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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1938)
WEATHER - rir VJ! - High 48, Low as Ljr PRECIPITATION Jt 34 hours to a. m. ................ .00 fL I HMon to data .......,... 19.09 "yfr I Last year to date ....... S.OO T. Normal precipitation ............ 8.01 V JPST . MHO ', WIRE SERVICE The Herald and News subscribe 10 full luard wire servlre ol lha Associated I'rui and tha milled Prose, the world's grcateet kewagalherlng organisations. Kiir 17 houra dally nurld now ouinna Into Tha Herald Mewe office on teletype machines. V ASSOCIATED ?' IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Price Fi- KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1938 Number 8205 Ml JV fo) Km mm I J r- State A Kiss for :-'Vr. . After a dramatlo four-work trial frequently Interrupted hy her amotlonal collapses In court, Mra, Patricia . Ityan, 31-year-old mother' of Iwo children, win acquitted by a New York "husband and housewife" Jury ot tha murdar ot hr policeman huaband. Sha la pictured above aa, recovered from a final collapse at tha worda "not guilty," aha expressed her Joy by Inclusively kissing her attorney, II. Ilnnnrtt Salomon. Editorials on Ity FRANK JKNKINH T Y withholding from their diet food of high caloric (beat-producing) content, such aa sugars, Dr. C. M. McKay, of Ilia animal nutrition dopitrtntcni ot Cornell unlvorslty, has been ablo to double tha life span ot while rata. That la exciting nows, because what HAS BEEN DONE In tha case of whlto rats MAY UK DUNE In tha case ot humans. qpHE normal llfo span of a white rat la about 600 days. By eliminating calorlea (hoal-produc-lug units) from an otborwlse nor mal and adequate diet for 1.000 days, Mr. McKay kept a group ot rata alive for 1100 days. Your mothor, you sea, knew what aha was about when aha wouldn't let you aa a child have as much candy aa you wanted. TJOODS of high caloric content (such as sugar), when enton bofore maturity la reached, abort en tha llfo of white rats. That leads to the Intoreatlng specula tion that the samo thing may be true of human beings, Insurance company statisticians Jiavo been tolling us for yenra that tho fattor you aro tha less llkoly you are to LIVE LONO, If you want to live a long time, thla snoma to be good ndvlco WATCH YOUR DIET. UT wait K minute! Wo'vo started In apoculntlng, ao lot's go on and speculate a mtio more. f If Dr. McKay, atartlng In with f white rata, goes on to human bo- Little Interviews Althft Urquhnrt, rollof alnft ensn worker A llttlo spring weather corlaluly makes a lot of illffornnco In my cllnns' out look on life, Mnuy ot thorn take a new grip on things and got oft rollnf. Gonrge Clnrk, Jr., member of the Wlkn lodgo Attondlng lodgo J worth whllo. M. L. Johnson, real cstato man The Klnmnlh counly Mur tln club Is off to a flno start. -tt m Planning $5,500,000 Highway Program Acquittal the Day's News Ings and provea that the average span of HUMAN LIKE can be doubled, what will he do to eonie of our existing theories? nrllE Now Dealers, you know, toll us we have TOO MUCH of RVKKYTHINO. There'a too much food, so we must hire the farmers not to pro duce ao much. Our Industrial machine produces TOO MANY ot tho good things of life, so we must slow It down by working fewer hours per week, so we won't have ao many of the good things. There are more people than Jobs, ao we have to support the surplus on re lief. (Will some Super-New Dealer come along a few yoars hence and toll us that alnce we have too many people the thing to do la to POISON OFF tho surplus?) ', TF It la true that we have too much of everything, ' INCLUD ING r-KOl'LK, what will It do to in It Dr. McKay goes on with his white rnt experiments and finally showa people how to live twice as long as they'vo been living? , Won't It Just about ruin every thing? SERUM FLOWN BY PLANE SAVES SUNNYSIDE FAMILY FROM BOTULISM DEATH WENATCHEE, Wash., March 26 tJP) Death for a family of five probably was averted yoBtortlay when an army airplane flow aorum from Portland to halt botulism poisoning, a physician sold. The doctor, who asked his niinio not bo iibocI, snld "It la too early to prodlct doflultoly, but It In certain that