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HERALD SERVICE llaruld iiilwrrlhiri wlui mil to relv Ihelr paper lijr OilHI p. m. are requested to cull the llaruld business office, phone IttlMt, mid paper will li Mill by special carrier. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND , UNITED PRESS WEATHER LOCAL FORECAST Knlri moderate. BTATK FORECAST Fair, Cooler south anil Mat. TEMPERATURES HlKh (9 p.m.), M. l,ov, M. YEHTKROAY'S 1IIOII 87. . (Heason's Uncord, 100). Pi-Ice Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930 Number 7710 WMOHT II 1 f i i .atW '11 IV J 1 1 l J I I I I I I I I I J I LZ3 w w V- LZj I J FBI rvi fvinfMi Rebel Northern Army Opens Tush' On Madrid Editorials On the Day s N ews GUN 5, Li COVER ADVANG By FRANK JENKINS KK.M ANY mid Italy (both ruled by fnaclnt dictators) are mora or Ikm openly backing tho fascist revnlullonlals In Bpaln. frenct Is hslf-hrsrtedly barking lb Spanish communist government. Great Britain, about Ilia only ramalnliif laland ol ennlty In Eu rope, a carefully keeping handa oft the ma and wondering what will hnppn lo her It the threat ened war belwaen opposing arhoole of dictatorship brvaka out. a t NJOTK, plcaso, (In cans you aro Interested In what la going on In Ruropa) thia dlapatch from Moacnw: "Gregory Klnovleff, accused maker ol bloody plot against th soviet regime of Jnaef Hialln, teallfled at hla trial to day that tha terrorist conspir acy, If successful, would bavo put Russia on th road to fas clam." Mora proof, you see, of the struggle between fnaclam and eommunlam that la ruing In Ku rope. Tbla struggle. If It comes, will drancb Kurop once mora In blood. a a T-KKP clearly In your mind llila fact: For yeara and yaara In Europe, clival hatred haa bean fomented. Tha havo-nole hava been allrrod up against the have. Sharing; tha wealth BY FORCE haa been preached unceasingly, and on more than one oceaalon (aa In Russia) it haa boon practiced. Tha fruit of all this atlrrlng of class hatrnda la an Impending clash between nppnalng forma of DICTATORSHIP, and If thla claah actually cornea t)h common peo ple will LOB)!, no matter which aide wlna. a 'TWERE are determined effort! to atlr up claaa haired In thla country. We see th evidence of theaa etforta on every hand. If we are good Americana, we will DISCOURAGE theae effort In every way at our command. We want no wara between eom munlam and faaclam In America, But If llie fomantars of claaa hat rod are pormlttod to auccccd In their purpoae, we will aee the struggle botwoon communism nud fnaclam right here In America. Not In thla generation, prob ably, but sooner or Inter. DICTA TORSHIP, with ltn Inovltnble destruction of human rlKhta, la the bitter fruit of rlnas hatred. Thnt fact la being' proved In Europe right now. UPON CAPITAL Terrific Artillery Barrage Heralds Launching of Drive. FASCIST LEGION READY FOR ACTION Insurgent Forces Fiercely Struggle to Take an Sebastian. PAMPLONA, Rpuln (By Cour ier lo French Frontier). Aug. 21 Ml the "big puh" on Madrid waa launched by ihe rebel north ern army at dawn todny. Military headiiuarlera at Pam plona mild three rebel columna atop the Guadarrama mountalna northweat of the loyalist capital had opened their long-awaited drive. ( (una 0Mn t'p A terrific artillery barrage by land batierlea and alrplnuea be gan the advance. Rebel offlrera aald Ihe puah would be hailed after aevnral miles to eonsolldnlo poaltlona, and than would be roaumed In a fleroa attempt "to lake Ihe capital within a abort time." BlmulUneoualy, rebol force on the Han Behaallan front launched a heavy drive at Hernanl and Lasarte, a abort dlatanra from the bealeged and battered city. HYDH PARK, N. Y Aug. 21 (IP) President Roosevelt todny dlspntched nn Invllntlon to Gov ernor Landon of Kansas, repub llcnn proaldnntlnl cmidldnle, and tho govornora of Iowa, Nobrnakn, Missouri and Oklahoma, to moot him September 1 at Dca Molnoa for ono of a series of drought conferences. OMAHA, Nob., Aug. 21 T Governor Alf M, London saltl to dny he would accept President Roosevelt's Invllntlon to a drought confnronoe nt Dos Moines, Iowa, Beptomber 1. Schools to Open on September 8 County unit schools, as wall as elomentnry schools of Klamath Falls will open for regular class work on Tuesday, September 8, according to an announcement from the office of Fred Peterson, county school superintendent. It la poBglble that teachers' In stitute will be hold