The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, March 29, 1938, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textj . WEATHER Cold i High U, Low 01 PRBCiriTATION 34 hour to 8 a. m, ............Trace Heason to data ...18.08 Iat year to data B.M Normal precipitation . 0.08 SPECIAL COMING On Wednesday The llornkl nnd Now will publish mi lllllatrnlril agricultural sup ilinriii currying the off Ic-lrtl report (if din recent outlook conference held lioro, Wutili (or It, mid mi It for reference. ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTACASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS Prico Five Cents KLA"TiI FALLS. ORE., TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1938 Number 8207 WW ifii i t i r 'if Soviet Polar Observation Hero Faces Purge Editorials On the Day's N ews Djr FRANK JENKINS ylllH question In undoubtedly In Iho minds of a grent many people: "Jtiit what la going on In Mexico, and WIIYT f "TUB bent answer tills writer has ecen li contained In a letter from Charlea P. Ilray, of Oshknsh, Wisconsin, to hla brother, Win. M. Bray, of Chlloquln. Meoileo, according to Mr. Hray, who haa Just raturned from a rather extended trip to tho eoiith rn republic, la suffering from a bad ease of IMPRACTICAL. IDEALISM. ' UJ ItKAI.I.Y feel aorry for Preal- dent Cardenas." .Mr. Flray wrltea, "aa be la alncore In want ing to help the 15 per cent of the people who have been op preaaed and mlatreatcd and robbed for the laat aeveral hundred year. "The trouble la, hownrer, that hla heart la bigger than his head and be la making the terrible mistake of turning to communls tlc and socialistic waya, which are going to wreck the country," MB- BnAV dd,: IYX "Cardenaa hlinaelt la a Mexican Indian who haa norer been out of (he eotintry, knows nothing whataoever about econ omics or finance, and has only one objecllre and that la to help the under dog. "Inatead of atlcklng to enp Itallairi, which leavoa the pro ductlre farma, factories, rail roads, etc., In the hands of the rightful owners and under competent management, and then taxing the profile thereof for the benefit of the mnssca. Cardenaa haa taken away the landed ealatea, rallroada and other mesne of production from the people who knew how lo run them and has turned them oyer to the employees, who nre making a flat fnllure of the management." AR a result of all tills. Mr. Rrny . wrltea to hla brother, pro duction of the farma, mines, etc., haa fallen off so alarmingly that Mexico la no longer producing more than she consumes, the country la going broke, and Car denaa won't be able much longer to finance hla Mexican New Deal. "YOU'VE doubtless noticed that 1 Mexico haa suspended deal ings In foreign exchange, Ihnt there has been a henry run on the bnnka for allver Instead of paper money and aa a result of this run the reservos of tho Cen tral Bank of Moxlco have fallen In the past week from . 000, 000 allver peaoa to approximately 60, 000,000 silver pesos.) MR. RRAY snya In his letter: "I can not help but believe that Trotsky, who la living In Mexico City, haa had a great deal t to do wllh ateerlng Cnrdenns In I the wrong direction." NOTE, pleaan, thnt In Iho Judg ment of tho writer of thla lotlor Prealdont Cardenas la SIN CERE In wanting to holp the sub merged 15 Per cent of Iho Mexi can people, but hla "heart la big ger than hla head." As result, ho la HARMING peoplo Instead of helping them. HERE In the United Slates wo know how Hint goes. For flvo yonra our dostlnlea hnvo been In tho hands of an Im practical Idealist who I" probnbly slncoro In wanting lo holp tho mnssea of Iho people, but whoso utterly Imprnctlrnl schemes hnvo scared business lulo a blua funk and driven prlvnto capital Into hiding, thus cruelly curtailing employment and adding to tho millions on rollof, The only reason we nro nhlo to hold out longor than Mexico l that wo worn so much vlchcr to begin wllh. Pact Broken t V Victim of an alleged aulcldo pact only half coinplelcd waa pretty Charlotte Matlhlesen (top), IS, who wsa ahot to death, according to Now York police, by her 16-year-old aweet heurt, Donald Cnrroll, Jr. (bo low). Cnrroll was aald to hare told police he aent a bullet through a corsage which Mlsa Mnttlilescn hnd pinned to her breast but did not carry out hla part of tho pact because the girl begged him not p. Just before alio dlod. Mlsa Malthleson was an eipeclnnt