ii QUITS a ebange, Incldon A tally, from a year ago. In the first four months ot 1033, totals of state and municipal bonds amounted to only 0170,135,060. People didn't have much con fidence then. e ANOTHER SLANT! In the month of January, 1034, as reported by the safety soctlon ot the Amorlcan Railway association, thore wero 800 ac cidents at railroad highway crossings. In January, 1038 there wore only 176 such acci dents. Do people get more reckloss , .. aa they grow more proaporouef e t TUT LET'S OET BACK tor a moment to the lncroasod earnings shown by the country's Class 1 rallroada. Those lncroasod earnings aro especially Intorostlng, bocauso thoy rofloct lncroasod movomont of all the various oommodltlos A. entering Into trndo and oonv morco. An Inorease In the movomont of commodities Is the best poi slble Indication that times are ronlly gottlng bottor. HARLINOMN, Tox May 21, ap wuiiam ushorne, ie. yonr-old Promont high sohool studont, was onnrgoa wltn tiiur dor and lodged In tho Falfurrlas Jp.ll without hnnd nt a prollmln nry hoarlng thore today In con' nocllon with tho slaying of J M. "Jack" Brlnck, former mom- bor of the U. S. Olympic row ing toam. Tho youth was arrostod yes' tordny as he emorgod from brush toward tlio highway noar the soono of tho slaying. He dlroct ed offlcars to a point In the brush whore a wonpon wns hid den and produced $70 whloh he told tlio shoriff he took from JJrluck's wallet. Grasshoppers Swarm Over Droug Gigantic Farm Losses Expected in Central Belt Hundreds of Farmers In Middle States Pray for Relief. PRODUCTION CUT ABOUT 85 PER CENT Wheat, Hay, Small Grains Ravaged by Dry Spell and Pests. (fly The Aaaoclatod I'm) Drought, aided by grasshoppers and chinch buns, spread further destruction tnrough the grain bolt today, incroanlng crop losses to as high as So por cent In somo sectlous. Many farmers prayed yoater- day la churchea for rain, borne rains ramu. but thny were too light to bring much benefit. Moro local ahowurs wore fore cast. Hugo Losses Reported , Evon Ideal weathor. said agri cultural exports, could not now afford any mutorlal rellof In much ot the midwest Nobraska farmers reported all crops In tho central part ot tho state. Including oats, bay, and other small grains, have boon cut 40 por cent. The strawberry crop has been sevorely damaged and chinch bug damage Is the wont In the regions farming history. liny Crop Slashed Indiana's bay crop Is cut 60 per cent and wheat and oats aro aorcroly damaged. Corn Is germ inating slowly. Dust storms havo blown away largo parta of the onion and mint crops. Tho fruit crop In tho southwestern ' region Is porlled. Timber and grain Is drying, and small Insects and timber fires are adding to tlio damage. With hay and pastures most afflicted, crops throughout Wis consin aro monnced. No aprlng planting has been flouo In sovor al sections. Corn Is Buttering. Miniioaota Is suffering from an opldomlc of grasBlioppora. Tho yield ot aprlng wheal will not reach 85 per colli of normal. Dust Btorma havo blown away plants. Pasture lands are dry ing up. and oats and hay havo boon hurt. Kansas Wheat Down Some unofficial ostlmutcs woro that the wheat crop yiold In Kunsns will not oxcood 60 por cont. Corn planting will be de ferred In soveral parts of tho state. Tho applo crop area is hard hit. In soveral soctlons of the grain bolt Sunday church services woro devoted to prayers for rain, by (Contlnuod on Page Three) Closo restrictions on public ro llof for the roninlndor of the spring and summer wore Indlcnt od at tho county rollof office Monday. "Tho rollof funds havo boon drastically roducad by tho gov ernment," said Miss Phyllis Hartsng, rollof dlractor. '"People must roly on thomsolves as much as possible. "Tho govornment fools that all poople on rollof Bhould bo hunting Jobs. This office hopos that employers who havo work to got out will notify us so we can help, Uioho pooplo to the plnco whoro thoy - will Biipport thomsolvos." Tho rollof director- Indlontod that rollof for slnglo mon will probably recolve tho most dres tlo out. ' , , : Plan Advertising Airmail Started WASHINGTON, May 21, UP) The postofflco dopartmont Is go ing to start an Intensive adver Using campaign to boom use of the airmail. Marlloe Branch, second assist ant postmnator gonoral, Bald to day the drive would start May 24 with posters, nowspaper pub