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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 27, 1937)
A OM WIRE SERVICE I'lltr Herold nod None eobourthe to full hooted wIro stercfro of Olio Meow Weil Promo 111111 I Ito Willed Preto', elm worIll's ureolext mothering orttontrollono. 'roc I I I dolly world neon c ttttt re 11110 Iii. Humid. None office on teletype nowldnes. AM " 0 0004 Crater Lake Planing Mill, Lumber Saved Due to Calm Weather. Sweeping beyond tont rot at most at t tt,i moommil of dificov ory. a spectacular f if., roared b rough Ili,. box fnet ory and wareholom of Ilan Crater Litho Boa and Imitator company at Sprague, It Ivor Sunday morning. Hot h 1.1 ruet u rem. and Om box Shook IIIVIThlory. were dest rayed at a loss of more Mtn 150.000. I tidy I ha fact t hat A irfnrt calm prova proventeti thn blur" from doing morn (Imago. Chihli by was thn planCe pinning mill and Ih Nuttier yard with a of 1 Million worth of hi m bnr piled in It. Thn main mill of I hi, Crater La kit I miter company as about goon feet distant. Origin lystey Origin of Om tiro Wila a film toy. Ilia plant had not porta. od Sat Imlay. 'rho night ritleh IMMO Ilia regular roil oda I !trough I ha tvening, and hati been at I he bos fact yry 4 short ly heforn. Viten ha re urned about I o'clock ha found thn fira roaring in the filing room. In immediately Hounded I he a la W Mai IP. .1110 old Ira mill (Continued on Him) Three) SAN QUENTIN CONVICT SHOT; SIT-DOWN STRIKE AT ALCATRAZ CONTINUES SAN QIIENTIN Calif.. Sept. 27 Another dbdurbaneo in a California Prit4011 the third uith in two weeka. led In the shooting of a convict in San Quentin today by a guard. The convict. Cecil Duncan. 22- year-old Negro. WWI stint from a guard tower all he and another convict fought in Om prison yard and Ignored warning,' to atop. , Other convict,' In tha yard. marchina from breakfazt to their daily duties. witneamed tho affair but did not attempt any general ft 'lowlier. Tito incident, ahlio Involving Only the two fighting convict'', brought quick artion from the guard because of the recent bloody outbreak at Valmont Mato prison and the slugging of Warden Jitmett Joh oat on of A Ica t raz rettnrill pritin It SA N FRANCISCO, Scot. 27 rill A hundred rehelli OUR Alcatraz convicts started tile HP1011(1 week of their sitdown strike today as Warden Jamell A. Johnston re mained abed, recovering front a beating administered Friday by Burton Phillips, 25. Kansas kid naper serving a lire term. Reports (rpm the federal Islaii i! prison indleated Otero Waft no let down lii tho determination or the striking prisoners to refuse to work. As a result they remained locked in their cells. Prison au thorities were non-committal on specific reasons tor the strike, hut the convicts are known to desire more privileges and more paroles. By FRANK JENKINS I N 1864 (when Hancroft's Hand- book and Almanac of the Pa cific Slates, mentioned in thin column a day or so ago, was pub lished) there Wall no Medford. Jacksonville was the county seat of Jackson county. Thera was no. Grants Pass. Iterhyville was the county seat of Josephine county. It. wits credited with a population of 100. T tlitE watt no Klamath Falls nor oven ally Linkville. There was no Lakoview. What is now Ithonath and Lake countlea was then a part of Vasco county, Whose seat then as now was The Only Fort In ma h, whore a military post avi been satabilla KIDNAPED CHICAGO MAN FEARED DEAD Invalid Manufacturer, 72, Unreported Since Ab duction Saturday. CHICAGO, Sept. 27 rem' that (Amides S. Rohs had died in the hands of kidnapers increased today as hours passed without word front the retired manufact urer or his abductors. Captain Daniel iiithert of the slate's attorney's police theorized the 72-year-ol0 victim. suffering from high blood pressure and a heart ailment, might 11IVO died of shock since ho was carried off Saturday night. Ills captors, the captain added. might have hidden the body. Aunt litaus Note Gilbert's officers and detective were stationed al str,ttegic points awaiting receipt of a ram som nob o or telephone call on tho alternato premise that Ross was still alive. Ills wife remained near the telephono in their luxurious apart ment. Ross was obilueted on a road (Continued on lingo Three) "HUMANITY'S NEEDS" TO GUIDE MAHONEY'S FUTURE SALEM, Sept. 27 (i)Willi" E. Nlahoney. former mayor of Falls, will determine his future political nctivilles by how "he can best nerve humanity." 