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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 14, 1938)
KM WEATHER I'mettled High 46, Low 81 PRECIPITATION 24 hour to I a, m.............Trae Heason lo date 18.70 Iant year to data 4.87 Normal precipitation ............8.47 WIRE bcKVICJE The Herald and News sulisrrlli lo full leased wlr servlr of Ilia Assnrlatsd Proas and (lit Unliiwl Proas, the world' greatest wavnlhrrlng organisations, for 17 hours dull; norld aw com Into Th Herald Mews olflc on teletype machine. -'Si ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS pat -rrr Price Fiv " ,htS& KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1938 IUKMY Number 8194 mm u eiVES mum Forest Conservation Demanded by President Editorials On the Day'. N ews Br FRANK JKNKIN8 Rll. I. ANKI.I.N dropped ,,0 t h 11 office tho other evening with a talo about Undo Absalom, who used to iiv down In tho Otarks. Unci Abialom, It leomi, was low In growlnc up deficient In tho pituitary, we'd probably call It In those modorn dsys. Ilut tho linpla folk of tho Otarks regarded him Just plain dumb. II wss 14, 1)111 says, before1 bo learned lo byeby. TVHEN Absalom wan 21. ho " Joined th noy'a Club, whoi Diltngi wr held In th room abor th ator. When they dls covered he wan atlll wearing diapers, th boy took him out and threw him down the stain. Absalom picked himself up and went back, and they Ihraw him down the atalrs again. Thla hap pened three times, and Absalom decided something wns wrong and went out and sat down on stump to think It out. II thought for two days and two nights, and finally It all became clear to him. "I know what's wrong," "h told himself with conviction. "Thou boys don't want mo In there." THESB politicians who got us Into serious trouble by spend ing too much money and now propone lo got us out by upending still mors money remind one strangely of Undo Absalom. They need to grow up. A CIRCULAR came to this writer's office th other day from an outfit thai offera to writ a speech for anybody, on any subject, at any time. Just send along five dollars, th circu lar promises, and In a week th speech will bo In your possession. No need to burn the midnight oil while turning the crank on th old Inspiration machine. Just sign a check and put It In th mall, and your worries will b over. It's certainly a great age w llvo In. Isn't It? All the modern conveniences right at our finger tips. THIS writer. kutiTit, Is peculiar. He'd rather listen lo a TERRIBLE speech that ex pressed tho spcakor's honest con victions than to sit through a masterpiece of oratory wrltlon by a ghost writer for five dollars or any othor sum. flow do you feel about HT WALL STREET BROKER PLEADS GUILTY TO GRAND LARCENY, FACES PRISON NEW YORK, March 14 UP Richard Whllnoy, 40, five times presldont of tho New York Stock Exchange and head of tho bank rupt Wall Street brokorago firm of Richard Whltnoy ft Co., pload ed guilty tndny to grand larceny In th theft of 1106,000 worth of aectirltloa from a trust fund. Turning a deep crimson under a healthy emit of Inn, tho eoclally prnmlJiont financier rend a "inte rnum to thn court In which he mada a full confession of guilt and anld ho was ready to Pay th penalty, "I fully ronlko tha gravity of what has been done," ho anld 1n conclusion, "and that a ponnlty must bo paid, I nlHo fully ronllzo the nature and consequence of the statement which I am now mnklng but I hnvo novortholcss determined to mnkn It." In numerous liislnnc.os, hn anld. ho hnd pledged securities without authority of customers who own ed them, using tho proceeds' In firm huslnoss, Whltnoy, whoBo firm handled many of tlio J. P. Morgnn & Co., brokorngo accounts, limy ho sent enced to servo from B to 10 yonre In prison for first dogrco grnnd lnrcony. Sonlonco will he pro nouncod In two wooks. Federal Action Held Necessary To Save Timber SEN. NORRIS AGREES TO IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION OF TVA SITUATION WASHINGTON. March 14 (P) Senator Norrlt (Ind.