The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, January 13, 1938, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Januniy 13, 1038 NO HDPES HELD OF Bill C FLIERS' BODIES (Continued from Page One) ear T, J. Flndtev. It showed evi dence ot holes blown through It. A wins; emblem via the Identify ing mark on the coat. A pair of trousers belonging to J. A. Brooks. 38. assistant engi neering officer. It was identified by a tie clasp In the pocket. The clasp was bent. Pages of the engineering log and other papers. The plane's navigating desk. Bits of navigators' charts. Drawer Many small wood fragments from the inside of the plane. A drawer. The surface of the water where the plane sank wss covered with hundreds ot small fragments con ceded by searchers to be frag ments ot the fuselage. As the tragedy was reconstruct ed, gasoline being dumped was vaporized and Ignited, presum ably by a hot exhaust pipe. Wheth er an explosion occurred in mid air or after the 31-ton all-metal flying boat hit the water was not hazarded by authorities here. Burned on Surface If the story told by natives Is true, the plane, or gasoline and oil from its tanks, must have burned on the surface ot the wa ter. They told of seeing a large volume af black smnlr rl frnm the water at the time the plane nisappearea. Official statements of Pan American airways and naval offi cers, Issued before the fragments had been returned here and stud led, spoke only ot the plane being ' destroyed by fire. The Avocet's officers cryptical ly announced: "Plane and crew lost." ' Last Flight They briefly listed the Items recovered and added "no - evi dence ot bodies." The crew consisted of Captain Edwin C. Mustek; Assistant En gineering Officer J. w. Stick Radio Officer T. J. Findley; First : Officer Cecil o. Sellers; Junior Flight Officer Panl 8. Brunk; En . glneeriLg Officer J. W. Strick rod and Navigator F. J. MacLean. Mustek was making his last flight over the Honolulu-New Zea land route -which he had pioneer ed as he had many other of Pan American's major lines. He had flown more than 1,000,000 miles, establishing an enviable string of , records and winning tha IT-. trophy in 19SS for outstanding w mvb iu aviation. Jfo One Blamed i ' No blame whatsoever was at . tached to Muslck, his crew or the . ground crew for the crash. Presl . dent Juan T. Trippe made this elear In a statement Issued in Washington In which he express ed a belief "a way will be found . to prevent a recurrence" of the tragedy. It was the only accident In the three years Pan American craft have been flying the Pacific, but It waa the third major tragedy in American aviation within a week Ten were killed when a North west Airlines plane, piloted by the veteran Nick Mamer. crashed at Boseman, Mont., Monday. Last week six naval fliers perished when their bombing plane plung ed Into the sea off southern Cali fornia. The disaster will Interrupt Pan American's new service linking America with Australia, but, offi cials said, it will be renewed with new ship. Too Late to Classify Editorials On Newt (Continued from Page One) upon to throw your gun In the creek. But if a band ot hungry wolves suddenly made ita appearance In your neighborhood, you'd- not only go out and fish the gun out ot the water but would probably send to town for a NEW GUN and plenty of ammunition. AS world affairs now slaud, Italy, Germany and Japan are hungry wolves, seeking what they nia,, devour, and It behooves the nations having something that may be devoured to protect them selves. TOTHEN you see a had accident, due to careless driving, you DRIVE MORE CAREFULLY In order to avoid a similar accident. We've all seen a bad accident hap pen to China, and are inclined to protect ourselves sgsinst one like It. HEATER OIL Delivered BO gal. or more It. At yard 7. HEILBRONNER & REA Phone 239-W 821 Spring St. 1-18 COME TO ASHLAND, OREGON, for climate, Llthia Water, cheaper rents. Write the Con valescent Home. 1-18 CONSTABLE KILLS PAIR OF THUGS TO SAVE OWN LIFE (Continued