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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1935)
. COME TO THE DOWNTOWN CHRISTMAS OPENING TONIGHT SJtVfKWSVWtVMWaiSVW arw n . WEATHER FOKKCANTi Unsettled, cool. OHEOON: Occasional ruins and nmm, TEMP: High, 40 low, 8(1. PHKCIPi hour to 5 p. m. Thursday, .0) season, l.TUl HERALD SERVICE Herald subscribers who (nil to receive their Mtpr by OiHU n. m, are requested to call Hit tigroid business office, iluin 1 IIOO, mid pitHir will bo sent by special carrior. normal, 8.00, ljuit year to ASSOCIATED PRESS IN SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS ante, e.oo. JC60BV" Price Five Cents jATH FALLS,. OREGON, FRIDAY, DEC. 6, 1935. Number 7489 IU1 IfL War Planes Bring Death From Skies; Emperor Unhurt Civilians Among Dead at Selassie's Head quarters in Dessye; Red Cross Tents Struck in Bombardment (Copyright, Associated Press) WITH EMPEKOK HAILE SELASSIE AT DESSYE, Ethiopia, Doc. 6 Itnlinn war plnnes struck at Emperor Hnile Selassie's headqunrtcra today, bombing and machine-gunning troops, civilians, the emperor's palace, and hospitals. Selassie Operates Machine Gun The omporor, unhurt, himself fought against the 17 minuto attack. More than 1,000 bombs wore dropped and at least 12 persons killed and 200 injured. The little, bearded man was talking to Dcdjazmntch (General) Birru and a doctor named Zorvos when the distant roar of the nine borubiiisr planes was heard. Editorials Oo the D News ay's Hy FRANK JENKINS TjrERB are some figures that are Interesting. They were presented by Orth Blsomoro, of ths Junior chambor of commorco, to the Klwanls club the other day. X " TN THE STATE OK OREGON, In 1934, there wore 33,303 re ported automobile accidents near 70 per day, or ono about every three hours. In these 33 thousand accidents, 313 people were killed, or a lit tle less than ono death per day. Tho total of Injurloa was 6306. "THIS TOTAL, ploase remem V ber. Includes only REPORT ED accidents. The thousands of minor accidents, not considered serious enough to report to the authorities, are NOT Included.) . TJOW DID THESE ACCIDENTS occur, and whoro and why, and who was rosponslhlo for thomT Tlioso are Interesting questions, and anolysls of the statistics suggests some Interest ing: anawors. Of tho drlvors concorned In those 23 thousnnd accidents, for example, 68 per oent were be tweon the ngos of 25 and 64 supposedly tho years In which pen pie aro most active and capablo, both physically and inontally. In 78 per oent of them, the drlvors concorned hod had more than alx years driving oxporlonce. Bo we can't put down Immatur ity or old age or physical Incom petence or lnoxperlenco as the ante. ::'', e TN 86 PER CENT of those ao- cldonts last your, the cars con cerned wore In good condition that la, thoy weren't old wrecks, with worn-out brukos, nntrust ( Continued on Page Six) 7 lie calmly ordered his troops to scatter and began firing a nearby machine gun himsolf. Ilia courage Inspired others. Soon anti-aircraft guns, machine rum and rlfl biased all through Dcssye at the thundering squad ron! of death ovorhead. Hrrral Europeans Hurt ' RnvrrnL European. Including a Red Crona nil mo. a Belgian officer and a French correspondent, were wounded. The emperor'i palace, In which ha was not present, was struck by about 100 bnmhi. The American Seventh Day Ad vonllst hoHpllul and a Red Cross tout were hit by the projectllos. One ward and Ihe office of the American hospital were wrecked. When the raiding planes left, the emporor was among the first to survey the damage. Action Horrific. King He saw dead and wounded lying In tho atroota. He saw many more at tho American hospital and the Ethiopian Itod CrofS tont. Hullo SoliiBHle said he was hor rified that tho Italians had Ig nored the Rod Cross Insignia prominently dlsplnyed by not only the American hospltnl, hut also by tho Ethiopian Hed Cross tent. Tho American Press corre spondent saw many wqnien and children among those who were killed I woundod. Gonrgea Cloyon, the Havos News Agency correspondent, was seri ously wounded In ono knee. I'nnlc llrcaks Out Cnsunltloi were heavy among the civil population, and . panic broke out. Mnlor G. A. Tlcfrnlpont, a Bel gian