OWOPOWftPaWAftAftW010101ORPIr IP, Tito Herold and New. subscribe to full 10111104 wire service of the Associated Press and the United Press, the world's greatest newegnthorlets orsenbuttionc For IT hours dolly world news comes into Th Herold. News office on teletype machine. .U.AftA.O.AAAWAOW,ftSWtoloo.100.0400W4000A0V1P,WWA 1-1 0 Immmodr Editorials On the D N ay s News Ity FRANI( JE.NKINNI Firms BLACK. home from J London. where he spent most of his time dodging reporters, still ratlines to annwer the im ple (location: Are you or Cr. y iu IF not a mentber of the Ku Klux Klan? HE is within his rights, of courne. He doenn't have to answer the question. Nobody can compel hint to. But his actionn, since his ap pointment and confirmation, car talnly do not measure up to the average citizen's conception of a 11111n who in big enough to be a member of the ettpreme court of the United Staten. Titta thought occurs: j But for the little band of Democratic senators who rinked their political lives to defeat the scheme to pack the membernhip of the supreme court, we might moon have had SIVE OTHER JUSTICES just like Black. 4, H ERE le an interenting little item In the news: ' . k Dictator Mussolint..- after beetle stay in Germany during which he and Dictator littler dis pose Of world.problems to their mutual ontinfaction, leaves for home suffering from a COMMON COLD, which be tries to get OS of by drinking hot itmonade. In spite of ail their proton alone, then. dictators aren't such big shots after all, are they? ' JUSTICE HUGO BLACK SCHEDULES NATIONWIDE RADIO ADDRESS FRIDAY WASHINGTON!. Sept. So (in Kenneth H. Berkley, general man age of the National Broadcasting company here, announced that , Justice Hugo L. Black would speak front Washington over the nationwide facilities of NBC Fri day night from 9:30 to 10 o'clock. EST. The announcement of Black's eftinliti was made to newspapermen In the office of the broadcaating company after Berkley had talked with Clifford 41tirr, an RFC at torney and brother-in-law of Mn. Black. While the subject of the speech itas not announced. broadcasting officials maid they assumed it would deal with a"egations that Black had been and still is a mem ber of the Ku Klux Klan. The place from which the jus tice will 'meek has not been de cided, Berkley maid. It may be the broadcasting studio, the home, a hotel or his office in the supreme court building. Roosevelt Bonneville Speech Praised By Oregon Politicos PORTLAND, Sept. fia (Ap) President Roosevelt's talk at Bonneville dam Tuesday met general approval among Oregon political loaders, public power advocates being especially loud In their praises of what they eonstrtied as prosidentiat support for a blanket power rate for the dame output. State Representative J. F. Bosch of Bond, president of the People's Power league, said Roosevelt "endorsed the blanket rate by inference." ROPM Endorsement Seen "Ile did anything but compli ment some leading Oregon poli ticians on power and did it beau tifully, if indirectly," Bosch said. "I feel that he virtually en dorsed J, D. Ross for adminis trator." Walter W. IL May, manager of tho Portland chamber of com merce, voiced gratitude to the president for the Publicity the visit gave the Bonneville project but differed on the power ,issue. "We understend thoroughly 'bat the president is thinking Price Five Cents LICENSE LA HELD VOID FOR UNCERTAINTY 1935 State Statute Fails to Establish Author ity, Judge Says. - ROSEBURG, Ore., Sept. 30 (ANBolding the Oregon 1936 pinball lieettee law "void for un certainty," Circuit Judge Carl E. Wimberly reverted to the mate gambling twines and declared operation of Pinball atimoll ille gal in an opinion banded down here today. Accompanying the Onion was an order diantissing the injunc tion suit of Earl Ituah, Donates county pinball operator, and lift ing the restraining orderagainst the ban placed by District Attor ney J. V. Long upon the ma chines Auguat It. Different Angie The opinion of Judge Wimber ly attacks the validity of the 1936 law, which permits munici palities and countien to license or prohibit pinball games. from a different angle than hereto fore considered, bottling