! WEATHER Moderating , High )M, Low 4 PRECIPITATION WIRE SERVICE Th HcrAliI nnl Norn suliacrllw (o full Innanl wire aorvlre ol I ho Aaeiirlatel I'rma ml (ho Unllxd I'rcaa, III world'! greatest kwaKnlliorlii or(iiiililliiia, for 17 hours dnlljr world nowa ciilnra Into I'll Herald. Nowa offlre ou lololypo machines. 2i houra to 8 a. m. .. .00 Briwon to date .. .....12.74 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Iat year to dale . .......4.B8 Normal precipitation ..........7.1i Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938 Number 8172 -(3. VlA 15) MM1 in UllV m rv n n nrmz amm Klamath Vice Shutdown Reported Stumbling Editorials On the Day s N ews Ilr 1 HANK JHNKI.NH wrKLL, ll"' niyatory surrounding tho urlRln of Ihu word "goon" aoeuia to bo solved. Tbla writer haa boon profusely Informed by telephone, by lotlor and by telegram (lint llio "goon" la a creature crealod by Hegar, thu cartoonist, to enliven tho nd ventures of I'opcye the Riillnr Man. (It linn bein rather generally Intimated. Incidentally, tbnt tbla acrlbe muni bo protty dumb not to have known Hint.) A NYWAY, II appeara thnt the "loon," aa Imagined by Segnr. wna a dlaroputablo apeelmen, half human and half animal, which c:rled out tho dirty work plotted by the " haa"." another char actor one wouldn't wish to num. bor a mon j hla Intimalca. popcya'a job wna to throw mon. key.wrenehea Into the wicked arhemea eoncocted by these worth oa, thin adding thrllla aa well aa laiiKha to the comic atrip that provldoi Mr. Rcgar'a bread " and butter not to mention caviar and champagne. pOI'EYR (aa Ihla writer haa boon copiously Informed by helpful read on) waa eventunlly able, by tho power of hla aplnach allmulated blropa and the purity of hla example, lo convince the 'goon" of the error of Ita wnya and to lead It toward tho higher things of life, Whoreupon, (we are atlll deal ing In hearaay) the "goon" went out of Popeyea life, at least for the preaonl which aooma mason ablo, aa trie comlo atrlpa are not actively concerned with characlera leading the higher and the purer life, preferring to deal with low and unwashed chnrnctera having plenty of "atmoaphere." TTTIIKN I'opoye dlapenaed with " the "goon," (we are now dealing In apoculntlon, rathor than boarany) tho reporters and the hondllne writers picked the creature up, Thoy needed a abort word with vlcloua and umoclnl connotation! a word calculated (Contlnuod on Pago 8evcn ( CHARLES K. SPAULDING, STATE SENATOR, VETERAN OREGON LUMBERMAN, DIES SAT. KM. Feb. II (AP) Rtnlo Senator Charles K. Spauldlng, 72. pioneer Snlom lutnhermnn, died Inat night nder an Illness of sov eral wooka. Ho waa born at Leavenworth. Kan., Jnnuiiry 28, 1 ROti, and lived In the Wlllamotto valley since 1(74. He waa married In 1884 to Lorah 0. Scene at Dnyton. Entering tho logging Induatry at 19, he CBtnbllflhod tho Chnrlea K. Rpaiildlng Logging compnny at Nowberg In 1894. In 1905 ho ptir chnaed a Snlom anwmlll and littor alao became hoad of a Nowborg pulp compnny. Senator Spnttldlng wna oloc.tod to the atnto aniintn In 1990 and rn elocted In 1984. Ho wna a membor of the atnto highway cnmnilnBlon In the Moler ndmlnlHt ration, Little Interviews It. D. Mccormick, MnmphlB, Tenn., who wn one of 30 motor lata snowbound ovnrnlght nt Per es Woll, I hope I can got going again now, nttor my lit! In expori enco with "unuaunl" California wonthor. Frank Hownrdj county en gineer Itnrblngera of spring were all hnywire Ihla yonr, 1 aaw a lot of them la January, QtQUH fHtt4Jh QHbto POLICE GET ORDERS TO TIGHTEN LID Richmond Receives Com plaints of Gambling Revival Here (ambling and vlco became an lasne again hero Wednesday when .Mayor Clifton Richmond, warned by Circuit Judge K. II. Ashural. ordered the pollco department to tighten tho lid. In a letter to tho police de partment, Mnyor lllchni I Mulct ho had been lold by the Judge that Ihern