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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1940)
: COVERAGE , The Hrld and News blanket a rich agri cultural and tnduttrlal amplra of Southarn Oregon and NoHhtrn California. ASS' 1 PRESS IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND V Ul UNITED PRESS n sJ i'lve Cents i KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1940 Number 8861 WEATHER ! Friday's Maximum U High an, low IT PHKCIP1TATION 84 boura to a a. m....m.m.....Wi Keaon to dale. -.......7.fJH Normal precipitation ..5.n Laat year to data .......fl.8$ " " --ti -i "in nr rnnruTjvu . COLO MM Ml fa fo) Mini ( Air View Show Tule Lake Sump Problem Area and Site of Proposed .Tunnel ' jp- '-aavJi4 " AHA r k , . , WBalnnseelPssl''!! Hi- - art... ;( v'- - : . .jtJw J1ilTlLM-l' 'itwaaj Thli panorama pldura of a portion of ha Tula lata batin wa talan by Watlay Gudarian, Harald-Nawa photographar, from a clana ollotod bv Chat Stinton. It thowt ttia touthwattarn taction of tha Tula lata batln. teana of tha major tump problam and solution. Flgurat Indicate: I. Biological turvay haadquartan. 2, ; Haadqwartaft of Staala Land and Uvaitoek company, wilh. floodd landt of nat Company lying at tha laft of that flgura. , 3. Appronimala tlta of tha propoiad tonnal which would carry watar from Tyla lad to. , toww UlamaHt Miin. ma waiir reclamation ona, tha tigura indicating tna point' wnara na tiooa water nave moved up to tna dike. Not that the water hero It open, permitting wind and wave action againtt tha main dike. 5. Tha old or original tump, wall grown with tvlet which break tha force of wind action againtt tha dike. 6. A part of the permanently developed homettaed land. Beyond the water line In the picture era tha leated landt which are now farmed V IN THE DAY'S NEWS By FBAXK JENKINS CRNB8T MOSER, mlmlonary to the Cameroun, In Wait Africa, koma on leare, aaya: fj "Theae almpla African natlraa Are pustltd bX (he white man'a Srar. the comlnj of cWIHtnllod STOPPED ttaolr Inlor-trlbnl itrlfa. and now they lira In peace and Mourlty Initead of perlortlcalli Killing aacn otner on in dbuio. I "They can't underainnd why Ilia white inan, ho brought clvlllta V tlon to them, DOESN'T DO LIKE WISE."' ' a a a nOOR' deluded children of na- turel 8o untutored are their mlnda , that they are unable to anderatand wbat they are mlaalng or not having dlplomati and foreign pollclei and rulora who gat them Into Jama ao that thor bare to go to war and get killed In order to SAVE FACE. They have Indeed a long, long road to travel before reaching the white man'a love), .-, qWO questions at th!i point: J, Doet thla road they must travel lead ' upward or DOWNWARD? I. Might It not, everything con- alderedi be a good Idea for them to eenj MISSIONARIES TO US? I A. ""PH 18 'report cornea from Copen hagen: ' Zhdanov, Leningrad district eotnmuntnt leader and one of Stalin's right hand men, credited with originating tho plan to at tack Finland, Is said to have been Mathnuskn Nearly Free' of Federal . Relief Control PALMER, Alaska, Jan, 13 (ff) iMatanuska'a onoporntlve oniony, ' established by tha government nil a haven for drouglit-strlnkon mldwestern farmers, wns virtual ly tree of Uncle Sam's guiding hand today. In a oeromony, as almpla as It wss Important to the settlers, the farmers' cooperative signed final agreements and contracts with the government-sponsored Alaska rural rehabilitation oor l poratlon yesterday to take over units In tho "clvlo center," the government agency's lost buslnosa stronghold In the colony. ThA IfltAa ninv tnnl.,.t hospital, hatchery, gnraga, dorml-l ory and water system. I j "liquidated" wlthlu the past few days. t-. rOOD advice If you live, under an Oriental despotism: When you broach a echeme to the boss. be very, very sure It will work. TF. yon are a careful reader, of the Important news In the papers you noted that whan Walter Wanger and Joan Dennett de cided to elope they were In such a hurry that tha only detail they had time to look after waa to pica up miss' Bennett a press agent. . . ' , This will give you an 'idea of the treinendoua Importance of the press In these days. e NOTHEtl interesting slant In the news: ' , Buenos Aires (on the other aide of the equator, where It Is now summer) haa four daya In a row with the temperature at too degrees or over. Casualties; nine persons hospitalised with Injuries received from exploding siphon