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Prico Five Cem 6 KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1938
Number 8359
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Br FRANK JENKINS
"pHK ItrltUll fleet, then
wonl are written, la mobilis
ing. The British air force la al
ready mobllltod.
Csechoslovakla la on a com
plete war batila. The French army
It partially mobilized, and moblll
tatlon of the French navy ! Im
mediately Impending.
Tito German army hm been
mobllltod for weeks, And aa thla
la written Itnllnn mobilization
seems a mailer of houra.
Ther la little, It any, newt
from Russia, but Britain and
France MUST hare received sat
isfactory assurances iti to what
Russia will do, Otherwise, tholr
tono would nut be ao (Inn,
pltlMR MINISTER CHAMRER
LAIN, who may have boon
wrong In the drat place but who
haa certainly done a man'a Job In
the paat week and a half, an
nounce In a brief radio apeoch
that there la nothing further he
ran usefully do and tolls his Brit
ish listeners they must stnnd
ready to ro-llvn the terrorizing
days of 1914-1918.
Foreigners, Including Ameri
cana, are hastening out of prnc-
kUy-iJVflar country In Europe
CITHER war la only a mattor of
noun, or the most stupendous
bluff In the history of the world
Is being carried on up to the Inst
fatoful mo mo nt.
Everything Is up to Hitler, but
much as we wish It othorwlso It
looks as l( ho has gono too far to
turn back,
TJERB In America, It Is tlmo for
ns to begin to sny:
"This Is EUROPE'S war not
ours. Wo had nothing to do with
making II, and It Isn't up to us
to fight In It. Barring nctunl nt
Oonllnuod on Pngo Four
CRANIUM
CRACKER
TTWO centlomon who had once
slinken hnnds with tho only
Quaker president of the United
nintna found thomsnlvoa in an
onrlesa rowhont on the third larg
est body of wntor In the world.
Thoy decided to try to got out of
their dlfflcully by nnlntlon.
Willi whom had thoy shaken
blinds, whnro was tho rowliiint,
nul whnbdld Ihey doelda to dol
Auxin-r on Pago 0
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Prlie atock brought new high figures Into the history of Klam
ath county livestock ahowa with beet soiling at 11.23 a pound,
lambs at 11.10 and a capon at H.BO a pound. Top Pntty Ham
mond and hie grand champion Hninpshlra In the 4-H division, listen
ing to tho bidding olforeil Chnrlua K. Wleso of Tulelnko, auctioneer.
Tho lamb sold fnr (1,10 a pound to Mitchell, Lewis and Staver
and brought (151. SO. Below Bill Serrnys of the Klamath Billiards
tries his hat on the 009-pound grand champion Angus of the FFA
division for which ho paid 85 conta a pound, bringing the price of
the ateer to (849.15. Don ltntllff, owner of the steer, "Rough
house." Is at the halter and kept a pretty stiff upper lip when he
patted with his pet of moro thnn a year. Herald and Ncwa photos.
Price Records Tumble As
Junior Livestock
Brings Return of $12,513
By I.OIS STKWAHT
Prices sky-rockotod to an un
precedented peak when the
Rotary-sponsored Klamath Junior
livestock and baby beef show
camo to a closo with a spirited
miction aalo at tho fairgrounds
Tuesday afternoon.
The pockets of boys and girls
of the Future Farmers of Amotion
nnd 4-H divisions Jingled with
(12,(13.50 In cash In their Jeans
aa the result of tho auction which
made Orogon history nnd bid fair
to rank with the pricea rnapod
from tho Intornntlnnnl Junior
LIvoBloek allow In Chicago. As far
as could bo learned hero, pricoB
sot Saturday far auniaasod thoso
pnld In Portland nt tho Pacific In.
lornntlonnl, nnd topped thoso sot
In tho Sun Francisco shows.