licity and oratory. Tho cost Is to bo limited to "less than 8100, I 000." Baseball XATIOXAL R. II. E. St. Louis 2 8 2 New York 5 8 1 Hulltthan and V. Davis; Bow man and Mancuso. R. H. E. Chicago 10 18 2 Brooklyn 8 8 1 Leo, Joiner, Malono, Wcavor, fluah and Ilnrtnott: Herring, Carroll, Duck, Leonard and Lopes. AMKKICA.N n. h. e. Now York 6 18 0 Cleveland 8 14 0 . Uhlo, Vanatta and Dickey; Hudlin and Pytlak. R H E Waihlngton 6 " ll' 2 Detroit 6 14 0 Whltohlll. Prim and Phillips: Marberry, Hogiett and Hayward. E1P0US IT Eight Officers and Ten Strikers Injured in Fighting. MINNEAPOLIS. May 21. (AP) Riots broko out again early today In tho market district and olght policemen and ten strikers foil as 300 pickets and nearly 100 special policemen clashed over tho movement ot trucks. Strikers were at tho sccno at dawn, as soveral produce firms began moving out trucks with vcKolublcs, berries, and other perishables. Police woro already on hand. The majority of tho strikers woro armed wltn clubs, bata and poloa. Many carried stonos. Pickets Dlork Trucks As two trucks started out, a mass of plckota stopped Into tho alloywny to block them. Police 'ubs swing. The pic kots surged Into tho fray, swing ing clubs thomsolvos. Half a (Contlnuod on Pago Three) E PORTLAND. May 21, (IP) A peace parloy at police head quartors In tho wco hours Sun day morning followed "tho first annual conforence against war, fascism, unemployment and re trenchment In education." The dologatos wore rounded up on tho watorfront while dis tributing handbills which Identi fied them as studonts from the UnlvorBlty of Oregon, University of Washington, Hoed College ot Portland and Oregon Normal sohool at Monmouth. Tho handbills declared the or ganisation supported the long shoromon's strike, cnutlonod the strikers against any compromise In sottloment, domnndod the sot tlomont agroomont bo only on forms approvod nttor a referen dum ot all tho strlkors, support ed the program of mnrlne work ers In a complete waterfront tie up on the coast, denounced "scab-hotders" and promised the organisation's action to prevent studonts from strike breaking. T SALEM, May 21. (AP) Goorge McMorran, chairman of the state liquor commission, with Goorgo Nounor, attornoy, will appoar betnro the bonrd of con trol hero this attornoon to ex plain the snlnry ndJtiBtmonts of olght employes ot the commis sion, which had previously been rojooted by the board. The board ot control was In session during the forenoon, but othor than approval of several purchnso Horns, only routine bus iness wns transnotod. The moot Ings ot the banking bonrd and state , land board were also hold. STOGKYARDS AT E Material Damage Is Esti mated at More Than $8,000,000. TWO MEN DIE IN BIG BLAZE Hundreds of Fighters Are Injured in Terrific Holocaust. CHICAGO, May 21. (AP) The charred body of a man was found In the ruins of Chicago's stockyards today as crews of workmon groped through the debris of Saturday's 18,000,000 fire preparing the way for ro bulldcrs. Through acres ot hot ashes, Into heaps of bricks, skoletons of old landmarks and twisted steel girders the explorers dug, bunt ing valued documents and prop orty that might have survived the holocaust, and hoping the loss of human life would not grow. Watchman la Killed The ono known victim was Isaac Moans., 60-year-old watch man who- discovered the first flamos in tho cattle pens near the Forty-third street viaduct. The charred body was found less than two blocks from the point whore Mems shouted to other workers: "It's a fire." So quickly aid tno maze spread on the wings (lontinuea on Page Three) HERE THIS WEEK Students of Klamath Union high school und of the city Bchools started Monday on tho last lap of tholr work for the year, whon final examinations got undor way. All examinations will be com pleted Wednesday, and lists ot graduates from the various schools compllod when' grados are learned. Commencement exorcises for Klamath Union high school will he held Friday afternoon at the Polican theatre, and the vari ous elementary schools of the city will bold their exercises on Thursday and Friday. At a special assembly to be hold at the high school Tuesday morning various honor awards will bo made. Pins will be given to the sen iors having perfect records ot attendance, to those who are en titled to permanent membership In tho honor socloty