4 41 . WIRE SERVICE The Herald and News subscribe to full leased wire service of the Associated PM. end the United Press, the world's greatest newagathering organisations. rot 17 hours daily world now comes into The Herald. News off ice on teletype mitchines MN 000 l 44 IN 604f 4 644 SW Oa - 'Major Reclamation Projects Discussed Here Editorials On the Day's News By FRANK JENKINS Pri item of ntore or less int- -a portant now comes from Oun delk. in Ireland: "Julia (Amite, Scottie!' lass, blueeyed and brunette, was berred for life front the Irish t Free State today for kissing ber boy friend In public." Tim Irish, epparently. atilt hol.1 to the belief thet the proper place for P u eh things is the sofa, with the curtains pulled down and the lights turned low. It's inter esting to icarn thet there are a few conservatives left in the world. 01INEItS" in California have just j Incorporated a new organisa tion known as "Illuminator., inc.," and it Sacramento dispatch ex plains its purpose Si follows: "T h ir plan containing nothing but awadttiosa and lightla to become incorporat ed for the purpose of illation lug gloom from a worry-darkened world. They aim to make everybody light-hearted." WIELL, it may be all right, but " tltli inrreasingly herd-boiled writer bits an idea that what wet really need is an organliatiOn bring bard-headed common sense bark into the world. For years now the politicians have been feeding UN sweetness and light in large doles, promis ing us the more cheerful life lit return for nothing but our votes, and the upshot of it is that life is pitting so complicated that it's bard to get calmed down enough to go to sleep. DETER ZIMMERMAN. on behalf of the Oregon State Grange and the Oregon Farmers' union, malls to the chairman of the Stinata ag ricultural committee a brief op posing the administration's new farm bill. The only sane and sensible solu tion of the farm problem, the brief sets forth, is enactment of the Thomaa-Maamingale cost-ofproduction bill and the Frazier Pq.entke mortgage refinatteing bill, together with TARIFF PROTEC (Continued on rage Seven) CIO-AFL PEACE PARLEY OPENS AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (AP) Labor leaders caucused at noon today to map strategy for re tintption Rt 2 p. in. of the peace conference between the Ameri can Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Or I ganization. As an indication that some pro g ram might be expected, George M. Harrison chairman of the AFL, committee, said at the close of Ole morning's session: "Maybe we will have some news this afternoon." Harrison said the rival groups had spent the morning '(ilk. log about the procedure to be followed in the conference," Liffie , Interviews Ted Black, pharmacistI went to Eugene to get away from Klam ath Falls, but when I got there I found most of the residents of Klamath Falls right along with . me. Marjorie Simemore, chamber of commerce aide, who Is just back front a trip to Vancouver, B. C.. along the coastOutatanding In my memory are the niftrvelous col on; of the foliage. It is a won derful time of year to take a trip. Huns lloorlein, ski enthusiast We've been doing some scouting around, and have found some won derful sites for winter playground development. The most promising Is a mile east of the highway in the fear Wallow district on the west side of the lake. DRAINAGE BASIN BOAR STUDIES LUMP AREA JOB 60,000 - Acre Irrigation Development on Res ervation Viewed. Extension of Irrigation on the Klemath reclamation project in the Tule Me sump erea, and a 60.000acre development on the Klamath Indian reservation, were n IMMIX Projects discussed here !timidity at a meeting of the Northern CalitOrnia-Klumath drainage basin continuum. About 20 repronentetives of the national resources C011itnitt co . various federal age:ivies and the states of Oregon end California were here for the session. They Immediately began consideration of a report to he compiled for tha national resources committee and eventual submission to President Roosevelt. The area In the district involved ineludes all of the upper Klatnath basin, , the region along the Klamath and Trinity rivers and a portion of the northern California coast I country. '-"Iturvey Now-Endee Way B. E. Hayden, superintendent of the Klamath