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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1938)
WEATHER Unsettled High 01, Low ST PRECIPITATION 21 hour to 8 . m. ................ .00 Hf!on to date ........... lfl.lt Last year to date O.IISI Normal precipitation 0.80 4 WIRE SERVICE The Herald nml Nowa siiliarrlhe to full leased wire service nf Ilia Asaiiclnlod Press ml thn Dill 1 Prcas, Ilia world's greatest iinwunllurlii orKaiilzntlons. Fur 17 liuuri dully world news come Into The Herald' Nowi offle on teletype machines. ra ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS RECZY Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 193$ Number 8216 nlo)fn)W0'IP. 0 AS HITS C 1 AFL Editorials On the Day1. N ews lly FRANK ji:mwns rT,IIIH dlapalrh, under a Snliim dateline, win carrlod on III Associated Press wire Iht other day: A candidal In th May pri mary waa asked recently how h know what plank to put In Ilia platform. "Woll, you see If Oil way." h anawrd. "It ttioro waa hatred In Ihla town agalnat a certain church, I would any I would burn all lima churches down and hang all tholr preach ers. "Than, l( It cam to show down after 1 was elected, I would lust any that It wasn't th proper time for thin action." pUNNYt Well, yea In way. And It certainly licks off Hi methoda of a lot of ahallow-paied office-seeker who look no farther Into th future than getting them selves onto the public payroll. Hut It ha It serious side. NOTE, pleas, thai the vot chaser quoted In thla little anecdote nan in mind, wncn I describing hi methods, the Idea of ' !CAPITA1.I,IN0 HATRED AND INTOLERANCE. He figured, you see, that If he could Just stir up enough hatred and then could mnko himself the vchlcl of thla hatred he could ride Into office with rotes to spar. Th pity of It Is that uch thing CAN BB DONE. TN th years just past, dema gogues bar been successfully capitalising haired and prejudice ' and Intolerance. Special Interest has been p , pealed to ,nd PUBLIC Interest ' has been forgotten. The have not hare been aet against the have. Employee hare boon turned agalnnt their employers. 'The country hns been mado sus picious of the town, And so on. The result 1 state of mind In which FEAR OF EVERYTHING ANn KVFnYilODY nredomlnates. "We're beginning to find out what such state of mind docs to busi ness and mploymont. ' It does VAST HARM. CO lot' not laugh anecdote which on appear to he humorous, at this Its fnce If too much like laughing nt a cripple and then looking on horrlflod wnu ne strips on ma ciuuius aim reveals hla shocking dorormltloa. Capitalising hatred really Is horrlblo political deformity. CLEVELAND TORSO SLAYER CLAIMS ELEVENTH VICTIM CLEVELAND, April I fPl A woman' dismembered leg waa found late today on the bank of the Cuyahoga river In the down town section, lending Coroner S. R. Gorbor to announco "It looks like Cleveland's torso alnyor had killed his eleventh victim" alnce September, 19.14. The leg, sovorod 48 lo 72 houra before It was found, wna dlsmom bored with a acnlpol or knlfn In tho same fnshlnn na the other 10 victims, he anld. A WPA worker found tho de composed leg, which was taken to county morgue for x-rny examina tion. Tollee an un il searched for additional traces of a body. Little Interviews W. 0. "Bill" Hottston-iDo I know any nnws? tlosh, yci I just got a lotter and my little granddaughter can itnnd alonol 4l Pete Lesmolator The Knights tot Columbus are having tholr traditional Enater Mondny dance, and w expect It to be Quito an HUis. Workers Head for Crockett Caravan of 1000 Marches on CIO At Huge Refinery REORGANIZATION BILL WEATHERS ADDITIONAL OPPOSITION AMENDMENTS WASHINGTON, April (P) The reorganisation bill hurdled another major ohatacle today when the house declined to strip from It sections designed to rearrange the government accounting ays trin. Tho standing vote waa 116 to 83. WASHINGTON, April 8 (p) The house shouted down an ammendenl to the reorganisation bill today ahleli Representative Case (It-H.D.) proposed as a means of preserving tho independence of the general accounting office and comptroller general. Consideration of that phase of the mcaauro followed house ap