and to mem- (Contlnuod on Page Three) WASHINGTON, May 21. (AP) The senate refused today to submit the lntost Norrls consti tutional amendment to the states, and thereupon returned to its reciprocal tariff jousting. Nebraska's vetoran Indepen dent won 42 votes for his pro posal to abolish the electoral college and elect presidents di rectly. Opposed wore 24, mean ing that he barely fell short ot tho two-thirds voto required. Senators McNury and Stolwer ot Oregon votod against the moasuro. Logging Work Starts Monday ROCK CREEK, Oro. Louis Robbins, with a orow of 25 mon bognn operations this week In the yellow pine timber near the head ot Rock Crook, owned by tho late Pete Back, wall known lumberman of Klamath county, who died in 1082. Robbins ex pects to cut four million feet of pine from the district for the Klnmath Lumber and Box com pany. One million feet ot sugar pi no on the land will not be cut. Logs will be loaded at Home tonder's Landing. CHICAGO Weekend Air Deaths Many THIRTEEN FLIERS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS OVER UNITED STATES By the Associated Press Thirteen persons fell to their deaths In airplanes over the week end. v Four were killed at Tulsa, Tex., airport when a plane piloted by Harry Lynch of Wink, Tex., crashed before a crowd witness ing dedication of the field. The victims were Lynch, two 12-year-old boys, Bruce Anderson and Bobby Sesler, both ot Wink, and Willie Ravol. 28. ot El Paso, Tex. Fire Consumes Plane Lieut Frank J. Flndlay, 80, of Detroit, and Private George J. Scott, 27, of the 17th pursuit squadron, died In flamos near Port Huron, Mich. Their Self ridge field plane tell and burst Into flames just after a take-off. Flndlay was a reserve officer with Inactive status. A plane borrowed without the owner's consent crashed and (Continued on Page Three) E Three Competing Incum bents Lose Posts .,. At Elections. SALEM, Moy 21. (P) Only three incumbent members of the Oregon legislature who had filed for nominations were eliminated for membership In the 1935 ses sions, while auother who had not filed was nominated oy tne write-in method, a survey by the Associated Press revealed. Stato Senator W. F. Wood ward, voteran Multnomah coun ty member was eliminated in the republican primaries by Roy K. Terry. Should Senator Jay Up ton be elected for congress from tho second district, his place would have to be tilled In the upper house. Estes Sncaocor looses Estes Snedecor, democratic leader in the house last year from Multnomah county, was eli minated In his race, while Ar thur McPhilllps, democrat from Yamhill county, likewise lost out In the primaries. Charles ri. Chllds of Linn county was nom inated by the write-In method. With those eliminations, tne house will see at least 28 new faces In the legislature opening next January 14, whllo eight new members will be in the senate, just half ot the number ot the upper house seats vacant tor the 1934 elections. Twenty-seven house members and seven Benate (Continued on Page Three) TOKYO, Moy 21, (P) Eleven Japanese, Including five school boys, wore reported to have beon killed, when 100 Chinese Irre gulars raldod a model Japanese settlement In Mnnchukuo. The roport, contnlned In a dis patch from Hslnklng (Chang chun), capital ot Mnnchukuo, to Rengo (Japanese news agenoy), said tho attack took place at Lake Chlnpo, northwest of Tun hua in eastern Klrln Province, Troops wero dispntched to the scone from Tonhua. STRIKE FACTIONS I PORTLAND, May 21,, (VP) R. J, Baskett, spokesman of em ployes In the genernl longshore mon's strlko negotiations at Snn Frnnclsco, wns today advised by Portland watorfront employes that they havo agroed to four major points In the attempts to sottlo the waterfront strike. The employers rejected the union's proposal that "closod shop" operation be established, and opposed assignment ot work ers by tho union. They agreed to collective bargaining with re presentatives ot the longshore men and to arbitration on wages and hours. CITY VOTERS G I fill TO SALES TAX Farm Sections Succeed in Defeating Relief . Levy Measure. NEW CANDIDATES MAY COME OUT Independent Job Seekers Likely to File by November. By Malcolm Eplcy An analysis of the returns on the sales tax reveals that Klam ath Falls proper voted in favor of tbe tax. Klamath county, outside the city, went against it sufficiently to