In .this city on Monday, September 7, but defi nite announcement will not be liimlfl until curly next week, 11 "xe said Friday. Ily ROBERT PARKKIt CorlKltl, ll8, AuMMliitert Press HKBKL HKADQUAKTKR8. Burgos. Spain. Aug. 17 The one-eyed founder of the Spanlah legion. General Milan Astray, re viewed 1000 tassel-capped faa clst followers today and ordered them to march on Ihe Somo Sierra mountain front tomorrow. That front Is In the Guadar rama range north of Madrid. The youthful "falanglstae." composed of the faarlsl troops of Jos Prima de Rivera, aon of th late dictator, and othera. were well equipped and well disciplined. (ilrln In Hanks Robot lenders said they num bered only 25,000 In mid-July, (Continued on Page KlRht) EX-POLICE CHIEF ST. PAUL. Aug. 21 m Byron Bolton, confossod kidnaper, told a civil service board todny that the llnrker-Knrpis gnng ear marked $35,000 of the William llnnini ransom money for Tom Brown, former chief of police. Brown remained silent while Bollon told his story. Bolton's testimony was the first taken as tha hoard convened to hear Brown's appeal from his dlschnrge as a member of the St. Paul police department. Gus Barfuss, safety commissioner, dis missed the former chief, charging he roluyed pnllco Information to the gnng In both the Hntum and the Kdwnrd Q. Bremer kidnap Inns. Bolton snld the abduction was plotted In a cottage whore Fred Goets, alias "Shotgun tloorge," since killed, Informed tho gang "I want to moot a man In the police department who will give ma some Information on thalr activities In tho kidnaping." "This mnn was to bo paid 126,000. Attor the kidnaping Goets told ma tha police sot a trap tor use but the pullcomnn tipped oft Polfor (John Pelfer night club owner who killed him self In jail after being convicted In the Hum in case recently) and he. told Goets," . Grants Pass Keeps Temperature Down GRANTS PASS, Aug. 21 fP) Grants Pass apparently still led today In the dally Rogue River vallny chambers of commerce race to sco which city can keop maxi mum temperature from going too high. The thermometer failed to go beyond 97 yosterdny, a point reached four times before tills sea son for the ytrnr's high. , Steer and Proud Owner LONG PROGRAM m ENVISIONED IN ! vjM&1 nRnilRHTFIRHTi VhUtll i - .va Republican Workers Here fi('! Commissioners Say It May Take 25 Years to Ac complish Aims. DEPOPULATION NOT NEEDED, CLAIMED 1, ii mm'!'9fn ENTOIIN T TAKES LIVES OF 10 1 Picture ehows James Hammond, of the Merrill baby beef 4-H club, and bis Shorthorn steer which haa averaged 2.1 pounds gain for the last 199-day period. Jim Is pushing his Shorthorn now to get every pound possible on him before September 28. (Horald-News Pboto-Kngravlngl. ITiSH DISPATCH English Adopt Policy Sim ilar to German Regard ing Ship Offenses, . RO.MK, Aug. II (VP) Italy accepted officially 'today the neutrality accord proposed by France In the Spanish civil war. Premier Muasollnl earlier In the day had aought through his envoys the reaction of for eign powers to abandonment of the neutrality negotiations. LONDON. Aug. II -Tt Great Britain, adopting a policy similar to that of Germany, today an nounced "atern measures" would be taken against any Interference with her shipping In Spanish wa ters. Authoritative quarters said In th event a British ship was fired upon, It would return three warn ing shots ahead of the offending cralt and then, "we ahall aim." The Madrid government, these quarters stated, has been Inform ed that all British ships will be protected from Interference, and It was mado clear that In the event or untoward action by Spanish vessels, Great Britain will tnko equally firm steps to safeguard her own craft. Germany, following the report ed search or the Gorman eteamer Knmornn by a Spanish loyalist warship, let It be known yesterday her own navy will answer "force with force." Ready for Action Germany was ready for action with 16 warships in Spanish wa ters. Sovlot nussin, the Gorman press (Continued on Page KIkIU) Douglas Hunter Captures Coyote in His Kitchen ROSEBURQ, Ore.. Aug. 21 VF) Shades of Horace Greel ey hero's another one for the definition of news! Frank Ingram, of Dotban. In southern Douglas county la a coyote hunter, and he geta his ysniilnts-one. '.ay, or.. eitotner. rne prise way 10 get them Is revealed In a let ter received by the county clerk here. . The loiter follows: "I am aendlng, under sep arate cover, one