proval, without a word of debato, a provision of the reorganisation hill that would authorise the pres ident to appoint six administra tive assistants. They would be paid $10,000 a year. Tl PfiOPDlSTUOIED 2 Per Cent Levy for Pen sions, Property Relief Urged on State. SALEM, April I (AP) A proposed constitutional amend ment to compel the atate legis lature to enact a 1 per cont transactions tax waa discussed today by tho Interim commission on state and local revenue. Glen C, Wade, Pondloton, rep resenting Oregon state rocovery plan, Inc., sponsor of the plan, anld the tax would raise fto, 000,000, adding that "the tax payer wouldn't evon feel It." . The amendment, which would be votod upon In November If enougti signatures of voters are obtained, would provide that the legislature should pass the tax, 60 per cent of the proceeds to pny minimum old ago pensions of Its per month. v Must Hind Full Amount The pensioners, to be more than 60 years old, would have to spend the pension onch in on I li . Tho fed oral government would pny 815 of the monthly ponslons. The other 40 por cent of the rovonuos would lis used to re duce property taxes. "The object of this bill," Wade told the commission, "Is to pro tect the aged, to reduce the pro perty tax burden and to stimulate trado." Impeachment Possible Ho anld the legislature could bo Impeached It It refused to pass the law after enactment of the constitutional amondmont. Tho tax would be levied on ovory transaction from the time a product Is manufactured until it la rntnllod. If a product pusses through five different hands on it way to the consumor, thore would bo five 2 por cont taxes. Wado anld the commission was collaborating with his or ganisation, but that no commis sion action wna necessary, ' (Moro dotnlls on Pago 2) FRENCH CABINET QUITS AS SENATE REFUSES SUPPORT J PARIS, April 8 lri Premier Leon ' nium tonight handed his oahlnot'a resignation ta President Albort Lobrun. Tho president was expected to call on ICdoiini'd Daladlor, rndleal soclnllnt lender and dnfonae min ister under nium, to form n new government to replace the fourth people' front ministry, 1 Dlurn nnd 111 ministers went to Klynon pnlnce with tholr colloctlve lottor of resignation nftor tho son nto had voted down, his demand for dictatorial powors over French finance. Anti-Strike Demonstration Set; Police Prepared ' for Riot. CROCKETT, tallf.. April 8 (VP) Tho first element of a man labor Invasion of thla San Kranciaro bay Induatrial community began moving today from Oakland. Nearly 1000 membors of the Amorlcan Fodoratlon of Labor were reportod speeding In caravana lo take part In a' demonstration at 2:30 p. m.. designed to show th federation' displeasure at Com mittee for Induatrial Organization tactic In the strike that haa tied up the California-Hawaiian sugar refinery horo. "Peace and Harmony" AFL loaders sold the demon stration would bo staged In an at tempt to bring about "peace and harmony" In the AKL-CIO con troversy. Sheriff's offlcors, how ever, laid In a supply of vomiting gas to supplement the tear gas on band.. The AFL army, recruited from among building trades workers of the Sen Kranciaro east bay region, wor told by Roland Wataon, per sonal roprosontative of William (Ireen, AKL president, to be ready "for an emergency." CIO chieftains ssld the AFL demonstration was an Incitement "to riot," and announced they had ordered moat of their forces out of Crockett for the day. "Work Holiday" Sheriff John Miller said he would make no effort to atop the AFL march. He declared deputies would be prepared with tear gas lo break up any riot. The mobilisation order of the AFL leaders, which waa accom panied by a declaration of a build ing trade "work holiday" In Con tra Cosla and Alameda counties, followed the Invasion of Crockett by several hundred CIO longshore men and warehousemen yesterday, which gave tho CIO domination of the labor battlefield around the sugar rcfluory, one of the world's largest. Previously, the CIO picket had been routed by AFL unionists In a atreet fight In which many per sons woro Injured. Homemade tlomba Two homomade stench bombs were hurled from n automobile thl afternoon into