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i KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1940
Number 8861
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 .
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Society .,
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Weather
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