officer, was wounded, anil Miss Potrn Hovlg, n Norwegian nurse, sufforod a broken leg. Two Incendlnry nonius dropped near tho Associated Press corro apondont'g tent set (Ire to a Red Cross tont. The planes loft after circling the town three times. Halle Selassie visited the hos pital and expressed personal con dolences to tne wounaoa. Halle Selassie came to Dcsriye 175 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, last week by automobile ti'imi the capital. Much of Town Destroyed The nttncklng planes wore pow nrful trl-motored ships, whoso all' vorv bodies spouted bombs, lilgh explosives and machlno gun bal lots. i . . wiihln mi liicrodlblv short time wounded began pouring Into the American hospital and me correspondents' camp. Homo narts of ,tho town oon (Continued on Page Eight) AT ' MADRAS, Ore., Dec, 6. (yP) In terstate commerce commission of ficials wore hore today privately Investigating the train wrock which claimed two lives in Trout Crook gorge early Wednesday morning. v Oregon Trunk officials will hold a honrlng In Vancouver, Wash., next week, to seek the causa of the orasb. .i , WHb &IHI 4W4h QHOMh u.s 10 E England Considers Strong Action to Maintain China's Position. ATTENTION DRAWN TO 9-POWER PACT Hull Calls Upon Nations to Respect Exist ing Treaties. . PEIPINO. Dec. 6 UP) The Renao (Jspanoae newa agrncy) reported today It had learned In reliable Quarters a tentative com oromlse settlement of the north China crista had been reached be tween representatives of the cen tral Chinese government and north China, ll- The Aaaor.lntcd Press .' Formal British representations to Japan because of the north China situation were understood to be under consideration today. following American and British expressions of concern. O-Fnwer Pact Heraiiod Informed London circles said the British government was con templating drawing Japan's at tention to Its agreementa under the nine power trenty, unless the north China sutomony movement was quickly clanried. Britain also was understood to be considering strong action to maintain Chinas territorial integrity, guaranteed undor the nine power treaty. Signatories of the pact were Japan, the United States, the British Empire, China, France, Italy. Belgium, Portugal and The Netherlands. Japan takes the stand, sold a foreign office spokesman, that the nine power trenty was never fully eitcllve because, ho said, China failed to moot some of its obligations. Hull Takes Action This statement was In reply to the pronouncement of Ameri can Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in which he called upon all nations to respect existing treat ies, and the declaration of Brit ish Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoaro, warned that JnpaneBo In fluence in north China endnngor- od Japan's friendly relations with her neighbors. Referring to Hull's stntoment, (Continued on Page Eight) L NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (VP) Senator George W. Norrls today pledged his support to President Roosevelt's reelection but an nounced that he himself will not seok renomlnallon." The senator's carefully phrased statcmont conflrmod previous re ports of friends that If NorrlB ran noxt year ho would run as an Indopondont. But the senator ial veteran decllnud to comment on a move In Nobrnska to draft him as an Indopondent. The stntoment of Norrls, an Independent republican: "I hellove President Roosevelt doservea reelection and I expect . 1.1... ..H.nlv mo.nt.il. , IU OWIH'Ul. MUM loss of uni'tv consideration, I can perform this duty more ef fectlvely if I nm not the cnndl' date for sonator of any political party. i "I will therefore not sook re nomlnatlon and will not be a candidate In the primary." Man Arrested for 11-Year-Old Crime PORTLAND. Dec, 6, (-B Police questioned a house painter here today about the brutal slaying 11 years ago of Martha Gratka, 16 ycnr-old Portland girl. Officers snld the man, whose name was withhold, stolidly do nled any knowledge about the crime. BRITAIN I E PROTEST FALAG Clipper Back In "California GIANT SEAPLANE RETURNS FROM TRANS. PACIFIC MOP TO MANILA , ALAMEDA, Calif., Dec. t. UP) The trans-Pacific China clip per seaplane swept down out of rain-clouds to end her