had been complaints of revived giimbllng In the pool hnlla and t lint there were house of proailtutlon running In Khun ath Fulls laal Sunday. Investigation Ordered 'The pollco department will linmedliitely mako an invcatlga tlon relntlve to the above reporta and If you find any vlolntlnna of the law In the city II mil n In connection with gambling or proailtutlon or vlco In any form. II will be your duty to arrest the offenders and prefer proper charges In ordur that the city can prosecute said alleged of-' fendora," aald the mayor's lot tor to the police. It waa reported lhat In aome of the pool halla, playing of auch an iocs aa "tonk" and "rummy" with trndo rhecka hud Binned up In tho pBt few day. Tho new order preiiimahly wai In tnnded to atop tho piny. "Open" va. "Cloned" A policeman who covera the "flata" dlalrtri on hla beat aimed thnt no home, of proailtutlon hnd reopened hero alnce the ro cent cloaure. Monnwhlle. the ancient question na to whether Klamath Fnlla ahould be an "open" or "closed" town kept conversationalists busy (Contlnuod on Page Soven) TEAMSTER BOSS WIELDS WIDE FINANCIAL POWERS, GOV. MARTIN ALLEGES SALEM, Feb. 16 (API Gover nor Chnrlea It. Mnrtln alleged yca tordny thnt Al Roacr, tcnniBtera' union bend In Oregon, collected 120.000 a month, of which ho could spend 119,000 aa ho anw fit. The chnrge wna mnde In a apooch to tho newly organized Ab Boclnted Farmera of the Pacific Const, In which tho governor re ferred to recent bombing of a Portland denning plant and Bald there wna "potential murder In all theae thlnga." Ho doclarod aome labor organ isers wcro making $1000 a month last summer and thnt one big Portland wholesaling firm "stood In with" ccrtnln labor organizer! In order to dostroy competition. Tho ABBOclntod Karniors, organ Izod to deal with fnrm labor prob loms In Oregon, Washington and California, oloctcd Col. Wnltor lfl. Uurrison of Lodl, Cnllf., temporary presldont and nnmod Frod Uood coll of Ban Francisco acting socro tary. MEXICAN ARMY PRIVATE CHARGED WITH MURDER, RAPE IN TIJUANA CASE TIJUANA, Mux., Pol). 1(1 t.T) .lu it n Cnsllllo Monties, 24, prlvnto In the Tijuana army gnqdRon, wna chnrgod with homlcldo ifhd rnpo today by M. M. Ollva, public mlnlstor, In the denth of Olgn Conaitolo Comneho which atnrtod nn 18-hour riot here yostordny. Thlrly-flvo poisons described na "rndlcnl coniniunlats" by au thorities wore Jnllod on chnrgoa of Incondlnrlam aa a result of the rioting. Vldnl Torres, G6, ahot through Iho shoulder In tho fighting yos tordny died during thn night. Official Bournes dnnled reports thnt threo pot-sons dlod yostordny horoio tho Riinflro of troops when thoy ahot Into the mob after It fired tho Jail and the fodornl building. The slnln child dlsnppoared Sunday night, nnd hor body wns found In nn abandoned garage near her home Monday morning. Lessees on Tule Lake Sump Agree to Forfeit 6000 Acres As Anti-Flood Precaution I.esscc-a on thn Tulo lake sump agreed Wedneaduy afternoon on a plnn enlarging the actual under water urea there by 0000 acrca. In order to relieve pressure on tho dlkea and avert a possible flood. The land to bo nowly flooded Ilea cum of tho proaent dlko ex cept a triangular lection adjoin ing tho croan-drnln running west from pump No. 6. When thla flooding la done, 21,000 acres will be under water. Kxrhangca The plan cnlla (or exchangea bo t lint leaseea In the newly flood ed area will receive land olse-w-bere. No ono will lose out en tirely. ilenzi'l brotbora and tho Kan drn family, who have large hold ings on both the caat and west aide, will givo up their eaat aldo E C. A. Dunn, W. D. Miller To Build Three Spans , Across Canal . ..it . - ..'