coyote hide. Please mark aame, for bounty and destroy the hide. I wilt send the affidavit as soon as 1 ran get same algned. "Thia coyote waa bajred In my kitchen. I went out with my dogs and left the door to my house open. The dogs took up the trail and when I re turned they . had. tho coyote behind my cupboard In my kitchen. "Believe It or not." Rigid Land and Water Conservation Plans Shaping Up. SPOKANK, Aug. 21 Ml Immi gration Inspector 8. II. Slewnrt snld tho deportation hearing of Frank B. Robinson, of Moscow, Idaho, would probably be conclud ed here todny. It opened Wed nesday behind closed doors. Immlgatlon officials have re fused to divulge tho nature of the charges against Robinson, Stew ara said the full transcript of the hearing will be sent to Immigra tion authorities ' at Washington, D. C, for a decision. Robinson Is the founder of a religious philosophy, "Psychlnnn," owner of a drugstore at Moscow, and part owner of a dally news paper thoro. He was acquitted by a fodoral court Jury recently of a rhnrge of falsifying a pass port application. He listed the United States as his place of birth, and government witnesses testified ho wsb born In England. FEHL CHLII1C SALEM. Auk. 21 (P) Appeal of the habeaa corpus proceeding ; filed by Electa Ken to obtain I the unconditional release of her I husband. Earl H. Fehl, from the state penitentiary, was in the state supreme court .today. Fob!. ex-Jockon county Judge, was recently conditionally pa roled from the prison after serv ing two years and four months of his maximum four-year term for ballot theft. Judgo McMnlmn In Marlon county circuit court held against the plaintiff in the habeas cor pus proceeding. The coniplnlnt charged that Fehl,' had served his maximum term,', less good , hehnvlor cred its and was euljtied to uncondi tional release, in accord with the common practice of releasing prisoners under . the Oregon In determinate sentence law. Judge 1 MrMahan - held there was no- authority' for such auto matic, relonse without a parole or pardon hy the governor. His de cision' upheld nn opinion pre viously , written by . Ralph E. Moody, 'assistant attorney gener al, at the request of Governor Martin. . The habeas, corpus proceeding was filed by Mrs. Fehl subse quently to her husband's release from the prison under condition al parole. The Condition pro vided that Fehl should not re turn to Jackson county until his four-year term had expired. Dr. Robinson is a former resi dent of Klamath Falls and a fre quent visitor here. NO EARLY SPEECHES HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 21 Ml President Roosevelt said to dny ho would not make any poli tical speeches before October In his campaign fur roolecUon. By ROBERT E. GEIGER AinoruUMl Press Staff Writer CHADROK, Neb., Aug. 21 (P) A 25-year drought program waa contemplated today by members of the great plains drought com mittee aa they anaped recom mendations for a report to Presi dent Roosevelt. Morrla L. Cooke, rural elec trification administrator and chairman of the group, told a meeting of farmers here last nigbt any effective plan undoubt edly would require that much time.', ! , . . y :7.TUutf Mian Vp "'""" Cooke and hla associate Indi cated they were considering the recommendation of rigid land and water conservation, state land zone laws, a stable system of credit for great plains farm ers, and feasible Irrigation and reclamation projects. Lewis C. Gray, bead of the land utilisation division of the resettlement administration and special consultant for the com mittee on Its 1000-mll trip through the drought area, aald he did not believe there waa a need for extensive shifting and farm families from the arid lands to other districts and added.: "Nature Itself already haa thin ned out the population In the bad sections." New Credit Sjstem ' Gray said there la need for a new credit system. "Under the present system, hanks make loans, encouraging expansion, during good crop growing years." he said. "Then in bad yeara they demand pay ment. What the farmers need Is -credit for necessary Improve ments but not for over-expansion." He said a good sonlng law Is needed in each of the drought states to force the return of un productive crop lands to grass. Certain "reforms" in farm practices to conserve lands and water also are needed, he eatd. The committee will make. Its roport to President Roosevelt late next week In South Dakota. Judge