Inaugural mall flight to Manila and return at 10:36 (Pacific Standard Time) today. Flying through the night, the big sky liner covered the 2,400 miles from Honolulu In 17 boura, one minute. This made her total flying time for the 8,000-mile return trip from Manila 63 hours, 28 minutes. Flying time for the 16.000-mlle round trip was 133 hours, 15 minutes. The China clipper, first of the fleet of Pan-American Airways seaplanes to enter the trans oceanic service, left here Novem ber 22. Stops both ways were made at Honolulu, Midway and Wake Island and Guam. COIKE VOTE Premier' Requests Action Curtailing Political ' Leagues. PARIS, Dec. 6, UP) Premier Laval received a clear-cut vote of confidence from the chamber of deputies tonlghtv on his request for Immediate action on three bills dissolving ,the. armed poli tical leagues of France. The official vote waa 351 to 217. Even as the deputies were vot ing their confidence In the head of the government and hla cabi net, the French franc, long weak' ened by political - squabbling! went on a skyrocketing rampage In the market, Government bonds and stocks (Continued on Page Eight) NEW YORK, Doc 6. W Governor Eugene Tnlmadge of Georgia denounced the new deal today as "a combination of the worst elements of communism and socialism." "President Franklin D. Roose velt Is not a democrat," Tal ntadga charged, citing his Atlanta address just a wo.ek ago, and his bid tor re-election. 'It he secures the nomination by a convention parading in the name of the democratic party, it will be the last of those great principles enunciated by that great patriot, Thomas Jefferson, who said: 'The least governed are the best governed.' " Christmas Spirit Prevails in Klamath PROGRAM 7:0O Fireworks. . T:80 Parade 7;,10 Unveiling of windows. Damp wet weather will not dim the bright lights of Klamath Falls tonight, nor dampen the spirit of gaiety which will prevail for tho annual Christinas opening. . Gay bannorg and street decora tions, high pillars at street inter sections lighted with trndltlonnl colors and topped with Christmas trees, are all In place, an are wreaths of greenory and other holiday trappings. Fireworks will bo visible from the downtown area, despite rain, snow or mist, which aneaked up on the Klamath basin Friday des pite early forecasts for clear Weather. . :' r ' The evening's celebration, car ried oh. under the amplccs of the Ad chih, Is scheduled to start at 7:00 o'clock, when the fireworks will blase forth over Main street. I Light Snow Falls in Basin Section Early Friday Morning. HEAVY FALL HITS CENTRAL, SECTION Moisture Ends Cold Spell in Western Regions of State. ' A wet, soggy snow, which be gan falling about 6:00 o'clock Friday morning, turned to rain later In the forenoon, and a steady drizzle continued through. out the day despite the weather man's assurance that no storm waa in prospect for the Klamath iasln. , Ranchers were rejoicing over - the moistare which Is the fTrsf'In several weeks. The damp weather followed close upon the heels of a rise In temperature, and Friday's mini mum reading waa recorded at 36 degrees. Rain, Snow Forecast Predictions for the next 24 hours are for nnsettled weather conditions with possible . squalls of snow or rain, and no change in temperature. Possibilities of a real winter's storm, however, are remote, according to the lo cal weatherman. The state weather bureau fore cast Is tor occasional rains Fri day night and Saturday and snow over the mountains; slight ly warmer In the interior pf the northwest portion Friday night, and fresh to strong southerly winds oft the coast reaching gale force oft the north coast. BEND, Ore., Dec. 6. (P) Rain and snow flurries swept the cen tral Oregon plateau today, clear ing fog-choked valleys but cre ating new motoring haxards In nlaces. La Pine reported snow ao thick this morning that motorists bare ly could see their way. -, The McKenzie Pass was In the (Continued on Page. Eight) OFF RELIEF ROLLS .. A, :' PORTLAND, Dec. 6, LSWrhe Oregon works progress adminis tration announced today that 16,' 013 workers have been taken off rollef rolls and given Jobs. Federal funds allocated to the 383 WPA projects launched to taled 33.S2S.070. Sponsors con