Bl.i!:l per Pound
Rnnchora, farmers, 4-H and
FFA boys and girls nnd towns,
people, ns well, overflowed the
show building whore tho nnlmnla
foil under tho hammer nt Auc
tioneer Cllnrlns K. WIcbo of Tulo
lake. Bcof went ns high aa (1.23 por
pound, pnld by "Tommy" Thomp
son of sonra Roebuck for tho
grand chnmplon In tho 4-H di
vision; In in lis sold as high as
(1.10 por pound ns bid by Mit
chell, Lewis and Stavor for tho
grand champion Hnmpshlre In
tho FFA division, and history was
wrltton, when a 9-pound capon
wont Into the hands of Homy He
lium In exchange for a check far
(58.50.
IUSS for Cnpon
Sloors brought nn avnrngs of
$$$
to New Peak
Auction
23 conta per pound with an aver
ago of (192 per head; hoga aver
aged 12.6 cents per pound with
an nvorago of (23.02 por head
whilo in the aheop division the
Inmus brought .34.4 per pound,
nn avorage of (33.31 por head.
Tho auction got under wny
shortly after an Introductory talk
wae given by C. A. Hendorson,
Klnmnth county agricultural
agont, and no sooner had the bld-
(Contlnued on Page Elovon)
MAINE GOVERNOR NOSES
OUT IDAHO GOVERNOR IN
POTATO-PICKING CONTEST
FORT FAIRFIELD, Mo Sept.
28 (P) A four-pound margin po-tato-wolght
gavo Uov. Lewis O.
Barrows of Mnlno victory today
In hla flvo minute potato-picking
duel with Gov. Bnrzllla W. Clnrk
of ldnho.
Tho match ended with Burrows
having 201 pounds to his credit
and Clark 197 pounds.
An International picking con
test hold nt tho anmo tlmo anw
Robert Hallott. Mara Hill youth,
successfully rotnln hla chnmplon
shlp won Inst year. He defeated
13 others.
The gubernatorial match,
waged boforo choorlng thousands
from Aroostook county, Maine's
potato empire, was accompanied
by jocular oxchniigon botweett the
two principals. Tho thiol was hold
nn a hilltop field overlooking the
Arooslook river vnlley.
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to Appeal
THEATRE IN
FOUND GUILTY
B! 10-2 VOTE
Jury Requires More Than
5 Hours' Deliberation
to Reach Verdict.
A verdict of guilty was brought
In at 1:20 a. m. Wednesday by
the jury of 11 man which heard
the trial of Harry W. Poole, prom
inent theatre operator, on statu
tory rape charge. An appeal to
the supreme court la expected.
Ten of the 12 Jurors voted for
conviction, snd two stood for ac
quittal, It was shown In a poll ask
ed by the defense and on the
written verdict filed with the
court.
Foreman Reads Verdict
The Jury had deliberated a
little mors than flvs houra when
It signified It had reached a ver
dict. A doxen or more persons,
who had waited from the time
the case went to the jury about
7:60 p. m., were still In ths court
room. The dsfendsnt, attorneys and
Circuit Judge Edward B. Ashurst
were called. Court was convened
and ths Jurors filed In.
Charles P. Magulre, foreman,
read the verdict. Those who sign
ed It were J. E. Earley, Louis
Boldlsrhar. Robert R. Elliott,
John B, Elle, J. R. Hershberger,
Walter W. Massey, Melvln C. Nel
(Contlnued on Page Three)
PASSENGERS TRAPPED AS
LIMITED PLOWS INTO .
FREIGHT; LABORER KILLED
DENVER. Sept. tl W The
crushed body of a railway track
walker was found today beneath
wreckage of a passenger train and
freight train which collided head-
on at the outskirts of Denver, In
juring 14 persons.
Coroner J. W. Wells of Adama
county said the body, found be
neath a coal car on the freight
train, was that of Robert H.
Miner. He said Miner carried a
card Identifying htm as an extra
gang laborer for the Denver and
Salt Lake (Moffat line) railroad.
Acetylene torches were used
o free three women passengers
pinned In their coach seatB in
the Denrer & Rio Grande West
ern's Panoramln limited when
the fast passenger train, atartlng
for Salt Lake City via the six-mile
Moffat tunnel under the Rockies,
rammed Into a 43-car freight
train of the Denver ft Salt Lake
line late yesterday.
