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1m WEATHER Unsettled High 86s Low 30 PRECIPITATION Si houri to 8 a. m ,. 00 WIRE SERVICE Til Humid mill News subscribe to full leased wire service of tho Aaanrlnted 1'rcaa ml Hie United I'reaa, llm world's grenlet lli'lvaunllii'rliiK urKnuly.nl lima. For 17 hmira dully tvorlil iimvn mines Into The llonild. Nnwa office oil teletype mmlilnca, re Hraaon to data 10.43 I.aat year to date ... 0.2'J Normal precipitation ............ 0.811 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS gauzy Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1938 Number 8215 nrnrn IM1 IMl -JT ZAiUMUVIUUVJ a u 00 WK K1 Americans Pickets Proclaim City Unfair 'V. . . r 65 1 mm. lien tho Eugene oily roiinrll nniona to pny a Si, license fee or 1 1 1 l i ii f -r la i i J t . . . . . Kit in b unless a lejiltlmnto labor dispute waa In existence, unlona re taliated liy plrkntlnK l Om city city counru uninir to orKitninea lly KIIANK JKNKIXH Bhe built a Una or mighty undnraround torn (tho MiKlnol line) along tha (iormnn frontlor. Thrao grcnt rorlltlrnllona, modurn In every reaped, coating; alnRKer Inj aunia of money, would protect her front door aanlnat nny poa alhla axnnult, alio lirllnvrd. Ilehlnd them, nlio foil arcure. 0V, with Spnln prnctlcnlly In the hnnda of Itnly, which la fiprmnny'a ally, r'rnnro fncea tho poaalhlllty of Invnalon hy way of nor unprotected BACK DOOIt. fONRIDKll Franco BKnln. A doien yenra ao, alio wna all-powerful In Eiiropo. Her lco- plo wero united. Her arinlea WOTo SALEM POLICE CRITICIZED IN DEATH OF PRISONER; . REORGANIZATION URGED SAI.EM, April 7 (P) A Marlon county crand Jury report yoater (Iny crlllclrod tho Ha linn polleo lo- pnrtmont In ronnoction with tho death Inat Dccoiuher of (leorRO Chnffoe, Sllvorton, n t ho city Jnll, ,A lid rocommended roorRnnlr.ullon of tho dopnrtinont. At an Inquoat following Chnf fea'a death, police teatlfled tlicy Ihoiicht ha wna drunk when car ried unronacioiia to tho Jnll. Poc tnra aald he died of a akull frnc . lure. ' Tha, Jury criticized polleo for fill I ll re to prnrldo incdlcul atten tion for Chnffoo nnd nnaerlod no one had examined him from I ho tlmo ho waa put In a cell nt S n m. until 1 : :I0 p. m. when he waa found dead. Uao of an "ordinary molorcyelo trnllor" In tiiklnir tho unconaelouB man to Jail nlao wna conaurod. Choalor A. HoRora recently pleaded Innoronl to nn Indlctinont chnrRlnR him with Involunlnry inannlniiRlitor In connection with Chaffee's death. Litth Inter views Editorials on the Day's News .Miss Harriot Long of Siilnm, Btnlo llliritrlnu Klnmnth Knlla hna a ronlly fino llhrnry, with a growlngly oxcullont Hat of books. Ilnlo Miittoon, deputy sheriff i Hay, what's tho matter with 'Nlio paper? It didn't report tho arrival of tho pelicans. You'd hotter any toduy thnt thoy'vo boon here a wook or so. FRIENDS o- LABOR The City Council EUGENE-UNFAIR TO TNC INTERESTS LlolTWTt 'lAWO. UNIONS V. till mi i 5 HI -v ' . r: . ( adopted an ordinance rranlrlnx nirkot unee and bann ng nickel- llmlig. Their iln proclaim! tho moor, tho mlchllost on earth. Her fi nances. wero sound. Kecurlly aaomcd within nor srnap. qrllK armies of France are mighty nt 111. But her gor- ernment la weak.' Mlnlatrles rise, stagger along for a few wocks and FALL. Ilor people are torn with discord. Her finances are shaky. When Franca speaka, her voice la no longer the voice of com mand. It la the voice of entroaty. WHY this change? " Listen: For yeara, In France, tha aound doctrlno thnt If you apend more than you take In you will go broke hns been Ignored, nnd France hns gono morrlly on spend' lug more than her Income. In Franco, the demagogue poll tlclana havo taught clnss to hate clnsa. T 1ST EN again: Franco has sought something for nothing, by the simple and pleasant procoaa of paaalng a law Ignoring tho Plain truth that wealth arises only out of