-' v Two local contractora, 0. A. Dunn and W. D. Miller, were awarded the contracts for the canal bridges by the clly council In nn adjourned session Tuesday afternoon. Miller will build the all-concrete Ksplnnnde bridge Hla bid waa $93.13.50. Thia waa $8.50 more than the bid of Denton and Young, llolse, Ida., the council deciding to glvo It to Miller on tho basis of tho fact ho Is a Klam ath Falls contractor and the dif ference betwoen bids was slight. Aiphnlt Itondwnys Dunn will build tho timber deckod Washington street and Mnln street bridges at bids of $5666 and $5326 respectively. These bridges will have asphalt roadways, concrete aldewalka and wooden hand-rnils. Totnl of tho three bids Is $20. 32."i. which loaves something nround $40,000 for the longer, costlier Klevcnth street bridge. Ulils for that span have not yet been called. Switching Permitted At their adjourned meeting the councllmen agreed to permit the (Contlnuod on Page Seven) COLD WAVE GRIPS ROCKY MOUNTAIN AREA, BRINGS DEATH BY FREEZING DENVER, Feb. 1 (AP) Death-donllng cold gripped the Hockics, biiow and sleet lay over much of the great plains area, and Oklahoma streams ran at flood atngo todny as a long-delayed blast of winter whipped southward out of western Canada. Montana nnd Nebraska reported deaths by freoxlng, and Icy high ways wcro blamed for deaths In Colorado nnd Kansas. Two to six inches of snow covored Colorado and Wyoming. Tho abrupt chungo of weather, rearhing from Iho Mississippi river to lltnh, followed hy a day tho ces sation of California's 19-day aloge of heavy rain. Anthony Fon, H. waa found troxen to denth yofltorday In nn empty oro car near Anacondn, Mont., whore tho tomporature dropped to 10 below xoro. Mon tnnn tomporatui'OB gononilly wore bolow xoro. Nonr Allinnco, In western No brnskn, Willlo Stnmlor, 40, negro trnnslent boliovod to bo from Dan ville, 111., wna found dead on a side rond, a victim of tho cold. Earl Sago, 40, of Aurora, Colo, was killed last night when his truck plunged from a snow-cov ered highway down nn 8-foot em bnnkmoiit near Wntkins, Colo. John Vnnbrook of Denver died in u crash on a sleety highway near Syracuse, Kns. HICAMKS 1 1 J, WASHINGTON, , Fob, 18 (ff) Suffering from a cold, Senator lOvnn Hentucs was confined to his homo todny upon orders of Dr. Clnorge W. Culver, cnpltol physi-olan. leasea for the protection of their west aide holdings. Kmallcr leaseholdcra In tho flood area will got land In the aouth end of the basin. With a heavy runoff expected when the snow begins to melt and with the present Tule lake sump full, lenso holders met at the reclamation office Tuesday to atudy plana to avert a flood on the leased land area aurroundlng tho dikes. The ultimate solution of the problem. It was felt, would be the construction of the proposed tun nel to drain lump water Into Lower Klamath lake, but H. E. Haydon. reclamation superintend ent, stated that even If an appro priation is secured Immediately the project could not bo com- (Coiiiiniiod on Page Soven) High Soviet Official Quits Bolshevists ROME, Feb. 16 UPh-The mys tery of what happened to Jodor Butenko, soviet charge d' affalrea In Bucharest until he disappeared there February 6, wn cleared, up. today' when he walked dramati cally Into the fascist camp and declared himself a deserter from tho bolshevisls. Fascist officials. Including For eign Minister Count Gnlcaxxo Cl ano, gnvo him Immedlalo audi ences and the Giurnale I)' Italia devoted Its entire front page to bis signed diatribes against bol shevism. "Terrible Nightmare" Butenko arrived In Home last night without a passport. (The soviet government had protested to Rumania concerning his disap pearance and Pravda, communist orgnn In Moscow, hnd declared he was the victim of a "fascist political crime") But in hla aigned statement Butenko said: "Feeling myself an intellectual who could not tolerate -treachery and who lived up to his Ideals, I (Continued on Page Seven) TWO GIRLS GET LIFE SENTENCES FOR SLAYING OF BUS DRIVER IN HOLDUP NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 