'Mahoney told SIM Townsend fol lowes yenti,rilay "our It peo ple are entitled to adequate re lief." The former candidate for gov ernor and the United States Ren ato remarked ho had turned 110W an InvilatIon to hoard President Roosevelt's train Pn route to Ore gon "because it came thimugh thn Portland ehnni 1)PP of commeree." "I feel that. I hest can nerve the president and what he Month; for by contacting the common people." Editorials on the Day's News ed, achieves mention in this old book. -- TN Douglas count7:slho...changes have not been so great as in the remainder of Southern Ore gon, for Roseburg was the sent of Douglas county In 1864 and Is so listed in the old book. Its population was estimated at 254. A S TO Jacksonville, which was then the outstanding me tropolin ot Southern Oregon, the old book mentions that the stock holders of the California. and Col umbia River Railroad had jwa met and organized by electing officers. As a businesa Hem of apparent ly (mind importance IL is mention (Oontinued on Page Time) Olt &inning 3kratb i ASSOCIATED PRESS Five Cents 0041, 04 Sept. 27 (AP) -- Premier Nitissolini Of Italy arrived In Oita capital Of nazidom this after noon. to begin a lavish procession through Om streeta to the rheers of groat crowda. The guest. or iteicitsfuehrer littler. II Puce already had seen the might or Gernutny's army in annual maneuvers and vkited today the factories at Essen, whenro come tlerman arms 111Prittl. This aleture, flashed aerosol the Atlantic by radio land litqlett to 1110 COUM by the Wireithoto system. shows Muviolin' and his host, riding dO11 M 111)1001 atreets as they mot for the second time Saturday. Young Hunter Shot As Rifle Fires in Car Victim of Klamath cnunty's first cleer hunting casualty, Fred Konschot. 17, is in the Klamath hiley hospital in a critical con dition from a wound inflicted by n rain which discharged aCri dentully in an automobile. KI111111101 high school boy was shot through the intestines Sunday afternoon while riding with Jack Lindh and Bud Stein golfer on a back road in the illy country. Soil nds Mighty Close" Lindh was driving. with Ken schot silting beside him in the coupe. Steinselfec was sitting in the rutuble seat with the bedding and his loaded gun. a 30-30 rifle. (Continued on Page Three) BELLINGHAM MAN CRITICALLY INJURED IN ACCIDENT NEAR DAIRY Tom IL Tubbs of Itellingham, 'ash .. was critically injured Sunday afternoon in an automo bile accident which occurred near Dairy on the dangerous hill and curve on t he incom Meted section of the Dairy over head crossing. J. George Stone of Snokane. Wash.. who IVIIS driving the car at the I line of the wreck. 113- eel veil only minor injuries and shoek. Tullio; sustained a tract tired skii ll. a fractured left shoulder. broken ribs and a fractured right I high. lie is reported to be in a serious condition at K la math Valley hospital. Stone is also tit K la mat It Val ley hospital. where x-ray pictures Aro being made of a shoulder in jury. The accident occurred about 3:15 p. tn. Sunday. According to stet 0 police who investigated he wreck. brakes on the ma chine locked as Stone t ried to slow down On t he grade and approached the dangerous curve. The machine went out of con t rol, skidded iterOSS the road and up a bank on the other side. I hen somersaulting several t imes and coming to rest at the foot of an embankment on the other side. The automobile was demolished. Hold Everything! That's the name of a snappy now laugh comic fo be found today on page 5. Clyde Lewis is the creator of this new "bright spot" in The Herald and News. Lewis produces "Herky, the child prodigy who has brought laughs to Sunday newspaper readers the country over. Watch for "Hold Every. thing." And when you find if let yourself go with a big laugh. That's Cvhy we'ye run ning it. 00 004 IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND KLAMATH ORE., MONDAY, spyr. 27, 1937 ENDEAVOUR FOUND AGAIN, THIS TIME OFF IRELAND LONDON. Sept. 27 GPIThe fatuous Lutine bell at 1,143ds rang today for the second time within a week to annalinco the finding of the British yacht Endeavour Unauccessful challenger ill 1934 for the America's cup. The Endeavour I, with het' crew of 19, was reported sighted today 250 miles off the Irish coast by the British