The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, March 21, 1936, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHERALD SERVICE W 'flM. Herald subscriber, who fall to reci.lv their Vf V - . U .jV ;Jr V VAV A"" lKMI'i High, 44 1 low, HO. fEJV paper by OHIO i. m. r requested to roll the A " l J C L - ' ' I'KKOIPi 15 houra to 8:00 tt.rn.LJ MftAi Herald IhmIimm oflloe, phone 100(1, mid a U ' . 1 , . 1- v Saturday, nonei ewwon, 10.741 2 VtTO ASSOCIATED PRESS IN SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS " 3--' ' V:wJZffiL ( eaBBBBBBaaaaaaaaaaai Ban aaaaaaaasaiBaejas BBaaeaaaaasBBaeBBBBBBBBBBBBBiBBBBBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaia aaataap MaBMaaaaBaaMBaaa WIMOV Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936 Number 7S79 - isiteiOKirai biies New Deal Hastens Operation or Farm Pros COMPLEX SOIL CONSERvATlDN PLAN STARTED Conferences of Farmers Called For All Sec tions of Country AVERAGE PAYMENT ESTIMATED AT $10 President Signs Appro priations To Assist In Work WASHINGTON, March II. UP) Flashing throuKhout tha coun try tha signal to Hart tha com plex aoll conservation machine rolling. Ilia new dual strove to day to brln the natlon'a farm era within tha 1470.000,000 pro gram bofore aprlng planting atarta In aarneat. Farmera were summoned hur riedly to many conferenooa to organise county producera' aa anolallont. Theae will help ed mlnlalnr tha vast conaervatlnn plan, haala (or aubuldy payment to (armera, F. R. Blltne Aproirinuon , Secretary Wallace eatlmatod tha new program, auhatltula (or the Invalidated agriculture ad Juatmont act, would provide an average payment of $10 (or each acre of commercial, eoll-dnplct-Ing crop landa ahlfted to loll conserving usos. A ahort tlmt earllor President nooaevelt had algned an appro priation bill carrying $440,000. 000 (or tha program and mak ing $80,000,000 of unexpended money available. Operation la to begin Immedi ately, with tha aim of ahlftlng 10.000,000 acrea from aoll de pleting cropa to conaervatlon growtha In 1934. Tha aecretary aald tha program waa planned on an eatlmate that 80 per cent of eligible (armera would participate. Farmera are expected to bogin aigntng ap plication! (or participation with in a week. Three Cleaaee Formed Tha AAA dlvldnd all cropa In to three claaaoa (or aubildy pur poaea aoll depleting, aoll eonaerv Ing and aoll building. Each participating (arm la to have a "aoll depleting baae acre age" tha acreage of depleting cropa planted In 1935, wltji mod ifications to meet "unuaunl alt nations." Special aoll depleting base, corresponding to the baae acre agna aot up under tha old AAA, are to be established (or cotton, tobacco, peanuts, sugar, rice and flaxseed. There are to be two types of ' (Continued on Page Three) . Editorials on the Day's News Ily FRANK JKNKINH TTHH Brick Store, as stated In those chronicles yostordny, was merohant, banker, broker and business adviser (or this whole groat Klamath country. It edged Into tha banking busi ness In the simplest manner Imag inable, Its customers sold tholr crops or their cattle or tholr sheep or tholr produots of whatever kind and brought tho nionoy to the Brick Store (or safe keeping, . , Then, when oocaalon arose to pay out nionoy, they scribbled on any scrap of paper that came han dy an order, on the -Brick Store and algned It, and this scrap of paper passed aa a check and was paid when presented. ' ' ; ' IN THB papers found the other day In tearing down tha old atruotura appoara a typical "oheck" ot this sort. It reads: ,. ($B)" '': Kliimath Falls, July 8, 1894. Martin, Moore" ft Co, Gouts: Please pay Mr, (Ive (6), dollars for hie and much oblige. O. 0. APPLEOATB, This plnneor forerunner ot a bank check was written on the back of an envelope addressed to Familiar I-.. m 'y : Tony Cantell of Fort Klamath (eaturoe of tha coming anow carnival at crater lake para. tneraiu - House Will Conduct Public Hearings Next Week on Tax Measure WASHINGTON, March 21 OP) Chslrman Doughton (D-NC) an nounced today Hint the house ways and means committee would tart open hearlnga a weok from Monday on President Roosevelt's 7V2, 000,000 tax program. ' Full Report