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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1938)
liiwrtfi WEATHER BUY SEALS Than don't forget to uii tliMe mil holiday docoratlnns on II mall and packages during Ihu Christmas union, If nli spread Ilia message of Ilia tuberculosis Kit Rlgh 40i Low M PRECIPITATION 24 honn to date ........... .OA Haion to date 9.20 I jut year to date .........4.0 Normal precipitation ,......8.74 ASSOCIATED PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND UNITED PRESS KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938 Number 8413 UXe1 ii K":i JA' mmvm Price Five Ccnte OtOUDV I mm mm Bodies of Airline Crash Victims Unrecovered Editorials 0a the Day'. N ews .' By FHANK JKNK1.NH VjrrORLD arenti domlnslo (he " news today obscuring evon uch domostlriilly epochal evonts ai the remaking of the Republican trty, as evidenced by the meeting of Hi national committee In Chi cago on Tuosday and the denounc ing of 111 old leadership, IN ritANCK. Premier Datadlsr faced a crisis and WON. The general atrike. called In protest against hla revocation by decree of (he 40-hour week and hla demand for higher taire to make a beginning toward balanc ing the French budget hai appar ently collapsed. That maana that Franco hue definitely put. her foot on the bot tom rung of the ladder leading back np to financial and Industrial anlty. e e e "plHCRfC wai another element In' volvtd. The strike wai PARTLY a pro. teat against the Daladler-Cbam-jherlaln policy of getting along wiin nmer, ir ponmnic, inatcaa at OOINQ TO WAR Immediately In the face of Daladter'i flrmnoss, It haa collapied. ' That Indlratoa that Frenchmen, no matter how they may TALK, don t really want to go to war right now. e e TUB longer war can be postpnn ed, the more likely It la that Ihe world may get back to a basis of sanity, 10 that natlona may again trade with each other, thua creating business and Joba and higher atandarda of living. These thing flourish In peace and die In war. e e e RUMANIA hobs Into the picture today, with a typically Balkan affair. A group of high fascist leaden la SHOT. The story la that they were being taken lo Bucharest for questioning (they were already under arrest) and that on. the way an effort waa made by their followers to roscno Ihcin. When the ensuing ruckus was over, It was discovered that all the fascist leaders were dead shot by their guards when they failed to hoed the call to halt. Mnybe the attompted rescue wna genuine. Maybe, also, It was a way to get rid of trouble-makers, Such things have happened before, e e A NYWAY, It looks ns If Rumania la doflnllely anti-fascist at least so far as Its present govern ment Is concernod. That moans another nut for Hitler to crack. O 1 Shopping Days w JL Till Christ-mas THEWey WtKfi POPULAR -HITS.... , T OOKING BACK TO CHRIST MA8' 21 YEARS AGO Jerusalem, tho Holy City, was taken by the British nt tfib Sea son of Pence. . . . Millions wore bustling nbout to send Christ mm presents to the boys in enmp. ... 'A Blblo for every Soldier and Sailor" was a pop ular slogan. ... Tremendous Rod Cross drive spurred by the T- Halifax munitions explosion which killed 1300. . . . "K-K-K-Knty," "Smile a," "Over There," wore popular songs. Fair Tourists A "Pathfinder" motor tour of the western United Statos Wed nesday brought lone Thornell and Lela Hanks of Dallas, Tex., and Margie Harnett of Muskogee, Okla., (left to right above) to Klnm ath Kails. These southern misses and their It girl companions left Denver, Colo., Ortuhor 1 and will conclude their cross-country Junket December 31 nt I.os Angeles. In their best drawls, the young women declared they thought Klamath Falls a wet spot, County's Assessed Valuation Up Again; Suburban, Personal Property Accounts for Gain Klamath county's assessed vnlu. atlons for 1 0 :i S show another In. crease, It was announcod Wednea. day by County Assessor Charlea II. Mack. The total valuation Is 131,885,- 581 09, ns compnreil with 131,432.. 547.38 last year. This Is tho sec ond year In which an Increase has boon shown after the depression drop. Mack aald that gains In assessed valuations are particular ly Improsalvo when it la ronllzod that about $800,000 la lopped off each year by timber harvest. Help Limit Tax Rates The assessed valuation In each of the municipalities In the county showed a gain, a fact which will aid In holding down tax rates de. spite tncroanvs In butfgots. Hero are the comparative valuations of the five cities: 193! 