produc tion and production arises only out of work. Germany, realistic, hns WORKKD nnd SAVED and DE NIKU HERSELF to the end that aho might becomo atrong. dor many, rising llko a dnrk thunder cloud, agnln niennces Franco from across tho Rhino. Tho doctrine of somothiiig for nothing HASN'T HELPED FRANCE. SALESMAN IDENTIFIES AMNESIAC AS BARBER PORTLAND,. April 7 (AP) An nmnosln victim, ,aoml-consclous part of the time since his con finement In a Portland hospital, was Identified yeatorday by a Hpoknno, Wash., anlesmnn as J. II. Wllllnms, termor Poshnstln, Wash., bnrbor. Tho 3.1-ycar-old mnn's fnthor, M. S. Williams, Poshnstln, Cholnn county assessor's assistant, veri fied tho Identification in a toio phono call horo. Tho man's picture was rocog- ulted hy Fred N. Johnson, anles mnn, who visited tho hospital and readily Identified Wllllnms. He snld he had patronised Williams' barber shop and hna known him for 10 or 15 yonrs. Decimated T E Survivor of International Brigades Carries Tale Across Pyrenees, I'KRPIONAN, FRANCE, AT THE HI'ANIKII FRONTIER, April 7 t11 A (,'nllfornlnn who had acted aa political commlasur for tho Waahlnglon nnd Lincoln bnt tallon of ono of tha Hpanlsh gov ornmont'a International brigades reached Fiance today with a atory of death among hia American comradca. John (I. Honeycombs, 87, of Loa Angelea, anld only a fow hundred out of several thousund Americana who had fought alnce tho beginning of the Spanish civil war aa volunteera for the govern ment were still alive. "Unndrsa L'ollae" Tattered and hungry, Honey combe croaaed the frontier after what he called "the Gandeaa col In inn," n which 660 Americana of the Washington and Lincoln battalion were caught In the path of tleneralleaimo Francisco Fran co's offensive. ' Qnndeae fell last Saturday to the Insurgent , push' toward the Mediterranean. . The Callfornlan aald the old Washington battalion waa almoat wiped out before Uclchlte. aouth eaat of Zarngoia, where the lnaur gonta' march to tha aea started nearly four weeks ago. "Right" Thoaa that remained, ho said, were Incorporated In the Lincoln battalion, nnd "Franco finished the job at Gnndean." "I remember the Inst thing my wife aald to me when I left her and my six-year-old kid In Los Angelea," Honeycombs mused. " 'You'll regret tho day you loft tor Spain.' She wna right." Aa political commlaaar. Honey combe, who aald he once worked In the American communist party In California, was loft in charge of the battalion when Its com mander waa killed in Gandeaa. . "Finished" "This cannot last," ha aald. "I have seen more than 200 planes at ono time bombing and strafing our lines. That man Franco hns everything. The Spaniards don t want to fight. They have nothing to fight with. They nro finished." Honeycombe used an American seamnn's passport, dated several yeara ago, to cross the bordor Into Franco from northeaatern Spain. "I gueas they couldn't read," he commented. Ho atlll wore a khaki uniform. Rips In the trousers showed shrapnel wounds ho received In the action at Belrhite last mouth. Hitchhiked "They rushed us to the Gan- desa sector from Heichlte Just in time to got the full force of the offensive April 1," he related. "It wna horriblo. The whole republi can lino those thnt were left of us Just erncked and rnn." It took him four or five days of hitchhiking nnd walking to reach tho French frontier, Honeycombe said. "We Americans were sur rounded by fascist Infnntry U kilometers (about nine miles) west of Gandeaa but a few of ua found our way out. I saw only 28 mon, besides myself, escaping out of the 680." . ... HENDAYE, FRANCE. AT THE SPANISH FRONTIER, April 7 (IF) Government defenses crumbled bofore n fresh Insurgent march to Spain's enst coast todny ns insur- (Contlnued on Pnge Eleven) PORTLAND WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH FROM BRIDGE PORTLAND. April 7 (AP) A womnn who looped