Will He Made He laid the committee probably would start off with the pro posed levy on undistributed corporation Income, with treaaury olfl- .1-1. Ikii first Wlttieia " J Thn .m.rnm mtrren. ' wnien 'nar ram (or two weeks and a half. Is jnlltee as I ho basis (or tho hearings. ' ' Dought'in said no decision had taxea of a "windfall levy. There waa no Immediate com ment by the tax drafters on treasury figures that Income tax collection In tha (Irst 10 days of March totaled f J, 694,881, a 18 per cont Increase over that pe riod last yaar. (President noosovelt suggested $620,000,000 additional federal Income be produced by taxes In corporation dividends and undis tributed earnlnga and $617,000. 000 over two or three years from new processing levlca and a "windfall" tax on returned or unpaid AAA processing taxes). Tha windfall tax occupied tha aub-commlttea this morning, but Chairman Samuel B. Hill (D Wash) aaserted "we haven't come to any decision aa to ratea or on any phase of the situation at all." He added that mombera have In mind a very high rate of per haps 80 to 90 per cent and the classification of the windfall tax In a new category. Hill disclosed that schedules originally submitted by the treas ury to carry out the corporate tax suggestion still were under consideration. - .' Captain Applogate. It did the work as well as a (aucy printed oheok would have done. ';,' TN THOSB days, among stock- men and farmers generally, alea were apt to be made In the (nil and purchases In the spring. . When a stockmnn started out to buy doien head of cattle, or ft hundred, or a thousand (whatever his requirements happened to be) he didn't (Irst, as must now be done, come In and arrange a cred it at the bank and algn a note. He Just started out and bought what he' wanted where he (ound It and wrote check.' Whon: the check came In, It wad paid out ot his bal ance. If he had pno, and It his bal ance was exhausted It , was paid anyway and charged up against hltn aa an overdraft; ,-' ' These overdrafts were paid and the account adjusted whenever sales were made and money came In. The Brick Store KNEW ITS CUSTOMERS. " ,.' -,.. e i flllS custom, It la perhaps well , to explain here,, was com mon at that time; In livestock com munities, even where more formal banks existed, ' Stockmen and farmers seldom thought of arrang- ' (Continued . on . tag 'five)' Scene at Fort and his team ot malemutes. Tony I-. " ' ' ' ' "" Been wianniiia1 mwi to (lie a report to the tull com been reoenco on now prucnaiua Basketball 8AI.KM, Marrh 21, P) H suKa of today's tournament grnira: llrnson 81, Salem 28. (Fifth place) Astoria 48, Tillamook SO (Fourth place) Tf. WASHINGTON. Mnrch II () A move to force a caucus of house democrats In an effort to block President Roosevelt'a plan for closing hundreds of CCC camps April 1 was held up sud denly today "pending further de velopments." Chairman Nichols (D-Okla) of the bloe revolting against the president's ordor withdrew a cau cus petition signed by 34 repre sentatives. ''The . responsibility for this Is all mjne," Nichols said. "1 decided to, hold It up pending further : developments that may enable lis to obtain our objective ot keeping the present number of CCC camps without calling a caucus." Under the petition Chairman Taylor (D-Colo) of the caucus would have boen compelled to order the meeting Tuesday. ; Nichols Indicated a special com mittee would go ahead drafting legislation to authorise an appro priation . to continue the camps another year. , OF BEND, March II. (ff) The party of roving state highway commissioners, highway depart ment employes and federal road englneera completed a (ive-day Inspection tour over southern and central Oregon roads hore today. Following a' breakfast- party, the membors left for their homes. Woman Accused of Poisoning Child OnKENVII.I.E, Tex., March II, (JF Mrs. Velum Patterson, 84, acoused of fatally poisoning one ot her daughtora, waa silent In Jail today aa offlcors planned to oxhttme the body ot a second daughter. She fondled pictures ot the two children, nulla Fne and Dorothy Leon McCasland, 11, and 13 years old. . ;,. Klamath and bis dogs will be ona ot the