Torches also were required to
separate the wreckage of the two
locomotives.
The crash occurred at a switch
point where the freight train was
to have pulled to a second track.
Officials of the lines said blame
for the accident would not be
placed until after a complete In
vestigation. Trainmen said that had the pas
senger train arrived one minute
later the freight would have been
out of the way.
Baseball
AMERICAN' IjEAGI'R
R. H. E.
Washington 4 7 1
New York 15 3
Krakauskas and R. Ferrell;
Andrews and Glenn.
R. H. E.
St. Loula 0 8 0
Detroit 12 11 0
H. Mills, Bllbltll (8), Cole (8).
and Harshany; GUI and Tlbbetts.
. R. H. E.
Chicago 14 18 0
Cloveland 11 16 S
Lee and Sewell: Whttehlll,
Humphries (5), Mllnar (7),
Smith (8) and Pytlak.
R. H. E.
Boston 2 8 1
Philadelphia 1 . 0
Heving and Peacock; Nelson
and Hayes.
NATIONAIi LEAGUE
R H E
Philadelphia 1 6 0
Boston 3 7 0
Slvesa and Atwood; Hutchin
son and H. Mueller.
"Little Girl" Signs Warn
Here are five of the "little girl" traffic algns which have been purchased by tbe city and
school district to warn motoriata they are approaching school tones on local streets. The signs are
of heavy metal and are painted In bright colors. Motorists report they are effective In winning at
tention. The five "girls" are Mned up here on Pine street for a picture, but It Is necessary to use
only one on each Intersection. They are painted to face both directions.
? SELFDEFENSE
Salesman's Counsel Rests
Case in Murder Trial
at Toledo.
TOLEDO, Sept. 28 (P) Henry
Nelson's counsel rested the de
fense against a first degree mur
der Indictment today after the
defendant asserted he shot Rich
ard Earle. boat operator, to save
his own life.
"It waa either his life or mine,"
Nelson, whose attorneys Bought
acquittal by reason of Insanity,
said. Karle was slain at Depoe
Bay last July after a deep sea
pleasure jaunt. Both Nelson and
his companion, Lucille Coenen
berg, 21, accused Earle of drunk
enness and attempted criminal as
sault. Testifies to Insanity
Dr. Robert B. Smith, Portland
psychiatrist retained by the de
fendant's mother, testified "Nel
son was Insane six months prior
to the shooting." He described
the condition as an emotional
disorder causing sudden outbursts
such as the one resulting in the
fatal dispute.
Three other defense witnesses,
all residents of Dallas, asserted
Earle had been arrested four
times on drunk and disorderly
conduct charges and once for as
sault and battery. State rebuttal
testimony by Sheriff T. B. Hook
er of Polk county, Tom Newfeldt,
Dallas city marshal, and two other
persons asserted Earle was of
good character. t
The state expected to complete
rebuttal testimony against the
Portland salesman today w-ith
closing argumenta scheduled for
Thursday.
HITLER TO MEET IL DUCE
AT ITALO GERMAN BORDER
BEFORE MUNICH MEETING
BERLIN, Sept, 28 (JP) Reichs
fuehrer Hitler Is planning a dra
matic meeting with his ally, Pre
mier Mussolini, at the historic
Brenner Pass before the Munich
conference- tomorrow, , reliable
sources anld tonight.
These Informants said the
fuehrer would Journey tonight to
tho pass, where German and Ital
ian territories have met since tbe
annexation of Austria, and would
accompany II Duce back to Mun
ich for tho conference with Prime
Minister Chamberlain and Pre
mier Daladior.
A semi-official announcement
of the Munich meeting, to search
for a way to avoid a European
war, said it would "make" a Inst
effort to accomplish the peaceful
cession of Sudoten German ter
ritory to the relch."
CITYWIDE PRAYER
ALBANY, Sept. 28 (P) Mayor
C. R. Ashton requested yesterday
that every Albany citizen partici
pate in a city wide prayer for
world ponce tonight. The prayer
call was Issued by the Albany
Ministerial association.
