The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, January 27, 1936, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextATTEND THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALL AT THE ARMORY THURSDAY WKATHKIt KORKCAHTi Unsettled, moderate OltUUO.Ni Unsettled. Ilulu west, now In mountains, TKMI'i lllKli, II, low 81. I'llKC'll'i KM hours to H:UO a, ni. Monday, .(II; acnaon, H.rtl); normal, O.'Ja; liut jear to data. .f;l. HERALD. SERVICE - lliiruld sutxerllicra who fall to receive tholr paper iy flilio p. in. are roiio.lcd to call the llnrnlil biixlnraa off leaf jdione I WOO, and iitKr will lie arint bjr ocll carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS ni!!!Hl"il """" i-i".-.-WnTliniiiilLii.lu NO CHANUa Price Fivo Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORB., MONDAY, JAN W Aft Y 27, 1936 Number 7532 00 L o)Elk)iyJijyiJ Italians Capture Black Army Gives Little Resistance to Roman Advance Official Report to Fascist Government In dicates Thousands of Ethiopians Slain on Southern Battle Front. ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 27, (AP) Red Cross officiate todny confirmed Italian reports that Italian forces have occupied the strategic town of Ncghclli in southern Ethi opia. All Equipment Taken The officials said that the Italians had seized all the equipment of Swedish Red Cross units. Rumors that Swedes hud been taken prisoners was, however, denied authoritatively. Two S wed tali members of the Red CroRs units reached Addis Ababa last night leaving five pWer Swedes in Editorials On the Day's N ews lly l lt.VNK JKN'KIN'H TVl) you ever watch somebody ll)!ht a Ioiik ftiao leading to a carefully prepared blaat ond then atand, loneo and oxpeclunt, walling to ee If the blat would go off with a loud and shattering boom or FIZZLE OL'TT TF SO, you can untliiraland tne Ituatlnn existing when Al Smith aroae In Waahlnitton on Saturday night to deliver hla apeecb on the alnle of the nation. It bad boon caref'tlly and do llhoratcly prepared. It had beon lonii awaited. 11 had boon wldulj advortlscd. My Saturday night, the whulo country waa waltltiR on tlptoo to hoar It, to appraise It, to Juilgo whether It waa an epoch making: political utterance or Junt another dlanppolutlng dud. It WASN'T a dud. fON'SlDKK what hnppenod on Saturday night. Al Smith, a lifelong Democrat, speaking with alncorlty ao obvious us not to bo doubted, attacked anviigcly tho victorious leadership of tho party that has honored him In practically evory way a party can honor a man. Ho churned; 1, That President Roosovolt obtained hla high office under false pretenses by campaigning on a found American platform and then, after election, ABANDON ING tho platform on which he had campaigned and caiiBing to bo enacted Into law practically the SOCIALIST platform. 1. That ho has solzod the au thority and prerogatives of con grcBH, forcing It, undor "must" orders, to enact HIS laws, S. That he hns violated tho constitution, and when called to account tor his violations by tho supreme, court hns JEERED nt the supremo court and sought to wouken Its authority. yilHHIC acts, Al Smith churned, conntllula the first stages of DICTATORSHIP, and ho added that this nation Is now faced by tho choice botwoon "tho clear, puro air of froo America and the foul breath of connnunlHlIc Rus sia;" between "tho Stars and Stripes and the red flag of. the Godless nation of the Soviets;" between tho "Star Spnngled' Ban ner and tho Communist Intorna tlonnlo." ' "Vv He concluded: "There enn be only one victor. If tho constitution wins, we win. But It tho constitution ... . .., "Slop! Slop thorel The cnnetl (Contlnuod on Pago Eight) - ibidamo 1'iovince. I The five were reported to 'have reached lrganlcm safe ly after an air bombardment f their hospital unit. Thn defending Ethiopian army under the command of Km Deala ; lfmtti wni reported to be coin pl'tely dlsorKuniaed alnce the bombing plane had apread their operation over an area 200 mlloa north of Wadnra, making It lui ponlhle to transmit orders. ' In Ethiopian government" was represented aa gravely concerned over tha lack of resistance to the Italian attack In the south. Information Hlmt lown Tho government ordered all Red Cross off Iclnla In contact with tha region to censo Inform Ins thn press as to what waa happening In Klclnmo province. Dr. Hannor, the Swedish con mil, returned from an airplane fllisht to Hldaino but aald only: "My llpa are scaled." It hua born rnortod, without official confirmation, ' that the ltallnna have occuplod Negholll and Magalo. lll.ACKR IXIHK TIIOl'HAMM ROME. Jan. 27 (API Marahal Plotro nadogllo rcportod to hla government today that the Eth iopian casualties In the fighting on the southern front have beeu proved to be 10.000. The marshal's communique raises tho Italian oouut of recent Ethiopian casualties to 15.000 since, Inst Saturday, he