mnthor, and Car roll aald tho couplo did not have money enough to marry. Second Man Feared Lost On Mt. Hood TIMHKRUNf, Mount Hood National Foioat, March 20 (AP) Volornn mountain climbers nnd forest service rnngera labored through doep anow In Iho winter blcnkneaa of Mount Hood lodny searching for Riisnoll Oueffroy, 20, believed tho second victim of Sunday's flight from a frigid alorm near tho summit. Mombera of tho Mnsnnm Moun tain Climbing club, mooting at Portland last night to exnmlno tho tragic dolnlls of an nilvon turo resulting In Hie death of Hoy Vurney, 4, discovered Hint (luoffroy, a Vancouver, Wash., man, hnd not checked in since ho was Inst neon struggling down a anow trail. Am nmolilln Found Guoffroy'a auto waa found whom bo hnd left It a mlln enst of govorninent enmp" Ho did not report for duty yesterday nt (Continued on Page Six) Little Interviews Curl M n go li, nneoiintnnt, lo xhlvoi'lng reporter Do ymi call lliln cold, this Is great, THIS IS aiMUNUI Honry Hcliortgon, building and snnilnry lnspoctor Sho'a , gntl lug wnrmor, tho poonlo hotter hurry up nnd olonn up tbolr yards. We goltn get our nprlug houso clean ing dona In Kliiniulh Fulls curly thin your. Schmidt Charged With Permitting Criminal Activity MRS. LEDFORD PAINTED AS KILLER, LOVING MOTHER IN CLOSING ARGUMENTS BT. 1IKI.KN3, March 29 (AP) A Columbia county Jury of farm- era and small town residents re ceived contrasting pictures of Mrs. Agues Joan Mdford, Indict ed for iho poison deaths of her two stepdaughters, as attorneys bnsteneil tho closing arguments of a first degreo murder trial. LI. O. Dennett, district attorney. asked for a first degree convic tion carrying either Ufa Imprison ment or death In the lethal gas chamber for tho 35-ycor-old inoihcr. (ilenn Melsker, defeimo altor- ney who described the defendant aa a "kind and loving mother," demanded an acquittal. Melaker completed hie argu ment wllh a denial that Mrs. Ledford disliked Ruth, 13, and Dorothy, 15, or caused their deaths ao ahe would bonefil from an inauranca policy. The (Continued on Page Blx) E ES Warning Against Interfer ence With Italian In terests Due. By Tho Associated Tress Premier Mimanlhil ihn fnacUt preaa indicated today, will warn tho world tomorrow he la ready to cope wllh any attack on "Italy or her intoresta." II Duco will outline hla army, navy and air atrength to the senate In a apeech all Guropo will henr. Fascist circles predicted hla report would bo a warning ad dressed particularly to France, In recent dnya the target of an Intonslre Italian proas campaign. Nowspnpors have charged hor loftlst leaders wllh hopes of In tervening in Spain to save the Ilarcolona government. More Armament Money It alao waa Indicated MiiHsollnl would ask still greater expendi tures for Italy's armed forces. Europe struggled to koop (Continued on Page Six) II. S. ENTERS STRONG PROTEST OVER MEXICAN SEIZURE OF OIL LANDS MEXICO CITY, March 29 (VP) A high Mexican official said todny that United States Ambassador Joseph us Daniels hnd preaonted to Foreign Mlnlstor Kdtiurdo liny a formal note strongly protesting against Mexico's exproprlntion of United Stntos oil companies' prop erties. MEXICO CITY, March 29 tfP) Tho lack, of torolgn markets press ed urgent problonis todny upon the Moxlcnn government's newly acquired oil Industry. Thoro have boon 11 days with out sales abroad slnco the govern ment took over 17 Amorlcun nnd liritlsh. oil companies on March IS, nnd tho nation's oil tanks nro filled nenr to capacity. Production haa boon eurtnlled 65 to 76 per cant, but oven ao It appears thoro soon will bo no plnoe to houao tho "black gold." The susponsloii of purchases of Moxlcnn sliver by the United SlntoB troasury started tho peso on n rapid decline. Mexicans hollovo tho suspension was In rotnllnllon for oxiMoprlutlon of tho $400,000,000 (orolgn-ownod oil Industry. PRICK OMPPlin AOAIN WASHINGTON, March 29 tm Tho treasury shavod nnothor cont off Us price for foreign silver todny. Following a similar one cent roduotlon yostordny, which was tho first change In moro than two yeura, Iho price todny w)is cut to 43 cents an ounce. Score More ex-Offieials Shot for Treason After Secret Trial. MOSCOW, Murch 29 (P) The government aald today that "crim inal, antl-Hovlet activity of wreck era" waa found In tho northern aoa route administration which Is headed by Dr. Otto Kchmldt, who directed last