H! '
Conviction
F. R. Cables
Peace Plea
To Mussolini
WASHINGTON. Sept. 28 (AP)
White House attaches announced
today President Roosevelt bad
sent a personal message to Pre
mier Mussolini "in the interest of
preserving world peace."
The announcement was made.
In response to Inquiries, by Ste
phen Early, presidential secretary,
who said the message was dis
patched yesterday.
Early asserted because the
communication waa personal, it
would not be made public tex
tually. White House "Encouraged"
He added, however, the note
dealt with preserving world
peace.
White House attaches hailed as
"very encouraging" today the
summoning by Adolf Hitler of
representatives of England.
France and Italy to a conference
in Munich tomorrow.
Stephen Early, a presidential
secretary, told this to newsmen,
advising them simultaneously
President Roosevelt's cable to the
German chancellor last night
probably would be the chief exe
cutive's final word in the Euro
pean crisis.
The president urged Hitler to
avoid plunging Europe into war.
TOKYO, Sept. 28 (AP)
United States Ambassador Joseph
C. Grew today asked Japan to
send a peace appeal to Adolf
Hitler and President Eduard
Benes of Czechoslovakia.
OREGON BAR ASSOCIATION
CONSIDERS PENSIONS FOR
SUPREME, CIRCUIT JUDGES
SALEM, Sept. 28 (!P) Measures
to abolish the spoils system In
state government and to permit
supreme court and circuit court
judges to retire on pension will be
considered by the State Bar asso
ciation at a three-day annual con
vention opening here tomorrow,
A committee will recommend
sponsorship of a proposed consti
tutional amendment prohibiting
discharge of any state appointive
official except for cause. The
amendment would be submitted
to the 1939 legislature.
Another committee will recom
mend the association sponsor a
law to permit circuit and supreme
court Justices to retire at 70 years
of age after serving for 10 years,
the retired justices to receive two
thirds of their salary for life.
Judges who are physically dis
abled after serving 15 years
would have the same retirement
privilege. The committee esti
mated the cost of the retirement
program would be (30,000 a year.
A second committee report on
judicial retirement, which did not
recommend a specific law, sug
gested that the association con
sider optional retirement of su
preme court Justices who are 70
years old and who served 10 years
and of circuit court justices who
are 86 years of age nnd served
10 years. This committee did not
set the suggested retirement pay.
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Motorists
NO. 3 NAZI SEES
DEFINITE PEACE
Goebbels Tells Berliners
Munich Confab Will
Find Solution.
BERLIN, Sept. 28 (AP)
Germany's propaganda minister,
Paul Joseph Goebbels, told a
throng of Berliners today he fore
saw an amicable solution of the
German-Czechoslovak dispute
"within a few days."
Goebbels, usually a fire-eater,
sounded a note of peace aa he
spoke amid deafening "hells" in
historic Lustgarten.
He did not mention tomorrow's
conference at Munich to be at
tended by Relchsfuehrer Hitler,
Prime Minister Chamberlain, Pre
mier Mussolini and Premier Dal
adier, but he declared:
"In the Know"
"I, as a man in the know of
things, can tell you we neither
can nor want to retreat, aa the
fuehrer has pledged his word to
support the Sudetens, but the
solution is imminent."
It was believed, however, he
was referring to the Munich con
ference when he said:
"Herr Benes (president of
Czechoslovakia) now will be
forced to stick to his promise."
The fuehrer is on guard for
peace in these critical days when
the center of European politics
has shifted to Germany, he as
serted. "I ask you Berliners, have
you been taught war during the
five years of our regime?" he
asked and the crowd- shouted
"no."
Meanwhile, Munich, known as
the "city of the movement" be
cause it was there Hitler's na
tional socialist movement start
ed, hailed the newa of ths four
power conference with Joy,
So did all Germany.
Every nazt was convinced the
fuehrer would bring peace to the
world from Munich just as he
started his movement from there.