reported that 5,000 Ethiopians had been killed or wounded on the north ern front. Today's announcement, waa concerned with, the fighting north of Dolo. lly Malcolm Kploy r. County Clerk Mae K. Short will run for re-election this year. Mra. short hns made no formal announcement, but she anld Mon dny that she definitely will seek to succeed herself in the Job she hns held tor the past four years. Newa has been spread around that alio might not run, and sho aald she wishes to make it plain that sho Intends to be In there when the campaigns got undorway. , Tho clerk Is a democrat. She will seek the domocrntlo nomi nation In tho primaries. . Thoro hns hood considerable conjeeturo nhout other possible candidates for county clerk, but no definite movements have de veloped. One rumor Is that John McCnll, farmer postmaster, might run, McCnll Is a republican. Clifton Richmond has been mentioned, but ITO Is more likely to run for mayor. Mayor Muhonoy's supposed arch-enemy, Jack Barde, has been sent on the skids by the national Townsond group. Harde was suspected of Becking polltlonl powor through the Townsend or gnnlnntlon, and last week told whero to got off. He has some following, howovor, In lite Port land area, and may still bo hoard from. The mayor spent the week end In San Francisco. Ho did' not divulge the purpose of his visit, but It appears he talked with some of the Townsend chiefs down that way. . Morton Tompkins ot the state grange Is In town to do some (Continued on Pago Eight) FROZEN EAST SEES SLIGHT RELIEF HOPE Ice-locked Section Must Freeze 3 More Days Before Break, BLAST EXTENDS EAST OF ROCKIES Twentieth Century Cold Records Tumble in Midwest. CHICAGO. Jan. 27. fP) lee locked from the Rockies lo the Atlantio by a week' of zero weather, a frozen nation today gavo up all hope of relief for at least three moro days. The weather man could aee "no drastic change until Wed nesday or Thuraduy" In weulltor maps that showed: Temperuttirea below zero In a vast aeml-clrcle from western Montana to Nashville, Tenn., and Huffulo, N. Y. Miigara L'roen Over Niagara Falla froten over for tha third consecutive day for the first time In man's memory. Thermometers registering 28 below aero at Devil's Lake, N. D. Tll 20lh contury rocords for continued! cold shattered In the midwest. ' Snow and sleet In central Texas, and froozina weathri- over all the southland but Florida. Ten More Dentils Aside from tho rogion west of the Rocky mountains where thermometers stayed near nor mal New Englnnd states were most comfortsble. Kvon they were well below freozing, with a 10 degree drop due before to morrow. Ten moro doaths were added to the colds list of victims, boosting the total to 235 since Wednesday. Property dnmnge continued to roll up. Illinois peach growora ostlmnted their losses at $1,000, 000 or more, and Indiana or chardlsts saw most ot tholr crop ruined. Traffic on tho Ohio river waa paralyzed by tho worst freeze since 1918. Albany At Zero In Chicago, Rnpld Transit com pany officials opened an Investi gation to detormlno the wonth er's pert In an elevated train wreck in which two score pas sengers wore hurt. Frigid winds whipping down the northern slopo ot Mt. Rnnlcr in Washington's nntlonal park turned back veteran climbers who tried to roscue Dclmnr. Faddon, (Continued on Pago Eight) WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. (AP) The Interior department appro priation bill, Introduced today In the house, cnrrles 17, 268,600 for bureau of reclamation projects. Lorgest single Itom In the bill was $9,600,000 for Boulder dnm on the Colorado river. The house appropriation committee also rec ommended Hint $6,600,000 bo ap propriated for the All-American cannl In southern California. The bill does not provide for new reclamation projects under taken during .the past two years with emergency relief funds. Money for thoso projects, Includ ing the central valleys of Cali fornia, Gila and Salt river valleys In Arizona, Grand Conloe In Washington and others elsewhore in the west, are to conto out ot the president's proposed $400, 000,000 permanent public works program fund. Other items In the bill Intro duced todny Include: noise projoot, Idaho, $30,000; Minidoka project, Idaho, $11, 600: Rio Grande project, Now Mexico-Texas $840,000: Owyhee project, Oregon $76,000; Klntnnth project, Oregon-Cnllfornla, $60, 000; Ynklma project, Washing ton, $266,1100; giving Intoriua-. tion to settlers, $76,000. . Swedish Red Cross Reclamation Chief Passes Dlt. Kl.WOOl) St H A I), 7M, UIKH Hl'.VD.tV M(,MT AT CAPITAL, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, UP federal officials today expressed regret at the death ot Klwood .Mi.