without tho aorum, nil flvo of tho family would have died. Their prosont condition la critical, , Stricken wero Mr. and Mrs. Lnwronco Stoolo, two daughters, 8 and 16 yonrs old, and a on, 10, of Hnnnyaldo, nftor ontlng cannod greens without boating tliom, Tim doctor snld It would bo 24 hours bofore effect ot the solum could bo ascertained. Tho plnno was provided by the army at Pearson flold, Vancouver, Wash., when It waa lonrnod regu lar airline service- or n rnco against linio by the Washington state pntrol would be too alow, PROMPT ACTION SCHEDULED FOB LAKEVIEWRDAD 16 Important Construction Projects Slated for Year Ahead rOKTLAND, March 2 (p) A 1.9 9 6 construction program, In cluding at least 16 major projects at a cost of 15,600.000, waa an. nounced yostorday by tho si ale highway commission. Projects will be opened this spring with approximately $500, 000, after which they will be financed by 1 1,000,000 of federal and alate 1938 funds. Tbls fall another 13,000,000 will be allotted, and the balance the following spring. ' Bank Loan Planned A needed 800,000 to match rederal grants will be raised through a alx-months bank loan of approximately 1760.000 and will make available a total of $6,000, 000 for construction. Tha atate paid approximately $1300 In Interest for a similar loan last year, at a rate or less than ona-halC of cmo per entv. Spring projecta listed Included: Sluslaw junction-Rosa Station pav ing on the Pacific highway; grad ing on South Santlnm highway; Klamath Falls-Lakovlew highway; St. ,1'olons-Warronton section of lower Columbia river highway; Spauldlng line change on Salem Dayton road; grading, surfacing and oiling on North Umpqna highway: Interatate avenue Im provement and Lombard-Kllllngs-worth grading, Portland. Hlsklyou Relocation Tha fall program will cover Columbia river and Siskiyou route relocations and construction con tracts on central Oregon, John Day, Fremont, Oregon coast, Pa cific and Wolf Creek highways. An army engineers' offer of $28,000 In settlement of flowago damages to defray costa of raising the roadbed of the Columbia river highway nt Warren and Perham (Continued on Page Three) HEAVY SELLING SENDS -STOCKS TO NEW LOWS FOR SEVERAL YEARS NEW YORK, March ! (P) Heavy selling again battered the stock market today and forced many shares to new lows for the past few yeara despite bettor buy ing support. An oarly rally ran Into In creased offerings aa traders and Investors took advantage of the bulge to lighten holdings. Steol, copper and othor groups hondlng tho recovery wore unable to ninin taln their early gains and numer ous losses of $1 to about $4 sup planted advances. Trading was fast during tho brief two-hour session, a contrast with the usual quiet weekend trading In Wall street. The wide break In share prices yesterday, carrying the market to the loweBt average lovols In three years, filled brokers' board rooms with large crowds for a Saturday. United States atoel, American Tolephono, Alllod Chomlcnl, Ana conda C'oppor, nothlehcm Steol, Chrysler, Montgomery Ward and other outstanding shares broke to the lowest prices of the 1937-18 bear market or longer, when the rally failed to hold. Additional soiling also hit bonds hard, particularly rail and othor domestic corporate obliga tions. Major commodities mostly wore lower, too, but the storm center of the soiling was In se curity markots. POETIC PLEA FAILS TO SAVE DEER-KILLER FINE LAKEVIEW, Mnroh 26 (AP) Lyrical (Joorge Marvin, hnlled boforo a Silver Lake Justice of the peace on a charge ot killing a deer out of season, declaimed: "Here I stand condomnod by law, tor having vonison In the raw. My face la red, and the ham waa bare; It I didn't kill It, why was It there? I'm guilty." He waa fined $50 for killing the deer. Appointed Dr. Nell T. Black, county health officer, appointed atate medical relief coordinator. He will give tip his work here. m Senate Foes of Reorgani' zation Bill Ready to Concede Defeat WASHINGTON. March 28 trP) Defeated consistently on pro posed amendments, some senate foes of the administration'a gov ernment reorganisation bill con ceded today they lacked the votea to kill the measure. A vote on a motion to recom mit the bill to