summer's polar flights to America and polar weather observations by four Russian scientist , Without naming Dr. Schmidt, tho council of the people's colu mliuurs, which Is equivalent to Ihn cabinet, adopted a resolution acverely blaming the sea route administration for the perilous position of soviet Ice breakera and ships drifting helplessly In the arctic Ice. "V nsallNfactory" ' The resolution found the work of tho northern sea route in 1937 "unsatisfactory" and called for a detailed report by April 15. The specific criticism dealt with the fact that almost the entire Ice breaker fleet and nearly halt of the . freighters that ly tho northern route and were caught In the Ice last autumn are "exposed to Imminent danger." The resolution attributed "blunders" to tho "inactive and conceited altitude'' of the sea route administration. The 'resolution obviously was prompted by the plight of three Ice breakers convoying ships which have been drifting toward the polar basin In the past five months. First Public Criticism It waa the first time the north ern sea route, with tho pictures quely bearded Dr. Schmidt, one of the foremost official heroes of the soviet union in command, hat been publicly criticized. The NSIt not only baa charge of the great soviot program for settlement and economic develop ment of the arctic reaches but (Continued on Pago Six) F. R. PRAISES SENATE'S REFUSAL TO BE SWAYED BY "MISREPRESENTATION" WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 29 (.11 President Roosevelt said todny the senate's approval of hla government reorganisation program "proves that the senate cannot be purchased by organlxcd telegrams bused on direct mis representation." Speaking at an, outdoor press conference, he emphasized his feelings by waiving - the rule against direct quotation. Ho did not say who had laid down the telegraphic barrage ngalnst the reorganization meas ure. The president said he would send a message to congress re questing legislation to aid debt ridden railroads but pointed out no further investigation would be required preliminary to congres sional action because all essential Information already was at hand. He said the Interstate Com merce Commission hnd a great deal of information, dating back 50 years and embracing studies Commissioner Joseph B. Eastman mndo when he was railroad co ordinator. MAN 0' WAR BECOMES FATHER ON 21ST BIRTHDAY LEXINGTON, Ky., March 29 (VP) Tho equine atork brought a daugh ter to the famous Man o' War to day on his 2 1st birthday anniver sary. The now nrrlvnl, a bay filly and a full sinter to War Admiral, tho "big retl'B" Illustrious son, was foaled by Briishup, on tho Far away farm of Samuel I). Rlddlo, Philadelphia sportsman. Ho owns both Man o' War nnd Wnr Ad nilrnl, 3-yoar-old champion laat yoar, COI HUSTON DIF.8 BRUNSWICK, (la., March 29 (P) Col, T, L. Huston, former co-owner of tho Now York Ynnkoe bnscball club, died nt hla home near hero today. It'll take a lot of sun on Sun mountain to melt away the record blanket of anow now lying on that area on Tho Dalles-California highway north of Fort Klamath. The pictures above, taken by George Sothman, district highway maintenance engineer and other highway officials, give aome Idea of tho depth of the anow and the problem the department haa had In keeping tbe road open. The larger view ahowa a Sno-go biting Into the edge of the groove. The other shows Engineer Sothman, a atx-footer, standing In front of a drift. Hoover, Home From Europe With Chest Full of Medals, Scoffs at Prospect of War NEW YORK. March 29 (AP) Former'TrcsIdent Herbert Hoo ver came home from Europe to day with seven or eight new honorary degrees, 15 or 13 new medals and tho conviction that a general war is not Imminent In Europe. - . Degrees, medals and the con viction a conviction persisting In spits of the extensive military preparations he witnessed were gathered in a two-months tour of 14 countries. It was his first trip abroad In 19 years, and, smiling quietly, he confessed he had round tho continent "changed." Favors Reorganization The Normandle. on which the former president arrived, reached quarantine in the . lower bay about midnight and dropped an chor for the night. Hoover came ashore, however. In a cut ter.. In the tiny lounge he lit a pipe, smiled for photographers, let the pipe go out and began talking. Someone told him first of the passage