Ily FRANK JENKINti HOW does a saddle horse. IA den across a strange desert, find its wny with such surprisins Accuracy to the nearest water hole? (If you don't know where the 7 nearest wnter la and ere getting dry, It is usually best to give your horse its rein, and trust to its instinct. More often than not, at least more often than you will, it will find its way to water). MOST people believe that e horse 44 (along with other animals) 11 find' It, way to water by smell. I Joe shirk thinke not. 1 A smart horse. Joe says. watches the trail. When he belting to see other trails coining into It from either side. so that It tots steadily wider and better traveled, he draws the conclusion that it is leading to waterfor in a dry country all animals must find their way to water every day or so. If, on the other hand the trAll Vita dimmer and dimmer, a smart horse will drew the conclusion x that It is leading AWAY from , N water. So he will distil'''. Ille course. That's at least an inter sting theory. (It 1 ANO RANCII, at the north ern end of Guano lake (now a dry bed) wi4 one of the setts of the Shirk cattle empire in the Se's. The home ranch was at Home Creek. Guano ranch has , its memories. Two strangers clime to it one day. and deleted the hospitality of the wide open spaces. Trail ing them, a short dietetics be hind. was another mena lone rider. This lone rider wee the oheriff of Harney county. and the two strangers were bandits. , The sheriff deputised Mr. Shirk,1 and together they undertook the capture of the bandits, who by that tints had become suspicious and started out of the house. ILThey came out shooting, but the I elf was the better shot and at the end of the burst of pistol fire ,the two bandits )ay dead. A hole was dug In the sago, their bodies were burled, and that wee the ,end of it. e They didn't go much for rod tape in those deys. litICANG LAKKI took Its name from, the droppings of the wild birds that nested and rested there. In the spring, the guano (manure) would be five or PIX Inches deep. Whitt a vast flight of birds that must have meant! SAGE IIIIINS are increasing in these desert areas. .;' Why? Well, the natives agree "with Stanley Jewett, of the Bio "logical survey, that the chief (Continued on Page Fifteen) 1 1 I, wesA,woRA,uftfttworotoowoftwwl The I fajta end News subserilibe to ft; loomed wire service of the Associated Pres !I --a - AI.- ...11 .I.4, The Harald and News subscribe to full leased wire service of the Associated Press and the United Press, the world's greatest n ewesstisering organisations. Ear 17 boors i daily world news comes into The fiend& News attire on teletype machines. IaW.ftfteaftW,WaAO,,.OW,Okft."0.,aft.ftoet,0000. OXIM Editorials On the Day's News LffIe Interviews ;;I 1 ''' Tom Wetter., real Ofititte MR11 It's bad business, having the Medford-Klamath a n d Oregon Oregon State games on the same weekend. Too many people want -to see both. ,- O. A. Bunnell, member ot coun .1,y budget committee"My first term as a budgeteer was instruc tive. It's a tough job. but some . body has to do it, and I'm willing , to do my part. It's like going to war." ---- A. C. Yaden, attorneyThis to the sort of day that makes us love Klamath Falls. We can fight and fuss among ourselves, but when we go awhy to Port land or San Francisco, we find 'burnelves getting homesick for :the old home town. Particularly when it boasts weather like this. p. - Mn. Paul n0001 (above two pones), widow of the man for whose slaying 20-year-old Margaret Drennan was tried in New Brunswick, N. J., sobbed outside the courtroom Thursday while Miss Drennan, also weep. int, told a jury she shot Reeves to prevent him from assaulting her a second time. B ICC APPROVES FREIGHT RATE BOOSTS ON COAL, OTHER MINERAL PRODUCTS WASHINGTON. Oct. 22 (1p)-- The interstate commerce COMMIS Mon granted class one railroads todny a partial list of freight-rate increases designed to return about 241,500.000 additional rev enue annually, The commisaion declined to ap prove rates on anthracite, iron ore from Minnesota mines to Lake Superior docks, and refined pe troleum in southern territory. In the case of lignite coal, some of the proposed rates on petrol. ante products and related articles, and gypsum, the increases -Were not approved to the full extent asked by the carriers. Iron ore, 5 cents per net ton, or 8 cents per gross toll; cement, lime, plaster, mortar, and gyp sum, 1 cent per 100 poundal Pe troleum and its products (except in mouthern