that the statute.le so uncertain that its meaning and application cannot bp determined. , , "do fat as the wording of the act is concerned, a municipal corporation might license pinball games and at the sante time the county in which the city is locat ed might prohibit their opera tion; or. on the other hand. the county might license such games throughout the whole county, in cluding the municipal corpora tions therein, and at the sante time municipalities might prohib it their operation. Conflict of Authority 91t will, thus. be seen that there might easily be a conflict of authority. There is nothing In this statute from which it might be determined whether the acts of the counties or the cities would control; and. 80 far aa I have been able to discover, there I. no rule of statutory conatruc lion for the determinatton of that question. For these. reasone, it M my opinion that chapter 369 is void for uncertainty." There is no queation an to the Validity of the state lottery or gambling statute, the court holds in declaring that if the conten tion of the plaintiff operator is true that pinball games are not a violetibn of these statutes, '"he has. MI adequate remedy at law, and equity would not have juris diction to interfere by injunction or otherwise." - ' "Just Like Illeatto' " Citing court decisions given on "beano" games and, particu larly, the opinion of Juatice Mc Bride, Judge Wimberly gays in his opinion, "there Is no real distinction, from a legal stand point, between 'beano' and a pinball game." "The evil effect of the opera (Continued on Page Eleven) about in planning for a uniform rate over a wide area, but we feel he Is circumventing that very thing Iv loading Bonneville with heavy transmission nost over a wide area, unless a switchboard rate is made low enough to at tract industry," May said. Mahoney, Latourette Agree Howard Latourette, national democratic committeeman t o r Oregon, said he was "with the president 100 per cent," and de earthed the speech as a "mandate to use the power for the people in our farma and homes." The talk, he said,' "put to flight those persona and groups who halt wanted to peddle Bonneville to a few factories." Other comniente Included: Willis Mahoney, Klamath Fails "Preloident Rooseveirs epoech is a complete answer to those who would barter away this great gift of power to induetrial kings of the cleat." Repreaentative Walter M. Pierce, La Grande"It was a fine addreaa. It wee excellent. (Continued on Pats Fly.) ASSOCIATED PRESS t CHINA ORDERS 200,000 COMMUNIST TROOPS INTO NORTHERN WAR ZONE SliANGliAl, Sept. 30 (N)Two hundred thousand more Chinese rommuniata were ordered to the North China front today to item the relentless advance of the Jap anese army, as Chinese outside Shanghai continued to hold their positions and showed 09 signs of weakening. Communist forces in Klangsi province were mustered to join the nationalist troops their old ene mies, as the Japanese advanced through eastern Hopeh almost to the border of Shantung province. which has felt only light . Infrequent attacks from armies from the land of the rising sun. With their offensive in central and north China being pushed trig (Continued on Palo Eleven) BOOSEVELT SETS SAIL FOB CANNA 4 : 44 , Storm Warningis Pósted As President Stiirts'' "Good Will" Trip. VICTORIA, Sept.' 30 (Ip) President Roosevelt, paying a "good neighbor" visit to Brittsh Columbia. arrived at the island capital today aboard the United States destroyer Phelps at 13:33 p.m. (PSI). SEATTLE. Sept. 30 UP)--PresMont Roosevelt left American shorea for a several hours' "good will" visit to Victoria, in a pelting. gusty rainstorm. He wilt retttra to the United Silica at Port An geles, Wash., before nightfall. Stormy weather tonight and to morrow over the Olympia penin sula area, the planned itinerary, was ahead. Southeast storm warn ings were ordered raised at all weather atations on the sound. in the Waite of Juan de Fuca and along the coast. Night at Lake Crescent The president Watt to spend the night at Lake Crescent, in the wit derness o t northern peninsula country. and drive more than 200 miles tomorrow, encircling the peninsula to Tacoma