Upholds Worker's Right to Spank Wife SUDBURY. Ont., Aug. 21 UP) (Canadian Press) The right of a night worker to spank his wife If breakfast isn't ready when he comes home was upheld today by .Magistrate J. S. McKeasock. The judge dismissed aa as sault charge which Mrs. Paty ..iYVIntera" haff'brougbt against ner nusoana, jcawara. Winters testified lie earn home from the mine where he to employed and found no breakfast ready. His wife came downstairs and prepared it. He followed her back to . the bedroom and scored three hits with a flat palm, he said. E SALEM, Aug. 21 Uf-The city of Klamath Falls asked the state highway department todny to conduct a traffic count in that city to determine where auto matic traffic, signals should be located. The department an nounced it would comply with tho requost, . . WATSON VILLUS. Calif., Aug. 21 (P) An unidentified acsacaln firing a 30-30 rifle through" r.he rear window of a parked, ail co mobile, killed Mr. and Mrs. Aus tin W. Martin and seriously wounded their two-year-old daughter on a Watsonville street today. The slayer fled in an automo bile after throwing the still smoking rifle Into the rear of the Martin machine. . . Baker Man Hurt by Angry Animal BAKER, Aug. 21 '' OP) ' Charles Rhule of Baker suf fered - severe lacerations ' and bruises this morning when he was gored by a bull on hla ranch near here. 'i . After its first attack, the bull stood glowering over Rhule as the man lay on the ground without a weapon of any kind. Rhule stuck his fingera in the anlmal'a tyes and gave it a severe kick. The bull backed away long enough tor Rhule to : start rolling toward a fence. As the man went under the rail, the bull charged and one of Its horns , tore a- long, deep gash In Rbulo's log, . The campaign in behalf of Oregon republican candidates haa been furthered the past three weeks by . Walter Tooze, assistant state chairman; Lars Bladine. secretary of the state committee, and Dave Hoss, son of the late Secretary of State Hal Boss. This pic ture wss taken in their hotel room when they visited Klamath Falls. Thursday. Left to right: Bladine, Tooze, Chairman J. C. O'Neill of the Klamath county central committee, and Hosa. This picture. Incidentally. Inaugurates the use of flash-lights by Herald News photographer in taking Inside shots. (Herald-News Photo-Engraving). TO PORTLAND, Aug. 21 UP Dr. Francis E. Townsend, author of the Townsend plan, wants his fol lowers In the third congressional district (Multnomah county) to nominate their own candidate for congress, John E. Weir, special representative of the Townsend national organization, said today. Weir will go before the district Townsend convention at Benson Tech auditorium Saturday and ask the 1500 delegates to nomi nate a candidate and support him in opposition to Congressman Ek wall, the republican nominee, and Mrs. Nanny Wood Honeyman, the democratic nominee. Both oppose the Townsend plan. Baseball CHICAGO, Ana;. 21 (7P Floyd "Babe" Herman, lanky outfielder who deserted the Cincinnati Reds last Thurs day In' a squabble over pay ment of a bonus, waa ordered by .Commissioner of Baseball . Kenesaw Mountain Landis to day to return to the club im mediately. j 4 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE . R. H. E. Washington 2 7 1 Philadelphia 3 7 1 ; NewBom and Bolton; Llsenbee and Hayes. " R. H. E. Boston 14 1 New York 8 0 : W. Ferrell; Russell, Walberg and R. Ferrell; Pearson and Dickey. R. H. E. Chicago 6 11 0 Detroit .' as.... 8 10 1 Dietrich, Cain, Brown and Sewoll; Rowe, Lawson, Sorrel) and Cochrane, Hayworth. . . R. H. E. St. Loul 2 13 1 Cleveland 4 11 0 Andrews, Vanatta, Llebhart and Hemsley. Giuliani; Harder, Lee and Sullivan. NATIONAL LEAGUE " i ': ' 'j ; . ..v R. ' H. E. New York . S 9 0 Boston ; 2 8 2 . Gabler, Coffman and Mancuso; Bush and Lopes. - v R. H. E. Cincinnati"'. :.. 