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Knlri moderate.
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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1930
Number 7710
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Rebel Northern Army Opens Tush' On Madrid
Editorials
On the
Day s N ews
GUN
5,
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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
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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"
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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