hendquarters of tho Committee for Industrial Organisation. . CIO mom bora who had seclud ed themsolvca In tho rooms when hundreds of Amorlcan Federation of Labor sympathisers flooded tho town, throw opon the win dows, muttered, and stayed put. Ranger John Sarglnson arrived In Klnnmth Falls Thursday to take over his new dntloB as rangor wun mo u. 8. rorost service, ila takes tho place of Hugh Rlttor. rangor, who Is being transferred to .the Sank rangor station In the Bnket national forest with head- qunrtera in Bolllnghnm. Sarglnson- has been stationed nt the Sisters ranger station In the Deschntos national forest with Ueadquartors in Bend, lv -. . -"" - ' -ii 1 A? Fists, Gas II M 1 U On V I fx , , II ' I I II" II Bitter feeling between the CIO and the AFL a to which had jurisdiction In a Crockett, Calif., sugar refinery strike resulted In a pitched battle, broken up by tear gaa. AFL members and sympathizers attacked the CIO picket line, and fists were used freely by both aides. Some of the participants are shown struggling through a choking cloud of gas. Thursday more than 1000 AFL members left Oakland. Calif., for Crockett, Intent on an antl-CIO demonstration which they "hoped would lestore peace and harmony." E Nine Days Left for Voters to File N a m e s at Clprk's Of fice. Nine business days remain In which to.rcgialor or adjust reg istration for voting In the May primary election. Although registration business at the county clerk'a has pro ceeded with heavy volume the past few weeks, it is atill feared there will bo annoying congestion on tho last day or two and an other appeal wont out Friday to citlsens to take care of registra tion matters immediately. April 19 at 5 p. m. la the registration deadline Must Inform Clerk ' In the fore again this year Is the problem of people who have moved since the last election and therefore should notify the clerk's office of their new address so they can be registered In the product In which they live, ' A gront many people seem to labor under tho delusion that the clerk's office Is Informed. In some mysterious way, that they have moved and will change their rogistraO0" enrdr to the right precinct without notice. The only way the clerk's office can know of a change of address Is for the citizen affected to drop Into the office and ask to have his registration changed to hi new precinct. Shifting Continues Shitting back and forth be tween parties on the part of per sons already registered continues at a steady pace. In the past few days a considerable number of domocrnts have moved ovor to the republican aide, where aa most of the shitting up to this time has beon the othor way, WOUNDED STATE TROOPER DIES OF MENINGITIS OREGON CITY, April (VP) Slate Police Sorgoant Ira Warren, shot last December In arresting a robber, died late yestordny of spinal meningitis which had com plicated his injury. .The officer, a member of the state police slnco Its Inception un der the lato Govornor Julius Molor In 1931, left tho hospital about two weoks ago, apparently on tho way to recovery. The dread meningitis dovolopod Monday, Warren, former Oregon Olty chief of police, was wounded whllo arresting Ear Soars, called the "sock bandit" by police because he carried his money in n stock ing. Soars was sentenced to a life term In the atate prison for as sault and robbery while aruiod with a dangerous weapon, , Fly as Sugar Strike Leads to Union Rivalry President Boosts Estimate" r For Work Relief ; Nation's Mayors Ask $3,000,000,000 WASHINGTON. April 2 (JPy President Roosevelt told a press conference today his billion dollar estimate for work relief in the next fiscal year would have to be Increased. He mentioned no figure. The president also said a new public works program was under discussion but that no decision had been reached. He mentioned no amount in this connection eith er, but J 1.500.000,000 was the figure he was reported reliably as considering. - 1ong Term Loans The president said ono of the features of the works program being discussed was long term loans to municipalities without interest. He said he bad not decided whether to combine public works and work relief proposals in one message