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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1936)
etal WRATH KR FORECAST I Vnxcttlcd, cool winds, OKKUO.N't Unsettled tonight, Thursday. TEMPI High, 74 1 low, BT. ' Tuesday's maximum, US. PRKCIP to 8 a. m. Wednesday, trace season, 12.64; normal, 10.20 1 laat year to dale, lO.tsa. HERALD SERVICE Herald (ubarrlhor who fall to recelv their paper by OiDO pi in. am roqUMtod to oall Mi Herald , business offloe, ' plinn 1000, and paper' Will be aunt by special earritr. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS WINOv Price Tive Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936 Number 7624 q) 0 mt a I i in Borah Editorials On the i 9 -ft Day'. N ews lly PRANK JENKINS UNLKS you -- weary of for elm affairs, you will find thli dispatch from noma Interesting: "A liluh faaclat official Indicat ed tonlithl (Tuesday) that the Italian delegation's doparture from Oenera meant an effective 'it undeclared policy of non-co-operation with tba league of nations until Italy's now empire Is recog nised." e e THAT Is to say, Italy, having Belted Ethiopia, wants her mliure legalised by the consent of the league, which OPPOSED It by Imposition of boycotts and oth erwise. On Its face, that looks like add ing Insult to Injury, e e e WHAT will coma of It? That depends chlofly upon Oreat flrltaln, wuloh Is backing the lengna of nations as sn Instru ment of European policy. But don't forget, If yon want to keep Hie record straight, that Hie I!r!tlh empire was built up ,n substantially the same way Mussolini Is building up his new Italian empire by taking what 'ass wanted away from , weaker, pooplea. That Is the way all empires are ullL . e e e A NOTIIKR kidnaper Is captured by (J-Mnn this time 20-year-ld Thomas II. ttobinson, abductor if Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, of Lou avllle, Kentucky. II Is taken In Olendale, Cali fornia, with $1,000 or f 3.000 (ae- tounls vary as to the amount) or he 160,000 he recelvid as a ran mm. , The remainder he has spent ilttior In high living or In the pur thase of "protection." e e e ON TUB same day Harry Camp bell, associate of Alvln Karpls, s sentenced to life Imprisonment or his psrt In tha kidnaping of Cdward O. Bremer. Mnhan, kid taper of the Weyerhaeuser boy, ess sentenced to (0 years' Imprla inment a few daya ago. In tba face of this record, It Is airly safe to predict, kidnaping vllt soon become unpopular aa a neans of obtaining easy money, e e ' e . rP VoV are an average person, ''you had probably forgotten tho ddnnplng of Mrs. Stoll, and wore urprlsod when you read of the apture of her abductor. The pub ic (which means all of us) tor ;ets easily. The law, when efflcl- ntly administered, doos not for-. :el. That Is why efficient enforce nont of tha law Is so Important.' j E Circuit; Judge Wlmberly of tosoburg has sustained defenao lotions In the case of Joseph Jen on versus Klamath county, a suit o collect snlnry alleged due Jen en as eounty engineer. Ha sustained a motion to strike ut the names of the membors of he county court, Indicating that hey will be eliminated as Imll lduals unless the complaint la ltered to Include them, He aald In a memorandum opln n that there Is nothing In the omplalnt to charge the members t the eounty court with personal ability. He also said that the ounty Is not obliged to employ lie county survoyor as eounty en Ineof. Judge Wlmborly sustained a de bubo motion that the plaintiff inke his complaint more definite nd certain in regarding certain artlculars, Attornoy J. O. O'Neill Is repre tntlng the county In this case. KLAMATH LICKNSB . IlENO, Nov., May 13. 'UPh-Marino llconsns issued here today icluded Frank Batoa, 48, Klam. ih Fall, Ore,, and Anna M. Key Dlds, 41, Medtord, Or. 1 Gains FAVORITE SON GETS BACKING OVER SENATOR Solon Captures But Five of State's Fifty two Delegates. LANDON, KNOX FIND VOTE ENCOURAGING President Roosevelt in Another Victory over Breckinridge. (By the Associated I'm) Senator Borah' militant cam paign against th regular repub lican' organisation In Ohio ap peared today to have won him only ( of the (1 delegatea the state will tend to Cleveland. He did not eonteat'for 17 In the primary held yesterday. Supportnrs of Oovoruor Alt M. Landnu of Kansaa - and Col. Frank. Knni of Illinois for the presidential nomination were en couraged by th roeulla.bot -da-forred formal comment aa did Borah until mora return were tabulated... . , : Breckinridge Loan Again ; President rtnosovalt overwhelm ed the anti-New Deal democrat, Col. Henry