to death from the high . Vista avenue brldgo over tho Canyon rond last night was Identified todny ' as Mrs. T. L. Eck, 43. Deputy Coroner Enrl Shea said the Identification had been made by a brother, E. E. Roecker. Tho woman mot two frlghtenod children on the south approach and told them I m going to kill myself." The body landed on a steep wooded slope. Mrs. Eck had boon dospondent over the Illness of her husanbd. ONLY FEWQU Alii Loquacious Hodo Held in Frome Case l ( DAun T... ln.ll 1 tin. CM I llao, . ; Tm'n nnw ,t.vflinmentftil(KrriV(rv of a pair of bloodstnlned boots nnd arrest of a loquacious tran sient ngureu loony in me aiuw- 1... Iiivnatlvnllnn rtt tha wnelf.rilrl " n - torture-slaying of Mrs. Weston G. Fromo and her daughter. .Nancy. PI PBm officer held a 22-year- old tranalcnt, arreatcd In tha rail road yards this morning, for ques tioning concerning Information given by John R. Mullens, another iranaient. toot Abandoned Mullena told police the suspect "artnil IIBnlflnillllv" While talking of the caae on a freight train en routo to Kl rano. " 'It should have happened a vnai. nn ' " Mullena auoted him as saying. "Ho told us on the train only one man was mvoivea and that the women were killed with a .32 pistol." From Aspermont. in Stonewall county, north of Abilene. Deputy Sheriff F. O. Gibson reported he was holding a pair of blood stained boots left In a shop there three days ago by a man who acted "auspiciously." Pursuing his policy of checking every report and clue, Fox sent Sheriff Louis Robcrson of Pecos to Aspermont to investigate. S1XL0SELIVES IN Amil Snowstorms Visit 11 States in Middle west, East. ALICEVILLE, Ala., April 7 (P) One white man and five negroes were killed here -this afternoon when a roaring tornado swept away more than n acoro of homes. CHICAGO, April 7 .P Snow foil on 11 states today, the second day of an April storm that brought out winter clothing and out many men to work clearing streets, repairing crippled service lines and fighting to save crops. 17 Inches Forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the government weather bureau re ported snow was falling In Ne braska, Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania New York, Connecticut. Rhodo Is Innd and Massachusetts. The storm centered along a belt stretching from Colorado and Wyoming to Now York and New England yesterday and Piled up snow to depths of 17 Inches. Last night the conter veered south to Shreveport, La., and poured rain upon eastern Texas, moat of the south, the Ohio valley, the middle Mississippi and lower Missouri valley. DEPUTY SHERIFF SLAYS SUPERIOR, PRISON GUARD DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla., Anrll 7 ( AP) Deputy Shorlff J. W. Koliy said today Constable James Ncal admitted killing Sher iff B. C. Adklnson nnd Frnnklin Hendrtx, prison camp guard, whose bodies wero found on a highway ea'r l.dny. The V nlton county sheriff and Hondrl'. were found shot to donth In front of Noal's home and Kelly said the constablo claimed he fired In self dotonse after the two men had attacked him. Neal was Jailed without chnrge pending an Inquest Kolly said. The deputy said troublo be tween the two peace officers re sulted from a disagreement earl ier this week over a hearing for several mon charged with cattle tbott. TOWN8END CLAIMS GAIN PORTLAND. April 7 (AP) Dr. Francis E. Townsond, 74- year-old lender of the Townsend natlonnl recovery plnn here for a "routine visit," snld In an In terview last night hla movoment was gaining "86,400 now mcm bors a month." in Big Insurgent DETHOIT TRAM WORKERS QUIT TUG UP CITY Union Street Car Opera tors Demand Senior ity System. ' DETROIT, April 7 (VP) Union street car operators who atruck at 4 a. m. today, paralyzing trans portation service on which 700, 000 Detrolters depend, defied this afternoon an ultimatum that they return to work or be