isews rnoio-engraving). FAST RACING TEAM Descendants , o f Scotty Allan's Husky Frolic v In Snow Country " D. Xtfrlln 'U'lltlf.fV3 wTTOTrT"Kt-AMATH', Ore:-. MeYrtM 20. A eight that attracts atten tion ot autokts passing through Fort Klamath, and one that prob ably will Interoat the crowda at the Crater Lake ski tournament next month, Is the sextet of fine northern dogs owned by Alfred B. (Tony) Castell, merchant and snow sportsman ot this comruun Ity. At the 1938 annual winter sports tournament sponsored by the Crater Lake Ski club, Scotty Allen, former veteran dog m ush er of Alaska, and bla team ot Alaskan racing dogs were the star attraction. During' hla stay in Fort Klamath, Allan was the guest of the Crater Lake Ski club, of which Alfred B. Castel waa then president, and on his departure for his home In Soda springs Calif., he presented Castel with Scotty, a full-blooded malemute dog, In appreciation ot courtesies shown him by Castel and the akl club during his visit in Fort Klanv ath. Scotty waa given to Allen In Nome, Alaska, by Eskimos In 1921, and because ot his hand some, atriklng appearance, thia true malemute was featured as publicity dog for the Allan racing teams for many years, his pictures having appeared In newspapers everywhere. Nine PunntAi Arrive Po session' of this fine canine (Continued on Page Ten) 5 E Contributions totaling $79.60 had been received by noon Sat urday toward Klamath's Quota of $380 tor the American Red Cross flood relief fund, It was announced by George Walton, secretary. Walton said Red Cross officials were gratified at the quick re- sponse, and expressed his belief that the quota will be over subscrlbed. He urged all who can to donate to the fund, to be used In aiding sufferers of one of the major disasters ot a gen erntlon. Contributions will be' . an nounced dally. Hera Is the first list: . - Klamath loe and Cold Stor age. 120: A. M. Collier.. $20 Swan Lake Moulding company, $5; Drake Lumber company, $6; Big Basin Lumber company, $5; Klamath Valloy.' Lumber oonv nany, $8: Home . Lumber . and Supply company,, $5; Copeland yards, $2; Henry Duram $1.50; Goorgo Walton, $ 5 ) Lost River Huhrv. tR. ' - Booths will be opened Monday at Golden Rule store, Moe s both Klamath Falls banks and possibly , at Montgomery Ward, It waa announced ny tne conv mlttce In charge of the. cam palgn. J " - , Klamath's $860 is a part of the $8,000,000 asked of the na tion by President Roosevelt, ex- orticio cniei ,or tne rtet cross organisation, Portland has been requested to raise. $11,000. NATIONS IT GERMAN VIEW ON PROPOSALS Country Stunned, Embit tered by Demands of Europe PRESS REFUSES TO . ACCEPT OFFERS Delegate To London Goes Home For Further Instructions By The Associated Prese : The Locarno powers awaited reaction from Berlin . today to the elaborate aet of proposals formulated with the Intent ot assuring the lasting European peace and settling the Knlneland problem. . Germany was by turns stunned and embittered. - , Chancellor Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, Voelklscher Beobach- ter, called the suggestions "Sliy- lock's pound' and "collective brasenness." ' Home (or Instructions . From Londan flew, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Hitler'a personal cnvlefBrv, to. obtain from., the. Ralciufuehrer the answer to pro posals that a "buffer" gone be created In tbe Rblneiand, policed by an International force, pend ing, determination of questions created by remilitarization. Ribbentrop waa expected to return Monday to London, scene of the Locarno conferences and Germany's indictment aa a treaty breaker by tbe council ot the League ot Nations. League Delegates Alarmed Some league representatives were alarmed, and Germany was caustic over the invocation by Britain, France, Belgium - and Italy of article XI of the league covenant providing against threat of war. This Implied possible sanctions It Germany rejected tbe Locarno powers' proposals. In a speech last nignt In Ham (Continued on Page Three) . t Leo Kamarad, about 23, i waa brought to Klamath Falls Satur day afternoon by Sheriff Lloyd Low and Sargeant M. J. Barnes, after his arrest as the man