from Page One) a sawed-oft shotgun and buckshot similar to that sought in the Mit chell slaying. Sheriff Beech W. Bridges said "we hare no evidence connecting the men with the Mit chell murder but we are working on that theory." Hance said he entered the farmhouse, tour miles east of Seneca, about 7 o'clock, found Hunt sitting on a box and then felt Smith stick a shotgun in his back. "Babe put me between him and the kid and started toward the front door." Hance related. Preferred to Die in House "I decided right then it they were going to kill me. It was going to be in the house and not in the car. I seised Hunt's hand that held his pistol and tried to hold him between me and Smith. Hunt tired one shot that went through my overcoat. He fired again, hitting my hand. About that lime I got out my pistol. 1 shot him twice. When he fell. Smith pointed his shotgun at me. I let him have it. He fell and the shotgun went off. It put out the only light in the place, a kitchen lamp." Hunt died Instantly. Smith died in a Neosho hospital. On the way here, according to Prose cutor Wayne Slankard, he was questioned but replied "I may be going to die, but I'm not telling you anything." In Apple Theft ' Sheriff Bridges! said Smith re cently completed a 30-day Jail sentence at Neosho in connection with the theft ot apples. He add ed that Hunt also had "a record." Hance has been working on the Mitchell case since the business man was killed by a charge of buckshot fired through a base ment window ot the Mitchell home December 28 as Mitchell waa fir ing his furnace. The constable said he went to the Hunt farmhouse solely be cause "I had a hunch." EFFORTS TO SALVAGE 0. S. GUNBOAT ABANDONED SHANGHAI, Jan. 18 (P) Uni ted States naval authorities an nounced today that efforts to sal vage the American gunboat Panay, sunk by Japanese bombs in the Yangtze river December 12, had been abandoned after the ship's safe and official papers had been , recovered, A salvage crew taken by the gunboat Oahu to the point above j Nanking where the Panay went down announced the gunboat was dsmaged beyond repair and her hull was abandoned. Some personal belongings of the crew also were recovered. A "wreck" Is staged along the highways of England at danger ous spots to serve as a warning to careless drivers. INSTALLMENT SALES RAPPED BY PHES DENT (Continued from Page One) cent but that Sloan had rejected the suggestion as too drastic. Whether Mr. Roosevelt had proposed that this limitation be Imposed immediately or at some future time when there were evidences of over-selling was not disclosed. Others at the conference Ernest T. Weir, chairman of the National Steel corporation; Lewis Brown, president of Johns-Man ville: M. W. Clement, president of the Pennsylvania railroad, and Colby Chester, chairman ot the General Foods corporation were not so directly connected with the problem ot installment sales. At a press conference last week, however, the president told ot a steel manufacturer whose production had dropped from 90 to 28 per cent of capacity be cause ot the slump in automo bile production and uneven pur chases ot rans oy the railroads. .Mr. Roosevelt said steel nro- ductlon had been unbalanced by railroads purchasing rails for an entire year at one time, causing an undue acceleration of produc tion during part of the year and a slump during the remainder. At the same time the president criticised the automobile Indus try for selling cars on a 24 months credit arrangement in stead of the previous 18 months and for over-selling by telling prospective purcnasers that the price waa going up. OREGON WOOLGROWERS LAUD MARTIN FOR FIGHT ON "LABOR RACKETEERS" PRINEVirj.E ln 1 The Oregon Woolgrowers associ ation commended finvernnr rh... les Martin at the closing session ' annual convention yester day for his opposition to labor racketeers. The aSSOCiatlnn innrAva ... open snop policy In its relations with the Sheep Shearera union. It 000O8ed the ?ft..r r,aln . Pettinglli measures and recom- menaea separation of