steamer Cheyenne. The Cheyenne's master, Captain Alcock, wirelessed the Associated Press he had contacted the En deavour, missing since September 13. and heard that all the crew were well. The first report, from the Azores last week, had proved er roneous hut Lloyds felt Certain the latest one was true. A new system of zoning the na tion for duck seasons, based on altitude, climate and similar fac tors and Ignoring state lines. was pictured as a 1938 possibility by Herbert Davis, California game supervisor, at Saturday night's wildlife conference at Ilackamore CCC camp. Davis spoke in explanation of the situation that brought about a December duck hunting season in Mottoc, Lassen and Sisk iyou counties in spite of volleys of pro tests from that area that the sea son was too late for good shoot ing. The duck season dates wero but one of numerous subjects of Importance to conservation and hunting, discussed at the Harks. moro mooting under sponsorship of the natural resources unit of um . Mussolini Arrives in Nazi Capital SH ,p. OOK STOCK ,fr 1;92 p -'---z-ix-Pk44;;;17 7 tri--11.7:43 ; TA-- fi 11 THINKING . Iltso 1 osT IN z,,,,,,,,i4i.,,,,,,,,,,....,zy d..,i,,,,,,,---,k ,,, fir IIIP IIIIMPe ,,," 4(4:41 Ul U10 1111110d i4,,,,t if ',414111kimt . 9 a Pg,:,341:14iiiVe ., A4 :,: .171,..P k , ,,,,----, --op ::,. $50,000. Fit:1E :74,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, , ! .,,,,,...,,, , ,, ...,,,,, i,,,,,., , , .,, t:,, ,,,,., --,,,,,---, .,.,teit;-, . , "...' 46. . 44.1;1,i 4141 IIIAMOANS TOLD , . , h'Aiwdt ir , if f4t COUNTY'S ASSESSED VALUATION Mit Annual Report Shows In,- ereile for First Time Since 1930. Klamath count's assessed vat &Wien as equalized by the Klam ath county board of equalization shows an increase over the previ ous year for the first time since 1930. according to the annual sumtnary report sent to the state tax COMMiStii011 NI outlay by Charles H. Mack. county assessor. The total assessed valuation of property assessed b y 31 a c k which does not Include utility assessments. is $22.200.992. Last year the total was $22,161.210. "Klamath's highest assessed valuation. In 1930, was $2S.636.- 313," said Mack. "Since that tillleo it has steadily declined un lit this year.' Summary reports show the greatest decline was front 1930 until 1934 when it reached $22.213.053. Since that time there has been no great change despite the fact more tax paying timber has been cut dur ing the past four years than ever before." Assessed valuation of timber (Continued on Page Three) , 040 444 ,004 G. 0441 Sprague River Box Factory, Warehouse Burn Petty Quarrels Declared Farthest From Roose velt Mind. norsFL Idaho. Sept. 27 un PrPg1,1,nt Roosevelt told a large crowd at the capitol grounds here today that on his current trip he was thinking of the "bigger things. such as a wider distribu tion of control of industry and a better agriculture rather than the "petty" quarrels of the day. Senator Xi Want E. Borah. re publican and dean of the senate. BONNEVILLE TUESDAY PORTLAND. Sept. 27 t AP) Oegon suing its momentous job of entertaining and pro tecting a chief executive late today when President Roose velt enters the state at distant Ontario along the Idaho bor der. - Ile comes westward by rail through the night to Bonne ville dam for his early morn ing major address Tuesday. A long caravan of state. north west and federal dignitaries. amply guarded against acci dent and incident by state troopers, sheriff deputies and secret service agents, will es cort the president around the beautiful Mount Hood loop highway to the new Timber line lodge tucked away on the slopes of majestic Hood. After luncheon and a brief dedicatory address at the lodge. the procession travels to t he Willamette vialey, through the streets of Port land and then on to Vancou ver. Wash.. where President Roosevelt boards his 10-car special train for Seattle. boarded the presidential special shortly after its arrival. "I'm just going to extend a word of welcome to our capital and state," Borah said. Planning for Future After seeing the presideUt. Borah said there had been "some important" things discussed. but he would not disclose their na ture Facing a crowd estimated by local police at around 10.000, the president said he was trying to think about planning. how to make a better nation for the fu ture generations, a more pros perous