discharged. An hour before the 2 p. m. deadline set by officials of the municipally operated street car system, the strikers, members of an American Federation of Labor union, voted 130S to 17 to con tinue the strike until a seniority system Is put into effect. , Injunction limed At almost the same time Cir cuit Judge DoWilt H. Merrlain Is sued n temporary Injunction re straining tho strikers from "Inter fering, molesting, picketing, dam aging or In any way preventing" the city and its employes from operating motor buses or street cars. The court acted on petition of Mayor Richard Reading. . Union leaders aald the vote to continue the strike "legalized" what had been termed 'wildcat strike. Windfall for Cabmen At the rush hour this morning no street cars were operating. and automobile traffic was mov ing slowly because of thousands of additional motorcars. Bus lines were operating under police protection, taxicabs were doing the best business In years and thousands walked or thumbed rides, MASSACHUSETTS CITIES " BAN SALE OF MAGAZINE SHOWING BIRTH PICTURES PITTSFIELD, Mass.. April 7 I.Vi M.vB.lna nlinlinrranhi ihnwlnp the birth of a baby encountered a police ban today in rittsncld ana Springfield. . Asserting the pictures (In Life magazine out tomorrow) were "muffled propaganda on birth control" and "nothing education al " Pnlli-M PhlpP Jnhn I.. Stllll- van of Pittsfield said he felt they would cnuse every womnn to "stnnd nghnst" and would hurt churches' efforts to. "build up modesty and virtue."' He ordered distributors to delete them before sale of the Issue. In Springfield, Chief John L. Mahoney took similar action after a meeting of tho city police board. Tho pictures are "stills" from a motion picture, "The Birth of a Baby," produced by the Amorlcnn committee on maternal welfare, under tho supervision of several eminent doctors. The ban was ordered after both Sullivan and Mahoney had seen copies of the magazine. Similar action was taken by Police Superintendent Chsrles A. Wheeler of Bridgeport, Conn. HENLEY GRANGE VOTES OVERWHELMINGLY FOR PERRY AS STATE MASTER HENLEY, April 7 Henley grange Wodnesday night gave an overwhelming vote for Ralph Perry. Hood River, for state mas ter, over Ray W. Gill, the incum bent. Tha vote was 27 to 1. Approximately half the total membership of the subordinate grange was present lor the meet ing. Subordinate granges throughout the county nre vot ing In Anril on stnte officers. Tho Honloy grangers at tholr mooting voted for new mombers for all atnto officers, and against the Incumbents who have held the power in the grange for sev eral years. Women of the grange present ed the program. It Included a talk by Mrs. Henry Semon on hor recent visit at Washington, a vocal solo by Helen Durant, a duet by Mrs. J. R. Elliott and Mrs. Jess Johnson, a rending by Mrs. Walter Emmnn and a song by the Honloy womon s chorus, Failure Greets Motion to Kill Reorganization SENATE STRIKES OUT UNDISTRIBUTED PROFITS TAX FROM REVENUE BILL WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) Tbe senate struck the undistrib uted profits tax from the house- approved revenue bill today. WASHINGTON. April 7 (AP) The senate approved today a flat 15 per cent tax on capital gains as a substitute for a grad uated scale of rates provided in the revenue bill passed by the house. Taking up amendments to the tax bill recommended by tbe fi nance committee tbe senate ap proved the flat rate of capital gains without objection. Chairman Harrison (D-Mlss.) of the finance committee bad de clared this rate would encourage investment and would be less complex than a graduated scale of levies approved in the bouse. .5. T Tokyo Sees Vital Need of Maintaining Command in West Pacific. TOKYO. April 7 (IP) Japan feels It "imperative" she maintain command of tbe western Pacific and Is concerned gravely over the possibility the United States might