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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)
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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
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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)