the forest service and the biological survey nom me aepartment of agriculture. Woolmen nr wiii.i..tji.. grazing licenses until a range sur vey was comnletpri Tha ta COntlnilAtlnn nf thm f.t i- policy 6f 10-jear grazing permits ou MieuHiuD oi tne pian to Tay- aiming act lands. Leo Hahn, Crook county, was elected president, R. L. Weir Lakeview, vice president, and Walter Holt, Pendleton, secre tary. The association supported fed eral purchase of county-owned and Oregon wagon grant lands In side existing eastern Oregon graz ing districts. LA POINTE'S SHOP SOLD TO PAIR OF NEW MERCHANTS (Continued from Page One) Ing Into the style markets of Paris ana Vienna and other centers. Recently Gray's family ceie- Dental Offices of Dr. F. W. Peak Have Been Moved To 610 Medical-Dental BIdg. From 80S Medical-Dental BIdg. brated Ita 80th year in business In Elherfcld, Germany. In an In tit lit Ion that Is well and favor ably known throughout that spc tlon of Germany. Lion was first In the United States in 1923 after which he spent some tlmo engaged In business in Gothemburg, Swell' en, and again at Alx-la-Chapelle, Gray and Lion plan to bring their families to Klamath Falls to make their homes as soou as ar rangements can be made. It is with regret that friends of Mrs. Beatric V. Keith learn that she is leaving Klnmalh Falls after a residence here of the past three years. Mrs. Keith pur chased the store from Mr. and Mrs. Charles LaPolnte In 19SS, the LaPolntes coming here from Marshtield in 1928. Mrs. Kolth's plan are quite Indefinite although she hopes to spend the remainder of the winter In California en Joying a rest and vacation. Mrs. M. F. Pedlgo, who has long been affiliated with I.a Pointe's. will serve as manager ot the store and the balance nt the personnel remains unchanged. FASCIST NATIONS GAIN TWO NEW EUROPEAN ALLIES (Continued from Page One) definitely to have won Austria and Hungary to their "axis." Details ot a Madrid disaster In which between 600 and 600 lives were reported lost were not di rectly from Spain because of gov- ernment censorship. Government Troops Gain So far as the lS-months-old war Itself was concerned, government troops were said to have gained a halt-mile on the Teruel front In eastern Spain, a step toward driv ing insurgents from the outskirts ot the city. Chancellor Kurt Schuscbnigg of Austria, In one of his rare newspaper articles, made clear bis government and that ot Hunga 'never have doubted that the Rome protocols are our best orien tation." The chancellor was discussing the Budapest consultations of the foreign ministers of Italy, Aus tria and Hungary under their Rome protocols on trade which closed yesterday. In China Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek flew to Suohow to di rect a counter-offensive against Japanese armies menacing China's east-west lifeline, the Lungchat railway. The slow Japanese pres sure and the resistance of massed Chinese forces had not reached the predicted stage of a great battle for the railway. EAST-WEST GAME MOVIES SHOWN TO ROTARY CLUB Moving pictures ot the East West gamea in San Francisco, sponsored by the Shrine, will he shown at the Friday noon lunch eon ot Rotary in the Wlllard hotel. The movies will show the last four games of 1934, '35, '36 and '37. Marshall E. Cornett will serve as chairman of the luncheon. Coming "LOST HORIZON" FUMES, FLAME TAKE LIVES DF COALWORKERS (Continued from Page One) moke rolled down the narrow passageway. Ketfor had yelled Instructions to two men about escaping, then toppled over dead, victim of car bon monoxide. Joo Oi'virk, Jr., felt the Impact of the explosion, saw the rolling smoke ami ran almost a mile to a rescue room. Ho said he and Frank Koprlvlnkar stayed In the room for more than an hour, too much nut ot breath and frighten ed to talk. When they went out, Frank started to see If he could ho ot help and waa first to find his brother, Joseph Koprlvlnknr, dead. FIVE-YEAR-OLD WRECKAGE FOUND OCEANSIDK. Cnllf., Jan. IS (UP) Tattered remnants of an airplane found on the bench fire miles north of here Wednesday, were definitely identified today as the wreckage of a private craft which crashed on the high tide line five years ago, killing one ot its two occupants. , The sheriff's office reported the rusted fuselage belonged to a Great Lakes training plane which crashed and burned In October. 