-Neb. ) aimed today to a sweeping sonata Inves tigation of the Tennessee valley authority and sought Immediate authorisation of tha Inquiry. Ills request that th senate tak up Immediately a resolution for th Inquiry wss blocked, however, by both democratic and republican objections. Norrls, abandoning his stand that tha federal trade commission should make the study. Introduced a resolution providing for a senal Investigation along both th Hues he has wanted and those laid out by 8enatora King (D-Utah) and (Continued on Pag Thro) E TOO SMALL, CLAIM Treasury Complains Mea sure Passed by House Costs $20,000,000, WASHINGTON. March 14 UPi Itoswoli Mclilll. undersecretary of tho treasury, told the senate fin ance committee today that the tax rovlslon bill, aa It passed the houso, would not provide suffic ient revonue. McOIll testified at an execu tive session of the committee. Members said ho suggested re storation of the lax on closely held corporations which was stricken out hy the house. "Pretty Well Hatlsflcil" McOIll testified at an executive session of tha committee. Mem bers said he suggested restoration (Continued on Pag Three) SUPREME COURT REFUSES TO SUSPEND CAPONE'S POST-ALCATRAZ SENTENCE WASHINGTON, March 14 fP) Alphonse Capone, former Chicago gang leader, failed In th aupreme court today In hla effort to escape serving a one-yenr term In tho Cook county j at the expira tion of a 10-ycar sentence ho now Is serving at Alcatraz. Th high court refused to In terfere with a Judgment against Capon by the seventh circuit court of appeals. II was indicted In 1931 on chnrges of Income tax evasion for 1D25 to 1939. He was con victed and aentonced to serve 11 yoara Imprisonment and pay a fin of $50,000. One year waa to be aervod In th Cook county (Chlcngo) Jail after expiration of the fodoral prison term. Capon, through Abraham Toltolhaum, hla counsel, contend ed he was placed In double Jeopardy. Allowing time orr ror good be havior, tho aontence Capon la now serving will expire January 19, 19.19, He becamo eligible for parole September 3, 1935, but his npplirntlon waa denied. After a brier aesslon, during whlc't it delivered only one minor opinion, tho court adjourned tor two weeks. RUFUS HOLMAN MAY SLtK SENATE POST, REPORT PORTLAND, March 14 m The Oregon Journal said Sunday Unit Huftis O. Hnlmnn, atato treas urer, Intended to become a oan dldnto for tho republican nomina tion for United Btntes senator at tho Mny prlmnry, Tho statement was baaed on "authority, the authenticity of which mny not bo questioned," the newspaper said, Holman tins made no announce ment but tho Journal quoted him as saying (lint he wns being ui'god hy many persons to seek the office. Congress Asked to Form Committee to Study Situation. WASHINGTON. March 14 (P) President Roosevelt asked con gress today to set up a Joint com mittee to study th forest Isnd problem with a view to taking "definite action" at the next sea slon to check the "using up of our forest rosources without replace ment." He said in a apeclal message that, with some outstanding ex ceptions, most of the states, com munities and private companies hsd accomplished llttlo toward for est conservation and added: "Thla bolng ao. It seems ob viously necessary to fall back on th last defensive line federsl leadership and fodoral action." Fiscal Language Th president used fiscal lan guage In describing tha exhaus tion of timber resources, saying "We are atlll liquidating our for est capital, still cutting our ac cesslble forests faster than, they ar being replaced. Our forest budget needs balancing." He recommended particular con sideration to the situation respect ing prlvato forest lands and to the following flvo polnta; "1 Tho adequacy and effec tiveness of present activities in protecting public and prlvato for est lands from fir, Insects and (Continued on Pag Three) GOVERNOR WOULD DEPORT ALL ALIENS WHO FAIL TO BECOME CITIZENS SALEM, March 14 (AP) Governor Charles H. Martin, pushing a campaign against alien criminals and alien labor lead ers, bellovea every foreign Im migrant owes the country of his adoption the obligation of good citizenship and that America should collect th debt. "I would Ilk to see every alien kicked out of th country," he aald today. Previously he had fulminated against alien labor leaders. "If they refuse to become good American citliens, they have no right to be here. Most of them ar Just trouble mak ers." The governor recently urged the department of labor to adopt a atir rer policy toward alien crlmlnala and asked what could be don to obtain their deporta tion. Present lawa provide aliens or less than five years' residence can be deported upon conviction or crime, but two convictions are necessary to deport ' those who have lived longer In this country. The 105( Inmates or the Ore gon state penitentiary Include 65 aliens, of whom only 12 ar