-ud. Irrigutlon specialist, . and rccluiiiatiou commissioner for more than a decade. .Mead, who observed his 78th birthday January 16, died Inst night at bis home after a week's llluess. Associates aald death was cauacd by thrombosia and the complications of old age. lxtC Career Itmalled Secretary I c k e s expressed "great distress" when he was Informed of the bureau chief's death. Mead had spent a half century in Irrigation enterprises and In tho last few yours had been a directing force In the govern ments vast reclamation projects in tho west. Hack In 1888 he started an 11 year period as territorial en gineer for Wyoming. During the early part of the century be was head of tho agriculture depart ments Irrigation and drainage investigation. Taught In Colorado At one time Mead aerved on (Continued on Page Eight) Five European Monarchs Will Attend Funeral on Tuesday. LONDON. Jan. 27. (AP) Great Brltain'a national pilgrim age past the bier of King George V rose to a rate of 10,000 persons an hour at the last day of the lylng-ln-state In Westminster hall today after early morning scenes In which mourners pro tested an early closing ot the chamber doors. One delegation of mourners marched to No. 10 Downing street to object because the entrance was closed moro than two hours earlier than had been announc ed before being reopened to ad mit the ever-swelllug crowds from all quarters. The protesting marchers, led by a woman, were not allowed to rouse Prime Minister Stanley llnldwin, hut Scotland Yard ex plained later that the hall was closed to allow "eleonera to per form tholr duties." The new King Edward VIII, meanwhile, returned to Bucking ham Palace after spending the week-end at his Fort Belvedere country estate. At the same time. King Carol of Rumania, one ot the five visit ing kings for the funernl tomor row of the late English sovereign, arrived at Dover aboard a British destroyer and came to London by special train. The Duke of York met Presi dent Albert LcBrun ot France, who, like heads of other conti nental delegations, was escorted part way across the English chan nel by destroyers. King Christian ot Denmark and Crown Prince Guslar of Sweden, with the crown princess, nirlved and were mot nt the station by tho dukes of Kent and Glouces ter. Leopold, king ot the Belgians, also was met by Gloucester when he arrived at Victoria station. TEW INJURED IN CHICAGO, Jnn. 27, (JP) Ten persons were injured seriously and more tbnii two score others wore hurt when two cars of a three car Chicago Rapid Transit company BOiithslde express Jump ed tho rails on a curve near the Chicago stockyards early today. None of tho ears overturned but the two derailed tottered diz zily on the elevated structure with the front ends overhanging the edge and tilted nt an angle ot almost 45 degrees ovor the street 36 feet below. SNOW AT HA KICK RAKER, Jan. 27, UP) 'Three moro Inches of snow foil here during tha night, NEW DEALERS E ATTACK ON AL SMITH Former Candidate's Talk Before Liberty League Rouses Democrats. SPEAKER CONFIDENT OF F. REELECTION Ex-Governor of New York Charges Administration With Socialism. WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. (jlP) New Deal spokesmen anran? to Instant and relentless attack on Alfred E. Smith in congress to day for his excoriation of Roose velt pollcfeB. Following up contentions by democratic leaders In a press conference that the former New York governor's speech contra dicted his record. Representative Woodrum . (D-Va.) recalled a prediction before the Liberty League dinner that 1928 presi dential nominee would "pay his respects to 'th president and give particular hell to the democratic administration." Iipnirae's Motives Attached Addressing the tense legislators as "my fellow rubber stamps," a characterization used by Smith, the Virginian proceeded with the first of a series of counters to the New Yorker's charge that the 1932 platform bad been be trayed. Barring Interruptions, Wood rum told the house "license, not liberty is' the object of the Amer ican Liberty League license to pillage and plunder and control the functions of government." In Its membership, he said, "are republicans who are always ready to Join any honorable ac tivity which will bring contusion to the democratic party; the sec ond class Is a small group of disgruntled, disillusioned 'has beens' and the third are political nondescripts who join their forces with either party which they think can be controlled to their benefit." Reelection Held Certain Reelection of President Roose velt waa considered "more cer tain than ever" by Speaker Byrns. He criticized Smith for failing to assert what he would have done had he been president. Representative Bankhead ot Alabama, who heads the party forces in debate, said Smith's "personal record and official rec ord make him very vulnerable. "In the 1928 presidential race and as governor of New York (Continued on Paco Eight) WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (ff) Members of the senate agricul ture committee were reported