bottles. ' Peace, you see, as well'aa war, baa Its hasarda. -j. i ' ; i Ileer In Water j II rings Numerous ' ! Calls From Users ' JOLIET. III., Jan. IS Jollot resldonts are taking their water "straight" again. Yesterday their tap water waa spiked with beer. Water Commissioner Josoph F. Whalen said beer probably leak ed Into the water ' majns from one of the clty'a breweries!' A multitude of telephoned com plaints and auggestlons flowed Into the commissioner's office be fore the beer taata disappeared. "Make mine a little ilrnnnr " requested one caller. "There's no collar on it," Kidnapers Found (aiillty at Seattle , SEATTLE, Jan, IS (p)jrju geuo Weaver, 18, and Raymond I'rllnhft. f 1 MM ,nn.lI.J n. ' - " bwii.tu.uu U. first degree kidnaping yesterday for the abduotlon-nttack of a 16-year-old Seattle high school girl from her escort's automobile. The Jury disregarded proseoutlon Dlens for death aentannea and recommended life Imprisonment for each. Witnesses had testified the pair had aluggad the girl's eaoorL - Vital Sump Project Hangs In Balance; History And Solution Of Problem Told '.. By.' Malcolm Epley . Whether a rich section' of the Klamath basin shall be surrendered to water that now threatens its complete inundation, at a forfeiture of financial returns approach ins ? 1,000.000 a year, is the issue that has aroused the civic interests of . the Klamath bnsin and may be de termined within a . few. days by congressional action. . , Approved by reclamation service and biological sur vey officials,, the Tule , lake sump reclamation project, designed to prevent the catastrophe that is ruining farm lands, and to produce benefits for both agricultural and bird life in this basin, is hanging in the balance. The house Irrigation committee at Washington, D. C, at a hearing expected within a fortnight, will receive representations Intended to bring favorable action .on a 1600.000 appropriation to start the project. Secretary Earl 0. Reynolds of the Klamath county chamber of commerce Saturday forwarded a brief to Congressman Walter M. Pierce outlining the problem and the need. Petitions are In circulation In various parla of the basin. , Every effort la planned to Induce support from California and Oregon congres sional delegates for action that will start the aump. development on Ita way. v.," n; . . The story of tho Tule lake sump la one of the most Inter tuning In reclamation annals. What waa originally planned, what haa happened, and what ' good policy dictate shell hap pen In the future, are mattera that deserve the full under standing of all who live In thla section and benefit, in ono way or another, from agricultural wealth and a thriving migratory bird life. - What Haa Happened " The story Is partially told by maps and pictures In today'a paper. . ' What has happened, briefly, la this: Tula lake 80 years ago- was a natural ."sump" or evaporation basin of soma 06,000 acres. It was a lake without an outlet, re ceiving the waters from Lost river which originated nearby In Clear lake and wandered through a large section of the Klamath basin be fore entering the Tule lake basin. Plans for development of the Klamath reclamation project call ed for unwaterlng a aectlon of the Tule lake basin, Thla waa done by construction of Clear lake and Qerber reservoirs, together with a diversion dam on Lost river and a 1100 aecond-foot capacity chan nel from this dam to the Klamath river to regulate and defleot Lost (Continued on Page Mine) Red Bombers Raid Capital 2 DIE, 4 HURT HELSINKI L DINGS Russians Reported Bring ing Up Reinforcements in Salla Sector : Mother Collapses At Trial of Man For Slaying Girl MAUCH CHUNK. Pa., Jan. IS (AP) Screaming "why did he kill my little child ?". the. mother of slain Joan Stevena collapsed In court today aa tha case of a auspended state trooper accused of shooting the girl neared a Jury after a week's trial. -. "My poor child ohv.jrhy . did he do it?" cried Mr.T'Myme Stevena." "She didn't know any different.'. Bhe was only 14." . The mother's outburst was In the presence of a Jury which bad Just examined a amall sedan In which Corporal Benjamin Frank lin, 10, shot the school girl laat June 6. He said be fired In self-defense when Joan brandished a "gun" he Inter learned was a toy. Women tipstaves removed Mrs. Stevens ' from the courtroom. Pale-faced and trembling, she re turned to the courtroom a few minutes later on the arm of a daughter. -'.. 