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KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938
Number 8162
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Tense Courtroom Hears Wright's Story
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A tense, crowded courtroom followed every word as-Paul A, Wright, airport executive, described
In vivid detail the events culminating In the ehoni Ink of bin wife, Evelyn, and bent friend, John Klm
mel. In a "while flnnie of anger" slaying. At top, Wright la shown on Iho stand describing the
embrace In which he any he
rnmplelnd hit testimony Friday,
might have been mcn(nlly blank
By Flt.WK JKNKIN'fl
"TWO navy bombers collide at
8an Pedro, and 11 die. This
air disaster, worst In the navy'i
history, provJdes the big head
lines for Thursday'! papers.
The day before that, It was an
Itnllnn trans-Atlantic pinna that
crashed off the const of Miuzll
four lives lost. A week or so ago,
It was an .American airliner;
fatalities, seven.
Hnrdly a day pnssns without
Its accompanying air tragedy,
groat or small,
nKFOIlE Jumping too hastily to
the conclusion thnt air navi
gation Is becoming InrronHlngly
dangerous, remember thnt Iho
number of plnnns In the nlr la
becoming Incronnlngly NUMEIl
OUS. pnrcnr-rtlCK l. SCIIMALZ. mil
linery merchant of Portland,
speaking nt the conforonco of
small business men In Washing
ton, says that labor troubles era
the mnjor cnuno of Iho business
recession In the Pacific North
west, "Give ns pence In the ranks of
labor," ho assorts, "and wo will
ba well on our rnnd to normnlcy'
Thnro'n a lot ot truth In what
ha snys.
rUHINESS men would nnquos
tlonnbly hn much bettor off
If Ibero wore fowor strikes and
Ibis writer, for ono, has no doubt
thnt those who work for wngos
would be far bettor off also,
TT ISN'T truo nt nil Hint all labor
loaders are rnckotoors. Mnny,
perhaps MOST, labor Inndorg are
honest, slnccro men. Nenrly nil
tha labor representatives with
(Continued on Page Six)
Editorials
On the
DayVN ews
Business' Recommendations
found the couple. Melow, a view
and psychiatrists wore bid ng called to testify that the dofendant
at iho time of the shooting.
ALIENIST SAYS WRIGHT
POSSIBLY UNCONSCIOUS
AT TIME OF SHOOTING
1.03 ANGELES. Feb. 4 (IP)
Paul A. Wright's trial for a con
fessed double alnylng drifted fur
ther today Into the atrango realm
of psychiatry, the medical special
ty that deals with mental disor
ders. Summoned back to tha witness
stand for cross-examination by tho
prosecntliiu was Dr. Samuel Mar
cus, an alienist. He told the jury
It was possible for an Individual
of Wright's physical and mental
condition to ho made temporarily
unconscious by witnessing such a
scene ns tho defendant claimed ho
saw when he shot to death his 29-ycar-old
wife, Evelyn, and his
(Contlnuod on Page Six)
HITLER ASSUMES POST '
OF GERMAN WAR MINISTER
nKW.IN, Fob. 4 (P) Rolchs
fuchror Hitler tonight nssumod
tho post of nilnlslor of wnr, him
self filling tho gnp loft by the
resignation of Field Marshal Wcr
nor von Dlombcrg,
Hltlor In a docroe announced:
"Honcoforth I personally will
oxerclso direct command over the
entire armed establishment."
Tho fuohror dealt thus with one
of the grnvest crises of Ills five
years of power, brought on by tho
"socially Impossible" mnrrlngo of
his 59-yenr-old war minister to
tho 28-yoar-nld Krlka Unilin, a
carpentor'a daughter.
"Little -Interviews
Mrs, Bon J. Zumwnlt Wo
thought wo'd stnyed In California
long enough to miss tho Klnmnih
Falls win I or, hut wo find we re
turned Just In time to get It
started.
Charles (Chuck) Sonvoy, tole
phono mnnngor I wish It would
slop snowing. I don't like snow.
Sinn Arnold, Pnlncn Market
The. snow Is o. k. It's good for
the country.
In the courtroom. Wright had
Pole Campers
See Shelter
Sink Into Sea
MOSCOW, Feb. 4 P The four
scientists ot Russia's "North Pole
camp" today watched the tent
house which had been their home
for eight months sink into the
sea as they awaited rescue from
their perilous porch on a 100-by-
160-foot Ico Cako off Greenland.
But they grasped hope from the
expectation of seeing the sun to
day for the first time since the
polar night shut down Septem
ber 23, already cheered by a brief
glimpse ot tho first retractions ot
the sun's rays from below the
horUon.