MYSTERIOUS KILLING
SEEN IN DEATH OF LOGGER
ON PORTLAND STREET
PORTLAND, Sept. 28 (P) An
apparently mysterious killing was
loft in the hands of police yester
day with the death of Charles
Nelson, 45. Gales creek logger,
from a fractured skull.
Nelson was found unconscious
early Sunday in the street at
Southwest Second avenue and
Grant. Detectives Al Eichenber
ger and Herman Horack said a
resident of the vicinity heard two
men arguing and one exclaimed:
"What were you doing with my
wlfo?"
The resident, who said he heard
a dull thud, looked out the win
dow to see a man stretched In
the street. Police Bald a woman,
whose name they withheld, tried
to visit Nelson at a hospital, but
they have since been unable to
locate her. The detectives said
Nelson recently had separated
from his wife.
w $ it
NAZIS AGREE
TO POSTPONE
MOBILIZATION
Hitler, Chamberlain, Dal
adier, Mussolini Will
Meet Thursday.
LONDON, Sept. 28 (AP)
Czechoslovakia tonight requested
some form of representation at
the epochal four-power confer
encs which will open at Munich
tomorrow to discuss her fate.
Jan Masaryk, Czechoslovakia
minister to London, in a letter
to Prime Minister Chamberlain
asked his country be represented
by a spokesman, expert or ob
server, if not by a delegate rank
ing equally with those of Britain,
Germany, France and Italy.
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Sept. 28 The elec
trify i n g announcement In a
stunned house of commons today
that Europe's big four Hitler,
Chamberlain, Mussolini and Da
ladier would meet tomorrow ia
Munich snatched Europe back
from the brink of imminent war.
Within a few seconds Prims)
Minister Chamberlain painted a
changed picture of the world's
prospects for peace In tbe most
startling announcement parlia
ment haa heard In a generation,
Mussolini as Mediator
German mobilization was post
poned for 24 hours while the
premiers of tbe four great Euro
pean powers' sought a new way
to avoid war over Germany's de
mands for cession of Czechoslo
vakia's Sudetenland.
Premier Mussolini of Italy ao
cepted tbe role of mediator be
tween his German ally and ths)
beads of the democracies.
Messages from President Roose
velt to Hitler, Mussolini and the
government of Japan all bound
in the anti-communlBt pact fig
ured In the lightning changes of
the da.
Handed Scribbled Note
The haggard Chamberlain him
self when he entered the house
to make the most momentous
speech of his career did not know,
that the Munich meeting was to
be held. His somber speech in
dicated he thought war Inevit
able. He will leave for Munich
at 10:30 p. m.. PTS., tonight.
But a . pencil scribbled no;
handed to him an hour and a halt
after he began explaining wby It
appeared war must come changed
the gloomy tense house and gal
leries into a cheering frenzied
mass.
It was a message from Hitler
Inviting him as the premier of
France and Italy also were in
vited to the Munich conference.
Final Effort Works
Chamberlain, who had ordered
Britain's mighty fleet mobilized '
last night, had made one final
effort for negotiation by an ap
peal through Mussolini, Hitler's
partner in the fascist axis, and
it worked.
The news was received with al
most the same jubilation In Eng
land as If an actual armistice
(Continued on Page Three)
Wet weather Improves deer
hunting. More squalls In pros
pect. Page 8.
July convicts H. W. Poole on,
statutory rape charges; appeal
likely. Page 1.
Klamath man sentenced at Al
turas for theft of grain belonging;
to Clifford Shuck of Tulelake,
Page 8. ;
Fire near Dairy burns chickens
and rabbits. Page 8.
Junior livestock show ends with
top prices featured at auction
Tuesday afternoon. Page 1.
Chamber directors deplore con
struction of Main street service
station In violation of setback
agreement. Page 7.
IV THIS ISSUE
City Briefs Page T
Comics and Story Page
Courthouse Records ... Page
Editorials - Page 6
Family 'Doctor . Pag
Market, Financial News, Page 10
Potato shipments Page 11
Sports Pag 1
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