reclamation pro Pict. glided that a survey on cutup development is now under way -end should be completed by the first of the year. sftld that the study will determine the feasibility of re claiming about 20,000 acres in the sump area, and shunting the water from the sump over into Lower Klanumth lake basin, where It would contribute to the re flooding program end would al leviate the dust nitimance in the Merrill item Part for Bird Refuge Hayden "aid that the Tub e lake project would mean the cultive hien on a long-time basis of the 20,000 acres, but not necessarily their settlement. Their being opened for homesteads, he said, is a matter for future determina tion, but he Indicated this is not immediately contemplated. Hayden said that the Tule lake plans calls for preservation of a large part of the sunip area for a bird refuge under the biological survey program. lie said that a boost of about 60 feet would be needed to move the water out of the Title lake basin and into Lower Klamath. The feasibility and success of the project. he explained, would de pend a great deal upon the availability of cheap power to pump the water across. Listen With Interest The Tule lake development now being studied Is an out growth of, but somewhat differ ent from, the sump reclamation scheme advanced last year by a citizens' committee. The members of time district committee listened with interest and indicated the plan would be given a place in time report being (Continued on Page Seven) SPECIAL RECEPTION AT STATION PLANNED FOR BING CROSBY TONIGHT A "station reception" for Bing Crosby, radio and movie crooner, and his party, which it is under stood includes Actors Bob Burns and Edmund Lowe and Binger Connie Boswell, has been ar ranged for tonight when Crosby's special car will pause here brief ly en route from Spokane, Wash. Arrangements for the greeting were made by Willis E. Mahoney, a longtime friend of the Crosby family in spoken() and R class mate of Bing Crosby's brother, Everett, St tionzaga university. Chinese pheasant sad venison will be presented the 1 Crosby party, Mahoney announced. B. W. Percy, manager of the Willard hotel, will be in charge of the depot "festivities." GOOD FINDING III8ND, Oct. 25 (Al') Des chutes county anglers wont into the high desert country yester day to fish for some 250,000 game trout escaping from the Descutes Myer into a huge irri gation ditch. Two youths, who failed to consider the legal Dm its, took 58 fish from one hole. Thr earning 3-trallt ASSOCIATED PRESS Price Five Cents , Eq "4A'N . 411::1111:AOtVI. No,At4, ao,',- :.00,.; ve0:2;)t O.' Leg Torn Off In Landslide, Youth Dies Clyde Rowe. 21, died at noon Monday as a result of injurtes anatained Raturday ' afternoon whnn he was caught in a land slide in Crater lake park. Rowe's loft leg was torn off and the other badly mangled. Ile alum received internal injuries. Ithust Marla Hilda A dynamite blast. about 1600 feet from where Rowe stood was believed to have dislodged a por tion of the cliff shove him. send ing a mass of rock down and engulfing him. lie was rushed to Klamath Valley hospital. Rowe was working on the Sam Orono contract on the east side of Crater lake when tho accident occurred. HOMESTEAD FILING DEADLINE BEACHED More Than 1000 Applica tions for Farms on - Hand Monday. More than 100 ex-service men crowded -into the nicest of the bureau of reclamation Monde), to file their applications for Tule lake hontesteada in person before the deadline at 5 p. m. Mails brought in approximate ly 200 more applications, swel ling the total to more than 1000, rcelmation officials said early in the afternoon. This number is still below ex pectations, W. I. Tingley, chief clerk of the bureau. said Mon day. 8300 Blanks "We sent out blanks to 8300 persons." Tingley asserted. "and I really expected more applica tions. "However, I think it was wise for interested persons liv ing in the midwent to relinquish the idea of filing since competi tion for the 60 homesteads is keen enough at best, and the trip here to appear before the board would be long and ex-' pensive." It will be at Wald two or three weeks before the board will be gin to call in applicants for per P011111 interviews, officials said Monday. References Tabulated About 1000 references have al ready been