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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1938)
Vrx& 1 WEATHER P WIRE SERVICE The Hernia and News subscribe to full loaned wire service of 111 Associated Pros nd III United rrM, Hi world's greatest newsgatlierlng organisations. For IT houra dally world nawa comai Into lha Herald. Nawi office on teletype machine. Fair and Warm nigh SHI Low 61 24 houra to 8 a. m. ..... 00 Season to data .............Jfl.7l I-ant year to data ..7.64 Normal precipitation .....10.BT IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938 Number 8258 FAIR Price Fi-- 4 Hope Editorials On the Day'. N ews lly FRANK JKKKINH THE hesdlesa, pitiful bmty of llltla Tatar Levin la re covered from tha laka where brutal kidnaper-murderers bad thrown It. Two dsrs later, another boy la kidnaped In Florida, and as these words ara written bis father, at tar paying tha ransom. Is wait ing fearfully and hoping fran tically that his son will be re turned. MEANWHILE, we're spending mora billions for boondog gling and CUTTINO DOWN on tha appropriations for the O men. CONGRESSMAN Jerry O'Con nell, of MONTANA, Is pre vented again from making Speech In Jersey City, whera May or Hague la tha big boss. (And alio dsmoeratle national commit teeman.) That Is bsd, end this writer, who believes thai everybody who feas anything on his chest should be given the opportunity to get r It off, deplores it. Freedom of speech Is basis human right that Is worth fight ing for even dying for. If ther Is no other way out of It. BUT. even when one feels thst wsy about It, It would be Just a little Interesting to know whst burning mssssg Congressman O Connell of MONTANA had for ths people ot Jersey City, which la In New Jersey. And one can't help wondorlng why b Just HAD to get up on a soap box and deliver his mes sage by word of mouth. Instead ef buying a hslf psge In one of the newspapers and getting It to the public that way. Or even having It printed aa a guttersnipe and delivered by hand to the waiting Jersey CUT populace. . IT Is hard to escspe the eon elusion that this O'Connell, who appears to be a windy dema gogue of a familiar and quite common type, merely saw In the Jersey City situation the oppor tunity to grsb a few cheap head ltnes. This writer finds It hard to get all worked up over cattle like that. INSURGENT TROOPS CLIMB JAGGED TERUEL RANGE IN. DRIVE TOWARD VALENCIA ... HENDAYE, France . (At The Spanish Frontier) June 1 (P) .'insurgents scaled ' precipitous J mountains on the front eaat of ! Torucl today, fighting hand to . hand with government mllltla . men In a genornl offonsive aimed at the capture of Valoncla. ! On land and In the air, the fighting In this new drive by Genornl Francisco Franco's army assumed proportions equal In severity to any In the nearly ' two-year-old civil war. 'i His warplnnca pounded cities and eonconlratlona pn the east ern coast while the full power of hla infantry, cavalry and artil lery slowly dlslodgod government troops from their bristling posi tions north of the highway that reachns from Teruol to Sngunto I and Valencia. Little Interviews John Houston, Insurance man end golf olub president Member ship In the Roames golf club hns been built up to 150, and we're "off on a big and active season eut tier. Abandoned for Kidnaped Boy's Safety 700 See IP A. - Swish, not wham, went I. Zl ride's bat as this picture was taken at the opening of the Softball sesson Tuesday nlxlil. Zlrklo, first at bat for Kesterson, wss fanned by Remus of Lowells. The white streak bohlnd Zlrklo Is the ball, about to be caught by Dean Fryer. Joe Ward la the umpire. Seven hundred witnessed the first game. Story on page t. Mrs. Alma-Scott of New York Addresses Nurses in Session Here. Bringing greetings from the American Nurses association, Mra. Alma II. Scott, director of the as sociation's headquarlors In Now York City, was tha principal apeaker at the first day sessions of the Oregon Graduated Nurses sssoclatlon convention being held In Klamath Falls June 1, 1 and 3. During the afternoon meetlnga Wednosday at the city library Mra. Scott outlined and discussed the program of the American Nurses sssoclstlon, and Dr. Paul W. Sharp of this city talked on "A New Day on Pneumonia and Occupational Therapy," Illustrat ed by moving pictures. Discusses Program Mrs. Scott pointed out that the nurses association la an orgnnlza (Contlnued on Page Six) SUDETEN GERMANS SHOT IN CLASH WITH CZECH SERGEANT; NAZIS BOIL BERLIN, June 1 WTV The Gor man press renewed It's angry out