territory), lubricat Ing oils and greases, asphalt, pitch, and tar, 1 cent. per 100 pounds. All the increases were Author. (Continued on Page Fifteen) ASSOCIATED PRESS t KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 I Price Five Cents Medford vs. Klamath AT MODOC FIELD, 8 P. M. TONIGHT Probable Starting Lineups 11:1)11)1111) P011, KLAMATH Curry (711) HP Hurt (87) Ehrhart (48) HT En 1 ng (Nil) EH (40) ItO Maniple (Ni) Prentice (14) C Harding (77) Archibald (45) L(i Wilson (82) !Santo (50) la 'Dever (MN) Montellh (17) 1.1 Crapo (78) Hoot (4(l) Q11 Anions (NI) 11111 (57) Ittl Pete Green (7(1) Ettinger (50 III Yancey (88) Grow (4))) loll Olocaldni (85) 141101TITUTKSMedford: eicripter (40), espies (41), Wil mon (51). Ilaylian (52), Campbell (58). Stem! (54), Stiller (NO). Newland (02), Homey (Mt), Dickey (04), Jones (11(1). Howard Dili). 1.1.1.1burg ((I0). Childers (70), Burrow 471), Reich (72). Hownrd (71)), StvCurley (7(1). . Klamath Mills: StrInotelfer (00), Karver (02). Anderson (08). Wherland ((I0). !Omits (ti7). Mnyhew (M), Weber (70), Brew. baker (71), ttlayinaker (72). Young (78). flatmple (70). Al Green DUO, Hibbard (81), Mu...telt:tan (84). Hill (85), Force (NO). Drennan Jury Retires After HearingJudge's Warning Net To Consider 'Unwritten Law' BULLETIN NEW BRUNSWICK. N. J.. Oct. 22 CMMargaret Drennan. 20- yeer-old aecreistrhd school student, Wall acquitted by a Midd leen county Jury today in the slaying of l'aut Beeves, 23, father of two children. w-Ctibo-iiir, -et -it vontit-and-olle woman returned ha verdict at 41:43 p. m. (EST) after deliber ling g houre and as minutes. Cheers broke out in the tense courtroom. The defendant. who charged Beeves we. the father of her unborn child. warn quichlY malted from the courtroom with a police retort. NEV BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 23 (AP)--Urged both to acquit and convict. a jury Of 11 men and one woman began at 1:18 p. m. (EST) today to deliberate the fate of 20-year-old Margaret Drennan for shooting to death the alleged father of her unborn child. , Before leaving the courtroom. the jury was admonished by Judge Adrian Lyon to resist any tendency to rely on "unwritten law." "Puniaml Enough" "The ao-cailed unwritten law whereby one kills another to avenge her honor haa no recogni (Continued on Page Fifteen) THREE STABBED IN SAN QUENTIN BRAWLS, ONE BY BLOKE PRISONER. SAN QM-INTIM, Calif., Oct. 22 (AP)lierbert Wallace. 34, sen tenced from Los Angeles in 1835 on a grand theft charge, was identified today by San Quentin prison authoritlea as the assail ant who slashed two convicts yesterday. Barnett. Huse. secretary to Warden Court Smith, said Wal lace was placed in solitary con finement after he was Identified by his two victims. Rolla Ma lonee, 38, and Leo Traney, 26. The condition of Malonee was critical today. He was stabbed In the abdomen. Traney was wounded about the legs and thighs. A feud between Wallace and Traney, cellmates, was blamed by Huse for the disturbance. which occurred at lockup time. Another p r I so n a r. Antonio Brown, 25, convicted of burglary in Alameda, was wounded earlier In the day tit an altercation in tho prison yard. Prison officials said Juddie Savage, 19, who was brought here from Siskiyou coun ty pending the outcome of a manslaughter charge, attacked Brown with a dagger made from a table knife. JAP ARMY RAISES ANTE FOR CHINESE DESERTIONS SHANGHAI, Oct. 22 (Al') Japanese raised the bid to Chi nese soldiers to surrender today from 8.294229 to $1.471146 for. each Chinese who will quit fighting. The new proposition was ad vanced in leaflets dropped from airplanes, apparently because the first offer received no response. In Chinese money, the ante was raised from one Chinese dollar to live. ftr ening Slo le IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND L rol ti.Or i lb. Pft 114t irt1 Big Game Set Tonight TIGERS PLAY PELICANS ON MEC FIELD Capacity Crowd Expected to Witness Sensation- . al Contest. Southern Oregon's two most colorfuland potentially great esthigh school football teams will come to blows tonight when Medford and Klamath Fails tangle under the Modoc field flood lights in the season's mightiest "big game.7. With perfect fall weather pre vailing. a capacity crowd. not one of whom will dare risk a prediction on the Outcome until the last shot is firedis ex pected to fill the grandstand and bleachers and overflow Into standing room ranks along the sidelines and end zones. Conference Game Coach Bill Bowerman started