sent in, and these must be tabulated and filed with (Continued on Page Seven) STOCKS ZOOM UPWARDS TO BIG GAINS AS RECENT SELLING WAVE SUBSIDES NEW YORK, Oct. 25. (AP)-- A sudden shift to the buying side today found the stock market rather bare of offerings following the 825.000,000,000 August-October washout of quoted values, and prices soared spectacularly. In excited bidding. as traders stampeded to buy, come of the most actively traded shares were whirled up 85 to 810 from early Iowa after opening about to 15 a share lower. The urge to buy, however, seemed to have been chilled in late trading by announcement of a further decline In steel produc tion. The American Iron a Steel institute estimated tho in dustry would, operate this week at 52.1 per cent of capacity, against 55.8 last week and 74.8 a year ago. In the last hour a fresh wave of buying rolled into the market, overcoming the temporary hesita tion and lifting many issues to now highs for the day. Holding on to the stock mar ket's coat tails, major commodi ties and bonds recovered in the afternoon. Stocks regained part or all of Saturday's loses but most shares fell short of reaching the peaks of the rally last Wednesday and Thursday. OPEN ALL WINTER SALEM, Oct. 25 (Al') The Crater Lake highway will remain open all winter, R. H. Baldock. Mate highway engineer, said to day. The department of the In terior will keep part of the road open inside the park. Much of the road around the lake already has been closed because of snow. 7, KLAMATH IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND GUNMEN GET GAMBLER ON SECOND TRY 11 Bullets Pumped Into Body of Los Angeles Night Club Owner. 1,08 ANGELES, Oct. 25 (Al') Gangster guns abruptly ended today the "borrowed time" on which George (Les) Bruneman, night club operator and gambler, had been living. They fired II shots into his body in a ahanty beer parlor shortly after midnight and then killed Frank Groutard, an inno cent bystander, who followed them to the door. Alice Ingram, 24, pretty blonde !lures who sat at his bedside and aided in his recovery from a similar fusilage of bullets in July, was wounded twice in the legs by bullets that passed through Bruneman. Her condi tion was not critical. Knew It Was putting Witnesses told police there were four In the party that, made successful the second attempt in four months on the mild-mannered Bruneman's life.-but one shot him as he sat with Miss Ingram her 2I-year-old sister Mary, and Bob Pelden, 27. It was only a few weeks ago that Bruneman, after his recov ery, from the shooting on the boardwalk in Redondo Beach Jul? 20, told Detective Lieut. Warren Hudson, "I'm living on borrowed time. I've got about six weeks more. They'll get me the next time. They won't send the same pair, though. They'll send experts after me the next time." Mre. Elaine Huddle, who with her hueband owns "The Roost," where the slaying took place, graphically described how a small (Ford) sedan without licence plates swept up in front of the drab barroom out of the deep early morning fog. Chauffeur Starts Out "I saw three men get out,"' she told police, "while a fourth remained at the wheel. Two of the men walked toward the door. (Continued on Page Seven) FRANCO MASSES TROOPS TO CUT DIRECTLY THROUGH CENTER OF LOYAL SPAIN REND AY E. Franco-Spanish Frontier, Oct. 25 (AP)--IIIBUTgent Generalissimo Francisco to day began massing 'troops at Zaragoza for an offensive to cut Catalonia from the part of Spain atillt held by the government. Frontier reports said heavy forces of Italian soldiers front Morocco were moving into Zara goza. The Italian "black arrow" division also was reported mov ing to that sector. - PARIS, Oct. 25 (AP)--A sea plane of unidentified nationality today bombed a French submar ine chaser off the Spanish island of Minorca in the Mediterranean. setting the vessel afire.- The craft also was machine gunned. Officials of Airfrance, commer CIRI aviation company which had had use of the boat, said it hastened at once to its regular station In the port of Fornells, permitting the crew to land. The fire, however. they reported, was uncontrollable. The attacking plane. Airfrance officials said, was marked with a maltose cross. Potatoes SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 (AP-USDA)Potatoes: two cars California, 4 Oregon, arrived; 26 unbroken. 