16 !P) Two young women convicted of slaying a bus driver In a $2.10 holdup were sentenced today to spend the rest of their lives In prison. A Jury of 12 married men last night returned a verdict of first degree murder with a recommen dation for morcy, making life Im prisonment mandatory. As Mrs. Ethol "Bunny" Sohl, 20, policeman's daughter, nnd Uenevleve Owons, 18, stood with bowed heads, Judge Daniel J. Brennnn repeated the Jury'a ver dict and imposed the sentences. Both girls wept Inst night as the foreman announced the con viction and tho recommendation for morcy, calling for life Im prisonment at hard labor. With out the recommendation, the death penalty would have been manda tory. Tall, broad-shouldered Patrol man Frank SI rouse, who had testified his daughter Ethol, was "Insane" from smoking the nar cotic marihuana, wept. Mrs. Di ane Koval, slBtor of Genevieve screamed and was escorted out side. During the olght-dny trial Mra. Sohl admitted an automobile theft and three holdups, but contended "roofer" clgarots rendered her unable to tell right from wrong, In the final holdup, on Docom- her 21, she confessed stopping a boa In suburbnn Bellovllle, killing Barhorat, 34, with a aawed-off ,22 raliber rifle, and fleeing with the $2.10 In hla change carrier. Black-haired Gonovlcve admit ted accompanying Ethel on the threo holdups, but said she did not got out of their car. The law hold her equally responsible na an "alder nnd abettor." HOI'l'KB CONTROL WASHINGTON, Fob. 16 (AP) The house pnssed and sent to the senate today a $2,000,000 appro priation for control of grasshop pers and othor Insect pests. MERCURY SINKS STILL LOWER IN KLAMATH BASIN Steel Swamp Most Frigid Spot With 20 Below; 4 Above Here Klamath Falls 4 above Steel Swamp 20 below Tulclake 4 below Chemult 18 below Crescent Lake . 2 above Gorber dam 18 below Bleber 15 below Mercury went tobogganing again Wednesday. At Klamath Falls the official temperature was four above, the coldest of the year, while season records were marked up at Chemult, 18 below; Steel Swamp 20 below, and Ger ber dam, 18 below. Another cold night was In pros pect, but there was hope for mod erating temperatures Thursday. Increasing cloudlnesa was fore cast for Oregon, with probable rains on the coast and snow Hur ries in the mountains. The wind here" bad .'.veered . toward the southwest, which usually means moderating temperatures. Few Pipes Froxen A few cases of froxen water pipes in residences were reported by local plumbers Wednesday morning. Motorists who had failed to put sufficient antl freexe solutions In their radiators for near-xera temperature! were having their troubles. But for tho most part Klamath residents weathered tho mercury plunge (Continued on Page Seven ) MILWAUKIE GRANGER TO SEEK GOVERNORSHIP AS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE PORTLAND, Feb. 1 (AP) M. S. Shrock. Mllwaukie. a leader in tho Oregon grange and a dairy feed manufacturer, announced to day his candidacy for the republi can nomination for governor. Saying the labor problem was the most serious ono confronting the state, Shrock Indicated In a statement he would base his cam palgn on a plan to cure the Ills of organlxed labor. He said be favored establish ment of a labor relations court of threo appointed by the governor to hear all disputes between em ployer and employe and render decisions In the same manner as the public utilities commissioner decided cases before him. The court would be empowered to call hearings on Its own Initia tive and no picketing would be permitted until It had rendered a decision and the employer had failed to abide by it. Shrock said he favored a law prohibiting Interference with the delivery of such commodities aa agricultural products, animals, clothing and products necessary thereto, fuel and such others of Importance to public