19J7 Klamath Falls f9.2SR.S64 (9,104,044 Chlloquln .. 131,003 231,136 Malln 111.051 101,037 llonanza .... 66,761 64,358 Merrill 153.673 136.365 ' The total of local assessments FIVE CRIMINALLY INSANE ESCAPE AS FIRE SWEEPS STOCKTON STATE HOSPITAL STOCKTON, Cnllf., Nov. 30 (fl) Flro liroko out In the Stockton stnte hospital today and ns 360 Inmates wero led to sntoty, about a dozon of thoso described as criminally Insnne broke from the ranks and fled. All hut ftvo of the escaped In mates wero quickly rounded up, and police oxprcssod belief the others would soon be apprehend' ed, as all were dressed only In nightgowns. State police and suorirrs deputies Joined cltv no lice In patrolling the streets and highways for the fugitives. Fire Chief Ralph Thomnson sam the tire, discovered at 4 a m. and extinguished an hour Intor, caused damage eatlmnted at $40,000. Ho said the blase broke out in ward 6 on tho third floor, where 60 Inmates, most described ns having sttlcldnl tendencies, wore sloonlng. On the snme floor Is wnrd five, whore tho c r I m I n n 1 1 y insano were qunrtorod. Chief Thompson snld cnimo or tho rire had not bocn (lotorminod. LOVELORN HUSBAND KILLS WIFE, HER MOTHER, SELF BOSTON, Nov. SO (JF nunnlng amok after an unsuccessful at tempt nt reconciliation with his wife, John St. Angolo, 35, of Pro vidence, R. I., today shot to death Mrs. Florenco Bt. Angola, 35, his wlfo, Mrs. Cnrniolla Conto, 66, his niotlior-ln-lnw, and wounded two others before committing suicide shortly after he dashed from the murder sceno. Acting Police Snuerlntondont John M, Anderson snld St. Angolo wnB entirely rosponslblo for the wholosnle shooting. Hin pistol, empty, vns the only one found on tho scene, t Visit Klamath In Klamath county for the new year is $21,430,170, aa compared with $22,197,715 the previous year. UtllltlM Show Drop Public utilities show a drop from $9, 394. 83!. 3t last year to $9,146,411.09 this year, City proporty, which Includes the suburban development, jump ed from $6,933,165 last year to $7,440,780 In 1938. Acreage and Improvements for the new year are assossed at $10,082,566, a drop from $10,671,246 last year, l'orsonal property assessments are up. They total $4,915,886 as compared with $4,693,316 the year previous. Losses in Livestock In this connection, it is Inter esting to note that substantial gains wore made In assessments on merchandise, farm machinery, hotel and office equipment. Losses were stistnined In cattle, sheep, foxes and logging railroads The assessed valuation In each of the school districts for new year follows KUHS $13,533,196.59 County unit . 20.684,929.96 C. U. High 18,062,384.50 Dlst. No. 1 10.000.651.18 Assessor Mack cited total assess ed valuation of the county for the past several years, to show the trend, aa follows 1934 $31,903,128.99 1935 1936 1937 1938 ... 31,404.705.36 ... 31,131.163.44 ... 31,492,547.39 ... 31,5S5,5S1.09 CRIME COUPLE NO. 1, SPOTTED ON STREET OF MISSOURI RESORT, ESCAPE EXCELSIOR SPRINGS, Mo.. Nov. 80 (AP) Chief of Police William A. Payne said a man and a woman seen on the strceta here early today had been identified by an employe at a health resort here as Benny Dickson and his blonde wife, at present couple No. 1 of the crime world. Payne said tho employe, Mntt Konnell, was walking toward the health resort wlion he notlcod a car parked at the curb with the woman behind the wheol and the. man slumped over In the front aoat ns It doubled up with pnln. Boliovlng the pair to be pa tients nt the health resdrt Kon nell offered to aid them to the door but the woman started the car and drove away at high speed. Konnell snld the man a fnce wns covered with a three or four dny grpwth of beard and throe rifles wero In the back seat of tho car. The car carried Illinois license plntes. CUSTOMS HOUSE BOMHKI) BELFAST. Nov. 80 UP) A bomb blasted an Ulster customs ho n bo to bits todny, on the border between northern and southern Ireland, as police hunted republi can extremists they blnmed fbr rivo similar oxplosions along tho frontier Inst night, T F Death of Five on Board Plane Unnecessary, In vestigation Shows BAN FRANCISCO, Nor. 30 (AP) A score of coastguards men risked life and limb In a hazardous descent along hun dreds of feet of rocky cliff today In search