Breckinridge of New York, for th third time. With over half the Ohio precincts re ported, Itoosevelt votea number ed almost 2)6,000 to less than 17.000 for bis opponent. Earlier result In Pennsylvania and Maryland were almllar. Robert A. Taft, who had the backing of the Ohio party or ganisation as a "favorite son" against Borah, aald the lucres of delegatae "pledged to Mr. Frederlckson and myself showed that the republican voters of Ohio are In favor of choosing a candidate and writing a platform uncompromisingly opposed to President Roosevelt and tha New Deal." Promise Not Binding In West Virginia, Roosevelt wsa given 47.810 votea In 5)4 out of 1.847 precincts. No tab ulation of those tor hla only op ponent, Joseph A. Coutremarsh, of New Hampshire, had been made. First returns thore gave aup pnrtera of Landnn tho better of It In the republican primary. Ten dolngatoa favoring hia nomina tion were ahead. Of tha 37 candldntoa for the IS place on the itate'i delega tion, 14 had announced they would abide by the preference primary result. Borah had this county practically to himself, hut lire promise of support waa not binding. , ' Ralph M. Hlner conceded his detent by Senator Neely In the contest for the demoorntlc sen atorial nomination. Hugh 1. Shntt of Rluofsold led Frank Nee hltt of Wheeling for the repub lican senatorial nomination. The Landnn cause also ap peared helped In Vermont, whore nine unlnstructed delegatea ware picked. ' Delaware and North Dakota domocrnts, a expected, aolected six -and eight delegate respec tively to advocate a Roosevelt re nomlnatlon at Philadelphia. 4, MUKDEN Manchoukuo, May IS, (TV A Chinese letter hearing the signature of tho Rev. Fr. Clarence Joseph Burns today brought the first proof In many weeks that the kldimpod American nilnslonary till Is nllvo. (Roports to th Mary Knoll mission at Osslnlng, N. Y., last March, stated Manchoukuoan ban dit were holding Father Burn on a snow-capped mountain peak, and that he had been well treated. He was kldimpod on Fobruary t.) The American consulate general announced two Chinese letter had reached Fushun, one of them car rying tho priest's signature. Ne gotiations for his roloase contin ued, with American authorities holding new hope of early suo- 'ifvficin Little t- .... ftp Whon Shirley Tcmplo. protty little screen star, celebrated her aeventh birthday recently, ana . re ceived a huge greetings card from the children of Klamath Falls. Tha picture, taken at Hollywood, shows Miss Temple holding a card on which la written hundreds of names ot Klamath children. The card waa sent by the Poolo theatres. (Herald-Newa Photo-engraving). - FRAZIEB-LEMKE Democrats Refuse to Pass Debt Financing Bill. WASHINGTON. May 13, (P) Tha $3,000,000,000 Frailer-Lem- ke farm debt refinancing bill was battered down to defeat today In phe house, when democratic stal warts swung into una nenina tneir leader. Branded "Inflationary" by Ita opponents and defended aa the aalvatlon of the debt-ridden farm ers by Ita backors, the bill was crushed only after the sharpest battle of the session. The fight reached auch fever heat that Speaker Byrne waa crit icised personally for taking the floor to read an opposition letter from William Qreen, president ot the American Federation ot Labor, and Green waa accused ot "Im pudence" for attempting to tell congress how to vote on farm leg islation. !TI S BENEFITS OF TRADE SEATTLE, May IS (ff) The Pacific northwest will benefit from the U. S. -France reciprocal trnde treaty, In the concensus of salmon, fruit and lumber dealers. Fisheries officials said the t rooty opens an entirely new market, as hitherto no canned salmon allocation has been grant ed by France. As Wcnatche, Yakima. Hood River and other northwest fruit growing sections exported one third ot the apples and 7S per cent of the peara France received last year, they stand to benefit proportionately with the virtual doubling of the quota, fruit men aaid. . . The northwest lumber Indus try will "benefit to some extent," Col. W. B, Oreeley, West Coast Lumbermen's association secre tary doclarcd. He pointed out the lumber quota Increase would bo sprend among all lumbor pro ducing sections of the nation, Montana Section Feels Earthquake HELENA, Mont., May 13. (AP) An earthquake, whloh the weather bureau rated as "strong," was felt In Helena tor about five seconds at 7:00 a. m. today, but no damage waa re ported. It wa followed by 8 "weak" hock at 7:11. W. E. Maughnn, U. S. meteorologist, said the two quakes brought ' the total folt einoe last October' major dis turbance to 1,805, Klamath Kids Greet j " A Baseball A ATIUA Au litt.ltil K R H K. Pittsburgh i.. it' 1 Boston .' 