bursts against Ciechoslovakla to day aa a result of a shooting af fray last night at Eger In which a CtochoBlovnk army sergeant clnshed with Sudeton Germans, two of whom were wounded. The Prnha vorslon of the af fair was that the sergeant, Wen tol Toman, became Involved in a row In a cafo with about 36 fol lowers of Konrnd Henloln, Nnzl loader of Czechoslovakia's Ger mnnlo minority. In self-defense Tomnn fired two pistol shots at the floor and two persons near him were wounded in the logs. Toman was errestod. ' The nffnlr brought Berlin news paper references to an "Intol erable stluntlon" and accusations that the Czechs were systematic ally baiting the nazlfled Sudoeton Germans. The Gorman version of the clash at Eger, Just across the German-Csoch border In Czecho slovnkla, la thnt when the cafe band struck a local favorite", the Egcrlnnder march, Toman struck the Instruments from the violin ist's hands. M'NARY ASKS $63,000,000 FOR UMATILLA DAM JOB WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) Senator McNary (H-Ore) pro posed to congress today the con struction ot a 23,700,000 Uma tilla dam on the Columbia rlvor. A bill which would authorise army engineers to build the dnm as a mnjor unit In a project de signed to make navigation event ually possible as far ns Lewiston, Idaho, on the Bnaka river, was introduced by the minority leader Softball, Season Open Rising Waters Of Columbia 41 Peril Island, PORTLAND, June 1 UP) Sand bag barricades were strung slong he top of the sand dlko pro tecting Sauvlas Island, little Hol land of I he Columbia river, yes terday aa haggard dairymen sought to avert a threatened flood. The river rolled to a !0-foot flood crest, battering away at the dike, which showed signs of weakening. Danger was Increas ed by the wash from passing river boats, throwing waves over the dike and opening small strenms onto the rich dairy and farm land below. Flood Crest Thursday The weather bureau said tho crost ot the flood probably would reach 31.6 feet by Thursday. Farms on the southern side of the Island alroady are awash. THE DALLES, June 1 UP) The continually-mounting Colum bia river threatens to duplicate the flood which In 1894 Inun dated four blocks of waterfront area. Rises Foot Dally The river, which has risen eight feet In the last week, has reached a point approximately IS foot below the government-constructed dike. The revetment project will be finished this week. An average ot a foot a day rise has been recorded since a week ago Tuesday. Charles Hagoman, port , of The Dalles engineer, predicted that a two-week, uniform hot spell In Columbia and Snake river areas likely would swell the river level to a point above the dike. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE . R. H. E. Chicago 4 10 2 Washington , 6 11' 0 Whltohoad, Stratton (9) and Sowoll, Ronsa (9); Deshong, Weaver (9) and R. Ferrell. R. H. E. St. Louis 3 10 0 Boston 6 9 1 Walkup, Vnnatta (7) and Sul livan; Wagner and Dcsautels. R. H. E. Dotrolt 8 IS 2 Now York 4 8 3 Kennedy and Tebhets; Sundra, Hnndloy (5) and Dlckoy. R. H. E. Cleveland 5 10 0 PhUaMphla ' U 1 Harder, Humphries (3), Zuber (8) and Pytlak; Nelson and Hayes. NATIONAL LEAGUE R. H. E. Brooklyn 1 5 0 Cincinnati 4 10 0 1'resBnell, Mungo (8) and Shea; Vnmlermeer and Lom bard!. R. H. E. New York ..............1 6 8 Pittsburgh 4 7 0 Melton, Brown (8) and Den ning; Bnuers and Todd. BRIEF VACATION" SALEM, Juno 1 () Governor Charles H. Martin and Mrs. Mar tin loft here today for an unnan nounoed destination where they will spend a brief vacation. T Local Supporters of Plan Hoping for Action Be fore Adjournment Rush messages were sent to Washington Wednesday In the hope of bringing about congres sional action on the Tulelake sump-tunnel project before con gress adjourns. The chamber of commerce re ceived a letter from Congress man Pierce praising the project but taking a gloomy attitude towards action at this session. Pierce promised to do whst he could it local Interests desire to push it. Chamber ot commerce directors st their Wednesday noon session authorised messages to Pierce and other congressional delegates urging that no stone be left unturned to get the enter prise underway immediately. Tacked to Deficiency Bill It has been hoped here that an appropriation for the tunnel program could be appended to the deficiency bill. The fact that congress is leaning In the direc tion ot another lend-spend pro gram was believed a hopeful fac tor in connection with this con struction project. The sump project, as outlined in the Inklsh