1932. Bob Fly. San Diego flyer, was killed, and Edward Swlnney ot Los Angeles was slightly In jured. The engine had been re moved and the twitted fuselage left on the beach. In the course of years, the wrecksge apparently waa covered by sands. and uncovered bv the re cent high tides (hat washed this section of the southorn California coast. A portion of a human skull, found nesr the wreck, was at first believed to have been that of the pilot, but Deputy Coroner Dave Gershon reported that It was "very old" and doubted that It had any connection with the wrecked craft. Funeral Notice JOSE GARCIA The funeral service for the late Jose Garcia who passed away near Sprague River, Ore., Thursday. December 23. will take place from the chapel of Ward's Klam ath Funeral Home, 925 High street, Saturday, January is, at 2 p. m., the Rev. Father T. P. Casey ot the Sacred Heart church officiating. Commitment service and Interment In the Mt. Calvary Memorial park. Friends are re spoctfully Invited to attend. Tl'LK FIRE A tule fire occurred Wednes day evening In the area near the eastern line of Ewauna lake. DEATH PUTS END TO STRANGE LOVE OF FATHER, GIRL (Continued from Tags One) Murray listed the deaths as mur der and suicide, The coroner said Meeie had not soon his daughter since hor birth until they met here recent ly and that the two had then fallen In love. He said two let ters found In the dead girl's purs led him to this conclusion. One, mailed last December 31 from Brownsville, pa., read: "It la going to be hard for me to leave you now. You may not believe this, hut you are the only person I ever saw that I really liked and you turn out to bs my daughter." The other, dated last Novem ber 18, rend: Urol With Mother "You hnve filled a space for mo that has been empty for many years. You won't have to tell mo in words that you like me. I know you do, I am sure you know how I feel about you," The coroner said Nellie was horn to Meeeo and Pearl Hnllla. The girl lived wllh her mother. ine coroner said the weapon Meese used was a homemade one. shot contraption, "the most rreakisn gun I have ever seen." The barrel of the nlstnl t, added, had been drilled from a steel bar. To relosd the gun. It was necessary to unscrew the barrel from the stock. Shot Krom llnrk Reconstructing the traredv MrMurray said: Meese must have sneakeil behind Nellie and shot her in the bark of the head. Then he reloaded the hnm. made gun and sliot himself be tween the eyes." Mrs. Mollis, a divorces. inM , finding the bodies. Coroner McMiirrar reralle,! mat ne waa etiemtlnr Dhvslelsn ' at Nellie's birth 17 years ago at Younxwnod. near Greensburg. t ine moiner. ne said, was then unwed hut later married a man I named Hollls and lived for some time In Ohio, but waa divorced and returned to this village. AIRLINE GROUNDS LOCKHEED PLANES FOR INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON. Jan 11 nm Northwest Airlines hss been or dered to ground Its planes of the type which- crashed near Dm. man. Mont.. Monday, Director rreu ragg, Jr., of the bureau nf air commerce announced late today. He said the order had been Is sued by Inspector A. D. Nlemeyer. one of six bureau Inspectors sent to ine scene of the crash. After examining the wreckage, he told tne company to stop operating all Lockheed 14-H type ships pend ing further Investigation. Fagg Immed atelr confirmed the order and disclosed that sur vey showed Northwest to be the only company using that type of plane. Vi though there waa a nosil. blllty that the Montana crash might have Involved something on the ship Itself," Fagg said. "To avoid any further risks we thought It would he best to hold them on the ground until we