Salvage Supplies
The tonthouse wns on a dif
ferent fragment of the shattered
Icefloe from tho small block on
which tho cnnipors hnve rigged
up nn emorgoncy tent. They were
busy salvaging supplies from that
and other fragments.
At Leningrad Dr. Otto J.
Schmidt, director ot rescue oper
ations, announced receipt ot this
(Contlnuod on Pago Six)
SENATE REFUSES TO
SHELVE LYNCHING BILL IN
FAVOR OF OTHER BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4- (IP)
Tho sonnto refused todny to lay
aside the nntl-lynching bill, against
which southern sonnlors have fili
bustered for a month.
Tho voto enmo on a motion by
Chairman Glass (D-Va.) of the
sonnto appropriations committee
to pigeon-holo the nntl-lynchlng
measure and take up the (1,400,
000,000 independent offices ap
propriation bill.
Desplto today's voto, opponents
ot tho aiitl-lyiichlng measure ex
pressed confidence a projected
now more to sidetrack II would
bo successful next week.
Some Informed persons said
prlvntoly that many senators prob
ably took ndvnntago of today's
voto to got tbomsolvos on record
as favoring tho antl-lynohlng bill.
This group, It was contonded
would be willing to drop tho nntl
lynchlng tight It tho filibuster con
tinues to dolny othor major legislation.
Committee Tones
Down Resolutions
For White House
DELEGATE ARENS SEES
LITTLE BUSINESS CONFAB
AS DEATH BLOW TO F. R.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (AP)
Delogates to the small business
men's conference shouted down
Ii. O. Arena. Klamath Falls,
Ore., automobile dealer, yester
day when he attempted to read
a telegram from Klamath Falls
and Medtord Interests.
'The administration gave us an
agenda after we arrived here
and tbey kept the discussion to
that," Arena said. "It wai dis
organized. No one knew what
was expected or what to do until
arrival, and a thousand men. all
strangers to one another, flound
ered around.
'The president might have
helped had he come to thai con
ference, exercised hit charm and
quieted the bedlam. Most every
one had expected to see him."
Oregon representatives said ap
(Contlnued on Pag Six)
SMOIIVS
79-Year-Old Giant Runs
Amuck, Kills Three for
' "Calling Him Names."
TEWKSBURY. Mass., Feb. 4
UP) A 79-year-old muscular giant
ran amuck with a blazing pistol
early today, police charged, and
slew threo fellow Inmates in a state
infirmary because they called him
' oau names. '
Two other Inmates lay Jn a
critical condition with bullet
wounds, victims of a sudden at
tack In a darkened ward where 80
elderly men cringed in terror.
Shot In Sleep
John Mack, bald-beaded and six
feet three inches tall, was arrest
ed In Lowell, three miles from the
institution, and charged with mur
der. Ho admitted, Police Captain
(Continued ou Page Six)
INITIATIVE PROPOSED TO
STOP BOYCOTTS, PICKETS
IN INTER-UNION DISPUTES
SALEM, Feb. 4 UP) A pro
posed Initiative to stop "labor
gangsterism and labor racketeer
ing" by preventing picketing and
boycotting in the absence of
bona fide labor dispute was tiled
with the secretary ot state today
by W. H. Perkins, Ontario, mana
ger of the Oregon Producers and
Shippers association,
Perkins snld the bill was de
signed to give protection to farm
ers from "the evils ot labor
racketeering,"
He said the bill did not pro
vide thnt labor unions should In
corporate bconuse the attorney
genornl advised him It was not
possible under the constitution to
torce incorporation or any union.
Perkins added that the mea
sure embodies recent resolutions
passed by granges over the atate
against labor activities.
A labor dispute was defined
as a controversy "in which dis
putants stand In the proximate
relation of employer and em
ploye." Tho measure would pre
vent picketing and boycotting In
jurisdictional disputes.
FEDERAL HOUSING BILL
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 UP)
President Roosevelt last night
signed legislation designed to stim
ulate a vast private homo building
program through liberalization ot
federal mortgage Insurance.
The legislation, In the form of
amendments to the oxlBtlng fed
eral housing act, Is the first ma
jor administration recommenda
tion to be enacted this session.
President Finds Many of
Proposals "Construct
ive, Possible."
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4 (AP)
Twenty-three recommendations
to combat the recession 'were
placed before President Roose
velt today by a committee repre
senting the small business men's
conference. White House officials
declared afterward the president
thought a 1 a r g majority ot
them were constructive and pos
sible of fulfillment.