by the senate of the gov ernment reorganization bill. He asked whether it had been fur ther amended and when he henrd it had not, said "that's too bad." But he could not see, be added, that the bill contained any sug gestion of dictatorship. Ho him- BODY OF CALIFORNIA BOY, MISSING SINCE JANUARY, FOUND BADLY MUTILATED URIAH. Calif., March 29 () Two miles from home and within 20 feet of territory covered by searching parties, they found the body of four-year-old Teddy Thompson yesterday. Teddy dis appeared from bis Covolo home last January. Horribly mutilated by animals, the body was found under a man sanlta bush by Arthur Carpenter, a stockman, three-quarters of a mile beyond tho spot where tracks of tho child and those of a moun tain lion woro discovered two days after Teddy wandered off. Constable Charles Lorell said he was, convinced the child was frozen to death tbe first night he was lost. He discounted the theory .Teddy had been . carried oft by a mountain lion. Teddy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson of Covolo, 68 miles northeast of Ukinh. ASTORIA'S LOVELORN OCTOPUS PINES TO DEATH ASTORIA, March 29 With all eight arms empty following Iho death of her ninte, Napoleon, Josophlno, Scnslt'.o aquarium oc topus, pined away and died yes terday. 1 Napoloon recontly committed aulcldo trying to squeeze through a partition and punish Josephine, who broke traditions of ber spoclos by laying 50,000 eggs In captivity. Utlla hope wus hold tor Josopu Ine's unhatcbed progeny. On Sun Mountain self , . he. said1, jdways- hs4,fAyoxed, reorganization of departments. General Armament Then he turned to his European conclusions. "The first and outstanding change I saw was tbe revolution from democracies into totalitarian or authoritarian governments or to soma degreo of dictatorship," ho said. "The second outstanding tact is armament. Every government in Europe is engaged in extend ing Its military forces, and In five years time expenditures on armament and military forces have increased from tour billion dollars a year to eight billions. "The next factor Is the funda mental degeneration in the eco nomic situation in Europe, at least In government finances and barriers to trade. Outside of one or two Balkan states, there (Continued on Page Six) WITNESS IN EUGENE GOON TRIAL CLAIMS REYNOLDS. INVOLVED IN BARBER RIOTS EUGENE, March 29 UP) Turn ing state's witness at the outset of the trisl ot Hugh W. Reynolds, Eugene labor official here today, V. D. McCauley, secretary ot the Journeyman Barber's local and Jointly indicted with Reynolds and two others, testified under cross examination that Eugene boss barbers had contributed to a fund to pay alleged labor goons to break windows ot a non-union barber shop here November 15. Reynolds Is charged with con spiracy to commit a felony, riot and breaking windows on prop erty not his own. He was in dicted along with McCauley, Vera Bailey and Ray W. Blaine, who will be tried later. In giving testimony for the state, McCauley related bow be and Blaine had asked Reynolds and Bailey to secure aomeone to smash windows In the shop. The witness stated that Reynolds told them he himself did not "handle things like that" and referred them to Bailey, who, tho witness testified, told them he could get three men to do the Job for 1 60 BOTUUSM POISONING CLAIMS SECOND LIFE WENATCHEE, March 29 (fl) There were five . . . now there are three members of the Lawrence Steele family fighting off slow death ot poisoning by botulism. Nine-year-old Crystal waa sec ond to succumb to the effects of tho contaminated home-canned greens, eaten by the family last Wednesday. Her brother, Robert, dlod Sunday. Today Mr. and Mrs. Steele and their daughter, Opal, 16, are hold ing their own, tn the opinion of their physician, Dr. L. C. Miller. They , were all. able to converse this morning, were able to eat lightly and have regained control of paralyzed muscles. F7 ft... . TOWElSMtIS Newly-Incorporated Body to Succeed Board for ; Second District The Townsend board tor the second congressional district has "folded up" and a number ot Its members are now actively work ing for a new group Incorporated as tbe "Oregon State Recovery Plan, Inc." Frank Mortensen, a member of the district board, made this announcement Tuesday on his re turn from Redmond, where the dissolution meeting was held. Glenn C. Wade, Pendleton, dis