skeptlenl of the administration's now farm bill today after Sec retary Wallace had discussed its constitutionality and practicabil ity nt a secret session. After the meeting Chairman Smith (D-SC) said "Secretary Wallace and Chester Davis, farm administrator, explnlned why they bolleved the bill as now written is constitutional and practical. ' "There Is no evidence as far as I can see of any matured opin ion on those points as to this bill," Smith said. Potato Suit Rule Favors Plaintiff Circuit Judge E. B. Ashurst frflnd for the plaintiff In the case ot W. A. Kottoff and son Vetsub R. A. Wilder. The fult Involved 250 sacks of potatoes. Trial ot the case ot Joe Cnhnjng versus John and Jerry O'Connor was on' In court Monday morning. Canning Is suing for wages alleg ly due for herding sheep. Involv ed Is $418 and $200 attorney's fees. The defendants allege that full payment to Canning has been made.. . i S enate Overrides President's Veto Important Features of Bonus WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, OB Highlights of the new bonus law: Bonds would be issued In $50 denominations to pay in full next June the 1945 maturity value of the 20-year bonus certificates Issued in 1925. Cash would be paid for odd amounts not cover ed by bonus bonds. Bonds would be for full value, minus loans against certificates and unpaid Interest accrued be fore October 1, 1931. Interest after that is cancelled. Veterans may cosh at any lo cal post office all or part of their bonds, but If they do so the first year they receive no Inter est. They may hold the bonds for as many as nine years and re ceive 3 per cent simple interest annually. Veterans who haven't applied for the bonus may do so. Cltlmate cost: $2,491,000,000 including an appropriation auth orization ot $2,237,000,000 and $254,000,000 In convertible bonds in the adjusted service certificate fund..-, ..... - Senators McXary and Stelwer of Oregon both voted to override tbe president's veto. BUCHAREST. Rumania. Jan. 27 (jp) Bucharest police said today "Miss Rumania." adjudged In a nationwide contest to have been the prettiest girl In the country, and found dead under mysterious circumstances, may hove been slain with a tooth brush. . . The young woman, Tita Lnrts teacu, an actress tn the Queen Marie theater, was first believed by authorities to have taken her own life, but after weeks of in quiry, they could find no wounds and no traces of common poi sons. A chemist finally found traces of a subtle poison in the girl's anH nniiee resuming their investigation, found the actress' toothbrush and otner tonei ar ticles had been dipped in the poison. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (VP) President Roosevelt today named six ot the seven members of the new federal reserve board to take office February 1. It will be headed by Marrlner S. Eccles of Utah, the present governor. .The ether nominations to the bonrd sent to the senate today: Joseph A. Broderlck, of New York City, for a term of 14 years; M. S. Szymczak, of Chi cago, a present member of the board, term of 12 years; Ronaia f Georgia, term of 6 vears; John K. McKee, ot Ohio, chief of the examining division ot the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, term of 10 years, ami nninh w. Morrison, ot San Antonio, Texas, term ot 2 years. Spud Market SAN FRANCISCO, Jnn. 27. (AP U. S. Dept. Agrl.) potato market dull, demand very slow, supplies liberal; almost too few sales to quote. 8 Idaho cars, 2 Oregon, 1 California, 2 Nevada arrived; 15 unbroken cars, 14 broken cars on track, , Oregon Klamath Russets No. 1 1.60-1.75, tew held higher.. Idaho Russets No. 1, asking mostly 1.50. California Long Whites, 1.60- 1.75; ordinary and small, 00c to 1.10. Burbanks 1.86-2. III! BEflm DECLARED MURDERED Vote of 76 to 19 Puts Measure into Effect Despite Roosevelt's Opposition; Financial Outlook Regarded as Serious. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, (AP) Immediate payment of the soldiers' bonus was made law by congress today over President Roosevelt's veto. The senate, with its big democratic majority, voted 76 to 19 to override the chief executive's veto. Tax Problem Created The house had smashed it down last week 324 to 61. The two ballots, which saw top democratic leaders go against the president on the 16-year-old insue( put the $2,491,000,000 bond payment plan on the statute books. They raised also for Mr. Roosevelt and his financial advisers the serious problem of finding funds to meet the new drain on the treasury. y GETS IHHY President Issues Orders to Treasury to Start Undertaking. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. (AP) Shortly after congress made im mediate payment of the soldiers' bonus law over his veto, Presi dent Roosevelt issued orders to the treasury and veterans' ad ministration to provide for pay ment "as expeditiously as accur acy will permit," The chief execntive's action was taken little more than two hours after the senate, by a 76 to 19 majority, joined the house's 324 to 61 ballot and put the $2, 491,000,000 bond-payment bill on the statute books. Many more than the required two-thirds ma jority was given in both houses. Mr. Roosevelt asked that "pa tience be exercised" because of the "magnitude of the adminis trative task." Tbls statement continued: "The president was advised that more than 7,000,000 interest cal culations will be necessary and that it will require between 2,600 and 3,000 additional personnel working for approximately six months to do this job. It should be remembered that the amount due each individual veteran must be separately worked out for each case.. The additional per sonnel to handle this enormous figuring and elerical Job must, under the law, come from the civil sen-Ice rolls. "Application blanks will be available In all regional offices of the veterans' administration and in the' lands of service or ganizations within the next two or three days. It the veterans will keep In mind that the bonds are to be issued dated June 15, 1936. and after filing their ap plications will refrain from wir ing follow up letters, they will greatly assist in the prompt ad ministration of the new law." PLEADS GUILTY FRESNO, Calif., Jan. 27. lP) Elton Stone, 31-year-old former convict, was sentenced to death today for the slaying of Mary Louise Stammer, daughter of a prominent Fresno family. FRESNO, Calif.. Jan. 27, UP) Elton Stone pleaded guilty to dny to a charge ot murdering 14-year-old Mary Louise Stam mer. The mechanic, who was rush ed by armed officers through crowds numbering moro than 2,000 which jammed the court yard and courthouse waived his lognl right tor a contlmianco to another date for . further pro ceedings. , Units Whether new taxes, will be asked to meet this extra budget outlay estimated to require an immediate ex penditure of $1,000,000,000 remained to be seen. The new law itself merely authorizes an appropriation ot $2,237,000,000 'and makes avail able $254,000,000 already. In the bonus certificate fund to pay tbe bonus 1945 maturity valne In $60 cashable bonds. An actual appro priation will have to be made later in some regular snpply bill. All Members Present President Roosevelt did not mention taxes in his brief veto message, but aald his objections were the same now as they were last May when he vetoed the Pal man Inflationary-payment meas ure. Then, he declared failure by congress to "prove additional taxes" to pay the bonus would "in Itself and by itself alone war rant disapproval" ot the measure. Loud applause greeted the an nouncement of the vote by Vice President Garner who before giv ing it congratulated the senate on its "good health." He noted that for the first time since he be came presiding officer the entire membership was recorded on a roll call. Cashable On June IB While democratic leaders in both houses have contended no new taxes would be required. Secretary Morgenthau has cau tioned payment of the bonus would Increase to perhaps $11, 800,000,000 the amount ot new treasury financing in the next 17 months, $5,800,000,000 ot this being a refunding operation. Also he forecast a new publio debt high approaching $36,000,090,000 The bill enacted today was of fered after weeks of secret nego tiations between bonus leaders in and about congress. Senator Har rison (D-Miss) Introduced It on behalf Of himself and Senators Byrnes (D-SC) ; Stelwer (R-Ore) and Clark (D-Mo). It provides for payment in bonds that could be cashed after June 15 next at local postottices, or held for 3 per cent Interest tor nine years. The bill passed the senate originally 74 to 16 and the house 346 to 69. Veto Reading Forced Senator King (D-Utah), who voted against the bill with elgnt other democrats, tried to have the house resolution passing It over the veto referred to the finance committee, but Senator Harrison (D-Mlss), co-author of the legislation, had the motion tabled by a voice vote. King then forced a reading of President Roosevelt's veto mes sage last May of the Patman currency-expansion bill, in which the executive called Immediately pay ment now ot full 1945 muturity value ot the bonus cortlflcutm a gratuity of more than a billion dollars and emphasized that no new tnxcB to raise the money had been provided. King said he wanted that road because the president's brief huml-penned veto ot the baby bond bill referred members to the first veto. This he described ns an "invincible and unanswer able argument" against payment ot the bonus. 1'rcsvue is Lacking King said he took the second veto to mean that the president wanted all those who voted last year to sustain his action to do likewise now. Telegrams from all parts of the country were being received by senators In advance ot the (Continued on Page Eight)