eligible for deportation. . Tho governor would like to see them all returned to their native lands, thus saving the state about 11100 monthly. Sevoral of the (5 are aervtng long terms, but none Is notori ous, Warden James Lewis aald. EZELL PLANS TO RUN FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER James Ezoll will he a candi date for county commissioner on the republican ticket, he Indicat ed Monday afternoon on a visit to the courthouse. Rsell has lived In this district alnce 1910. Is a member of a well-known family and two yenra ago wns a republican candidate for county clerk. , His filing will assure a race on tho repnhllcnn sldo of tho com mlsslonorshln contest. John Me Call hns nlroady filed for tho nomination, , NHKKPMAN THUS LAKEVIEW, March 14 (AP) George Plko, 89, who crossod the plains on foot when he waa 18, was burled yesterday. Pike, a native of England, hnd been a sheepman In Lake county for more than half a century. Roy Hall ; jk, f t ; ;;;. st-A a..,.., .. r "mij Roy Logan Hall, 29, who died at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning as the result of Injuries which he suffered early Friday morning when the coupe In which he and Mrs. Hall and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith were riding, ran Into the city atreet sweeper. Funeral services wlll.be hold Wednesday at 3 o'clock from the Elks temple. E Automobiles, Falls, Gun shot Claim Heavy Toll ,' Over Weekend. By the Associated Press Eight persons met death vio lently in weekend tragodles. Au tomobiles killed fire, two persons were fatally injured in falls and a doctor's wife died of gunshot wounds at Burns. Sheriff C. W. Frazler of Harney county aald a murder complaint had been filed against Mrs. Mil dred Parker, 40, In the fatal shoot ing of Mrs. H. D. Meyer, 35. Albert Kllngcr. 68. and Wil liam Groh, 70, both of Portland, were struck down by cars as they attempted to cross Intersections. Amelia Peterson, 83, died Satur day of Injuries suffered in an automobile crash. Falls From Porch Roy Logan Hall, 29, succumb ed at Klamath Falls early yester day. His automobile collided with a atreet awoeper Friday. Alexan der McMillan, about 60. of Port land, lost hla life yesterday when his automobile plunged down a 40-foot embankment near St. Hel ena. Paul ' Hutter, 45, ex-flreman, died at Portland of a fractured skull. Police said he apparently fell from a porch. William Karhula, 65, longshore man, received a fatal Injury Sat urday at Astoria when he slipped and struck his head on the sharp edge of a hand loading truck.. LIQUOR OPERATIVES RAID THREE KLAMATH NIGHT CLUBS, ARREST NINE State liquor operatives, aided by atate police and sheriff's of ficers, raided 1 three Klnmath night clubs Snturday night and Sunday morning. They made, nine arrests ' on charges of maintaining a common nuisance, at the Embassy club, south of town, tho Rlts on South Sixth street, and Red Rock Inv ent on The Dnllcs-Californla highway north, The placea were "knocked over" without Incident, following the procedure which has pre vailed at numerous periodic, raids conducted in this district. , , All of the defendants wore out Monday to arrange bond, set at 3600 by Justice of the Peace W, B. Rarnea in most of the cases. . Thoso arrestod: ' Rod Rock Hnrry Bert Mailer, 40: Vivian Frances Mazier, 29, bpth operators. -Rltz Carl Albert Walters, 29, operator; Harry Alexander Bow en, 89, musician. t . Embassy James Fred Pulvar, 88, and Earl Wobb, 48, operators; Gonovlove Florence Mercer, 89, singer; Arthur Gnrdes, 30, door man; Robert L. Novak, 24, bartender. T L TO ROY L. HALL Services Scheduled Wed nesday; Other Crash Victims Better. Roy Logan Hall, 29, active young Klamath Falls business man, died at Hillside hospital at 2:30 o'clock Sunday morning from Injuries received early Fri day morning when the coupe he was driving crashed into the city street sweeper. Three other occupants of the car. Mrs. Mildred Davis Hall, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Smith, are reported Improving. Mrs. Hall, who Buffered severe facial and head Injuries, and Smith are In the hospital. Mrs. Smith was released late Friday afternoon. At Elks Temple Funeral services will be held tor Hall from the Elks temple at 3 o'clock Wednesday after noon with the Elks lodge in charge of services. Pall bearers will be Julian Abbott. Norval H. Hall, Brady Montgomery, Elbert Stiles, Paul Winters and E. A. McDenelh Honorary-pattrfrear- ers