who robbed the Garrett garage at Ma lta of several hundred dollars' worth of tools. Sheriff Low said that Kamarad bad admitted, the theft, and ahowed officers where to. find the loot, most ot which was recovered Saturday. ' Kamarad had part of the tools with him. He was working on the Liskey ranch In Modoo county at the time of his arrest. Otber tools were' dug up from where they had been burled In ' Kama rad'a back yard at Malln. The young alleged burglar can blame his detection, In part, oh his dog. On the morning after the robbery, the dog wandered Into the garage as officers were look ing for clues. He entffed about at the window which had been en tered by the burglar. Officers knew It waa Kamarad's dog, and the Incident strengthened, their suspicions. Kamarad waa employed in the garage up to about two weeka be fore the robbery. . W SOU SWEPT OFF BY FLOODS . AMHERST, Mass., March 11. IPi Massachusetts State college agronomists estimated today the upper Connecticut valley vaa los ing eoil at the rate of five and a halt tons a second, enough to cover 20 aorea seven Inches deep every hour. .' Muoh northern farmland prob ably would be ruined they added but the. broader valleys ot Mas sachusetts and. Connecticut prob ably would have deposits ot rich soil as the Hood subsides. Pittsburgh Flood Scene '4 I) r - JL Firemen, their ladders planted shown here atop a root In downtown Pittsburgh, seeking people re ported- marooned in tne Douse, uira panted in tne street atana disconsolately, with the water lapping above the floor-boards. - President All o Tfor Itepalrs in Flooded WASHINGTON. March 21 (IP) cated $43,000,000 to the works and replacements In the flood stricken areas. . This sum includes an emergency allotment or fiB.au.ejs on February 29 and a new allotment lllanket Autliorltv rjestowea Mr. Roosevelt rare the works authority to restore roads, streets, tric power plants, and otber damaged puouc p rope rues. Harry L. Hopkins. WPA ad- mlnlstrator. Informed the presi dent he could put 260,000 WPA workers on the rehabilitation Job in the, 10 atatea where property losses are heaviest Maine, Mass achusetts, Vermont, New- Hamp shire, Connecticut, ' New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland. West Virginia, and Ohio. The president announced that emergency projecta wouia oe given preference In all cases.. CRUISE AGAIN DELAYED WASHINGTON. - March 21 JP) President Roosevelt again post poned his fishing vacation cruise today to devote attention to fed eral eftorta to combat flood de struction, but arranged to leave tomorrow It conditions warrant. The president waa Informed today by aides that high crests ot the -floods are receding and that the acute problem Just now , is one of rehabilitation and relief with considerable rescue - work still Involved In New England. A cold wind blew across the Klamath country Saturday, de spite the official presence of aprlng. The local weather man. however, held out prospects (or more pleasant temperatures Sun day, and a continuance ot clear weather. The temperature dropped to 30 degrees Friday night. The general Oregon forecast waa tor a cold Saturday night. . A flurry ot anow waa reported in Crater lake park Saturday morning. It waa cloudy over the park.. Skiing conditions were good. The road to the rim from Government Camp la still closed. MEDFORD, Ore., March 21, UP) Winter routed spring In the Rogue river valley today with a biting March wind In the low lands and anow In the moun tains. RENO DIVORCK RENO, Ner March 21." (JP) Divorce suit (lied ' here today: Rula Faye Llles . vs. Alvln de Vrles Llles of San Jose, Calif., married Klamath Falls, Dec. 1, 1917; cruolty. In the muddy flood-water, are cat e Millions be ctions -President Roosevelt today allo progress administration lor repairs of $25,000,000. progress administration '"blanket bridges, sewers, water and elec Newspapers Carry ' on Despite Lack of Facilities PITTSBURGH. March 11. UP) Flood crippled newspapers ot the eaatern atatea tonnd helping hands today within the fourth-estate. Aa a reault tha editiona came out, aome from planta in other atatea. Lacking power, here, the Pittsburgh Press waa printed at Washington, Pa., and Union town, Pa. Sunday papers will be Issued at those two placea and from Cleveland, Ohio. 