offset the favor able vote in Klamath Falls, and to put Klamath county in line with most ot the rest of the counties in defeating the tax. Inside the city, according to an unofficial tabulation, the vote on the tax was: Yes 1714; No 1070. Outside, the vote was: Yes 807; No 1587. Total coun ty vote; Yes 2581; No 8267. Farm Influence Seen The strong outside vote, while not as unfavorable to the tax as the state as a whole, indicates that the farm organization fight against tbe tax was effective. The favorable vote Inside the city was interesting because this Is tne second Industrial city in Oregon and there has been a con centrated fight against the tax among industrial workers. The official tabulation of Klamath county's vote was on at the courthouse Monday, but no contests were In donbt on the basis ot unofficial returns ex cept possibly that for circuit judge, where Edward B. Ashurst apparently edged out William Ganong by less than 100 votes. Opinion May lie Asked In connection with thiB situa tion, it was rumored Monday that an opinion may be asked of the attorney general regarding the law on tiling for circuit judge after the primary election. W. M. Duncan and Ashurst are the nominees by virtue ot coming out two highest in the primary. Whether the law will permit one of the defeated candidates, or another lawyer, to file and run against these men in the fall is the question being raised nere. There is also a rumor that in dependent candidates are being groomed for other oiuces, those beine mentioned including tbe county commissioner and district attorney contests. Whether this talk merely represents a post primary puff of hope or whether it indicates actual plans for fall candidacies remains to be seen. Two years ago Henry Semon came out independently for rep resentative and made a victory out ot it. He received a nice write-In on the democratic tic ket in the primary that time. Somon ran this time without op position on the democratic prt- ( Continued on rage xuree; E SALEM, May 21. (IP) With ex ception of the Alsea bay bridge at Waldport, on which construction Is well under way and the first monthly estimate rendered for payment, there will be no work commenced on any of the other four coast highway bridges until all contracts have been finally ap proved In Washington and an ad ditional allocation oi rwA lunus doflnltoly made, it was announced horo todny by R. H. Baldock, state hlchwav engineer. "Increased material costs over the prices prevailing when the nlans and estimates were pre. oared last September now make It apparent that we will require about $400,000 additional from the PWA to complete the bridges," Baldock said. Catholic Churches Ordered to Close NOGALES. Aril., May 21 (AP) All Catholic churches In the state ot Sonora, Mexico, were closod today by order of Gover nor ltodolto Ellas Calles. Balkan Bomb Hurts Worker EXPLOSION OCCURS TODAY IN WASHINGTON, D. C. POST OFFICE WASHINGTON, May 21. (AP) A bomb which Inspectors say was destined for the Hal nans ex ploded in the postofflce dead let' ter office today, shattering a clerk's band and slightly injur ing a negro messenger. It was concealed in a hallow ed-out book, and went off when the volume was opened by Myrton L. Genung. Genung was In too critical a condition after to tell what hap pened. He specialized In improperly wrapped or addressed parcels ad dressed to foreign countries from Maryland, Delaware, West Vir ginia,' Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia. W. H. Jackson, the messenger, cut by flying gloss from Genung's table top, said he was bending over another table when the explosion occurred. He looked up to see Genung, dazed, stumbling (Continued on Page Three) T J. A. Neal Loses Eye and Ralph Egger Crushes Arm in Accidents Jay Rice, Involved in an auto accident over . the weekend. bringing serlons Injury to J. A. Neal, was fined 850 In the jus tice ot the peace court this after noon on a charge of reckless driving. J. A. Neal ot the Altamont auto camp will lose an eye, and Ralph Egger of this city.