tributed S988.800. Tonight ; At 7:80 o'clock curtains will be drawn and gorgeous shoo windows will be unveiled In all their beauty. Names of winners In the poster contest, In both grade and high school divisions, will be displayed with the winning posters in shop windows, and prises will also be awarded to youngsters wearing tho most unique masquerade cos tumes In the holiday, parade, scheduled to start from Balsiger's corner at 7:30 o'clock. The parade will march to the strains of martial muBtc played oy the Municipal band, and Santa Claus, in a special float, will lead the m . ymnkers and present all children with candy and balloons. Decorations will remain In place until after Christmas, and the sea- son promises to be one of tin usual brilliance In Klamath Falls. Those who attend the Christmas opening will, no donbt, go on to the armory, and participate In the Pelicans' hlg charity ball, enjoying the stage show and dance. WEATHER GENERAL OVER OREGON TODAY Detective Certain Lindbergh Kidnap NotBruno'sWork Announcement From Governor Hoffman of New Jersey Casts New Mystery on Notorious Abduction and Murder By The Associated Press A disclosure today that a noted detective, who is con ducting a quiet investigation of the Lindbergh case "is un der the definite impression" Bruno Richard Hauptmann is innocent added new tension to the mystery. Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey announced in Trenton that Ellis Parker, Burlington county detective who has unraveled a score Hauptmann is not the man. : Police Head Shows Unconcern ' "He is under the definite impression," said the New Jersey governor. The announcement followed Gov. Hoffman's disclosure yesterday that he had paid a personal visit to Hauptmann in his death cell. The . latest development, including a statement from the governor that Parker had been working on' the case privately for some time; did not excite Col. H. Nor man Schwarzkopf, New Jersey state police superin tendent who directed the original investigation. He Indicated he had known of It by saying, "we blocked no in vestigation." Little Comment Made Other official flgurea in the Investigation, it was learned, re garded the current excitement as a passing "tea-pot tempest," but would not comment. Parker, who has remarked, "I can tell a guilty man when I see one," waa called into the case by former Governor A. Harry Moore, of New Jersey, and has been working on It since, Gover nor Hoffman disclosed. Moore was governor when the kidnaping occurred. The New York Daily News said an enoymous letter Indicat ing a possibility that Bruno Rich ard Hauptmann la Innocent of slaying Charles A. Lindbergh's kidnaped son Is the center of a new investigation or the crime. The letter Is being studied by Parker, the News Bald. It re ported that( he, too, bas visitea Hauptmann In the prison at Trenton, N. J. Parker, the News says, is studying a theory that the baby was not killed the night ot tne kidnaping, March 1, 1933, but died later. The letter, one of hundreds mailed to officials shortly afterJ the kidnaping, was postmarked at Butfalo 10 days after the crime. It was delivered to the police chief at Trenton. Parker said the letter stated "Follow the Linbrg telephone wlree and you will find the baby and three fellows." Wanted Easy Money The child's body was found May 12, 1932, about 60 feet from temporary telephone wires installed at Lindbergh's Hope well estate two months after the abduction. "I got cold feet," the News quoted the letter. "We all thought we could make some easy money. We got a place near Elizabeth, N. J., and ono of the fellows who was pretty smart runs a wire to this place and listened to everything the Linberg people say." It said the "Linberg baby Is taken very good care of and Is . (Continued on Page iiignt) ETI ATTACK AT DESSYE GENEVA, Dee. , W-The league of natlona received a vig orously-worded protest from the Ethloolan government toaay against an Italian bombardment at Dessye, The Ethiopian statement said It had been clea from the start of the war that Italy does not Intend to risk the lives of its own sol diers, but plans to destroy tne Ethiopian people by mechnnlcal means and by using native troops. of crime puzzles, believes