4 I 1 Swift, Hoyt and Padden; Lan nlng, MacFaydon and Lopes. - R. H. E. Cincinnati ' j 7 14 1 Philadelphia 0 14 1 Ilolllngsworlb, Btlne, Hllcber and Lombard); Davis, Syl Johnson, Zachary and Atwood. . AMERICAN LEAOl'E R. H. E. Boston . t 0 Detroit 10 0 Walberg, Ostermueller and R. Forrell; Howe, Lawson and Coch rane. E y A communication was received by the chamber ot commerce di rectors Wednesday from the state highway commission making a counter proposal' In ' connection with the recent itiggestlon from the chamber and the. Klamath county court that the Weed-Klam-ath highway be placod In the atate primary highway aystem. 'The Klamath groups proposed, also, that the Midland market road be retained in the secondary system, and also that another road, connecting Midland with The Dalles-California highway still further south, be placed. In the secondary sysctem. In It counter proposal, the highway commission . offers to place the Weed-Klamath road In the primary system, to put Into the secondary system an eastward connection with the Midland mar ket road and The Dalles-Calltor-nla highway. It proposes, how ever, to eliminate from the sec ondary system the Midland mar ket rotid from a point li miles this side of Midland to The Dalles Calliornla highway. . 1 The chamber directors referred the matter to the road and high way committee. It doea not meet In full the first Klamath sugges tion, which Included retention of the Midland market road-In the secondary system,' The directors referred to the transportation committee the pro posed Burns-Klamath-Coast rail road project. .,"'' Hindenburg Nears German Shores FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN. Oer mntiy. May 13. (AP) Dr. Hugo Eckener reported from the Zep pelin Hindenburg today that the big airship may reach Its har bor before 3 a. m. tomorrow (B p. m Paclflo standard time to night.) . . He said the only delay would he If rough weather was encoun tered over the British chan nel. ' : The landing crew wa ordered to be rendy for duty, all night, with a possibility In eight that the ship would berth aa early a midnight, ; . , , Support in Shirley IN LEAGUE AFFAIRS Mussolini Issues Defiant Warning over African Question. '- (By the Associated Press) " A widening chaam stretched today between the new Italian empire, and tha league of na tions. , Italy matched yeaterday'a with drawal of her Geneva delegation with a defiant, hands off warn ing on Ethiopia. Premier Mus solini's II Popolo D'ltalla repeat Id Duce'a own words: "The Ital ian people have created an em pire with their blood, they will cultivate it with their labor and defend it agalnat anyone ; with their arms!" ' The Fascist state let it be known the loague had either to accept the new Roman empire or got along without Italian par ticipation in league affairs. : Geneva observers Indicated they would not be aurprlsed it yeaterday'a recall ot the Italian delegation led to a complete withdrawal of Italy from the lftAfCtaQe . The league council refused to modify sanctions, only a short time after the Italinaa had de parted. Great Britain showed no out ward perturbation over the Ital ian departure. Some British ob servers were Inclined to look up on It In the light of a mere ges ture. ' !E ALBANY. Ore., Mny IS P)A claim ' that Llnfield college wa subjected to communistic mtm ences presented a problem today at Initial sessions ot the Oregon Baptist convention. The claim was set forth by Dr. J. A. Gonad, traveling evangelist, at the Oregon Council ot Baptist Men here yesterday. ; A prolonged controversy ena od temporarily when ministers and laymen doclded to present the ' matter at today' genera) conference. . Power Measure . Action Speeded WASHINGTON, May IS, Congressional enaotment of the 3410,000,000 rural electrification bill neared today wnen nouse ana senate conferees, after a long dis pute reached an agreement on the measure. 