before re turning to his special train. Wind. accompanied by e downpour of rain, reached all mile velocity here this forenoon. The president. refreshed by two nighta and a day of rest after his trtmo on Page Five) FLAMES DESTROY BIG BALTIMORE AMUSEMENT PARK AT $300,000 COST BALTIMORE, Sept. $O (AP) Baltimore's largeat public amuse ment park was destroyed by flames early today.. Only one building, the dance bait, in the area covering sev eral city blocks was saved as a stilt breeze swept 100-foot-high tongues ot flame from one wood en structure to another. J. J. Carlin, owner of the Carlin's park amusement center, would eatintate damage only at "well over 00,000." Carlin said it was not covered by insurance. Hundreds of firemen called by 10 alarms fought for more than two boors before bringing the blaze under control. They were handicapped by bursting hoae, ex plosions from a gasoline tank and because they had to strintr hose for several blocks. Origin of the blaze, believed to have started in the arena, was not determined immediately. Seven large structures were destroyed In the first hour. The fire was the third largest In the history of Baltimore.. Firemen Carl ,Cramer and Barry SMith wore burned slight 1 &ening 'tratti Japan Claims Air Raids on Nanking Vital to Success IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND , KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, SEPT. 30, 1937 Tokyo Answers U:S. Pro test With Refusal to Halt Bombing. TOKYO, Sept. 30 (Wt.--The 1111P118 government today countered a firm American protest against the "unwarranted" bombardment of Nanking with the declaration that air raids to destroy the base of resistance at the Chinese cap ital were strategically necessary. The short Japanese reply to the United States note of September 22 was presented to Ambassador Joseph Grew and forwarded to the state department in NVashing ton. The foreign office said that Identical copies were handed to the British and French represen tatives in Tokyo. Both nations entered similar representations., Will Respect Foreigners , The formal American protest. made after verbal representations against Japan's announced inten tion to subject the Chinese cap ital to a mass aerial bombard ment, charged the attacks were unwarranted and contrary to principles of law and humanity." --TU.-Japanese reply told Ant bassador Grew that as your gov ernment knows full well," Nan king is the base of China's mill tary ofterations and reiterated the declaration of Japans purpose to bomb military establishments both "in and out of the city." Japan asserted she did not in tend to cause damage to non combatants. and had already avowed it was her policy to re (Continued on Page Eleven) MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER, BWEVED TEl BE CHICAGO KIDNAP VICTIM BULLETIN CHICAGo, Sept. SO (AP)--A spokesman for the family of kid naped Charles S. Ross today said Ross had no tattoo markings. He expressed belief that the body of a man with a tattoo mark on his right arm, found near Val paraiso, was not. that of the re. tired manufacturer who was ab ducted last Saturday night. VALPARAISO, Ind.. Sept. 50 (AP)The body of a man who Sheriff Freeman Lane said an swered the description of Charles S. Ross. kidnaped Chicago man ufacturer. was taken front the Kankakee river, 16 miles- south of here, this afternoon. The mans feet were bound with wire and rope with a 100- pound weight attached, hung from his neck. The body was submerged in one foot of water near a county highway bridge. The victim was five feet, 11 Inches tall and weighed about 155 pounds. He appeared to be about 60 years old and had gray hair and good teeth. There was a tattoo mark on his right fore arm. Clothing worn by the man bore the label of Lytton and Sons, and he woe an Elgin wrist watch. The body was found by Harry Werich, a riverman. BAR ASSOCIATION KILLS. BLACK INVESTIGATION KANSAS CITY, Sept. SO (AP) The American bar association to day definitely killed an investi gation of the appointment of Justice Black but, in a heated debate, directed further study of propoaed condemnation of membership , In "secret, oath bound" organizations as incom