r ) 11,.01,,AAk04,1000,0,406,kO6W WIRE SERVICE The Herald and News subscribe to lull 1011INI wire service of the Associated P aaaa and the United Press, site world's greatest liewmintherisig organizations. Par 17 hours daily world news comes into The Herald. News Mice on teletype machines. RELIEF RUSHED STRICKEN CALIFORNIA TOWNS AS FLOOD WATERS RECEDE RAN FRANCiRCO. nee. 111 (1P) Mate end private relief agencies counted four deeths and estimated damage at millions or dollars to day an they clothed aid to victims of northern California's now re coiling flood. Waters of the Yuba river that destroyed n large section of flown. leville. historic mining town in the Sierra Nevadut, dropped todey. leering almost all of the 450 resi dents homelena and many of them suffering in below-freezing weath er. The only remaining flood threat resulting from three days of torrential rein last week was along the Haeramento river be t WOOn Sacramento and Colima. Routh of Cohac the river and Its tributaries erected a great pond, SO miles wide in some places, spreading over thousands upon (Continued on Page Hoven) ,r Editorials On the D P N ay s ews By FRANK' JENKiNS orGIR dispatch comes from a Shanghai on Saturday: "While Japanese troops still pounded Nanking's walls and five gates tonight, another Jae- arose column captured the im portant river port, NVuhu. 60 miles up the Yangtze front the Chinese capital. Nanking was threatened with complete en circlement." A GAIN, as so often in the past, Providence 'seems to be on the side of the fellow with the heaviest artillery. B uT let's not forget thin lesson: For generations, China has been weakening herself by inter nal dissension. NOW she is pay ing the price. A ND thiS dispatch comes from Rome: "Italy tonight (Saturday) announced her withdrawal from the league of nations, from which she has been estranged since the league applied sanc tions (boycotts) against her con. quest of Ethiopia." That is to say, if Mussolini can't have his way, he'll take his toys and go home, announcing that he'll no longer play. N ATIONS. as nations, are like that. They'll agree to co-operate only when they think that by co-operating they can GET more than they GIVE. The only law they recognise is the primal law of superior force. (MONK, too pleasant thought in (NONE this connection: Our nation has been governed in recent year. , In congress and in the legislatures. by special interest blocs, each of which says: "We'll get ours, and (Continued on Page Seven) uerjtbody k.71buys and uses Christmas Seals (7Le. r6iiiTiroll DoCTOk i I 0 Shop Ong I Days Left El Ps t, '1,14 rfi) 0 ', rt,0 121 ido . MI , ' Tule Lake Lease Land Threatened By Heavy Runoff Flood Streams Over Lost River Dam; Diversion Canal Filled. Water poured down tont river toward Tub e lake basin In in creasing volume thin afternoon, threatening a breelt in the sump dikea, Leone holders were werned to move ntachinery and other movable property out of the lease area before a possible flood. The run-off from lent week's torrential rains emoted the ateady ripe in Lost river and the threat ened flooding of lends under the dike on Tule bike. Saturriny mornilig's break in the Malone diversion darn, In Lost river at the upper end of Langell valley . was a factor In the high water situation. Diversion Canal Pull Reelarnation bureau officials acid that the diversion canal be tween Lost river and Klamath river wan running to full Ca pacity, 1200 second feet. but could not carry enough of the wen to prevent a heavy flow Into the Tule lake region. The Title lake sump basin. proper, was filled to the tops of the dikea when the additional run-off warted. Ohnervera were of the opinion that the Increased volume of water could not be held within the barriers and would break over Into large sec tions of the leased sump land. Crops are off the lands, and an Intmediate d a to a g e would be small. The Outlook for next apring's farming of the area, in case of floods, was a matter of uncertainty and conjecture. Water Over Dam Monday morning 400 second feet of water Will spilling over the Wilson Bridge dam at the Lost river end of the diversion canal. The volume Wall expected to increase to 700 feet in the afternoon. 