agriculture. timber con servation, a better coordination of industrial activities, and a wider distribution of control of industry. Senators Borah (It-Idaho) and Pope (D-Idaho) were in the of ficial automobile party which paraded for an 11011r with the president through the Idaho ap ital's crowd-lined streets. When the president mentioned a "wider distribution of the ,on (Continued on Page Three) 11E1,1) FUR GRAND JURY MEDFORD, Sept. 27 (Al') John Henry Logsdon of Fort Klamath, involved in an auto accident near Grants Pass last Monday, in which Mrs. N. H. Atchison of Portland sustained fatal injuries. was ordered held, to await grand jury action on a charge of auto theft. New System of Duck Season Zoning Possibility for 1938 the Shasta-Cascade Wonderland association. Caught by Surprise The California game supervisor said that the California fish and game commission lila caught by surprise when the biological sur vey asked it for a recommenda tion on duck shooting dates for 1937. He said that the attitude of the cotnmission has been for a 60-day season, with limited shooting days. or a tilvision of the state. The liSitS, however, offered the COMIIIISM1011 rill), a 30-day sea still, either in November or De cember. Also, Davis said, the biological survey demanded such an early answer that the commission did not have time to confer with (Continued on rage Three), V' Generally FaIG I Maximum nt 2:110 Minimum' 50 0EcipITATION MNI:Ey:Tit"; ;n181(11 12.12 116 15.20 UNITED PRESS preelpitallOn 12.110 Number 8053 .WelM,IftOWSW06,A0O00WO,$'Otid.10POPO,Pe. Whisker less Males Caged 1.USWWW.F.,,000 EIldE RPAZ : WEATHER 1 P'11 --rTNPAP..; .t" 4;17::"1" 141 APAI S r L., 1 Klamath Falls Comparatively Prosperous City, Nationwide Family Living Survey Shows WASHINGTON. Sept. 27 (Spe- ('ial)In fast-growing Klamath Falls. Ore.. the year 1935-36 brought to 772 families interview ed at random an average income of $1937 to cover the expenses of an average family of 3.4 persons. Preliminary figures for 15 out of 19 small cities have thus far been tabulated by the bureau of home economics of the U. S. de partment of agriculture under Dr. Louise Stanley it. its nationwide family living survey of typical small cities, villages and farm counties. Phone Subscribers Increase The levels of living of Amer ican fa Milit'S have long been a subject of academic discussion," said Dr. -Stanley. "This survey will supply the facts concerning large blocks of families in all sections of the country, in all occupations and at all income levels. Instead of making conjectures. we shall be able to cite examples showing what kind of living various in comes will buy." First figures front Klamath Falls indicated comparative fam ily prosperity in a flourishing com munity. The Klamath Falls popu lation increased 235.2 per cent in the decade from 1920 to 1930. NINE OREGON COAST FIRES UNDER CONTROL GOLD BEACH. Sept. 27 (AP) Fire fighting crews brought nine fires under check in southwest ern Oregon today after flames threatened valuable stands of timber yesterday. The fires spotted the coastline between Gold Beach and Brook ings. One burned scattered tim ber in the Siskiyou national for est along the Chetco river. Two others swept about 2000 acres, chiefly brush. The forest service controlled the Siskiyou blaze with the aid of. about 450 CCC men. Lower temperatures and partly overcast skies today materially reduced further hazards. FILENVI DIES PARIS, Sept. 27 (AP)--Creillation was arranged today for the body or Edward A. Pi lone, Boston merchant and philan thropist, who died of pneumonia In the American hospital yester day. Lillian Schoedler, Filene's secretary, said she would take his ashes to the United States "as loon Fig possible." X.1- 4,44, 4h0,k,rej , ,,, . Into the monkey cage go recalcitrant male residents of Malin who fail to show the required whiskers in connection with the Pioneer Days celebration October 2 and 3. Here are three prison ers. William Macken, Harry Prather and Marvin Wilde, with Mayor A. Kalina, functioning as lock-up man. Telephone subscribers In January 1935 numbered 3001 as against 2111 in January 1930. More Than One Earner The Klamath Falls average fam ily income was increased by many members helping in family fi nances. Twenty-seven per cent of all the families had more than one earner. The average earnings of the principal earner