committee, a step wnicn would effectively pigeon hole It, has boen net for Monday. If tho motion falls, there will be a vote on passage. Fourth .Major Law Senators Berkley of Kentucky, the democratic leader, and Byrnes (D-S.C), author of the Din confidently predicted Its passage. Senator Clark (D-Mo.), an op ponent, asserted, however, that he was "very hopeful'' the bill would be shelved. Two portions of the bill ere atlon of a welfare department ana autnorizatlon for employ ment of six presidential assist. ants already have been . ap proved In the house. Enactmont of tho board reor ganisation program would give the administration Us fourth ma jor law of the session. Alreadv. the farm, housing and emeraencv relief bills have won legislative approval. Tax Revision Next The next bis administration urn tax revision has under gone a weck'a buffeting In the senate finance commlttoe and' now Dears llttlo resemblanco to tho revonuo monsure amiroved bv tho house, i The bllllon-dollnr naval expan sion , uiii, which already has house approval, also Is expected to encounter heavy going in the senate, although most obsorvers oxpect its evontual approval. Many senators are primed for umuunaiun oi ino auministration a foreign policy. Loaders agreed that the wage (Continued on Page Three) REBUTTAL WITNESSES ON STAND IN POISON TRIAL ST. HELENS. March 26 (P) Tho Btate prescntod virtually the last ot Its rebuttal witnesses to ilny In an effort to attack testi mony heard In Mrs. Agnes Joan Ledford's dofense of a first degree murder charge. Prosecution attorneys said they probably would call one more witness Monday. Closing argu ments In tho three-week murder trial wore acboduled for late Mon day or Tuesday upon completion ot defense examination ot rebuttal witnesses. , The 85-yoar-old mother of two small sons was Indicted for the poison deaths of her stepdaugh ters, Ruth 13, and Dorothy, 16. She la on trial for Ruth's death, , COUNT! HEALTH OFFICER TAKES STATEPpi Dr. Neil Black to Become Oregon Medical Relief. Coordinator ; Dr. Nell F. Black, Klamath county health officer, received notice Saturday he had been ap pointed state medical relief co ordinator. He said that he will officially notify the county health board on Monday of hla Intention to resign from bla office here. Quite Surprised "I waa approached In Portland about three weeks ago and asked If I would consider the atate Job," said Dr. Black. "I thought at that time It would not be developing for several months. Hence I waa quite surprised to learn Saturday ot my selection and appointment" Dr. Black will work out a uni form method ot handling medical work among old-age assistance, blind and aid to dependent chil dren caeea. He will pass on diffi cult problems and Insure proper aid for all cases. Reorganised Department : . Dr,BIct-caine Je a rw-8o last June from San Francisco. He had charge of the reorganisation of the county health department and the coordination of all the public health programs In Klam ath county. After hla arrival, the health unit was moved to lta pre sent quarters In. the old Hanks residence- at Eighth, and Pine la presumed that the county health board, at lta meeting Mon day, will begin consideration of the selection of a aucceasor for Dr. Black. He said he probably will not leave for at leaat 80 days. INSURGENTS MACHINE-GUN RETREATING LOYALISTS, CONVERGE ON KEY CITY WITH THE INSURGENTS AT ALCORISA, Spain. March 26 (JP) Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco's eastern Spanish army to day broke through government de fense lines into Castellon province which borders the Mediterranean sea. HENDAYE, FRANCE, AT THE SPANISH FRONTIER, March 26 UP) R etreatlng government troopa were machine-gunned from the air today as they were driven from the Aragon by an Insurgent army bent on conquering Cata lonia and forcing a quick end to the Civil war. . ' ' Insurgent warplanea repeatedly atrafed the shattered government torcea after artillery blasted them out ot defense lines In the north ern sector, , A huge chunk of territory fell Into Insurgent hands as two ot General Francisco Franco's field armies converged on Lerlda, key city of Catalonia, ' . . ' It was believed -the capture