patible with the position of su preme court Justice. The assembly of the associa tion, almost evenly divided, in structed the resolutions commit tee to make a joint study of the secret order resolution and of S. uggeation, made by Leasing Rosenthal of Chicago, that the bar aasociation go on record favoring mandatory public hear ings in the senate on tiall further supremo court nominations. EUE Hubbell Sews Up Pennant For Giants PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20 UPI Giving King Carl Hubbell the honor of clinching the pennant, the New York Giants today won their second straight National league championship by toppleg the l'hillies 2 to 1 behind the ve hit pitching at their great left bander. It was the Gianni fifteenth league championship. and thcir third under the management of Hill Terry, who was not with the club today, being confined to his room in New York by illness. Home Rue Spoils Shutout Hubbell bad a four-bit shutout in bin grasp, with two out in the ninth, when Dolph Camilli clouted a pitch over the right field well for a homer. That was the only threat against the southpaw ace throughout the game, as his mates staked him to a run in the first and another In the third off Claude Passeau. Dick Bartell scored one run and Jo Jo Moore the other. Beth were driven in by Johnny McCarthy. The pennant-winning victory climaxed a Giant drive similar to the surge they made to take last year's title. In third plate on (Continued on Page Eleven) CAME COMMISSION 41ANTSFINE MONEY Klamath Justices Slow in Turning Over Col lections, Claim. Klamath county justices of the peace are in arrears in turning over game law fines to the extent of 21283.80, it is alleged by the state game commission, which has gone hunting for its half of 118, 732.70 of unpaid fines in the state as a whole. Under the law, game board of ficials stated the justices of the peace turn over to county treas urers the game law fine money, and the treasurers, in turn, remit halt of the money to the state game commission. Laggard Everywhere On the basis of the game board records. J. P.'s in every county in the state have been laggard either in fine collections or in turning over the money to the treasurers. F. Carroll Baker. comptroller of the game commission, has de clared "open season" on the J. P.'s, and may bring mandamus Proceedings to get th- cash. He is fortified with an opinion from the attorney gene el dated No vember 24, 1936, wherein it is stated that mandamus proceedings would be in order in such cir cumstances. Possibly Not Collected Baker said that possibly va rious justices of the peace have not collected, from game law vio lators, a penny of the amouuts in arrears. But, he said, these amounts are based on fines ac tually assessed in court, as shown in state police reports on dispo sition ot the cases. Baker stated that the justice court of Linkville district, where (Continued en Page Eleven) BATTLE OVER PRESIDENCY THREATENS TO SPLIT AFL BUILDING TRADES UNIONS DENVER, Sept. 80 (AP)A back-stage battle threatened to split the American Federation of Labor a building trades depart ment today when the carpenters' faction slated Joseph A. Mc Inerney of Now York for -the presidency. , The minority faction immedi ately let it be known lie mem ber unions were seriously con sidering secession. Such a split would dirlde the federation's building Ogden unions into warring camps and probably would mean a huge in crone in the number of juris dictional strikes. The carpenters faction has seven unions, compared to the opposition's 12 but the carpen ters membership is by far the larger McInerney's election was gen rally regarded as certain. CITY BUDGET LOWER THAN LAST YEAR'S Committee Estimate fol 1938. Clips $7300 Off 1937 Figure. A decrease of 17300 in the net budget for the city of Klamath Falls for 193g was reported by Police Judge Otto Langslet Thum day. The total figure is $239,609, against $216,909 for 1937. The budget committee com pleted its work Wednesday after noon, and the proposed financial schedule will be presented to the council at its regular meeting Monday evening, October 4. 