welfare. TEAMSTERS' BUSINESS AGENT PLEADS GUILTY TO CHARGE OF ARSON DALLAS, Ore., Feb. 18 (AP) A. N. Banks of Salem, 1 business agent for tho teamsters' union for Polk, Marlon and Linn counties, this morning entered a plea of guilty to a chargo of arson In con nection with the West Salem box factory November 20 filed against him by District Attorney Bruce Spnulding. The plea was entered before Cir cuit Judge Arlle 0. Walker but the court did not set a time for sen tence. PORTLAND, Feb. 16 (AP) The county grand Jury returned eleven more Indictments today against alleged labor terrorists, bringing to 21 the number ac cused. The grand jury previously bad Indicted 16 men and some of those nnmod today also were charged In the othor true bills. A Bad Day i-1 V ""-'!"'T' bj ' ' V ' ' L, Atia. L .J-JL .aw.. , i i V.-1 ,.,. h ' h L j , i i,r,r.': Atf'4 ft Hundreds of froxen or partially froxen ducks were- found throughout ' Klamath county Including the business section of Klamath Falls Wednesday. Here Is Bob Elder, police desk sergeant, picking a ruddy duck with frost and Ice, In front of Ice on Wings Disastrous To Wild Ducks "Hundreds of ducks, of the small ruddy variety, were found froxen to death, or In such a con dition they were unable to fly, when picked up In various sec tions of Klamath county where an unusual situation arose endan gering wild life In the Klamath basin. - According to state police there were 100 or more dead ducks on the Weed-Klamath highway be tween Klamath Falls and Dorris, (Continued on Page Seven) JURY DEADLOCKED ON WRIGHT SANITY VERDICT; NEW TRIAL POSSIBILITY LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 (AP) Inability of a jury to reach a ver dict on Paul A. Wright's sanity in creased today the possibility an other costly trial may be necessary for the convicted slayer. The same Jury that required only threo hours last Saturday to decide Wright was guilty of man slaughter for shooting his wife and his friend. John Kimmel, has deliberated since Monday night on his plea of Innocent by reason of Insanity. Lat today, It was Indicated, Superior Judge Ingall Bull may discharge the weary Jurors, eight men and four women. Prosecution and defense coun sel estimated a retrial on the san ity Issue probably would take three weeks, Including a review Ol all evidence in Wright's murder trial by a new Jury. Huudreds of "fan" letters from various parts of the country have poured In to trial attorneys. Some praised, some condemned the pros ecution's enso. Most of wrignt s letters consoled him, Glesler said. One was an application for the Job of nursemaid for the defendant's motherless three-year-old daugh ter, Holon. SENATE AGAIN EEFUSES TO HALT FILIBUSTER WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (AP) The aenate rejected today a mo tion for limiting debate on the antl-lynchlng bill. The vote was 46 against to 42 tor the. debate limitation, which tinder senate rules required a two- thirds favorable vote. Defeat of the motion left un changed the status of the filibus ter agnlnBt the measure, now en tering lti 28th day. for Ducks! ..JW eii'inai out of the snow as it fell, covered the city hall. AFL REFUSES TO American Labor Body Re jects Stalin's Appeal For Help in War NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (AP) The American Federation of Labor has rejected the appeal of Josef Stalin, soviet Russia s lead er, for organlxed labor through out the world to support Russia in event of war, Matthew Woll, AFL vice . president, said today. "Tho soviet regime deserves no more support from organlxed labor in democratic . countries than do the governments of Hit ler and Mussolini," said Woll. - Letter Published "Speaking for the nearly 4. 