ot Lerlda would doom Barcelona, capital of the Spanish govern ment. ., v ELDERLY SAN DIEGO WOMAN FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH WITH PIANO STOOL SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 26 (Jp) Detectlvea Inclined toward a robbery theory today aa furnishing a motive for the brutal killing ot Mrs. Florilla Crolic, 63, beaten to death with a heavy piano stool as she struggled with an unknown Intruder In her little cottage. The woman a body, bruised, lac erated and with an ear nearly torn off, waa found In the kitchen of her Ocean Beach home by a neigh bor Investigating drawn blinds. Apparently there was no con nection between the death ot Mrs. Crolic and that ot six other female victims of unknown killers since the spring ot 1931, when four were slain in succession. , Mrs. Mettle V. Adams, a neigh bor, discovered the body yester day. ., She aald the victim once told her "If my ahades remain drawn for a, day and a halt, come over. I ll -be dead." .Mrs. Adams aald the shades had boen down since Wednesday, . . . Sight Offered Blind Pastor f ham When Howard Woodward, left, unemployed Oakland, Calif., cook, heard that Rev. V. E. Harding (right). Sell wood, Ore., pastor, was In San Francisco seeking means of restoring bis falling vision, Woodward offered the cornea of one of bis eyea. Rev. Harding refused the sacrifice, and aald he would seek In prison a convict under death aentenca who would otter to submit to the operation. Investigation" Of Postoffice Case Pushed Investigation of the Chlloquln postoffice robbery ' continued on an Intensive baaia Saturday, fol lowing the arrival ot H. E. Young, postoffice Inspector, from Port land. Young conferred with sheriff's officers, state police and Chllo quln authorities who did the pre liminary checking on the theft ot more than $5600 from the sate in the corner ot the Chlloquln of fice. Work Kept Secret Officers Saturday shrouded their work in secrecy. .There were no apparent developments ot importance aa they systematically ran down clues. . . A further checkup, it was re ported, showed that the amount (Continued on Page Three) TOKYO ASSURES U.S. JAP SALMON FISHING IN ALASKAN WATERS TO END WASHINGTON. March 26 W) A formal, note from Japan gave the United States assurances to day that Japanese salmon fishing In Alaskan waters would be ended. American fishermen bad com plained that the Japanese were depleting the salmon resources, threatening, the continued exist ence of the Alaskan salmon indus try which employs 25,000 persons. : Japan's note advised that she was suspending her three-year sal mon fishing survey begun in 1936, that she would not issue licenses for salmon fishing off Alaska and that she would punish her cltiseng who fished without licenses. In a note last November 22 tbe United States called Japan's at tention to the "seriousness of the problem." - Delegate Dlmond of Alaska said Japan's agreement opens the way' for enactment ot legislation to. protect the salmon fishing indus try permanently. Dlmond has Introduced a bill which would declare salmon spawned In Alaskan waters the property of the United Slates and authorize the sotture of foreign vessels "hovering" In that area for the purpose of taking salmon. The measure Is pending before the house merchant marine com mlttoe. WOMAN PLEADS INNOCENT TO BURNS MURDER CHARGE BURNS, March 26 '(P) Mrs. Mildred Parker, assisted into the courtroom by a nurse, pleaded In nocent yesterday to a charge ot first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting March 13 ot Mrs. H. D. Meyer, wife ot a physician. She was arraigned before Cir cuit Judge Charles W. Ellis. 1 '- me vote Plebiscite 'Take" to Go Before Courts, No. 2 Nazi Announces VIENNA. March 26 (yp) Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goer ing tonight announced the cir cumstances ot former Chancellor Kurt Schuscbnlgg'a cancelled "swindle" plebiscite the Immed iate cause of Hitler'a entry into Austria will be aired In court. "This plebiscite take will come before the courts." Goering told 30,000 people packed Into tbe Northwest Railway Concourse, re ferring to tbe vote Scbuschnlgg had scheduled just before naxi threats forced him out of the chancellorship. "We shall prove to the world that democracy waa suppressed. "It waa a plain swindle. . ' "High Mission" ' "God did not let the fuehrer come into the world for nothing. "He had a high mission. The Austrian government had sup pressed tho people with bayonets," tbe Number 2 nazi chieftain de clared. Goering then referred to the February 12 meeting of Reichs- fuehrer Hitler and former Chan cellor Schuschnlgg at Hitler'a Ba- (Continued on Page Three) . . . ASHLAND CHIEF FAVORS STATE BIKE LICENSE LAW ASHLAND, March. 