of five bodies of per- KNOWN HERB Co-Pllot Lloyd Jones, miss ing crew member of the air liner wrecked on Point Rayai Tuesday, la the son of Sarah Richardson Jones of Agar, Calif., and a cousin of . Boss Richardson, Bly rancher, ac cording to J. H. Heaslg.. . Another of the passengers on the wrecked plane waa Ivan B. Heflebower, Ban Francisco atock broker and a personal friend of Miss Jo Hessig. daughter ot J. H. Hessig. Miss Hessig la also a cousin of Boss Richardson.. Jones va born and spenj. much -of has early-life in fllskU you county where , numerous relatives atlll reside. sons lost after a paasenger plane made a forced . landing In the raging aurf 35 miles northwest of the Golden Gate. , High above the water, watch ers could a portion of the plane's fuselage all that re mained of the United Air Lines' airliner hammered against the rocks and hear the weird crashes aa the waves continued their re lentless attack. Two Survivors Only two persons survived. Four men and pretty young woman met death apparently through a strange hatard to avi ation perhapa needlessly. Officials gravely atudled the (Continued on Page Six) KENTUCKY SEEKS RETURN OF AIR CRASH SURVIVOR ON BURGLARY CHARGES . PADUCAH, Ky.. Nov. SO UP Police Chief W. E. Bryant aald today he was awaiting word from Washington atate prison author ities before proceeding further with tentative plans to return Isadora Edelsteln, lone surviving passenger ot the United Air Lines plane crash off Point Reyes, Calif., here for prosecution, Edelsteln Is under Indictment charging burglary and assault with intent to kill, growing out of a gun battle here December 21, 1934 between police and a man surprised while attempting to loot a safe in a ten-cent atore. Bryant said he had asked the warden ot the Walla Walla, Wash., penitentiary If Paducah police did not have on file a retainer against Edelsteln and If so. why he waa released without authorities here first being notified. The chief said he wired San Francisco police today asking whether Edelsteln would waive extradition should Paducah of ficials decide to prosecute. CZECHOSLOVAKIA ELECTS NON-POLITICIAN PRESIDENT PRAGUE, Nov. SO (AP) Shrunken Ctechslovakla today elected aa the republic's third president Dr. Emil Hacha, 66-year-old president ot the supreme court administration and a new comer In politics. He was the only candidate, and his election by the national assembly was merely a formality. His term Is seven years. He was given 273 votes of the SIS cast. Eight members ot the Gorman national party refused to participate in the election. Communist deputies and senator! banded In blank ballots. Rudolf Beron, a deputy and Agrarian -party leader who was former president Eduard Bones' opponent for 20 years, will be the new premier. He wna ex pected to pursue a completely pro-German course, GUARDS DESCEND Gil TO Gl Pope Decrees Nun's Beatification k . mm &"3&2mmmmmmmmmmmmimKmmmmKB II ll linnn.ii. I Tsf f MJULM Pope Plus XI reading the decree for beatification of Mother-Francesca Saveria Cabrinl, American nun. Mother Cabrinl waa beatified at Rome. The pontiff, recovering still further from his recent severe heart attack, Wednesday addressed 600 newly-married couples, urging them to pray for hla "greater grace" In spiritual exercises with which he Is occupied this week. TRIO F01D GUILTY Jury Recommends Clem ency for Army Air Corps Private NEW TORK, Nov. SO 0P) Erich Glaser, army air corps pri vate, was convicted late today with a recommendation for clem oncy ot conspiring to steal mili tary secrets of the United States, The verdict was returned after prolonged deliberation by a fed eral court Jury which quickly con victed red-haired Johanna Hof mann, German ahlp hair-dresser, and Otto Herman Voss, airplane mechanic, without recommenda tion last midnight. 