000,000 American workers affili ated with the American Federa tion of Labor, I am authorised to say that American workers will not permit themselves to be come embroiled in war to help save Stalin's dictatorship," he continued. Stalin In Moscow this week (Continued on Page Seven) COLLIER PREDICTS GREAT BOOM IN CONSTRUCTION OF "UNDER $2500" HOMES SPOKANE, Waah., Feb. 1 (JP) The president of the Western Re tall Lumberman's association, here for tomorrow's opening of Its annual convention, declared today, "We can build ourselves out of this slump, and the lumbermen are prepared to do the job." President Alfred D. Collier of Klamath Falls. Ore., In an Inter view predicted an extensive build ing program in the "under $2600" residential class. He said the re tailers' association had prepared for the need with special research. "It has been proved that the low cost home Is a home built of lum ber," he said. "That Is why our forest areas In the northwest have such an Important meaning to the program on the Atlantic seaboard. Without our lumber this program can not go forward. One thousand delegates are ex pected for the association s three day convention. RESCUE ARRIVES MOSCOW, Feb. 16 (AP) Two rescue airplanes from soviet Ice breakers today reached the camp of the tour Russian scientists adrift on an Ice cake oft the coast ot Greenland. One plane remained with the campers. - 4 IKE ISES FEARS Hitler Friends Gain Cab inet Posts; Political Prisoners Freed PARIS, Feb. 16 (IF) Officials of the French foreign office an nounced tonight that the French and British ambassadors In Ber lin would ask the German gov ernment to declare its "future in tentions" concerning Austria. A high official of the Qual D' Orsay said Britain and France, as a result of talks in London and Paris, had agreed that the situa tion In Austria waa "very grave." Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos, It was itated, had conferred at length by telephone with Anthony Eden, Britain's foreign secretary, on the crisis arising from the penetration of naxi influetice Into the Austrian cabinet at behest of Reichsfuehrer Hitler. BERLIN. Feb. 18 P Nail of ficialdom and the nasi press ac claimed Germany's new power in AUBina-wnir -doi h-wba iriw Reichsfuehrer Hitler to tell what else of the story Is to be told to the relchstag Sunday. Reichstag- to Meet Amid broad speculation on the ministerial sbakeup that gave naxis a voice In Austria's cabinet and on the secret conversations between Hitler and the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, ot (Contlnued on Page Seven) FEDERAL INVESTIGATION OF LABOR TERROR URGED PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 18 (P) Harold Prltchett, preBldent of the CIO International Woodworkers of America, who told Interviewers he had been denied a visa for per manent residence In the United States, demanded last night fed eral Investigation ot alleged labor terrorism here. He asserted In a mass meeting speech the campaign should be taken out ot the hands of state and local law enforcement agencies be cause "they'll find some poli ticians there, too." Mercurv noaedlvei to 20 below at Steel Swamp. Four above Is season's record here. Page 1. DjL-ttirhiAnimr nf lid on gam bling and vice ordered here. Page 1. Mn Tme albbson rescued from Icy waters of Link river after she Jumped into the chilly stream from tne Fremont unoae. Page 7. Hundreds ot ruddy ducks found throughout the Klamath basin, freexe as the result of frost and Ice forming on their wings. Many rescued by atate snd city police. Page 1. Lessees agree to Increase flood ed land by 6000 acres on Tula. lake to relieve pressure on dikes. Exchange plan worked out. Page 1. W. D. Miller given contract for . Eaplanade bridge construc tion. C. A. Dunn to build Main street and Washington street spans. Total cost little over $20,000 for three structure!. Page 1. - Plani virtually comple' ton agricultural economic conference here February 23. 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