'S ILLI CHICAGO, March 1 11, UPl Expressing confidence an Illinois victory would presage his nomi nation by the republican conven tion. Senator William B. Borah opened hla drlva tor the presi dential preference indorsement ot his native state today. The Idahoan conferred with his supporters aand prepared to deliver an address tonight after guaging the Importance ot the April 14 primary in this state ment: ' ' ' "If Illinois gives me Its ap proval, I teel vertoln I will be nominated at the convention. - If TRENTON, N. J., March 21 (JP) Bruno Richard Hnuptmann lawyers, showing Increased Con fidence ot saving him from elec trocution, hurried preparations todav for an attack on the testi mony ot Dr. John - F. (Jafsle) Condon, a principal state s wit ness at the condemned man trial tor .the i Lindbergh baby ktdnap-alaylng. v Hauntmann was pictured feeling certain he will escape th penalty. He is under sentence to die March II. ram SNOW BRINGS MORE MISERY; STORM FEARED New England Rivers Rush To Sea, Leaving Great Damage Behind DEATH LIST NOW ESTIMATED AT 167 300,000 Persons Homeless All Available Relief Forces Organized '(Copyright, Associated Press) Snow and (ailing temperaturea bronght new threats ot disease and Increased the misery among thonsands of flood refugees and homelesa in the Ohio valley today. aa New England rivers wrought greater devastation in their rush toward the sea. - .. Costal cities In New England, safe from the fury of the riven, were not free of danger. Btorm warnings were hoisted up the At- lantlo coast, from Nantucket to Maine. " Death Lif Now 107 , . The death Hat stood at. 1(7. Close, to .300,000- persona, were " homeless and the property damage , mounted to around 1300,000,000. The worat havoe from the riv- era was In New England. - Hartford and Mlddletown, .. In Connecticut, were elttea ot waste and desolation, all power cut oft by the raging Connecticut river. In Hartford, however, the thous ands ot homelesa found Joy aa tha crest of the flood appeared passed. More Troops Called Five hundred additional troopa were brought into Hartford to prevent looting and aid in rescu ing stranded persona. - . Sporadically, the danger apread throughout northeastern state. Webster lake, largest in Massa chusetts, threatened to break its gates. All available. peraona In Webster, with the entire town In danger ot inundation, sought t save the dam and gates. In Maine and New Hampshire. the Saco river in its ruch to the Atlantic, Imperiled new areas. Small dam frequently crumbled before ' the power and - ceaseless pounding ot the waters. Vaccine Shipment Rnabed -. , Emphasising the danger from pestilence, typhoid vaccine wa rushed to New Hampshire area from Boaton by airplane. - - Continuing rains intensified tba recurring danger, not only In New England, but in upstate New York. Rising lakea in the Adirondack and Finger Lakea sections of New York bronght fears of new disas ter. -..- .., -.- Throughout the' Johnstown, Pittsburgh-Wheeling areaa, the snow hampered rehabilitation. ' On down the Ohio river, aa th flood crest reached Huntington, W. Va and aa the river Inundat ed lowlands on down the valley (Continued on Page Three) . IE- By MALCOLM EPI.F.Y . Fulfilling expectations ot hla friends and political observers, Representative Henry Semon stood definitely tor .re-election Saturday. His formal filing was on III way to Salem. Somon, veteran of the lower house and recognized as one of Its ablest members, seeks the democratic nomination. He and Harry Bolvln, the other Incum bent and also a democrat, are tbe two candidates announced so far' for tbe two legislative posta for this county. The other major, political de relopment here Friday waa Claude McColloch's platform an nouncement In his contest for national democratic central com mitteeman. McColloch, promt-. nent lawyer, made an appeal for stronger democratic appeal to the Independent and "neutral", voters. - - ' . Semon's tiling waa not unex pected. A successful potato farm er, he went to the; legislature (Continued on Pag Three)