were $1567. Among self-sustaining families those which had not been on relief at any time during the year studiedthe percentage of fami lies having more than one earner went steadily up with the income level as follows: 14 per cent aiming families receiving under $4000 income: 19 per cent among (Continued on Page Three) LOCAL Government bureau estimates 772 Klamath Falls families re, ceived average income of $1375 In 1935-36. Comparative family prosperity noted here. Page 1. Klamath's assessed valuation shows gain for first time since 1930. Total, exclusive of utilities, is 922.200.992. Personal prop erty assessments show big gain. Page 1. Tom B. Tubbs of Bellingham, Wash., critically injured in auto mobile wreck near Dairy Sunday. Companion only slightly hurt. Page 1. Fred Konschot, 17, shot in abdomen by gun which discharged In car on deer hunting trip. Page 1. Abandonment of "state line system" in zoning for duck sea sons forecast at Hackamore wild life conference. Camera hunters "panned" for causing many deer deaths In lava beds area. Page 1. Night fire destroys box factory, warehouse and shook inventory at Sprague River, causing damage in excess of $110,000. Page 1. City police and U. S. Indian officers stage cleanup of those Peddling liquor to Indians. Twelve arrested during past week, and eight already bound over to fed LEAGUE IN MI SESSION TO ACT ON RESOLUTION Britain, France Join in Rebuke for Bombing Chinese Cities. GENEVA, Sept. 27 up)--The 23-nation League of Nations ad visory committee on the far east tonight adopted a resolution con demning bombardment of Chinese towns by Japanese airplanes. The resolution will be submit ted to the League of Nations as sembly tomorrow. It was adopted after China's spokesman, Dr. Wellington Koo, had urged the league to name Japan the "wrongdoer to the world," and after British, French. Swedish and Russian committee members orally condemned Japan for bombardment of Chinese non combatants. Mildest Step Dr. Koo declared the mildest step the league should take is a denunciation of Japan as the ag gressor in the Sino-Japanese con- filet. "If the league ettiotot defend t- right in the face of mightt it can at least point out the wrongdoer to the world," said Dr. Koo. China's delegate to the league. "If it cannot enforce interna tional law and principles of the covenant," he continued, "It (the league) can at least make it known that it hasn't abandoned them. "If it cannot prevent the ruth less slaughter of men, women and children and the wanton destruc tion of property by the illegal and inhuman methods of aerial bora bardment, it can at least make clear where its own sentiments are in order to reinforce the universal demand of a civilized world for (Continued on Page Three) LOST HUNTER, INSANE, HIDES FROM SEARCHERS PRINEVILLE, Sept. 27 (AP) W. J. Wilson of Woodburn, de ranged by hunger, thirst and ex posure, continued to wander through the Ochoco woods today hiding from searching parties. "Officers are after me," the elderly deer hunter, lost since last Tuesday, told a sheepherder. He moves about the forest at night and hides during the day. Stockmen said their dogs had picked up his trail. Searchers discovered his knapsack and guns abandoned in a creek. TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST eral grand jury under $2500 bonds. Page 5. Jean Drew of Hildebrand and Ray Jones of Altamont honored as most outstanding Klamath county 4-H club girl and boy in 1937 by First National bank of Portland. Page 8. GENERAL League of nations 23-power ad. visor), committee condemns Japan for bombarding Chinese cities, af ter France, Britain, other major countries deliver oral denunci ations. Page 1. President Roosevelt tells Boise crowd he's thinking of "bigger things" not "petty quarrels" dur ing trip west. Page 1. - - Fear for life of retired Chicago manufacturer rises when no word received fot two days after kid tiepin& Page 1. - Stock market up, down and up again in bewildering movement. Page 5. PI THIS ISSUE City Briefs Page 8 : Comics and Story 6 Editorials Page 4 Family Doctor Page 4 High School News Page g ;Itirket, Financial News, Page 5 PTA Notes Page 8 Railroad Newe Page 8 Recreation Notes Page 8 Sports Page 2 Veterans' News Page -k I It.V.,)' foe; ' . ....t., '''t . VI 14Iit N,444 (41;;Is ',- 4 t tt ',',. 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