report, would bring into permanent cultivation about 20,000 acres ot sump land now In danger of flooding in the cur rent wet cycle. Water would be shifted through a ' tunnel Into Lower Klamnth lake, where It would be used for irrigating gras Ing land and development of a wildlife sanctuary. The project would cost some thing In excess of 3900,000, ac cording to the Inklsh estimates. BOSS G-MAN BLAMES U. S. ATTORNEY FOR ESCAPE OF TWO SPY CASE WITNESSES NEW YORK, June 1 () J. Edgar Hoover, chief ot the fed eral bureau of investigation, to day blamed U. S. District Attorney Lamar Hardy for the disappear ance of two key witnesses In the government's Investigation ot the activities of foreign spies. In a statement Issued through Reed VoMerll, chief of tho FBI's New York office, Hoover said: "The responsibility for the dis appearance of Dr. Ignats T. Grlebl and ot the witness Werner G. Gudenberg Is the responsibil ity of the United States attorney and not of the fedornl bureau of investigation." Hardy's secretary Bald: "Mr. Hardy has absolutely noth ing to any." Dr. Griebl sailed for Germany, without a passport, on the Ger man liner Bremen, shortly before the opening ot tho federal grand Jury's spy Investigation. Gudenberg, a Bristol, Pa., air plnno fnctory employe, is en route to Europe on the Gorman liner Hamburg, likewise carrying no passport. HUNDREDS OP AROUSED IN T Child Not Returned After Ransom Paid; Posseman Seized by G-Men. PRINCETON, Fla., June 1 (Jt) Abandoning hope for the aafe return of kidnaped Jimmy Cash, hundreda of men undertook a hunt in posses ot 15 today while federal a g e n t a dramatically seized one of their number. . Emerging .from a conference with the father, James Bailey Cash, Sr., In bis home, the G men seized M. . T. Braxton, a bald, portly carpenter about 55 years old, who waa In the throng being formed Into posses In a school yard 100 yards away. Hustled to Automobile Shielding him. with their bodies, they hustled him to an automobile and aped north . to Miami, i Braxton waa, taken to the office of the federal bureau ot investigation there where agents, declining to make public any information, closeted hem selves -with, him. at A generaU.eaU- waeiasnt uout for .volunteers to . start. t.tnrr- ough search of the farms and groves In this vicinity for aome trace of the five-year-old young ster, atolen Saturday lor 310,000 ransom which waa paid . early yesterday. The highway through the center of Princeton . aoon was lined with automobiles for a mile In each direction as the aroused f armera responded. . Nothing Happen "I talked with the family and nothing whatever happened last night," said W. P. Cash, the boy's uncle. ' "The case is ex actly where It was yesterday only It is one day worse. "I've given up all hope the boy will be found alive. I didn't have much hope from the start but I feel that last night waa the last chance for him to return alive." Grim Threats The overalled Cash, who runs a rival tilling atatlon next door to Jamea Cash, Sr., Indicated his brother now waa willing for the posses to take to the fields since 24 hours had elapsed after he paid the 110,000 ransom with no word from the abductors. The temper ot the crowd, how ever, waa to start searching re gardless of whether the family and authorities were willing. Grizzled, sun-browned e 1 1 r u s growers and truck farmers with pistols on their hips and shot guns in their cars voiced grim threata against the men who snatched little "Skeegie" last Saturday night. POLICE UNDERTAKE CHECK OF CABIN CRUISERS TO FIND LEV1NE KIDNAP BOAT NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., June 1 (AP) Seeking the boat In which they believe kidnaped 12- year-old Peter Levlne was kept prisoner, police began today a systematic check ot 1000 cabin cruisers based near Davenport neck In Long Island sound. They also continued to drag portions of the sound In the hope ot finding the head, feet and hands of the boy whose wire bound torso wss washed ashore laat Sunday, a ahort distance from his home. Tacitly admitting their Investi gation so far has been fruitless, federal agents eagerly awaited the outcome of laboratory tests ot the boy' clothing and the thin 6-foot strand of copper wire thnt bound him. Detective Lieutenant George Reifenberger of the New Roch elle police said, however, the wire apparently would prove ot small value In tracking down the killer. It was a common type, similar to a radio antenna, and is sold In hundreds ot stores, he Mid. The father, Murray Levlne, New York patent attorney