Measure Would Replace AAA With Permanent Plan. WASHINGTON, Pic t, Senator McNary of Oregon, repub lican leader In the Senate, .an nounced today he would Intro duce on the opening day ot con gress a farm relief bill as a basis for a "natural transition from the AAA to a . long-time pro gram." McNary hopes It ' will be at least a starter for consideration by congress in event the supreme court invalidates the agricultural adjustment act. . Then, both" par ties will be looking tor a sub stitute and McNary wants to be prepared. TJnlike the AAA which sets crop limits for farmers involved in control programs ana gives them cash for taking land out of production, the McNary bill seeks indirectly to control sur pluses by the optional applica tion ot either tne equalization fee. export debenture or domes tic allotment plans. PORTCaND, Ore., Deo. 6. (IP) Governor Charles H. Martin sounded a call today for Oregon to rise above Its "hidebound con dition" and to get rid of the "numbskulls" and "dead ones" of the state senate. Addressing federal agency heads comprising the national emergency council, the governor In blunt military lingo scorched the senate memberB who voted for a low-priced state capitol back on the old, limited site. "When the caoltol burned and the president 'was asked to help In securing a grant of federal funds to assist In rebuilding it he was surprised when we asked for only 3,600,000," Major-Gen-eral Martin said. "He thought we ought to have asked for 35, 000,000 or $6,000,000. That was what he thought of Oregon." He then related that the leg islature "stuck the new, building right down where the old one had stood, and lost 31,000,000 ot federal money. Governor Longer' ' ' Acquittal Directed BISMARK, N. D., Dec. 6, UPh Federal Judge A. Lee Wyman to day directed the jury to bring In a verdict acquitting former Gov ernor William Lnnger and three associates ot perjury charges. The action was on motion of defeme counsel. PRISON BREAK LEADER SLAIN IN GUN FIGHT Oklahoma Police Capture Last of Fugitives From Muskogee. , DAN HEADY DEAD; ONE OTHER DYING Escaped Convicts Trap - ped in Farmhouse Near Weathers. ' .WEATHERS. Okla., Dec. , tff Don Garrett, last of six prison ers who broke from the Muskogee jail Tuesday, after fatally wound ing Detective Chief Ben Bolton, waa captured near here this after noon. ,: . j. Garrett's capture gave officers a, clean sweep of the six. 'All are -now either dead ox In custody. . Meet Blaxe of lire ' i Dan T. Heady of Kansas City, Mo., leader ot the break, waa slain by officers early today, and a companion, Dewey GUmore of Dal las. Texas, was wounded. Heady and his wounded com panion met a blaze of gunfire when they failed to' heed officers' commands to surrender after they were trapped In a farmhouse. Leonard Short, Galena, Mo., the third man captured, was found critically ill about a mile and a half from the farmhouse. His cap tare accounted for the last ot the four gangsters who fled the jail. Russell Land Cooper was taken yesterday while walking along a road near Clayton. Heady's Wife Accused . Heady and Gilmore were shot by a posse headed by Allan Stan field, Deputy U. S. marshal from Ada, and Sheriff Tom Jordan ot Muskogee. " Mrs. Dan T. Heady of Kansas City, wife of the slain mobster, was arraigned in federal court at Muskogee on a charge of aiding in the break. She pleaded inno cent Officers said she visited Heady shortly before the latter produced a gun and liberated his compan ions In the dash for freedom, and a sixth man, John Blackburn, Con over, Wis., who was slain during the break. , Chief ot Detectives Bolton was shot when he attempted to halt the break with a machine gun. Armory Tonight Pelican Dance and Floor Show I5-Piece Orchestra Concert. Vocal . Selections by Profes sional Entertainers. , Thranert School Feature Danc ersDawn Everett, Miss Thranert, George Ghellar. Pelican Board of Birds. Adolf and Elmer (the Orig inal) " Entertainers Extraordi nary. Gay Nineties Orchestra. Floor Show begins at 9 p. m., followed after short Intermis sion by dancing with 15-piece orchestra. Floor newly waxed and polished.. Admission $1 per Couple Tax Free All Proceeds Go to . The Pelicans Good Cause Good 5how Good Dance