expand her sphere of influence there, Rear Admiral Kiyosbl Noda, admiralty spokesman, said today. Discussing the speech on for eign policy by Secretary Hull on March 17 and his letter on April 3 to Chairman Walsh of the senate naval committee, opposing a stay-at-home policy for the navy and holding It must be free to defend Americans anywhere. Admiral Noda asserted; "Gravest Concern" "The fact that Mr. Hull sent a letter at this nartlrnlnr iIika is nf special Interest to us. Formerly me united states seemed to regard the mainland enasta and Panama ns the sole points necessary to de- icna. "As late as January 31, Admiral Leahy (cbicf of U. S. naval oper ations) stated a strategical tri angle running from the Aleutians to Hawaii, Samoa and Panama was the defense line. "Now Mr. Hull expresses strong opposition to any such theoretical frontier. Hence, It appears Amer ica is advancing her sphere rap Idly westward. Japan cannot but watch with gravest concern." NEVADA CITY CIO MINERS AGREE TO BANISHMENT NEVADA CITY. Calif., April 7 (AP) Fourteen CIO mine unionists were released from the Nevada county Jail early today, Sheriff Carl Tobiassen said, after they had agreed to banishment from the county. Tho shorlff said the men were tnken to Colfax, Calif., by auto mobile and then released. Some went to Oakland and others to Bcoo and Reno, Nev. Among those dismissed, the sheriff said, was Albert Gnrsio, financial sec retary and CIO leader In Nevada City for the past year. Tobias sen said Garsio had agreed to stay out of Nevada City for six months. MARTHA RETURNS Martha, the pert young woman who writes shopping tips for News and Herald readers, is back on the job after a winter sojourn in a sunnier clime. Martha's col umn will appear each Thurs day. It will be found today on Page 8. Administration Marks Up 191-169 Victoiy, Sees Final Success. BULLETIN WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) The house voted tentatively to day to reserve for congress the right to override presidential re organization orders by a simple majority vote. The unrecorded vote was 131 to 113. WASHINGTON, April 7 (AP) Tbe house refused today to kill the government reorganization bill. The teller vote was 191 to 169. The ballot, a victory for the administration, was on a motion by Representative O'Connor (D-N.Y.) to "strike out the en acting clause" without which the bill would have been ineffec tive and meaningless. The measure was thrown open to amendment Immediately aft erward. To Continue Fight Backers of : tbe ' bill, said the vote was a sure indication, the Bouse .would- pass It eventually. But opponents still had opportu nities to attempt to defeat It after amendments were disposed of. "This is Just one part of the fight," O'Connor told reporters after hia nrnnnsnl Inat I'Thaw will not be a reorganization bill." some memoers waved to the DreSS B-AllprV m - Olov ' vnn. through. Representative Bier- iuu (u-ia.j came into the cham ber on crutches to vote against the O'Connor motion. Confusion So great was the confusion following announcement of the vote that Representative Craw ford (R-Mich.) had to shout through CUnnP.1 hanH. In nn tempt to address the chair. tie nnally asked If there was any "OOSSihla Wav" n Khi.l- roll call vote on O'Connor's mo- nun. Representative McCormack (D-Mass.) who was presiding, said there was none. Representative Warren (D-NC) offered the first of two amend ments which backers of the bill had promised to meet some of the opposition protests against It. It was to exempt the federal office of education specifically from any reorganization pro gram. LEVEL OF WILLAMETTE AT PORTLAND PROVES COSTLY BASIS OF ARGUMENT HERE What Is the mean level of the Willamette river at Portland? That question agitated half a dozen or more Klamath Falls men Thursday morning. Although none of them was personally af fected by the level of