7 - American Troops Use Finn Tactics WASHINGTON.- Jan. IS, (P) In northern New York, Minne sota, Alaska and other snow covered American areaa regular army troops are being drilled this winter to travel and it need be, to tight on- skis and snow shoes, like the Finns. War department officials said today, howerer,the training waa In progress long before tha Flnna demonstrated speotacularly the possibilities of war In the snow by turning : baok , the invading Russians. In Alaska skis and snowshoes are essential In. winter and have been used by troops since the gold rush daya. HELSINKI, Jan. IS (API Soviet Russian bombers raided southern Finland today, ' killing two persona and wounding four In Helsinki alone. , Some ; buildings were de stroyed and others damaged In the southwestern section of the capital, which had escaped being bombed In yesterday's J raids. ' Other cities struck Included Hyvlakaa. north ot-' Helsinki, where the Russian squadrons carried out two attacka. . (Hyvlnkaa la about' SO miles airline due north of Helsinki. It Is on a railroad line running In land from the capital). ' About 40 bomba fell on Hel sinki. ; One of the bombera waa re ported forced down. .Tbe raiders took advantage of perfect weather for tbelr purpose excellent v. visibility , and. high riding eloads which permitted them to appear and disappear al most at will. Their, attacks brought air alarma for f 0 miles around He slnkl, beginning shortly- before I p. m. (6 a. m. Pacific standard time) and ending . a bout two boura later. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 1 J (AP) Withdrawal of soviet -Russian troops from part-of Lllnahamarl, the arctic port of Finland a Pet aatno district, was reported today In Stockholm dlspatchea, while Scandinavian correspondents aaid reinforcements of Finna and Rus sians, on the Salla front, lndlcat ed Imminence of a major battle. These dlspatchea said all ex eept one Russian cruiser had left Lllnahamarl, and that the Finns bad cut .the road to Salmljarvi, alao In the arctic area,, thus com (Continued on Page Nine) Bulletin Klamath county grand Jurora Saturday afternoon informed Circuit Judge Edward B. Ash urst that they could find no violation of the' law in the matter of a railroad pass Judge Aahurst alleged was held by State Representative Harry 1). Boivin. Jurora in their report aald they were advised by an opin ion from the attorney general and an inspection of the statute that railroads are not included within the definition of the term "public utility" and fur thermore that the law permlta the giving of passes by a rail road to ita officers, ' attorneys-at-law, etc ' "Judge ' Ashurst had charged the law had been violated in Bolvin's case. In remarks to the Jury Judge Ashurst, who praised Attorney ' General Van Winkle highly five years ago and attacked him bitterly this week, aald he waa "not surprised." He aald he had always held respect for tho at torney general but "special in terests" are involved and they are not always on the aide of the people. The Jury Indicted Earl Wil liams, negro, for manslaughter. In the shotgun death of his wife, and - returned several other true and not true bills. Judge Ashurst received the re port about 4 p. m. , Klamath Youth Gets Sentence WALLA WALLA, Jan.' IS CP) Alfred Crumpacker, 14, waa sen' fenced to IS years In the atate penitentiary yesterday on hia plea of guilty to a charge of sec ond degree burglary. Delbert Crumpacker, 10, arrested with hla brother for taking 160 from vending machines at a road- house, waa given a lS-year aus pended sentence when he prom1 Ised the court he would return to hla parents' home at Klamath Falla, British Airmen Make Lone Flight Over South Germany ! By HUGH WAONOV LONDON, Jan. 12 (p) British filers in "the greatest wartime survey flights" penetrated Bo hemia and Austria during the night, carried on the North aea warfare by attacking nazl des troyers and today destroyed a Ger man air raider over the Firth of Forth, tbe air ministry announc ed. ,-. The exploit of scouting over the southeastern parts of greater Germany waa the first of the war to be reported In that region. A British war correspondent In France--reported the Britiah operated from French bases ajid flew over Vienna and Prague. Fliers starting from their home soil would have had to cover tbe equivalent of tbe distance over the Atlantic from New Foundland to Ireland for the reconnaissance. .; As German planes roared along the east coast of Britain for the fifth successive day. tbe war of words kept pace with the acceler ating war In the skies aa the air ministry called "untrue" a nasi high command announcement that two Royal air force planea were shot down. ' At the same time fears of sabotage were expressed as sentries fired on prowlers at Hendon airdrome, northeast London.