The recommendations, which
included repeal ot the undis
tributed profits tax, private and
federal loans to smalt business,
curtailment of government ex
pendltures and a campaign to
stimulate business, were read to
the president at an hour and a
half conference by Chairman
Fred Roth of Cleveland, chair
man of the two-day session of
"little fellows " of business.
Advisory Council
On ot the recommendations
was for a permanent advisory
eonncll -Cr intuit business men to
consult with th government.
Secretary Early told newspaper
men after tha White House meet
ing that the president personally
did not want to name such
committee but had asked Roth
and his colleagues to advise with
Secretary Roper with a view to
setting up such an organization,
The list ot recommendations
presented to the president showed
that the conference representa
tives had made many cbangea In
(Continued on Page Six)
WOMAN FREEZES, THREE '
MISSING, 38 SNOWBOUND
IN CALIFORNIA STORMS
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 4 (P)
Northern California, shivering
and wet after four days ot rain,
snow and high winds, expected
more wintry weather today as a
storm moved slowly Inland and
northward.
One woman froze to death,
three persons were missing in
mountain snows, and 38 persons
were snowbound or trapped by
Impassable roads and swollen
streams. There were threats ot
flood along the Sacramento and
Feather rivers.
Along the coast, mariners de
scribed conditions tor tbe 36 hours
ending at midnight Thursday as
the worst for shipping in 30
years. Five steamers were held
helpless In port by rough weather
outside the Golden Gate last night,
while safe within San Francisco
harbor was the battered freighter
Nabesna, which narrowly escaped
being wrecked off the north coast
earlier this week.
, Trains were tied up at several
points by slides and airlane traf
fic was practically paralysed.
Mrs. J. D. Saylor, 60-year-old
mother, perished within two miles
ot her home at Hough Springs,
Lake county. She had set out to
meet a mail atage from Williams
when she was trapped between
two streams which overflowed sud
denly, fed by a storm that had
deluged nearby hills with alter
nate snow and rain.
LOMBARDO GETS SHINERS
IN RESTAURANT BRAWL
NEW YORK. Feb. 4 (P) Guy
Lombardo, orchestra leader, dis
played a bandaged nose and a
pair ot discolored eyes today as
tokens ot what happens when a
"sweet music" man gets In the
way ot a swing.
It was a general free-for-all
fight In a Broadway restaurant
early yesterday, he explained, in
volving himself, Harry Link, mu
sic publisher, Pete Reilly, a fight
manager, and Phil Regan, singing
policeman.
"It all started out with a bit ot
kidding between Link and Re
gan," he aald. "You know how
those 4hlngs are. Tha kidding got
a little rough and this guy Reilly
took exception to It and came Into
our booth. One word led to an
other and then tha swing started.
Alturas Girl Dies As Storm
Delays Delivery of Oxygen;
Continued Snow Likely Here
Impassabillty of the Klamath
Falls-Alturaa highway Thursday
delayed by about 15 'hours the ar
rival ot oxygen tanks sent to the
aid of a small girl suffering from
pneumonia. Tbe child. It is un
derstood, died Thursday evening
before tbe tanks arrived.
The oxygen 'tanks were sent
south by atage and were sched
uled to arrive In Alturas about
noon.
Forced Back
Twelve miles south of Tulelake,
the stage driver was forced to
turn back when he encountered
big California state highway
snbwplow. broken down and stand
ing cross-wise of the road. It was
impossible to take the atage
around the plow.
The return to Klamath Falls
was delayed by trouble In turning
the stage around In tbe drift
banked road. When the stage ar
rived here, the tanks of oxygen
were placed on tho Southern Pa
cific train, arriving at Alturas
about 3 a. m.
Second Shipment '
The name of the young pnen-
Continued on Page Six)
Black Smoke,
4 : 1
1th
A typical sceno In our town on a winter day is black smoke
belching from a high stack, against a stormy sky. The above pic
ture, showing the Klamath Heating company's stacks, was "shot"
Friday morning from Third street and Klamath avenue. The city
nan tower may be seen over the
40 CCC YOUTHS STRIKE
AT DESOLATE PLATEAU
CAMP, GET DISCHARGES
BEND, Feb. 4 (AP) Forty
CCC enrollees, wno pined for the
brlghtor lights and gayer life ot
their native New York and New
Jersey cities, quit the lonely,
wide-open spaces ot the central
Oregon desert near Brothers to
day. Th eastern youths received
dishonorable discharges for stag
ing a sttdown strike.