at noon today from Medford with a gang of Tigers no lees determined on superhuman effort than Coach Snowy Gustatison's de fending Pelicans. Both teams have met reveraes this year and both, ovoccasiolia. have -functioned --tithappointingly. but previous performances--all dope. in factwill be in the ashcan when kickoff time rolls around. It's a Southern Oregon con ference games of course. and probably the game which will decide the conference champion ship. Medford's Debut The Pelicans currently are rid ing on top of the heap in a first place tie with Ashland. If they beat Medford, they will be as sured of nothing worse than the (Continued on Page Fifteen) PRESIDENT STEADFAST IN BELIEF NO NEW TAXES WILL BE NECESSBY WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (IP) President Roosevelt, answering a press conference question today. said it had not been determined whether congress would have to enact new taxes. He added, how ever, as things look now such levies will not be necessary. The president remarked treas ury studies are being made and he hoped they would be in shape for use by congressional commit tees meeting in November to con sider tax revision. In answer to other queries. Mr. Roosevelt said the undistributed profits tax and the capital gains tax are being given attention by the treasury in this connection. These two levies recently have drawn the fire of business spokes men, who have asserted they were partially responsible for the stock market downtrend. The chief executive will con fer today with Daniel W. Bell, acting budget director, regarding financing for a proposed new corn loan program. Secretaries Morgenthau and Wallace will participate in the meeting. FEAR FOR HUSBAND'S SAFETY FATAL TO ACED, INVALID MEDFORD WOMAN MEDFORD, Oct. 22 (AP) Mrs. Florence Timothy, 82, in valid wire of George O. Timothy, 87, former Medford chief ot po lice who disappeared last Satur day after leaving a note indicat ing suicidal intentions, died last night. The attending physician said worry over the absence of her mate of 65 years was a contribut ing cause of death. No trace has been found of Timothy, whose movements after he disembarked from an auto stage at Gold Hill, have been traced to the water's edge of Rogue river. .141s body has not been found, despite a tour-day dragging and dynamiting of the river. Watchers are still main tained along the stream. Timothy, in a note referring to his wife, said: "I can no longer stand to lei her suffer and am going on a long walk and may not return." E) Hundreds Want Tule lake Homesteads The Klamath bureau of reclamation is virtually swamped with applications for the 69 Tule lake homesteads being opened this fail. More than 800 applications had been received to noon Friday. and at least 500 more were expected before the filing deadline, Monday. October 25. The picture shows the office of Chief Clerk W. 1. Tingley, with his secretary, Mn. Faye Drew, standing by the piles of application blanks. Fred Nutter, of Perez, Calif., seated at the table, has Just filed his application. Miss Helen Oswald at the typewriter, is busy with the land opening work., OLD MA NOT SHE MERE HOBE , , Victim of Hold-up Attack on Stand In Trial of Celebrities' Pal. ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y.. Oct. 22 (AP)A state trooper today identified John Montague, Holly wood golfer, as the companion of a confessed participant in a MO roadhouse robbery when he stopped their car to question them soon after the crime on August 5, 1930. Trooper Harry Durand singled out Montague as the occupant of the car with Roger Norton. who pleaded guilty to the crime and served two years in prison. ELIZABETHTOWN, N. J., Oct. 22 (Al') Elderly Matt Cobb, (Continued on Page Fifteen) ROOSEVELT STARTS NEW DEAL REORGANIZATION PROGRAM WITH OWN SON WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 011 Ja mes Roosevelt's designation as a co-ordinator for independent federal agencies was viewed by ob servers today as a preliminary step in the president's suggested government re-organization pro gram. the chief executive asked con gress. among other proposed revi sions, to increase his White House staff to six administrative assist ants and contact men. The house voted its approval last sum mer and the senate probably will consider the recommendation this special session. James Roosevelt, one of three White House secretaries, empha sized that it was purely the execu tive work of all the boards, com missions and bureaus