- may lose his left arm as a result of week end automobile accidents. Neal was injured in a crash on South Sixth street and Shasta way, shortly after midnight Saturday, and Eg ger was hurt Sunday nigm on The Dalles-California highway about three miles from the Diamond lake junction. . Recklessness Charged Jay Rice of KKmath Falls is charged with reckless driving In connection with the Neal crash, and was cited to appear in justice court Monday afternoon. Accord ing to officers who Investigated tbe wreck, Mr. and Mrs. weal were driving toward town, and Rice was going out South Sixth street Rice turned out to pass a car trav eling in the same direction and sldeswiped the approaching car driven by Neal. Tne automoDiie was demolished, and Mr. and Mrs. Neal rushed to Klamath Valley hospital. Both sustained severe (Continued 'on Page xnreej The annual meeting of the Klamath county chamber of commerce, one of the year's big gest civic events, win he nem Monday evening, May 28, at the Willard hotel, It was announced Mondav. Claudo Ingalls, editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, will be the speaker. Ingalls is one ot the state's best-known newspaper men, and 1b a vigorous writer and speaker. ' T. W. Delzell will be toast- master. Other plans for enter tainment features will be an nounced later. The annual meeting will take the form of a banquet, starting at 0:30 p. m. PORTLAND, Slay 21, (IP) Mrs. U. F. Ditcmnn, 08, mother of Urban Ditcmnn Jr., flying Montana cowboy, who lost bis life in an attempt to fly the At lantic In 1020, died at her home here last night. SALEM, May 81, OP) Clacka mas, Sherman and Morrow conn tics today filed their official pri mary election returns, and take tho distinction of being the first to report Friday's results to tho secretary of state's office for canvass. , LATE NEWS htArea MONOPOLISTS PROFITEERS HELD AT IRK Darrow Review Board De livers Blistering Criticism BAD CONDITIONS TOLD IN REPORT Johnson, Richberg Seek to Eliminate Author-; . ity of Probe. WASHINGTON. May 21. (AP) The national recovery review board In a three-page statement today assailed tbe criticism on its report made oy KMA omciais. promised a second report before tbe end of the week and chal lenged NRA to answer that one. The second report, the board headed by Clarence Darrow said, covered Industries "in which, conditions are even worse than, in those that nave severed jar. Rlchberg's vision." Johnson Against Board The reference was to Donald R. Richberg, general NRA coun sel. 'Who charged Darrow's nnlt Wjlh abuse of public confidence . in having so conducted Itself as to develop only evidence in sup port of already fixed views. Meanwhile, it was indicated at the White House that President Roosevelt expected the Darrow board to wind np Its work soon. Nothing was said as to how the president looked upon Hugn u. Johnson's recommendation that the board be abolished at once. Statement Given Out There had been no hint of a) supplemental statement such as) given out by the Darrow board today. It read in part: "The monopolists and profit eers that were uncovered by tho review board's report had thels innings today and with their at torneys, paid and unpaid, filled the air with their clamors. 1 "Then they pause to take) breath and reason has a chance to be heard, it may be well to remind the public of certain basic facts totally, and no doubt intentionally, disregarded In these infuriated clamors," The board said here that by investigation It bad concluded that monopolistic practices ex- (Continued on Page Three) STATE OF OHIO WASHINGTON. May 21. (AP) The supreme court held today the state ot Ohio, in exercising a monopoly In the sale of in toxicating liquor, 1b subject to federal taxes Imposed on the wholesale and retail business. Ohio was refused permission to file suit against the United States to prevent collection ot taxes. , ' ' Oregon Residents Wanted by Police LOS ANGELES, May 21. (AP) Fedoral authorities . were searching today for Col. Dan Morgan Smith, vice president of Corvallis, Ltd., a poultry con cern located at Riviera, and J, L. RusbbII, president ot Corvallis Poultry Co., Ltd., of CorvolliB, Ore., In connection with an al leged $188,000 swindle. WASHINGTON, May 21, (IF) President Rooaevclt todny signed a bill for suspension of annual usscasmcnt work on mining claims held by location In the United States and Alaska. - WASHINGTON, May SI, (Pr Senate and honae conferees vir tually agreed today on the cor porate bankruptcy bill substanti ally as it passed the senate. Tbe measure would permit cities and towns to scale down their In debtedness through agreements with creditor : .