Officers at the. grating division
camp 60 miles southeast ot here
said the boya had refused to
work because they received in
sufficient food. There wns no
complaint about the type of food,
(Continued on Page Tlx)
Go to F R
Snow continues as the leading
feature of the weather forecast
for the Klamath country.
The storm, which haa been In
progress since the morning of
Groundhog day, was expected to
pile up a thicker blanket over
night The precipitation in the
24 hours preceding 8 a. m. Friday
was .08 of an Inch.
The official forecast for north
ern California was for snows over
the mountains Friday night and
frost in the Interior Saturday,
morning. For Oregon, the weath
er prophets foresaw unsettled
conditions, with showers In the
west portion and snow flurries in
and east of the mountain rangea.
Alturas Highway Bad.
- Plows persistently pushed the
snow from traffic lanes, and ail
major highways were open In the
county. Tbe chamber - of com
merce road Information depart
ment warned motorists that I was
Inadvisable to attempt to travel
the Alturas highway in Modoc
county.
The atage did not get through
Thursday evening. A snowplow.
(Continued on Page Six) '
Wintry Sky
lumber pile at the extreme rlgbt.
CANTON REPORTED UNDER
MARTIAL LAW AS JAPAN
TRIES TO SEIZE CONTROL
HONGKONG. Feb. 4 (P) Mar
tial law was in force today in Can
ton, south China's great metrop
olis, amid reported attempt to
set up a south China puppet gov
ernment under Japanese guidance.
Japanese airplanes flew over
the city throughout the day In a
continuous - demonstration, occa
sionally veering to the south to
drop bombs on the Chinese forts.
Hongkong was full of rumors
of an impending coup d'etat at
Canton, 80 miles northwest ot
here, either by a pro-Japanese
group or by Chinese politicians
independent of the Chiang Kai
Shek government.
At Canton, these rumors were
officially denied.
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PLANESAnACK
FREIGHTER OFF
iT
Insurgent Forces Blamed
for Dawn Bombing; 26
Aboard Rescued.
BARCELONA. Feb. 4 Lt Th
British freighter Alcira, trying tc
run the Spanish Insurgent block
ade, was bombed by two planes
and sunk today 20 miles south
east of Barcelona. .
Her crew of 25 and an observer
for the non-intervention control,
all British, were rescued by a
Spanish government sloop and
fishing vessels and brought to
Barcelona.
A Barcelona communique said
the planes came from the direc
tion of Palma, Mallorca, insur
gent naval and air base. .
Marked by Crosses
Another Spanish government
source said the - plane were
marked by black crosses such as
th insurgents use and were trl
engined Savola-Santa Marios. In
tbe first attack three bombs were
dropped from 160 feet, scoring
direct- hit. ; w-; -r
Like th British freighter En-
dymion, sunk by an unidentified
submarine off the Spanish east
(Continued on Page. Six)
NOTORIOUS BANK ROBBER
KILLED IN GUN BATTLE
WITH OHIO DETECTIVES
COLUMBUS. O., Feb. 4 UP)
Charles Bird, notorious bank rob
ber, and an unidentified man were
killed today in a gun battle in
which six other persons, including
three detectives, were wounded.
COLUMBUS. O.. Feb. 4 UP)
Three detectives were shot, a
bank robber suspect was killed
and another was wounded seri
ously today In a gun battle at a
west side rooming bouse. Th
dead man was Identified as
Charles Bird, a member of th
notorious Bird brothers bank
robbery gang.
The wounded detectives were
reported to be Robert Cltne, Leo
Phillips and William Danner. The
seriousness ot their condition was
not determined Immediately.
The shooting occurred In a
two-story, yellow frame house.
which was pierced by scores of
bullets in the brief, fierce gun
fight.
A roomer in the house also
was reported to have been
wounded. Police said there was
no Indication that he was con
nected with the robbers.
Heavy snows prevent bus from
reaching - Alturas carrying two
tanks of oxygen to a young Al
turas girl dying ot pneumonia.
The child, whose name was not
learned, la reported dead Friday.
Page 1.
Snowstorm expectod to continue
here. All major' highways In coun.
ty open. Travel on Alturae road
held inadvisable. 8tiick snowplow
force stage to return. Page 1.
L. O. Arena, Klamath Falls, and
Portland delegate declare their
disgust with "little business" con
ference In Washington, D. C.
Arena asserts It was waste of time,
money. Oregon message howled
down. Page 1.
Klamath sub-district formed br
CCC, with Captain Norman A.
Donges as sub-commander. Pag
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