had opportunity to make a more thor ough Investigation. Northwest Airlines agreed with us and so did the Lorkheed company." SEATTLE PORT TIP SETTLED SEATTLE. Jan. 13 MV Three hundred and fitly men, 100 of them stevedores, were sent to tho waterfront today to work cargo ships as the port reopened fol lowing a week-long tleup, Chief Dispatcher II. C, llngmnn of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's union hiring hall announced. Sixteen gangs of Inngoalmremen were sont to six ships at the call of the operators, he said. They Included four gangs apiece to the frlolKlitera Ran Felipe. Texniar and Alabaman, two to tha York mar and one apiece In tha North- X In nil and the Evelyn Berg, Trucker Also Return One hundred and fifty truckers also went to work along with the storedorvs, Ship operators had put In calls for the men (luting the morning, following the settlement of the llemi last night, In which Joseph P. Kennedy, U. R. maritime com mission chairman, played a large pari. He had been her on a conn, shipping survey. Kennedy, aiuhaasador-dealgnatsi In Great llrllaln, postponed his aflernoon departure by plaue to bring the disputants together. John Ilnetllger, publisher of the Seattle I'oat-lnlolllgencer and son-in-law ot President Roosevelt, waa tho only oilier outsider at tb final meeting between employer representatives and union dele gates. Conforms snld Informally fu ture, illniiulrs as well as the dl- agreement ovur handling of cargo from the veasel llordar Prlnre, which precipitated the tie-up, will hereafter bu submitted to arbitration. Conilng "l-OHT HORIZON" WEEKEND CLEARANCE SPECIALS Dresses Both Silk and Wool Value to $19.95 s5 House Coats Wool, Flannels, Padded Silk, Print. Value to $19.99 $5 Entire Stock Hats Including Knox Value to $12.98 1 '2 '3 Hosiery Artcraft 2 and 5-thread Chiffon Regularly $1.68 $f 15 A Pair $A and 0 For fj 2 oil ON All t'oaimn Nulta All Winter Coals, furred and unforced Fur Coals llrunheri Wool Sweaters All Heller Presses, both silk and wool Group of Foundation Garments Group of lllouies 0) Group of Hags All Artificial Flowers. ADRIENNE'S ooo ite SI Yan?s A (si Tb2lS Ay90lnl(iiir Whiskey treasure is waiting for you in Hiram Walker's PRIVATE CELLAR PINT 90 1 Quart I $1.75 90 PROOF You've heard It said that tome people ut naturally get along better together? Of couriel That's why Hiram Walker's PRIVATE CELLAR Is making so many new friends Its component parts get along together. Try It tonight and seel mm liflfflji?) mmi . , The straight whiskies In Hill product are 2 years or more eld. 25 straight whiskey, 75 neutral spirits distlllsd from grain, 15 straight whiskey 5 years old, 6 straight whiskey 3Aysars eld, 4 straight whiskey 2 years old V HIRAM WAIKIR SONS, PEORIA, ILL t WAIKIRVILII, ONTARIO GLASGOW, SCOTLAND Si - e"X 'tit &' z s v -iff' ' " y ' Ma T 1 Veteran Jim Edwards tells why tobacco experts prefer Luckies 2 to 1 ... "I recently sold 489,000 pounds of tobacco in one 614 hour day," say Mr. J. N. Edwards of Farm ville, North Carolina. "There was a buyer, naturally, for every, one of those 489,000 pounds. ..Zfrr there was at much di (Terence betwecnthebestgrades and the inferior, as between a pretty girl and a homely one. "At auction after auction, I've teen Lucky Strike go after the prettiest l6ts of tobacco. It's no . wonder Luckies taste so good. I've smoked them since 1917. "And another thing , . . even sitter yelling out tobacco bids all during a seven hour day, Luckies are still just as easy as ever on my throat." ' Only Lucky Strike offers you the finest tobacco plus the throat protection of the exclusive proc ess "It'a Toasted". This process takes out certain Irritants found' in all tobacco even the finest. Men who know tobacco from A to Z experts like Mr. Edwards are surely good judges of ciga rettes ... Sworn records show that, among independent tobacco ex perts, Luckies have twice as many exclusive smokers as have all the other cigarettes combined. -WITH MEN WHO KNOW TOBACCO BEST-IT'S LUCKIES 2 T01