will be Lee Jacobs, M. W. Cosebooni, Neal Stewart, Leon Evans. Or. D. J. Rees and Ken neth G. Klahn. Hall was born In Lyonsvllle, Calif., October 19, 1908. He was 29 years old at the time of his death. His father, Logan Hall, was killed near Ashland In 1913 while superintending bridge con struction, and the family moved to California ahortly after that time. Attended High School Here Coming to Klamath Falls from San Jose In February, 1926, Hall entered Klamath Union high school, where he was a atudent (Continued on Page Three) CZECHOSLOVAKIA PLANS TO FIGHT BACK RATHER THAN SUBMIT TO GERMANY WASHINGTON, March 14 UPl Minister Vladmtmlr Hurban of Czechoslovakia informed Under secretary of State Sumner Welles today that his country "will fight" rather than follow the example of Austria In troubled central Europe. . Czechoslovakia. . he said, will not bow to German pressure. . "Instead, we will tight," he declared. The minister said Czechosloy akia Is actively preparing for mili tary forces to meet any German threat. Coincident with the Welles H urban conversation a group rep resenting the American League tor Democracy demonstrated In front of the German embassy. Police took 25 qf the group to headquarters for questioning. German Ambassador Dleckhotf refused to receive a committee from the group. Three men and a girl were arrested for picketing the Austrian embassy. IMMIGRANTS ACCOUNT FOR LARGEST PART OF RECENT OREGON POPULATION RISE PORTLAND. March 14 (AP) The trail to Oregon carried hoavler immigrant traffic In 1936 and 1936 than at any time since the first covered wagon track linked the territory with the Interior of the continent, a recent atudy by the atate plan ning board revealed. The report, prepared by V. B. Stanbory, consultant, wlth.PWA assistance shows a net gain of 96,000 In the population of the atate In the seven years ending January 1, 1937. The natural growth, or excess of births over deaths, was only 15,100. . Thn average Increase In 1935 nnd 1936 was 28.166 per year. Total Oregon population was estimated at 1,057,000: "These newcomers have great difficulty In finding employment or land on which they can make a living," the report said. "Social problems muat be faced when migrants fall to make satisfac tory porsonal adjustments." AUTO AGGIDEN NJUHIES FATA On the Yh o mm-- ' Four members of a party of Klamath skiers who hiked over the deep drifts from Crater to Diamond lake. They found drifts 50 teet high on the rim road. Cabins at Diamond lake were found in good shape in spite of the heavy winter. Drifts Piled 50 Feet High On Rim Road . Drifts 50 feet high were re ported on the rim road in the Crater lake country by members of a party of Klamath and Hen ley men who last week made a ski Jaunt into the isolated Dia mond lake resort. In the party were N. B. Drew. Greer F. Drew and Louia Hillis of Klamath Falls, and Virgil Stewart and Clarence Hill of tieniey. Eight Hours for Trip They first skied from Crater lake to Diamond lake. It took eight hours to akl the 22 miles into the lake. . Going around the rim on (Continued on Page Three) WILLAMETTE RIVER FLOOD CONTROL PROJECT WINS PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL WASHINGTON. March 14 CP) Representative Mott (R-Ore) aald. toaay ne had been advised the army englneera and President Roosevelt had approved a J43. 430,000 flood control project on the Willamette river In Oregon. The proposed project also In cludes navigation and power and Irrigation development, but its main purpose Is to regulate the flow of the Willamette through construction of a series of reser voirs on its tributaries. Mott said he would ask "Im mediate construction" of the pro ject by the house rivers and har bors committee wtth the viow to Its Inclusion In an omnibus flood control bill. Approval of the project by the army englneera marks a reversal of opinion. Last year the army engineers board held the project "meritor ious" but not advisable at the present. Soon thereafter damaging floods swept down the Willamette and Oregonlans pressed for new studies and hearings. BVD'S NOT SOS TOLEDO, March 14 () Two women sighted a fishing boat fly ing a white signal oft Depoe bay. Their alarm sent the swiftest boat to the rescue. The captain had put his underwear up to tho breeze to dry. Rim Road E Long Illness Ends Fatally for Clarence Darrow, . 