'Senator Norrls (R., Nebi). auth or of the bill, said he was well satisfied - with the agreement, which would authorise a 10-year program of extending power failv 1 J.I . a km. famlllaa ' ..... CLOSING 0 OF Candidates Put on Last Touches for Primary. Vote Drive. PRECINCTS GET BALLOT SUPPLIES Election Officials at Spe cial School' on Tues " Nday Night ' ' ALL BARS CLOSED All bars selling beer and .wine will be closed during polling hours. Friday, both In city and eounty, officials an nounced late Wedneaday. The state .. liquor store will be closed, -i . By MALCOLM EPLET ' Political interest swirled through the Klamath country today as candidates put on a final burst ot speed In their race tor party nominations In Friday' primary balloting. ' , ' Fuel was heaped on lire of controversy that have smouldered through a rather dull and quiet campaign. All cand ldatea and their team of supporters were in the field In a last effort to "con tact" additional list of voters. While this waa going on, final preparations were being made for recording the vote that will de cide the Issues between men ana measures. Election supplies Had been delivered by the sheriff's office to virtually all trie county precincts, and they will be taken to the city polling placea Thurs day. The circuit court room waa filled Tuesday night with elec tion officials attending a school of Instruction. The machinery is all aet to take the vote, whether It be light, as most observers prophesy, or heavy. A late development was growth of write-in sentiment among re publicans In behalf ot Henry Semon and Henry Boivin, the democratic candidatea for state representative. Boivin and Semon 'are unop posed on their own ballots, and' there are no republican candi datea. Several men have been mentioned as possible recipients or write-in support. Including Cliff Dunn, Burge Mason and Ed Geary. None of these men has given any Indication of desiring the nomination, bnt their sup porters regard them as well qual ified for the posts. Wednesday there waa consid erable talk ot giving Semon and Boivin republican write-in sup port. If that la done sufficiently to nominate them on the repub lican ticket, and they are, of (Continued on Page Three) Young Zioncheck in Cuba; Guards : . Held in Readiness ' SAN JUAN, P. R.. May 13. (AP) The national guard waa mobollzed in San Juan, and all public and private schools were closed today by the department of education to calm student Independence uprisings. Governor Blanton Winshlp said all steps would be taken to preserve law a'nd order. . The administration's move followed accidental entangle ment' of Rep. Marlon Zion check, the honeymooning American congressman, with . the student "freedom", demon stration. Neither the Nationalist party nor the other party, apparent ly, had any desire to continue the mesalliance. Zlonoheck, here on a honey ' moon, . attained Island-wide in terest Monday by a aeries ot automobile m 1 ha p a. Last night he found himself in the center of a riot of high school children who wero demon strating In favor ot the estab lishment of Puerto Rico aa an independent nation, outside the' jurisdiction ot the United' ',. States. ... - Neither 1 the congressman' driving nor the independence . movement had any relation ship with the other, but be . fore last night's demonstra tion was ended Zlonchec' ask ed that the United ta'.. ma rine be called out.- - CAMPAIGN SI R VOTERS Ohio Convicts Kill Two In Break PRISOX FOREMAN, INMATE DIE IS OKLAHOMA DASH. -.. : McALESTER, Okla.. May IS. (AP) A prison brickyard fore man was slain and tossed from a speeding automobile, a con vict was killed, a guard wound ed and another held hostage aa 12 desperate convicts broke from McAlester penitentiary today. Six of the convict were recap tured. The rioting convict seized A. D. Powell, a guard, forced him into a guard' automobile, then shot him in the head and dump ed bia body out on a street near ly a mile- from the prison near the downtown business section. . Tip Cope, another guard, also waa seized -and still waa unac counted for. Guards shot dowa a convict identified tentatively a Robert Dunnlngham, and recaptured alx of the other as they attempted to commandeer a car oa a high way near th prison brick yard. STH1KE MAY SHUT . NORTHERN MILLS Emplc oyere - Association a j" ' 1 t '; Issues . Ultimatum in.'., Labor Trouble. ' PORTLAND, May 1, .() An ultimatum by employer that SO laraa logging operations in the western Columbia River area win be closed by Friday climaxed th walkout of 600 logger today. Lloyd R. Crosby, spokesman for the newly-organised Columbia Basin Loggers' association, aald the move would affect upwards 01 15,000 men in mill and camps. Crosby, speaking for tho em- nlorers. aald bla group regarded aa "unfair" the atrikea in camp at Vernonla and Glenwood, Ore., and Deep River, Wash. He (aid the walkout wa designed "to di vide the operator In an attempt to impose 1 the maximum union terms first on tho five operators singled out for punishment, and then the rest." It waa understood th Sawmill and TlmberWorkera' union agreed on 1 7 per cent wag