2 8 1 Chicago 7 10- 2 Hnllahau, Schoot and Lombar dl; Lue and llartnett. FACE IM1EIT5 22 Accused, Including Na- , tional Head of Hood ed Order. DETROIT, Aug. 21 (tP) Virgil F. Effinger of Lima, Ohio, described by Prosecuting Attor ney Duncan C McCrea as the national head of the Black Le gion, wa indicted with 21 others today on charges .of criminal syndicalism in connection with activities of the hooded order. The Indictments were return ed by Circuit Judge James E. Chenot, conducting a state grand Jury investigation. The indict ment accused Ertinger and the others with advocating or teach ing "crime, sabotage, violence or other forms of terrorism as a means of accomplishing Indus trial political reform. Heavy Penalties Maximum penalty 1 10 years imprisonment and - 15000 fine under the statute proper. A con spiracy charge included in the indictment carries a prison sen tence of five years. Among those named with Ef (Continued on Fag Eight) TOT HURT WHEN STRUCK BY BIKE Lovetta' McTaggart, 4, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mc Taggart , of 411 North Third street, was seriously injured early Thursday evening, when she wa struck by a bicycle rid den by another child. " , The child's neck was ' badly gashed by the tender of the bi cycle, which barely missed the Jugular vein, according to the physician who dressed the wound. Lovetta was taken to her home following treatment, and she was reported to be recovering satis factorily Friday afternoon. McCann, Sexton Survive Harrowing Experience After Cave-in. V MONOXIDE GAS FATAL TO PAIR Crowd Cheers As Work ers Free Prisoners From Coal Tunnel. ' MOBERLY. O., Aug. il UP) ' The first of four men trapped -since Tuesday afternoon in a coal mine near here waa brought t out alive by rescue crews at 2:40 . p. m. today. A second man of the four who were burled by a eave-ln . last . Tuesday waa carried ont alive a few minute later. ' Two Are Dead Dr. Jesse Maddox, Randolph county - coroner, coming ont of the mine, announced; "A. W. McCann la alive and in good ahaoe. - -uemmer Hexion ar but ana im haH flhafwi. George T. Dameron, . negro, are dead and apparently have . been ' dead for a lone time." . ' McCann, 60- and unmarried,: wa the first to be -brought' to , the surface by the rescue crews. The crowd aet np a wild cheer- : lng as he emerged from the nar row shaft and was rushed to an ambulance. The car sped toward a Moberly hospital, three mile distant. "This is on of the saddest thing I aver went through," ' aid coroner Maaaox. ' "Uf urn. rinctnr. VftSt dr.Wi (Continued on Fag Eight). El t OMAHA. Neb., Aug. II . Governor Alf M. Landon told Ne braska republicans today that. American "do not want govern ment to leoDardlze our birth- ' right of freedom or mortgage that equality of opportunity to- ' wards which we are striving. What I wanted, the party's presidential nominee said In a brief address prepared for deliv ery at a i breakfast conference, is that "government do Its full . l .(n.M.. ..s - n '1 lt&ln lng ns to meet our necessities,'' Good Government Issue . Resuming his cross country stumping trip to eastern states, he then headed for Iowa on a schedule calling for seven plat form appearances in that state and three in Illinois during the second day of his trip. . Landon reiterated declarations made yesterday In Informal plat form talks in' Colorado 'and Ne braska that "good government" (Continued on Page Eight)...- Volume of Arabian Nights Serves As Secret Code for i; Anti-Stalin Conspirators Copyright, 1088, Associated Press MOSCOW, Aug. 21 The story of how a copy of the Arabian Nights was used as a secret code between Russia's amazing antt Stalln conspirators gave a fan tastic touch today' to the trial of 16 confessed plotters. A bewildered, discomforted prisoner, Edward Solomonovlcb. solemnly recounted how he acted aa liaison man between T. Smir noff, head of the Moscow Trots kyites and Syedotf, Leon Trots ky's son in Berlin, with a copy of the book the moat important piece ot his baggage. "Smirnoff gave me a copy of the Arabian Nights," the wit ness related, "which. In some way - which I do not remember, served as a secret code. "Upon meeting Syedoff In Ber lin I handed him Smirnoff's re port on economic . and political affair of the. U. S- S. R. ant'.j the Arabian Nights code." Leon. Trotzky, ,the celebrated exiley has ' been accused by both the government and tho defend-: ants as the master ot the plot, embracing not one but many at tempts upon the lite of Dictatoi Joseph Stalin. Previous evidence had brought out that the counter-revolutionaries used secret compartments of trunks, Invisible Ink and oth er subterfuges in order to ex-, change Information. Holzmann, a reluctant witness, told of a meeting with Trotzky in Copenhagen at which he quot ed the exile as saying: "The only way to remove Sta- ' lln Is through terror." ' For a time during the exam Inatlon of Holzmann, 54 yean old, bnld and perspiring, tin ' (Continued pa Page Flvei