12 broken on track: by boat three California arrived. Supply liberal, demand slow, marke weak. Oregon Klamath district, Rus sets, No. 1, 61.10-1.15. LOS ANGELS, Oct. 25 (APUSDA)--Potatoes: 22 cars Cali fornia, 12 Idaho, 1 Oregon ar rived; 85 unbroken; 28 broken on track. Supply moderate, de mand fairly good, . market about steady. Idaho Russets. No. 1 mostly $1.25, few 61.20. FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937 Auz 3 Transients Beat Farmer, Take Money Louie Hageman, 50, Summers Lane rancher, was in the Klam ath Vs lief hospital Monday, critically injured when he was attacked and robbed Sunday night by three transients. Auth orities were bombing the country for trace of the attackers. Hageman, who was able to furnish. sheriff's officers with minute descriptions of the men, said that he had invited the three into his house on Summers Lane to listen to the radio. About 8 o'clock one of the three got up and turned out the lights, and all three attacked itageman, beating him severely and knocking out several teeth in the fight. The three then fled with about $50 in currency and small change. All Powerfully Built Hageman described the men as being all about 25 years of age and powerfully built, one, a blond, standing six feet tall. An other, the one who started the RHO NAMES CIO UNION AS AGENT - AFL Refuses to Loosen Boycott at Portland Despite Order. PORTLAND. Oct. 25. (AP) The CIO discovered a hollow ring In its national labor relations board victory today when the AFL refused to ease the boycott restraining activities In the saw mill Industry since lut August. The" central labor council pol icy committee, declining to rec ognize the decision making the do the official bargaining agent, said: "The findings of the board without requiring an election Is a high-handed act, indicating the board's policy is to usurp powers not given it in the national la bor 'relations act. It further es tablishes the board as a sub servient ally of the CIO." Still Hope for Election William Wedel. president of the AFL Sawmill Workers union, Mid hope for an election had not been abandoned, but in the mean time "the boycott against the CIO Is still in existence and will con tinue to be so." "The next move Is up to the employers," commented R. R. DeWall, financial secretary of the CIO lumber unit. "We're ready and will go to work any time. After all, all the employers are interested in is our ability to per form the duties for which we are paid." Seven Mills Affected The NLRB's award to the CIO affects seven mills. Harold Howes, secretary of the Inman-Poulsen Lumber com pany, reported his - firm, was studying the board's decision, but It had not yet abandoned the Plan (Continued on Page Seven) MONTAGUE'S MOTHER SAYS HE WAS HOME NIGHT OF ROADHOUSE ROBBERY ELIZABETHTOWN, N. Y., Oct. 25 (APIThe elderly, white haired mother of Hollywood', John Montague told a jury to day her son was at home in Syracuse, N. ., the night he is accused ot robbing a roadhouse of $100 in 1930. "He came in at midnight on August 4 and went to bed," Mrs. Mary Moore testified, glancing at her son, known seven years ago as Laverne Moore. Kin liana's roadhouse wu held Up by four men at about a.m. the night of August 4, according to previous testimony. Laverne left home the follow ing morning, the mother said, unshakingly. He told me he was going to play golf or baseball, kissed me goodbye and went outr she said. That was the last she saw of him, the mother testified, until he was arrested and returned several months ago from Holly wood, where in recent years he had been an intimate friend of motion picture celebrities. SCOTTSBORO NERO LOSES IN HIGH COURT Black Takes No Part in Decision to Avoid Klan Charge. WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (A') Haywood Patterson, one of the nine negroes involved in the fam ous Scottsboro case. lost in the supreme court today In an effort to escape a 75-year prison sen tence imposed by Alabama courts for an alleged attack on a white woman. The high tribunal twice had saved the negro from the death Penalty. In announcing denial of Patter son's petition, the court said Jus tice Black "took no part in the consideration and decision of this