trict manager, was tbe first to resign, and soon afterwards other officers tendered their ' resigna tions, accepting them all In one motion. Work Out Tax System The sponsors of the new or ganization are E. C. Ahlstrom and W. T. Brooner, Lakeview, and Mortensen, Klamath Falls. They filed articles of Incorpora tion In Salem. Mortensen said the new or ganization will work with the purpose of revamping out ot the Townsend philosophy a tax system (Continued on Page Six) HENRY FORD STILL THINKS PROSPERITY JUST AHEAD DETROIT, March 29 (F) Hen ry Ford, back at work aftor a two months' vacation on his Georgia plantation, reiterated in an inter view today his conviction that a' prosperous era Is ahead, talked about wars, dictatorships and Im migration and said he was plung ing Into preparations for volume production ot his cheap tractor. "Nothing that has occurred dur ing the last few weeks," he said, "has changed my belief that a prosperous era Is ahead of us. It will come through a greater real ization that all wealth comes from the soil and that there must he a greater cultivation of the land." Potatoes SAN FRANCISCO. March 29 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: One Cal ifornia, five Oregon, 12 unbrok en, 11 broken on track, market (lull, prices unchanged from yes terday. LOS A N O H L E S, March 29 (AP-USDA) Potatoes: Two Cal ifornia, 12 Idaho, one Nevada, 47 unbroken, 27 broken on track, supplies moderate, demand slow, market ' weaker for old stock, Idaho Russela, No. 1, $1.20, one car 11.22 Vi, other district stock no sales reported. E Senate Committee Votes Bill Widening Scope of RFC Loans. WASHINGTON, March 29 ,'P) The house rules committee ap proved today a sonata resolution for a thorough congressional in vestigation ot all phases of tho Tennessee valley authority's oper ations. Chairman O'Connor (D-N.Y.) aid only minor, perfecting amend ments were approved and that tho resolution probably would be brought before the house tomor row for a vote. Report by January He said the committee left in senate provisions which will per mit a proposed senate-house In quiry committee ot 10 member to Investigate also private utilities 'which have brought suits against TV A. On amendment written Into the measure would require the investi gating committee to make a report to congress by next January 3. Another stipulates the Inquiry shall be for tbe purpose of ob taining information to be used as the basis for any legislation that migni do considered necessary. ao opposition Committeemen IH V, a -. wnB no record vote but that there was no opposition to tbe Inquiry. The committee's aetlnn virtual ly assured final congressional ac- uuu on me legislation to authorize the Investigation. Prior tn thn rnmmiMb.'. Bnt Representative Rankin (D-Mlss.)' suDmuieo a letter wnicti aald that "It an honest and thorough in vestigation ot thla whole question Is made, it will moro than likely reveal a saturnilla ot misconduct ivonunued on Page Six) ONE DEAD, THREE FEARED LOST AS BLAST WRECKS ALASKAN CANNERY TENDER KETCHIKAN. Alaska, March 29 (P) One man died and three were believed drowned after a terrific explosion aboard the can nery tender Alaska Chief two miles off Grindall island. Capt. Frank Ford, only known survivor of tbe five aboard the craft, was brought here today by O. FranBwog, Pacific American Fisheries cannory foreman, and Tom Thompson, an employe, who found Captain Ford and the body ot Earl Hatch on the beach. Ford said the blast occurred about 6:30 a. m., yesterday while the Alaska Chief was en route here. It blew off the cabin and split the hull in two. The parly took to a skiff which swamped in the brisk northwest wind and catapulted the party Into the Icy seas. Pnnnell arvnaa a.tiAtit hnnil commission bill-paying proced ure; commission commenoeo. Page T. Honry Semon, homo from . Washington, explains plan for po tato markotlng agreement for Klamath, Modoc, Siskiyou and Deschutes counties as well as Washington potato counties. Page 4. Townsend district board quits; new recovery plsn organization Incorporated; "peanut politlclnne" assailed; tux program forming. Page 1. IN THIS IMSl'K ' City Briefs Pago S Comics and Story ........l'age 8 Courthouse Record .-.Page 4 Editorials .......1'age 4 Family Doctor ....Pag 4 Market, Financial New, Page 7 Railroad New Pag 7 SPorts Pag t 0 DF RESOLUTION HELD ASSURED Today's News Digest