1Vater that spills over the dam moves on down into the lower end of the basin, with no outlet beyond the Title lake sump. The peak of the run-off, according to estimates. wilt come within the next 24 hours. The Malone dam In Angell valley went out Saturday morn ing. 1Vater had been running over the top of the earth and concrete structure prior to the (Continued on Page Seven) SKELETON CREW RETURNS TO WORK AT PORTLAND MILL WITHOUT INCIDENT PORTLAND. Dec. 11 Inman-Pottisen Lumber company, closed for four months by the AFL-CIO Jurisdictional dispute, opened today with a skeleton crew of 80 men. The men, selected by seniority from the 000 employed in Aug ust, went back to their Jobs without incident. Several hun dred others awaited assignments as soon as the plant expands its activities. About six uniformed patrolmen stood by at the opening, The management gave equal prefer ence to AFL and CIO members. The workers selected the CIO as their bargaining agency at an election called by Governor Charles Martin last Thursday. One AFL picket appeared. Gov ernor Martin has offered to con duct elections at seven other clos ed plants. Captain John J. Keegan order ed detectives armed with shot guns Saturday to combat violence attributed to union goon squads. His action was followed by a denial from Wallace S. Wharton, Governor Charles II. Martin's ex ecutive secretary, that state po lice had been mobilized to sup plement city officers guarding re opening of the Inman-Poulson ',umber company, shut down.124 days by a CIO-AFL deadlock, COMMISSION SUSPENDS TWO BEER LICENSES HERE PORTLAND, Dec. 13 01,--The liquor control comminsion made the following suapensiona: John AV. Nelson, Malin's, Klam ath Fa lin, 10 days, sale of beer to intoxicated parlous: J. R. Hersh berger, Hermhberger's cafe, Klam ath Falls, five days, sale to in toxicated vermin!. The commission denied a li cense application from the Dream land dance hall, Ashland highway, four miles west of Klamath Falls. ASSOCIATED PRESS DAKOTA CONVICTS KILL GUARD CAPTAIN IN BOLD ESCAPE ATTEMPT r attain B COLUMBIA, S. D., Dec. 18 (Jp) Six desperate convicts who slew their hostage. the captain of the state penitentiary guards, after defying a dramatic, two-hour plea to surrender by Governor Olin D. Johnston, were thrown into "soli tary" today to await an early trial. Sheriff T. Alex Heise announc ed that William B. Woods, 24- year-old highway robber, confess ed he was the one who stabbed the 61-year-old guard captain, Olin Sanders, yesterday .before the convicts were routed from San ders' office by national guards men hurling tear gas shells. Own Order Brings Doom Prison officials said that San ders had Issued a standing order (Continued on Page Seven) MOLALIA BOASTS OF MOVING MOUNTAIN MOLAT,LA, Dec. 18 011n1-- appearing real estate in Califor nia and Idaho has nothing on Oregon's creeping terrain, Earl K. Nixon, Mato department of geol ogy and mineral industries direc tor, said today. Geologist Ray C. Threasher, Nixon said, found a break on a mountain side near Malaita. Ap pearing almost simultaneously with the. Guilt, Idaho, sinking ranch, it covered only a few feet. It now is 100 feet long, 80 feet deep, and extends down the moun tain 50 feet in a series of terraced slips. The break was due to moisture saturated clay and substrata shift ing on a dry, hard bed beneath, Threasher said. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND I Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1937 1.1 Slal N fl t it 444 441 VI F. R. Expresses Concern to Tokyo It's Off for Tule Lake! limn One KnOVVII Dead,. Alf,e t .4.. ,'"7.r,dite.,'' , ri ,..e'7, .--t.: I - - ;,:! 7mmiWiftMl....r- "Aiw.lb.,:j"."'e..4111.711111' A'alar -6' ".'-.....18.detaW .0,.....1r4111..--'"4.4P-:::::,,Y4::::::F.2...7 : ',' .000.11k u. .. , ?". t ,..... . 7 -' ,tagi-AM...boAtf 40.41:." ..". ..".. ... A vv. -,-:-...--,:ozy,k2. iii.,..a...67 :,,7 ,- ,-;:e74014,!,istel - l "iiir"::-4.;idir.,:,..,-!' --7.,.,;44-4.4;N:,;;,- . .-,t, viii,i,,, ..i . ; - -:-.