20-Year Maximum The maximum penalty . under the the U. S. code covering espion age Is 20 yeara in prison. Indication ot a plea tor- len iency In Glaser'a case waa given last night when the Jury asked Federal Judge John C. Knox whether such a recommendation would be considered and he re plied It would. NEW YORK, .Nov. 30 U.PJ A federal court Jury late last nigbt advised Judge John C. Knox that It had decided two of three persons charged with espionage were guilty. The court ordered , the Jurors to retire to a hotel for the night and resume deliberation on the fate of the third defendant this morning. The Jury foreman told the Judge (Continued on Page Six) RAZOR-SLASHING EPIDEMIC SPREADS FROM SOURCE TO 4 OTHER ENGLISH CITIES HALIFAX, Eng., Not. SO IF) The menace ot razor slashings from phantom assailants slither ing through dark streets In this toffee and carpet-making town had spread to tour other English towns today. At Wigan, 36 miles from Hall fax, pretty Winifred Walsh, 18, reported she was attacked In her own backyard by a man who cut a five-inch wound in her left arm. From sooty Manchester came the report 14-year-old Marjory Murphy was wounded lour times on the arms yesterday by a man who Jumped out ot a dark corner with a raior. Another 14-year-old, Ivy Smltheman, staggered fainting In to a candy-shop at Brentford, five miles from London and 200 miles south of Halifax, with blood streaming from twelve cuts on her arms which she said were inflicted by a man who fled aa goon as he had struck her. There was a similar assault at Piatt brltlgo, Lancashire, 50 miles from Halifax, Monday -night. St afeT Again Suspends Tax On Property SALEM, Not. 10 (AP) The state- tax commission said today there would be no tax levy for atate purposes next' year because estimated- Income - tax revenues of $5,351,468 would be sufficient. The income tax will cover spe cial levies of $1,250,286 for higher education and Irrigation district bond debt and the atate levy of $4,101,725 within the six per cent limitation. ' The elementary school tax ot two mills, totaling $1,801,442, la a atate levy but la retained by counties. WILD AUTO DASH, HURRIED OPERATION SAVE BABY'S LIFE AS MOTHER, TWIN DIE KANSAS CITY, Not. SO (JP A 60-mlle an hour automobile dash over a rough detour In the Kaw river bottoms and a hurried, deli cate operation on a hospital floor gave life to baby Hale, born 10 minutes after his mother's death. But even medical skill and speed could not save the life of Mrs. David Hale ot Turner, Kas., and baby Hale'e twin. Mrs. Hale died of a heart ail ment a minute before - reaching the hospital. .. Dr. L. R. Lee and assistants rushed her body into the hos pital, placed it on a hallway floor to save time. There baby Hale was delivered by a caesarian operation. But baby Hale'a twin failed to catch the spark ot life. Dr. Lee administered respira tory and cardla stimulants to baby Hale. Nurses rushed in with hot and cold water. The doctor doused the child its heart beating faint ly first in one, then the other. A nurse blew the breath ot life Into the baby's lungs. Dr. Lee bent the baby back and forth In the exercise of artificial respiration.- Nurses speeded the child to an Incubator In previously warmed bmnkets. The doctor administer ed injections of carbon dioxide and oxygen at 5 and 20 minute Intervals. Four hours later at I a. m. the ehlld born two months before his time, waa "doing fine." NEW ARMY AIR BASES TALKED BY PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, Nov. SO (AP) President Roosevelt's defense program, military circlos heard today, may include the establish ment ot new army air bases at several of the nation's strategic outposts. Officials said the president may ask congress for funds .to build bases in New England, Florida and .Alaska In conneetlon with the projected expansion of the army air fleet. - . nil FASCIST pens KILLED 14 Leaders in Iron, Guard Movement Slain in Al- ' leged Escape '. BUCHAREST, Nov. SO UP) Cornell u Zelea Codreanu, 39-year-old Rumanian fascist leader, and 13 others serving prison terms for treason with him were killed to day as Rumanian authorities struck at terrorism attributed to Codreanu's outlawed Iron guard organization. An official statement said the 14 men were killed while attempt ing to escape from Rumnik-Sarat prison 10 miles from Bucharest and added they were burled in the prison cemetery this morning. Showdown Expected The deaths were expected to bring police and the government to a definite showdown in their energetic and long-standing effort to suppress the fascist group. Cordeanu war sentenced last May 27 to 10 years' Imprisonment for treason. Police reported the 14 were placed In open cars to be taken to Bucharest for questioning con cerning an attack, attributed to iron guardlsts, on Flory Stef anescu Goanga, rector of the Uni versity of CluJ Monday. He was critically wounded. A short distance from the prison, the police account said, the