- An attempt apparent ly was made to cut the Scotland northern Ireland cable at Don aghadee, northern Ireland, and fire ranted northern Ireland's governor, the Duke of Aber rant, and his household from 800-year-old Baronsconrt castle. Explosions and fire- swept a shipbuilding plant at Nortbwich, Cheshire, in western England. Of ficials aald aabotage was not in volved. Tha air ministry aald a fighter patrol shot down a nazl raider off the aoutheaat coast of Scotland this -morning. -' ' - Later three German planea flew over Norfolk port and a plane be lieved to be a German craft waa aeen flying low oft a southeast coast port In tbe afternoon. Three Royal air force fighters roared In pursuit but the invader (Continued on Page Nine) ' Colonists To Try Life In Select Style, PASADENA, Call;., Jan. It (P) To get- away, from civilization, aa it now operates for the lesser privileged, seven families and others totaling 21 persona are go ing '.- to an uninhabited tropical Island in efforts to work out a new life for all. y They expect t o depart next Tueaday en route to East Calcos Island In the Bahama group, east of Cuba and north of Haiti. On the incompletely surveyed island of 10 to 80 miles length and O-IO miles width, they plan to support themselves and live under selected modern condi tions. . . They will move In with equip ment for electric lighting and radio for a temporary tent city. Later, they expect to build per manent homes from the island's hardwood forests and establish a broadcasting atation, while devel oping papaya plants tor medicinal use, catching aharka tor their liver oil, and cultivating sisal fiber, a bempen product for ropes. Little Choice ' Energizing the project Is R. C. Irvine, who is to go with hla wife and tour children. He aald persons selected for the group from many anxious to be Included felt there was little choice In this country between the mooted classes and the vast stra tum "Just above the WPA." Klamath Shivers ' As Temperature Skids to 17 - The entire Klamath basin shivered and shook early Satur day morning aa residents heaped fuel on fires to throw oft the chill of the coldest morning this year. Thermometers In the city registered 17 degrees, and varied In other aectlona of tbe county. At Sand Creek state highway officials reported a minimum of t degrees below zero; at Crater lake it waa a 1 m o a t 7 degrees above zero, and closer to home, In the Altamont district, resi dents said the mercury fell to 14 degrees. ' Forecast for the weekend was for unsettled weather and con tlnued cold. Various sections of the . state reported freezing weather and at Baker, always the coldest spot in tbe state, a minimum of 8 degrees waa re ported. Snow for the mountain areas was forecast by the US weather man. Highway conditions were unchanged and it looked like Oregon waa due to settle down tor a touch of winter which has been long In coming, especially In tbe southern Oregon district, TRAIL MARKER ' THE DALLES, Jan. IS (VP) The city council accepted re sponsibility today for completing the 145.000 monument marking the resting place of the Lewla and Clark expedition, 1 AFi FLIER KILLED IFJ E ive Aviators Safe, One Fails to Use 'Chute, i Falls in Ship 1 i ! 1 ' SAN DIEGO, Calif.; Jan. 13 UP) Two navy airplanes collided in mid-air over a southern Cali fornia desert, and early today one of the wrecked ships was found with a tiler's battered body in side. ....... Five other aviators in tbe col lision were safe. Ensign Walter G. Barnes Jr., 35, of Denver, Colo., missing for several hours after the crash, telephoned today from the old mining town of Julian, 60 miles northeast of here, that he was safe and unhurt. , Identified by the light of lanterns and flashlights, at the scene of the wreck, as the dead man was James Addison Crow son, 24, radioman, first class. Deputy Sheriff Ernest Cox re turned to El Centro, TO miles east of here, to report that his party had reached the wreckage of one plane after sighting smoke, and had found the body in the charred ship. It lay in a