-- -,,.. ---sks:1:00 --7-76,;-:. 7:-""e1113-1--- '. --" b: ',.; '"'",,,..- - IL '. pt..... ''''2 re,- .4 ..,.., ,..;.0",..- 0.6)P-.-.4w- mt. "1, - .C.4 ----' - ,.60. -, L':-',.da - ,411towto ,!L ;;A:..'-,Ort.441-, otli 7,-, The foaming water in the upper picture is excess run-off front last week's torrential rains, photographed Monday afternoon just after it spilled over the Wilson Bridge dam on Lost river. The diversion canal, which carries water from this dam to Klamath river, was full to capacity but could not handle the entire excess. The water going over the dam was running on in the direction of Tub e lake. The leweti picture shows water running a foot deep Saturday morning down Lake. view's streets, past the courthouse grounds. The Lakeview water had receded Monday. 139 Qualify For Tule Lake Homesteads Rating of applicants for 69 Tube take homesteads to be awarded this winter has been completed by the examining board, and noti fication of their standings have been mailed to all applicants, it was announced Monday at the of fices of the bureau of reclamation. The board graded 139 appli cants at 90 per cent or higher, (Continued on Page Seven) LUMBER AND SAWMILL WORKERS END CONVENTION , EUGENE, Dee. 13 (AlSelect ing Vancouver, Wash.. a. the site for their 1938 convention, delegates to the Oregon-Washington council of lumber and sawmill workers convention here adjourned Sunday night follow ing day-long sessions which saw them take action on several im portant resolutions. The convention adopted reso lutions to place boycotts on all Canadian cedar products, all Can adian logs and on all Canadian. Japanese and Dutch plywood, de cided to take action in coopera tion with the carpenters union relative to placing a union label on all AFL manUfactured lumber products, adopted a resolution opposing the "monthly wage practice," decided to leave the central offices of the union in Seattle and wound up a special evening 110118i011 by deciding to memorialize congreas in an ef fort to secure strict enforcement of the 1930 tariff act, which colts for the marking of all im ported "foreign" lumber. WAGE-HOUR BILt VOTE HOPED FOR THIS WEEK; HOUSE OPENS DEBATE WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 (AP) The administration's wage-hour bill WAR w a r m ly praised and roundly denounced today as the house strove to push it to non age by midweek. Chairman No rt on (D-NJ.), rising first In Its behalf, told her colleagues the measure was de signed to aid employes lacking the protection of collective bar gaining agreements. She pre dicted its one at m ent would "eventually decrease unemploy ment." Speaking for t h e opposition Rep. Dies (D-Texas) condemned the legislation as "ill-prepared and half baked," and roared that It was "designed to humbug labor." ' Petition Ratified "Not more than a handful of laboring people will be benefited by the bill." he shouted. After several others h a d spoken the house ratified the (Continued on Page Seven) , RUSSIA TURNS OUT TO ELECT STALIN CONGRESS MOSCOW, Dec. 13 (A')soviet Russia had a Stalinist parliament today, elected by a turnout, ap parently, of virtually all the na tion's 90 million voters In the first secret direct election in the 20 years of the communist regime. The election commission an nounced preliminary reports Indi cated at least 95 per cent of the eligible voters went to the polls. Few candidates for the 1143 seats in the two-chamber parlia ment were opposed. neat Government Asks Guar antees Attack Won't Be Repeated. WASHINGTON. Dec. 13 01-- President Roosevelt today con veyed to the emperor of Japan an expression of his deep concern over the bombing of the Ameri can gunboat Panay. Simultaneously t h e United States government transmitted to the Japanese government a de mand for full compensation and apologies for the incident and guarantees against a repetition of such an attack. The president's expression was transmitted to Hirosi Saito. the Japanese ambassador, by Secre tary Hull. Facts Assembled The Japanese envoy called on Hull to deliver his government's profound apologies over the sink ing of the Panay in the Yangtze