application." Adjourns for Two Weeks That removed any possibility of a challenge of Black's position on the bench on the ground that he was a former member of the Ku Klux Klan. Before adjourning for two weeks the court agreed to review an appeal by the Duke Power collt pany attacking constitutionality of Public works administration loans and grants for publicly owned hy droelectric projects. The Scottsboro negroes were ac ccused of attacking Ruby Bates and Mrs. Victoria Price, both white, in a moving freight train near Scottsboro. Ala., in March,, 1931. Four Go Free Charges against four were dropped recently after they had spent six years in prison. Anoth er, Clarence Norris, is facing the death penalty. The others have received prison sentences. Patterson'a petition contended that his trial should have been transferred from the Morgan county, Alabama, court to the northern Alabama federal district court because of the "utter impos sibility of obtaining a fair trial In Morgan county." He added that he had been charged with "rape." but that the trial judge had "instructed the jury at length on the subject of conspiracy." Ordered New Trial In 1932 the supreme court set aside the conviction of Patterson and other defendants on the ground that they had not been Provided with adequate counsel during the trial. In 1935 it ordered a new trial for Patterson and Norris, holding that negroes had been "systemat ically excluded" from the juries (Continued on Page Seven) OSC STUDENTS, ON MARCH TO EUGENE CAMPUS, GET DUMPED IN MILLRACE EUGENE, Ore.. Oct. 25. (AP) An Oregon State College foot ball victory march on the Univer sity of Oregon campus ended to day in a pitched battle when 50 Staten were "dumped" in a mill race. While 2000 students from the Corvallis campus left town in an orderly procession, under city and state police escort, several cars containing 50 men turned back to the campus. They ywere met at Alder, Pat terson and Hi lyard street bridges, on "Fraternity Row," by aroused University students. Despite a 14 to 0 thumping on the gridiron Saturday, the University held a decided edge in the melee. Authorities said the "situation Is loaded with dynamite" but so far there have been no "incidents" to set off a violent demonstration of school rivalry. CORVAfiLlS, Oct. 26 (AP) Oregon State college students found football victory sweeter than classes today and "ordered" a holiday to celebrate the 14 to 0 triumph over the University of Oregon Saturday. They defied Dr. George W. Peavy, president of the college, and Robert Henderson, student body leader, in refusing to re sume their regular study routine. "Pickets" paced before at least one building to discourage attendance. Fair tonight and Tuesday ;Maximum at 2180 84 Minimum PRECIPITATION 4 12 hours to 8 a. Nono Selman to data UNITED PRESS haat year to data ........ .01 Normal Precipitation .82 Number 8076 WEATHER Throws Hat Kennell-Ellis Circuit Judge E. B. Ashurst, who wears a big, black hat on most occasions, threw the same into the political ring Monday when he announced his can didacy for the democratic nomi nation to the United States senate. POLITICIANS EYE STEIWER'S SEAT Snell, Mahoney , Promi7 nent Among Potential - Senate Candidates. PORTLAND, Oct. 25 (R)Ore gon's political chieftains looked through the ranks of candidates today for a successor to Senator Frederick Steiwer. member of the states congressional delegation for 10 years. The senator, temporary chair man and keynote speaker at the last republican national conven tion, announced late Saturday be would not be a candidate at the 1938 elections. Thanks Voters "It is my desire, after many years of public service, to return to the practice of my profession," the senator said. "1 deeply appreciate the confi dence reposed in me by the people of Oregon, and their ever readi ness to aid me in the proper dis charge of my duties. They will understand that I have reached this decision only after more care ful consideration." The staunch critic of the ad ministration returns to private law practice at Portland after 20 years of public prominence. lie served as assistant prosecu tor for Umatilla county from 1900 until 1911. He gave up the post (Continued on Page Seven) GET RUNWAY MONEY PORTLAND, Oct. 25 (AP)--- I. E. Oakes, deputy WPA admin