automobiles were halted by armed men who rushed from road side woods. The prisoners were said to have disregarded guards' orders to remain In the cars and there was a blast of firing In which all prisonera were killed. GOVERNOR CONSIDERING FRESH REPRIEVE FOR SISKIYOU COUNTY SLAYERS SACRAMENTO. Calif., Nov. SO UP) Gov. Frank F. Merrlam said today he feels disposed to give another reprieve to John and Coke Brite, convicted Siskiyou county slayers. Although not fully decided, the governor said he likely will grant a reprieve, which will be the sixth, to permit the case to be con sidered by tho new pardon advis ory board. "There is a somewnat peculiar situation Involved," the governor said, "The supreme court takes one side and favors commutation of sentence to life Imprisonment. The present pardon advisory board Is opposed. I feel disposed to take action which will put the matter over until the new board la or ganised to see If there can't be some agreement reached In their views." The Brltea are under sentence to be hanged at Folsom December 9. ARID FORGE WINS VICTORY FOR DALAD1ER Labor Fails in First Chal lenge to Government by Decree PARIS, Nov. 30 (J?) By a na tionwide array of armed force Pre mier Daladler today quickly broke the 24-hour general strike which constituted organized labor's first big challenge to his government and Its economic program. The stocky premier, whose ene mies have accused him of dictator ial ambitions, met the Issue head on. Inelde of a few hours there was nothing left ot the movement, di rected by the powerful general federation of labor, except Iso lated partial strikes in some pri vate Industries, dock workers' strikes in some porta and lew street ear strikes. Admits Defeat Leon Joubaux, secretary-general of the confederation, issued aa implied admission ot defeat In a statement In which he said ('There waa a total halt of two hours in the "Paris bus and subway service but the (government's) requisi tion order and use of military fore we do not deny have brought a resumption of work." Joubaux declared "among dock era the strike waa total tor the big ports" and although workers in nationalized Industries and gov ernment minlsteries responded to the requisition order they did not work when they got to their posts. Subway Workers Give Up It was predicted Daladler would have a majority when parliament meets again next month, with sup port from the right and. his own radical-socialist party. The first big break In the strik ers' front came at 8 a. m., four hours after the strike began, when the subway workers' union in Paria conceded defeat and revoked its strike order. After some early morning hesi tation public service workers in Paris and other citiea resumed their posts and duties under mili tary guard. Political leaders expressed be lief unless the strike movement gained belated headway later the Daladler government would have established Itself firmly enough In the saddle to go ahead with lta projected signature of a new Franco-German accord. Fiasco for Labor Mobile guards, police and in many cases army units were in abundant evidence to prove the premier'a determination to smash the labor demonstration against his decree laws. In cases where active opposi tion was shown trouble-makers were hustled oft to police stations. Approximately 600 arrests were made In the Paris district and several dozen arrests were report ed from other points. Members of parliament branded the day a fiasco tor labor and a resounding triumph tor Daladler and hla government. STILL IN RACK PORTLAND, Not. 80 Ifi) Frank J. Lonergan, represents tive-elect in the third congression al (Multnomah county) district, said yesterday he would continue a tight for the post ot speaker ot the state house of representa tives for the 1939 session. Ernest Fatland, Condon, claimed yester day to have 31 of 60 representa Uvea votes assured, enough lor election. GOODWILL FLIGHT E.VDS TOKYO, Nov. SO (AP) A four-motored German Condor plane landed here at 10:40 p. m. (5:40 a. m. PST) alter a 8375-mile goodwill flight front Berlin. The unofficial flying) time was 41 hours 24 minutes. IN THIS ISHl'K , City Briefs Page B, Comics and Story -...Page f Courthouse Records Page 4 Editorials ..Page 4 Family Doctor Page 4 Market, Financial News, Page 11 Pattern ' Potntp Shipments ............ Piiks 11 Sports .Page 9 Weather .......Page 19 if 1