river above Nanking. Hull in formed the Japanese envoy that President Roosevelt was "deeply shocked' and concerned by the news of the ipliscriminalu. bomb, lug of Anieridan and other non Chinese vessels on the Yangtze and that he requests that the emperor be so advised." Hull told Saito further that all the facts concerning the Panay incident were being assembled and will be shortly presented to the Japanese government. Regrets Authorized In the meantime. the United States government hopes. he said. that Tokyo will be considering definitely for presentation to Washington: "(A) Full expressions of re gret and proper and full com pensation. "(B) M et h o da guaranteeing against a repetition of any simi lar attack in the future." Saito informed the secretary of state that he had been instructed by Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota to express Japan's full regrets and apologies. Discussed In Senate The Panay incident, mean while. was brouht up on the sen ate floor. Senator Barkley (D RY). the democratic leader, re plying to a demand for with drawal of American naval craft from China, said that could not be done. Debate on the sinking of the gunboat Panay broke out shortly after Chairman Pittman (D-Nev), of the foreign relations commit tee, had said in a statement that (Continued on Page Seven) SISTER SHIP RESCUES 453 HOOVER PASSENGERS; BIG LINER STILL AGROUND MANILA, P. t. Dec. 13 LP 'our hundred fifty-three happy but weary sea voyagers rescued from a tiny Pacific island oft the Formosan coast where they were stranded when the luxury liner President Hoover piled up on the rocks, were en route to Manila tonight aboard the SS President McKinley. The rescue ship, carrying all of the Hoover's 134 cabin pas sengers and 319 third class pas sengers, completed the task of loading the Castaways with part of their baggage this afternoon and steamed southward. The vessel was expected to reach quarantine in Manila bay at dawn Wednesday but was not expected to dock until 5 p. m. with its cargo of refugees and registered mail from the Hoover. More mail remained aboard the pride of the Dollar fleet but officials of the line here had not been advised whether the McKinley was carrying all pas sengers that made up the Hoov er's list. The destroyer Alden was en route to the Hoover, which remained hard aground. NEW TRIAL DENIED PORTLAND, Dec. 13 (Ip) - A new trial for Leroy Hershel Mc Carthy. 21, condemned to die Jan. ttary 7 in Oregon's new lethal gas chamber, was denied Saturday by Circuit Judge John P. Winter. McCarthy was convicted of the murder of Floyd Fuelner, service station attendant, during a holdup. Lir Iva MaxiinGuemne(ra21.11 blr oot 0p'a.;J 40 Minimum ......81 PRECIPITATION IS hours to 8 a. Sraaon to date Last year to data ...... 05 UNITED PRESS Normal precipitation 85I Number 8118 04 0 njupoLocyl Several Missing COMPENSATION In Ship Bombing JAPANESE ANNOUNCE OCCUPATION OF NANKING AFTER FIERCE BATTLING SHAYCHAL Dec. 18 UCIThe Japanese military command to night officially announced occupa tion of Nanking, China's capital. The troops completed the oc cupation at sunct, the announce ment said. Bloody street fighting. with Chinese contesting every foot of the Japanese advance, marked the battle for the city. Japanese said. Slowly, however, they re ported, they took over the gov ernment buildings which had housed Chinese machtnegun nests and snipers. Naval planes cooperated with the army in the day-long attack, and the Chinese defenders were said to have keen driven north ward through the city as the Japanese pressed from the south land and eastern sections. Treasury Needn't Pay In terest on Bonds Called Before Maturity.. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (AP) The supreme court ruled today the treasury does not haee to continue to pay interest on gold bonds it called for redemption In advance of the. maturity date. Justice Cardoso wrote the ma jority decision which was read in his absence, on account of sickness, by Chief Justice Hughes. The decision was on litigation involving Robert A. Taft of Cin cinnati, son of the late President and Chief Justice William How ard Taft, the estate of James J. Ransom of Des Moines and Arthur Machen of Baltimore. Three Dissent Justice McReynolds, joined by Justices Butler and Sutherland. dissented to the decision in the Machen case. They said that it "gives effect to an act of bad faith and upholds patent repudi ation." Cardozo said that the secre tary of the treasury "did not act in excess of his lawful powers by issuing the calls without fur ther authority from the congress than was conferred by the stat utes under which the bonds were issued." U. S. ATTORNEY JOINS ASHURST IN RACE FOR SENATORIAL NOMINATION WEATHER DOURDI GOVERNMENT WINS NEW G0111 PORTLAND, Dec. 13 C. Donaugh, 31-year-old United States attorney, announced Satur day he would seek the democratic nomination for U. S. senator at the may primary elections. Donaugh, who managed Presi dent Roosevelt's 1932 Oregon campaign, pledged continued sup port for the adminiatration. He said the state had benefitted liber ally from new deal activities. Circuit Judge Edward B. As hunt, Klamath Falls democrat, is the only other formally announc ed candidate for the post. Sen ator Frederick Steiwer, republi can keynoter in 1936, will give up next year. "The future of this region will be determined to a large extent by what we do with the Columbia and its tributaries, including the Willamette river," said the attor ney, who will ask a leave of ab sence to campaign. "We must press our demands on the federal government for adequate defense facilities at Fort Stevens and Tongue Point." Donaugh, an organizer of the Young Democratic club, served as secretary and chairman of the cen tral committee and was delegate at large to the 1933 national convention. COLDER Tokyo Accepts Blame for Yangtze Incident, Of fers Apologies. By Associated Press SHANGHAI, Dec. 14 (Tuesday) The United States gunboat Panay was sunk and three Standard Oil company ships were bombed and burned, or. beached by Japanese warplanes 'while Japanese troops watched from shore, said radio dispatches from the British Res cue gunboat Bee early today. , The Bee gave first details of the Sunday: attatiot in the Yangtze rivet' 26 miles-above Nanking, in dispatches to the American flag ship Augusta. Fifteen Wounded One Panay seaman died of wounds.: Sixty-one of 72 persons believed to have been aboard the Panay are known to haxe sur vived, although 16 were wounded. Fifty-four landed at Hohsien, 86 - miles- upriver from Nanking; aim,' en were.picked nv by the Bee. , , The Bee further reported twO other' Americansnot included in the 61were believed to be safe ashore. " Aboard the three Standard Oil vessels , of which two were burned an'd-ther7-third beached, were be lieved to be four Americans, in cluding the captain of one 'ship, two Europeans .:.nd Chinese crews totalling 81 meen. , Ships Abandoned ...OnTY one of the Americans, J. V. Pickering of Cadiz, Ohio, was definitely reported rescued. All three ships, however, reached shore and were abandoned by their crews. Bombs which com pleted their destruction were re ported to have fallen after the crews left. (These figures indicate there were a total of 159 persons aboard the four ships, 72 on the Panay and 87 on the Standard Oil yes sels, although those totals are nof absolutely certain Sixty-four of the former and only one of the latter are accounted for, but there is no reason to believe the other 94 persons, most of them Chinese, were boat, although -a Shanghai dispatch to the New York office of the Standard-Vacuum Oil com pany said: "Survivors reported to be only 54 out of 150 on board." Just before the bombing Sun day afternoon, said reports via (Continued on Page Seven) k Today's News Digest LOCAL Domestic altercations on reser. vation, involving alleged use of firearms, result in divorce action. Two husbands shot, one wife sues, other files cross-complaint. Page 5. - Run-off excess moves on Tule lake sump, threatening break in dike and flooding of leased land. Page 1. -- Tule lake homestead applicants receive notice of rating from examining board. 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