who vainly attempted to contact the kidnapers and pay a $30,000 ran som, said he had retired from the case and that It henceforth was "entirely In the hand! of the police." JOIN EN HUN Roosevelt Rouses Congress Against PWA Earmarking LOS ANGELES COMPANY'S BID OF $35,939,450 LOW ON GIANT SHASTA DAM SACRAMENTO. Calif., June 1 UP) Pacific Constructors, Inc., of Los Angeles submitted the low bid today for construction of Shasta dam. largest Individual nnlt of the Central valley project. The Los Angeles firm's tender was 136,939,450. The low bid, which is about $5,000,000 under the sum tenta tively used to describe the cost of the big project, is for the dam It self and erection of the power plant. The dam la second In height only to Boulder dam and In mass will be surpassed only by the Grand Coulee dam. It will be 560 feet high, have a crest length of 3500 feet and a base thickness ot 580 feet. More than 5,600,000 cubic yards of concrete will be used. . ' Shasta dam on the upper Sac ramento river will back up the waters of three rivers, the Sacra mento, Pitt and McCloud, a dis tance of 35 miles to form a large mountain le-kei.., 'tr: " Chief objectives of the project are water conservation, flood con trol, irrigation, power, Improve ment of navigation, and salinity repulsion in the delta region of the Sacramento and the Carquinez straits Industrial area. Indictments Based on Al leged Looting of In vestment Trusts. NEW YORK. June 1 VP) Dis trict Attorney Thomas E. Dewey announced today six persons have been Indicted on a charge they looted seven Investment trusts with combined assets of more thsn $18,000,000 in the past year. The announcement came shortly after Dewey's men arrest ed Vincent E. Ferrettl, a lawyer. Dewey said that with a total investment of only $5, the defend ants acquired control of four In vestment trusts with total assets of $13,500,000 out of which $4,- 300,000 was quickly dissipated. He named Continental Securities corporation as the keystone or ganisation In the acquisition of a group of Investment trusts. Two Others Arrested At the same time Dewey an nounced he had received word from Boston that Thomas W. Morris and Ralph H. Kobb had been arrested there in connec tion with the case. Both men, he said, were named in the indict ment. The three men arrested were among a group of forty-one indi vidual and corporate defendants against whom State Attorney Gen eral John J. Bennett, Jr., on Fri day secured a temporary restrain ing order preventing them from dealing In certain types ot securi ties. U. S. ENGINEERS TO OVERHAUL FRENCH PLANES PARIS. June 1 (AP) An agreement betwoen the French government and United States airplane manufacturers for what may amount to a general over hauling ot the French wnrplaue Industry by American engineers was disclosed today at a meeting of the chamber ot deputies air committee. Members ot the committee said Chairman Luclen Bossoutrot had told them thnt In return for a recent order ot 100 Curtiss pur suit planes American manufact urers had agreed to send engi neers to France to advise the air ministry. Flexible Program Essen tial to Rapid Relief, President Says WASHINGTON, June 1 (AP) President Roosevelt personally Intervened today in the fight over earmarking proposed new federal public works funds with a warning that unemployment has grown more acute in recent weeks and that a flexible relief program is essential to check it. The chief executive expressed his views In a letter to Senator Adams (D-Colo), floor manager for the administration's $3,247, 000.000 spendlng-lendlng bill now being debated. Stand Strengthened His action was quickly Inter preted by administration senators as greatly strengthening their stand against . demands of re publicans and conservative demo crats that the funds be earmarked by assigning them for use on specified projects. Later Democratic Leader Bark- ley asked the senate . to raise the limit on direct relief ex penditures unflec tlifl ljUMM125r 000,000,' an increase of $75,000,- 000 over the direct relief allot ment which was approved yester day. Barkley a amendment was adopted. Money for Food The majority leader said $50 000,000 would be insufficient for direct relief until January 1. More money would be needed, he said, to purchase food and cloth ing to be given to the needy. Mr. Roosevelt wrote Adams thi.t unemployment has "grown worse" since be sent hi relief message to congress six weeks ago. "Emergency employment, there fore, should come right away in stead ot being deferred," the president said, adding: "It is the gap existing now that we want to fill. Therefore, I greatly hope that the emer gency bill In its final form will put no restrictions on the Im mediate starting ot works pro jects and that it will make pos sible the selection of those pro jects which can be gotten under way most speedily." "Little Business" Helped Mr. Roosevelt asserted that "flexibility of actual administra tion" In relict is "essential" if people are n be put to work quickly. Meanwhile "little business" gained assurance In the other big issue before congress wages and hours that senate conferees would fight for elastic stand ards in order to protect its in terests. BLOODSHED MARKS CLASH OF RIVAL FISHERMEN'S UNIONS AT SAN PEDRO SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 1 UP) Rivalry between AFL and CIO Fishermen's unions, which late yesterday resulted in bloodshed, was watched closely by harbor police today to prevent further violence. When members ot the two unions engaged in a free-for-all street tight in front ot the San Pedro Labor council hall, a riot call was turned In to police. Two men were slightly cut with knives, and police were forced to draw pistols to keep CIO members from Invading the hall where AFL members were meeting. Peter Kunich, 54, and Vlo Svicarovlch, 24. members ot the CIO United Fishermen's union, were the knife victims. FARMER WINS $150,000 PRIZE, PUTS DOWN HOE AKRON. O., June 1 (AP) William Schoenbeck, 69-year-old farmer, was hoeing potatoes to day when he learned bis ticket on Bols Roussel in tne Engllsn derby had won $150,000. "Goodness Bakes," he cried, dropping h I s hoe. Schoenbeck walked to the farmhouse and sat In tho sun. "I am going to cele brate by not doing any more hoeing today," he said. STRONG NOTE PRESENTED TO JAP MINISTER Immediate Restoration of Holdings in Conquered China Asked. WASHINGTON. June 1 (fl) The United States demanded to day that Japan "take immediate steps" to restore American proper ties In China "to their rightful owners." In a strong note presented by Ambassador Joseph C. Grew to Japanese Foreign Minister Ugakt, the Japanese were told that their "Infringement of an Interference with American rights in China" was "giving the government of the United States increasing concern." Waiting for Months It was pointed out that while) Japanese civilians have been per mitted to enter and do business In areas from which the Sino-Jap conflict has moved on, American . businessmen and missionaries have been denied permission not only to resume their former resi dences but even to visit their hold ings. ;i.;t;-k.;... y. ' State department officials esti mated that over 300 Americana hare been waiting in Shanghai tor many months to get permission to return to their properties In the Yangtze valley. Including Nanking. The note said that "the problem of enabling American citizena In China to reenter and repossess their properties from which they have been excluded by the Japan ese military and of which the Japanese military have been and In some cases still are in occupa tion is giving the government ot the United States increasing con cern." "No Excuse" "It Is difficult," Japan was told, "to perceive any warrant for the continued placing by the Japanese authorities of obstacles in the way of return by Americans who have legitimate reason for proceeding to the areas In question." The United States specifically demanded the return ot the Uni versity ot Shanghai to the North ern and Southern Baptist Mission ary societies. The university has been occupied by Japanese military and naval units, the note said, since shortly after the outbreak of hostilities at Shanghai, August 1937. BIGGEST WINNER WASHINGTON, June 1 (P) The treasury figured today it would cut Itself In on about $570, 000 ot the $1,925,000 won by Americans on the English derby sweepstakes. Walter Jendrzejewskt of Her mlston, outstanding farm crop student at OSC, accepts position as assistant Klamath county agent. Page 3. Death of Adam Schortgen, (5. ends colorful career ot Klamath county pioneer. Page 8. Municipal band concert series) to begin within week or two Page 7. Rev. J. W. Warrell, pastor ef First Methodist church, elected president of Klamath Falls Min isterial association. Psge 7. Jennings company pens letters to local people on parking metes question. Page 6. , Messages urging favorable an Hon on Tule lake sump project rushed to Washington. Page 1, TV THIS I8SUH ' City Briefs .. Page efs .. Page and Btory Page 81 use Records . 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