ravine near the top of a hill. The other plane ap parently fell a mile or more away. Cox said. Ensign Harold Nathan Funk, 27, of Wray, Colo., pilot who suf fered a badly wrenched knee and severe body bruises, was in hospital at El Centro. The other survivors, released after first aid treatment were: Charles W. Post, 24, Trout dale, Ore., radioman, second class; Elmer Edwin Jackson, 22, Hendersonville, K. C, nulio ram, third class, and Paul E. (Continued on Page Nine) Four Killed as Plane Plows Into Muddy Cornfield CASEY, III., Jan. 13 (it) Four persons were killed when their small plane plowed into a muddy corn field and burst into tlamea last night. The mangled bodies, found a hundred yards from the wreck age. Indicated the victims met almost Instant death. E. A. Lashmet, deputy Cum berland county coroner, Identified three of the victims as members of a Detroit, Mich., family. They were Mrs. Mary Bor owlcz, 37, her son, Leonard, 19, and her daughter, Joanne, 17. The fourth victim was William B. Maycock. 44, pilot and head of the Maycock Charter Service of Detroit. Airport officials at Detroit said a new plane piloted by Maycock and with the Bor owlcs family aa passengera took off at 0:30 last night. Several farmers heard the crash but none saw it. Searchers found a broken propellor a hun dred yards from the debris and concluded the plane bounced that distance before coming to rest In flames. DAMAGE DO HALF MILLION IN 8 STORES Blaze Breaks Out After Midnight; Explosion , Calls Out Firemen REDDING, Calif.; Jan. 13 fAPl Pirn onrlv fsirlav razed elo-hr. hnilHin era on A threatened the entire busi ness HiHtricfr. tt thin rAvK- ern California community ol ouuu persons. , Vpmnn Tyia o a la aw ft . , wuve v vubUf uai vii 1 it a rooming house west 01 the rioneer store, Heading's old est 1 business building, said he . was awakened at 2 :30 a. m., by an explosion and saw the three-story 63-year-old structure encnlfpH In flames. : - . The flames, fanned by a strong wind, ' swept through Bedding's main business dis trict and canned damage esti mated at 9730,000 to 1,000 , , 000. The tire was under control. at noon,' "but still smouldering In tbe basements of the rained -structures. -'-.' '. . Insurance e o m p a ny officials estimated the lose at. $750,000. The larger estimate waa made by William Clement, manager of the Pioneer store, , the city's oldest business structure In which the fire originated. Firemen began digging; In the ruins of the F. W. 'Woolworth building on a report a body waa buried under bricks of the raxed structure.- L. A. Ricks, a spectator who assisted firemen in fighting the flames, suffered a broken leg when he tell from a burning building. - Firemen said tbe pioneer build ing apparently had been burning several hours before the alarm was sounded, and several explos ions in the Pioneer store were attributed by firemen to combus tion. , , . The flames consumed the bulld ines on the eaiit atria nr Ma.ba. street, between Placer and Yuba streets. On the west side of Mar ket most of the windows were shattered by tbe heat, and wood framework was charred. Starting In the Pioneer store, the flames spread rapidly and soon consumed the two story J. C. Penney ' building. Mode o' Day dress shop, F. W. Woolworth company building. Redding Printing company and Motor Supply company. Only the walls of some of these brick and concrete buildings remained . standing. . Reading's four-piece tire , de partment was hard pressed and a call for help brought a piece of equipment and men from- Rod Bluff, 32 miles south of here. Redding has only eight paid firemen and 40 volunteers, but more than 100 townspeople Joined In the fight to save the remain der of the business district. , ' - PUZZLE) .. . ! ' WASHINGTON. Jan. IS (AP) John L, Lewis created a new po litical pusile today with an Invi tation to Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.), a potential candidate tor the democratic presidential nomination, to address tha golden anniversary convention of the United Mine Workers at Colum bus, Ohio, January 23. . ' News Index KPCA meeting ....Page Flying school plans : -..Page Crater lake snow .....Psge Finn rctlof film .. City Brlefa Comics and Story Editorials Family Doctor High School Newa Market, Financial Pattern . Photorlal Society ., Bporta Weather ....Page -Pages ..Page f .Page 1 - Page 4 immniPHI af pks a Page It - Page S ....Page IS t, , 1, I, .Pae 10 Page 4 V