involved that his father wished co-ordinated. The son, whose long legs stretch beneath a desk in a room across the -White House lobby from his father's office, referred to himself as a "clearing house." He empha sized the program was voluntary, and said its purpose was greater efficleAcy. "The president thought it was a good idea," young Roosevelt said. "to set up some kind of a system whereby the agency heads would have access once a week to some one in the White House to tell what they bad on their minds." INJUNCTION SEATTLE, Oct. 22 (Al Fedor a 1 Judge E. E. Cushman announc ed in a memorandum decision to day he will issue tt:. injunction restraining locals of the Inter national Brotherhood ot Team sters, chauffeurs, stablemen and helpers in the state from inter tering with the transportation of beer, Including eastern and Cali fornia kinda, which does not bear the teamsters unlon label. tratb PS Ranch Hand Kills Owner, Beats Wife;A---- CANYON CITY, Ore., Oct. 22 UP)An employe on the ranch of John Low, prominent Grant coun ty stockman. apparently becoming suddenly deranged, beat Low to death last night. kicked and beat Mrs. Low and shot himself through the bead after she escaped and spread an alarm. Mrs. Low, brought here today to the home of her mother, Mrs. Lena Welch, by neighbors with whom she sought refuge, related through her physician, Dr. Hugh Fate, a night of horror in the lonely ranch boom 80 miles south of here. Asks for Flashlight She said the employe, Don Holt, about 40. who had been hired some four months ago. came into the house about 9 p. m. and told Low, who was 48 years old arta owner of a large ranch for many years, that he was having trouble with a horse in the barn and want ed a flashlight. Low asked him if he needed help and Holt replied that he might, so the rancher went to the barn with him. A few minutes later, Holt returned to the house, and Mrs. Low said that without warning he hit her a crushing blow behind the ear with a revol ver butt. , Finally Falls Asleep She fell to the floor. where he kicked her savagely and volun teered the information that he had tied up her husband. Low later was found dead in the barn. his head severely beaten. Mrs. Low told Dr. Fate that (Continued on Page Fifteen) AIRLINE MAY DISCONTINUE BIG PLANES ON ROUTE NORTH OF SAN FRANCISCO SEATTLE, Oct. 22 (AP) Continuance of Douglas main liner service to Portland and Se attle by the United Airlines de pends upon whether Portland can provide proper landing facili ties at its new airport near Co lumbia slough, A. Heiner Hin she w, company executive said to day. Palling this, he said, the Unit ed Airlines will' serve the terri tory north of Oakland after No vember 1 with smaller. Boeing planes, which do not require runway. as long as those needed by the 21-passenger mainliners. Landing facilities at Swan island airport at Portland, he in dicated, are inadequate for the larger ships under federal regu lations for winter flying. "Furthermore," Hinshaw said, "If Portland provides such ac cessories, United Airlines will immediately institute through sleeper service from Seattle to Portland and New York." BLACKMAN PLACES KANSAS CITY, Oct. 22 (W) Tom Blackman of Klamath Falls, Ore., won No. 10 rating today In high school livestock Judging at the 10th annual convention of the Future Farmers of America. ( WEATHER 1,411Pe 4011 Fair mitt cloudy weal Maximum at 2:80 ... WI Mini:num .42 lt PRECIPITATION 12 hours to 8 A. tn. t Noise ticamon to date ....... .................1.82 UNITED PRESS bast yetir to date .01 Normal precipitation ..... .7 Number 8075 STATERS BRAND ftfto.fto406.gftw.owmaftw, - Big- OSC Initials Burned in New-Planted Grass of Hayward Field. EUGENE, Oct. 22 (JP)--While deans and disciplinary officers of the University of Oregon were occupied today investigating gen teel insinuations that university students had daubed buildings at the Oregon State camptui at Cor vallis with paint, came reports that during the night the univer sity's brand-new turf on Hayward field had been fire-branded with huge "OSC's." The ecarring of the turf will in no way interfere with the play ing here Satarday afternoon of the big game between Oregon and Oregon State, but the incident in dicates the fever heat of the pgr tisans on the eve of the contest. Materials for the university's homecoming bonfire were also touched off mysteriously in the night and gallant Eugene fire lad dies had to rush to the rescue. High School Car - Meanwhile the official investi