the Willa mette river at Portland, It some how developed Into a hot issue among them, and several inquiries were sent to The Herald office In an effort to settle the matter. Estimates of the local men ranged from 10 to 300 feet. Sev eral of them were so sure they wero right that they put up money to back their estimates, a total of J 25 being In tbe pot when The Herald, ever anxious to oblige, wangled the information from Portland over the Associated Press wire. Here Is the correct figure: 7.8 feet. That's the approximate distance that water In the Willamette river at Portland falls before It flows Into the ocean, at tbe mouth of the Columbia river. Big loser when the pot was awarded was Earl Ware of Balsl ger's. Earl said the level waa not less than 571 feet. He had the satisfaction, however, of knowing that the experts of one govern ment sgency here made a guess of 75 feet. W. R. (Baldy) Evans, Elmer Balsiger, Ralph Eggers and Les Stebblns were among those who collected at Earl's expense. Evans was closest at 10 feet. Push FEDERAL BONDS Program Based on Loans to Cities, Counties At No Interest. WASHINGTON, April 7 (?) A high administration official said today President Roosevelt contem plates recommending to congress a $1,600,000,000 public works program in a new recovery drive to end the recession, restore em ployment and revitalize the na tion's business. ., At the same time the White House announced Harry Hopkins, administrator, and Aubrey Wil liams, deputy administrator of the works progress administration, would confer with the president today on work relief. Born of Recession ' . Williams has said that a much greater emergency relief . fund . would be needed soon It the gov ernment was to care for tho new thousands of unemployed, born of the recession. - . The hew public works program plan, it was learned authoritative- Uyi-aaHs-fo-r federal bond issues to raise tbe 11.600,000,000. This money, in turn, would be lent to cities, counties and other political subdivisions to finance local build ing programs.. , - Aid to Business It was understood President Roosevelt would ask congress to authorize raising the billion and a half by sale of bonds. It was also understood the money would bo lent' to states and cities without interest for periods as long as 60 years and would be repayable In small an nual amounts, probably about I per cent. The public works loan .plan would be one phase of the ad ministration's program for aid ing business and increasing em ployment. ' On- Capitol Hill today Chair man Glass (D-Va) of tbe senate appropriations committee pre dicted the administration would, ask an appropriation of between Jl. 250. 000. 000 .and $1,500,000, 000 "as a starter" toward meet ing next year's relief needs. Hopkins will appear bofore the senate unemployment committee tomorrow to discuss general un employment. FLY TO FRANCE FOLKESTONE, England, April 7 (AP) Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.' Lindbergh todar Hew to France on an undisclosed mis sion. , , . Henley grange votes over whelmingly against Ray Gill for state master, favors Ralph Perry of Hood River. Page 1. Motorists warn.d to observe Klamath Falls parking ordinances Ir the future with one-hour parking to be rigidly ontorced by police department.- Pagn 9. Klamath county youngster Bli In hnh. hAaf In IntnratntA Jun ior Livestock and Baby Beef show in San Francisco April 10 to 14. Page 3. . . '. Klamath potato prices . take first upturn since early In sea son. Page 8. i Postofflce robbery Investigator. reveal footprints will be evidence against Dale Willnrd at hearing Wednesday. Page 4. ' IN THIS ISSUE City Briefs Pages 5 T Comics and Story Page 14 Courthouse Records -...."age 4 Editorials ...................Page 4 Family Doctor Pnge 4 Market, Financial News, Page 10 Railroad News Page Sports ..Page 12 WOULD PROVIDE 00 Today's News Digest j T