to congress or to make them separate. ' One billion dollara for relief was' proposed in the president's January budget message. LIGHT VOTE ANTICIPATED IN ELECTION ON 7-COUNTY PEOPLE S POWER DISTRICT PORTLAND, April 8 iff) A comparatively small number of the 70,000 eligible voters were expected to cast ballots today on whether to form a people's power district in portions of seven western Oregon counties. . The vote involves 4t munici palities and nine outlying districts la Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Washington and Yamhill counties. Five of six candidates will be named to direct the proposed northwest Oregon Bonneville peo ple's utility district. Any one of the 65 subdivisions may vote to remain outside of the district. The result in a subdivision will have no bearing on the decision of Br other section. County clerks said the final resnlt might not be known for 24 to 48 hours after the polls closed at 8 P. m. The count will bo com plicated In many Instance because district lines divide a number of precincts. Some neighboring pre cincts are not in the same sub division. Election boards in sev eral sections will not report -until tomorrow. . . ' SAVES ON BUTTONS DALLAS, April 8 (P) Charles A. Sprague, publisher of the Salem Statesman, opened a campaign here last night for the republican nomination as governor. The pub lisher said that although he had received many requests for cam paign buttons, none would bo available. "My campaign will be an economical one," he added. WASHINGTON, April 2 JP) The United States conference o mayors asked President Roosevelt today to recommend that congress appropriate 23.000.000,000 to give work to 3.500,000 needy un employed. , The mayors conferred with the president shortly after be had told a press conference that bis billion dollar estimate for work relief in the next fiscal year would have to be increased. Mr. Roosevelt mentioned no specific figure, however.' The growing relief problem was brought to the attention of con gress during the day by Harry L. Hopkins, the WPA administrator, who, in testimony before the sen ate unemployment committee, as serted 18,000,000 men, women and children were now receiving public assistance. TEXAS AUTHORITIES MAKE FRESH START ON FROME INVESTIGATION EL PASO, Texas, April 8 (A") Discarding a welter of worthless findings, authorities today started anew their investigation Into the baffling, nine day old slaylngs of Mrs. Weston G. Frome and her daughter In the desert east of here last week. "We are going back' to the be ginning and start from where we were when the bodies of the wo men were found," (aid . Sheriff Chris Fox, in charge of the case. "The first step in solving the case . now must be locating the luggage." The sheriff ordered all search on previous angles of the case vir tually abandoned, and the hunt concentrated on the women's missing luggage. : Governor Allred of Texas dis patched seven additional state troopers to El Paso to augment the score already working on the case. SENATE REMOVES TAX BOOST ON HARD LIQUOR WASHINGTON. April 8 JP The senate, nearlng a final vote on the new revenue measure, re jected today a proposal . to in crease tho tax on hard liquor from (2 to 82.25 a gallon. : The Increase, voted In the house, was opposed by the trea sury and the senate finance com mittee on the ground (it would in crease bootlegging. ' Senator Frazler (Jl-ND) urged the senate to approve the increase, which he said would have yielded 219.000,000,, J Showdown REBRS WITHIB " SIGHT 0F.C0JIST Chinese Claim Capture of Badly-Battered Shan . tung City. HENDAYB. TRANCE. AT THE SPANISH FRONTIER, April 8 A second contingent of General Franco's insurgent smashed Its way to within sight of Spain's east coast today aa widespread and deadly combat surged along all the Catalan front. Gallcians fought their way to control of lofty Mount Turmell, less than 18 miles downhill to Vinarox on the Mediterranean. This column on the far south ern Catalan front threatened the flank of. embattled government divisions held at bay tor three day by the Insurgent force at tempting to take Tortosa, 28 miles by road to the north. SHANGHAI. April 8 