istrator, lifted Portland's "gloom ceiling" Saturday when he said a $627,781 "stop-gap" appropria tion to complete one runway at a new super-airport was on the president's desk." LOCAL Klamath drainage basin com mittee begins study of report for national resources committee. Tule lake sump development, ir rigation project on reservation, discussed at conference here. Page 1. - Circuit Judge Edward B. Ash urst announces be will run for the democratic nomination to the United States senate. Page 1. - Louie Rageman, 60, in critical condition after havitg been at tacked, robbed by three tran sients he invited into his home. Page 1. Clyde Rowe, 21, injured in Crater lake landslide, dies at hospital here. Page Bureau of reclamation off ices thronged Monday as Tulelake homestead applicants hasten to file before deadline at 5 p. m. Page 1. -- Special reception at S. P. ta tion for Crooner Bing Crosby, party of actors and entertainers en route south from Spokane. Wash. Page 1. JUDGE SEEKS STOWED POST AS DEMOCRAT First Candidate to Enter Race Bases Platform on Labor Issue. Circuit Judge Edward B. Ash. urst Monday announced his can didacy for the democratic nom ination to the United States sea ate. The unexpected statement came close on the heels of an announcement from Senator Frederick Steiwer, republican . that he will not seek re-election. Judge Ashurst's big, black hat is the first in the ring, although there are numerous other Doter'. tial candidates for Steiwer'e job. Two Klamath Men? Among these is another Klan). ath Falls democrat, Mayor Willis Mahoney. Political observers im mediately began talking of the possible effects of two Klamath men entering the same primary contest. Carl Donaugh, U. a dia. trict attorney for Oregon, la es other likely candidate. - t Basing his platform ' upon solution of labor problems Ashurst states that, if elected. he will advocate legislation un der which labor, industry and agriculture may meet Upon com mon ground. Labor should have a larger share of the wealth it - creates, Ashurst states, but the Interests of those who invest in industry- must also be protected . and by careful study of inter. (Continued on Page Seven) CHINESE ARMIES STOP ADVANCE OF JAPANESE IN SHANGHAI SECTOR SHANGHAI. Oct. 25 UP--Generalissimo Chiang Kal-Shck's em- battled Chinese armies stopped the Japanese Juggernaut offensive to day after six days and nights of heavy fighting on the Shanghai front. The Japanese army spokesman admitted that the general Japan ese advance ot "more than 100,, 000 men," aided by tanks, planes and continued bombardments was "slowed down." Destruction of bridges, mining of highways and acres of barbed wire entanglements halted the Japanese assault. , British authorities, as an after math of the slaying of a British soldier by a Japanese warplane Sunday, .issued orders to all their defense posts to fire without hesi tation in self defense against tny airplanes. Simultaneously, British officials lodged two protests on the inci dent. Seven Americans and about a score of other foreigners were endangered Sunday when a Japan ese plane sprayed machine gun bullets near the western edge of the international settlement. TODAY'S NEWS DIGEST GENERAL ' Supreme court, with Justice Hugo Black taking no part, re jects Scottsboro negro's appeal from 75-year prison sentence. Page 1. - Gunmen pump 11 bullets in to body of George Brunemsn to "wipe out" ,Los Angeles night club operator and gambler after first attempt at , assassination fails. Page 1. AFL continues boycott of Port land lumber mill products despite national labor relations board's designation of CIO union as bar gaining agent. Page 1. ' Observers scan political field for possible successor to Sen. Frederick Stelwer. Page 1. IN THIS ISSUE City Briefs Page 1 Comics and Story Page Editorials Page 4 Family Doctor ..... Page 4 High School News Page Market, inancial News Page 10 PTA Notes Page $ Recreation Notes Page 3 SPorts ..... Page 2 Veterans' News Page 3 1 'vice peil I - ! I e to Enter Platform Issue. Lward B. Ash. need hie can noeratie nom ad State nen1 : : , : re. t,,,,,,,,,(1-,-...,t,7,,,-.N:, - -, - I . . , : ,. 1 i- 1 I, . ,-.; : 'el'"l'", - . -,!..',.. ',(;" ., -, - fLIZ ..;,.. , -,,,,,,.,-,,.,::,,- 40 I ..' - N,;,''''''' C, t il ,: A , 0 . It ...