1 Decrease in Bond Coate A alight increase of $2700 in the voluntary budget for operat-1 ing expenses of the city, was over balanced by a decrease of 910.0001 In the Involuntary budget whirbl pays bond and interest redemp-1 tion and funds set by charter amendment. The committee ef fected the decrease by budgeting less for bonds in 1934. The total figure for the volttn tary budget I. $117,000 and the inecanntas7-budget alittfied. Increases of gig per month in the salaries of policemen and fire men were granted by the budget committe, ma welt as ;15 increases of police sergeants. An increase of all) per month in the salary of street sweeper was also allowed, and 95 increases in the eateries of other street department employes.' $2000 More for Meals 1 The budget for prieoners meals I was set at $5000. or an increase! of $2000 over this year's item,1 which was exceeded some time ago and replenished by borrow ing from other funds. The number of prisoners in the city Jail has increased so steadily that additional provision for feed ing them had to be made in the 1938 budget. EX-CONVICT ADMITS STARTING GERVAIS FIRE To SATISFY GRIEVANCE SALEM. Sept. 20 (AP) Claiming be had a grievance against the publisher of the Ger vais Star. Dave Weimar, 37. to day' admitted he atarted the fire that early Tuesdar morning de stroyed the Star publishing plant and damaged other buildings to a total of 216,000 oss. He was bound over to the grand Jury and is in jail in default of 25000 bail. Weimar, an ex-convict, is said to have approached City Marshal Alfred Ashland of , Woodburn early today explaining that he knew who set the Gervais fire. Ashland questioned the man closely and got the admission that he himself eet the fire. Weimar was taken before Jus tice of the Peace Hiram Overton at Woodburn where he pleaded guilty and was held to the grand Jury. He was brought to Salem and lodged in the county jail. Weimar said his grievance against the Gervais Star. Pub lished by I. V. McAdoo, related to something the newspaper had published about a woman sev eral months ago. Potatoes LOS ANGELES, Sept. 30 (AP-USDA)Potatoes: ad cam California. 6 Idaho arrived; by' truck two can arrived; 6 di verted; 68 unbroken; 28 on track. Supply moderate, de mand slow, market steady. Idaho, Russets, No. I. $1.80: Stockton Wisconsin Pride good quality $1.40-2.46; tair qualitY 21.16-1.26. , SA N YRANCISCO, Sept. 80 (AP-USDA)--Potatoest 7 care California, 1 Oregon, 7 Wash ington arrived; II unbroken; ZO broken on track; by boat 7 California arrived; conditions same as yesterday. Oregon, Klamath district Rus sets, No I, 11.25-1.30, some $1.20; California Long Whites 81.104.15; choice 00-70c; few 55c toms 5.516 UNITED PRESS Number 8056 1 pV.00,..,.MWAM,aPAO.APPoPAPPOW WEATHER Uneeti led, probable abort-era Maximum at 2:38 82 MMitnum 46 PRECIPITATION Reason to date 12.12 W& year to dale 18.29 Normal proelpitation 0 I VA edt 11d Plitt 4119 41149 VI 414 Douglas Circuit Court Rules Pinballs Illegal Spanish Border to Be Opened Unless Italians Withdraw NORWEGIAN FREIGHTER France Prepared to Sup RUNS AGROUND IN STORM ply Loyalists With OFF VANCOUVER ISLAND Arms, Mell VANCOUVER, R. C.. Sept. 10 01The 4402 - ton Norwegian freighter Soloy, with a crew of 21. wag aground on the chore of Thormanby island, 40 milea north of here, today. The extent of damage caused when she ran aground late last night in a heavy sea was stilt undetermined. The 210-foot freighter. which cleared from this port, last night for Powell River. 90 miles north. reported to Merchant,' Marine radio here that she struck south Thormanby island in the Strait of Georgia at 2t10 a.m., as cite beat her way north. A south gale was blowing and a driving rain reduced visibility as the Canadian Galt line char (Continued on Page Eleven) EMBASSY HENSEB - -DIRECTED YEE Court Denies Motion for Acquittal in Gambling Case Trial. Circuit Judge Edward B. As hunt Thursday afternoon denied a defense motion tor a directed verdict In the Embassy club gam bling trial. Boon Cason. defense attorney. made five motions at the close of the state's case.. Cason talked an hour and SO minutes in supporting his motions. District Attorney Blackmer spoke for a little more than five minutes