gation had brought to light only one known fact as to the painting at Corvallis. Car numbers re ported by the Oregon State cam pus cop proved to belong to a car which was driven Wednesday night by three students from Eu gene high school. Principal Harry Johnson promptly put the youths on the spot, and while they admitted be ing in Corvallis they denied any part in the painting, declaring the vandalism had been commit ted by other lads whose identity (Continued on Page Fifteen) TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST LOCAL Medford Tigers meet. Klamath Pelicans on Alodoc field in south ern Oregon high school football's biggest game. Page - , Supply and demand balance in Klamath potato industry labor sit u at I on, says fJohn Cooter. Page 2. Prevailing opinion SMOng Klamath sports fans is that Ore gon State will win at Eugene Sat urday.. Page 10. Willamette pass detour "olt." for careful drivers, forest service reports. Heavy travel expected over pass this weekend with scores attending Oregon-Oregon State game from here. Page 5. GENERAL Chinese call out reinforce ments to save. vital supply, lines as longest, fiercest battle of Shanghai war rages northwest of city. Page 1, CLEAN WAH'S LONGEST BATTLE RAGES NEAR SHANGHAI Defenders Summon Rein forcements to Guard Vital Supply Line. SHANGHAI, Oct. 22 (M.De termined to save Texans at all costs and prevent their Chapel supply lines being cut, the Chinese tonight threw heavy reinforce ments intd that sector, where the longest single battle of the Shang hai war was in progress. Chapel is the native quarter of North Shanghai, bordering on the International settlement. Five miles Out along the battle line pa tending northwest is Tatting. The Chinese troops, P11011111 into the combat zone from five different routes, converged on Japanese 'troop bases along Went saopang creek, near Tasang. Five VMages Recaptured -- A Chinese spokesman reported the recapture of five villages nur Japanese positions, including a, place called the Temple of the Big Black Prince, which was used as a Japanese supply base. Furious close-quarter fighting occurred there, with the Chinese using bayonets, big swords and rifles. , The Japanese said they made further progress toward Taxan& This report was partially support. ed by observations of foreign mil. Itary officer., who uotted ma--chine gun-and rifle fire from CM-- nese defenses on the outskirts et the town itself. They acid the main force of the Japanese still seemed to be more than a mile away. Lone Bomber , A Chinese spokesman asserted that Chinese troops recaptured Kwangfu, an Important point or the road to Mating. where the Japanese, after destroying every (Continued on Page Fifteen) SEAMEN'S UNION OPPOSES MINIMUM WAGE SCALE ON GOVERNMENT VESSELS NEW YORK, Oct. 22 (W)--Announcement by the federal mai time commission of new minimum wage scales for seamen on 155 government-subsidized ships 're ceived a hostile reception today from Joseph Curran. general or ganizer of the National Maritime - union, affiliate of the Committee for Industrial Organization. We insist," asserted damn. that any minimums advoeated by the maritime commission be considered as strictly minimums, and not interfering in any way with the collective bargaining ar rangements of the union. "We don't consider the marl. time commission a non-partisan body in the first place; it is a Partisan body, and therefore it's not qualified to set any scales of wages whatsoever. The maritime commission operates 40 ships, and therefore is not in a position to operate as a fact-finding body." Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of - the maritime commission, said in Washington the new minimum wages would range from 135 to 2390 a month, and would go into effect November 1. Drennan jury starts delibera- , tiona with judge's instruction not to consider "unwritten law." , Page 1. Marauders burn big OSC in4 itials in new turf of University ot Oregon football field on eve of Oregon-Oregon State game. Investigation pushed into paint. tog of Corvallis campus. Page 1. Alleged victim of assault lit roadhouse holdup , unable - pos. itively to identify Golfer Jobe Montague as assailant. Page 1. -- - Ranch hand kills prominen4 -- Grant county stockman. besta 1.. stockman's wife, then takes ewe life. Page 1, ' , IN THIS ISSUE City Briefs Page 4 Comics and Story Pages 12, 14 Courthouse Records ----Page II Editorials 4 Family Doctor ' Market. 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