OP) Chinese, rushing, fresh, German trained divisions into the 60-mlle front across southern Shantung province, avowed today that vlc toryewas theirs at battered, shell torn Talerchwang. The Chinese hailed troops of General Sun Ltr-Chung's 31st division as heroes for pushing Japanese from Talerchwang' northeast gate. OKLAHOMAN CONFESSES BEATING WIFE TO DEATH ON 15TH ANNIVERSARY CORDELL, Okla., April 8 (ff) Marlon Larner, 35-year-old pro duce dealer, demanded a prompt trial today after waiving prelim inary hearing on a charge he beat his wife, an expectant mother, to death on their fifteenth wedding anniversary. "I killed my wife. I am guilty," he told Justice M. B. Brown yes terday. County Attorney Raymond Plumlee said Larner, father of three children, made a statement he wrecked his car to make It ap pear his wife died of crash in juries. Plumlee quoted Larner: "I was horrible. I beat her and beat her, but she wouldn't die. She Just kept pleading, 'Why are you doing this to me?' "But even that wouldn't stop me. I had mado up my mind to kill her." Plumlee said Larner admitted associating with a well-to-do widow but said they were Just friends. He said Larner made his statement when confronted with a 81000 Insurance policy on bl wile' Hit, ., STOHM DEATHS in n in T Snow, Sleet Ravage Mid west States; Railway Traffic Paralyzed. BULLETIN PA MP A, Tex., April 8 P Ten persons were fonnd dead of asphyxiation in an oil field resi dence a short distance west of Pampa, this afternoon. The dead, were two men, a woman and seven children. The bodies have not yet been identified. Seven school children and the driver of bo in which they were stranded during a blizzard late yesterday were foasd at . home six miles southwest of here by a tractor rescue party. JASPER, Ga.. April 8 (AP) J. H. Dilbeck, Atlanta Journal correspondent, reported today 13 person drowned in., floodwater which swept away a general store at Whitestone, Ga., last night. ' Two bodies were recovered. Dilbeck said the victims all were sleeping-at the store, when it was swept . from its founda tions by a rain-swollen creek. " He listed them as Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Conner, eight chil dren of the Conners, Carl Lind- ey. 22, and two visitors, Thelma and Bonnie Ponder, children of Will Ponder. CHICAGO, April 8 (APi Thirteen deaths in a Georgia llood raised to 28 the death toll today of storms gripping a broad section of the nation for the . third successive day.. - At least 13 persons perished In an Alabama tornado. Elsewhere communitie were harassed by sleet and snow, cold rains and rising rivers and the forecast of continued weather disturbances. More Snow in Sight More snow and aleet was pre dicted for parts of Illinois, In diana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Lower Michigan, Missouri and Kansas; rain for parts of Ohio,- Indiana . (Continued on Page Six) - LOAD LIMIT LIFTED ' SALEM, April 8 (P) The high way commission removed the 50 per cent load limit restriction to day on the Klamath-Lakeview highway from the Junction of The Dalles-California highway to a point 25 miles east. The 50 per cent load limit remalna effective on the rest of the road. Nine days remain before pri mary election registration dead line. Page 1. , Klamath recovery group pre sents apian for 2 per cent transactions tax to provide old age financial aid and offset property tax. Pages 1 and I. Marshall - E. Cornett elected district governor of Rotary club, announced at the Friday lunch eon of the gronp. Page 8. Release of public land and forest road funds urged to pro mote early work on Lakevlew highway. Page 2. ' Country precinct election boards named. Page 8. ' Three of five granges vote fa vorably for Gill but total vote so far strong for Perry in atat grange master elections. P-i . IV THIS 1SSUK Book Review Page 10 City Briefs Page & and 8 Comics Pages 2, 8 and 13 Continued Story Page 13 Courthouse Record ...-.rage 11 Editorials Page 4 Family Doctor ................ Page 4 Four-H New Ptge 10 High School News ........Page 2 Market, Financial News.. Page 14 Railroad New Pag t Sport Page 12- Telllng th Kdltor...-...Pf I. HERN AREA Today's News Digest