80, at Chicago. CHICAGO. March 14 (Clar ence Darrow, wno rose from a 330 a month country school teach er to the nation s most famous "attorney for the defense," was dead today. The noted lawyer-philosopher died at his home here yesterday after a long lllaess with a heart ailment. He was SO years old. With him at the end were his wife. Ruby, his son, Paul, and a sister, Mrs. Jennie Darrow Moore. During his halt century in courts from one side of the coun try to the other, Darrow was al ways the defender, the pleader. He fought for the poor, the op pressed, the captive and the weak because, as he once said, "Those found In prisons are practically always poor; It la a game where the dice are loaded and the victim ia almost sure to lose." His outstanding legal cases were (Continued on Page Three) BURNS WOMAN HELD ON MURDER CHARGE IN DEATH OF PHYSICIAN'S WIFE BURNS, Ore., March 14 (AP) Sheriff C. W. Frailer said last night Mrs. Mildred Parker, about 40, was arrested on a murder complaint signed by Dr. H. D. Meyer following the fatal shoot. ing of Mrs. Meyer, 35, Sunday afternoon. He said Dr. Meyer witnessed the shooting, which took place at the Meyer home about 2:45 p. m. Sunday. Three shots were fired from a .38 caliber revolver, one bill let striking Mrs. Meyer In the head and killing her instantly, the officer related. He did not reveal the motive. An Inquest, called Sunday, was expected to be completed today. Sheriff Frazler said Mrs. Par ker was being held under guard at a local hotol and might bo transferred to Vale because of lack of Jail facilities here. MILLION TURN OUT TO GREET REICH LEADER I Britain Extends Rearm ament Plans to Meet New Peace Threat 1 PARIS. March 1 4 IIDI Tha Aarr- old French government today re assured uzecnosiovakia that France would take military ac tion as she hAS nrntniint In th Franco-Czech treaty It the nazis tried to extend their Austrian coup 10 ine neignoonng republic. VIENNA, March 14 CD Adolf Hitler came In triumph to Vienna today and to a frenzied throng that greeted him declared, "no force on earth can shake us!" Fully million shouting, flag waving Viennese greeted the fuehrer as he rode Into the capital of the German atate he has ab sorbed Into his expanded German reich. . , To more than 100,000'hysterlcal followers thronging the square before his hotel, he shouted. ' Impromptu Speech "The German reich as It stands tortarrdsr-triTtolable; no one can shatter It!" - Hitler apparently had not in tended to speak until tomorrow, when at 11 a. m. he will address Vienna and the German worlda from the Heroes' square. But the crowd that called him again and again to the balcony of bis hotel suite would not be denied. "German compatriots," hs began his impromptu speech, "I have felt in the last few days all the emotions which now stir you, "This has been an historical change and the entire German people feel your emotions. "Deeply Stirred" . "Not two million people in one city but 75 million people In one nation are stirred to the depths of feeling which you now are demonstrating. "I am deeply atlrred by thla historic change. "You all live up to your oath, all of you from Koenigsburg to Hamburg and down to Vienna, yon do so in deepest devotion." Demonstrations before the hotel lasted more than three hours. The crowds repeatedly broke Into "Deutscbland Ueber Alles" the reich anthem and the "Horst Wessel" song of nazidom. With or ahortly after Hitler came most of his chief German lieutenants. Helnrlch Himmler, chief of all German police, rode in his motor cavalcade. Joachim von Ribbentrop, his foreign raln (Contlnued on Page Three) Roy L. Hall, 29, dies early Sun day morning as the result of In juries sustained when hla car crashed Into the city street sweep er early Friday morning. Mrs. Hall and Earl Smith, other acci dent victims, reported Improved at Hillside hospital. Pago 1. Klamath party finds huge drifts on ski hike Into Diamond lake. Pago 1. Police have busy weekend with roundup of violators of liquor and traffic laws. Pago 6. Pedestrian killed In accident at Bteber. Page 10. Modoc area Boy Scout council reelects R. C. Orocsbeck president, adopts 1938 budget of 14660. Page State operatives "knock over" three clubs here. Nine arrests on nulsanco charges made. Page 1. IM THIS ISSUE City Briefs Pnge 1 Comics and Story Pag 8 Editorials Page ' 4 Family Doctor ................Page 4 High School News .........Page 6 Market, Financial News, Page 7 PTA Notes -.Page 5 Sports.... ........Pane 2 Veterans' News Pago 10 Today's News Digest