Increase, but that operators objected to the union's Insistence ot control of hiring and to nnlon demands con cerning hour for train crews. The employers Informed the Columbia River council of the un ion that they would not enter into negotiations until all operator were placed on an even basis. Crosby sai. II TO CONTINUE HERE Dust laden wind which have heckled the Klamath basin for the past two day will continue Thursday, according to the local weatherman, unless possible shower clear the atmosphere. Balmy daya with summer tem peratures are over for a while, according to Wednesday's fore casts, and unsettled conditions with brisk winds and lower tem peratures are -in- prospect. The mercury rose to 74 de grees for Wednesday's maximum reading, and the low point was recorded at 67. ; - PORTLAND. May 13, (JP The weather bureau hoisted craft warnings from Fort Bragg to Cape Flattery on the northern Wash ington coast line today as a storm annroached. ; The hot weather of the past few days will end tonight and to morrow, when cloudy weather and occasional showers will occur in the western portion of Oregon and Washington, the weather bureau predicted. Cooler temperatures also were In store for the Interior. College Official Speaks Tonight Dr. C. L. Hutfaker of the Uni versity of Oregon school of higher education will be a guest at a din ner tonight at. Klamath Union high school,: at which there will be a discussion ot the space prob lem at the high school. . ,, Dr. Hutfaker has made a pre liminary study of the high school situation, and found that class- 1 rooms there are over-loaded. Vote SAN FRANCISCO PARTY TURNED INTO HORROR Gay Event Becomes Tra- - gedy Early This Morning. TORCH DANCER SETS FIRE TO CURTAINS Hat Check Girl Tram pled; Three Killed in ; Airless Room. BAN FRANCISCO. May H VP) ' Two men and two women wer killed early this morning wnen the toe ot a torch dancer trans formed a gay San Francisco night clnb lto a flaming hall ot hor ror. .. Tho bat check girl waa tram pled to death as the (0 patrons stampeded . from tho lone exit from the Shamrock elub at 6(0 Geary street tn the hotel district of downtown San Francisco. The other three died of suffocation In. the closed second floor room... Nbao Persons. Hart Kine were injured, three of them so seriously they were kept at th emergency hospital where all were treated. . The dead- are: Jo Dickinson, bat check girl. San Francisco. Mrs. Elsie Marler, S?, ot Peta lnma, Calif., whoso husband for merly wa part oyner of tho Shamrock. Robert Pattlson, Berekloy, Calif. John Mason, San Francisco. The fire started suddenly, un expectedly at the height of gaiety during th torch dance of Betty Blossom, headline performer 01 tha elub. . , Drape Catch Fir ' ' A he danced about the dark ened, low eelllnged room .with a torch In each hand, aha kicked one ot the torches so that ita flame leapt np to the 'limsy draperies which covered tbo en tire room. Henry Buckman. manager of the club, told police that as Miss Blossom swirled with the biasing torches, a patron grabbed at one of them, apparently to light his clgaret. Miss Blossom raised ner arm to avoid him and the torch touched flimsy decorations and the low paper mache celling. In a moment the entire room wa ablaxe. Flame swept quickly through the decorations. Horror swept the crowd. Screams Arouse Firemea Screaming, shouting, they dashed for the only exit. Mis Dickinson was In their path. She was knocked down and trampled to death by the fleeing crowd. . Some collapsed on the dance floor. Others dived Into dressing rooms or the Ice box. The flames ' were quickly smothered without spreading to other parts ot the two story building. Firemen at first thought everyone escaped. They were , spurred to action by the screams of escaped entertainers that others were still In the club. "This Is criminal," said Charles (Continued on Page Three) I MADRID, May 13, (J Dlsur ders broke out In the eastern prov ince of Teruel today- as Santiago Casares completed a new cabinet at the call ot President Manuel A snna. ' . ' Farm workers at Baguena de clared a general atrlk In protet against the landowners' refusal to Increase wages. , At Hilar,' civil guard ejected peasants who bad occupied a num ber of estates In the vicinity. In the town of Aosnr, a delega tion of leftists forced tho rightist secretary of the town hall to re sign and escorted the parish priest to the town limits, warning him not to return. . Twelve churches and rellglnu buildings were destroyed during anti-clerical outburst at th town of Alclra in Valencia. ;