against them. Judge Ashurst said that certain questions raised by Cason's mo tions and arguments would be taken care of in instructions to the jury. Billiards Frequently Mentioned Repeated injection of the name of the Klamath. Billiards by De fense Attorney Boon Cason fea ture& the trial sessions on Wed nesday afternoon and Thursday morning. In his opening statement Ca son asserted that the Klamath Billiards company was "back of the prosecution" of the Embassy club. and on Thursday morning (Continued on Page Eleven) LOCAL Decrease of $7300 in the net budget of the city of Klamath Faits for 1938 reported as com mittee completea financial state ment. Page 1. - Klamath justices in arrears $1283.80 in collecting or turning over' game law fines, state game commission comptroller asserts. State survey shows total of more than $18,000 allegedly owed by 1. P's. Page . I - Defense motions for directed verdict denied in Embassy gamb ling charge trial. Defense at torney claims Klamath Billiards company behind prosecution of ease. Page 1. - Eleven Klamath. county real dents to be arraigned on liquor charges in federal court at Med ford. Page GENERAL League prepares to present Mus solini with alternative of with drawing Italian troops in Spain or having Franco - Spanish border thrown open to arats, men for loyalist government. Page 1. -- Judge Carl Kimberly of Douglas county rules 135 Oregon pinball licensing law void on grounds of uncertainty. Page - Japan 1081,10111 U. S. protest over bombardment of Nanking by claiming air ratda atrategically GENEVA, Sept. 30 (or)--A lea sue of nations sub-committee was understood today to have reach ed a fateful decision to present Premier Mussolini with the alter native of withdrawing his Ita Hatt volunteer& from the Spanish civil war or seeing the French, frontier thrown open to arms and mesa for ths Spanish Valencia- govern meat. A delegate who left the session of the committee drafting a reno lotion On the Spanish civil con flict said this agreement had been reached after a heated three-hour argument. ' End to Non-Intervention Re reported that the draft reso lution does not refer to the 'Tor eign aggression" which Spain had charged against Italy, but ,rather to "foreign intervention." , The resolution wag snit to els. dors if the, withdrawal et for-, eign combatant& la not made of, lettire wilhln bli(V -ntontit's time, , the signatories of the non-inter- motion agreement are "Iirrited to envisage" a return to a based on international law; - This as interpreted by the committee members to mean com pieta abandonment of the entire aott-httervention policy, enabling mos spnni.h govermrient to oh lain war materials wherever it , Time for Negotiation The French were reported to have giren the Spanish deleno tion assurances that the frontier (Continued on rage Ekren; II KLAMATH RESIDENTS HELD FOR FEDERAL COURT MEDFORD, Sept. 34 (AP) The federal court for the wroth-- ern Oregon district will open Its annual October term here next Tuesday, with Federal Judge lames Alger Fee presiding. - Eleven Klamath county resi dents charged with the eale of liquor to Indians will be ar raigned on the opening day. The 11 defendants were transferred yesterday to the Jackaon county The doeket for the federal court term ha not yet been made up, according to, local fed eral Metals, but the term te expected to test 14 dare or tvra weeks. TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST 1 necessary from military view point. Page 1. - China sends 200,000 more nem mist troops into northern war zone, as defenders bold position in furious battle it ShangkeL Page 1. - Carl Hubbell's five-hit, I-1 vic tory over Philadelphia clinches National league pennant for New York Giants. Page - President ilang front Beattie ea "good will" visit to Victoria its midst of pelting rainstorm. Page Norwegian freighter with crew of 27 rune agrotind hi Morns oft Vancouver island. Page 2. - ' Rooseveire Bonneville speech finds general favor with Oregon political leaders. particularly pub. Ito power advocates. Page I. , Leading stock, issue weaken It elo . after early advance., Page I 3. 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