26 (AP) C. P. Talent, chief ot police, aald today he would seek legislative action next year to provide state lawa tor bicycle licensing and control ot operation similar to that prevailing over motor ve hicles. Talent proposed a state-wide plan calling for operator's testa before issuance of llcenseswhich would have to be carried by rid ers and which would be subject to revocation It traffic regula- tiona were violated. License platoa also would be Issued. . State Senator George W. Dunn satd he favored the plan and would suggest Immediate steps to prepnre a legislative measure. WEATHER, PAYCHECKS CAUSE BUSINESS FLURRY A cnmhlnntlnn nf tmnrnvnrt weather conditions and mill pay- r.hnekfl mnrla flnhlnlBV on aptlvn business day In Klamath Falls. Htreets, ousiness bouses and banks were well crowded with riftnnla. Phnplca uam irlvan In mill workers on Friday. From booths in atrateglo places, members ot tbe Camp Fire girls sold wildlife week stamps to niauy downtown visitors, . . REVIGDRATED 1 DRIVES ENEMY BACK Japs Stopped Cold, Suf fer. Heavy Losses on : ' ' Several Fronts SHANGHAI, March 26 (AP)! The revlgorated Chinese , army, beaten back for months, had turned today and was winning victories on several fronts. The widely-extended Japanese Invaders - were stopped cold in tbe Wdhu and Hangchow sectors west and southwest of Shanghai, while In the . bloody : central China war zone they were 'sub jected to heavy losses.: Chinese guerrilla raids cut rail way lines between Shanghai and . Nanking, between Nanking' and Pengpu and between Shanghai and Hangchow. Lincheng Becaptnred In southeastern Shansi prov ince the - Chinese reported re capturing Lincheng, killing more than 1000 Japanese and taking scores of prisoners. Severe fighting continued around Lint where the Japanese for weeks, have been struggling futlly to advance southward and sever the)-. Lunghal railway. . s Fears were expressed for tha safety ot Americans at Lini, as a result ot Japanese charges that Chinese troops were using mis sion property and buildings to repulse Japanese attacks. , Jap Trains Bombed Japanese warplanea bombarded Chinese in the outskirts ot Lini but tailed to- break . Chinese lines. - A large-scale air battle over Kweiteb, in central China, re sulted in conflicting claims. Japanese asserted they de stroyed 30 Chinese ptanes. Chi nese declared they shot down six Japanese planes and lost none themselves. . Chinese planes were said to have bombed Japanese trains, causing heavy losses. . In an eight-hour battle at Tingyuan, south ot Pengpu, Jap anese said they killed 320 Chi nese and lost only 14 men. BY JAMES D. WHITE WITH THE ' COMMUNIST ' ARMY. IN . NORTH CHINA, March 26 (AP) The Japanese army's answer to Chinese red (Continued on Page Three) ? F. R. STUDIES REPORT ON RAILROAD LEGISLATION WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 26 UP) President Roosevelt stud ied the report ot his committee on emergency railroad legislation, to day, but-withheld details on lta recommendations. The report was prepared by Chairman Walter M. W. Splawn and Joseph B. - Eastman and Charles D. Mahntfie of the Inter state commerce commission and sent here by air mall. Tbe presi dent satd It would be made publle next week in Washington. Dr. Neil F. Black, ' county health officer, will resign to ac cept state . . relief . co-ordluator post. Page 1. Chlloquln postoffice robbery In vestigated by postoffice Inspector. No Important developments re- vealed. Pago 1. Blrdlno Merrill, vice president of OSTA, urges Klamath county unit members to study teachers tenure and retirement bill. Page 3.1 .-. ' ' '.. 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